@@uprising4c19 IMO they just look bad, almost always aren't from the source material and adds a ton of pieces that would be better used elsewhere or just having a lower price. Plus they're way too fragile and make me realize why they used technic and CCBS for that kind of thing before instead of bricks.
I like both honestly. I added some parts to add 3 pillars and I instead have my chaos emeralds on there. Something I don’t think people are talking about enough is you can basically get the full set of characters as of 2024 if you buy both sets, Tails’s workshop, and The Eggman drill tank. You could even just claim the mech was Tails’s idea
I think I prefer the Angel Island one , if it werent for Rouge being an exklusive on the Guardian mech one which is the one I got. I just hope that Rouge the bat mini fig will get more re releases.
@@RadiantBuildsI mean Shadow already got rereleased and got a variant already (Super Shadow). It would be odd if Rouge remains exclusive to that set alone
The thing is, if they planned the sets out a bit better they could have totally done the collect em all aspect with the chaos emeralds and the master emerald. Being able to collect the chaos emeralds in the original Sonic set as part of the building experience was my favorite thing 😔
I’m not really a big sonic fan but the amount of creative play gimmicks I’ve seen in the theme is really nice, especially when lego is taking steps away from that sort of design philosophy.
It’s always fun when they can sneak in a play gimmick. For the Master Emerald Shrine in particular, the turn table to hit the punching bag is a simple but effective play feature
This would kind of be like if they released a daily plan set with all the office workers, a villain, and every noteworthy Superman character except for any actual superheroes. Then, if you want to have the heroes, save the day, you have to buy a set of equal price to only get the heroes without any villains
Speaking of the Daily Planet, that’s always been a dream set of mine! It better get the large Daily Bugle treatment someday with all the necessary characters
In Lego's defense, how often is the Master Emerald actually located in the Master Emerald shrine throughout the different depictions of the franchise? /s
The mech is so silly and I kinda love it for that. On my display I'm rationalizing the two Knuckles's as the entire mech being his swoll Boom design lmao
"If I had 2 nickles for every $35 Lego Sonic set starring Knuckles, I would have 2 nickles which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice." Wait... what???
I’m not a big fan of mechs, so I got the pieces for the Master Emerald and the stand, and built them myself (before the Shrine set was even released!). And I got bits to make more columns so as to display seven differently coloured Chaos Emeralds.
Great video! That's a very frustrating tactic. Rouge happens to be my favorite Sonic girl, but I find the Master Emerald Shrine set overall way cooler. But if you don't get the mech set, the shrine won't have the Master Emerald! Also, so far that mech set is the only one to have Rouge!
Thanks so much! Choosing between the figure you want versus the cooler set is a hard choice. Hopefully Rouge comes in another set or gets another variant, as LEGO Sonic tends to repeat characters across sets.
The sonic sets have been great. Death egg robot and shadow's motorcycle are 9/10 and very excited for the tails vs metal sonic, but knuckles in a mech? It could have been more focused around sky sanctuary with the teleporters and falling ground pieces. Glad we got an egg robo but he looks goofy. Knuckles is the only one I chose to get at a used figure/lego store for 1/3 the price of either set he came in.
Having small items to collect like the chaos emeralds is cool, but the master emerald is more of a missing component imo. Like to me it feels really bad to have to spend twice the money to essentially complete a set I would have otherwise loved.
I actually fixed this because i own both sets you can just slot the master emerald right into the shrine, and i also have the 7 chaos emeralds so i made 3 extra pillars for them to go on!
I just bought the Master Emerald off Bricklink. It was under £3 for the emerald (2 pieces, ~£2.50) and the holding thing (10 pieces, ~£0.35). They also had the shards that go inside it in trans-bright green (to match the Master Emerald) instead of the trans-green that comes with the mech. So in some ways doing this is an upgrade.
