Chima was such a victim of circumstance. It started with instant hate since it rose from the ashes of Ninjago and the lackluster show was the second strike. It seemed like it was so hated at the time and now there are a lot of fans nostalgic for it. Give it a few years and these, now affordable, sets will skyrocket in price. If you want Chima I’d say buy the sets now.
I didn't hate on chima. I was actually obsesses with it lol. I don't watch kids shows, but damn, if chima was still airing I would DEFINETLY show them to my future kids lool. Unfortunately, ninjago exists.
@@matrixpictures7799 Okay, ninjago fan. Ninjago literally brought almost nothing new to the table. Most of the builds are ugly and the show has become a bunch of stories without context. Tell me how that over Chima isn't unfortunate.
@@gone9820 honestly dude this whole little situation just goes to show how basic the minds of some children are. I mean there's nothing more basic and black and blue boyish than freaking ninjas... You got to be somewhat open-minded to get into a story and universe like chima. With that being said as a kid I totally hated Ninjago thinking it was bland and uninspired. Chima on the other hand was this perfect storm of fresh and new while also holding on to the old zany and epic animal designs of old Lego sets.
I personally wasn’t a big fan of animal themed sets, but Chima had some of my favorite translucent and metallic pieces. I ended up buying a couple sets just for the great part variety.
I find Chima becomes much more interesting when you mentally make the connection that Chima is simply post apocalyptic Fabuland. After the Chi drug was discovered all the carnivores went mad and ate all the Fluffy Bunny people and such.
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Lego mars set with those translucent green aliens who could only sit down. I dont even remember its NAME but I remember the aliens. And the fact it had an rts game on the lego site. If you know what its called. Please tell me. I think it was around the same time as.power miners but i cant too sure.
@@CallMeAfterLaughter "Chima is better than the recent seasons of Ninjago" This... this is so funny. How the heck could 3 crappy season surpass the wonderfully writing of Sons Of Garmadon and Hunted? Even March Of The Oni is better than the whole Chima series. I mean, seriously, how could a bad executed story with poor characters surpass a story with a dark tone and great characters and villains? "People only hated it because they like Ninjago better" Well, that's "half-true", but there are a other reasons of why people didn't like it. The first one is that the Thundercats fans not only saw it as a rip-off of the mentioned franchise, but also as a replacement of the anime series that was going to be cancelled near the year of debut of Chima. The second one is that even if someone didn't know about Ninjago, they could easily dislike it because of the low quality of the series itself. Crappy jokes, bad characters, poor written stories, it's hard not to dislike that.
StevenThunder 12 I was a huge Ninjago fanboy who hated Chima when it came out but over time as I got older I started to like Chima more. The reason I like Chima more is because the lore and plot is consistent and steady instead of constantly evolving out of the blue just to push a new story. Ninjago started out as simple ninjas vs the skeleton army and a quest to get these elemental golden weapons, but then all of a sudden there’s an ancient race of snakes led by the evil Pythor and also a green ninja that we just forgot about and it turns out all along those ancient weapons could be used to summon advanced vehicles, oh and also the snakes are actually nice, it’s this overlord guy who’s the enemy and actually we forgot to mention the green ninja is actually the flying magical dragon-summoning golden ninja, have you heard of the anocondrai? They were always good snakes. Ah fuck it, EVERYONE CAN SUMMON A DRAGON! Chima took it’s lore slow and steady and introduced new things gradually. The several tribes of animals that evolved intelligently and physically through this magic Chi and live in a world depending on balance to stay stable, save for one of each tribe who chose to stay simple. Outside of Chima is a savage uncharted world inhabited by savage tribes. Then two seasons later they introduce this ice vs fire plot that doesn’t interfere with the previous lore but instead adds its own place in the lore in a way that makes sense
@@CallMeAfterLaughter Because in MoTo, unlike all the shitty Chima series, I could care for the already developed charactres. And while the villains aren't the best the thing, at least, I could take them seriously. Something that in Chima is imposible The Omega couldn't have been a good villain, but at least I could took him seriously. Unlike Cragger, The golden scorpion whose name I forgot and Sir Fangar that every time they came out on screen I was like "You're the bad guy, right? Ok, Cool"
Chima's hatedom is interesting to me because when it was announced, I was excited! I was someone who grew up fairly poor so it was cheaper and more space efficient to give me a DS and same Lego games. So my childhood experience with Lego was more about consuming media and nostalgia for shows/games than toys. So when Ninjago came out, I ate it up. It was one of my first times getting super invested in a story driven show. I was sad when it "ended," sure, but I'll never forget how Chima's trailer dropped literally right after Ninjago's "series finale." Most of my sadness was quickly dismissed when I saw oooh, new Lego show? Mkay, I loved this Lego show to death, I'm sure I'll love the next one! I was so excited, I remember being so happy that we got another Lego show! This one will probably also be a big franchise with video games and I'll probably get the complete series on DVD to rewatch over and over again and it'll be so cool and- I don't think I disliked Chima as a show because it "killed" Ninjago. (Hell, I'd say I was more let down than hating on it) I think I expected too much of it. I, like Lego, expected it to be the new Ninjago. But 1. I might've been too attached to Ninjago. After all, Chima aired less than two months after Ninjago's "final episode." 2. it just didn't captivate me the same way within the first few episodes, and 3. it just isn't Ninjago. It's Chima. It was meant to fill same spot on the shelf, but in terms of a franchise, it's very distinctly it's own thing. What appealed to me about Ninjago wouldn't be present in Chima. Now that I'm older, I can appreciate the sets, something I couldn't do as a kid since I could only take in so much in commercials. I still don't own any, but I can tell, looking more into it and seeing pictures, that the theme was so well designed. But the show still didn't do much for me. Sad though. Like, I think Nexo Knights was better written from what little I saw, but I tuned out of that one quicker than I did with Chima because it was missing something. As lackluster as Chima was as a show, I appreciated the world it built. Not so much the lore, but the aesthetics. Nexo was missing something that Ninjago had, but Chima? It had that missing piece, maybe even more. Chima will always stand out to me. I was so disappointed in the story, but I will never forget the way it looked and the feelings invoked by the designs alone. Too bad I'll always remember the hype and aesthetics better than the story and characters...
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I'm not sure if anyone else has mentioned or thought of this but I've always thought a future wave of Chima that would be underwater themed would be the bomb. You could have the same tribes at war, say dark octopi and noble seahorses, with vehicles like a giant turtle sub and having manta ray steeds. Could have Laval and co. In it but wearing scuba gear or having their own underwater base. I'm not sure if that would be phoned in or cool though as opposed to focusing on entirely new tribes. A main plotline would be just as wars are fought on the surface, no one realized there was conflict going on in the depths. It all looks good in my head 😅
It would've been cool to see underwater tribes like dolphins, whales and sharks. Sorta like the Atlantis sets from a long time ago but much more detailed and interesting. And there could be legend beasts for the respective tribes. It was such a missed opportunity for season 3 not to include legend beasts for the villains. It would be really cool to see massive whales and sharks fighting it out underwater with underwater vehicles in the mix as well. It's a shame it would never happen, but dreams will always live on.
But the main concern is how the stakes would be raised from the previous seasons. Season 1 had Chima being ripped apart by former friends and their armies over Chi. Season 2 had the race against time to get the legend beasts from the Crawlers to restart the falls so Chima wouldn't be torn by natural disasters. And season 3 had the Hunters marching over Chima and trying to turn it into a desolate frozen wasteland. Also, the finale of the show revealed that their home was actually a floating island above a larger land, so where would an ocean be located?
@Mammoth Supremacy 55 That's so cool! Imagine if the series continued and included some fan-made material to make it interesting. There's even an entire section on the Chima wiki dedicated to fan content. It still makes me sad that this show had TONS of potential , but it was cancelled last minute.
