Random set of the day: CHI Waterfall
Posted by Huwbot,Today's random set is 70102 CHI Waterfall, released during 2013. It's one of 57 Legends of Chima sets produced that year. It contains 106 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$14.99/£9.99.
It's owned by 1,946 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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Over Christmas I went into a convenience store in my area and they were selling unopened Chima sets at vastly inflated prices. I really thought I had time-travelled by accident.
And that's really all I have to say, hope everyone's having a great day/evening.
This probably makes more sense if you were in on the lore.
We got a Chima Lore expert in the house?
Love these (username indicates same...)...
Chima - via my kids - got me out of my dark ages, so there's a permanent soft spot in my heart for these!
I don’t think that racing unicycle is the best option for traveling over waterfalls. Barrels seem safer.
@speedorz4ever said:
"Love these (username indicates same...)...
Chima - via my kids - got me out of my dark ages, so there's a permanent soft spot in my heart for these!"
I see the new Stuntz bikes as a great follow on from these. Both in function of the vehicle, and the action features they interact with. Loops are a massive advantage of the stuntz bikes though.
What if you are so unfortunate as to discover that your waterfall has bad chi and must be rearranged?
I wonder if this is why everybody in Chima is trying to kill each other.
@MCLegoboy said:
"This probably makes more sense if you were in on the lore.
We got a Chima Lore expert in the house?"
I'll do my best as someone who has only seen the post Season 1 stuff; the waterfall looks very different in the show. I forgot if it's within the Lions' protection or if it's public access but it's where they get Chi from, basically a magic steroid. I just realized Uncharted 2 had a markedly similar concept (blue balls that make you transform into something stronger) and I'm now questioning if this was a source of inspiration.
Some people have Among Us, some have Tetris, some understandably have LEGO; me? I see Uncharted in everything.
I remember buying this set when it went on clearance. I really liked the design of the lion waterfall, I thought it was nifty.
@Miyakan said:
" @speedorz4ever said:
"Love these (username indicates same...)...
Chima - via my kids - got me out of my dark ages, so there's a permanent soft spot in my heart for these!"
I see the new Stuntz bikes as a great follow on from these. Both in function of the vehicle, and the action features they interact with. Loops are a massive advantage of the stuntz bikes though."
...agreed, all the one-off Stuntz bikes are in the collection, as well as the loop set (can't wait for the blue loop later this year!). I also have all the 2-per-year Technic pullback motors. Definitely a niche element of LEGO that appeals to me, even pushing 50 years old!!!
@speedorz4ever said:
"Love these (username indicates same...)...
Chima - via my kids - got me out of my dark ages, so there's a permanent soft spot in my heart for these!"
Chima also brought me out of my dark ages. It was only last night that i was watching the series again. I always wondered why they never expanded to the ocean and introduced a Shark tribe. So much potential. I'd love to see Lego revisit this theme even if it were a GWP.
Can someone explain to me what those cards are for?
@ozbrickcreator said:
"Can someone explain to me what those cards are for?"
From my brief search it is a game you can do. You play the physical challenge, and whoever wins, picks one of the four character attributes on their card to compare (Top Trumps style) Winner gets two crystals, first to six wins.
http://thebrickblogger.com/2013/01/lego-legends-of-chima-speedorz-game/
Why is no one talking about how this was the violent evolution of Fabuland?
C'mon people we are on the other side of the coin, now.
@MeisterDad said:
"Why is no one talking about how this was the violent evolution of Fabuland?
C'mon people we are on the other side of the coin, now."
Go on ...
Still feels surreal seeing Chima here. Man how the time flies...
Chima wasn't as bad as people used to say- people were just mad Ninjago was canceled and replaced by it
So lovely hearing everyone’s stories about how CHIMA brought them out of their Dark Ages! It’s always wonderful to hear about people’s relationship with LEGO.
@NeptuneIce said:
"I always wondered why they never expanded to the ocean and introduced a Shark tribe."
I…might have bought that.
@MeisterDad:
Well, but it wasn’t. Fabuland was all the serial killer predators, under the veil of a stable community. By the time they got to Chima, they were all squared off, ready to defend their own species’ territory. So ready to defend it, in fact, that nobody was attacking each other anymore.
Are you supposed to hit the big hammer or avoid it? On the one hand it look like you need to spin it to get that sphere up top, but on the other smacking into a giant hammer at speed sounds like a really bad idea...
