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Toa of Gallifrey

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  1. A game would be ideal, but it can't be some crummy mobile game without story. They had the right idea for 2001. For the current day, it'd be a story-driven point and click mobile and web game with periodic content updates (aka MNOG but with a mobile port) accompanied by a console/PC game near the story year's end that tells the entire story told so far through comics and sets up or teases the story for the next year. Licensed console games are notoriously terrible due to the short development time and lack of creative freedom. It'd be for the best if the accompanying game was a Telltale Games-style experience with a more open hack and slash combat style as opposed to quick time events, or a Bioware-style Mass Effect or Knights of the Old Republic-like RPG with more emphasis on Bionicle's unique powers and a more robust combat system that blends turn-based strategy with real time combat. Both these games should afford the player the ability to adhere to the canon story portrayed in the comics or to carve their own path. These are highly unrealistic and would most likely be a simple experience ala Bionicle The Game. Another cool and more realistic accompanying title would be a Lego Bionicle game where you play as full sized CCBS sets on a large scale brick-built environment full of the trademark Lego Games slapstick humor.
  2. That scenario is about as likely as a snowball making it all the way through Mount Valmai. It's a miracle we even have a professional so much as attached to the project.
  3. I think I once posted the mask on BZP's Facebook. Spoiler'd due to size. Ended up having to use a more beat up pair of shoes 'cause of issues with the more clean shoes I had intended to use.
  4. About two years ago I watched the first three episodes of the original MSG TV anime and it was pretty good, I really liked the character designs and the tone the series went for. I didn't go on because of issues with my internet. When they were resolved, I felt more like catching up to seasonals and put Gundam on the back burner. After way too much procrastinating, I got back in the mood for it two weeks back, but instead of carrying on where I left off, I watched 0080: War in the Pocket. Really loved it, Christina best grill. I have the movie trilogy remaking the original series queued up for finals are over. I definitely intend to watch the original series in its full length when I have time and space for it, though.
  5. Two different Liams, both instrumental in getting this out to us.
  6. Thanks to all the folks at the Beaverhouse and BioMedia for getting us the seihai!
  7. None of this is realistic from the get-go anyway, and speculating/imagining isn't hurting anyone (though you do put yourself at risk if you let these 100% not-happening-tier speculations become expectations).
  8. Prefacing that this is my own opinion since I don't want to have to repeat it every sentence. Every post I wrote is my own opinion, but on other forums it's forgotten often enough that I have to keep restating it. I would definitely hate a live-action Bionicle movie, since there's no point in making it live-action anyway. There are no human characters, there's no reason to have flesh-and-blood actors. My criticisms with live-action reboots of animated properties usually stem primarily from aesthetic sensibilities rather than the myriad other reasons why they wouldn't work. Even decent or good movies I have trouble swallowing because of this. Just recently I watched Guardians of the Galaxy in preparation for Infinity War (and I also watched Infinity War itself), and it's painfully noticeable how fake the movie's environments are less than half a decade later. On the characters front; Star Lord and Nebula look great, Gamora and Drax look fine, Rocket Raccoon and Groot look rather dated. They're well designed and generally they move fine, but it's noticeable that they're not there with the rest of the cast. They'd be perfectly serviceable in a full 3DCG animated movie, but then they can just go for an entirely different aesthetic and not worry about trying to blend these two fully CG characters with more realistic characters. Infinity War itself has a few characters and locations that don't mesh well with the rest of the non-CG characters. Full 3DCG western animation is fine, but I think that it lends itself to less creative and more generic directing, as has been shown 4 times now. Plus, 2D animation with 3DCG components would look nicer. Think The Journey to One if instead of cel-shaded CG models it was 2D animation overlayed on 2.5D backgrounds (2D backgrounds with 3DCG assistance, being able to transition to 3D action when necessary) as opposed to 2D flash background, as well as 3DCG effects with post processing to fit the 2D animation better. This is the kind of production design I'd like for a Bionicle movie: ufotable is the only studio I'm aware of that approaches their projects like this with such high quality results. David Production's adaptation of Stardust Crusaders had dynamic scenes with 2D characters in good looking 3D backdrops, but only for a few non-combat scenes at the start of the show. The rest of JoJo skews more towards traditional anime shot comp. I wouldn't be a huge fan of The Lego Movie-style CG that looks like stop motion since the biggest part of its appeal is the ability to have everything in the scene be Lego. Bionicle, being Technic and CCBS, would mesh badly with fully System backgrounds. Volta's Bionicle animation showcase demonstrated that they had the right technology for a 30 second still clip with only the camera moving, but that's not enough to produce a good-looking 22-minute episode, let alone a feature length film. I don't think flash animation is suitable for a feature length film, though it is fine for 5-20 minute dialogue-free episodes. The example above is a commercial, but even then I'd argue that their work in 2007 and 2008's Kara no Kyoukai films looks better. ^This demo reel shows off some of the rigging for their various productions, such as Kara no Kyoukai. The most dated pieces are from Fate/Zero (2011-2012, TV) in scenes that were too complex to realistically polish enough on such a tight deadline. Unlimited Blade Works' 2014-2015 TV adaptation featured some fantastic set pieces as well. I'd say their best work comes from the aforementioned Kara no Kyoukai films and the 2012 Fate/stay night openings, such as (I can't find a video with the original that isn't blocked, but the only changes are additional cuts from the other openings and a slightly extended song, none of the actual animation or directing (up to the final shot of the clear sky) is altered.)