@@yashjoseph3544 Well, the next season ("Season 4") could be like Season 1 - where Chima would be figuratively ripped apart by former friends and their armies over a dimension crystal, to which the Crocodile Tribe are guardians of it; but the roles would be in reverse: the Lions would be the new 'bad guys' and the Crocodiles the new 'good guys'.
Yup the nostalgia hit hard with this one, this took me back to a time when all of my friends were into LEGO and we all knew about the contest and we would stare at that magazine many times. Now i actually own a big bin of one of my friends old LEGO and it's mostly dominated by Chima sets him and i would play with, zoom around and eat other figs with those big jaw features the sets had. Thanks for sharing
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Yeah it's odd that CCBS fans don't really like the ultra build's, I definitely loved the different colours and parts lego made, the 2nd wave was alright but the first wave was good for the most part. Keep up the good work👍
I was able to get 2 of the first year's (2013"s) LEGO Legends of CHIMA ultrabuilds (CHI Laval and CHI Cragger), but I don't have any from the 2014 wave - *_I really want the 2014 version of CHI Cragger_*_ _*_*SO*_*_ _*_badly in my LEGO Legends of CHIMA collection!!!_*
You really made me appreciate Chima like never before. I always thought it looked pretty cool, but now I see that it was something truley unique. It’s kind of sad lots of people didn’t like it because it wasn’t Ninjago. I really want to buy some of the sets now. This is probably one of my favorite episodes.
Chima was one of my favorite lego lines as a child i always like the wolves in the fist lines but the second line i just became obssest with the figures the spider the scorpions every chrismas i got only chima sets it was realy fun to build them and now im righting this coment i think about al the fun i hade and so many stores to tale i just get that nostalgic feeling
Yeah i remember being obsessed by those new tribes and then forcing my parents to buy the sets for me,and then for black friday they bought me the spider castle thingy that had the rhino bike i still love that set
Looking through some Chima concept art I've discovered that the animal tribes originally were supposed to have more humanoid heads that wore helmets modeled off their respective animal species, that explains why in the final product we had expression-swapping minifig heads underneath molded animal masks serving as the actual head.
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I do remember Chima ( think even saw an 4D film of it at the time) and nice including fabuland in there too never thought of the two going together but suppose kinda similar but looks like you had fun with the fabuland bits lol didn’t know there was a series looks nice too;)
My favorite line in the tv series was from cragger right after that big wide shot: "uuhhh quick question, how do we get back down?" Literally made me roll with laughter 😂
I loved Chima. The sets more, but also the show, actually. I am still sad it ended so soon. To this day. But at least it had a worthy end. Ninjago has been revived so often... Chima had one story, three arcs, a good ending. It would be too convoluted now if we had EVEN MORE tribes. They would've probably just improved the current ones. Again, I loved this theme. It was great... I had a lot of croc stuff and my brother some big lion sets... And then, when the Ice tribes came, we put them into diplomatic meetings to oppose the new threat. Everytime I miss the theme, I go back to this video. Sometimes it feels like Nick was one of the few People appreciating Chima. In case you see this; Thank you so much, Nick.
Thank you for being a honest review that didn't butcher Chima. Most people would boil this series down to "haha funny furries" when they're not even furries anyways, just funny animals. I was obsessed with the show as a kid... I unfortunately didn't care enough about the sets and now I regret it... I'm so happy to see that there are people who genuinely like Chima as it is - the care, love and passion the theme got, all ruined because of bad timing. If ninjago failed, then Chima would've been alive to this day.
Anyone remember that Chima-MMO? Basically my first "real" video game, even though I wasn't able to keep up with my friends because they were allowed to play way more than me.
Man, I wish this had gone on longer. Looking back on it, Ninjago was also part of the story since Chima was one of the 16 realms, so there was so much more they could have done with it. So much wasted potential...
I ducking loved Chima for basically all of my life. Even though I didn't buy all of them, I wished that there were more CCBS characters (Not the Fire or Ice, those were partially trash.), because I bought the hell out of it. Also, I thought the heads underneath terrified me. Also, these weapons were so heavy that I had to use baseplates to hold them. I was so into Chima that I'd literally quote any of it. Chima also started my love for stories of balance and war. Technically, I'm proud to state that Chima is my favorite LEGO set. In fact, I got pissed off whenever I heard that Chi were just drugs. I just defended it as much as I could. I then got sad when I heard it got cancelled. Ah, I loved Chima. Ok, I think every single LEGO fan will hate me, but Chima is better than Ninjago. Ninjago hasn't aged well for me.
Me too, no offence to Ninjago fans, but some time after the REDESIGN I kinda lost interest in the series as it didn't feel the same for me anymore (don't get me wrong I still like Ninjago and the new designs are good, but it's not the same)
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Wow. This Lego Rewind blew me away. I wish I paid more attention to the story of Chima to give it more credit when it was running. Granted I bought some sets, mostly Speedorz and a few of each tribes vehicles (notably the Eagle Interceptor was a lot of fun) but I didn't realize how deep the other waves were. Excellent recap of this theme, and good summary of Fabuland as well.
It's one of my favorite episodes so far. Definitely my favorite of season 3, though it's still likely to be topped by the finale. It drained me, but it was still gratifying to put together.
Chima must be the first theme that isn’t known for being loved or hated but known for being not as successful as the theme it was supposed replace. Like I haven’t heard anyone complain about it or praise about it until now.
I remember the Ninjago vs. Chima discourse back then so vividly, I wanted to hate Chima but it ended up being one of my favorites, I ended up being pretty invested in the show despite finding it flawed, and I LOVED the MMO. Great video, I love looking back on my childhood obsession with LEGO.
It's so encouraging to see the varied comments down here. I for one grew up with China in a sense, it was quite literally the first Lego theme I really invested myself in. I got a good amount of the sets(or at least the ones I liked) and I intently followed the story . Looking back chima certainly had its flaws, but as a kid I really enjoyed it. I still remember "mourning" the theme when I heard it was ending, and when I go through my old Lego magazine collection and see old promotions for the theme, I get filled with nastolgia.
Man i loved chima, im so thankfull my dad was working at lego at the time, if not for him i wouldnt be able to have experienced so many different themes in lego! :D
Lego chima was a big part of my childhood, i remember buying my first chima set and building it in a restaurant. I also remember trying to build chima sets out of leftover lego pieces while watching the show.., i don't love it, but i don't hate it either. This video caused a massive nostalgic wave wash over me.
Chima was a huge influence on my build style, with all sorts of thought-out weapons and mechanisms, and just my life in general. You’re the only person I’ve really seen do Chima justice like this, and you even pointed out some things that I didn’t notice (and I was a HUGE Chima nut back in the day). I’m still hoping for a reboot at some point, but I’m really not sure if it’ll happen. Thank you for making this.
I was expecting some furry jokes on this video and, for my surprise, it didn't. Nice work for not being another one to enforce this sterotype and for bringing one of my favorite legos during my teenage along side with ninjago
I never really cared about Chima when I was younger. Not that I disliked it, just didn’t really pay any attention to it. But nowadays, it’s one of my absolute favorite Lego themes, and I’m working towards getting every set released (which isn’t even bad because most are dirt cheap even sealed).
@DTinaglia Studios I don't know if you will reply, but I absolutely loved your Chima series. It was one of the best in my opinion, and it shaped my childhood in more ways you could imagine. I also remember one of your videos of Chima getting a little over 1 million views, so I guess a lot of others agree with me.