I got the angel island set recently and i already had the Rouge set (I wanted her so-) and a bit after building I realized you can just put it on the top and replace the two pieces.
the separation of the emerald and girls across the sets is frustrating but not surprising. i may just try to part some sections out on bricklink. great video, thanks for sharing!! love the BONK noise with amy's hammer lol
I think that if they had it so you collect a special 7 sets you get all the chaos emeralds that would be cool, but to lock the master emerald behind a set not many people want (besides me, honestly I think mechs are cool, but I think that mechs would work better as a secondary thing rather then something you need to buy to complete a different set since, I’m in the minority on liking mechs) is really dumb
so many people complain about the master emerald shrine not having the master emerald. i feel like i might be the only person on the planet who was actually glad it didn't. if it did, then you wouldn't wanna get the knuckles mech set. you would probobly only get it for rouge really. and besides, did you wanna have 2 master emeralds? at the end of the day, to each their own but personally i didnt have an issue with this and i collected all the sets no problem. tho when wave 2 gets retired then that might be an issue....
@@RadiantBuilds well they actually have a chance to. since you might know, the master emerald shrine is meant to have 7 pillars around it for the chaos emeralds so they could make annother set that connects to this, with the pillars and the master emerald. personally, with the master emerald shrine set i just made 3 additional pillars, added them around the 4 and put the chaos emeralds on it so it has the pillars it should but hey lol thats just me
I'd like to get an Amy but the set isn't that enticing. I picked up the mech set for Rouge, but it'd be nice to get a mini figure series to broaden out the Sonic characters since so many sets are locations and could use more figures to flesh them out.
A Sonic Minifigure series would be hype, so many cool characters and different outfits to pick from! As for Amy, she isn’t too expensive on the aftermarket if you wanted to go down that route, but I’m sure she’ll be in more sets in the future.
Wish we got knuckles in his transforming vehicle in transformed or his sonic and sega all stars racing kart from the first, or had collapsing legos like in sky sanctuary.
It’s crazy how LEGO hasn’t made any of the vehicles from the Sonic Racing games. This set could have easily been a Knuckles car instead of a mech. A dream set would be Sonic’s Speedstar in the style of a Speed Champions set.
@@RadiantBuilds shadow used his motorcycle in the first sonic racing game, and tails did use his plane in the first racing game too. Lego did make versions of both of those at least.
i have no interest in mechs so im just gonna buy the master emerald piece and rouge off bricklink when i buy the shrine set. so annoying that they done this and made it awkward
I bought the mech set first. And when the shrine was revealed I just decided not to get it because I already have Knuckles, and I’m not made of money 😂
I'm not particularly impressed with either set tbh, the master emerald is the wrong preportions and the mech + glider seem unnessisary and out of character for them, but the shrine set could do with a lil more detail and be big enough to hold the master emerald along with all 7 chaos emeralds. I know these sonic sets are focused on playablility and accesablility for kids but the emerald shrine is such an inportant part of the lore I wish they did a more detailed version... maybe the past version just before the Echidna clan raided it complete with chao and Chaos 0
Good points all around (especially with the mech/glider). A larger Shrine build (maybe in the style of an 18+ set) would be really cool and fully capture the location from the games, but like you said, gotta keep these sets accessible
This shrine is where I would keep the Master Emerald. IF I HAD ONE!
😂😂😂
Sonic 3 & Knuckles if Knuckles didn’t lose to sonic sooner and if eggman snuck away with the master emerald without being spotted.
"A saying that will sacred any adult lego fan, you gotta buy a mech"
As an adult lego geek, That does not deter me at all.
I’m glad it doesn’t deter you! I threw that joke in there since I’ve seen a good amount of resentment for the mechs online
EXCELLENT WORK.
@@RadiantBuilds Why do people hate the mech? I thought anime taught us all this: mechs are awesome and cool!
@@uprising4c19
Unfortunately... a lot of NEW AGE anime fans don't like mecha... cause it's "not believable"
@@uprising4c19 IMO they just look bad, almost always aren't from the source material and adds a ton of pieces that would be better used elsewhere or just having a lower price. Plus they're way too fragile and make me realize why they used technic and CCBS for that kind of thing before instead of bricks.