  9. Bionicle's brand of edginess would be godawful as a live-action Bayformers clone. The only way it can even remotely work is as an ufotable anime (or another competent studio that can handle 2D and 3DCG integration with decency), since tone shifts in anime are common enough that it won't seem jarring as the tone changes per arc, and because at least everything will look beautiful as opposed to hideous eye searing live-action-CG hybrid garbage. Live-action "mature" reboots were a mistake.
  10. Someone posted a Bionicle Infinity Gauntlet on r/bioniclelego with the Infinity Stones replaced by Kanohi.
  11. Pucci and Jobin would be pleased. Great work! The Tohunga hand works very well as the horn piece.
  12. Good enough, I'll find a way around the country restriction. It's almost 11 hours later, so I can now say thank you very much.
  13. Bionicle is anime; Makuta is extremely moe and a 10/10 qt waifu. In all seriousness, does Lego even have a Japanese YouTube channel? I see they have a Legoland Japan one, but I can't find a general use one where they'd upload it like they did for the Italian Lego channel.
  14. I need a new anime to watch and JtO isn't available in 日本語 on ネットフリックス EDIT: Yes, I've already seen Hikari no Kamen and Metru Nui no Densetsu. Haven't seen Kage no Uebu or Densetsu Umarekawaru, though...
  15. It all keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down
  16. It breathed more life into the G1 fandom, maybe, but that’s unfortunately not what LEGO cares about (or what’s more financially beneficial). I suppose, but ultimately I care more about this than I do about sets.
  17. I only occasionally lurk it, but it's astounding how many things happen on a day-to-day basis. I didn't check in for 2 days and I missed the entire Deep Brick saga. I was also MIA when ThiccBricc initially surfaced. I'm really glad things worked out the way they did, this out-of-nowhere alpha has breathed more life into the fandom than the reboot did imo.
  18. Does anyone have the APK for this? Searched high and low but I can't find it. Since this is a necro, the thread's gonna get locked. If anyone has it, please PM me!
  19. Does anyone have the APK for this? Searched high and low but I can't find it. Since this is a necro, the thread's gonna get locked. If anyone has it, please PM me!
  20. Setwise, probably 2010. Storywise, though, goes to 2014. That year was a whole new level of bad. On a more personal note, I still have nightmares of helmet-less heroes in the single IfB episode.
  21. Whenever I listen to Ride, I imagine a music video of it where the main cast of Legend Reborn are zooming around on the chariot, but they have instruments and they're playing and singing the song. Specifically, I imagine Gresh as the lead singer and Berix as the guy who does the screamo voice (even if it's the same dude, I dunno).

  22. The comments from before GregF was BZP's eternal punchline feel like they're from such a distant past (even if 2007 was more than 10 years ago, oh God I feel old).
  23. It's being actively worked on to get it running with as most content as possible on as wide a set of machines as possible. Current patch is version 0.007 and should work all the way up to Windows 10.
  24. It is a shame that film scores are given such little attention, because they can easily make or break a movie. My two favorite movies of last year, Dunkirk and The Shape of Water; and my favorite film series, Kara no Kyoukai, are all in my favorites in large part because of the music. I don't analyze the score in a very detailed manner (impressive write-up, by the way; gonna go read the MoL one as soon as I'm done writing this), but I really appreciate when scenes are enhanced by rich music. So many key scenes in the Star Wars original trilogy would only be half as memorable with a lesser OST. I think one of my favorite scenes in all of Star Wars is the escape pod scene at the very beginning, when C3PO says the damage doesn't look so bad from out there. The reason that scene works so well for me is equal parts how it's shot and how it sounds. The music of the Bionicle trilogy is the reason I remember them fondly and go back to them. It's why scenes like the Rahaga rescue in WoS stick with me. LoMN is definitely my favorite of the bunch, though I couldn't justify my reasons anywhere close to the level of what you did.
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