An even sadder day for Exo-Force fans

Sorry to hear that fighter.. this doesn't really affect me, considering I only bought a few exo force sets, but I'm kind of surprised.. I thought the line was doing really well.

Exo-force ends, like vikings and knights kingdom, lines that were very well, but fails in the sales. Knights kingdom ends in 2006, and exo-force two years later. In the trade catalog, you can't see new exo-force sets, only the winter sets.

The thing about Exo-Force is that is was new. The battle machines in 2006 had a great new mechanisme that nobody has seen before, and lightbriks! But the 2007 line was verry disapointing because they took the new elements away and made the Machines borring by making them simpler to desing and build. Thats why there was a lack in intrest. And also the humas where sold better then the robots, but there had to be robots so the line was already 50% more unpopulair. To bad though but I have seen it comming. The only things that can save Exo-Force now is a mayor sale in the next month's otherwise it is to late to desing new 2009 sets.

What? NO!!! This stinks!!! I love exo-force! Oh well... it was a great line.

Thank you Lego, I feel much happier now.

At the start I absolutely hated exo-force... I never grew fond of it but now that its discontuned I feel horrible... I wish they discontinued bionicle instead... the golden city set sucked though... Farewell exo-forece. ;(

Tsk tsk tsk. Last years sets threw the whole line in jeapordy. i like the jungle so i better get them when I have the money.

EDIT: well you they will have to make a news series so I HOPE pirates or western!

Every user with Exo- in their username will be weeping silently right now. I didn't think that the Exo-Force line wasn't actually going that well once I think about it, becuase I bought Striking Venom at almost half price in the shops. I'm sure that now the set is rare people will be paying a heap for it intact.

That's so sad, if Star Wars got cut off, I would be miserable. I can feel exo-fans saddness...

That is extremely odd, all of my younger friends love, and i mean love exo-force! I can't believe they don't like it... just wait until i tell them, they will cry.

well, now that they cut off exo, they need to make another series of Lego that will sell! (I want western or Lord of the Rings)

Ah man. i liked exo-force

Funny I just picked up 3 ex-exo-force sets today. Generally I never build those sets. It's all about the unique parts/colors for me. Lego needs to develop their a line of mecha that feels more solid an plausible. Brickshelf artists like izzo have a great feel but I wonder how "play-with-able" they are:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=214070

Another neat theme is the steam punk style that has gained so much traction in the community.

I'd like to see castle sets taken to the cafe corner/green grocer level.

One thing I liked about exoforce was the artwork. I'd love to have seen their buildings set into mountain jungle mountain sides. Oh well.

oh and if you look at the plo koon fig. ugly as HECK!

sorry for the triple post but exo-force actually copied from SG gundam

Same in the UK exo - force sets just sit on the shelf. Not that i liked anyway. On the subject if Starwars how much longer can that continue! Most of the vehicles, main scenarios must of been covered now.

I agree with the community and second the opinion that 07 EF sets were horrible. I couldn't justify buying the Mobile Devastator-it looked big because of the wheels and technic beams and the thing was expensive. I bought the Aero Booster for 7.48 at Target on Clearance and looked at the parts and decided to sell it. I did buy the Sentai Fortress. I bought 3 of them on clearance for 12.48. I kept 1 and built it and the other 2 I was going to sell. They weren't selling on ebay so i returned them. The fortress itself came with some cool parts (dark red slopes, gold 1x2 grill plates, etc.) but the design incorporated too many large 1x bricks that made it seemed juniorized. If the set wasn't on clearance there was no way I would have bought the set for 50 bucks.
The new sets this year are worth buying, especially the purple and lime fighters. They come with some awesome new parts in harder to find colors. I might consider buying them if they go on a major sale at TRU or Target.
I feel sorry for the Exo fans out there but the line will live on forever for those who love and own the sets. You know what the great thing about LEGO is? WE can build new Exo-Force sets if we want out of our brick collections!
Hope that cheered up the EF fans a little bit.

