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Topic got swept downstream with all the contest entries? The creation looks good. The story could use a tweak here and there. I'd have opened with Lennox and explained only as needed the masks, his powers and his mission. Also see if you can post the pictures themselves into the forum posts. I think you waere trying to build up mystery before the full reveal of Lennox, but clicking a link, ok-ing to leave the sight to see it and only seeing part of a body killed tension instead of building it up.

No particular reason. It didn't looked good with rear hooves. I'll put up a couple of pics with them on and you can decide. Keep checking the gallery. Update: New pictures added including Protector of Ice having an unfortunate run in with Rammie.

Happy Lunar New Year My kids learned about the Chinese zodiac and the twelve year old twins were jazzed that this year, Year of the Goat, is their year. So I put together a little ram and thought I'd share it with my BZPeeps. I'm always tinkering so if you have suggestions please share. I'd like to improve the head in particular. Bio: The Storm Rams are rarely seen. Once in a dozen years, they descend from the cloud-shrouded peaks. If a villager plays their favorite flute-song good fortune will follow them for a year. You have to be quick. Soon the rams return to the mists regions where they clash and race causing thunder and lightning. Side View Gallery

I didn't go in liking Hero Factory, but by Breakout I warmed up some. Not as much as Bionicle or Ninjago, but still the needle moved in a positive direction. Likes: Year 1 - Bionicle FM A great device to help build the world of Hero Factory. Year 2 - Hero Team Recon Something Bionicle could use a chance to allow users to customize their hero. Year 3 - Savage Planet Heroes. I loved the concept of robotic animals. Year 4 - Breakout pairs This hit the nostalgia bone by pairing 1 hero with 1 villain. Though sending the fire guy underwater was a bonehead move. Year 5 - Elemental beasts. Year 6 - Nothing. I didn't care for making hero mechs. It felt like an unnecessary layer. Lowpoints Year 1 - Heroes built or heroes trained. This confusion bugged me. Year 2 - Fire villains It seems Stormer knows everybody and never saw the red flags that they would be evil. Year 3 - Savage Planet beasts. I appreciate the creativity in make this alien fauna, but I'd have gone with biological counterparts to the Heroes (Rocka vs Lion, Furno vs Eagle, etc) Year 4 - Video. This should have been a 5 episode miniseries with a bigger payoff than blowing up the Hero Factory. Year 5 - Surge Another year another chance to humiliate Surge and make him the punching bag. 8 other heroes and not one could be spared for hostage duty. Year 6 - After the second cliffhanger that doesn't follow through, I stopped caring about the shows.

It'd be nice for an honorable mention, but as Toa Chuck noted it is super simple. Just a Rahkshi carapace to as many bones you want and have. Others put a lot of thought and creativity into their builds.

Thanks for the feedback. I original made these during the second year of the Hero Factory when the CCBS was launched and I had few pieces of the short enough length. I'm happy how they turned out. I'm glad others like them or have suggestions.

Hello out there, Ptah here I had one additional model I wanted to share: the Rahkshi serpent. Granted this was never spoken of directly in Bionicle lore, but everyone of my Rahkshi canisters carried an image of this snake/serpent like creatures so I think it qualifies. Since it never had a G1 set it's not really a 2.0, but spirit of the times. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=553019 Some backstory: In the lava fields, the most desirable game is also the most dangerous: the Infernoboa An adult Infernoboa can evaporate a river and often melts rock to channel lava flows to their nests. Villagers love the meat but the Infernoboa is lethal out of the egg. They constrict their prey and their high body heat practically cooks them within their coils. Only the lava hunters successfully bring these creatures down earning a high price for the much prized meat.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=553018 Greetings The contest rules state one model so I officially submit Cinder for the contest. But the other two are the same model with different colors and weapons. Something I put together during Hero Factory after a bout of buyer's remorse over the Fire Villains. Here is the backstory I created for them: The lava fields are dangerous. From searing heat to dangerous wildlife, the lava fields are not for the unwary. This makes the three lava hunters Cinder, Ember and Ash especially hardcore. In another time and place, they were scouts for a ravaging horde. Since then, they’ve developed into the best game hunters in the Firelands. Cinder is the leader and as far as the villagers now the only one who can speak their language. He does the haggling. He carries a Staff of Flames. Ember is the least intimidating. Even with his Burning blade and Searing shield, Ember seems to enjoy their brief village trips. Ash is the opposite of Ember. The grey and red hunter radiates hostility. His hands are never far from his Charring chakrams. Everyone gives him a wide berth. In the lava fields, the most desirable game is also the most dangerous: the Infernoboa An adult Infernoboa can evaporate a river and often melts rock to channel lava flows to their nests. Villagers love the meat but the Infernoboa is lethal out of the egg. They constrict their prey and their high body heat practically cooks them within their coils. Only the lava hunters successfully bring these creatures down earning a high price for the much prized meat.

