Ahh, the nostalgia. I never got any of the individual spinners but I got a lot of the normal Rise of the snakes sets. I love them so much!

@MCLegoboy said:
"Ugh, what a hiss-terical pun..."

What is the pun? Am I stupid? I don't see it.

@Rabrickzel said:
" @GSR_MataNui said:
"Happy 810INCLE day! (or at least, the first one)

QUICK LORE!!!

The Serpentine were a race of snake people locked inside tombs long ago!

The Fangpyre were Serpentine that could bite things to turn them into snakes!

Soldiers were the second of four Serpentine ranks!

This was the named Fangpyre Soldier! He's hungry all the time!

Mine's printing is really faded :( !

QUICK LORE!!!!!"

wasn't Bionicle day yesterday."

In the US it's still the 10th.

@AverageChimaEnjoyer said:
"Really messing up the Fang-Suei of this place...

(I feel like all the Ninjago fans are about to "Hey dumbass that's the joke" me)"

Sure, but let me finish my bowl of fang-suey. It's like chop-suey, but with more of a bite to it.

Never owned this one, but the spinners bring back memories. This one certainly has a lot of good energy and vibes depending on where you place it (as Penne from Life Support would tell you)

For some reason I had 3 of this, even paid full price for it.

When I hunted stores for the rarer spinners, this guy was everywhere. It came out along with Kai ZX in april as one of the more 'special' ones but unlike the still at least slightly sold Kai ZX there seemed to be nothing special here.

I never got this, but I do own the minifig from the Fangpyre mech :)

@Maxbricks14 said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Ugh, what a hiss-terical pun..."

What is the pun? Am I stupid? I don't see it."

It’s a play on Feng Shui, a principle of design/philosophy usually represented by caricature in western depictions

@Maxbricks14 said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Ugh, what a hiss-terical pun..."

What is the pun? Am I stupid? I don't see it."
Feng Shui is about balance between a physical space and the individuals within it. The placement of objects allowing for the proper flow of energy.
@Brickalili isn't entirely wrong about it becoming a caricature in western culture. The first time I learned about it, it was from an episode of Rugrats: All Grown Up (or maybe it was just a later episode of Rigrats, it's been about 20 years), and it was just this absolutely ridiculous notion that actually made things worse for the characters based on what this interior decorator designed becaus they were too focused on getting everything balanced with good and bad, really trying to get all the yin and yang to equal and counter one superstition with another. Suffice to say, it was absurd.
But LEGO was scraping at puns for snakes, and pulling from all kinds of influences and so I guess a snake man achieving balance on a top made someone think of the term, and thus, Fang-Suei.

@MCLegoboy:
I had a roommate in college who split an apartment with me off campus. He objected to how I was arranging furniture in the living/dining/kitchenroom because he didn’t want the TV to be the focal point of the end that served as the living room. Instead, he wanted to arrange the seating to face each other, and I don’t know how anyone was expected to actually see the TV (which wasn’t even pretending to be a big screen TV). I don’t remember how the discussion/argument progressed, but the space ended up with the TV in the corner, and the sofa and chair where they were kinda aimed at each other and kinda at the TV. It probably helped that all that furniture was mine.

@PurpleDave said:
" @MCLegoboy:
I had a roommate in college who split an apartment with me off campus. He objected to how I was arranging furniture in the living/dining/kitchenroom because he didn’t want the TV to be the focal point of the end that served as the living room. Instead, he wanted to arrange the seating to face each other, and I don’t know how anyone was expected to actually see the TV (which wasn’t even pretending to be a big screen TV). I don’t remember how the discussion/argument progressed, but the space ended up with the TV in the corner, and the sofa and chair where they were kinda aimed at each other and kinda at the TV. It probably helped that all that furniture was mine."
I bet he also wanted the TV where it would reflect light coming in from a window, too.
I can see why you would want to have furniture facing toward each other, it's probably something to do with how you grow up and how things are arranged back home, but like, unless you have a dedicated TV room or just didn't regularly watch TV growing up, all that furniture is likely going to be pointed at the TV because that's just what we do in this country.