You know it's so stange that all 3 memebers of team Sonic have different expresiones but amy dosen't
Amy got snubbed 😢 hopefully in a future Sonic set she gets a new expression/variant
She’s the one I think needs a new expression since her smile looks kinda creepy.
She's not as popular of a character with the target demographic for these sets so I guess it makes sense somewhat
@@lewiswilliams3347Well, I Hope Amy will get her time to shine eventually! Maybe she could be The big star of Sonic Movie 4!
This would have been a good place to put an alt expression
it’s odd that the master emerald doesn’t appear in the “master emerald shrine” lol
It’s clear they want you to buy both knuckles sets 😔
@@ThunderdranswordI have all the sets
None of yall realized knuckles digged 4 of the shards and brought them back
I like both honestly. I added some parts to add 3 pillars and I instead have my chaos emeralds on there. Something I don’t think people are talking about enough is you can basically get the full set of characters as of 2024 if you buy both sets, Tails’s workshop, and The Eggman drill tank. You could even just claim the mech was Tails’s idea
I did the same!
Probably gonna get the mech + the new tails set just for that lol
I think I prefer the Angel Island one , if it werent for Rouge being an exklusive on the Guardian mech one which is the one I got. I just hope that Rouge the bat mini fig will get more re releases.
Since all the other Sonic characters have gotten rereleases or new variants, hopefully Rouge also gets one
@@RadiantBuildsI mean Shadow already got rereleased and got a variant already (Super Shadow). It would be odd if Rouge remains exclusive to that set alone
The thing is, if they planned the sets out a bit better they could have totally done the collect em all aspect with the chaos emeralds and the master emerald. Being able to collect the chaos emeralds in the original Sonic set as part of the building experience was my favorite thing 😔
the first collection of LEGO Sonic sets also had a small collectathon
with the 7 Chaos Emeralds
i appreciate the extra animation added with the review really neat :D
Thanks so much! It’s been a fun process to incorporate more stop motion into my videos
I haven’t gotten the set yet but it seems pretty cool and I love the face print for knuckles, the angry facial expression suits him well.
The Knuckles 😡angry😡 face goes hard
The great emerald's power allows me to feel
i can’t see a thing but it’s around somewhere
@@YeetymcspeedyI'm gonna hold my head cause I have no fear
Knuckles has to go to the other Lego set to feel 💀💀
Amy should have that well known Angry Face
She really should have 😡
I’m not really a big sonic fan but the amount of creative play gimmicks I’ve seen in the theme is really nice, especially when lego is taking steps away from that sort of design philosophy.
Same here, I enjoy these sets so much I decided to buy sonic origins and check out the old games.
It’s always fun when they can sneak in a play gimmick. For the Master Emerald Shrine in particular, the turn table to hit the punching bag is a simple but effective play feature
Awesome, have fun with Origins! I still need to finish it lol
@@RadiantBuilds i am almost done with sonic 1.
@@RadiantBuilds ya that reminds me a lot of the vending machine from Lavatraz
This would kind of be like if they released a daily plan set with all the office workers, a villain, and every noteworthy Superman character except for any actual superheroes.
Then, if you want to have the heroes, save the day, you have to buy a set of equal price to only get the heroes without any villains
Speaking of the Daily Planet, that’s always been a dream set of mine! It better get the large Daily Bugle treatment someday with all the necessary characters
11/10 Content. RadiantBuilds makes the BEST reviews and builds
Awwww thanks!!!
the gems are actually probably a reference to sonic adventure, where robotnik (eggman) fires a fuckin laser at the master emerald and shatters it
In Lego's defense, how often is the Master Emerald actually located in the Master Emerald shrine throughout the different depictions of the franchise? /s
That’s a fair point 😂
The mech is so silly and I kinda love it for that.
