LEGO BIONICLE Review Special: The Glatorian Legends Gelu! Part 6 of 7
Brave and cunning fighter, Gelu!
Once a Glatorian of the ice tribe, Gelu now acts as an armed guard escorting Agori traders through the Dunes of Treason. Carrying an ice slicer and spiked Thornax launcher, he needs all his wits and skill to survive the dangers of the desert.
* Gelu is equipped with an ice slicer and a spiked thornax launcher!
* Includes 1 Life Counter for the new BIONICLE battle game!
* Measures 7″ (18 cm ) tall!
Gelu; Once proud secondary glatorian of the ice tribe, now caravan guard since the Skrall attacked Atero.
Building the set:
A pile of White and Dark blue pieces spill out of the white-lidded canister. Also included are pieces of Metus’s shield.
New pieces:
White Kongu Inika chestplate
Ice Slicer halves
Helmet.
The torso is exactly the same as Kongu’s, which is getting really tiresome with the majority of these sets. But because of his chestplate colour and shape, it balances out.
The Life counter sits smugly on his back. As always.
His legs: Dark Blue Piraka thigh connects to Dark blue vahki leg, which connects to a Dark blue “hand” joint, and a white hewkii Inika foot. Like Strakk, his legs are armoured by white Inika knee plates.
His arms: Again, two Dark blue piraka thighs (with Inika knee plate), which connects to a white Metru arm and a White glat hand. Two blue round-plus half pins are attached to the plus-holes at the back of his upper arm, and the shield pieces connect to those.
His head: A blue Glat head and his helmet connect to a straight hordika neck. I think the helmet looks quite cat-like in it’s appearance with it’s long “ears” of ice and “whiskers”.
The thornax launcher halves connect on wither side of his left hand, while the halves of the ice Slicer connect to both halves of his right. Keen BIONICLE fans will notice that the “foam ice sword” is modeled after the Ice Slicer. Gelu is more of an Inika than all Legends put together, even Ackar. The constant build, and constant re use of the knee armour is bugging me. But, he seems to pull together pretty cool once he’s finished.
Pro’s:
White Inika chestplate
Ice Slicer and helmet look cool (pun intended)
more Metus shields.
con’s:
INIKA
Too much mixing of Dark Blue and white
Shoulders may seem too bulky
LONGARM.
Gelu is still quite a cool set. I would suggest that you wait until you’ve got the other legends to build him; Unless you’re a fan of white sets and can’t be swung by a review like this. I would still recommend him to anyone i know who likes BIONICLE.
Have fun building!
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