Atakus 8972 and Raanu 8973 Reviews (1 picture)
Aug 31, 2008 16:27:42 GMT -5
Post by Cosmo Kramer on Aug 31, 2008 16:27:42 GMT -5
What? These guys aren't out yet. No matter. I know how these guys are built and made them myself. Accept for the new parts ofcourse
Speaking of which, the new parts consist of The heads which can only use helmat like masks, new colored matoran parts and the hands ofcourse (These are actualle the same old piece with added plastic that can allow a plus peg to fit inside).
These sets may seem to have the original canisters but are actually different in color and still in a way make sense to the story... somehow.
Atakus:
There are many new pieces in this set including the weapons which can glow in the dark like most of the 07 sets. The masks next year as I said before are more like helmats which are not good in my opinion. It defeats the purpose of Bionicle with the mask collecting!
He is a simple Matoran made with the large av-matoran body, black colored solek legs, Black colored Tanma arms, normal toa mata feet, a head and new mask, hands and weapons. (The weapons by the way have blue and black which really add to the set.) His two main colors are Gray and Black.
Raanu:
This set is much like Atakus with many new pieces and the strange helmat/masks. He instead has a small matoran body, Red solek arms and red Tanma arms as legs (the arms have spiked elbows) Unfortunatly, the weapons are old, Hordika Vakama's weapon and two of Matoro Mahri's claws as a shield.
The main colors are metru red and yellow/orange.
overall:
Very playful sets like last years matoran but a little too pricy at 5.99 Euro (And thats marked down from the original 6.99 value!). Atakus looked the best from what I have seen so far but Raanu is the best set with playbility. The shield and weapon are really cool so I would recomend to buy him first. I will defidently try to get these sets when they come out.
Here are the links of some new images I found that are much smaller and officially the final set images!
Atakus
www.mangiobricks.it/cms2/dbase/layouts/10.php?PAGE_ID=14&FILENAME=SE8/SE8972-1-00-N&ACT_ID=0
Raanu
www.mangiobricks.it/cms2/dbase/layouts/10.php?PAGE_ID=14&FILENAME=SE8/SE8973-1-00-N&ACT_ID=0