Oh well, Exo-force sucked anyway. Still, I'm gonna miss the awesome heads and headgear...

i agree with rock dog about the "outbreak". I also think that he is right. Lego probably will make a better theme. Hmmmmmmm.........
P.s. The next thing to go should be bionicle. it was good when it first came out but i think they have gone a little too far.

good point rockdog. legoville exoforce and bionicle were both ment for the same age group i dont think they will get rid of both. I think they should make a theame after a movie(idk which one) but i think that would be cool. Or make more star wars as that seems to be the most popular theame thease days.

Don't give up hope cuz TLC could re-release them in the future...

Yeah, I sure hope that exo-force profits soar this year, then maybe LEGO will reconsider, 'cause even though I'm not really into exo-force, it is still really sad to see a line come and go.

What!? That was my favorite line! I think I'm gonna throw up from sadness!

Very surprised to see Exoforce getting the axe from LEGO. What surprises me even more is that Bionicle still seems to be going strong.

ah rock dog you are absolutly right. the reason why they took it out is because of non-stop violince. but i wonder why bionicle and starwars werent axed?

I say that anti-violence is just dum. I happen to favor it, and I am getting really sick of people complaining about LEGO becoming violent. It's not like the toy-line is for babies. And did you know that apparently parents are complaining about the new gun types in star wars legos? That is just insane! I happen to like the new type better!

I agree with Leggodt

Exactly! You're right on the spot, rockdog!

Thank you as well, littlelegoluke! :)

I just bought the Rogue Shadow today and it had some pretty strange pieces that I hadn't seen before. It has one of those rocket launchers that fire once the little trigger is pulled back. I have found that piece in sets like the Naboo Starfighter, Landing Craft and Slave I. I think Exo-force should have those instead of faulty disk launchers. Also I would like to say that lego is really improving on their landing gears lately.

Well don't you think there could be problems with the voilence on the video games? I mean, it is mild, you can pull people's arms off, and whack them. Maybe they don't consider it voilent.. but I'd have thought it's worse than what any 6 year old would do with them.

ah man i just started to get and like

In my opinion I'm not sad. I'm actually sort of happy they did because Lego WILL have to make a new un-licsenced them like western.

Well, Pegasi, I heard one person describe it like this, "Come on, Lego Star Wars: The Video Game isn't violent, it's just breaking legos. I can do that at home." And they do have videogame ratings like E10+ for ages 10 and up. That doesn't include 6 year-olds.

yeah. and who here wants little backwards megaphones that have blue and orange lights on them. They are sooooooo cool! (NOT!!)
SillyQuack, I do hope they will bring back western i was never so lucky as to get a set. But if we don't get the complainers straightened out, starwars stormtroopers will be fighting rebels with flowers, and the agent theme will be fighting with....wait thay won't fight at all because there is no violence in the world. Well, unfortunetly there is. We can't blind kids of what is really going on or teach them that the world is perfect , can we?

No we cannot! Exactly, legoville410!

Sorry for double posting but leggodt is right. And something to add to my speech above, there is plenty of violent ideo games out there. If you ask me a few guns that lego makes shouldn't bother anyone. If it does, than you don't know what real violence is. LSW1:E LSW2CS:E10+

It should be clarified that we don't have a case of LEGO receiving a multitude of complaints from parents over violent-themed toys. Sure, you're always going to have some individuals complain about the smallest issue, but I think this is more of an internal change of direction for the company more than anything else.

To tell the truth, I was a little diappointed in Exo-force for 2007. Much as I loved 2006, I was indifferent towards the 2007 line and I only got three sets as opposed to the 10 or so I got the year before. I don't think advertising is enough. The story in 2007 was weaker and emptier than 2006. If you look at the number of comics made in 2006 and then 2007, you'll see what I mean. I do love the 2008 line and if they continue to make Exo-force sets in the summer I will do my best to support the line. A sad day indeed....

Wow, I didn't expect this to sell. Still, I never really liked it much.

Sorry for the double post, I meant I didn't expect this to discontinue. I was thinking about something else when I was typing. Sorry.

I agree with everyone, violence is overblown in Lego. I am fine with SW blasters, that is sci-fi, and no one ever got murdered with a laser cannon in real life. However, exo-force pushed the limit of science fiction guns, and I have never purchased one yet. But exo is child's play (no pun intended) to the new agents sets coming out. Those guns in there, and the Bond-esque themes, are not exactly what kids need to see. I know the parents dont need to buy them, but they will still be in the catalogues, wont they? Kids will still be exposed to it, and it will seem more 'OK' to them because it is in something which could 'never' do anything wrong to them, LEGO.

