So I'm down in Virginia now for BrickFair 2008. I met up with Omicron, Kopaka's Ice Engineering, Roa McToa, Makaru, and Darth Vader earlier today to start setting up the Bionicle area. Then we went and had some dinner and hung out, and I drove us around in circles making wrong turns and such. Then we set up some more Bionicle stuff. It was a fun time.
Expect to see more news and details as the weekend continues!
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Here we are, back for another weekly installment of BZP stuff.
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This past week we've had a couple more reviews posted. Expect to see that trend increasing (as long as the other reporters and I aren't too busy with other things!). Hopefully we can get a large portion of the summer sets reviewed in the coming month or so.
Speaking of sets, a list and some pictures purported to be of 2009 sets, both Bionicle and otherwise, has appeared in various places around the Internet. As
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Hey, it's actually Friday this time and we're back for a real update this week. Woohoo!
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I suppose the biggest item of the moment is that we have finally gotten up our first summer 2008 set review, the vehicle Jetrax T6. Hopefully we'll see some more reviews this weekend, if possible.
Of course there's also our S&T Contest #4, which you can vote on right now!
And speaking of contests, our BBC Contest #50 is well on its way, which means Brickfair is fast approaching (e
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I realized tis morning that I never did an update yesterday since I was working during the day and out with some friends all night. My bad. A short one this week, just answering a bunch of questions.
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Nothing to see here. Move along.
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1. I did now. Interesting look.
2. Random selection.
3. Not really.
4. A whole bunch I'm sure, but there's no easy way to count.
5. BZPower wasn't my first message board, so I wasn't too noobish. I was still just 13 though, so I w
I'm sure many of you have seen the new Batman already, so I'm not going to tell you how amazing and awesome and crazy it is. Ok, maybe I am: it's an awesome movie, and if you like Batman or good movies you definitely need to see it. Also, if you have the opportunity, see it on IMAX because that makes the experience even better. I saw it this past Saturday with some friends at the Palisades Mall in West Nyack, NY. It's a huge mall with its own Ferris Wheel and five stories, not a small place. But
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Hello all, welcome back to another edition of our Weekly Updates with yours truly, Black Six. A few things to talk about this week, but nothing too important or earth-shattering. Still, take a read through!
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A couple weeks ago if you were in the San Diego, CA area you hopefully stopped by Comic Con, the huge expo featuring comics (duh), video games, TV shows, movies, card games, toys, and just about anything else a geek would like. Lego was there in pretty full force with a boo
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Super-fast update this week.
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So, it's anniversary week, woohoo! We made it seven years and counting! Our first big announcement was the Forum Mentors, who should hopefully make BZP an easier place to get used to for new members. I've been pleased to see some positive feedback on this.
Today's announcement was that we will be updating the post ranks. It's been a long time coming, but we finally got around to it. I showed a sneak peak on the front page, but here's another for
So, as I mentioned in my previous Weekly Update, I went away last weekend; this was the first vacation-type thing I've had in a while, even though it was only for two days. A friend of mine has a cabin on a lake in Western Connecticut, nice and secluded, not too busy. He invited me and a bunch of our friends up there for the weekend, so we drove up Saturday morning and came back Sunday night.
It was a real fun time. He has a boat with a tube for tubing, a couple kayaks, and even a little sail
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Due to our server outage last week, it's been a bit since I've done one of these. But we're back and ready to go!
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Unfortunately BZPower was completely offline for a while last week as a result of some server trouble. These issues have been resolved and we're back up and operational. Thanks everyone for your patience.
In other news I'm happy to congratulate two people that recently received staff promotions. Shannara has been a Forum Assistant for a long time, over three yea
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Happy Fourth of July everyone! Another short update this week, for two reasons. One, it's a holiday. Two, not much is going on.
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Pruning continues at its slow an steady pace. We'll get there eventually, just watch us.
The site is back up and running at full strength. This includes news, Premier Membership forms, the Set Database, everything. If you notice something we've missed though, by all means let me or another staff member know.
As part of the Lego Ambassador progra
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Very short update this week. Thanks for reading - no, not that short.
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We're continuing to work on getting BZP back up to full strength, so bear with us. If you don't know what I'm talking about, read this topic. Currently everything is working except for our news system and Premier Membership form, that I know of. If you notice anything else not working let me or another staff member know. We're getting there, just give us a little time.
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No questions this week. Sen
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Welcome back to Celebrity Jeo... wait, wrong intro. Thanks for joining me once again as we talk about various fun and exciting and maybe some not-so-exciting things.
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So there hasn't been a lot happening of late that you don't already know about. The pruning has been continuing and tens of thousands of posts have been deleted so far, with many more to come. It's a slow process, the Forum Leaders have to go through every topic to make sure it's something that can be deleted. Bel
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It's the BZPower Weekly Update, Friday the Thirteenth edition! Ok, so that means absolutely nothing, but it's cool to mention.