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Chima is my absolute favorite!! I still have the sets in my room and love them. It really is something unique and it's really sad to see it go. Really hope they'll revive the series coz there is a lot of missed opportunity and a huge world to explore
i will be forever looking for every chima set as part of my nostalgia quest. at the end, if i ever find all of the theme thingys i will consider my life complete and die peacefully
This is a trend that i have noticed, lego just doesnt give franchises a chance long enough, and when a franchise starts getting good, lego pulls the plug.
ah you back thank you i was realy waited your lego rewind next ep. glad you back :D No worres i loved this theme as well sad thing this never was finihsed
LEGO Chima was right around when I loved and enjoyed LEGO the most when I was around 12. I have quite fond and happy memories going to LEGOLand California and seeing the LEGO Chima waterpark extension of the park. I went to legoland CA a lot when I was around that age, like every week. I collected a lot of the Chima sets, and associated it with LEGOLand, which is where I bought most of them, and LEGOLand has a special place in my heart
They could gave done so much more with chima for example they could have done a underwater theme for example the baddies could be sharks, squids and eels And the new good guys could be dolphins and sea horses
Chima may not be over yet, as Ninjago Season 5 confirmed Chima is one of the 16 realms in the Ninjago universe, which can give place to a future crossover
Chima is the best Lego Franchise LEGO has ever made. (My opinion) I had the Lion Temple, but my little brother destroyed it and the parts were all gone.. but still until now I try to rebuild as many sets as possible! Btw. Thanks for making this lovable video!
The final scene of the last episode made me SO HYPED for future seasons. Now looking back at it, I’m kinda sad. This was my favourite LEGO series ever. Hope they’ll do something like it again.
Because the final scene of the last episode exists there, it is a *_HUGE figurative crime_* that no new seasons had yet been produced for the _LEGO Legends of CHIMA_ animated T.V. series to this very day!!! 😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬💢💢💢💢💢😤😤😤😤😤
chima came in a hard time in my life, so I was so happy when it came along. I still remember the morning when I found out about it. I was already obsessed with lego at that point, having gotten all of the agori and into ninjago (I didn't even know it had been temporarily cancelled at that point), I was so excited for a animal series. I still remember one of my favorite sets ro this day, the eagle interceptor
Rewatching this yet again and now have a Chima Theory. As you said, it would be natural for the ultra build Chima figures to interact with the regular system sets bc the ultra builds are essentially astral projections of the respective characters "combat avatars" given physical form. The Chi orbs, when used, give us a glimpse of the characters "combat avatar" for lack of a better term when they access a small amount of the orbs power in order to boost their physical abilities. Alternatively, when a tribe warrior calls upon the full power of a Chi orb, they are essentially a conduit for that power, which allows them to give physical form to their combat avatar. This would give them a massive advantage in combat.
I actually rather enjoyed Chima, even the show, when I was already heavily invested in Ninjago. The set at 15:53 is my favorite Chima set, which I have had displayed ever since I bought it around the time of it's release. I will admit I haven't gone through the show in several years, and it or the line itself may not have been objectively great, but I have many fond memories of it.
I LOVE Chima. Chima means so much to me, and, it's so ironic because I started off like every other mad 12 year old Ninjago fan when it was announced- and was stated to replace Ninjago. The show was... goofy, but I really do think they hit gold sometimes even there, I loved the fact that Laval was basically the cause of all the problems- and that subtext on handing out drugs, almost. Probably not intentional, but I get a good laugh when I think about all the little ramifications scattered throughout the storyline all starting from that one mistake. The theme itself is technically still alive, it's confirmed as one of Ninjago's '16 realms' and Tommy himself has been hinting it's return in some fashion for a little bit now, I'm hopeful for the future- as this series truly did have heart. It wasn't afraid of what it was, and it tried to embrace all the things that made it what it was entirely. And, as you said, the final 4 waves weren't the tiny tie off at the end, but a proper and fully fleshed out concept. Chima ran its course but didn't get renewed, Nexo Knights just... was cancelled. A lot of people liked to pretend that Chima was some theme that did awfully, that it never sold anything- and all that. That just straight up wasn't true, it wasn't exactly Star Wars, but when you take into account what it was competing against at the time within Lego's own catalogue. It's surprising to imagine it selling poorly, at least for me. Ninjago's latest wave filled me with so much intrigue when the leaks came out, and while it's obviously now just their own thing- perhaps the similarities just try to reference the final waves of Chima. I think it's interesting to compare Ninjago and Chima as at the root of it all, they both had SO much potential, and while Ninjago is still going- perhaps starting to be to my waning interest, I'm just glad the writers and creators cared enough to connect them.
This year's remakes of sets like Cole's Driller and Jay's Jet make the originals look like crap. The redesigns show just how far lego has come, what they can do now. While I like most of ninjago's post-rebooted builds I honestly don't think the original, pre-cancellation sets hold up very well. Chima's aged a bit better. Like I said, they raised the bar really high from where it was at the time. And now I look at what they're able to do and just wonder how MIND BLOWING new Chima builds would be nowadays.
@@NickonPlanetRipple Legacy has shown the old sets up in such a dramatic way, although debates are rife over whether or not some sets were made worse (The Dragons), some like the Ninja vehicles and the monastery seriously do just run laps around the originals. It took the pictures of the new monastery for me to wake up and realise how inaccurate, and just plain the 2011 one was. I just wish Ninjago would do more buildings, they always knock vehicles out of the park in my opinion- but they just make SO many. The show's just given up on explaining how they get them, I suppose they're just the best sellers. Ninja. In massively oversized monster trucks. Right. :P
If the LEGO Legends of CHIMA theme and related animated T.V. series *_EVER_* comes back there, I want Laval to be the main antagonist/'bad guy' *_*SO*_*_ _*_BADLY_* there and that Cragger to become the main protagonist/'good guy'!!!!! #EvilLaval #HeroicCragger #LavalAsTheMainVillain #CraggerAsTheMainProtagonist
I loved Chima. Only saw the first two seasons of the show and do wish I could see the rest of it. The animal minifigs were awesome. You showed a lot of stuff here that I never saw before so it makes me wonder if the last two waves had a very wide distribution.
I was introduced to lego's in an odd way. I liked lego Ninjago, but by the end of the second season, it kinda began to fall apart for me. Reflected by the fact I only got 4 sets from it. But my dad got me the lego club magazine, and I was introduced to a whole new world of what lego themes exist. 2 magazines after my first, and Chima came. I fell in love with it from the start. I still love it. It truly was an amazing theme, and just so cool and unique. I hadn't seen much of anything like that before in my short exposure to lego. I was sad when it ended, but it still holds a place in my heart. You aren't alone in big fans of Chima.
Legends of Chima was... an interesting one, which had a lot of concepts I enjoyed, even if it wasn't perfect. One one hand, I'm quite a fan of anthro animal fantasy worlds, especially unique ones like the one Chima had (and of course, Thundercats 2011, which I am still bitter about it's cancellation to this day), since most anthro animal-based fantasy worlds have a tendency to be Redwall clones and be flat out medieval fantasy (usually with rodent-based characters like mice or rabbits as the main characters), so something like Chima really stuck out from the bunch. On the other hand, I feel like Lego didn't utilize the full potential that Chima had, and I feel it's partly due to bad timing. Coming off the tail of Thundercats 2011 being cancelled and having a similar aesthetic to that series (be it intentional or not) was likely the biggest reason it failed, turning both Lego fans and non-Lego fans off, but it could also be because Lego didn't really utilize the concepts it presented properly, since it seemed quite ambitious, but you could say the same thing for Bionicle, and that ended up being one of their biggest successes. I also feel that it was because of changes in the entertainment landscape as well, as kids were wanting to play more with toys based on pre-existing franchises like Star Wars and Marvel, given the Marvel Cinematic Universe had just finished Phase 1, and Disney had recently bought the rights to Star Wars with The Force Awakens coming out within the next year, so anything based on more original properties wasn't really in the interest of toy companies, who wanted to profit off the success of what was popular at the time. Ninjago was already established at the time, so people had no problem with it, but in the 2010's it's not easy to be an original brand not based on a pre-existing property, given how big entertainment corporations control virtually everything and rely on what they view as profitable more than anything else. As you said, Chima could have been the next Bionicle, but it failed mainly because it came out at a bad time, along with being too ambitious for it's own good. Even Bionicle started out small and didn't become overly ambitious until time went on, and I feel that's what caused Bionicle to fall apart towards the end of G1. Bionicle G2 also had some of the same problems Chima did (as well as many, MANY other problems), but that's another story.
