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This guy is just begging for some sweet custom d's, but even without it rings very true to Lego aesthetic - play functions, a nice cohesive color scheme, heck frankly your incorporation of system is probably above the level of detail Lego would put into something like this. I really like how smoothly you incorporated both system and bionicle styles into this guy making him feel like a true mech without separating him completely from regular Lego sets he'd be included with if this were a real line. Nice job, and I love the description! Even babies need to feel the sting of justice sometimes.

I think this ship works both as micro-scale and minifig scale (with some allowances to make it appear a fig fits in of course.) I like the clean color scheme and the smooth shaping of its profile. The green exhaust flames are also super cool. I really like how consistent you are with the green accents and I could definitely seeing this little guy working as a Lego set. Nice job, and good luck!

Your entry is by far the most Bionicle we've seen in this contest, which is pretty cool. As Hero Factory showed us this year Constraction can make a good giant Mech for regular figs. I like the color scheme and the feet are really cool. I think it could have used a little more incorporation of Hero Factory style parts though to smooth over some of the gaps inherent to Bionicle's old style. Nice job, and good luck.

We don't really require parental permission to enter contests perse, but if you win you are going to have to give me your address so I can actually mail your prizes, and you may need to ask their permission for that. It's kind of your mile may vary, and if you think your parents might have an issue with it I'd go ahead and ask just to make sure. Also can people from other countries enter? because I live in Uk. Yeah there's no restrictions as far as that goes. As long as you're going to be able to receive a package from the US and I can't guarantee you won't run into problems with customs, I know that happens sometimes.

We don't really require parental permission to enter contests perse, but if you win you are going to have to give me your address so I can actually mail your prizes, and you may need to ask their permission for that. It's kind of your mile may vary, and if you think your parents might have an issue with it I'd go ahead and ask just to make sure.

Nice job! One thing I do wish is that you had some bigger pictures...it's somewhat difficult to make out the more intricate details of the model (for example, are those flickfire missiles on the side there or are they just lasers?). Still, picture quality aside it's really cool how you included this duality to the model - I know Lego loves adding those kinds of functions to their sets and this fits right in with that idea. The MoC gives me a very War of the Worlds feel with its rounded cockpit and three legged stance. I really like those legs especially, they're not super complex but they have a great silhouette that would probably strike fear into the blood pump sponge of any alien unlucky enough to see them. Good luck, and good work.

I love the minifigure designs in this one, but I'll be honest the entry itself strikes me as the weakest of your three - it's not a bad design, but the front strikes me as very blocky and not aerodynamic like your other two pieces. In fact it really reminds of super old school Lego Space sets - which is a nice departure from what we've seen in most other entries, but at the same time makes it less believable as something Lego would release as a set in this day and age. Still I like the playful nature of it (it's very 'swooshable', to get technical) and while I couldn't see it as a set on its own, I could see it as a smaller addition to a larger set. Good luck, and keep up the good work!

I like how stubby his legs are, they really strike me as funny. The real drawback to your entry pic is that it hides what I think is the coolest part of this entry - the little cockpit! There's some really great detailing in there, I especially enjoyed the use of the revolvers as a seat restraint. Nice job, another strong entry. Good luck!

Aha, the first non minifig-scaled entry I've seen. Very clever, and a nice way to make a large ship without using a lot of pieces. I like the ship's profile a lot, although I think one or two less colors might have served it better - Red, White, and Light Grey is fine, but then you have Dark grey, and trans lime, trans yellow, and maroon if I'm not mistaken. Still, that's a minor issue at best, and we all know Lego sometimes has just as interesting color choices in their sets so it works as something you'd see in like, a polybag or smaller set.

Another small note: If you enter one or two entries at one point in time and then make another one, please go ahead and make a new post but quote the old one instead of just editing your old post so that I'm sure to see it. Thanks guys, and loving all the new entries!

This little guy is super cute, yet fierce. I honestly want to buy it as a set, so you did an excellent job. Good luck!

Alright guys, all the new entries have been added to the list, they're looking great! Big news, and there will be an update to the front page in a little bit, we will officially be extending the contest another week, so it will now end on the 28th. Some people were asking for it, and although all the entries we've gotten are excellent I really would like to have just a few more. Hope this helps!

This contest specifically allows painted parts, or parts otherwise modified with custom stickers and such because the conceit is that it involves the creation of a new line. Therefore parts in new colors are a perfectly viable option, and it will be allowed.

Unless otherwise noted all the entries below have been approved for entry into the contest. Phantom Terror 1. Burt Ballad's Scout Walker | Topic 2. Abe Aria's Battle-Cycle 3. Turret Defense Lyichir 1. Ballad's Bounty | Topic .:Yio:. 1. Galaxy Mech | Topic 2. Mini Tank | Topic 3. Land Runner | Topic TheTracer 1. Zia Zeal's Canomech | Topic keiththelegokid 1. C14 Moon Buggy Punished Snake 1. Gunship V.2 | Topic cerebralTurbulence 1. Burt Ballad's Muscle Cruiser 2. Abe Aria's Pursuit Raptor 3. Don Dirge's Scout ATV Voxumo 1. Gary Glee's T3-Jet Walker | Topic Baron Alberto 1. Burt BalladTM's Space Blazer | Topic 2. Gary GleeTM's Larva Hunter | Topic 3. E-7UDETM's Battle Body with Bot Boosters | Topic Felinuva Toa of Felines 1. Star Striker The 10th Rider 1. The Albino Turtle Mohamed Marai 1. Ballad's Muscle Machine 2. Glee's Warpsaw Flyer Tornado 1. Alien Hunter's Space Carrier Xaeraz 1. BURT BALLADTM'S ASTEROID ARMOR 2. GARY GLEETM'S BOOSTER ROCKET 3. KUIPER BELT GLIDERS Zatth 1. Alien Hunters Leviathan Dropship X-52 | Topic 2. Abe Aria's Wasp and Don Dirge's Hovercraft | Topic ChocolateFrogs 1. Zia's Bi'Gun Rover kongutahu 1. Abe Aria's Power Mech 2. Armed Energy Transport 3. Alien Hunter Dropship Paleo 1. Chivalry is Not Dead ThePuppeteer 1. E-7UDE's E-vader 2. The Justice Flyer

Perfectly fine. Paleo, there are no part restrictions, so if it's made by Lego I say it's fine.

