Analysis Part 1
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I recently won a bidding war on eBay for a "HUGE Lot Of 30+ Lego Technic Bionicles Plus Extra Parts, Masks, Cases, Etc." that costed me a whopping $38.44 for the total cost of the bid and shipping alone.
My initial thought before entering the bid was "I only see 27 figures. Is someone pulling my leg?" From the picture alone, I was getting 27 figures, 8 containers, and a heap of spare parts. So I though to myself "Screw it. Let's bid on it." $39 for all of that seemed like a great deal, excluding the empty containers.
The package arrived on my door a few days after the bid. The UPS guy didn't bother to ring or knock, leaving the package to soak up the rain on my front doorstep. I carried the wet box to my kitchen and opened it up.
On closer inspection, there were actually 35+ figures (the extra parts actually belonged to a few smaller sets). Remember the 8 empty containers in the background? Turns out they weren't actually empty. Each one contained a built Slizer/Throwbot with a few disks and spare parts.
Upon further analysis, every single figure was dusty and had extremely stiff ball joints. Whoever owned these guys must've built them and thrown them on a shelf for some time. Seriously though, the ball joints produce a horrible squeaky noise whenever I try to pose a set.
Enough of this chatter. You came here to see what I got right? You all obviously came here to see one of the precursors of Bionicle: Slizers!
Sorry for the lousy quality of the images and the lack of a white background, but not everyone in this economy can afford a white background and a good camera. And I'm not tech savvy enough to resize images to have them be shown here.
*Only Spark and Blaster didn't come with containers
Disks (Including the one from Blaster's torso)**
**Even further inspection shows that (counting from left to right) disk 3, 7, 11, and 14 glow in the dark
Very few of the sets were missing parts (are disks considered as parts?), but all of them were in perfect condition. They all, however, had oddly bent disk thrower arms. Each figure had a somewhat weird and disturbing face. The 90s were scary.
The only Slizer that I did not get is Turbo/City Slizer, but I do have its disk though. Weird. The fact that I'm missing a set doesn't concern me too much because I basically got a majority of the Slizer sets without even trying.
This wasn't much of an analysis other than a showcase, but I'll be covering the Roboriders tomorrow in Part 2.
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