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I think I've made my mind about season 5 sets of Nexo knights. They are actually a better ones. And this is why:
Season 1 + 2: We had best NK sets (King's mech, Jestro's castle etc)
While there were almost no structures, many vehicles were based on medieval themes: chariots, attack towers, robo horses, crossbow-shaped aircraft and so on.
Not exactly "Castle" stuff but I see the reasoning behind Lego's excuse to attach NK to "castle" line.
Plus, we had cool demons as a bad guy. This is the closest thing that depicts devils and hell in lego. Great stuff.
But at the same time Lego had overblown the number of released sets: 18 sets + 10 ultimate minifigs.
Season 3 + 4: Stone monsters is a good concept and I like them. But sets were so poorly designed. What you will think about "stone monsters" in "castle" theme?
Maybe living fortresses with arms stretching out of walls into inner space? Walking assault towers with rocky faces? Crawling castles?
Most certainly not a dozen of nonsensical nexo knight's vehicles. Not a single structure, only cars, cars and cars like the focus group is 4 years old.
And those cars were not even good. You know what I'm talking about. Even the baddies base is a huge car with 10 (!) huge wheel pieces everyone hates.
There were a few nice sets. Nice, but not excellent.
14 sets + 6 suits. Lesser than in first year, but because the sets were so uninspired, sales wasn't that good to keep the pace.
Makes sense that by season 5 they do not want to risk anymore with a theme that has a concurrent line known as Ninjago.
You put a theme with colored characters against similar theme that is selling like a hot cakes to kids for half a decade. You fill it with mediocre sets in huge numbers. You do it on the verge of Ninjago movie coming to cinemas. What could possibly go wrong?