I've had this idea brewing in my head for literally a year. And since Kohaku agreed with it, here we go:
We should assemble a massive army of Bionicle crabs at Brickfair.
Seriously. Think about how spectacular that would be. If loads of us BZPers who came to Brickfair or sent MOCs brought along a crab or two each, we could very quickly assemble an awful lot of them. People can build Ussals in various colors, bring Hahnah crabs from Jaller Mahri, and maybe even a few Rock Ussals from the VN
Seriously. In my class's skit for Spirit Week next week, I play the role of God. I get to wear a white suit and a crown and sunglasses and it will be awesome. Those of you who know my last name will understand why this is particularly appropriate for me. :3 Our first goal is to be hilarious; our second is to avoid sacrelige so we don't get points taken off for that...
And helloo again to all of you! I'm back. I have a variety of things to report on and a variety of things to show you all, lik
Obama. McCain. Biden. Palin. You all know that the best ticket out there would be Stephen Colbert and Tina Fey. They'd know how to handle things as President and VP.
(and so help me if anyone turns this into a real political discussion I will have to hurt you.)
Also, the deadline for registering to vote is coming up! It's already there in Texas! Don't miss out if you want to vote!
~ ToM
Project Nuva lives again! Oddly, in the weekend before APs, but...
(click for the full image, of course)
Most of it is explained in the picture, except for one thing: the red lightsaber beams. I would have much preferred ice blue, personally, since it completes the icy look, but apparently red is needed to add a flare of color to the neutral scheme. And since he did have one red eye and one blue in MoL, I'm okay with it.
What do you think?
~ ToM
You may have been wondering what it was that spurred Project Nuva to life.
Look at the front page. Now you know.
When I saw the leaked pictures, the first thing I thought upon seeing the lime and orange Toa was that the former looked exactly like Lesovikk (lime chest and head with a distinctly Faxon-like mask – two out of three points of distinction), and the latter like a Toa wearing the Vahi. There's a big problem here when a new set is released that is instantly recognizable as an old c
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BULK!
Onua Mistika à la ToM. He actually has the bulk that Onua mandates, a hunch (neck socket plugged into the topmost hole in the redesigned Nuva armor), and also actual armor. None of which the real set has, except for the bizarre pauldron. Actually, it was looking at that thing that gave me the idea for the legs – I liked the idea of using the Bitil wing piece somewhere on Onua, and it occured to me to put it on his legs, since I had already decided to use Vahki legs. It res
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Here's a guessing game for all of you guys. I've been doodling this figure for the past couple days in the edge of my history notebook, a human rendition of a certain Bionicle character, and I'm wondering if you can tell who she is. I started it while trying to get her face and hair right and doodling such all over everything, then it progressed to be a rough image of her battle armor (sans helmet).
Brief information that won't help you at all: she's black, she has bright green
Fully colored in Photoshop, free of outlines. With a background. And printed at a large size. Now to finish it in the next five days or so...
For freedom we rise
Learn to fly, reach the sky,
Legend will carry you thousands of miles...
Take a stand, hold the land,
Make sure that everyone's ready to win...
Find the speed, all you need
Team up for battle we rise...
~ ToM
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «Briefly, they are what I think of when I look at the new Ignika.
Seriously.
Small, round, oblong, and yellow-orange when less than ripe. All adjectives that most unfortunately describe the new Ignika (minus the ripeness part). Basically, it's been truncated, compressed, shrunk, rounded, and in other words made less interesting in every possible way. Gone is the dramatic, sweeping shape of the 2008 Ignika. Gone is the crescent at the back of
This is what I've spent half my time not studying/doing end-of-semester assignments doing lately, and some time when I really should have been working on those.
note: this picture is actually a link now. I feel stupid.
As I said last entry, I think star!Vezok's set is extremely boring and disappointing for a supposed "Star," and that Hahli would be both much more deserving of a place in the last Bionicle sets ever, and would also look a whole lot more interesting.
So, this is her. She
A question to those who have them: which should I get?
Photok has those glorious ORANGE TOA FEET, a mask that reeks of Kakama-ness, and as a very minor point, Chronicler's Staffs in the post-2006 dull silver color. Kirop has grey two-toed feet and the long Avotoran limbs in both black and grey. Kirop also has wings. Which isn't unique to him, but he's the only set with them that I'm at all interested in.
Both have the wide-shouldered Avotoran body, but I'll be getting it in black with Biti
I have decided that this book is so totally awesome that it needs an entry entirely to itself.
(it should be self-evident that this contains drastic amounts of spoilers, if anyone reading this plans to read the book but hasn't yet)
Seriously, The Amber Spyglass has just about every single thing I love in it. Evolutionary biology, mythology, gay guys, witches, familiars, forest scenes, mystical places (namely the rainbow valley), and – and and and – as many women as men in positions of auth
With the rest of them! Now, who shall we talk about first...
