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Something that confuses me

Trijhak

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Why do some people want to go back to Inika builds?

 

Inika builds had specialised upper torsos and torso armour as well as specialised, one-piece lower limbs. By 2009, we were just merely tolerating them as opposed to going 'oh cool'.

 

Now tell me: which system had a torso armour that's very hard to repurpose as anything else? Two kinds, maybe more. Which system had only two sizes of upper leg? Which system offers far more opportunity for attaching armours and unique bone structures?

 

What's even more laughable is the people saying CCBS is too simple. As if Inika builds weren't? Simple legs. Simple arms. Simple body. More pieces does not equal more complex, either. Not to mention, as already said, that the lower limbs were only one, large, pre-defined specialised piece. The biggest offender of this was by far the Inika leg.

 

Really, the only piece that we still have from the Inika build era (2006-2010) is the Glatorian Neck and some of the feet. The Glatorian neck has survived for good reason, it can actually be used in ways other than a neck! It can be used in situations where the Hordika neck isn't quite suitable. It and the Hordika neck are kind of like prototype-CCBS pieces. Regardless, they fit in well with the rest of the CCBS pieces. They're just missing three holes.

 

CCBS has even managed something not even the G1 Bonklesystem achieved: gears without sacrificing posability. Functions seem easier to integrate into CCBS, too.

 

Also, another thing I might as well mentioned: I really wish bright red wasn't so overused. About time for some metru red shells in a set other than Pyrox, I'd say.

 

And while it's today, I might as well say that: don't look at the system LEGO SW fans' reactions to the SW constraction sets. Just don't.

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Aanchir

But Inika builds used pins, and as any true BIONICLE fan knows, pins are magical complexity-adders! Sticking parts together directly is overrated — you have to have something in between holding them together for a set to be truly complex! Incidentally, that's why true fans like me glue all their bricks together. Glue is like Technic pins in liquid form! :sarcasm:

 

And yeah, many System fans seem to be trying extra hard to be an embarrassment to the LEGO community today.

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Sumiki

The Inika torso was the best and most versatile of all the pre-made torsos, but it's really only "good" if you compare it to the Piraka torso and the Av-Matoran torsos. They were all bulky and hard to utilize, but at least the Inika torso had some advantage in that there were a heck of a lot of pin-holes.

 

I never thought I'd see the day that people would be clamoring for a return to them, though. CCBS is a much more versatile system.

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Trijhak

But Inika builds used pins, and as any true BIONICLE fan knows, pins are magical complexity-adders! Sticking parts together directly is overrated — you have to have something in between holding them together for a set to be truly complex! Incidentally, that's why true fans like me glue all their bricks together. Glue is like Technic pins in liquid form! :sarcasm:

 

And yeah, many System fans seem to be trying extra hard to be an embarrassment to the LEGO community today.

 

It always did confuse that me that pins magically added complexity. I once got out 50 pins and put them in five technic beams and IT WAS SO COMPLEX THERE WERE SO MANY PINS!

 

I want to go back to pre-2011 when all my joints would break after two uses. Those were the days.

 

So versatile! So creativity-inspiring! I love cracking joints. They're so much better than those useless non-cracking joints we get today. How can you MoC effectively with non-cracked joints? Everyone knows cracked joints have so many uses.

 

(Some joints of mine were cracked... without even doing anything to them. They were just sitting around, and bam, one day they were cracked.)

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