Personally, I did like exo-force, though.

deluckybrick, everybody has their own opinion but if they don't have they toy then they are really not "exposed" as much.
Plus i dont think it is a bad idea for lego to have an agents theme. An army theme may be a little outlandish but still an agent theme is fine w/ me.

Ah...so Exo-Force ends at last. You can normally tell when a theme might end, but I actually thought it might go on one more year. Dino Attack and Vikings were doomed from the start, especially Dino cause nobody loved the dinos themselves. Personally I liked how that serpent was built, but...anyway...Themes like these never normally last, and I hope its replacement, Agents does much better. I thought that EF looked a bit blocky and framework-like, and none of the sets were really stable. once you think about it, Space, Racers, Castle, City, Creator, and some other Alpha Team/Agents line will be the only ones left, cause in 2010 or 2012 or something, Lego's contract with Lucasfilm expires, and they can no longer make Star Wars sets. That new Speed Racers fling will not work, because everyone knows that movie/TV show based sets never work out, as shown with Avatar and will happen with Spongebob and Indy sets. (I hate movie based sets anyway, and Lego always gets in a tizzy when a new movie comes out.) I forgot about Bionicle sets, but as you can see they are running out of ideas and are probably sick of having to make new looking parts, and those stinky Matoran are finally finishing their overlengthed story, starting after the Bohrok dudes and by next year will end. I certainly would not listen to a four-year long story! They should continue Model Team, everyone liked that. We can expect to see other themes use mecha like Exo Force, and possibly a theme like it again. But as I said, it will be those 6 big themes with random subthemes along the way.

I totally agree. But you cant say that starwars did not work out. It is one of the top sellers. If lego is smart they will try to keep the lisence w/lucasfilm. I also think indy is doing fine.

I find it strange that they would do this, considering everyone loved it.

I'm pretty sure Agents will take over from Exo Force. Exo Force 2007 wasnt that good.

Explain this to me best_fighter, but why in the heck do you want LSW gone? And im sorry, but in my tru i see less and less spongebob every time i go!! Like i said before, LSW is one of the TOP sellers for lego. If that goes, people like Commander Fox who only like LSW will stop buying lego. Lego sales will drop pretty dramaticly.

i would
if it failed already, who says it will work again?

Boy, these exo force fans in canada who live near a wal-mart must be in tears!

Why do you say that?

I don't agree what Wolfy 8880 says in terms of the price in Canada. Although Canadian dollar is slightly stronger than that of American, the price is still very much different. In case of Town Plan, for example, it costs CDN$219.99 compared to $149.99 in Amearica. And as far as I know, there is no such LEGO exclusive store in Canada, either. It is such a tragedy for a crazy LEGO fan like me who has to buy LEGO products with a high price at not many places (not at Wal-Mart any more..)..!!

You don't agree that Canada would be next cheapest after the U.S.? Certainly not in that example, that's as bad as the Australian price. And Canadians know the excuses they fob us off with are nonsense; your stuff comes from the same U.S. warehouse, doesn't have to travel by sea, and Canada and the U.S. apparently have similar sales tax systems.

But that's a shop @home exclusive, sold in small numbers. What about the everyday stuff, like Exo-force sets in Toys'r'Us, is the difference as great with those? And the really important question: if it isn't Canada, where are the next cheapest prices?

As for Exo-force, and why the 2007 sets were so rubbishy, I blame Mars Mission. It's pretty obvious that all the best vehicles the designers came up with for 2007 got used to start the Mars Mission line, and Exo-force got the left-overs. Compare that sleek, black "alien mothership" with the monstrosity they included as the robots' aircraft in the golden tower set. Chalk and cheese.

Really Exo-Force was never that good anyway. Sure, it may look good, but once I bought the stealth hunter and the thunder fury or whatever the latter was, I took it apart after a day or two. Last month I saw a complete picture of it and then thought that I must have been crazy to destroy it, so I started to build it again. It never lived two hours before I realised why I destroyed it and did it again. I did the exact same practise with the knight bus although I did really want it for some reason when I bought it.

