LEGO Nexo Knights (2015–2017) User Reviews

Started out ok.

[Wes54 · 5/10 · 25 April 2018]

I liked the concept. Using Legos to simulate a whole world. Cute and cool at the same time. But the show didn't develop. I think they spent too much time and money making thew show than actually doing something with it.

Putting a recap of the last episode in the first 30 seconds of each episode meant that I didn't have to see any more of it. I could just watch the recap, then skip to the next recap. Four seasons summed up in just 20 minutes. And they did it to themselves!

The monsters never really did anything, and neither did the Nexo Nights. They just bonked into each other until Merlok 2.0 lent the Knights some power. Then poof!, the monsters start losing and retreat.

While there's some minor character development, the squirebots are still useless after 4 years, the Nexo Nights are still useless without Merlok 2.0, Merlok is useless without Ava, and without Clay the whole team would just sit around watching TV.

Character Summaries: Axl: I love to eat! This is my character! What can I say, I love food! Lance: I hope you love me as much as I love myself? Macy: Aw, come on Dad, let me fight! Aaron: Watch me do something really cool! Woo-hoo! Clay: We must defend the kingdom! Ava: I'm working on it. Give me time! Robin: Here's the next thing you don't even know you need! Am I a Knight now? How about now? Now? Merlok 2.0: Oh, um, what? Oh! Oh, hello! I didn't see you there! I'm only here to fill the Knights with magic power! King Halbert: I'm the King! Do they know I'm King? Where's Macy, and why isn't she in a dress? Queen Halbert: They know, dear. Macy's right here, until she needs to help defend your Kingdom. Jestro: Am I bad? I know I'm mad, but only sometimes. I want to be good at being bad. Am I bad now? Book of Monsters: Yeah, you're bad. Real bad (stupid!). Now let's go find the next evil book to fulfill my...I mean OUR evil plan!

The only character development I saw during the whole series is that Clay turns out to be Merlok's uncle and Ruina Stoneheart's son. But who's his dad? I never found out. Maybe I went to sleep before the series ended.

Pretty terrible, but not the worst

[mooeymouse · 4/10 · 27 September 2022]

Too many episodes feel like filler content, and accomplish nothing but a waste of 22 minutes. Character development is basically non existent, and I don't want to compare the show to Ninjago too much, but in comparison this show is so lazy. It feels like every drop of budget went to Ninjago and this show got the leftover funds. Is a cool concept but wasn't given enough effort to be fleshed out. The fight scenes are just depressing. I almost refer bad for the monsters since most of the time they're just hopping up and down, doing literally nothing and then they're shot at. All the fights basically end up the same, with the shield power ups saving the day and the exact same animation of the knights shielding (?) up. Lance is just annoying, Clay is too boring, Axl is plain stupid, Aaron is okay, but the way he talks makes me cringe, and Macy's only trait is that she's a girl and everyone around her is sexist. If any of the characters were truly interesting (Maybe give Jestro a sadder background or give Clay emotions) then it would be cool. Nice concept but filler episodes took up the time that could've been used for character development.

Horrible, awful and terrible

[jpao-72192 · 1/10 · 1 May 2017]

The TV show started out decent. Nexo Powers were cool, monster designs were okay, and the book of monsters was pretty good. Jestro's corruption was justifiable too. However in the second half of the first season and beyond, things went from decent to horrible, the nexo powers were the same all the time and the cities look exactly the same. There has never been any good character development and Lance is too annoying and too over emphasized. We never actually see the lava monsters destroy things, only things that are already destroyed, and the only thing they do is knock each other around and bump into each other with their vehicles.

Lazy, flat, and boring. One of the worst shows I've seen.

[Almultimavenger · 3/10 · 5 April 2023]

I realized just three to four episodes in that this was indeed a massive waste of money, animation, and marketing effort. I forced myself to watch two seasons and I can tell you you can go your entire life without seeing this lazy excuse for an epic fantasy. It's extremely effortless, the story is basic, the characterizations despite having good designs are flat and one dimensional, and very annoying and cringy from time to time. There's no consistent plot, the character interactions and filler episodes resemble Sesame Street or Dora the Explorer in simplicity, and really insult the audience. You're better off watching Ninjago or Chima, both of them are memorable. The flaws with this show are comparable to that of the Ninjago Movie including awful writing, bad characterizations, childish tone, lame jokes. It's a kid's show yes but good kids shows are serious in their own right and educate, and tell compelling stories but restrict the violence and maturity slightly as to appeal to their audience. When written well they're still fun to watch by most if not all ages. Ninjago, Amphibia, Carmen Sandiego, and She-Ra to name a few are all well done, not this.

