So, I went into Toys-R-Us in high hopes of finding the Stars, most likely Tahu.

I didn't find what I wanted. In a way.

They didn't have Tahu, but they did have the rest of the Stars. I noticed when I saw Gresh. I almost turned away when I saw that his helmet was completely lime green. That's what got me.

(Speaking of Gresh, I wonder how Dlakii feels about the new one. I mean, he's Gresh, but he's not Gresh, but then again, he's Gresh... Man, I need to ask him.)

So they didn't have Tahu. Some nostalgic collector weenies must've nabbed them. (Hey, wait! I'm one of them!) So I ruined someone else's hopes by purchasing the last Takanuva and Rahkshi.

I was able to build the Rahkshi in the car. He's pretty easy, but pretty complex at the same time. You might need to turn the instruction book a couple times. Also, much to my disappointment, the head comes attached to the spine. I figured, well, since it looked like the original head, it would be a separate piece. In addition, it might be more of a nightmare for MOCists than it looks.

Oh, and it's made of a softer type of plastic than the normal hard plastic. NOT RUBBER. This drives me insane. The squids and maybe shadow leeches were made out of rubber, but other than that it's mostly been soft plastic. Shocker.

So all in all, despite being one of LEGO's most blatant attempts to smother brown with Keetorange, it's actually pretty nice to have a different Rahkshi and new characters amongst old ones in general. Oh, and no kraata. Sorry. But I have two Heat Vision kraata from 2003, so ha ha. I'll try to cram one in there. If you have the Rahkshi don't tell me the results.

Next there's Takanuva. He took me a whole two minutes to build.

Takanuva's build is pretty easy. I had to consult the manual a few times, but that's okay.

Box shots are awful. Takanuva carries two staffs, but it looks like he's carrying two bonecutter blades. (Well, technically, he's carrying two boncutter blades with two leg piston rod thingies.) So this can screw spriters up.

The Avohkii? Other than it being a lighter color than Makuta's hands, in the way of MOCing, if you have '03 Makuta you ain't missin' much. One of the things I generally didn't like about him was he fact that there was barely any silver; mainly being gray and white, so the Avohkii clashes a bit. On a related note, they use the '08 Avtoran head, but I don't mind, seeing as how I'm getting sick of the IRONMANIRONMANIRONMAN heads.

The last problem I have is the weird Avtoran body with nothing behind it. Raanu was the Agori on the Toilet. Now Takanuva's the Toa on the Toilet, or TotT if you like abbreviations.

So all in all, Takanuva's okay, but unless you're a total MOCer out for pieces, trying to collect the GOLDEN BIONICLE, or he's the last one and you want to ruin someone's hopes, I reccomend you save the TotT for later.

Also, YES I HAVE THESE. My apologies for no pics, my DSi is in a dying state. So don't bomb me with the "pics or it didn't happen" line unless you're not being serious.

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