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Topic pruning is off to a slow start. We've lost a couple thousand posts or so already, but compared to the over 5 million that we did have it's not that much to be noticeable yet. Hopefully this weekend the Forum Leaders will have some more time (myself included) to work on cleaning things out. Give us some more time and things should improve.
In o
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Greetings from your local Lego Ambassador. That has a nice ring to it, and I hope I can put the title to good use over the next year. But that aside, let's see what's been going on...
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Obviously the biggest announcement was the Topic Pruning that will be starting in a couple days. I'm really glad to see a fairly positive response to this, and appreciate everyone's understanding. This will definitely speed up the server, what remains to be seen is how much it does so. With over
Today is an exciting day. Although there was an omission on the initial release on LUGNET, I was indeed accepted into the Lego Ambassador program. Hopefully this will help give BZPower some more pull in the Lego community and I hope to have some input on changes that are going on. You can be sure I will look to you guys for input and will be posting discussion topics and polls to see what you guys think (if I'm allowed to discuss it, at least).
Thanks to everyone for your support and votes in
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So tonight brings us some nice discussions that cover a variety of recent happenings on BZPower. Some interesting stuff, I hope.
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First things first, congratulations to Shilo and Ben (Omicron and ChocolateFrogs, respectively), who, along with myself, were BZPower's nominees for the Lego Ambassador program. The latest I've heard is that the selection committee is having a hard time narrowing down the pool since there were so many great candidates. Hopefully that means one of us
A couple Sundays ago I finally went to see Iron Man with a friend. He's always been one of my favorite Marvel heroes; I guess his lack of 'powers' and he intelligence and mechanical ability appeal to me. Plus, powered armor rocks. I thought they did the character justice in the movie, while at the same time effectively updating it to modern times (terrorists instead of communists and things like that). It was a good movie, not too long, with a lot of action, and a nice mix of comedy thrown in. N
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Tonight's update will hopefully be pretty good. I have a few topics worth discussing. We can talk about promotions, Ambassadors, and member behavior, oh my!
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So, this past week we had two pretty major staff promotions (which happened to coincide with two people stepping down). First, which most of you have probably seen by now, is the ToM Dracone, or Yannick, is now part of the BZPower news team. If you've read any of his reviews on BZP, you know what a skilled writer he is. We
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Short update this week. Someone need to give me an idea for something to discuss.
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So, first up on the list is that Lego is taking applications for new Lego Ambassadors, and BZPower (along with other Lego communities on the Internet) get to help nominate candidates. We get to nominate up to three people to be considered for the position, with at most one from the community being selected. If you're 18 or older and are interested (no matter where in the world you live) by all me
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I'm hoping tonight won't be as boring as the past few weeks. To find out for yourself, read on!
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So the biggest news, I think is last night's promotion. Once again, congratulations Toaraga! I'm sure he'll do a great job, he was already nuking signatures last night, so he's off to a good start. Unfortunately that means Janus is no longer a Global Moderator. This was his choice, as he felt he no longer had sufficient free time to continue with the work and get other things done.
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We've definitely hit a slow period here on BZPower, slow news, slow updates, slow server. Oh wait, that's been going on for a while. Anyway, thanks for joining us for yet another Weekly Update.
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Thanks for all your input in the spoiler policy poll. Bones and the rest of the Reference Team have been poring over the results to come up with a unified spoiler policy that will be implemented in the future. You will follow it or face the penalties, which have yet to be determined.
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Today is the last Weekly Update in April. What does that mean? Absolutely nothing, but I thought I'd point it out. Anyway, we have a whole lot of nothing for you tonight, with some more rehashes of stuff you've already been told. Yeah I know it's no fun, but it's the truth.
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So, first things first, the Calendar. A couple events are up there - if you look hard enough, you might find something really cool. Speaking of calendar events, go let us know what you think our spoiler pol
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Doctor Who season premier on SciFi tonight, so I better get this done quickly! A lot of people are really busy this time of year, what with taxes, and semesters ending, and AP tests approaching, so don't be surprised by the lack of activity.
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One piece of news I'm happen to report on is that is all goes well we should have a new set review up tomorrow! You'll have to wait to see what the set is, but there aren't very many options at this point.
The setting for the calendar h
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Another week, another update. Not very much exciting to discuss, but read what you will and enjoy.
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We're looking into getting the calendar started up and populated with events soon by our staff members. And maybe we'll let you guys add some events at some point. If we do they'll be moderated so we have to approve them before they're live. If you can think of any types of things you want to see on the calendar, let us know so we can include them.
LAMLradio #33 was posted the
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Welcome to the BZPower Weekly Update. As always I'm here to tell you about stuff that's happening on BZPower and such. And then it will be time to watch some Battlestar Galactica before the final season premiers.
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Obviously the biggest news this week was the announcement of a new line of Bionicle books. Ok, so maybe it was an April Fools joke, but it was still pretty funny. Major thanks go to Bionicle.com webmaster and former BZP Admin Binkmeister. He pretty much thought up the