Indeed. Bionicle and Ninjago were happy accidents. They BECAME big because they just worked. But Chima was basically bred in a lab to be Lego's BIGGEST THEME EVAAAAAR and... you can't always expect that to work.
@@NickonPlanetRipple Well it didn't help that they rushed it out and it didn't gel well with people, along with the similarities in aesthetic to Thundercats 2011, a series killed off ironically because of "toy sales" being replaced by a series made by _Lego_ of all companies, so a lot of people, including Lego fans were turned off by it. Both Bionicle and Ninjago started out small and simple, yes Bionicle was more complex than Ninjago at first, but even then it was still rather small and simple, and people got into them because of the story and characters that those worlds presented. The animated series of Chima sucked because of how much of a blatant toy advertisement it was, in a similar fashion to the cartoons of the 80's. Even Ninjago was more subtle about it's toyetic nature. The Chima animated series was what caused people to have bad first impressions of it, and the ending of the final episode where the land of Chima is on a floating continent just showed you how much wasted potential there was with this franchise. Lego put all their eggs into one basket and didn't give the series room to breathe. It took many years for Bionicle to become the franchise people love it for, it took years for Ninjago to get to where it is now, Chima was never given a chance. It's going to be a while before another franchise as unique as Chima shows up, or Lego comes up with another line such as it, considering we live in a time where everything's a reboot or an adaptation of a pre-existing franchise and newer original franchises are never given a chance.
@@Masterge77 What's terrifying to me is we may be caught in a temporal loop of sorts... that this need to recycle everything is going to keep going and there simply won't ever be a place in pop culture for anything new to come along again.
@@NickonPlanetRipple I believe it's simply a phase and that it will die off eventually, but probably not immediately since the current corporate executives are blinded by greed and fail to understand their audience.
@@NickonPlanetRipple Yeah... although, what is to be fair here, the LEGO Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme was based upon an existing (third party) intellectual property, and that was a good one in my opinion; but that one got cut short *_as well_* there (one year *_before_* the LEGO Legends of CHIMA theme got cancelled there). However, I wouldn't mind an Extreme Dinosaurs LEGO theme or a Kung Fu Dino Posse LEGO theme, and those are third party intellectual properties that have never been made into LEGO form.
This theme was a good few years of my childhood. It makes me regret taking apart some of the sets for storage or color sorting. Now I wish I could stop myself from 2014 taking apart these sets.
Chima was such a victim of circumstance. It started with instant hate since it rose from the ashes of Ninjago and the lackluster show was the second strike. It seemed like it was so hated at the time and now there are a lot of fans nostalgic for it. Give it a few years and these, now affordable, sets will skyrocket in price. If you want Chima I’d say buy the sets now.
I didn't hate on chima. I was actually obsesses with it lol. I don't watch kids shows, but damn, if chima was still airing I would DEFINETLY show them to my future kids lool. Unfortunately, ninjago exists.
@@gone9820 not really unfortunate but ok
@@matrixpictures7799 Okay, ninjago fan. Ninjago literally brought almost nothing new to the table. Most of the builds are ugly and the show has become a bunch of stories without context. Tell me how that over Chima isn't unfortunate.
@@gone9820 honestly dude this whole little situation just goes to show how basic the minds of some children are. I mean there's nothing more basic and black and blue boyish than freaking ninjas... You got to be somewhat open-minded to get into a story and universe like chima. With that being said as a kid I totally hated Ninjago thinking it was bland and uninspired. Chima on the other hand was this perfect storm of fresh and new while also holding on to the old zany and epic animal designs of old Lego sets.
I personally wasn’t a big fan of animal themed sets, but Chima had some of my favorite translucent and metallic pieces. I ended up buying a couple sets just for the great part variety.
TFW you realize Chima was about furries using performance boosters to commit genocide on each other.
also ice zombies
also drug powered motorcycles
also mind control plants that are never elaborated on
@@bradendeems6845 honestly no clue
@@amycrescione5880 also who would win crooler vs loki from marvel
It went from Lego Animal Crossing to Lego The Walking Dead really fast.
@@toni8929 man tries to do a furry joke (about non-furries) and can't even write the word correctly... come on
Yee.
Lego Wind of Winter*
And now lego animal crossing is actually a thing lol
@@LauraLowe It's now full circle
Wait, you're telling me that Fabuland was Animal Crossing before Animal Crossing?!
I was thinking the same!
Son of a bitch...
ok but actually
I wish they'd bring it and other older themes back.
Great... that be freaking hilarious if nintendo gave the rights to make fabuland style animap crossing sets XD
I find Chima becomes much more interesting when you mentally make the connection that Chima is simply post apocalyptic Fabuland. After the Chi drug was discovered all the carnivores went mad and ate all the Fluffy Bunny people and such.
I propose that Chima was actually the distant _past_ of fabuland.
@@thesteelsquid863 I propose that they are two different worlds with no correlation to eachother!
The Vehicles of Chima were great. I loved that each vehicle had the head of the animal tribe they represented. Underrated theme.
Chima is a easily one of the most underrated LEGO Themes... I am glad to finally see it get the positive review it truly deserves!
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Lego mars set with those translucent green aliens who could only sit down. I dont even remember its NAME but I remember the aliens. And the fact it had an rts game on the lego site. If you know what its called. Please tell me. I think it was around the same time as.power miners but i cant too sure.
@@jeremycocciolone9223 you mean Lego Mars Mission?
@@samuelneocros5977 yes, I always forget the name of that series. They had this rts strategy game on the lego website i used to play
Chima was rather unique as far as Lego themes go, kinda sad to see it go
Zakhar Machekhin People only hated it because they like Ninjago better. Chima is better than the recent seasons of Ninjago
@@CallMeAfterLaughter "Chima is better than the recent seasons of Ninjago"
This... this is so funny. How the heck could 3 crappy season surpass the wonderfully writing of Sons Of Garmadon and Hunted? Even March Of The Oni is better than the whole Chima series. I mean, seriously, how could a bad executed story with poor characters surpass a story with a dark tone and great characters and villains?
"People only hated it because they like Ninjago better"
Well, that's "half-true", but there are a other reasons of why people didn't like it. The first one is that the Thundercats fans not only saw it as a rip-off of the mentioned franchise, but also as a replacement of the anime series that was going to be cancelled near the year of debut of Chima. The second one is that even if someone didn't know about Ninjago, they could easily dislike it because of the low quality of the series itself. Crappy jokes, bad characters, poor written stories, it's hard not to dislike that.
StevenThunder 12 I was a huge Ninjago fanboy who hated Chima when it came out but over time as I got older I started to like Chima more. The reason I like Chima more is because the lore and plot is consistent and steady instead of constantly evolving out of the blue just to push a new story. Ninjago started out as simple ninjas vs the skeleton army and a quest to get these elemental golden weapons, but then all of a sudden there’s an ancient race of snakes led by the evil Pythor and also a green ninja that we just forgot about and it turns out all along those ancient weapons could be used to summon advanced vehicles, oh and also the snakes are actually nice, it’s this overlord guy who’s the enemy and actually we forgot to mention the green ninja is actually the flying magical dragon-summoning golden ninja, have you heard of the anocondrai? They were always good snakes. Ah fuck it, EVERYONE CAN SUMMON A DRAGON! Chima took it’s lore slow and steady and introduced new things gradually. The several tribes of animals that evolved intelligently and physically through this magic Chi and live in a world depending on balance to stay stable, save for one of each tribe who chose to stay simple. Outside of Chima is a savage uncharted world inhabited by savage tribes. Then two seasons later they introduce this ice vs fire plot that doesn’t interfere with the previous lore but instead adds its own place in the lore in a way that makes sense
@@Twhf7228 You think March of the Oni was good! WTF! THE VILLAINS SUCKED AS WELL. CHIMA IS 1000 TIMES BETTER
@@CallMeAfterLaughter Because in MoTo, unlike all the shitty Chima series, I could care for the already developed charactres. And while the villains aren't the best the thing, at least, I could take them seriously. Something that in Chima is imposible
The Omega couldn't have been a good villain, but at least I could took him seriously. Unlike Cragger, The golden scorpion whose name I forgot and Sir Fangar that every time they came out on screen I was like "You're the bad guy, right? Ok, Cool"
Weirdly enough
I kinda miss chima
So do I.
