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
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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It's that time again. You guessed it! It's time for our Weekly Update! Hooray!
Updates
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, 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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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
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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 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
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Another offline week...
Updates
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.
Conclusion
Yep...
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
So as you should all know, BrickFair is coming up in August, and you and your MOCs are invited! A whole bunch of BZPower Members and Staff will be there, having fun and enjoying themselves and such. I will of course be there, and it's looking like I'm going to have some extra space in my car. So I'm making an offer to all BZPower Members out there (with some restrictions): If you live nearby or somewhere along the route I'm taking, you're welcome to come along for the ride.
Restrictions: You
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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
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Update time again. But what is there to discuss? You'll have to read to find out.
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So this past week we found out some more of the voice actors from The Legend Reborn. I think they need some more Star Trek actors on the cast, but maybe that's just me.
The bigger news though was that Bionicle.com received a facelift with a whole bunch of summer content. If you haven't checked it out yet, you should.
Let's not forget that BZPower's Anniversary is only ten days away. We have
So, as you may or may not know, there is going to be a LEGO Store opening at the Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, NJ. I'm not sure exactly when yet, but it's opening. I find this funny, because there used to be a store nearby in the Paramus Park Mall and another about an hour west at the Rockaway Townsquare Mall. There still is one maybe a little over a half hour away at the Palisades Mall in West Nyack, NY. Yes, the New York Metro is inundated with shopping centers (and I haven't even m
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What are you reading this for, isn't it a holiday weekend? Wait, what am I doing writing this? Ahhh!
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So, what happened this week...
The 'Super Chapter Book' Raid on Vulcanus was released. I hear it's longer than the older books, but since there are fewer books this year, that's a small consolation for story fans.
If you're still looking for your story fix, the sixth chapter of Empire of the Skrall was posted on Monday. Maybe that'll tide you over.
You should also chec
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Update's going up late this week, but it's still Friday! So read on brave reader!
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So, contests are starting to wrap up! Got vote in the final polls for RPG Contest #14 and BBC Contest #54, or else Tufi will come after you, and it won't be pretty.
Also, we got another set review up last Saturday. Go read Shannara's thoughts on Stronius. The next review might take a little bit before it shows up for certain secret reasons.
Don't forget BrickFair is coming! I have a persona
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Welcome back to this week's update. It's unfortunately pretty scarce in that department but you can read on anyway.
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We got some new info on LEGO's new lineup of board games, which look like they'll be pretty fun. I'm looking forward to playing them at some point.
And of course we can't forget the good news of BZPower Forum Leader Kopaka's Ice Engineering, aka Byron, getting married! I unfortunately couldn't make it, but I'm sure it was a great ceremony and I'm very happy fo
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What if we could send a man back in time seven days... Then I'd have to do last week's update all over again! Instead, you get to read this all-new one.
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So on Saturday last week we had our first summer set review, which was, of course, Mata Nui. I think Pat (Darth Vader) did a great job. We'll of course have more Glatorian Legends reviews coming up, as well as the vehicle sets once they're available.
On the story front, Riddle of the Great Beings: Chapter 5 was released thi
So most of you have no doubt seen the news about the next cycle of LEGO Ambassadors. It seems that quite a few of you thought I was doing a good enough job for the last year and have been kind enough to nominate me again. I appreciate it!
As you can read in the news story, one of the requirements for applying is a minimum of three testimonials, basically members of the community saying why you think I should be an Ambassador. If you're interested in writing one for me it would be truly apprec
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Seven days have come and gone. It is time once again for our Weekly Update. Read on!
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This week was pretty busy. If you're a videogame fan E3 took place, which meant a lot of announcements and new games to look at. But if you're a LEGO fan there was some news too. Two new games were announced, LEGO Indiana Jones 2 and LEGO Harry Potter, and we got a new look at LEGO Rock Band.
Of course, one of the biggest stories was that the Glatorian have begun appearing in stores and are
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Space: the final frontier. This is the Weekly Update of Black Six's blog. It's continuing mission to inform you about BZPower happenings, to seek out new and interesting things, to boldly go where no blog has gone before.
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I don't think I can live up to that intro this week, but I finally saw the new Star Trek movie so it's on my brain.
So I guess the biggest thing this week is the latest story serial update, with the fifth chapter of the Reign of Shadows getting posted. If
So tonight I finally sorted through all the pieces Kelly (Binkmeister) gave me at BrickFest this year. These are all for contest prizes and other giveaways we'll be doing in the future.
Sorting is not something I do much of these days, especially with so many pieces, so it was a pretty interesting time.
Click for larger versions.
The pieces mainly fell into two categories: old 2001 masks and 2008 and 2009 color test molds. Lots of them are just variations of the sa
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If you're reading this, it means my mission has failed and you must carry on in my stead... Just kidding! It's really our Weekly Update!
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So, in the past week we had some cool coverage of the opening of a new LEGO Store, courtesy of ferrariguy90. One of the story serials received an update. We also discovered some Summer 2009 set descriptions thanks to Gatanui.
Word on the street is that the Summer sets from other LEGO lines have been showing up in stores, so it's only a mat
So I bought some awesome posters back in January, but between the plaster walls of my apartment, the sticky tack, and the weight of the posters, they wouldn't stay up. So I had to put up hooks and put wire on the posters and all this other stuff to get them hung, and by that time classes had started and I was way too busy to actually do it. Now that I have a little break though, I finally have put them up on my wall, so I thought I'd share them with you guys:
And while I'm at it I'll show
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Enter Sandman by Metallica. Oh wait, this isn't the 'What Are You Listening To At This Very Moment?' topic, it's the Weekly Update!
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I wouldn't be doing my Ambassadorial (that's such a great word) duty if I didn't remind you to check out the survey that LEGO is asking TFOLs and AFOLs to participate in. This feedback will be extremely valuable for the company and will help out us, the consumers, in the long run - it's well worth it.
The fourth chapter of Riddles of the Great
