Random set of the day: CHI Razar
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 70205 CHI Razar, released during 2013. It's one of 57 Legends of Chima sets produced that year. It contains 68 pieces, and its retail price was US$14.99/£10.99.
It's owned by 1,052 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $38.30, or eBay.
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So I never got into Chima lore, but I hear Chi is similar to a type of drug. His eyes do look a little bloodshot.
They're not great, but I do have a soft spot for the Legends of Chima buildable figures. I never got Razar, but he looks pretty cool!
Random *** of the Day trifecta!
CHI Razar, eminently suited to shaving your Chi…and also giving your Chi a good shave.
Chionicle
@MCLegoboy said:
"So I never got into Chima lore, but I hear Chi is similar to a type of drug. His eyes do look a little bloodshot."
I remember trying to get into the show, but couldn't get past the 2nd or 3rd episode because I found the actors' voices obnoxious. I did find the drug parallels incredibly entertaining though. From the little I watched, they always talked about "plugging in chi". Also, Craggier definitely seemed on drugs after his first exposure, and Laval's father refused giving his son chi because he was too young... I'm sure there are other instances, but the short answer is yes, it is a drug.
The Chima buildable figures were the one constraction line I never got into. I was really into Bionicle, Hero Factory, and the Star Wars buildable figures, and I did get a number of the Chima minifig-scale sets, but these just never really interested me.
Quick Lore!
Chi is a magic substance that can be used as a power source or make things stronger! (Also basically a drug)
The Lions guard the Chi fountain are in charge of making sure each tribe gets their fair share of Chi
The Crocodiles want more Chi and are mad the Lions are hogging it
Lions, Eagles, and Gorillas team up as the good guys, Crocodiles, Wolves and Ravens as bad guys
If I remember right the Raven city had a marketplace but don't quote me on that I couldn't make it passed two episodes
Quick Lore!!!
Is that correct?!? This was one of 57 sets in ONE YEAR?!?
That’s a lot of mecha-Fabuland.
My time has come…
So, the world of chima has many different tribes of animals, all with their own unique characteristics, the ravens are essentially scavengers, with their builds being a lot more mechanical than others. They live in a literal junkyard, building vehicles mostly out of scrap, unlike the more uniform vehicles of other tribes.
Chi is basically… a drug, with it boosting your abilities, making you more powerful, powers vehicles, powers the animals, and in the show, when using chi, you briefly become this giant energy projection, which is what we see here.
chima just becomes more bizarre the deeper down the rabbit hole you go, it’s more bizarre than even dreamzzz sometimes.
CHI, get a load of this guy.
I have all of the Buildable season 1 Chima figures except Laval and Eris.
@peterlmorris The 57 Chima sets were promos, combo packs, foil bags, accessory packs and foil bags. There were only 6 Buildable figures for season 1 (Laval, Cragger, Eris, Gorzan, Razar, Worris). There were a lot of Speedorz released that year.
I won a copy of this signed by the designer from a Eurobricks contest once. It's just kinda sitting in my closet right now.
For me, Chima is such a forgettable theme that I didn't even know it had constraction sets too.
I've always liked the Chima minifigures, buildables, not so much.
Don't have him; I DO however have the Eris one, which is similar...
And while I too liked the Chima minifigures, still would have wish said figures had molded heads ala Vidiyo and the like...oh well...
This is the astral projection of Razar when he takes Chi.
Not making this up.
I love the ravens btw. There's something great about the aesthetic, and who doesn't love a whole village that works together as one con man because 'ooh shiny I can has the shiny'?
Also: reminder that in the show exists a character that is a raven-eagle hybrid wanted by neither tribes: Reagul.
Chima animals descend from animals that took chi, which 'uplifted' them.
So yes, the show touches on beastiality. Or at the very least crossbreeding between two very different animals.
Not the worst depiction of wings Lego has ever done but they're giving me strong Pazuzu-vibes the way they're splayed out like that
I absolutely loved the giant Chima figures.
I didn't buy them at first, but saw the Eagle and Wolf being clearanced out, one day, and picked them up cheaply. And they were great! I loved the designs.
I considered them the "gods" of Chima, these monstrous titans (at least, compared to the minifigs). I thought they were brilliant.
To CHI, or not to CHI... That is the question!
I didn’t really like the birds from chima because of the wings on the back. They should have used winged arms or something like that.
Chima was a good theme
Love this guy! One of my favourite constraction figures ever.
Chima lore is so weird but it’d take me ages to sum it all up here :P
Didn’t we have a discussion couple days ago how Legends of Chima could have been Fabuland 2, if it was more peaceful? :-) Huwbot obviously listens to us!
@myth said:
"Didn’t we have a discussion couple days ago how Legends of Chima could have been Fabuland 2, if it was more peaceful? :-) Huwbot obviously listens to us!"
If you look through Mark Stafford’s Flickr stream, he was building Fabuland mechs and stuff before Chima arrived. It might’ve even been before he started working at LEGO but I’m not sure.
I think it was also a way to try and back door sone Thundercats LEGO.
I got this figure and it's a very simple, yet effective build. It's a good way to get extra CCBS parts in medium lilac too (a color which wasn't super common for constraction figures back then). I wish we got more uses of the red blade elements in other sets though.
8621's smaller cousin...?
Those are not bionicles
I just realized he has both hands here. The Razar minifigure has a hook.
I just realized an irony: Here we are talking/writing about Fabuland and Chima...and Lego: Animal Crossing is on the verge of hitting stores...Wonder if anyone gonna' build a mech to go after 'Tom Nook' :D
@PhantomBricks said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"So I never got into Chima lore, but I hear Chi is similar to a type of drug. His eyes do look a little bloodshot."
I remember trying to get into the show, but couldn't get past the 2nd or 3rd episode because I found the actors' voices obnoxious. I did find the drug parallels incredibly entertaining though. From the little I watched, they always talked about "plugging in chi". Also, Craggier definitely seemed on drugs after his first exposure, and Laval's father refused giving his son chi because he was too young... I'm sure there are other instances, but the short answer is yes, it is a drug."
When we finally get 10327: Dune Ornithopter it won't be our only weird LEGO drug either.
Who will win the LEGO drug wars, Chi or Spice?
@xboxtravis7992 said:
" @PhantomBricks said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"So I never got into Chima lore, but I hear Chi is similar to a type of drug. His eyes do look a little bloodshot."
I remember trying to get into the show, but couldn't get past the 2nd or 3rd episode because I found the actors' voices obnoxious. I did find the drug parallels incredibly entertaining though. From the little I watched, they always talked about "plugging in chi". Also, Craggier definitely seemed on drugs after his first exposure, and Laval's father refused giving his son chi because he was too young... I'm sure there are other instances, but the short answer is yes, it is a drug."
When we finally get 10327: Dune Ornithopter it won't be our only weird LEGO drug either.
Who will win the LEGO drug wars, Chi or Spice? "
Well, Star Wars has been around the longest, and while Spice was yoinked from Dune, it still hasn't made its way into LEGO form that I know of yet. Is that likely for the Ornithopter? Perhaps, mainly because that's likely to be an 18+ set, but I could also see it just as easily not happening either.