I for one am not surprised about the discountinuation of the Exo-Force line. Here's my reasons:

1) LEGO Company keeps a line and then after a few years discontinues the line. Many lines are no longer part of their current offerings (GO Western). The exception to this rule has been Bionicles, depending on your prospective. The Bionicle line is nothing like it started out as and the orignial TOA have given way to other heros.

2) The line began with figures in mechs (sorry to Mecha fans, but I have not other words for it). The line seems to have morphed from those $14.95 USD sets into the $60.00+ USD sets. Oh sure, they had the Sentai Headquarters, but take a look at all of the sets and you see a common theme, mini-figs in large mechanical robots. The 2007 sets seem similar, but the larger sets seem to depart from this. Set 7721, 8106, 8107, and 8108 seem to depart from the mecha focus (though two of those have a small mecha in them, the rest of the set doesn't make sense to me). Anyway, I do not get the sets without the mecha.

3) The new sets, 2008, seem to return to the formula, but where can you find them? I found them in the United States at Toys-R-Us, but the price was $5.00 over the MSRP for the $14.95 sets. Are they kidding? Why would I pay $5.00 more for a set at TRU that I can get at a LEGO Store or a WalMart or a Target? Well, I will tell you why! The product is not on the shelves. For the consumer to buy it, the products must be on the store shelves. I visit the LEGO Imagination Center in Orlando frequently and the store cannot get shipped product from LEGO Group. Common guys! Product sitting in warehouses or in shipping containers does not help with the bottom line. SHIP SHIP SHIP! Support your own retail stores!

4) Manufacturers and suppliers are no longer in control. WalMart recently anonouced Canadian WalMarts would no longer carry LEGO Products. If LEGO or other manufacturers want to get control, which is why I am certain WalMart is no longer carrying LEGO Products (because LEGO is exerting more control) then manufacturers must resist the temptation of the WalMarts of the world from "our way or the highway" mentality. I think LEGO is doing this in this case and more power to them. For you Canadians, I am sorry. Boycot the whole of WalMart and refuse to purchase any products from WalMart in response to this situation.

Just My Humble Opinion.

Todd

Okay! About this whole violence thing. Lego is a humble toy company that promotes creativity, NOT VIOLENCE! Now whether or not a kid who has a lego set like star wars wants to act out violence does not depend upon the toy but on the MOVIE that the toy is based on! "So why doesn't LEGO discontinue Star wars?" who may ask. Well,.....let's see, you take the greatest franchise in existence and you combine it with the greatest toy in existence, and you pretty much have the greatest toy line in existence sooooo....you sell it and make big bucks! Bottom line, LEGO is never violence-prone, and if it was then it just wouldn't be LEGO, now would it. (but lego might have to fix that for their agents theme)

I think lego makes sets that can be made violant but do not encouredge violance

My statement in a nutshell! Thank you, littlelegoluke! :)

exactly but i like the agents theme just the way it is

Remember, legoville410, I said "might".

I too think that lego may have taken the voilence a tad too far. Of course you would be used to violence if you have been watching star wars, so then you would like to replay the action as precise as possible. Though saying that, it was lego that had introduced me to star wars in the first place. hmmmm. Anyway, the point I am tryiny to get to is that one or two flying projectile missiles are okay, but you know that lego have gone way too far when most of the peices are artillery. there are some sets like that, with so much pointless guns and bullets and rockets and missiles that you can't see the product itself. I tend to remove these extras and use the peices for something more conservative, like a blaster tree. I think you are right, Leggodt, but I am kind of uncomfortable talking about this as I am a fan of star wars. Also, I found out today that the girls watch that sort of movies for the romance, like in ep. III, the most violent of the lot. George Lucas has an extremely large target audience and that is why star wars is so successful. Also might I say the movie was anticipated to be the best out of all of them and during my first time watching it, the anticipation chilled down my spine in the written prologue in the opening scenes. Fantastic.