Pros- Let's get this out of the way. The visuals aren't bad, the monster and character designs are good, there are many recycled ones for the robots but it can be overlooked. The visuals are good, and they put very miniscule effort into story but it's still there, it has a premise.

Cons- The lazy story and flat characters are the biggest problem. It focuses on the kingdom of Knightington in which the Nexo Knights native to it defend their land, and their threat is Jestro, a jester who's been humiliated and mocked for his incompetence. It's a one dimensional origin but it works slightly, then he gets corrupted by the dark sorcerer Monstrox. The first two episodes had a promising start, as it went on it became a silly slapstick adventure arc with slow and dragged out subplots and childish antics that can't be taken seriously. Legends of Chima does similar things to this and it's slightly flawed but in the end the the plot is progressed and the characters are put in real danger and conflict, not just goofing around. It's quite shocking that this show went on for four seasons. The first two and last two episodes of Season 1 were worth watching, you can skip the majority of it and you won't miss a thing but cheesy anime power call outs and meaningless storylines. The New Ninja in Ninjago are more properly characterized than the Nexo Knights and that's saying something. I gave this a 3/10 because there's a tiny bit of effort put into visuals and premise, there's nothing else good about the show that you'd want to sit down and see even one season of it for. All it is is bland, dragged out, and sleep inducing. The show itself is unnecessary, it should have been cancelled after Season 2. With Ninjago still going strong this show is obsolete and insignificant, and I believe there's a serious lack of passion on the part of the producers/writers but rather a desire for money behind this, as much that can be earned with little effort put into the show.

Amazing

[pokemongreninja · 10/10 · 5 April 2017]

Greatly written,great animation, great character development. Truly an excellent show highly recommend. I love this show it has a great plot and it is overall a truly well planned show and I would highly recommend it. The younger audiences can be entertained while the older audiences still can be entertained as well.

So EPIC! Can't wait for Season 3!

[abbeyloveshkgaming · 10/10 · 15 February 2017]

Oh my gosh, this show is so awesome! Is it wrong to watch the show for the villains? Because that's one of my favorite parts of it all. Constructed really well, has a great story and it's so funny! It's like a medieval version of the show Lego Ninjago; Masters of Spinjitzu. People keep acting like it's horrible but they probably haven't even gave it a shot yet. I would definitely recommend this if you like Legos or just I recommend it anyway.

Great

[dawsanlackey · 10/10 · 12 May 2017]

I love this show it has greatly development oh and the animation is stunning I love this show not just because it has great characters and a great setting but it also has a good atmosphere and it is very good for young audiences and older audiences highly recommended. Spoiler Alert hopefully they confirm a season 4 for this great show.

Not-As-Bad, As everyone say!

[candyyt-05311 · 10/10 · 12 May 2021]

Before reviewing this place watch this it's really good and I don't like the fact that people say this is a knockoff of Ninjago sure it using ideas from Ninjago but the shows are totally different if I was you I'd probably watch the hole series and watch it it's just disappointng that this show got cancelled because it probably would've been perfect!

Not-As-Bad, as everyone say

[candyyt-05311 · 10/10 · 12 May 2021]

Please give this series a chance you'll autually enjoy it there's so much to say let's talk about the designs Characters/Animation 10/10 Voice Acting 10/10 Everything about this series is perfect, and this isn't a knockoff of Ninjago! Don't listen to the haters both series are good and totally different :) And the thing I love most about this series is how they explained his childhood and who his mother was it really added alot to his character season 4 is the best season because it has a lot of character development and world-buliding and action, it's disappointing that this series got cancelled it's so good!!

MASTERPIECE

[Javakar14 · 10/10 · 28 April 2022]

One of the series to see ABSOLUTELY an original lego animation in the series what I liked was to be able to interact with an official application of the series is that we had QR codes to scan in each episode called (Nexo-Power) it is to have powers of Merlock 2.0. To beat Monster in the game and also even with the official toys there were QR codes that were different (in all there were more than 300 different QR to scan with the application by watching the series and buying the lego toys) which was great we expect a season 5 but unfortunately the series is finished for lack of budget and audience and the application also was deleted

( 2015 - 2017 )