@Brickalili:
Have you ever seen luge relay? I think the 2022 Winter Olympics is the first time I watched it, but one luge goes down the course, and when they get to the bottom where they sit up and use their shoes as brakes, someone has to reach up and slap this target suspended overhead. This triggers the start light at the top of the course, signaling the next sled to get moving. When the final luge crosses the line and hits the target, it stops the clock for that relay team. They have to hit it pretty hard, because they’re still moving pretty fast when they pass it. If they don’t hit it hard enough to register, either it automatically disqualifies them, or someone would have to finish braking, get up, run (on ice) back to the target, and hit it to signal the next sled. Given how close luge tends to be, that’s as close to disqualified as you can get while still posting a time. I imagine this is intended to be similar, where he’s actually hitting the target with something. Or, yeah, maybe he doesn’t see it there (does Chima have mobile phones?), and it beans him as he passes underneath.
@MCLegoboy said:
"This probably makes more sense if you were in on the lore.
We got a Chima Lore expert in the house?"
I'm no lore expert, but I can tell you the basics.
In the land of Chima, a mountain has risen from the ground long ago: Mount Cavora. From its place high in the sky a river of blue energy water flowed down on to the land: chi. A pristine land, the animals of Chima were the only ones around to witness this. They drank the Chi and changed. They became stronger, smarter and humanoid. This is how the tribes of Chima were born: the Lions, Eagles, Gorillas, Rhinos, Crocodiles, Wolves and Ravens; the Bears and Beavers; as well as a lone skunk and fox.
From each of the 8 main tribes one animal chose not to evolve. These were the legend beasts.
The first to drink from the well, the lions took it upon themselves to distribute the chi. For it actually had to be used and consumed equally by all tribes lest natural earthquakes would happen.
Consuming chi orbs made their animal 'superpowers' come out in a burst of raw power and could grant great strength, agility etc. But this was notably not suitable for underage tribesmen.
Naturally the other tribes did not always appreciate the royal position of the lions.
This is why the tribes started to hold tournaments where special chi could be won. Using special stones as a wheel, they created chariot-like vehicles called speedorz. With these they compete for the precious resource.
This set depicts the speedor of Leonidas, a lion tribe guard who is one of the less bright ones. The lion head and waterfall are there because of the lions' connection to the chi waterfall.
Like in the story, you can use the obstacles and win chi, here represented by the cord.
The builds in these Speedorz sets are not necessarily canon as they are mostly for interactivity for the player's sake.
Tl;dr: local wildlife of Chima evolves to animal people and get hooked on a mysterious glowing drug that falls from a floating mountain they must consume evenly. (Remember, use it responsibly and don't OD or use it when underage). As a sport they use flywheel bikes to compete for their fix.
An energy crystal has been fo- oh wait.
@WemWem said:
"So lovely hearing everyone’s stories about how CHIMA brought them out of their Dark Ages! It’s always wonderful to hear about people’s relationship with LEGO."
Nexo Knights did that for me, basicly the theme that appeared after Chima.
@AllenSmith said:
"What if you are so unfortunate as to discover that your waterfall has bad chi and must be rearranged?
I wonder if this is why everybody in Chima is trying to kill each other."
I think you mean fengshui not chi.
oh hey it’s drunk lion
seriously just look at the figure’s face
I guess that transparent blue column is the "waterfall". Funny to name a set after one piece.
I always loved Chima, so I don't understand the hate. At least they seemed to have given the show a decent sendoff (and left the ending open for interpretation which I found quite fun), which is more than NEXO Knights ever got (another theme I don't understand the hate for).
This was one set I passed on because I already had the minifigure from a polybag.
Fun fact: Chima is canon to Ninjago. It's one of the 16 realms Ninjago takes place in. In season 5 they even briefly show Chima as Lloyd and Morro fight through various realms and in season 11 we briefly see the Beaver tribe.
CHIMA got a lot of great pieces, shame I couldn't get those spider beings to make MOC's.
@Binnekamp said:
"Fun fact: Chima is canon to Ninjago. It's one of the 16 realms Ninjago takes place in. In season 5 they even briefly show Chima as Lloyd and Morro fight through various realms and in season 11 we briefly see the Beaver tribe."
And in season 12 and in Seabound we briefly see the Beaver too.
Aw I have this.. takes me back to the good ol' Chima days. I don't hate it.
My son loved Chima and we bought so many Chima sets. He was 4 or so when they came out, so I built them for him to play with and now he can build all his own sets without any help. But, then I started buying Lego sets for me... Haunted House, Winter Village, Modulars, Friends with all those bright colors, etc... Now, I must get anything with animals!!! I love Lego animals. Anyway, most of the Chima sets are jumbled together in a giant box and I'm not sure if I should sort them into my collection, or leave them until my son wants them again... I'm thinking sort, so I can get all the bricks and pieces to build mocs with.
