Intro Another week, another update. Come, see what I have in store. (Hint: it's probably not that exciting.) Updates 2012 sets are here! LEGO has sent us some of the constraction sets for next year and Bfahome has started reviewing them for you all! Check out the Toxic Reapa and Evo reviews. Don't worry, there will be more coming up! There's a bunch of contests going on that you should check out. We've got CoT Short Stories Contest #2: The Christmas Connection if you like to write, SBC Cont
I feel the need to make a new entry here, but I'm not entirely sure of what to say. So we'll ramble a bit and see what happens.
The Bionicle Reference Center was released this past week, finally. Over the past few months members would tell us how our reference section was out of date or ask what it was Reference Keepers do, and all I could say is that there's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. It takes a lot to organize all of that data, especially with key resources like BS01 being o
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Only a week until Christmas! Wait, does that mean I have to do a Weekly Update ON Christmas? Oh bother...
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After the slowness of last week things have picked up on the Bionicle front!
In addition to the awesome poster from last week, some new 2010 content has appeared on Bionicle.com. Soon though, it'll all be gone to make way for the overhauled version of next year's site!
This past week has also seen some 2010 set reviews. Smeagol4 looked at Tahu while Darth Vader share
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Something about being a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world? Are you kids old enough to even remember that? Anyway, time for a Barbie weekly update.
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Bionicle proudly proclaims that it's not dead by posting a new chapter of The Powers that Be. The story keeps going, little by little. Enjoy it while you can!
The BZPowercast keeps chugging along though. We released our twenty-first episode yesterday! And that's no April Fool's Joke. Honest.
We've been organizing some things behi
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Hey, we're on time this week, imagine that! So let's see what we have.
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The biggest news I think is that BZPower, in conjunction with Binkmeister and Bionicle.com, is allowing you to ask the set designers questions. This is a pretty big opportunity and a big thanks go out to Kelly for organizing it. You can ask your questions here.
In a departure from the past few weeks, there will NOT be a set review this weekend. I know, it's sad. Hopefully before the end of the year we'll
Intro Hooray, a Friday night where I'm not busier than a bee. Maybe I'll take some time to write some words for a change. Thanks for joining me. Updates We upgraded the forums again this week. There seem to be some lingering issues, however, which we are looking into resolving as best we can. Overall, though, the process went smoothly and there was minimal downtime, and for that I am enthused. I hope future upgrades will go as well. There was a new BZPowercast episode too - we talked about t
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I'm sneaking this one up just in time. Another busy Friday, but hopefully the last one for a while. Maybe I'll go more into that another time. Anyway, we're about to reach the end of that seven day cycle we call a week, and it's time for that BZPower recap-like thing.
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So, one or two things might have happened this week, just maybe. Some more set reviews (with another in the pipe for this weekend hopefully) were posted with much fanfare. A new Blog Assistant was promoted, and t
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
If you were at BrickFair this year and lost something, check out this page. Please spread the word so that we can get these MOCs and belongings back to their proper owners.
Also, you get a major kudos is you get the reference in the title without looking it up.
So, I'm taking classes this summer at my college and therefore need a room to stay in. For reasons know only to the Office of Residence Life, I can't stay in my current room, but instead need to move to another dorm. Fine, okay, whatever. So I got assigned a room a few weeks ago, as well as a date to move in on. That date was yesterday. I'm still in my old room. Seems ResLife forgot about Memorial Day, and had been planning on cleaning up rooms then, but couldn't. Since my parents came by and to
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No blog-posting programs tonight. Apparently using them means my entries don't get sent to the RSS feed, so we'll have to do some more research into that. But anyway, here's this week's update.
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First off, check out this news story and go vote in the RPG Contest Final Poll. Then you can start playing in the RPGs come Monday once the polls close and the winners have been chosen.
Aside from that, a missing Forum Leader, Than: Matoran of Anger, has returned now that life has ca
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Welcome to a normal Friday in April. The weekend is here, and so - an update. Let's see if I have anything exciting to impart.