Tesla-Effect Yeah, the theme came with so many unique colors and pieces for ccbs/bionicle mocists.
@Tesla-Effect I miss the animated T.V. series!
I do as well
I had like 5 sets. I also loved the line.
11:09 never saw that before, that's hilarious. I didn't know Chi had so many drug undertones
Lol
dude it looks like meth
They like overdosing on crack lol
"Perry the panda"
*something's wrong I can feel it*
Oh yes, best combined guy ever
peter the platypus (I'm late for this lol)
I want a Panda tribe too!
He's just a panda; they don't do much.
16:35 "Life returns to the land! The zombies get there bodies back! And even your farts stop stinking!" Truly, divine intervention!
Chima's hatedom is interesting to me because when it was announced, I was excited! I was someone who grew up fairly poor so it was cheaper and more space efficient to give me a DS and same Lego games. So my childhood experience with Lego was more about consuming media and nostalgia for shows/games than toys. So when Ninjago came out, I ate it up. It was one of my first times getting super invested in a story driven show. I was sad when it "ended," sure, but I'll never forget how Chima's trailer dropped literally right after Ninjago's "series finale." Most of my sadness was quickly dismissed when I saw oooh, new Lego show? Mkay, I loved this Lego show to death, I'm sure I'll love the next one! I was so excited, I remember being so happy that we got another Lego show! This one will probably also be a big franchise with video games and I'll probably get the complete series on DVD to rewatch over and over again and it'll be so cool and-
I don't think I disliked Chima as a show because it "killed" Ninjago. (Hell, I'd say I was more let down than hating on it) I think I expected too much of it. I, like Lego, expected it to be the new Ninjago. But 1. I might've been too attached to Ninjago. After all, Chima aired less than two months after Ninjago's "final episode." 2. it just didn't captivate me the same way within the first few episodes, and 3. it just isn't Ninjago. It's Chima. It was meant to fill same spot on the shelf, but in terms of a franchise, it's very distinctly it's own thing. What appealed to me about Ninjago wouldn't be present in Chima. Now that I'm older, I can appreciate the sets, something I couldn't do as a kid since I could only take in so much in commercials. I still don't own any, but I can tell, looking more into it and seeing pictures, that the theme was so well designed. But the show still didn't do much for me. Sad though. Like, I think Nexo Knights was better written from what little I saw, but I tuned out of that one quicker than I did with Chima because it was missing something. As lackluster as Chima was as a show, I appreciated the world it built. Not so much the lore, but the aesthetics. Nexo was missing something that Ninjago had, but Chima? It had that missing piece, maybe even more. Chima will always stand out to me. I was so disappointed in the story, but I will never forget the way it looked and the feelings invoked by the designs alone. Too bad I'll always remember the hype and aesthetics better than the story and characters...
Chima: *has a good story, great atmosphere, simple designs, great sets, masterpiece soundtrack*
7 yr old ninjago fans: STOOPID
Man, weren't they going to do dinosaurs for the next year? That would've been cool. I miss China now, haha
I heard Chima was going to have a remake. But I don't think that well ever happened. But the Dinosaur idea does sound cool
Uh china
@@godofwarhammer7655 where did you learn about this chima remake at?
@@miketurik9404 some video on UA-cam
@@godofwarhammer7655 what is the name of this youtube video? and do you remember when it was made?
I loved Chima. I also thought of a joke where Leonidas kicks one of the characters into the pool of Chi while shouting "THIS IS CHIMA!" 😁
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YES
Fabuland TV Show is actually one of the most wholesome and cutest things I've seen on UA-cam
*I've been looking forward to this*
Me as well
Do i know youu btw hi Forest
Masterr Cheff hello there
@@toaofforests general Forest "cough"
Hopefully someone’s power has not doubled since the last time they met you...
I'm not sure if anyone else has mentioned or thought of this but I've always thought a future wave of Chima that would be underwater themed would be the bomb. You could have the same tribes at war, say dark octopi and noble seahorses, with vehicles like a giant turtle sub and having manta ray steeds. Could have Laval and co. In it but wearing scuba gear or having their own underwater base. I'm not sure if that would be phoned in or cool though as opposed to focusing on entirely new tribes. A main plotline would be just as wars are fought on the surface, no one realized there was conflict going on in the depths. It all looks good in my head 😅
It would've been cool to see underwater tribes like dolphins, whales and sharks. Sorta like the Atlantis sets from a long time ago but much more detailed and interesting. And there could be legend beasts for the respective tribes. It was such a missed opportunity for season 3 not to include legend beasts for the villains. It would be really cool to see massive whales and sharks fighting it out underwater with underwater vehicles in the mix as well. It's a shame it would never happen, but dreams will always live on.
But the main concern is how the stakes would be raised from the previous seasons. Season 1 had Chima being ripped apart by former friends and their armies over Chi. Season 2 had the race against time to get the legend beasts from the Crawlers to restart the falls so Chima wouldn't be torn by natural disasters. And season 3 had the Hunters marching over Chima and trying to turn it into a desolate frozen wasteland. Also, the finale of the show revealed that their home was actually a floating island above a larger land, so where would an ocean be located?
@Mammoth Supremacy 55 That's so cool! Imagine if the series continued and included some fan-made material to make it interesting. There's even an entire section on the Chima wiki dedicated to fan content. It still makes me sad that this show had TONS of potential , but it was cancelled last minute.
@@yashjoseph3544 Well, the next season ("Season 4") could be like Season 1 - where Chima would be figuratively ripped apart by former friends and their armies over a dimension crystal, to which the Crocodile Tribe are guardians of it; but the roles would be in reverse: the Lions would be the new 'bad guys' and the Crocodiles the new 'good guys'.
2023, 10th aniversary, storming Tommy Andreasen's Twitter. Bringing CHIMA back or just the plans for it.
The ending of Chima makes me want to see it return so badly, apparently it's creator still has the plans so it is possible
Yup the nostalgia hit hard with this one, this took me back to a time when all of my friends were into LEGO and we all knew about the contest and we would stare at that magazine many times. Now i actually own a big bin of one of my friends old LEGO and it's mostly dominated by Chima sets him and i would play with, zoom around and eat other figs with those big jaw features the sets had. Thanks for sharing
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@@TheChimaChannel Can you resend?
@@Lapras34 rip
@@gamejitzu I'm in there now so
One of my biggest regrets was skipping over this line because I was a broke college kid at the time of its release.
@Mammoth Supremacy 55 I had the figures and a few of the sets
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Yeah it's odd that CCBS fans don't really like the ultra build's, I definitely loved the different colours and parts lego made, the 2nd wave was alright but the first wave was good for the most part.
Keep up the good work👍
I was able to get 2 of the first year's (2013"s) LEGO Legends of CHIMA ultrabuilds (CHI Laval and CHI Cragger), but I don't have any from the 2014 wave - *_I really want the 2014 version of CHI Cragger_*_ _*_*SO*_*_ _*_badly in my LEGO Legends of CHIMA collection!!!_*
I own Laval,Eris,Razar,Worriz,Mungus and Vardy.They were fun
Ah yes, the furry special episode. Not gonna lie Fabuland looks hella cute that would probably do great today.
You really made me appreciate Chima like never before. I always thought it looked pretty cool, but now I see that it was something truley unique. It’s kind of sad lots of people didn’t like it because it wasn’t Ninjago. I really want to buy some of the sets now. This is probably one of my favorite episodes.
