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Well, true, but it is directly stated that the power of Control was created by fusing all the other elements. Are you sure you're not thinking of the Mask of Ultimate Power? As far as I know that was the only one mentioned to contain multiple elements, while the Mask of Control is mentioned only as the one Makuta wore, without referencing its creation. Yeah, although it was referred to as a "special mask" in the intro video, that doesn't imply that it violated the sacred law of One Element Only

Aw dang, I was on the lookout for Throwbots for years and never had any luck. I did, however find a Nuhvok Va (and the hot air balloon set from the 2003 Adventurers line) at a KB Toys in August of 2005

After 15 years, Torch, Amazon, Scuba, Electro, Ski, and Granite have finally returned. What's great is all of those fit perfectly except for Ski and Electro. This is a fantastic idea and I don't even care if some of them don't fit. I will darn well refer to the Protector of Earth as "Electro" and nobody can stop me also gonna refer to the "Mask Maker" in the summer sets as Jet now. I don't even care that he has a canon name already

Racism is not a basis for an effective argument. Ten points from gryffindor. F - -. Please see me after class. I sincerely hope that was sarcasm, because you've given no actual reason to why aspects of a stereotype aren't allowed to be used to justify that a certain media did depict certain characters as gansters? Literally a character is defined by how they are presented, and a part of that presentation might just happen to be a whole pile of aspects that fit a stereotype but you're not allowed to point out an extra detail of the ad - which the characters featured in? Yep, let's go with Kevin was being sarcastic. No it wasn't sarcastic. NotS claimed the strongest argument for the Piraka being gangsters was that the narrator was an African American male. They were being racist. I give you a 2/10 for getting me to respond. You're defending racism. Stop it. It seems like you're saying that the proper way to tackle the issue of racism is to ignore any instance of it and brush it under the rug. Are you one of those types who believes that racism can be eliminated by pretending it doesn't exist and that you "don't see race" and neglecting to acknowledge all the ways in which racial prejudice has become ingrained in our societies for hundreds of years? Because that's the vibe I'm getting here. The bottom line -- as Sir Kohran said -- is that NotS pointing out the fact that LEGO invoked a racist stereotype in an ad campaign does not make NotS a racist, no more than pointing out the fact that some deodorant commercials objectify women makes a person sexist. You get 1/10 and detention. Read a textbook on logic while you're there. OKAY LET'S TALK ABOUT BOOKS. I'm not fully sure that I buy this yet. While I won't be expecting Lord of the Rings: Toyline Cashgrab Edition (XD), I think assuming that they will just tell the stories of the animations and that's it is a bit of a premature assumption to make. Even HF's books were somewhat good, and Bionicle has a tradition of decent-length narrative books. If they respect the original line enough to bring back gear functions, then they probably do enough to write at least a Hapka-level book. You misunderstand my point. My point is that IF the chapter books retell the main story as told in the animations, I doubt they'll have space to add much complexity. If they tell side-stories like the HF chapter books? In that case, anything goes. I'm actually hoping for the latter—there are plenty of blank spaces for character-establishing adventures in between the brief webisodes. But it sounded to me like most people had wanted books that were to the animations what the classic books were to the comics—an expanded, authoritative version of the main story. And I don't see that happening unless we get more than two books before the year is up (and given we don't have a single release date? Those are tough odds). So wait, has it been established that they won't do both? That's what I recall the gen1 chapter books doing -- main storyline, in slightly more detail, with occasional side-plots.

4.5/5 Sounds just about like pure punk to me, which I think we need more of. The only reason it doesn't get a 5 is because I thought it could have ended at 2:11 with no detrimeent to the song -- thanks to the coda it overstayed its welcome just a tiny bit. I really dig their "Capitalism is Organized Crime" poster, though

3/5 It wasn't bad, but there isn't really anything that stands out about it

Are you sure about that? I remember getting Iruni and Norik separatly a few years ago... Yeah, and the one person I knew who got Norik did not have Iruini

He was certainly hard to find, at least in the US. I never saw the set in any stores, and I only ever met one person who got it.

I've been quietly following your project since you first posted the Bordahk revamp, and Matau is my favorite so far. It probably helps that green/black is one of my very favorite color schemes, and I'm also a sucker for arm-blades There are only a couple things I'd suggest changing -- the upper arms might look better if you exchange the waist pieces for something sleeker, and I think the upside-down inika torso just looks a little odd. Adding a few more tiny white highlights would make their presence a little more cohesive. Great overall

2/5. There was something monotonous about it but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. I'm also not really a fan of the spoken bit at the end, but that's just because I dislike those in general, so that's more on principle than based on the merits of the song itself.

A possible explanation for this is that the Hordikas' height could have been reduced after being exposed to the venom. Although I'm not sure if that's canon or not. They were hunched over a lot more. Look at the way they walk, keeping their arms low to the ground and the trunk (torso) almost parallel with the ground. It was a matter of posture, not size change. With this in mind, They were likely a lot taller at full height than they looked next to Keetongu and Sidorak. These are all legitimate point, except that the Hordika were sitting down in the scene I was referencing, so their standing height isn't quite relevant. Check the scene again. They were sitting down to tell him why they needed him. Then, they stood up, shouted "Unity!" and Matau invited Keetongu to include his fist among theirs. They were standing. Ahh, you were right. I was going by memory. Granted, even with the Hordika standing, Keetongu would still have to be pretty dang big to reach his fist into their circle without getting off his pedestal

