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Whaddya mean, trick or treat? It's not Halloween yet! Oh fine, I guess I'll give you a little Weekly Update.
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If you missed it, check out this topic. Lots of promotions! Yes, I fulfilled on my promise from recent updates! Success! Congrats again guys. Raga and mumu, you'll be missed. Unfortunately things rarely stay the same for long.
If you haven't seen the recent new LEGO Universe screenshot, check it out! Jim Foulds is awesome. (Where's my beta invite Jim?)
The first o
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Back for more this week? I think you might be disappointed, but we'll see what I can scrounge up.
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So, our review last weekend was probably not what you were expecting. xccj was very much intent on buying it and talking about it though, so why not? It's definitely not the greatest camera around, but hey, it's got Bionicle slathered all over it!
In other news, we may or may not have a review posted this weekend, depending on how busy I am and if I want to deal with editing an
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Why'd it get so cold all of the sudden? And what's that white stuff on the ground outside? I really should be sitting in front of a cozy fire instead of writing a weekly update - I'm too good to you guys.
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It's been a pretty slow news week this week. We had a rebuttal of Click and a new story serial, but that's about it. Hopefully we'll have a new and rather unique review this weekend.
So, behind closed doors, some stuff has actually been kind-of sort-of brewing. It's like a
I made yet another trip to the post office for BZPower purposes. This time the Blog Contest winners had their prizes shipped as well as the prizes for some recent BBC Contests that hadn't been shipped yet, but not for the most recent contest. So if I owed you prototypes, they're on their way. Arpy, you have a boatload coming to you (two BBC Contests and the Blog one).
I still need to collect addresses for the next round of prizes, and then find boxes. I think I like shipping prototypes better
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Time for this week's update. What do we have in store? Read on to find out.
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Shannara shared his thoughts on Thornatus V9 this past week. You should check it out if you haven't already. Hopefully we'll have some more review-like content this weekend, whatever that means.
If you have a Toys 'R' Us nearby, you should check it out to get your free Bricktober bricks. Seems like a really cool promotion. And the Ambassadors may or may not have had a hand in it...
Speaking of Am
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Welcome to the Shawshank State Penitentiary. Time to see what's going on behind those walls.
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So we had a review of Click by Toaraga. If you're interested in this exclusive set be sure to check this out. We'll have more to come soon.
If you're in the Seattle area, be sure to head to BrickCon to hang out with some BZPers. It'll be awesome I'm sure.
Also, be sure to check out Episode Three of the BZPowercast. I hear one of the people has a really depressing voice though, s
There's a con like me in every prison in America, I guess. I'm the guy who can get it for you. Cigarettes, a bottle of brandy to celebrate your kid's high school graduation. Darn near anything, within reason. Yes sir, I'm a regular Sears & Roebuck. So when Andy Dufresne came to me in 1949 and asked me to smuggle Rita Hayworth into the prison for him, I told him no problem. And it wasn't.
Andy came to Shawshank Prison in early 1947 for murdering his wife and the fella she was cheating with
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Wow this week flew by. Lucky for you that means the Weekly Update comes faster.
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Biggest news this week is of course the new Bionicle sets that were found on Target's website. Some other pictures were found on Flickr, but have since been removed. I have some thoughts on the sets, they're interesting in their own way. Buy that's a discussion for another time. 2010 is getting close though...
We had a review of Vastus by our very own Darth Vader. More reviews to come soon about
So at BrickFair this year Steve Witt told me I should take a visit to LEGO Headquarters in Enfield, Connecticut. Today I took him up on that offer and made the approximately three hour drive up. I got caught in some traffic thanks to an accident, but I made it there in one piece. We had a quick lunch and then went to the employee store, which is pretty awesome, since everything's pretty cheap. I had been talking to Steve about getting some prizes for BZPower contests and giveaways and he was awe
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Welcome back to your regularly scheduled Weekly Update.
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This past week we had two set reviews. Kaxium V3 was reviewed by Hahli Husky and was quickly followed by an amazing group review of Mata Nui. Be sure to give them both a read and watch the video review of Mata Nui (and the two bonus reviews that we did because we love you guys so much).
Let's not forget that this Tuesday was the release date of Bionicle: The Legend Reborn in the United States. Personally, I'm looking f
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I'd like to thank everyone using the 'remember-usa' avatar today. We have all changed since 9/11, but we will never forget.
Now, onto the update.
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There's been a bunch of video updates for The Legend Reborn this week, so many, in fact, that I'm not going to even link to them. Just check out the front page. There's been some interesting footage in these videos that really has me looking forward to the movie coming out on September 15th. Four more days.
We also had the rest
Just got back from another trip to the Post Office (for details on my previous trip, see here). I really made some people annoyed with me, considering I had 16 packages going out across the US and to Canada and even Denmark. But if you won our recent Anniversary Giveaway, your prizes are finally on their way to your house. If you were a finalist in BBCC #54, there's a 50% chance your prizes are on your way. Finally, if you won our first Blog Contest, there's a 0% chance your prizes are on their
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It's that time again. You guessed it! It's time for our Weekly Update! Hooray!