I think everyone should look on the bright side of the Exo-Force series being canned. Most should have enough pieces to make your own mech instead of relying on the designer's ideas. This is what makes Lego so powerful - it is only limited by your imagination! So instead of lamenting on the end of a line, think of it as a start to your own line! Brickshelf is a great medium already used to showcase lots of MOC mechs (or whatever!)
As for violence in Lego, remember that "Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people". Sad but true.

A lot of you seem to complain about violence in Exo-Force, but the theme that's replacing it (Agents) is more violent! Exo featured Humans X Robots, while agents features Humans X Humans!

*sob* and these new ones were the best yet. *sob* Hitomi doesn't even have a mech yet...
I'll have to buy lots of them, and the old ones. Then create steampunk mecha and spaceships from all the bits. And cooler mecha.
*sob*

I agree with Luke Skywalker. OOPS! I mean Luke SkyTalker! :P

And to very quickly comment on what you said earlier, Luke Skytalker, "Lego is what lead me to star wars", for me, it's the exact opposite: star wars lead me to lego.

And to once again comment on this exo-force leaving thing, I've come to this conclusion:

It just goes to show you, LEGO can't really come up with good MADE-UP themes. I mean think about it movies, city-life, the world around us, space, oceanography, out west, sports(racing included), and medieval times. Those listed things are based off of someone else's idea or stuff that actually happened. I mean the only two themes that I can think of that are LEGO made-up ideas are exo-force(which is getting the boot) and bionicle, which I don't think is all that great(no offense to you bionicle fans). :)

The liscenced themes were, as we were talking about before, successful becuase people wanted to act the scenes out in lego. I have never watched a single episode of Exo - Force before, and I have about six of their products, which I mostly bought for the minifigure mechas. Lego should really make robot impulse sets so that people can buy them to invade a town or something. That is what I bought exo-force for anyway. I was debating in the store whether or not to get the legendary Striking Venom I keep going on about, and then I found that the set 'Sentry' was $10 NZ, and comes with one robot. Striking Venom was cut down from $90 NZ to $50 NZ, and comes with about seven regular robots. I think that the maths is fairly obvious, and it was one of my best lego purchases becuase the set is still together to this day.
Also, thanks Leggodt, I like it when people appreciate my user name. Also, you are quite right. The made up themes are better than the other themes becuase they are made-up. Obviously lego employees wouldn't just chuck a random new theme idea unless they have a few good sets they had made before the line. You know how many police stations there are in creation.

Thanks Luke Skywalker! OOPS! I mean Luke SkyTalker!(I think I will refer to you like that from now on) ;) And I think that you mean that the non made-up themes are better than the made-up ones. :)

I thought that Mars Mission wouldn't be selling as well as Exo Force.

I like the ETX Alien Infiltraitor! It looks AMA'ZU'ZING!!

That is funny, but I have only bought 2 of the same small mars mission sets last year, and I didn't really like them. The more expensive ones look a bit flimsy and weak like the new AT TE. Fighter, I would definately buy any set that was one cent only. On trademe they list stuff for a dollar and the bids hold the price in hand and rocket up to high heavens. I still have loads of Gate Assualt sets in my local store and they still haven't gone on sale after about a year. Not that I have any intention of buying it, the 'gate' looks a bit like that portal thing that you would find in Stargate. I have made a promise to myself not to destroy anything until I know the primary use of the funtion in the set. An example is the Landing Craft, which I had no inkling that it could drop the pod and destroyed the cockpit mechanism! I repaired it once I found out about it using Youtube. To maintain this promise I research like mad about the set, looking for it on sites such as Lego.com, good old Brickset, google searches; Image and web, and lastly Youtube, watching videos of the sets, usually stop motion.

Well, I knew this would happen someday... I don't really care, because I would perfer BIONICLE over Exo-force any day. I kinda liked Exo-force, but the bad guys always win until the last minute when something completely impossible happens. Plus, in 2008 all of the good guys looked terrible besides Takeshi. The mini-robot on Hikaru was really ugly, and mostly the whole set was waaaay to breakable.

Really, the only thing that I liked about exo-force was the robot minifigs. I thought that they looked kinda cool.

