>>8494848>Were there any good parts to it?It was unspectacular, cheap kiddie fare with watered down toy cartoon writing that genuinely sounded like it came from some preschooler show (caring makes us strong! you have the power if you believe!), lazy directing and an absurdly dumb ending because Lego told the writers to cram all their ideas for the next year into two episodes. The last two eps were an absolute fucking trainwreck where you could feel the writers were forced against a wall and it probably pained them to pen this garbage and abandon all the stuff they wanted to set up. Art style was neat but the animation looked cheap and barely finished. Voice actors tried their best but some sounded ridiculously stilted thanks to the dumb robot voice filters. Music was okay if forgettable.
It was nice that Pohatu got some characterization and development, Onua was portrayed as intelligent unlike in MOL, and Lewa was okay. I couldn't tell if the other Toa had any character, they were all interchangeable props. Though Kopaka had a tendency to point at things and state the obvious. The Protectors were literally interchangeable, the fire one begins telling the story in the first ep, but in the last ep it's the ice one still talking with the same voice.
One thing I will give to the old movies is that they at least tried to establish all the main character personalities even if they at times contradicted other story material.
As for the shitty DVD, it came out in Australia first but it was available elsewhere too. People used to think it's a bootleg because it uses TLR stock artwork, but it's actually a genuine release by an Australian company owned jointly by Universal and Sony. Universal owns TLR, so they just slapped those images on the DVD because no one involved gave the slightest of crap.
