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3 more credits » See full cast & crew » See full cast » In the Outlands the heroes learn the disturbing truth about the stolen CHI and the missing Legend Beasts and must battle both the savage carnivorous Outland plants and the mysterious black cloud, but they also meet an enigmatic ally. Add content advisory for parents » Release Date: 1 January 2014 (USA) See full technical specs » This FAQ is empty. Add the first question. Review this title » Contribute to This PageOur summer of Chima continues into autumn with another review from Scott Barnick (Aanchir), who is well-known for his love of LEGO® colours and constraction... and just to add to his geek credentials, he's also a Brony.I’m very happy to bring you a review of , one of this summer’s new LEGO Legends of Chima sets. This set was carefully selected on account of its great selection of new elements, including a few designs you rarely see in traditional stud-based LEGO themes.
The minifigures in this set are top-notch designs. Laval and Cragger share a new torso pattern with each other and the other returning male protagonists, but have individualized leg patterns with lion and crocodile kneepads (strangely, they are the only two characters to boast this feature — the other returning protagonists, even the Lion Tribe leader LaGravis, all share a generic kneepad design). Their head designs are the same as they’ve always been, except for Laval’s headgear, which now has a printed red crown instead of the printed gold one found in previous sets. They wield the Fire Valious and Vengblaze, which are identical to their earlier Royal Valious and Royal Vengious weapons except for their new fiery energy cores. Mungus is a “bigfig” like the Hulk from LEGO Super Heroes, the Cave Troll from LEGO Lord of the Rings, or the Giant Trolls from LEGO Castle. His hands and arms are shared with The Hulk, but appear for the first time in Sand Yellow [TLG]/Dark Tan [BL].
The hands are designed so they can not only hold a Ø3.2mm bar like normal minifigure hands, but also grab a normal-sized minifigure by the leg (or anything else that happens to be one module wide). In the set, he is armed with a Tung-tuska (Chima names can be quite silly sometimes!), a club built from fairly common parts. Mungus’s torso is much more specialized than his other parts, but it still deserves special mention for being the first bigfig torso with a standard minifigure neck stud rather than a specially molded head. This means that Mungus can have dual expressions like the other Legends of Chima characters, as well as share the same new mammoth headgear mold as his mother Maula and brother Mottrot. Speaking of the headgear, its white tusks and bizarrely skeletal trunk are rubbery, and the trunk can grip minifigure accessories. Mungus’s torso also includes a molded belt with three studs — it takes CHI orbs to power up this behemoth. Some new parts in this set have already been covered in other reviews of the new Legends of Chima sets here on New Elementary.
This set has four each of the Black and Dark Stone Grey [TLG]/Dark Bluish Gray [BL] mentioned in my . The set also boasts eight of the new Tr. Bright Orange [TLG]/Trans-Orange [BL] covered in , making this the best source so far for that particular element. Tim G. also covered the Tr. Bright Orange which appears on all this year’s heroes, the which appears in a blend of Tr. Red and Tr. Yellow in many new Chima weapon designs, and the . This set includes two of each, plus two extras of the 1X1 round tiles. What he did cover, oddly enough, was the Tr. Bright Orange (Element ID 6066085 | Design ID 11127), or “Fire CHI” as it’s called in the Legends of Chima story. This is the third color for CHI crystals after Tr. Light Blue and Warm Gold, and appears in several of this summer’s new Legends of Chima sets. Another new Tr. Bright Orange part in this set is a . Even though this windscreen lacks any studs, it’s still very versatile, and a new color could open up even more uses.
Also used for the cockpit, and appearing for the first time for over fifteen years in Brick Yellow [TLG]/Tan [BL], is the (Element ID 6068077 | Filling the jaw are four White (Element ID 6046384 | This piece came out earlier this year, but this marks its first appearance outside the Mixels theme. Beneath the cockpit, the engine is built using a New Dark Red [TLG]/Dark Red [BL] (Element ID 6035897 | This set contains a bounty of Flame Yellowish Orange [TLG]/Bright Light Orange [BL] elements — a total of 27 parts in 13 different designs. Appearing for the first time in this color are two (Element ID 6051504 | Design ID 57906), five (Element ID 6059338 | Design ID 6070), two (Element ID 6015235 | Design ID 50373), and two . This last piece excites me the most. I’ve been a die-hard constraction builder ever since the Throwbots/Slizer theme debuted fifteen years ago, and I’m an especially big fan of the Character & Creature Building System (CCBS) introduced in 2011 in the Hero Factory theme.