Greetings, It is good to see you all again. Last time I was here we were bidding a tearful good-bye to Bionicle. Now that with its return so have my creative juices. I MOC'ed a bit with Hero Factory, but the change in systems from Rookie year to Fire Lord to Savage Planet left a sour taste for the line. I had a long description in mind for this one, but in the end, I just wanted to make a female version of the Protectors. As far as I know, there are both genders in all the tribes. The first, Glace, is adapted from an earlier design when I saw a preview of the Protector sets. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=552563 Glace is an Ice Guardian. She has two jobs. The first is to train the Protector to serve the Toa. The second is to provide leadership should the Toa and the Protector both be absent. She drills her tribe's Protector fiercely. Her Shield-flake is strong enough to take shots from his blaster. But at the end of the day, they are good friends who share the same goal: protecting the Ice Tribe.

I picked it up last week when my son was home with a soar throat. It's a good value. To sweeten the deal, the Savage Planet DVD also has the Ordeal of Fire so its basically HF year 1, 2, and 3. The Ninjago gap is a bit strange, but nothing he couldn't find online.

Pardon me a moment while I feed the troll. "CHANGE BAD!!! GO BACK TO THE OLD STUFF! ME MISS BIONICLE!!! IT'S ALL BIONICLE ANY WAY!!! PWN!" Ok, now that that's done lets look at what we got. Minifig heroes on Mecha? Should Evo be called Exo from now on? The build involving System and Technic parts promises to up the difficulty. I love that. Putting together action dolls has lost a lot of its luster. I'm curious how the Technic pieces combine so I can make the HF sets 100% compatible with my old Bionicle sets. It's about 90% but the old Toa heads and masks just don't match up. Too bad the under dweller creatures don't have an action like a flip button. You something that make them jump on the Heroes and add to the menace. I'm also curious what those compartment in back are for. I'm well past my 'gotta have them all' phase with HF/Bionicle. I get a couple, three on the outside, if I can do something with them. I think I'd like the Furno set in this wave and see what the second has to offer when Surge, Bulk, and Stringer have their turn.

I split my affection between the Av-matoran and shadow matoran for the good guy/bad guy element and the matoran 2.0 just before the Mask of Light movie. I really loved the gear driven swivel action it made them truly apart of the Bionicle world. My least favorite is Metruan. The legs and arms were ugly and they could have expanded the two tone to other parts like the feet or the body.

Easily the Rahkshi. This is the only set I drooled at owing and the only one I went back and forth between 2 Lego stores to see when they came out. All the harder to stand as the first released the brown and black ones early and it took 2 painful months before the rest came out. In my imagination the ideal year would be: Small box: Av-matoran/Shadow matoran Hero Canisters: Toa Metru with Inika weapons Villain Canisters: Rahkshi Titans: Mata Nui and Makuta

Does it matter if they are out of the box?

A MOC I've tinkered on and off has been Mega Man and various boss robots from the franchise. I wouldn't mind an animal transforming exo-frame like Transformers Deployers. Something that could connect to any Hero, not just a new version of the main ones.

Hello out there, Ptah here I learned about Hasbro's Construct Bots a couple of weeks ago on Geekdads. The short of it is Transformers given a Hero Factory twist. 10 Autobots and Decepticons as buildable, posable action figures with parts you can mix and match. I think Hero Factory with its longer history including the experience from Bionicle will mop the floor with the Construct Bots as far as sales go, but it got me thinking. If your favorite Hero had an alt-form to transform into what would it be? Heroes with vehicles has been done: Furno and Stormer have cycles. Heroes with attachments will be out this year: see Surge and his jet pack. But what would see Breeze or Rocka or even the villains transforming into.

Interesting topic. @Chima - Too early to tell. This theme is at the big rollout phase. Experience has shone that Lego does 2 years with a 1 year cooling off. First year introduces the theme. Second year releases a new wave. Third year, sets are still on the shelves but no new creative content is added. Chima will have to be extraordinary to buck that trend. @Ninjago - Ninjago is extraordinary enough to get a third and fourth year, but I don't think it will get another beyond this mysterious robot storyline. I'm curious how the 'Last Battle' sets will sell. Storywise, it got the short end of the stick. Will this affect how the sets are received? @Hero Factory - It's already bucked that 3 year trend so it is certainly on track to beat Bionicle's longevity. Brain Attack carries similarities with the Bohrok and Piraka storylines. I suspect we'll get at least 2 more years of Hero Factory, but I don't know beyond it. One year will probably give us vehicle modes maybe even transformations like the Construct Bots Kre-O's coming out with. And one year collecting the golden MacGuffin, From this old Bionicle fan, the story plays directly into my buying choices. I'm not as invested in HF as I was in Toa so I've never collected a complete set in any wave. Ninjago was refreshing the first season, The second season with the snakes cooled me off, but the Final Battle makes me want the Golden dragon set. That's my two cents.

