New sets discussion (2014/15/16/17)

[CADmonkey]

I'm not an expert on comic books, but I think this dude is called Cyborg.

I thought his cyberparts were blue? maybe that was just in that cartoon from ten years back. I also didn't think that minifigure looked an African-American guy, but maybe that's just the lighting.

[Zahru II]

The figure is probably based on his new52 (current run) attire like the rest of them.

[Gungnir]

Cyborg's parts were only blue in that cartoon, which was heavily stylized. In pretty much every other incarnation, he's silver with red lights.

[Silverdream]

Holy shit those knights. Looks like Bavaria's getting an upgrade.

[CADmonkey]

LEGO Star Wars 2016 by Allen Tran, on Flickr


LEGO Star Wars 2016 by Allen Tran, on Flickr

[Ham]

Why do the figs in 75131 look like they have yellow heads? If they do I'm not complaining, I wish Star Wars de-peachified itself

[RedRover]

Why do the figs in 75131 look like they have yellow heads? If they do I'm not complaining, I wish Star Wars de-peachified itself

I don't, we need a source of peaches and star wars is one of the main ones

[CADmonkey]

Why do the figs in 75131 look like they have yellow heads? If they do I'm not complaining, I wish Star Wars de-peachified itself

Coloured visors printed on the minifig heads. If you look closely, you'll see that one has flesh tone hands and another has a flesh tone chin showing under their helmet.

[Silent-sigfig]

Jawas in a cheap set! I can't wait.

[Kommander Ken]

In case no one else has seen this yet.

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[CADmonkey]

A slightly better look at the parts that make up those robots:

The folks over at Brick Fanatics has found one of the first media items that will be part of the new LEGO Nexo Knights theme. The book by Ladybird is called LEGO Nexo Knights: Nexo Power Rules and is similar to the Scholastic books from before where it contains stores, activities, as well as a minifigure. The one that will be included in this book is Aaron’s Squirebot. The book will be available in February 2016 but you can pre-order today on Amazon.

Meet the Nexo Knights! This is an exciting activity book with a collectable minifigure featuring LEGO’s newest theme – classic knights with a high-tech, futuristic twist. You can read the cool story and complete fun puzzles in the kingdom where magic meets technology. Let the adventure begin!

[Zahru II]

Surprised to see they came up with a new torso frame instead of using a 1x1 brick with studs on all sides as I initially thought they would.

[RedRover]

Surprised to see they came up with a new torso frame instead of using a 1x1 brick with studs on all sides as I initially thought they would.

Same, they just needed that and a t-bar

[stubby]

That is pretty weird. The piece reminds me of the old Ninjago skeleton torsos. I wonder if there's going to be some kind of tie-in? I can't really picture why Ninjago would want dwarf skeletons, but they did make a big deal out of that mini-nindroid character back in the nindroid season.

[*CRAZYHORSE*]

What is up with lego suddenly going all over board with new molds/parts? Specifically for minifig accessories. It's like they need a new type of helmet for every damned set. I thought new molds where supposed to be super expensive.
I'm not sure if I like to be honest. I feel like they are over detailing a lot of the new parts which removes their theme ambiguity.