This particular piece not only makes great hands, but also is useful for building shoulders, feet, and torsos. Flame Yellowish Orange is rare in recent constraction sets, so this piece should help constraction builders supplement the existing variety of shells and beams in that color. Other constraction parts exclusive to this set are the three Reddish Brown (Element ID 6068078 | This design is new for this year, and also appears in Black and Warm Gold [TLG]/Pearl Gold [BL] in various Hero Factory and Ninjago sets. System fans might consider it a bit specialized, since it’s a fairly large piece with just a single connection point, but it is fantastic for claws, spikes, and other details such as this set’s energetic mane. Like Flame Yellowish Orange, Reddish Brown is a rare color in constraction and Technic sets, so this piece will probably be greatly appreciated by Hero Factory and BIONICLE fans, especially if it continues to appear in future sets. This sticker sheet is one that I’m sure really puts the “dread” in “dreaded sticker sheet” for many .
Seventeen stickers are all printed on transparent sticker film, only two of those stickers (the ones for the rear wheels) have the background color fully printed, and none are numbered (a luxury I remember fondly from the sticker sheets of the Exo-Force theme). I already mentioned in my review of 70162 why I prefer stickers printed on white sticker paper. Beware of bubbles, dust and fingerprints with this set! With that said, the stickers definitely add a great deal of energy to this set (though even a lover of stickers might be hesitant to apply all of them, since many are used on new or rare Flame Yellowish Orange parts). Interestingly, instead of lion iconography (or the decorative crest that appeared on “good guy” vehicles in 2013 and the first half of 2014), the stickers for the shoulders feature phoenix insignias. The first numbered bag builds Cragger, Mungus, and the Fire Lion’s chassis. The second numbered bag adds the “spinal column”, lower jaw, and both arms. The third numbered bag builds Laval and adds the upper jaw/cockpit and wheels.
It’s a build that can be surprising at times — for instance, my brother and I found ourselves wondering why the lower jaw was attached with a non-friction Technic pin that caused it to hang limp. But as the functions came together everything began to make sense. The final model definitely looks imposing, and seems like overkill even against the massive Mungus! Its color scheme, despite having a LOT of colors, feels cohesive and well organized. It also boasts a lot of cool play features. The cockpit has seating for both Laval and Cragger, a nice touch that really reinforces their rekindled friendship… or maybe creates additional tension as they fight for the controls. The center ridge of the mane acts as a divider and has a click hinge you can use to “open” or “close” the cockpit. On a particularly thoughtful note, the designers included unused clips under the flaps on the arms of the Fire Lion that can hold Laval and Cragger’s weapons, since they’re too large to fit inside the cockpit.
The back of the vehicle includes a hatch that reveals a storage container with CHI inside (regular Tr. Light Blue CHI — the precious fire CHI is plugged directly above the hatch in a place that leaves it oddly exposed). The hatch closes snugly and inconspicuously around the storage container. Not the kind of feature that makes or breaks a set, but it does make good use of space that would otherwise be wasted, and adds a point of interest to the model’s back, which is somewhat sparse otherwise. A launcher armed with four flick missiles is attached to the Fire Lion’s right shoulder with three Technic hinge points, allowing it to aim in various directions, but while it’s an effective design for its simplicity, it feels a bit superfluous once you realize the vehicle’s much more impressive main function. In its default resting position, the lion’s arms stretch forward and its mouth is shut. However, by entering “Fire CHI Power Mode” with a pull of a handle on its back, the lion rears its head up and spreads its arms up menacingly, its jaw opens with a mighty roar (note: no sound brick, so you have to provide your own sound effects), and the flaps on its arms fold outward.
Although it rests quite comfortably in this upright position, it can also lunge forward again, clamping its jaws shut and grabbing or slashing at foes depending on how you have its paws positioned. The flaps on the arms remain folded out, though, perhaps to show that the energy of the fire CHI is still in effect. Overall, this set is a good buy either as a parts pack for Flame Yellowish Orange, or as the start of or an addition to a dedicated Legends of Chima collection. For constraction builders like me, it not only offers some great parts but brings to mind the elaborate action features of the from the BIONICLE theme’s debut year. Thanks to this set’s dynamic transforming function, my final impression is that this set is MUCH greater than the sum of its parts. Even without an extensive Chima collection of my own, I’m glad to consider this set a part of it! Our thanks to LEGO's Community & Events Engagement Team for providing this set. 70144 Laval's Fire Lion retails at US$49.99 / £39.99 / €49.99.