>>8777357But the reason the desert planet felt so out of place was because it was rushed. Lego had hoped a soft reboot on a new planet would revive the franchise but it didn't. Theres tons of rumors about the next 2-3 years of what was planned.
The main thing agreed upon was mata nui would travel through the great maze and fight the elemental lords as well as general creatures in the maze.
After that he would go to the jungle planet and fuck around there.
My honest thoughts are this would've been the ordering of the next years:
>great maze>another bara magna story>forest planet>return to metru nui (with toa marhi)>final battlePictured is the only image we got of the great maze