It’s my favorite episode so far.
Chima was one of my favorite lego lines as a child i always like the wolves in the fist lines but the second line i just became obssest with the figures the spider the scorpions every chrismas i got only chima sets it was realy fun to build them and now im righting this coment i think about al the fun i hade and so many stores to tale i just get that nostalgic feeling
Yeah i remember being obsessed by those new tribes and then forcing my parents to buy the sets for me,and then for black friday they bought me the spider castle thingy that had the rhino bike i still love that set
@@robukofu yes i bought that set
Looking through some Chima concept art I've discovered that the animal tribes originally were supposed to have more humanoid heads that wore helmets modeled off their respective animal species, that explains why in the final product we had expression-swapping minifig heads underneath molded animal masks serving as the actual head.
Never bought the Chima sets, but I have to say they do look great. Honestly they look better than the Ninjago ones.
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I have a set in my room of the gorilla mech on my shelf
I have 90 chima figures on my shelf XD
16:50
Chima people: so we live in a little island of a big island?
Ninjago: actualy you live in a little realm
Chima people: what?
Ninjago: what?
I thought chima kinda looked dumb at first but man this gives me a weird sort of new appreciation for it now
Now I'm just wondering how the heck I completely missed Chima.
I've never really played with legos, I've just enjoyed the shows. Ninjago especially.
It’s overshadowed by ninjago
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@@TheChimaChannel Oi lad could you resend the link
@@TheChimaChannel can you give me new link
I do remember Chima ( think even saw an 4D film of it at the time) and nice including fabuland in there too never thought of the two going together but suppose kinda similar but looks like you had fun with the fabuland bits lol didn’t know there was a series looks nice too;)
Chima is so underrated. I still own the sets to this day
My favorite line in the tv series was from cragger right after that big wide shot: "uuhhh quick question, how do we get back down?" Literally made me roll with laughter 😂
I loved Chima. The sets more, but also the show, actually.
I am still sad it ended so soon. To this day.
But at least it had a worthy end. Ninjago has been revived so often... Chima had one story, three arcs, a good ending.
It would be too convoluted now if we had EVEN MORE tribes. They would've probably just improved the current ones.
Again, I loved this theme. It was great... I had a lot of croc stuff and my brother some big lion sets... And then, when the Ice tribes came, we put them into diplomatic meetings to oppose the new threat.
Everytime I miss the theme, I go back to this video. Sometimes it feels like Nick was one of the few People appreciating Chima.
In case you see this;
Thank you so much, Nick.
Thank you for being a honest review that didn't butcher Chima. Most people would boil this series down to "haha funny furries" when they're not even furries anyways, just funny animals. I was obsessed with the show as a kid... I unfortunately didn't care enough about the sets and now I regret it... I'm so happy to see that there are people who genuinely like Chima as it is - the care, love and passion the theme got, all ruined because of bad timing. If ninjago failed, then Chima would've been alive to this day.
Anyone remember that Chima-MMO? Basically my first "real" video game, even though I wasn't able to keep up with my friends because they were allowed to play way more than me.
I do.
99% is about how much people miss Chima!
1% is about when can we have a NINJAGO episode!
a ninjago episode about what?
Chima is one of those Lego properties that you wish would be included in the inevitable Into the Lego-verse crossover film
Man, I wish this had gone on longer. Looking back on it, Ninjago was also part of the story since Chima was one of the 16 realms, so there was so much more they could have done with it. So much wasted potential...
*_*I KNOW...*_* right...?! 😞😞😞😞😞
Legends of Chima was my favorite Lego theme. Wish they can bring them back.
Me 3
I ducking loved Chima for basically all of my life. Even though I didn't buy all of them, I wished that there were more CCBS characters (Not the Fire or Ice, those were partially trash.), because I bought the hell out of it. Also, I thought the heads underneath terrified me. Also, these weapons were so heavy that I had to use baseplates to hold them. I was so into Chima that I'd literally quote any of it. Chima also started my love for stories of balance and war. Technically, I'm proud to state that Chima is my favorite LEGO set. In fact, I got pissed off whenever I heard that Chi were just drugs. I just defended it as much as I could. I then got sad when I heard it got cancelled. Ah, I loved Chima.
Ok, I think every single LEGO fan will hate me, but Chima is better than Ninjago. Ninjago hasn't aged well for me.
Me too, no offence to Ninjago fans, but some time after the REDESIGN I kinda lost interest in the series as it didn't feel the same for me anymore (don't get me wrong I still like Ninjago and the new designs are good, but it's not the same)
Dam... and here I was writing off Chima as something dumb.
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@@TheChimaChannel link doesn’t work
@@TheChimaChannel you just answered this to everyone
"Not the show, that's junk"
LOOOOL
Why are you here!?
Bionicle on top
How dare you!
Oh hello there I didn’t except to see you here
@Olivia 757 you must admit. The world building and maths was top notch. It felt like it was ripped from old tribes mythologies
It's good that Chimian furries have been kicked out from our holy Lego Lands.
But I gotta say, the concept and the vechicles were cool
admittedly it was
I was looking for furry - adressing comments bc I just noticed that
So you like chima
That means your a furry?
@@mandalorian5553 I'm not one of those unholy beasts, heretic!
@@svijj_ Well done brother
Look, an underrated Lego theme that was sadly forgotten about.........
Im starting my own chima channel go watch my announcement video if your interested in chima
So ive not forgotten at all
Wow. This Lego Rewind blew me away. I wish I paid more attention to the story of Chima to give it more credit when it was running. Granted I bought some sets, mostly Speedorz and a few of each tribes vehicles (notably the Eagle Interceptor was a lot of fun) but I didn't realize how deep the other waves were. Excellent recap of this theme, and good summary of Fabuland as well.
It's one of my favorite episodes so far. Definitely my favorite of season 3, though it's still likely to be topped by the finale. It drained me, but it was still gratifying to put together.
I remember going on the LEGO boards as a kid and seeing the LavalxLi'Ella vs LavalxEris shipping wars. Good times
Those were some weird times, but I still missed the old lego website especially Chima in 2014 and 2015
Eris isn't even his gf (she is with that rhono) yet people still ship them.
Seems to me that laval loves craggar more than eris lol
У Эриса с Лавала знакомые друг с другом, а 3 сезоне вообще не то.
Все потому что вообще, Ли'Елла сестра Лавала.
Его девушка, ты ошибаешься.
Chima must be the first theme that isn’t known for being loved or hated but known for being not as successful as the theme it was supposed replace. Like I haven’t heard anyone complain about it or praise about it until now.
Dude when China first came out IT WAS THE SHIT
I have a very special place in my heart for China, I loved that theme so much
Chima😅
@@jannechu5862lol I meant what I said and I said what I meant, China was the shit, not Chima
@@capnsalt7102 oh yeah😂🤦♂️
Is it bad that this is the most inspirational Lego theme to me... I'm talking about both
I remember the Ninjago vs. Chima discourse back then so vividly, I wanted to hate Chima but it ended up being one of my favorites, I ended up being pretty invested in the show despite finding it flawed, and I LOVED the MMO. Great video, I love looking back on my childhood obsession with LEGO.
I think they shoud bring thunder 2012 cats back
Just like bionic titan
@Tesla-Effect thanks for the news 😀
Absolutely! Symbionic Titan deserves a true ending.
I want more Thundercats, but given what the creator said would be in season 2 I think I just want it to be left alone.
Chima's drug problem is quite bad..
You know what....I always thought there was something sinister about the chi......
@@bionic-tale4313 we need a war on chi
CHIMA DOESN’T HAVE DRUGS, NORMIE!
@@kinocentral8864 sure pal
@@kinocentral8864 rlly?
