Looks like a spider droid from star wars.

@Dare_Wreck said:
" @Endermen39 said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
" @Endermen39 said:
"These animated instructions for Exo Force are way cooler than those horrible renders with the white background for the instructions today. Of course the only downside to the old instructions is the black looked a lot like dark grey.

Someone please explain to me why Lego decided to do those renders with the white backgrounds."

It's WAY cheaper and wastes less ink to do it in plain white."

Fair enough. It looks horrible though."

Am I the only one who thinks that the prominently white instruction booklets look classy??"

If we’re going off the plain color background instructions, in my opinion the black one looks better.

@Endermen39 said:
" @Dare_Wreck said:
" @Endermen39 said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
" @Endermen39 said:
"These animated instructions for Exo Force are way cooler than those horrible renders with the white background for the instructions today. Of course the only downside to the old instructions is the black looked a lot like dark grey.

Someone please explain to me why Lego decided to do those renders with the white backgrounds."

It's WAY cheaper and wastes less ink to do it in plain white."

Fair enough. It looks horrible though."

Am I the only one who thinks that the prominently white instruction booklets look classy??"

If we’re going off the plain color background instructions, in my opinion the black one looks better. "

That's even more wasteful inkwise.

One of my first sets from the 2007 storyline, which was my favorite year of the Exo-Force line. So, so many awesome sets.

I remember buying multiple copies of this set on clearance so that I could get more floppy armed skeletons.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"Looks like a spider droid from star wars."

As long as Superman stays far away...

@Dare_Wreck:
Steve Jobs agrees with you. But he's dead.

This is a dark set.

That’s a skeleton in the back of that thing. I always imagined the minifig died quite a horrible death from starvation. Or perhaps, since it looks like it’s floating, from being eaten alive by acid.

@peterlmorris said:
"This is a dark set.

That’s a skeleton in the back of that thing. I always imagined the minifig died quite a horrible death from starvation. Or perhaps, since it looks like it’s floating, from being eaten alive by acid. "

Flesh being consumed in some infernal engine to power the walker.

Ahhhh! Shoot one of those delicious cherry-lemon Lifesavers into my mouth.

Not for you, kids! You'll choke and die. Adults Swim only.

@bealegopro said:
" @Endermen39 said:
" @Dare_Wreck said:
" @Endermen39 said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
" @Endermen39 said:
"These animated instructions for Exo Force are way cooler than those horrible renders with the white background for the instructions today. Of course the only downside to the old instructions is the black looked a lot like dark grey.

Someone please explain to me why Lego decided to do those renders with the white backgrounds."

It's WAY cheaper and wastes less ink to do it in plain white."

Fair enough. It looks horrible though."

Am I the only one who thinks that the prominently white instruction booklets look classy??"

If we’re going off the plain color background instructions, in my opinion the black one looks better. "

That's even more wasteful inkwise."

I think, for most people nowadays, the stark white background looks like a newbie Toober tryng to cash in on that sweet, sweet Lego hype.

I see trans neon green, I like.

The Golden City subtheme is not as much of a winner to me as the 2006 waves due to aesthetic, but I love some of the Robot battle vehicles all the same despite their brighter, cartoonier accent colors. (For some reason the bright and dark accents switched between sides!).

This one has a human containment pod, one of the darkest features. Is it powering the thing? Is it a hostage situation, using captured humans as meatshields against their allies?
The pods here and in the Mobile Devestator suggest both. And apparently humans the robots can recover from downed machines suffer a fate worse than death.
Scary.

Another feature here is the green 'special forces' Devastator robot. It's cool to see them in a more affordable set!

As for the old instructions vs new, here's my two cents: the worst part about the new design is the horrid rendering. It's on product images too. The sets actually look less good than a photo would have. At least this year's batch seems less half-finished in the rendering process from what I have seen. The Dreamzzz instructions at least look nice and stylized.

And excuse me for not caring about the 'it's cheaper because it takes less ink' excuse. Lego is tauted as a premium product now more than ever. 'Only the best is good enough' doesn't exactly align with changing something to save on ink.
Environmental reasons? Sure. But at the same time we've gone to ridiculously thick booklets...

I have found parts of this in a bulk lot (two legs, a cannon, that skeleton pod...) but never the entire set. I did however, pick up its bigger, older brother 7707 Striking Venom (what a beast that is) and its younger, smaller brother 8112 Arachnoid Stalker... Maybe I should check if I can't quasi complete this here set to complete a trio :-)

@PurpleDave you’ve lost me on the Superman reference.

Always slightly disappointed this only had three legs, not four. Made it seem less like a sneaky scuttley infiltrator and more like a lumbering artillery piece that used legs to anchor itself down. Which…still cool, just not what was advertised

So who else knows more about this than they would otherwise because of Cheesey Studios' Revisting 2006 Exo-Force video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oejwQ8sdPUI

@StyleCounselor said:
"
I think, for most people nowadays, the stark white background looks like a newbie Toober tryng to cash in on that sweet, sweet Lego hype."

I... don't even know what you're referring to. What Youtuber is using a white background to grab people's attention?? Their thumbnails are filled with stupid photoshopped faces and arrows and other attention grabbing rubbish.

@SearchlightRG said:
" @PurpleDave you’ve lost me on the Superman reference."

Kevin Smith has a comedy bit about his time working on Superman Lives. There’s also a documentary about the whole affair called “The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened?”

@PurpleDave said:
" @SearchlightRG said:
" @PurpleDave you’ve lost me on the Superman reference."

Kevin Smith has a comedy bit about his time working on Superman Lives. There’s also a documentary about the whole affair called “The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened?”"

Superman stayed far away until the Flash movie ;)

Because Sunshine Crawler sounds dumb, and Friends hadn’t been invented yet.

@Dare_Wreck said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"
I think, for most people nowadays, the stark white background looks like a newbie Toober tryng to cash in on that sweet, sweet Lego hype."

I... don't even know what you're referring to. What Youtuber is using a white background to grab people's attention?? Their thumbnails are filled with stupid photoshopped faces and arrows and other attention grabbing rubbish."

The stark white background looks like every lil' Tuber's lightbox so he can give us his squeaky, hot take on the latest product.

@kdu2814:
Yeah, I may have groaned when I saw that.

@StyleCounselor said:
" @bealegopro said:
" @Endermen39 said:
" @Dare_Wreck said:
" @Endermen39 said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
" @Endermen39 said:
"These animated instructions for Exo Force are way cooler than those horrible renders with the white background for the instructions today. Of course the only downside to the old instructions is the black looked a lot like dark grey.

Someone please explain to me why Lego decided to do those renders with the white backgrounds."

It's WAY cheaper and wastes less ink to do it in plain white."

Fair enough. It looks horrible though."

Am I the only one who thinks that the prominently white instruction booklets look classy??"

If we’re going off the plain color background instructions, in my opinion the black one looks better. "

That's even more wasteful inkwise."

I think, for most people nowadays, the stark white background looks like a newbie Toober tryng to cash in on that sweet, sweet Lego hype."

The only instructions that looks good with a white background is 21343 Viking Village.

@PurpleDave said:
" @SearchlightRG said:
" @PurpleDave you’ve lost me on the Superman reference."

Kevin Smith has a comedy bit about his time working on Superman Lives. There’s also a documentary about the whole affair called “The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened?”"

And what does that have to do with spider droids from Star Wars or this set?

@SearchlightRG:
Keeping Superman far away. Watch the bit, and you’ll understand.

This set has great pieces in it

Ah, a three legged Blacktron mech, nice.