I miss Chima.
Still maintain that molded heads would have been better ( @PurpleDave: Funny...my first Killer Croc was from 'year one' Lego Batman, not a big-fig...also, the bird 'masks' probably would have made good Thangarian helmets:))...
@Binnekamp: Excellent synopsis (use Chi responsibly...), although you missed: Mammoths, Sabre-Tooths, Phoenixs, and one single Flamingo...which sounds like an animated series on 'Adult Swim'...
I also still think TLG is 'leaving money on the table' not using these, Videyo, and other animal-based minifigs to bring back Fabuland for Juniors/4+...
@brick_r:
Yeah, I’m gonna need context on that^ comment, because I feel like you’re responding to something I said several days ago on a different page.
@PurpleDave: Apologizes, I was a while ago; I stated (on another thread) the molded head 'thing', you stated along the lines of making your first 'Killer Croc' from one of the Chima gator/croc heads. It reminded me the first gen. Batman sets had a Croc (which I got) at minifig scale w/a head of same size...sorry for any confusion.:)
@brick_r:
Ah, I thought that might be what it was about. No, my first Killer Croc is the one in this picture:
https://brickshelf.com/gallery/PurpleDave/Batman/Minifigs/1983-02a_killer_croc.jpg
Look familiar? Anyways, what I said was I used one of the Chima heads (there was a croc goon who had a rare single-sided minifig head) to make Killer Croc from David Ayer’s 2016 Suicide Squad film.
@brick_r said:
" @Binnekamp : Excellent synopsis (use Chi responsibly...), although you missed: Mammoths, Sabre-Tooths, Phoenixs, and one single Flamingo...which sounds like an animated series on 'Adult Swim'..."
You're lucky the RSotD is extended so I can add that lore.
First of, I think you mean Dom de La Woosh. He's a peacock. And yes, for whatever resson there's only one of him in all of Chima too.
Secondly, the above set if lore is what we got around season 1.
The extended lore is that before the current-day animal tribes there was the Phoenix tribe. They took residence in mount Cavora and tried to enlighten the animals of their day. These were tigers, a leopard, a lionness cub, sabre tooth tigers, vultures, mammoths and polar bears. Under Sir Fangar the sabretooths, vultures, mammoths and polar bears rebelled. But the phoenix drove them off. Fluminox the elder phoenix, along with 8 elders with a golden phoenix harnass, unleashed a great surge of power (sorry, forgot the name). This spell turned out to be incomplete and the tribes were frozen deep underground, slowly decaying. Fluminox was supposed to be sacrificed but couldn't do it. Thus he lived many lifetimes of regret afterwards.
Much later, during the conflict between 6 of the 8 main tribes the warring factions dumped chi into the gorge -a giant crack in the land. This evolved the scorpions, spiders and bats from there into their own tribes. Later, the now-united main animal tribes defeated them. But the leader of these newly created tribes -having learned nothing- threw his chi even deeper into the gorge.
This chi revived Sir Fangar and his forces as ice zombies. Except for the polar bears -the arch nemesis of the regular brown bears. Because they tender to gone berserk they were left locked away in the ice until the final battle.
Sir Fanger started to take over Chima with his ice powers, battling the main tribes.
As they did they discovered the Phoenix tribe existed and together they fought the ice tribes in a final battle. They met Flinx, a relatively young phoenix and son of Fluminox. With the tribes using the eight phoenix harmasses in harmony, Flinx ended up completing the spell from long ago and healed all the land. The ice forces were turned to normal and turned good. Everything was sunny. Even the stink of the local skunk smelled nice!
But as we zoom out, we see that all of the land of Chima itself was an island above an even bigger land!
The end!
@Binnekamp: Excellent, I forgot the Bats and Spiders...Don't know how...and you're right; la Woosh was a Peacock, which was still weird (and he's the only one???). Always though Furty should have come back in the Outlands, but hey...Also: Plovers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_plover
Hey, at least one was there cleaning Cragger's mouth/teeth...and talking to him...Yes, it was weird; kinda 'Flintstones'-like.:)
@Binnekamp said:
"Fluminox the elder phoenix, along with 8 elders with a golden phoenix harnass, unleashed a great surge of power (sorry, forgot the name)."
The Chwickening? The Funky Chi-ken? Chi-ters Never Prosper? Cherries Jubil-Chi? Chi-a Pets? Chi-nie of the Lamp? The Bees Chis? Chi-Chi-miny, Chi-Chi-miny, Chi-Chim-Chi-Ree? Chi-ti Chi-ti Bang Bang? The Great Chi-lumination? No? Am I at least close?