We’ve known since before the release of the very first LEGO Legends of Chima sets last month that only five of the six tribes were going to be represented in the first LEGO Chima series, and that we would have to wait just a little bit longer to get our first glimpse of the LEGO Chima Gorilla Tribe minifigures. With the 2013 Toy Fair taking place in New York City right now, that wait is at an end! LEGO showed off several LEGO Legends of Chima Gorilla Tribe sets and minifigures, including the awesome Gorzan’s Gorilla Striker 70008…

Considering that they were left out of the first wave of 2013 LEGO Legends of Chima sets entirely, I figured the Gorilla Tribe was sort of owed something cool. What I didn’t expect at all was that what that something would be is the first giant mech in the LEGO Legends of Chima toy line! 70008 Gorzan’s Gorilla Striker is a crazy-looking robot exo-suit that fires bananas (yes, you read that right) as ammunition from its shoulder-mounted cannon. I don’t anticipate anybody was expecting that.

The LEGO Legends of Chima Gorzan’s Gorilla Striker 70008 set will be a great introductory set for collectors wanting to begin army-building their Gorilla Tribes, as the set includes three of the four Summer 2013 LEGO Chima Gorilla Tribe minifigures: Gardo, Gorzan, and G’Loona. The G’Loona minifigure is interesting because it utilizes the short legs–is G’Loona a child gorilla or just a really short one? Only Grizzam, the white Gorilla Tribe minifigure, has been left out of this set.

Along with the three Legends of Chima Gorilla minifigures, you also get a little Raven Tribe Battle Outpost with a Rizzo minifigure. I don’t think anybody was clamoring for yet another release of the Rizzo minifigure, considering he was released twice already in early 2013, but I guess I can cannibalize him for customizing into a generic Raven Tribe minifigure.

LEGO 70008 Legends of Chima Gorzan’s Gorilla Striker is one of the LEGO Chima Summer 2013 sets. The set contains 505 pieces and is scheduled to be released in August 2013 at a retail price of $49.99.