Sorry for the double post, but also by hybrid, they don't mean as in the new more fuel efficient cars, but instead mean that the tank has several combined purposes or abilities. I think...

well you could compare this to what happen to 'life on mars' that was a flop and last year they released 'mars mission' which is basicly the samething but with a differant name. so this could happen to exo-force. also skytalker globel warming is a really big problem becaues down here in australia we have been in a ten year drout. my dad just came back from europe and he said it didn't snow once. so how can you say globle warming is not a problem.

Sweet as. But I think I've said everything I have wanted to on both subjects and can safely conclude that I did like Exo-Force, without actually watching the programme.

Uh, where did this turn into non-violent stuff? This is about exo-force being cancelled so we should go back on topic. Okay?

I feel much the same, Fighter. I have two bionicles but I prefer bulk, brick lego. the main reason that I don't like it is becuase it invades the shop's shelves, rather than being full of lego I actually like. Was glad to see also that Toworld now have a massive range of lego to choose from now instead of those evil layby signs.

Yea toyworld is getting in a lot of good LEGO. I don't collect Exo Force but i like the new 2008 ones.

Hopefully there are new Mecha theme based series~

I love Exo Force!

Yeah, I wouldnt miss bionicle, especially because now they all look so nasty and evil, even the good guys. Exo-force had a good premise, though, and I dont think Agents will be a good replacement.

It's the Mars Mission sets that are clogging up the shelves locally not the Exo-Force. But Exo does cannibalize the same market as Bionicle so I can see keeping Bionicle which seems to have "legs" and losing Exo Force. My question would be why announce it? That makes no marketing sense unless they want to build some kind of "buzz" to keep it.
The Castle sets seem to be doing well but distribution is not universal. I don't know why Dwarf Mine for example is not available in US/Can.

Yeah, it is unusual to announce the end of a production line. Maybe they are trying to sell the remaining exo-force by telling people to grab whats there while its there. I think that at the end of Exo-Force lego, maybe there is a bright side to it. Of course, when star wars stops, I would be kind of happy that there are no newer sets to worry about and so I would start spending my money on the good old sets, not having to worry about the multiplying number of sets in production. So don't worry, Exo-Force fans, you can start collecting the old sets on ebay or something. That's what I would do if I was interested in Exo-Force.

I'm not too crazy on Exo-force since I liked star wars.

Gosh, so many comments, it is probably a new record!

I think they should keep on continuing it! I mean, hello, were are either boys and some girls, (hopefully) and some exo-force fans are adults or 50 year olds. but most of these fans are young, and we are CHILDREN! We usually don't get money, or allowance (most of us don't) and these sets are so expensive, who WOULD get it? Right? they should lower the prices then they would sell more. The biggst thing that makes me not get the sets that I want is the money issue, for example, the Naboo Star fighter was $30 last year, what a ripoff! I speak for the people who don't get allowence and the people who think Lego is ripping us off of our money (for only exo-force)

Did you not know that Lego did have discounts up to like 30% on most of the exo-force? They did it so they would sell all those cruddy sets.

They were, not anymore though.

The non-existent exo-force 2009 line?

Wo, wo, wo! Where did you get 2009 sets from?!?

It's a non-existent line. Like the star wars 2012 line.

I agree with Da_LegoBuilder. The reason they didn't real well was likely due to price.

kinda thought this would happen. last years line basically threw them into jeaporady. i didnt like the line at first and still dont so i dont really care. i was a waste. they should replace it with like pirates

Still, every Exo-Force lover will be slightly less depressed because the line ends technically at the end of this year. And, whats more, you have 366 days in total from the start of this year. Enjoy spending on the last of the endangered Exo-Force sets. Happy spending!

It's quite astonishing to read Lego's announcement, after seeing the fall 2008 ExoForce sets in http://toyfair08.asmzine.com/gallery/lego/

JKLaukkanen

There are no Exo-Force Fall sets. I went to Toy Fair and was told by a LEGO rep that the line is an expiring one. There are no new LEGO Exo-Force sets besides the ones that were released in January of this year. The slideshow of pics in your link shows the sets that were released already.

bmwlego

Exo-force is leaving?!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Are you happy now, mtow~255000? :P

Or what if word spreads and everyone buys the last of the Exo-force and then lego starts the line up again thinking that the raise in sales go up becuase of the new jungle theme.