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «Dunno. I might as well discuss the group as a whole. I think what it is that leaves me feeling underwhelmed about them is that they lack flair. There are exceptions, but I feel like most of them lack dramatic bits and a certain distinction that the Glatorian, for comparison, did have. Gresh had his dramatic spikes and color scheme; Strakk his torso and shoulders; Malum his huge bulk
This has nothing to do with recent occurances.
I started typing this up while on vacation, but since I didn't finish I've just left it as a draft since then – a sort of rambling entry detailing my expectations for 2009 over the years, as we've learned progressively more about it.
In 2006 and early 2007, we knew that '06-'08 was the Mask of Life story arc. I assumed (as I think many did) that the Inika would be the heroes for all three years, ending with the healing of Mata Nui and the deat
I have a problem.
Lego has made a ton of absolutely stunning sets this year, nearly all of the most amazing in the expensive range, and I want all of them.
The Agents' Speedboat Rescue and Mobile Command Center, the Troll Warship, the Dwarves' Mine (hey, it introduced this year's theme), the enormous Castle Chess Set, the Mars Mission Crystal Reaper and Hypersonic Operations Aircraft, and of course Axalara, the Jetraces, and Rockoh (to a lesser degree than the former two, er, three).
An
Some fiddlings with pieces...
First, Takanuva's new Power Lance. I've never really liked the set version; the head seems awfully big, especially with how short and thin the handle is. Just doesn't come together into a single, solid design.
So I remedied that with Hewkii's shoulder spikes. Three of them together make a neat, solid shape, and are also the right size for a normal Toa to wield (or even the original Takanuva)... I know Lego wouldn't do this, because they technically don't f
Alongside the incredible, amazing, and truly historic victory of electing Barack Obama President, an enormous triumph of the civil rights movement, that same movement suffered a defeat. In fact, three defeats.
California, the second state to formally legalize marriage between same-sex couples, became the first to repeal that. It was joined by Florida and Arizona in banning gay marriage, though those two never formally legalized it to begin with. And that leaves only Connecticut and Massachuss
If I made blog entries more often, I wouldn't have to stick a bunch of random thoughts into one all at once, but I never feel any one individually is quite worth it... usually, at least. So, off we go again!
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is an amazing book. I've never read anything quite like it, and I'm not really sure how to describe it. It takes some getting used to the dialect, and it's definitely a book you have to stick with for a while before you truly start to enj
The question of 'what Grievous?' was asked several times in recent and also not-so-recent entries.
This is the answer.
I must say, it's an odd feeling knowing one's MOC was played with and posed by others before I got to...
~ ToM
So, Sméag and I and then Janus and I were talking about this the other night, and I figured I'd make a blog entry about it, because goodness knows I'm not going to get around to writing a story about this any time soon.
Anyone remember back in 2005, when Greg told us that 2006 would be returning to a more "tribal" feel? And then how there was actually none of that at all in the 2006 story? I mean, sure, the Matoran lived in a village by themselves, rather than a city, but that was just about
Avotoran life before the Brotherhood attacked was like Victorian Society.
Really, after they cleaned up everything after the Great Cataclysm, they had about a thousand years with absolutely nothing to do. (Not that time seems to pass quite as slowly or years be as long in the Bionicle universe, but that's beside the point.) Naturally, they would turn to forms of cultural sophistication and artistic expression. Architecture, for instance. There must have been loads of interesting buildings, an
Vezon is British.
He lives with his pet spiders in this old, fancy mansion. His preferred décor is chains and glittering, spiderweb-patterned drapery. In his spare time he throws large, extravagant tea parties and amuses himself by trying different poisons of his own invention on the guests. He tests the slow-acting ones when he has many guests, so that only one or two of them actually die, and only when they're on their way out and thus out of sight of the rest. The fast-acting ones he reser
(Because I refuse to use that linguistic collision of "v-m." It simply doesn't happen.)
Before I begin, they're generally good sets – good designs, good color schemes (not so fond of Photok's distribution)... and no storyline inconsistencies the way the Nuva have, since they're all new characters. Being Avo-Matoran, they have enormous amounts of potential – but none of it was used. Their basic color scheme is white and gold, but none of them have gold and only one white, and although both mal
(because 'Glatorian' doesn't at all sound like a plural in and of itself and 'Glatorians' sounds inescapably lame.)
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «I hesitate to go into any sort of great detail, because having seen the (very clear) leaked pics I might unintentionally talk about something that can't be discerned in the 'official' ones...
So I shall be brief: I like these so much.
Delightful recolored pieces all around – even in the little ones! They have so many of the