On my display I'm rationalizing the two Knuckles's as the entire mech being his swoll Boom design lmao
I like that! Knuckles in Sonic Boom is hilarious 😂
"If I had 2 nickles for every $35 Lego Sonic set starring Knuckles, I would have 2 nickles which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice."
Wait... what???
I’m not a big fan of mechs, so I got the pieces for the Master Emerald and the stand, and built them myself (before the Shrine set was even released!). And I got bits to make more columns so as to display seven differently coloured Chaos Emeralds.
I just found out that Master Emeralds in atleast 5 other colors exist in Lego so.....
TIME TO COLLECT THE SUPER EMERALDS
Time for the next collect-a-thon 😂
For me I wish they had 7 pillars so I can put all my Chaos Emeralds on display
Great video!
That's a very frustrating tactic. Rouge happens to be my favorite Sonic girl, but I find the Master Emerald Shrine set overall way cooler. But if you don't get the mech set, the shrine won't have the Master Emerald! Also, so far that mech set is the only one to have Rouge!
Thanks so much! Choosing between the figure you want versus the cooler set is a hard choice. Hopefully Rouge comes in another set or gets another variant, as LEGO Sonic tends to repeat characters across sets.
0:00 If I had one for every time I heard that meme, I'd have enough to buy all the Sonic sets. :P
That’s a lot 😂
The sonic sets have been great. Death egg robot and shadow's motorcycle are 9/10 and very excited for the tails vs metal sonic, but knuckles in a mech? It could have been more focused around sky sanctuary with the teleporters and falling ground pieces. Glad we got an egg robo but he looks goofy. Knuckles is the only one I chose to get at a used figure/lego store for 1/3 the price of either set he came in.
Having small items to collect like the chaos emeralds is cool, but the master emerald is more of a missing component imo. Like to me it feels really bad to have to spend twice the money to essentially complete a set I would have otherwise loved.
I actually fixed this because i own both sets you can just slot the master emerald right into the shrine, and i also have the 7 chaos emeralds so i made 3 extra pillars for them to go on!
That’s an awesome fix!
I just bought the Master Emerald off Bricklink. It was under £3 for the emerald (2 pieces, ~£2.50) and the holding thing (10 pieces, ~£0.35). They also had the shards that go inside it in trans-bright green (to match the Master Emerald) instead of the trans-green that comes with the mech. So in some ways doing this is an upgrade.
Not only an upgrade, but a good deal!
I got the angel island set recently and i already had the
Rouge set (I wanted her so-) and a bit after building I realized you can just put it on the top and replace the two pieces.
the separation of the emerald and girls across the sets is frustrating but not surprising. i may just try to part some sections out on bricklink. great video, thanks for sharing!! love the BONK noise with amy's hammer lol
Thanks for watching! I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to use the BONK sound because of the giant hammer 😂
if you had 2 nickels for every instance of it happening you would have 4
Dat's kewwl!! :0 Imagine if he had 3 for every instance of it happening!! Then he'd have 6!!
@@Minipsil 🤯
if he got 0 nickels for it, he’d have 0
@@Iaminpain-le3wo 🤯
There should be a $70 set that combines both of the current Knuckles sets
I’m surprised nobody noticed the haminations reference in the beginning
0:06 you'd also have 2 knuckles
I think that if they had it so you collect a special 7 sets you get all the chaos emeralds that would be cool, but to lock the master emerald behind a set not many people want (besides me, honestly I think mechs are cool, but I think that mechs would work better as a secondary thing rather then something you need to buy to complete a different set since, I’m in the minority on liking mechs) is really dumb
I bought the mech first and when I found out that they made the shrine, I went and bought it.
so many people complain about the master emerald shrine not having the master emerald. i feel like i might be the only person on the planet who was actually glad it didn't. if it did, then you wouldn't wanna get the knuckles mech set. you would probobly only get it for rouge really. and besides, did you wanna have 2 master emeralds? at the end of the day, to each their own but personally i didnt have an issue with this and i collected all the sets no problem. tho when wave 2 gets retired then that might be an issue....