How about we start a petition?
I also agree with going out and buying these sets to help show these guys do sell.

The lego company said that the phone numbers were for the US or Canada. They must consider Canada as a shared region for them. Why would they rip off Canada more than the US if they know that they live so close they have the same phone number? I don't think I have made my point clear and I'm not sure how to, but yeah.

Well, I dunno. You see, on my keyboard the 'Y' key is about six centimetres away from the 'E' key, which is about two centimetres away from the 'S' key. Furthermore, the 'N' key is about six centermetres away from the 'O' key. Maybe after typing that letter they couln't be bothered fitting in the last yes or no word so they just e-mailed it like that and made it seem like a neutral comment informing you of nothing at all. I once e-mailed the lego company asking about the postage, and they replied with an answer, but there was much the same advertising. I wonder if there is actually a real person who browses what you are asking for and physically pushes the 'send' button, (which is located on the mouse button and therefore not applicable for measurement). Usually search engines seldom get what you ask for, and it soon becomes incredibly frustrating.
Oh well, Fighter, at least you have taken the liberty of actually e-mailing them. I appreciate that, but I would more if their response was informative.
Good Try, though.

I don't think that lego will reproduce Exo-Force after they just said it was leaving forever unless that was why they said it. But even so, that would be a very poor way of marketing.

I think that since many of the Exo-Fans LOVe it A LOT, they will make a special edition set, a super huge set, in the summer to 'say goodbye' to the line. Who agrees with me? I already heard a rumor about this somewhere.

Well, Luke Skytalker(I'm finally getting the hang of the "talker" part), maybe LEGO was simply informing that sales for the exo-force theme are way down and that they MIGHT have to discount it UNLESS somehow the sales go up this year which would probably be good if these new 2008 sets are as good as everyone says. That's what I think is the case. I could be wrong though.

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I'm not a big fan of exo-force. But I don't hate it, cause it's Lego and I love all lego. :)

Your other comment, Leggodt, is probably likely. No one knows, unfortunatly what lego are doing turning the discontinuation into a publicity stunt thing. I don't know what they would do if they didn't announce it. I suppose after a while the public would be emailing the lego company inquiring about Exo-Force being deleted from the website. Oh well. Just a hypothetical situation. Wait, that makes me think, what if there were no hypothetical situations? Makes me think more. Getting off topic here, kind of like how my maths teacher was teaching us science in class, or how that Conchord or whatever flew over Fighter's house, or whatever it was. :D

Hey, Huw is right! look at the set 8101, Claw Crusher. It is an Exo-Force set and I have not bought it yet, but it is a perfect example of what lego are trying to do. You see, it has a few bionicle parts, clearly shown in the pics to attract 7-10 year old bionicle lovers. Also, they have stuck in a 'secret code' for you to unlock. And lastly, they stuff it with the most attractive arsenal they can. That is lego's desperate attempt to get anyone interested in Exo-Force.
Thanks, Fighter, knew it was something like that. :D

Ya, well, like you said skytalker, it's not really good marketing.

I agree with ya, tanadlia, about the star wars theme compared to other themes in terms of action-related enjoyment. I mean, with MOST other themes the only thing to do with 'em is the building, I mean, I love the building portion of a set, I really do, but there are sometimes when I like to do more with a set instead of just letting it sit on a shelf. Star wars is great because it provides for just that!(same goes for exo-force, I guess) :)

I agree with you too, tanadlia, but I don't completely hate City and Bionicle, as you can still have action in the city, its just unexpected. My favourite is star wars cos you've got action and you've got really cool sci-fi spaceships that I was in search for before I was introduced to star wars, (the story in that is in my lego star wars video game review). Also Exo-Force is a lot like star wars but not much so, Star wars is more of a complicated genious and it is cooler like that.

As we've said before, tanadlia, a non-fiction war theme would just be too violent. (ANY COMMENTS PLEASE REPLY, what's up with that? :P)

Well see, rockdog3, you mist something in my previous comment. I said a NON-FICTION war theme would be too violent. Star wars is FICTION as in it's fake, as in it didn't actually happen; but world war 2 actually happened. See the difference?

