Trivia / Legends of Chima

• No Export for You: After much hassle about whether they would be released at all, the 2014 Ultrabuild Chima sets haven't been made available in the US.
• Rereleased for Free: All three seasons of the show are availabe to watch on Tubi.
• Screwed by the Network: The second season only lasted six episodes, and after that the show was replaced with an hour of Johnny Test. Its Invisible Advertising did not improve during season 3, since Cartoon Network's Saturday morning programming was only advertised on Boomerang. To hurt the show’s chances of renewal further, the season was burned off at a 7:30am timeslot.
• What Could Have Been:
  • A very early concept for the franchise had humans use various masks to channel the abilities of animals.
  • Concept art shows a more mystical bent to the franchise's premise, with staff-wielding mages channeling the power of constellations to summon colossal animal guardians. The only part of this take that made it to the final version were the giant animal guardians, which were re-imagined as living creatures called Legend Beasts.
  • Tommy Andreasen, a Senior Creative Manager at LEGO who helped design the theme, wanted the Speedorz to be called Cyclaws (a portmanteau of "cycle" and "claws") but was vetoed.
  • A tribe of dinosaurs was considered for the theme, but ultimately dropped in favor of focusing on extant species of life.
  • Early concept art for the Gorilla tribe depicted them as being various shades of dull green, which was changed later in development to a variety of earth tones with blue as a unifying accent color. Their alignment was also up in the air for some time, as different pieces of art alternate between placing them with the heroes and the villains.
  • Concept art of the Scorpions gives them a red-and-black color scheme reminiscent of Vladek and his Shadow Knights from the second Knight's Kingdom theme, who happen to use a scorpion as their emblem.
  • The Raven tribe appears to have been a late addition, as early concept art uses the Bats as a villainous flying faction instead (before they were relegated to the second season) and all known publicly available concept art depicting Ravens originates from after the stylization of the minifigures was locked in.
  • Plovar, the Crocodile tribes' dentist, had a Lego piece of himself◊ designed but never produced. Interestingly, the proposed piece looks much more like a real plover than his in-show model.
  • A few characters had their names changed or slightly altered:
    • The ditzy Lion guard Leonidas was originally called Lobar, though his name was changed by the time the show entered production and face prints for the minifigures were being finalized.
    • Eris' initial name was Ellis. The reasoning for the change is unknown, though it may have been to make her status as the lone female main character more obvious; while Ellis is technically a unisex name, its usage in English-speaking countries is usually masculine.
    • The minifigure design sheet showing the full lineup of Gorillas indicates that Gordo and Grizo were considered as names for Gorzan, while G'Loona's name is spelled as G'Lonna.
  • Dom de la Woosh was also known as El Rapido and El Razzle de la Dazzle during development, but both alternate names were rejected due to issues with copyright.
  • The villains for the third season were initially pitched as being purely zombies, which was vetoed by higher-ups. They were approved after having their bones represented as ice, leading to the Ice Hunters as we know them.
  • Concept art for the third season had the various tribes don winter gear to fight the Ice Hunters, though it's unclear if the art predates the existence of the Phoenixes and their fire abilities as a concept or depicts the tribes before they got involved.

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