Set #8987-1: Kiina

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Kiina Review

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The Pieces

The new pieces?
The Helmet, Trident, the new side piece and an absolutely glorious armour piece

The recolors?
Light blue Inika feet, Hands and vahki leg. yep, all LIGHT blue, Not Mata blue or Metru blue, but LIGHT BLUE!

Everything else has been seen before.

The Build

The build is something old, right? Wrong. Kiina has a custom torso, without an Inika torso for once. It's created with that triangular piece, and comes together quite well. Very innovatative. Her arms and legs are regular, though. They're just Rahkshi connected to the new side piece covered by a new and absolutely glorius piece of armour. The head is connected onto by the top of the Vahki leg, making her one of the few Canisters to not use the straight horidka neck.

Playability

Due to a smaller torso, she can pull off poses that other canisters can't but can't do some stuff other canisters can. She's very good in this area, however, the armour can prevent her from pulling off a few poses, but not very much.

Price

IMO, ok. At 9 pounds, I think they're ripping off, and would rather have it at 8 pounds, but you have t blame the economy, and not LEGO.

Overall

8.3/10

Pros:

New Torso Build

Lots of recolors

Awesome Trident

New Armour! Which is hopefully not used only once in sets, unlike two certain Barraki Armour (why won't they use Takadox or Carapar armour anymore on other sets?)

Cons:

Armour can get in the way
Life counter interferes with heaad movement
Vahki torso held on loosely (can be fixed with two of those X rods that have a o on the other side)

The pros definitely outweigh the cons, she'ss a great set.