A possible explanation for this is that the Hordikas' height could have been reduced after being exposed to the venom. Although I'm not sure if that's canon or not. They were hunched over a lot more. Look at the way they walk, keeping their arms low to the ground and the trunk (torso) almost parallel with the ground. It was a matter of posture, not size change. With this in mind, They were likely a lot taller at full height than they looked next to Keetongu and Sidorak. These are all legitimate point, except that the Hordika were sitting down in the scene I was referencing, so their standing height isn't quite relevant. Perhaps they should be, but that would mean that every wave of Toa sets would be literally taller than their preddecessors (on average}. In-universe, all Toa are close to the same height. And that's just one example. Barring the special sets (Toa Mata Nui), the comics do show the Toas similar to their sets. For example, Bionicle Star characters were indeed smaller and simpler in form in the comics. There are also short Toa and tall Toa within each wave. Perhaps the scale changes each year as sets get more complex, but for the most part they're pretty spot on. That depends on the artist. Stuart Sayger drew Axonn and Brutaka far larger than their sets, whereas the artists who succeeded him were much more set-accurate, but that also isn't an accurate indication of size -- we know, for instance, that the diminutive stature of the Stars is non-canon, since Gresh was never transformed in any way, nor were Nektann, the Rahkshi, or any of the Skrall.

yknow, looking back on it, Keetongu's size is actually wildly inconsistent within WoS itself. I always assumed that Sidorak was still standing in that one scene, but it's possible he could've fallen to his knees. So that would make the scene you mentioned, when he's walking past Vakama, the most realistic. And yet, when the other five Hordika were telling their story to Keetongu as he sat on his massive pedestal, apparently at least ten feet above them, he is somehow able to reach his fist down to theirs. ??????????? Even when he's walking alongside Vakama, though, Keetongu still looks significantly more than head and shoulders above the toa -- maybe not fully twice their height, but I don't see how he could be any less than 12 feet tall, at least. Maybe 11.

I like to think that Toa range in height from 6 to 8 feet, with most around 7. I seem to recall Greg stating that Matoran are 5 feet tall, but that seems a bit too big, looking at either the sets or the movies. 5 feet seems more appropriate for a Turaga; I'd presume that Matoran are generally around 4 feet. That's true for the set, but the Keetongu set is also shorter than those of Roodaka and Sidorak, who are both head-and-shoulders taller than Toa (about 9 feet, I'd guess) but WoS depicts Keetongu as being nearly twice Sidorak's height. Based on that I'd estimate that Keetongu would be about 15 feet tall, and that's a conservative guess. Kardas is as big as his set looks, true, but he's still diminutive compared to the Tahtorak, who is confirmed in the books -- Adventures #8 IIRC -- to be 40 feet tall at the shoulder (more potential evidence that Keetongu is significantly larger than the set suggests; Keetongu's species used to use the Tahtorahk species as mounts, which would be potentially difficult if they are only 9 feet tall). The Zivon is probably about the same size, but I think even they are slightly smaller than the Kanohi Dragon. Perhaps they should be, but that would mean that every wave of Toa sets would be literally taller than their preddecessors (on average}. In-universe, all Toa are close to the same height. And that's just one example.

4/5 dark & groovy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok5umIPv_hI

You've got a couple options for that. The simplest would be to remove all the gears and attach the arms with these pieces. If you want a greater range of articulation, though, put one of these inside the gearbox and attach 3M axles through the holes, balljoints to the axles, sockets to the balljoints, and the arms to the sockets. The technique is used in this stop-motion film, and seeing it will probably give you a better sense of how it works than my convoluted description

Too bad your wanting is in vain -- we already know they can't be Matoran, since all evidence we have so far strongly suggests that they reproduce.

Well technically Gavla was a female matoran, sort of. Yeah, but she got no real character development. All we knew about her before she got leech'd was that Tanma thought she was annoying, and when she got unleech'd, she was around for like one paragraph and then was gone. Dalu was the last female Matoran character to get a distinctive personality.

Got Nuparu with the Boxor in 2002. After I got Hewkii & Macku in their '03 forms, I traded parts with a friend for the beige torso & arms and the same for light blue. Somehow acquired Jala sans head and mask, can't for the life of me remember how. Bought the PowerPack off Bricklink in 2005, bought Kongu on eBay in 2006. Last fall I bought a bunch of masks from BZP member Reya and have finally completed Jala.

Sets, I'm torn. Kongu had a great color scheme and I am forever disappointed that there were no Le-Matoran in the 2003 wave, but Dekar and Defilak had a fantastic build and looked really cool. In terms of story, that's pretty easy. It's Taipu. He's been my favorite Matoran since I first played MNOG1 14 years ago. Honorable mention for the rest of the Chronicler's Company, Piruk, and Dalu (forever disappointed we didn't get more female Matoran characters). Moment of silence for the wasted potential of Dekar & Defilak. Obligatory Tiribomba reference

Cendox V-whatever, back in spring of 2010. I think it was also the last LEGO set I bought in general. I've also been entertaining the idea of buying another Boxor, since that was my favorite set of gen1 and I'd like to build it again without having to dig through my huge boxes of parts

This. All of this. It also has the best voice acting -- all the voices were very in-character while still sounding believable, unlike the self-caricature MoL presented for the Nuva's voices -- and the strongest dialogue.

Not really, I'd say sand is waaayyy more Stone than it is Earth. It seems to me that G2 is basically just doing a better job at the association between Stone-types and the desert than G1 did

I don't think there are any sets that I haven't modified It's also very bizarre for me to see multiple people citing perfectionism as their reasons for adamantly never changing sets, because I too am a raging perfectionist, and my perfectionism is the very reason I HAVE to modify. There are always so many little things the designers could have done differently, and for some reason just didn't, that would make each set so much better. And on occasion, it's not-so-little things -- I ended up having to rebuild Lesovikk with a custom torso and entirely different arm configurations, feet, and sword before I was satisfied with him. I've already got blueprints in my head for alterations to any of the 2015 Toa I can get my hands on.