It's so encouraging to see the varied comments down here. I for one grew up with China in a sense, it was quite literally the first Lego theme I really invested myself in. I got a good amount of the sets(or at least the ones I liked) and I intently followed the story . Looking back chima certainly had its flaws, but as a kid I really enjoyed it. I still remember "mourning" the theme when I heard it was ending, and when I go through my old Lego magazine collection and see old promotions for the theme, I get filled with nastolgia.
And about these thundercats, I've never heard of them, but they sound intrueging, recommendations on where I could find out out re about them?
Typos.ugh, more about them
oh hey it actually appeared in my subbox. Thanks youtube
"...even your farts stop stinking..."
Underrated best line. I could really use this ability
Man i loved chima, im so thankfull my dad was working at lego at the time, if not for him i wouldnt be able to have experienced so many different themes in lego! :D
Lego chima was a big part of my childhood, i remember buying my first chima set and building it in a restaurant. I also remember trying to build chima sets out of leftover lego pieces while watching the show.., i don't love it, but i don't hate it either. This video caused a massive nostalgic wave wash over me.
Chima was a huge influence on my build style, with all sorts of thought-out weapons and mechanisms, and just my life in general. You’re the only person I’ve really seen do Chima justice like this, and you even pointed out some things that I didn’t notice (and I was a HUGE Chima nut back in the day). I’m still hoping for a reboot at some point, but I’m really not sure if it’ll happen.
Thank you for making this.
I was expecting some furry jokes on this video and, for my surprise, it didn't. Nice work for not being another one to enforce this sterotype and for bringing one of my favorite legos during my teenage along side with ninjago
SOMEONE THAT HATES THE FURRY STEREOTYPE! thank you
I never really cared about Chima when I was younger. Not that I disliked it, just didn’t really pay any attention to it. But nowadays, it’s one of my absolute favorite Lego themes, and I’m working towards getting every set released (which isn’t even bad because most are dirt cheap even sealed).
I really love Chima. It’s World was absolutely fascinating and got me into UA-cam in the first place.
Yeah, It's the same with me!
@@StevenVillman I remember you!
@@dtinagliastudios Well, I'm glad that you remembered me from 5-to-6 years ago in time!
@@StevenVillman I always see you,
Mammoth Supremacy 55, and DTinaglia Studios in a lot of Chima videos.
@DTinaglia Studios I don't know if you will reply, but I absolutely loved your Chima series. It was one of the best in my opinion, and it shaped my childhood in more ways you could imagine. I also remember one of your videos of Chima getting a little over 1 million views, so I guess a lot of others agree with me.
Thanks for your video for doing justice to this theme! This theme has much potential. It's sad to see it got discontinued.
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Here chima is alive!
Chima is my absolute favorite!! I still have the sets in my room and love them. It really is something unique and it's really sad to see it go. Really hope they'll revive the series coz there is a lot of missed opportunity and a huge world to explore
I personally always thought The Chima Sets looked cool when I saw them in The Stores back in the day.
i will be forever looking for every chima set as part of my nostalgia quest.
at the end, if i ever find all of the theme thingys i will consider my life complete and die peacefully
This is a trend that i have noticed, lego just doesnt give franchises a chance long enough, and when a franchise starts getting good, lego pulls the plug.
Been anticipating this episode for a while, you did not disappoint.
ah you back thank you i was realy waited your lego rewind next ep. glad you back :D
No worres i loved this theme as well sad thing this never was finihsed
Well... I never really left. I just don't upload very often, once or twice a month. Sometimes thrice.
@@NickonPlanetRipple yeah but feels like a lot thats all but i know summer is summer sorry mate.
LEGO Chima was right around when I loved and enjoyed LEGO the most when I was around 12. I have quite fond and happy memories going to LEGOLand California and seeing the LEGO Chima waterpark extension of the park. I went to legoland CA a lot when I was around that age, like every week. I collected a lot of the Chima sets, and associated it with LEGOLand, which is where I bought most of them, and LEGOLand has a special place in my heart
Ahh, the wonderful days of companies experimenting, I want them back so much.
They could gave done so much more with chima for example they could have done a underwater theme for example the baddies could be sharks, squids and eels
And the new good guys could be dolphins and sea horses
*_I KNOW..._* right...?!
Geeze Nick your enthusiasm is often contagious. I’m now actually impressed by Chima, previously my least favorite theme.
Chima may not be over yet, as Ninjago Season 5 confirmed Chima is one of the 16 realms in the Ninjago universe, which can give place to a future crossover
Chima is the best Lego Franchise LEGO has ever made. (My opinion) I had the Lion Temple, but my little brother destroyed it and the parts were all gone.. but still until now I try to rebuild as many sets as possible!
Btw. Thanks for making this lovable video!
The final scene of the last episode made me SO HYPED for future seasons. Now looking back at it, I’m kinda sad. This was my favourite LEGO series ever. Hope they’ll do something like it again.
Because the final scene of the last episode exists there, it is a *_HUGE figurative crime_* that no new seasons had yet been produced for the _LEGO Legends of CHIMA_ animated T.V. series to this very day!!! 😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬💢💢💢💢💢😤😤😤😤😤
Someone FINALLY shares my opinion about chima
Chima's lore is literally just Bionicle but with animals and it's so fucking cool
chima came in a hard time in my life, so I was so happy when it came along. I still remember the morning when I found out about it. I was already obsessed with lego at that point, having gotten all of the agori and into ninjago (I didn't even know it had been temporarily cancelled at that point), I was so excited for a animal series. I still remember one of my favorite sets ro this day, the eagle interceptor
10:27 So basically chi is energized protodermis on Spherus Magna?
Theory time!
Honestly still upset that those Fire/Ice Constraction figures never came to the U.S. Some of those parts looked absolutely fantastic.
I loved Chima as a kid and I am tempted to pick up some of the old sets I really wanted back then that I missed out on
Rewatching this yet again and now have a Chima Theory. As you said, it would be natural for the ultra build Chima figures to interact with the regular system sets bc the ultra builds are essentially astral projections of the respective characters "combat avatars" given physical form.
The Chi orbs, when used, give us a glimpse of the characters "combat avatar" for lack of a better term when they access a small amount of the orbs power in order to boost their physical abilities. Alternatively, when a tribe warrior calls upon the full power of a Chi orb, they are essentially a conduit for that power, which allows them to give physical form to their combat avatar. This would give them a massive advantage in combat.
I never forget Chima, it was my childhood. 🦁🐊 ☺️
I actually rather enjoyed Chima, even the show, when I was already heavily invested in Ninjago. The set at 15:53 is my favorite Chima set, which I have had displayed ever since I bought it around the time of it's release. I will admit I haven't gone through the show in several years, and it or the line itself may not have been objectively great, but I have many fond memories of it.
Oh, that's a fine set if I ever saw one. It's sublime.
I LOVE Chima. Chima means so much to me, and, it's so ironic because I started off like every other mad 12 year old Ninjago fan when it was announced- and was stated to replace Ninjago. The show was... goofy, but I really do think they hit gold sometimes even there, I loved the fact that Laval was basically the cause of all the problems- and that subtext on handing out drugs, almost. Probably not intentional, but I get a good laugh when I think about all the little ramifications scattered throughout the storyline all starting from that one mistake.
The theme itself is technically still alive, it's confirmed as one of Ninjago's '16 realms' and Tommy himself has been hinting it's return in some fashion for a little bit now, I'm hopeful for the future- as this series truly did have heart. It wasn't afraid of what it was, and it tried to embrace all the things that made it what it was entirely. And, as you said, the final 4 waves weren't the tiny tie off at the end, but a proper and fully fleshed out concept. Chima ran its course but didn't get renewed, Nexo Knights just... was cancelled. A lot of people liked to pretend that Chima was some theme that did awfully, that it never sold anything- and all that. That just straight up wasn't true, it wasn't exactly Star Wars, but when you take into account what it was competing against at the time within Lego's own catalogue. It's surprising to imagine it selling poorly, at least for me.