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First off, and let me make this very clear:
Do NOT post The Legend Reborn spoilers AT ALL until September 29th.
Additionally, and I thought this would be obvious:
Downloading movies online is ILLEGAL. Do not post links to downloads or discuss them on BZPower.
So, anyway, the BrickFair coverage has finally been going up. We have a long summary of the event, the second episode of the Power
So today I was checking out the BrickFair website, and they have a section up that's dedicated to the 2009 Tour (i.e., a couple weeks ago). If you click on the link called 'Smiles' you'll be taken to this page. Guess who stole the show!
This is just more evidence that the Bionicle community is the most fun-loving group out there. Thank you everyone at BZPower (especially everyone that went to BrickFair) for keeping things cool, being so incredibly awesome (most of the time ), and keeping me i
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So we're back online and BrickFair is over, so maybe we can actually get some stuff done this time.
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As I've said before, BrickFair was awesome. I had a great time with everyone who was there and look forward to the event next year. We'll hopefully have some coverage up this weekend.
The Legend Reborn is approaching and LEGO is ramping things up in preparation:
Amazon clip - "I could use a new weapon"
Bionicle.com clip #8
Amazon trailer
We got some news about the upcom
Whew! That was fun (not really). I came back from BrickFair on Monday and have just now gotten caught up on BZPower. In addition to all the posts I had to read, there were accounts to approve (or delete), posts and topics to approve, PMs and emails to reply to, and more. Let's just say I'm glad I'm on top of things now and can move forward with things like BrickFair coverage. In answer to the inevitable when: sometime soon I hope!
So, I'm sure you were expecting my next entry to be about BrickFair, and in a way this is. Today I made a trip to the Post Office carrying a large stack of boxes I could barely see over. It's a good thing it's less than a block away.
The contents of the boxes were all the awesome MOCs that BZPower members sent in to be displayed at BrickFair this year. The majority of them were sent Priority Mail, so the builders should have those by the end of the week. The rest should make it to their homes
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I'm at BrickFair right now, and three hours late on my update, sorry.
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So I really need to go to bed, but I'll just tell you that BrickFair is awesome. Shout outs go to:
Darth Vader
Smeagol4
Janus
Levahk Lah
Kohaku
InnerRayg
Chocolate Frogs
Senjo
Friar Tuck
Hahli Husky
Nikira
Alsru
Emzee
Anyone else I've forgotten.
You guys all rock and we still have two more awesome days ahead of us!
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1. I listened to The Wall on the way down to BrickFair.
2. Yes
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Another offline week...
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Skopio XV-1 Review by Bfahome.
Cendox V1 Review by Great Being #1.
LEGO is making a feature length motion picture. I'm looking forward to hearing more.
We're working on it...
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Nope, nothing.
Want to see your questions answered? PM them to me and put 'Mailbag' in the subject line. I'll pick the few I like the best and answer them in the next update.
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Yep...
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Another week spent offline. It makes me sad.
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This week was full of milestones for me. On Sunday I celebrated my eighth anniversary of joining BZPower. Wednesday was my 22nd birthday. Yesterday I celebrated my eighth year as a staff member of this fine site. Darn I'm old...
So other than the forums being offline still, we did manage to get two set reviews posted. Shannara took a look at Kiina and Bfahome shared his thoughts on Skopio. We have a couple more reviews in the pi
So, a few minutes ago was my exact eight year anniversary of joining BZPower. Back then it was The Bionicle Zone and there were only 21 members that joined before me.
How those years have flown by...
Did I ever think, eight years ago, that I'd be here now, running the site? Heck no. Yet here I sit, typing this.
Man.
It'll be interesting to see where life takes me in another eight years...
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Yet another Weekly Update very few can see. I don't want to break my streak though.
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The BZPowercast returns! You don't want to know how long we've been scheming this one. I'm just glad we got it out the door finally. It turns out that once you sit down to record things it can go pretty quickly. Hopefully we can keep turning these out semi-regularly.
The forums are still offline. We're working on it...
Since no one is around I'm going to make the rest of this short: Mata
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So a Weekly Update this week, but not many people around to see it.
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So, it's our eight year anniversary and to celebrate we're giving away prototypes. There's hopefully one other thing we may get around to doing.
Of course not many people are reading this now because the forums are offline. The admins and staff have been hard at work finding a way to protect the site and reduce the chance of accounts being hacked. This takes time - we have to research fixes, implement them,
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Thank goodness it's Friday. Although that does mean I have to write one of these updates
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If you haven't check it out yet, there's a new The Legend Reborn teaser on Bionicle.com. It's Worf-alicious. It's a bit hard for me to take his part in this movie seriously, if you haven't noticed.
Next, go take a survey for LEGO if you haven't already. They're looking for feedback, and they want it from you!
We finally got another summer set review up. Check out Smeagol4's thoughts