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The new Hero Factory Recon hero creator went mostly live. You can read about it here and here. I think this is a really amazing opportunity to get certain pieces and a pretty sweet package too - you get a nice box and just the parts you want. Of course if you're looking for just some pieces you can get them from Pick a Brick I hear. I really wish they
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This is unfortunately posted a bit late, thanks to some server difficulties going on last night, but I don't think that makes it any less of a Weekly Update - honest!
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Aside from our amazing anniversary celebrations, it's been a pretty slow week, but that's ok because BrickFair is right around the corner! I'm hoping we have something super-fun to announce this weekend or early next week.
We also had our first member creation spotlight. Wasn't it great? Look for more soon!
Man, it's been a while since I made an entry here, hasn't it? I remembered I had this PM waiting for a reply, so it's as good a reason as any for a blog entry: Without question, my favorite team is the New York Football Giants. Football is really to only pro sport I follow. I like it because there's only sixteen games (plus playoffs) so there's a fairly limited commitment compared to other sports. Plus it give me something to talk about with my coworkers. I used to follow basketball pretty
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Toy Fair is nearly upon us, and soon I'll be driving up to New Jersey with McSmeag and meeting up with ToM Dracone and LehvakLah. But I hear it's Friday, and that means a weekly update.
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Check out these video interviews with the Hero Factory set designers. These are some of the same people that designed Bionicle sets, and their insight is really interesting.
McSmeag finally reviewed Surge 2.0. Only a few more first half 2011 sets to review, and I hear one should be around sh
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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
Well, it's been a fun almost three weeks, but the RPG Contest #2 is finally winding down to a close. Be sure to VOTE in the Final Poll, it's going to be close I'm sure, and the more entries the merrier. Good luck to all the finalists!
I'm really proud to see how the RPG Forum has been growing recently. After I helped to create it around four and a half years ago it was a thriving place; but that slowly changed over time and it became less and less active. The inception of the RPG Contest has he
It's been almost a week since Brickfest, and I'm finally getting around to updating my blog. Brickfest was a blast. I know that there are people out there who dislike me and the staff of BZPower. But let me say this, these guys are some of the coolest people out there, and I was glad to spend the weekend with them. The creations were amazing, as were the builders I got to meet. The times spent outside the fest were great too, but I won't go into that too much here. It was a great way to end the
Hey everyone, now that I'm all done with Toy Fair coverage I thought I would do two things. First - update my blog more regularly again. Second - talk more about Toy Fair! I just can't get away from it, can I? Behind BZP - Toy Fair This was the eighth year I've been invited to a part of Toy Fair by LEGO. The way they've handled the event has changed over the years. Originally they had a private show room they would give us a tour of. Then they had gala events for a couple years where they'd ma
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Every week I tell myself I'm going to blog about something other than a Weekly Update. Then the next thing I know it's Friday and time for me to look back at the week on BZPower. Enjoy!
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Don't forget about RPG Contest 20. I'm going to keep reminding you about it because I want to get more people to enter.
Speaking of things you can enter, go check out this story on the BZPowercast - we want you to submit your own sound clips and answers to a question for our end-of-the-year
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Welcome to Friday. The weekend is upon us. But before that, someone needs to update you. That someone is me.
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LEGO was kind enough to offer us some gift cards for the Hero Factory Recon hero builder. We got to pick how we wanted to give them away, so I figured, 'what better way than a Hero Factory contest?' If you haven't seen it already, you should go check it out. This is likely going to be a one time thing, so get in on it quick before it's over!
Speaking of Hero Factory
It's time for another new feature! I spent probably too much time recently looking through addons for BZP after our fundraiser blew away our expectations. This one caught my eye and after some discussions and testing, you all get to see it. There's still a lot of other cool things out there, but we don't want to overdo it. But there's always some planning and scheming going on behind the scenes, don't worry.
For what, you ask? Why all sorts of things. Lots of videogames, for one. Mass Effect has been sucking up my free time, and when I'm not playing that it's either Guitar Hero III or Halo 3. I haven't even been able to touch Hellgate: London for more than a few hours, which is ok, because I hear it needs some patches. Aside from that, my school recently subscribed to Ruckus, which gives me access to a whole lot of music for essentially free. It's covered with DRM, but hey, music is music, and you c
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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
