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  1. Comes across as hot-headed to me; he's saying "this is getting boring" out of frustration, not an innate desire for fun. That said, when you only have room for him to say five things, and most of it needs to be exposition/promotion, it's a little difficult to show character traits as well as you otherwise could.
  2. I dunno, to me it looks like the models actually pose and move like actual humanoids, and have something actually resembling facial expressions. Doesn't seems very similar at all.
  3. Red bloometh the rose of conviction/And red bloometh the rose of hate/Yes, red bloometh the rose of conquest/Only blood will sate!

  4. I knew I wasn't going to like the look of Destroyer's back... Hard to judge many of these accurately due to the usual spotty Toy Fair posing, but I'm still tentatively interested in Lava Beast. Storm Beast's function seems interesting, and explains some of the issues I had with it before. If they're for the sake of a function, I'm willing to give them a bit of slack. Still not liking the arms, though. Quake beast, well... I'm willing to wait and see it not in Toy Fair posing, but while the function seems interesting, I just don't think I like the look of the result. Ekimu's just kind of... there. Sure, special mask and all, but he's just... humanoid. Ho hum.
  5. One can desire technic integration and still think it has been done poorly. In both Umaraks, the lower legs have been done in technic in such a way I don't personally find very visually appealing, though Destroyer's is at least less messy-looking than Hunter's.
  6. Tentatively excited for this movie and this set both! It's rare you see a reboot replace even one lead with a woman, let alone all four. It's a bold direction to go, and I hope the movie winds up good enough to show that this kind of change can work.
  7. High on high I stand/Gazing down to see/The endless garden awaiting me!

  8. Of the summer sets, I honestly am looking forward to Lava Beast most, because it's the one I'm least iffy on. The lower legs are a bit plain and bony, and I'm not sure I like how any of the heads have been done, but overall it seems solid. The others, ehhh... Ekimu is rather plain, though the trans mask of creation seems interesting. Storm Beast and Quake Beast both seem rather... slapdash? Not severely, but enough that I'm not a fan of them. They're just... not very attractive. In particular, I have no idea what's going on with Quake Beast's right shoulder, but it... doesn't look good. Umarak the Destroyer is... big, that's for sure. I'm not a fan of the lower legs, which have a similar issue to his Hunter form in that they just feel very out of place. Rectangular and technic-y alongside mostly CCBS aesthetic. It feels off to me. He also has Axonn's hand proportions, which I'm not sure I like. They look rather gappy and off to me, though maybe I need to see them in person. And while I appreciate what they're trying to do with the mask, those horns just... aren't doing it for me. If they could have made the technic bits gold, perhaps, and/or made them thicker, it would look far better. And from what I can see from this front view, I'm not sure I'll like what I might see on the back.
  9. Well, I've been rather spotty on this website for a while. Probably will continue to be for forseeable future. Apologies for the delay it lead to with the blog contest; that is all sorted out, and the winner is Hordaki. Really, with only two entries, it was pretty much a coin toss. Haven't been up to much lately; mostly just been playing Final Fantasy XIV, which has been fun. Never been a serious MMO player, and here I am learning how to be a tank, and actually somehow succeeding. It's nice to have something to do. Somewhere in here I gotta build something, send it off to the convention circuit. Probably gonna build a new crab.
  10. I hope not, considering it's just Umarak's mask blended with transorange instead of transgreen. It seems a bit early to bring in the ultimate macguffin.
  11. I like how they've done the backgrounds. Kind of gives me an MNOG vibe, even if I know it's mostly just that it's simplified cel-style pictures. Interested in seeing more of this.
  12. Yes, in the same way everything LEGO does is a money grab. They're a business. They're trying to make money. Show me a business that isn't driven by profits and I'll show you a liar. As for Bionicle G2 being "cheaper", I don't think so. Right now, we're at the point in G2 where G1 churned out a wave of sets that was exactly the same, and you want to complain about some mask reuse? I could understand if it were a complaint separate from G1, but since you're doggedly trying to use it to prove they're cheaping out on us, I gotta say that bringing up piece reuse isn't going to fare well when up against the Bohrok/Bohrok Kal, two entire waves of the same exact set in different colors. (I mean, the Bohrok were perfect, but still.) And the story? Right off the bat, we got an excellent video that set up the central conceit of this new story: two brothers, the Mask Makers, and the drive to find their masks before those who would do evil with them do. Sure, the shortness of the animations made it difficult to explore Okoto and some of the characters as much as they would have liked. They were testing the waters. If they had gone for a full Netflix show right off the bat, and the line had flopped, it could have been their most expensive failure since Galidor. They were playing it safe with a line that already fell from grace. Now that it's (hopefully) paid off, we're getting a miniseries that will allow for more time, worldbuilding, and characterization. As for "pokemon-bionicle", I honestly don't understand the comparison. It's like Pokémon because it... has animals? You've lost me here.
  13. Huh, I didn't realise BS01 allowed fanfiction on supposedly factual pages. They don't; it's sourced. That's their source? I could give a link to the equivalent section that "proves" that Kopaka's mask gets drained by a Skull Warrior. No, you couldn't; that section only states that the Skull villains are out to get the Golden Masks of Power. Which is canon. I feel like you could make arguments about the authenticity of the website much better if you read it before making them.