This is based on my own faulty memory, so take this with a lot of salt. I remember it explained like this. The Av-Matoran were the first, taller and stronger because they worked in Karda Nui with all of the energy arcing about. Matoran created after them (the Metruans) were the default and worked on the mechanics of Mata Nui. Those captured in the spheres shrunk down. Those sent to Karzahni got rebuilt to Voyatorans. And the mutagen restored them partially hence the Mahritorans. It seems a long way to go to fit new toys into the existing storyline IMO.

As I read the question, you see the storylines given as children's fiction and wonder what it would look like if it were geared for Young Adult that age range between 10 and 17. More death and love aren't required in fact on death we got the right amount to satisfy even YA appetites. In YA, a singular death carries more meaning than a string of dead bodies. In the storyline, we got Toa Lhikan, Jala (temporarily), Matoro (permanently) deaths that leave their mark on the fictional world and on the readers. I think if the Bionicle storyline was written now, without the need to contort and fold at odd angles to fit the next series of toys coming out, then more drama can come through. Like the Toa Metru working to clear their name is a strong YA theme. If it didn't get cut short for the upcoming line of Visorak/Hordika, that story could have played out to greater effect. Bionicle straddled that border between kiddie lit and YA. The young adult elements are there if you have a solid hankering for them.

This seems a good place to plunk down my 2 cents about "Legend of Chima". Watching the first episode, I fell asleep. Not a good sign. I watched it again and fell asleep. That's a RED flag. I stayed awake through the second episode, so there is that. I can see why most are turned off by the immature comedy presented. We see animal-human hybrids, we see racers and giant battle machines what are we supposed to think? Circus time clown antics? I was ready to embark on an epic with lots of action, thrilling chases with stops at amazing vistas. Instead I'm forced to sit ring side over a tiff between kindergartners. The type where kids say they'll never talk to them again and the next day all is forgotten. Losing parents could be a big deal, but it is played as a justification for friends to be enemies. The one bright spot was the jousting. I hope they show a few more challenges there, without a bird woman being used as Damsel in Distress material.

I got the Ring of Fire Speedorz set on Monday. I am impressed and curious to buy the others. The set comes with three parts: the minifig (Raven dude), the speeder and pieces to build a ramp and the Ring of Fire. First the minifig. The trick for attaching wings comes from the shoulders like the Ninjago and Prince of Persia two sword backpack. This is great for anyone who wants to MOC minifigs, now you can have angels fallen or otherwise. The speeder is pretty straightforward a lot more fun than the spinners from Ninjago. The Ring of Fire brings a new design for those without the means to by the Atlantis sets with a similar portal. I think it's clever to sell these first, because it gives kids a chance to practice their speedorz. Practice your accuracy and speed by trying to get it through the ring of fire. With this and Ninjago, I'm poised to do a Lego version of Samurai Pizza Cats. Hooray!

I just checked out the new content on Lego's site. Color me an embarrassing shade of beet red. Their stuff was probably live when I started this topic. Yep, Lego made this thread irrelevant. (Curse you, Perry the Lego-pus!). If any Administrator wants to close it. I'd appreciate it.

Truth to tell, I'm not drooling over the Chima sets. That usually comes after I see the story either online or on the screen. What i learned so far is the Chima has 5 tribes: Lion, Wolf, Croc, Eagle and Raven. But that isn't the only animal/man minifigs Lego has produced. Thanks to Ninjago's Serpentine wave, we a long lost Snake tribe ready to join the fight. Even better, the Fangpyre sets also have machine and vehicles. This is the perfect time too, because many of these sets are heading for the discount bin to clear shelf space for the Chima sets. So now is the time to create a Chima tribe out of the Ninjago sets.

Christmas shopping in S. Cal, I've seen a number of Brain Attack sets at the TRU in Ontario and Chino. Oddly, none at the Lego store. Sets I've seen: Furno XL Breeze Rocka Ogrum Pyrox General scuttlebutt is they will be widely advertised between 12/26 and 12/31 so we'll see.

Enter New PlayerHi all. I've been watching and following Ninjago. I think it's good so far as it goes. I snuck a peak at the finale so I won't spoil it here. One thing that stuck out in my mind is how the series raced ahead of the toyline. The toys in stores are still in the Serpentine wave. I don't think they've named this wave after the serpentine other than Return of the Garmadon. I get the impression, Lego wanted to sit on the last 13 episodes until they got a new wave going, but forces or Cartoon Network forced their hand.As an aside, I'd love to see a fan-made movie where Aang and the Last Airbender minifigs mix it up with the Ninjago ninjas over elemental superpowers. I'd do it myself, but I missed buying those sets.