Ninjago's latest wave filled me with so much intrigue when the leaks came out, and while it's obviously now just their own thing- perhaps the similarities just try to reference the final waves of Chima. I think it's interesting to compare Ninjago and Chima as at the root of it all, they both had SO much potential, and while Ninjago is still going- perhaps starting to be to my waning interest, I'm just glad the writers and creators cared enough to connect them.
This year's remakes of sets like Cole's Driller and Jay's Jet make the originals look like crap. The redesigns show just how far lego has come, what they can do now. While I like most of ninjago's post-rebooted builds I honestly don't think the original, pre-cancellation sets hold up very well. Chima's aged a bit better. Like I said, they raised the bar really high from where it was at the time. And now I look at what they're able to do and just wonder how MIND BLOWING new Chima builds would be nowadays.
@@NickonPlanetRipple Legacy has shown the old sets up in such a dramatic way, although debates are rife over whether or not some sets were made worse (The Dragons), some like the Ninja vehicles and the monastery seriously do just run laps around the originals. It took the pictures of the new monastery for me to wake up and realise how inaccurate, and just plain the 2011 one was. I just wish Ninjago would do more buildings, they always knock vehicles out of the park in my opinion- but they just make SO many. The show's just given up on explaining how they get them, I suppose they're just the best sellers. Ninja. In massively oversized monster trucks. Right. :P
If the LEGO Legends of CHIMA theme and related animated T.V. series *_EVER_* comes back there, I want Laval to be the main antagonist/'bad guy' *_*SO*_*_ _*_BADLY_* there and that Cragger to become the main protagonist/'good guy'!!!!! #EvilLaval #HeroicCragger #LavalAsTheMainVillain #CraggerAsTheMainProtagonist
Tommy said on his twitter that there will be no return of chima. Which is sad.
“FUCKEN FURRRIESSSS”
- Magnus the Red
Chima made a cameo in the Ninjago cartoon as one of the many different "realms". This means that Chima and Ninjago are part of the same "multiverse".
lets not forget the suprisingly good lego chima game: lego chima online!
Man was it fun!
I remember that game, and it seemed awesome, though I could never play it because I had trouble creating my account.
@@succubastard1019 yeah they changed to mobile like halfway through its lifespan and everything went downhill since then
I loved Chima. Only saw the first two seasons of the show and do wish I could see the rest of it.
The animal minifigs were awesome. You showed a lot of stuff here that I never saw before so it makes me wonder if the last two waves had a very wide distribution.
I was introduced to lego's in an odd way. I liked lego Ninjago, but by the end of the second season, it kinda began to fall apart for me. Reflected by the fact I only got 4 sets from it. But my dad got me the lego club magazine, and I was introduced to a whole new world of what lego themes exist. 2 magazines after my first, and Chima came. I fell in love with it from the start. I still love it. It truly was an amazing theme, and just so cool and unique. I hadn't seen much of anything like that before in my short exposure to lego. I was sad when it ended, but it still holds a place in my heart. You aren't alone in big fans of Chima.
Legends of Chima was... an interesting one, which had a lot of concepts I enjoyed, even if it wasn't perfect. One one hand, I'm quite a fan of anthro animal fantasy worlds, especially unique ones like the one Chima had (and of course, Thundercats 2011, which I am still bitter about it's cancellation to this day), since most anthro animal-based fantasy worlds have a tendency to be Redwall clones and be flat out medieval fantasy (usually with rodent-based characters like mice or rabbits as the main characters), so something like Chima really stuck out from the bunch.
On the other hand, I feel like Lego didn't utilize the full potential that Chima had, and I feel it's partly due to bad timing. Coming off the tail of Thundercats 2011 being cancelled and having a similar aesthetic to that series (be it intentional or not) was likely the biggest reason it failed, turning both Lego fans and non-Lego fans off, but it could also be because Lego didn't really utilize the concepts it presented properly, since it seemed quite ambitious, but you could say the same thing for Bionicle, and that ended up being one of their biggest successes.
I also feel that it was because of changes in the entertainment landscape as well, as kids were wanting to play more with toys based on pre-existing franchises like Star Wars and Marvel, given the Marvel Cinematic Universe had just finished Phase 1, and Disney had recently bought the rights to Star Wars with The Force Awakens coming out within the next year, so anything based on more original properties wasn't really in the interest of toy companies, who wanted to profit off the success of what was popular at the time. Ninjago was already established at the time, so people had no problem with it, but in the 2010's it's not easy to be an original brand not based on a pre-existing property, given how big entertainment corporations control virtually everything and rely on what they view as profitable more than anything else.
As you said, Chima could have been the next Bionicle, but it failed mainly because it came out at a bad time, along with being too ambitious for it's own good. Even Bionicle started out small and didn't become overly ambitious until time went on, and I feel that's what caused Bionicle to fall apart towards the end of G1. Bionicle G2 also had some of the same problems Chima did (as well as many, MANY other problems), but that's another story.
Indeed. Bionicle and Ninjago were happy accidents. They BECAME big because they just worked. But Chima was basically bred in a lab to be Lego's BIGGEST THEME EVAAAAAR and... you can't always expect that to work.
@@NickonPlanetRipple Well it didn't help that they rushed it out and it didn't gel well with people, along with the similarities in aesthetic to Thundercats 2011, a series killed off ironically because of "toy sales" being replaced by a series made by _Lego_ of all companies, so a lot of people, including Lego fans were turned off by it. Both Bionicle and Ninjago started out small and simple, yes Bionicle was more complex than Ninjago at first, but even then it was still rather small and simple, and people got into them because of the story and characters that those worlds presented.
The animated series of Chima sucked because of how much of a blatant toy advertisement it was, in a similar fashion to the cartoons of the 80's. Even Ninjago was more subtle about it's toyetic nature. The Chima animated series was what caused people to have bad first impressions of it, and the ending of the final episode where the land of Chima is on a floating continent just showed you how much wasted potential there was with this franchise. Lego put all their eggs into one basket and didn't give the series room to breathe. It took many years for Bionicle to become the franchise people love it for, it took years for Ninjago to get to where it is now, Chima was never given a chance.
It's going to be a while before another franchise as unique as Chima shows up, or Lego comes up with another line such as it, considering we live in a time where everything's a reboot or an adaptation of a pre-existing franchise and newer original franchises are never given a chance.
@@Masterge77 What's terrifying to me is we may be caught in a temporal loop of sorts... that this need to recycle everything is going to keep going and there simply won't ever be a place in pop culture for anything new to come along again.
@@NickonPlanetRipple I believe it's simply a phase and that it will die off eventually, but probably not immediately since the current corporate executives are blinded by greed and fail to understand their audience.
@@NickonPlanetRipple Yeah... although, what is to be fair here, the LEGO Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme was based upon an existing (third party) intellectual property, and that was a good one in my opinion; but that one got cut short *_as well_* there (one year *_before_* the LEGO Legends of CHIMA theme got cancelled there). However, I wouldn't mind an Extreme Dinosaurs LEGO theme or a Kung Fu Dino Posse LEGO theme, and those are third party intellectual properties that have never been made into LEGO form.
“Not many people remember fabuland”
*just2good wants to know your location*
As of now, the Chima episode is the 7th. most-viewed episode of LEGO Rewind; right behind Episodes 3, 21, 10, 9, 27, and 40.
I love and miss this theme so much. I'm so sad it's gone.
Lloyd (the green ninja) actually visited the chima world for a few seconds in one of the Lego Ninjago season finales,just wanted to bring that up.
When u think about it the animals having animal vehicles is like humans having their own faces on cars
This theme was a good few years of my childhood. It makes me regret taking apart some of the sets for storage or color sorting. Now I wish I could stop myself from 2014 taking apart these sets.
I think I'm the only person that genuinely enjoyed the Chima show.
No, I really enjoyed it as well, there, especially once Cragger became a 'good guy' at the end of Season 1!
I liked the show as well man and i want it to continue.