Fair points! Retirement sounds like an issue down the line unless they throw the Master Emerald in another set
@@RadiantBuilds well they actually have a chance to. since you might know, the master emerald shrine is meant to have 7 pillars around it for the chaos emeralds so they could make annother set that connects to this, with the pillars and the master emerald. personally, with the master emerald shrine set i just made 3 additional pillars, added them around the 4 and put the chaos emeralds on it so it has the pillars it should but hey lol thats just me
At least the two lego Knuckles have decent face prints.
True, we have a good range of emotion for Knuckles now!
I'd like to get an Amy but the set isn't that enticing. I picked up the mech set for Rouge, but it'd be nice to get a mini figure series to broaden out the Sonic characters since so many sets are locations and could use more figures to flesh them out.
A Sonic Minifigure series would be hype, so many cool characters and different outfits to pick from! As for Amy, she isn’t too expensive on the aftermarket if you wanted to go down that route, but I’m sure she’ll be in more sets in the future.
I need both sets
0:01 Knuckles sounds like Nickels
3:22 Both are good 🗿
Rouge stole the master emerald like always
yeah ima just buy the peices for the master emerald holder and master emerald itself from brick link
Wish we got knuckles in his transforming vehicle in transformed or his sonic and sega all stars racing kart from the first, or had collapsing legos like in sky sanctuary.
It’s crazy how LEGO hasn’t made any of the vehicles from the Sonic Racing games. This set could have easily been a Knuckles car instead of a mech. A dream set would be Sonic’s Speedstar in the style of a Speed Champions set.
@@RadiantBuilds shadow used his motorcycle in the first sonic racing game, and tails did use his plane in the first racing game too. Lego did make versions of both of those at least.
@@RadiantBuilds Haven't they made Shadow's motorcycle?
I have the mech set but I lost some pieces
Actually I have both now and I can’t find the master emerakd
I preffer the mech set, because is the only set to date to have Rouge as a lego minifigure, unlike Amy, wich is in more lego sonic sets
fun fact: they’re by the same designer!
That’s so cool, it’s all connected!
You’d have four nickels, technically
Whoops I messed up the joke 😅
What
i have no interest in mechs so im just gonna buy the master emerald piece and rouge off bricklink when i buy the shrine set. so annoying that they done this and made it awkward
Probably the best move tbh, hopefully Rouge isn’t too expensive on the aftermarket
The egg robo seems to bulky the animal thing kinda ruins a lot of badnik designs
I already own the knuckles guardian mech.
I would take the Meck
LEGO Sonic the Hedgehog set And Knuckles And Knuckles.
I threw the plastic master emerald and made a brick build one
2:56 I have both so both
1:20
Please don’t call it that 😑
Why?
If I buy *two* Lego packs with knuckles I can use a happy knuckles and a angry KNUKLES like tgis
Im still raging on why tf the gave Knuckles a mech
I'm getting both and giving away the mech and second knuckles istg
0:00 You'd have four
0:01 there is the meme! Also you said it wrong
Phineas and Ferb reference?
Both
im the guy ho made this vid to 1k it was 999 likes
2 nickels for 2 knuckles
Comments are good for the UA-cam algorithm or something like that
I hope so at least 😂
That’s kind of sus
Piggy the pig?
Mech
I bought the mech set first. And when the shrine was revealed I just decided not to get it because I already have Knuckles, and I’m not made of money 😂
I'm not particularly impressed with either set tbh, the master emerald is the wrong preportions and the mech + glider seem unnessisary and out of character for them,
but the shrine set could do with a lil more detail and be big enough to hold the master emerald along with all 7 chaos emeralds.
I know these sonic sets are focused on playablility and accesablility for kids but the emerald shrine is such an inportant part of the lore I wish they did a more detailed version... maybe the past version just before the Echidna clan raided it complete with chao and Chaos 0
Good points all around (especially with the mech/glider). A larger Shrine build (maybe in the style of an 18+ set) would be really cool and fully capture the location from the games, but like you said, gotta keep these sets accessible