  14. Huh, I didn't realise BS01 allowed fanfiction on supposedly factual pages. They don't; it's sourced.
  15. This image keeps bugging me because it's pretty obviously the MM vs SG packaging art with the head sliced off crudely (you can still seem a sizable chunk of it) and a front view of the Mask of Creation slapped on. I don't ask for much of LEGO's web developers, but I do wish they had done something less glaringly sloppy.
  16. I mean, he was a powerful being that controlled their universe that they were obligated to serve.
  17. Nope, it's supposed to be like that. No clue why, but the Earth sets have trans clear addons.
  18. That's not a problem of construction so much as of plastic color choice. Unlike trans neon green or trans neon orange, trans light blue isn't fluorescent. Light shines through it, but it doesn't glow. Thus, the only way to really "light pipe" well with it is to hold it directly in front of a light source. Contrast that with trans neon green, trans neon orange, and the perplexingly unused trans fluorescent blue, which was Kopaka's 2001 eye color, and actually does catch the light. (Of course, the shortened eyestalk doesn't help; even Umarak, whose eyestalk is a fluorescent color, is a little dim in the eyes. Still, I guess they couldn't have done the uniting thing without it...)
  19. edit: oh here's some other thoughts on the book as a whole
  20. Thank you for making sure I'm not the only one who looks like a pedantic crank for pointing this out. I'm so happy that a project I made will actually be considered to be a LEGO set! I mean, if I had designed it today, chances are it would look rather different, but I still hope there's enough there that they give it its due consideration.
  21. I saw your image, and it looks ridiculous. Your suggestion is that by "lower" they meant in terms of... layers? I'm honestly so confused. You're just throwing out suggestions that may be right, and using them to obfuscate much likelier alternatives simply by shifting the burden of proof onto the others. Yes, the G1 Vahi is obviously half a mask. Still doesn't prove a thing in regards to this being the G2 Vahi's half-mask design. Unicron and the GSR can both be described as planet-sized robots, but you can't use that as evidence for them being the same planet-sized robot design. As for your new confusing image, that seems unnecessarily convoluted. The beginning paragraph makes it obvious the section is about the Mask of Time they currently have, and the silhouette is accompanying that section. It is a perfectly logical conclusion to draw that the silhouette represents that they have no design for the mask that they either can or desire to show at this time. Look, you can throw around all the high-school debate terms in the world, but in the end, you're just deflecting from the fact that you only have one actual piece of "evidence" for your claim (that it was published in the graphic novel), and are just using the burden of proof to draw away from that. Your only evidence is that the graphic novel showed it, and even that is predicated on the assumption that everything in the graphic novel is canon until proven otherwise... but the only reason this can't be proven otherwise, as opposed to the green Narmoto, or the disparities with the animations, is that this is the only place to show a design for the Mask of Time at all, which... is honestly reason enough to question it? If they wanted to show the G2 Mask of Time, the fact that the Protector's guide silhouetted it, as well as the fact they conveniently left it off-screen in the animations, seems to be at odds with it. This is the only image we have of it, and it's a crudely-edited piece of G1 concept art in a book where all other masks are drawn. Seems kinda weird to hold it up as unbending canon. edit: edited the last paragraph to be less... confrontational. sorry.
  22. That's a shaky assumption; that was a fairly specific attribute of the Nuva symbols, not a widespread property of such elemental "batteries". Makes more sense to me that, if a mask contains the power, whoever wears it can use that power (though only the respective Toa has the mastery to make good use of it.)
  23. Not unless you want to seriously argue that there's also a variation of Vizuna that looks like a green Narmoto, because apparently we're taking whatever decisions an artist made as complete 100% unbending canon (even though, as established by Bfahome above, it's literally the exact image in question crudely edited in, which suggests to me that whoever did it was told "the mask of time is in this panel" and plunked in whatever mask of time they could find.) Sometimes, in the process of churning out a graphic novel for children, "is this 100% representative of canon" isn't the first thought on anyone's mind. Can you somehow twist the mask so it fits on the forehead instead of the mouth? Sure! But I wouldn't take that as evidence, considering I can also wear pants on my head, socks on my ears, and a jacket 'round my waist. That doesn't change how they're clearly supposed to be worn, any more than being able to put the Vahi on the forehead changes that it's got a clear mouth section, lobes designed to wrap around the cheek area of the head it was designed for, and small indents for where the eyes are supposed to align, making it clearly the lower half of a mask. The only way it can possibly construed as the upper half of a mask is if the lower half is a beard. So then riddle me this, Batman. Why, in the exact same book, is the Mask of Time shown as a silhouette, rather than just showing the finalized design? I mean, it can't be that they got shy about showing it; they wouldn't have left it in the panel if that were the case. One of the two is a mistake, and I think you're choosing the wrong one to believe.
  24. Nah. Really, how much I love the 2015 Toa is making it hard to get used to the 2016 ones, because in many ways, they feel like a downgrade from such sleek, personality-filled characters.
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