Don't worry guys, you'll learn more about Burt and the rest of the team in due time. In any case I love the ship, especially the smooth tile construction of the rear. Not to mention that weapon on the front! that thing is fierce. Good luck, and nice job.

Oh yeah, mechs are sweet!

Gradual's just fine, no worries.

I strongly disagree. The movies (at least the first three) are far less lighthearted than just about any LEGO theme. I've watched Hero Factory and Ninjago. Ninjago is very lighthearted, and Hero Factory is pretty tame. BIONICLE may not be an ultra-dark theme, but it has the least lighthearted themes of any theme, I think. Perhaps, but the differences in the level of lightheartedness is imperceptible on anything but a tiny scale. They all were very simple in their themes, their characters were not complex, and their conflict was clearly defined. They were, in a word, kid shows. Not that this is a bad thing, which is really the overarching point I'm trying to make here. These kinds of shows would still fit into the mold we've formed here.

I'll consider it, let's see if there's more people who feel the same.

In response to a few points made - it's not making topics about stuff that attracts people, it's the news and information. That's our hook. If we had any kind of focus in our news stories on the actual media being produced by the Lego company - books, television, games, whatever, we'd attract the kids looking for that information on the internet. Then they join looking to discuss it further. I don't know about y'all but I certainly found BZP because I wanted to know more about the Rahkshi. Same theory here. And more generally, let's not get so high and mighty pretending Bionicle was ever somehow not as lighthearted and simple as any of the other lines Lego is producing. Go back and watch any of the Bionicle movies and you'll see it's all pretty much on the same level as any given Hero Factory, Chima or Ninjago episode. The only part of it that ever had real 'complexity' to it was the books, and guess what? exact same dude is writing all the books now as back then. I haven't read them, but I bet he's still adding just as much into it as he always was. We just don't hear about it.

We're all talking about two different things - there's maintaining your userbase, and there's growing it. Let's be honest - there are not "new" Bionicle fans being made anymore. There may be people who nostalgically remember it but were never part of our community, but these aren't the kind of people who passionately join conversations - they might give a cursory glance, smile, and move on at best. Growing the userbase means finding new, and -young- people who are passionate and actively interested in discussion. Personally, I see BZPower/BS01 (and BMP) as the last real homes of the BIONICLE fanbase online. I can see why you'd want that, but as long as BZPower can run without others, I think it would be best to preserve that. If you make it a hub for everything, it's loses that special aspect. Okay, but the bionicle fanbase doesn't really exist anymore. That's the whole point of this topic. There's nothing sustaining it and if we just stay stagnant the site will continue to dwindle. It's not what it once was, but when I came back to the site I was expecting a ghost town. This is far from a ghost town. I've managed a few failing forums and this does not look a thing like any of them. There's still plenty of BIONICLE discussion going on, even. If that weren't happening, and the discussion were all Hero Factory, I could see reason to diversify (for then the BIONICLE community would really have been dead), but it's not like that. I didn't say it was failing, just dwindling, and that's not really debatable. It's a fact that activity is way down from where it was. Why? Because Bionicle as a franchise isn't attracting new fans in any real way. Hero factory is the next best thing, but for whatever reason I don't see the enthusiasm for that line here like there was for Bionicle. You know where the enthusiasm is? Ninjago. Kids love it. They love it so much the entire line came back from the dead, which is a rare thing. If we could provide a really good place to discuss the story I'd bet we'd see a significant increase in population. I don't know if Chima has the same popularity yet - it did take a year or two for Ninjago to get cemented, probably the same case here, but if we really got on the ball with it I could see it paying off significant dividends.There are thousands of Lego sites out there - we have to provide something that they don't. The way I see it, we were so successful because back in the day we did that in two ways - We provided a space that focused on the Technic/Constraction/whatever you want to call it style of building that was ignored by a large portion of the community, and a serious and in-depth place for people to discuss and examine the story, with up to date information and insight you couldn't find anywhere else. You don't see that anymore. Perusing the news gives you a few announcements of showtimes and reviews of sets you can find anywhere across the internet, without much in the way of real looks at the various shows, books, comics that are being produced to promote these lines, an area that was once our area of expertise. We still have the constraction focus, but these days other communities are much more willing to lend space to buildable action figures, and the more they do the more it chips at our share of the audience.

Personally, I see BZPower/BS01 (and BMP) as the last real homes of the BIONICLE fanbase online. I can see why you'd want that, but as long as BZPower can run without others, I think it would be best to preserve that. If you make it a hub for everything, it's loses that special aspect. Okay, but the bionicle fanbase doesn't really exist anymore. That's the whole point of this topic. There's nothing sustaining it and if we just stay stagnant the site will continue to dwindle.

I love it, it's compact and to the point, and I could totally see this being a cool little set. Nice job!

There are no rules about specific piece ratios, so go for it.