Starting early with the newly available 2013 range

it's monke monday!

Speedorz - Great idea, wasted potetial.

Available right now, New, Complete, for $7.62. Good news if you're trying to fill in any gaps in your 2013 Chima collection, since value is about half what it retailed at.

2013... funny, how time flies...

ancient time Stuntz :P

I found this set for $2 at a garage sale once. Undoubtedly I was excited to find any lego for such a price.

Chima's weighted metal wheels and rubber tires meant these things would roll faaaaaaaaaar!

I can remember my son rolling a car he made using 4 of these wheels across a floor at an event my friends and I were doing at Lyndhurst Castle in Tarrytown, NY!

Chima was an interesting theme. I’d like to see more original fantasy lines from LEGO.

@BillingsBrix said:
" @legomaniac said:
"ancient time Stuntz :P "

Stuntz works better than these."

And my car works better than a chariot.

@Francis9131 said:
"Starting early with the newly available 2013 range"

That was my thinking. RSoTD didn’t waste any time covering a new eligible theme.

I still haven't gotten around to watching Chima, so I don't have much lore for y'all.

Long story short, there's a magic floating island in the sky from which this substance called Chi flows. Animals exposed to Chi became sentient and formed tribes long ago. Now these tribes use Chi to power their vehicles and society, or to strengthen themselves

Oh wow, it's Chima time.

I remember when the rumours of the theme first popped up here on Brickset, and I thought it was a typo, and it was actually the "Legends of China", you know, some kin of historical theme, to tap into the Chinese market (that Lego was just started to aim for).

I never really cared for the more-gimmicky aspects, and I think Chima itself dropped focus on the Speedorz thing reasonably early on, when it turns out, the sets were actually pretty cool. I bought as many of the animal-tribe minifigs as I could, I really liked them. And some of the animal-themed vehicles were zords, there's no other way to describe them (particularly the eagle-jet from the first line).

Really underrated line in terms of character design. I wish Legos did more anthros like that instead of costumes or weirdly overdecorated pop-stars.

Think in 'retrospect', the big mistake Chima made was the 'head-on-a-head' thing they did...if they just did molded heads, and skipped the minifig head under the 'mask'...at least that's what I think/feel...

@jkb said:
"2013... funny, how time flies..."

Given the fact that the Speedor in this set is decorated as it is, your comment brings to mind Groucho Marx’s famous quip:

Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.

@brick_r said:
"Think in 'retrospect', the big mistake Chima made was the 'head-on-a-head' thing they did...if they just did molded heads, and skipped the minifig head under the 'mask'...at least that's what I think/feel... "

I agree. It's a pain to have to adjust the head under the "helmet". Would almost be a good idea to glue the outer head to the minifig head.

TMNT and Lone Ranger will also be allowed for RSOTD as well.
On top of this, we will see more 5 digit sets since they started with this in late 2012 with the Hobbit sets. Of which, we already have done 2 of them: 79000 on 12/2 and 79004 on 11/23.

@brick_r:
Hey! I was able to make Suicide Squad Killer Croc using one of the generic croc standard heads. That wouldn't have been possible if they only made molded ones.

OMG, "my" first random set of the day! Right, those speedorz ... we designers were encouraged to enhance their performance by adding cool stuff to them. But in reality, most of the time they performed best without extra pieces sticking out. Hence only decorative bananas on this vehicle ;)

FOR CHIMA!