u/AggressiveSail8142

“I think she likes you Lloyd!”

So it’s a quick and dirty update since I realised that I could use these shoulder pad armour things as they came in all the ninja’s secondary, darker colours. This works great for these suits in particular. But I also did buy a whole bulk of these armor parts in black if you think all of them having the black armour like in my original post looked better.

Tbh this was kind of a missed opportunity on LEGO’s part. I mean… with that facemask print she first came with and the two swords… I dunno why they didn’t capitalise on this look more.

I… may have had too much fun with this.

“Wow! Check me out! I look insanely cool in the future! Wow! It’s everything I see myself being…!”

“You’re me from the past? Eugh! Get away from me weirdo! To think I was once this pathetic!”

Now while Zane pretty much is a lazy custom, having just swapped out his arms for matching white ones, on the other hand, I found that using Kai’s forbidden spinjitsu legs works pretty well with his honour robes. Not nearly as perfect as the Jay or Cole I posted a while back but it works.

Also because some people got super pissed in my last ‘definitive’ post, I just thought I’d add a disclaimer that this is my own personal take on what I consider the definitive representations of these characters. Because some people just took ‘definitive’ a bit too literally despite it obviously being a subjective matter… lmao.

Really all I did was combine the honor robe print with the legacy zx print, because I wanted to keep the flow of the torso print consistent with the rest of em. Otherwise if I were to post Zane (which I bought his Honor robes minifig in full, don’t have Kai yet) it’s going to be pretty much…. ‘Honor robes but with recoloured arms.’

It’s not a bad thing in of itself but I really like how LEGO started printing the kilts and the feet for these suits.

I’ve got some more fun photos planned but for now I’ll just put these here lol.

I actually shot a bunch more scenes like this but I’ll post em later. And yes. That is Optimus freaking prime.

Like I’ve done with a previous post regarding Plastic.Crk’s Knightverse-styled Optimus Prime (which sadly I realise the Rebrickable page has been nuked for that moc… rip.) I saw this ROTB Arcee build on Rebrickable with free instructions and I figured why the hell not, I’ll build it. And after a few weeks she’s finished with some minor changes in the build, most notably in her torso, forearms, head and legs. And considering she’s… very much in scale with that previous Optimus build as per ROTB scale… even if the alt mode is a bit rough… I’d consider her to be a nice companion piece for that prime. But for the size and articulation, I’d say she’s a nice piece.

As for Optimus, he’s pretty much done as well so I’ll post some updated pictures of him soon, as well as a little… review? Stay tuned for that.

My reasoning: I saw an instagram post that showed Skylor with A DR Storm suit Arin hood and I thought: wtf that’s actually kinda close? So I bought a couple of gold movie hoods and urm… yeah that’s kind of close enough… definitely will look better with paint.

And cryptor: I fucking lost his headpiece lol. And his armour was painted on by a younger me who would have never had guessed he painted on an expensive fucking minifigure.

Pain.

Gotta be honest… the original DX suits kinda suck. Overrated and the design, at least to me, doesn’t read well as a ‘ninja robe’