Ok, I'm glad to here that. :)

Also it's Science Fiction. obviously people that re-enact the violence in war will not go around trying to disintergrate someone, it just isn't an option. we don't have blasters and usuall blasters in star wars don't kill straightaway, like guns. They can knock someone over, though.

A ya they do skytalker. Now that you mention it, I've been thinking and I may have come to a solution of how a lightsaber could actually work. But that's way too far off the subject; however, if your interested, I might could expain it to you.

Wow, Leggodt, I've thought of that thousands of times! I'm interested, feel free to email me as we are far off the subject. Its an easy design to make a toy one completely composed of laser visible through projectory but it needs to stop at a certain point. Please do explain. :D

They already have sort of non-fiction troopers kinda because there is the indy army people which can pass off as the real thing. As long as lego doesn't make a Hitler minifigure we should be alright. Could you explain your views on a lightsaber, Leggodt?

Well, ya, I do a lot of extensive thinking, sometimes in the fields of science, especially when it is related to star wars. :)

Ya, as long as we are talking about some star wars ideas, I've actually thought of this huge, enormous clone star cruiser that is so big, that it actually has several hangers big enough to hold a fleat of star cruisers that are each about three football fields wide. I've even given it a name: the "Colonator". Well, I just felt like sharin'. :)

No silly, I'm talking about a real-live star cruiser, you know as in the movies. I was just thinkin' that maybe in this new clone wars tv series, there could be a ship like that. And if there was, then the droid army would'nt last two seconds, cause the Colonator would literally EAT the enemy droid star cruisers! :D

Well, I think that TLC should make an exo-force tv show on the Nickelodeon channel. Now that would be awsome! Maybe then the toys will start selling.

You never know, fighter. Maybe sometime in the future they'll bring it back, with bigger better sets. It's a world of possibilitys.

Hey, does anyone, besides fighter, like my exo-force tv show idea?

yep. Though I don't watch exo-force. I don't like much american television.

ATTENTION ALL LEGO EXO-FORCE AND STAR WARS FANS! I want all those who like those two listed themes to take a look at this:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=255403

This may be the future of exo-force, or maybe it isn't. I don't know. But it does look mighty interesting.

YEEEEEEEEEEEES! Exactly! But look at the color of the "wars". That's the exact same coloration of the "wars" in the "star wars" logo. Plus, look above the picture; it says something like clones and humans versus droids and robots. It is obviously a combine of star wars and exo-force! Now, how cool would that be?!?

Well, I certainly hope he gets the LEGO company's attention, and perhaps they will be persuaded to actually making a theme like that. Besides, that would be really cool and plus it would help increase exo-force profits by attracting a new crowd: LEGO Star wars fans! Hey, Luke Skytalker, do you think a combination theme of exo-force and star wars would be cool?

Sorry, you're right rockdog3, I don't usually. A combination of the two would be disasterous for the star wars contract but i would like it. The exo force robots can well replace droids and the other exo-force minifigs will look nice with a lightsaber.

That would be awesome, but I dont think Mecha and Sci-fi would blend that well... besides, its NEVER gonna happen, due to licescensing stuff. I'm not trying to say you were excpecting it to, though.
Oh, and the picture from Brickshelf is DEFINATELY fake. Super fake.
And since Lego plan future sets like 2 years before hand, is it likely we'll see some proposed summer 08 Exo sets?

Well, it's nice to here your opinions, guys. :)

I think we kinda knew that it wasn't gonna happen, it would be a very bad situation for lego to be in terms of the contracts that are being signed. However, we have the power of MOCs, and I'd like to see some attempts.

I like the fact that exo-force is finally ending! I hated the theme and it took away from lego's originallity! Good Bye Exo-Force!

Fighter, Smallsam99 is one of those weirdos who thinks that LEGO is some sort of antique toy. He doesn't understand the awsomeness of these new themes.

Ha! I've seen more!

Yip. You can just look in the news archive.

I've seen over that, and the news archives is not 'dead', some of the oldest topics are alive and well...

thats true and i notice that zellers in canada is selling way more lego even better than our local true before we had next to nothing now new sets every couple of weeks so to hell with walmart

I hope this disaster dosen't happen to other lines like lego star wars.