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  1. I finally decided to sit down and make a list of my favorite 10 bionicle sets pre-2015. This got a little weird for me. While I was compiling this, I realized I wasn't being completely objective, as far as how the sets stands alone as a set. I decided, however, to keep going like this. Take this list as not a strictly objective view of the sets. This is just a list of my favorite sets/characters. Also I should say that this list will probably change as I continue to fill in my collection. I don't own any of the 08/09 vehicle sets, and I know those are highly regarded sets and for good reason. Okay. Here we gooooo..... 1. Brutaka I think this is a pretty obvious and fair choice. This is definitely one of the most well built sets we ever got. Brutaka should be at the top of everyone's list. Everything from his custom feet, up to his olmak, is perfect. We even got extra articulation from his hidden daggers. His streamlined shape and figure is definitely a masterpiece of a Lego set. 2. Sidorak This is definitely a very subjective opinion. Sidorak is more or less my favorite character from the entire generation. His set has always been one of my favorites as well. Even though he has some weird articulation and posing restrictions, I have still always loved him. His shape and flow always worked really well for me, especially because I myself have always been a very tall and slender person. He is also one of the only 05 sets with the ability to hold his rhotuka in place. Considering the fact that every single figure from 05 had a rhotuka spinner, it was definitely a big deal to me that he could effectively hold his in place. His custom Built head was always one of my favorites as well. I'll stop talking about sidorak now. I love him. 3. Karzahni This is a set that I only very recently came into possession of. I spent a lot of time, before I owned him, looking over pictures of him and speculating as to how much I would actually like it once it was in my hands. He's also one of my favorite characters from the entire generation. After finally getting this set and building it, I instantly fell in love with it. There are some obvious flaws with it, mainly the various lose spikes that decorate him, but I still very much love this set. The extra matoran and trap are also pretty great. You get 4 sets in 1! That's amazing! If there was a pre-mutation karzahni set, that would probably have been my number 1 pick. But alas, we got weird mutant karzahni instead, and he's still pretty freakin sick. 4. Tarakava The Tarakava was the first bionicle set I ever got. I was 9 years old, and they were the greatest things ever. This is what started it all for me. Nostalgia aside, they're still two of the coolest things we ever got. Two giant treaded lizard things that box? Oh yeahhhh. They still are some of the most fascinating looking things we ever got, and I still love playing with them some 14 years later. 5. Makuta This was the first time we got the big bad, and this is definitely my favorite incarnation of him. Everything about this set just screams HEY IM A BAD DUDE WHO DOES BAD STUFF. I was so bummed when his mask in MOL was changed. The set form kraahkan is one of the coolest masks ever. I always loved this set, even though his legs are basically immobile. I still love it for what it is and visually, it's one of the coolest looking sets. 6. Maxilos This is another obvious pick, and the only reason he isn't higher, is because of the nostalgia I have attached to the previous sets on the list. Maxilos rules and if you don't agree, I feel sorry for you. 7. Toa Lhikan & Kikanalo I wanted to include the toa metru on this list somehow, and I felt choosing Lhikan was the best way to do this. The metru were my favorite toa we got in G1. Lhikan was probably the best metru build toa. His hau is awesome, and his twin swords are even more awesome. Kikanalo is also a really impressive piece. His build is sturdy and strong, and his custom built head is another one of the best ones we ever got. The two of the them together make for a quite memorable and awesome set. 8. Lesovikk This is one of the few vehicle sets I currently own. I always really liked Lesovikk as a character, and I definitely always loved the set. Lesovikk himself is just a regular inika/piraka build, but I always liked him more than most other sets built in this style. His sea sled thing is awesome too. Mounted cordak blasters are always a plus. 9. Krekka Most people seem to not like Krekka. I've always loved this set a lot. Despite the obvious lack of elbows, everything about his build and functions are just awesome. He looks super complex and robotic. This has always greatly appealed to me. I proudly have him on display and I always will. He's definitely one of the most fun builds I've ever put together. 10. Takanuva For similar reasons as Lhikan, I chose Takanuva as a representative for the mata/nuva sets. It's where this all began, and I had to include that era of toa somewhere on this list. Takanuva is a fine choice, I think, with both his role as the coveted 7th toa and the inclusion of the ussanui in the set. The ussanui is pretty sick and was always one of my favorite looking vehicles. Takanuva himself just rules. It's hard to beat that gold avohkii. Nostalgia rush. MOL. Good memories. Happy times. Yay! Okay so that about does it. I purposely did not include anything from G2. The new generation of sets are honestly some of the best sets we ever got, but we still have several years to see where this will go. I am super hyped bionicle is back and I can't get over how great it's honestly been so far. All the issues aside, G2 bionicle rules and I can't wait for 2016!!
  2. I spent all night talking my girlfriends ear off about how hyped I am for this. This literally could the dream come true of a bionicle show. I'm trying hard not to get my hopes up, in case it just a comp of the current animations, but it's so hard for me to contain it. I honestly don't think it would just be re release of the current animations. A new show, or even just a movie, would be super beneficial to the line. Oh my god I am hyped. I am explode.
  3. I would have maybe liked to see the Nuva back in there original Nuva forms, fighting together as a team. Maybe they could have fought their way into the control center of the GSR with the help of mini mata nui, and overridden teridax's control. It could have been a final epic journey through the matoran universe. Mata nui could have then resumed his control of the GSR, reunited the pieces of spherus magna, given his speech to all the matoran and Agori and what not, and then taken back off into the outer universe to continue his journey of learning. Or maybe in his act of replenishing the planet, it would drain the GSR fully and we could have had basically the same ending. That all being said though, I do love the final fistfight between the two super robots. A final Confrontation of terry and mata nui is pretty much the perfect ending scenario. All of the other stuff going on during their fight, and the build up to it, is a little whacky and wild, but the actual even of the two robots fighting just plain rules. I just wish we got a movie or animation where we got to see them beat each other up. The idea of mata nui using an actual piece of the planet to destroy teridax forever is just awesome. It's like the perfect nail in the coffin of teridax's reign.
  4. I'm definitely on the side of not wanting any connection between g1 and g2. I thought the idea of a reboot was a perfect idea. The old generation is just too expansive at this point. It's almost like star wars, with so many things and characters having back stories and what not. Don't get me wrong, I love that about G1, but I'm glad that G2 is a new universe with new everything. I feel like it would spoil both generations if they were connected somehow, especially now after g2 being established as a new universe more or less.
  5. sydorack

    SHIP It, SHIP It Good

    mad respect to the bonkle ship. mad respect.
  6. The toa hordika. As much as people seem to hate them, I always loved them and appreciated their bizzare appearance and build.
  7. i am afraid I have no idea of as to what the heck you are talking about, nor about what the heck this is. Story time. (explain) BB-8 is the droid featured in The Force Awakens. Sphero is a company that has made a miniature version, that you control remotely through a smartphone. It's pretty amazing and I suggest googling it.
  8. Does anyone here have the new sphero bb-8? My girlfriend surprised me today with one. I absolutely love it. It makes me wish he was really real though and followed me around and hung out with me. I still love it though.
  9. Oh man I loooove krekka. I totally get why people don't like his set but I love it so much. It's so robotic and clunky and awkward and perfect
  10. I'm with lyichir. I resisted moving from flip phone to smart phone for years. After I finally made the switch, I realized just how useful having a smartphone is and it has definitely helped in many situations. The map app especially. Plus you can fact check anyone anywhere anytime. Boo yahhh
  11. sydorack

    Fridae?

    My whole sense of the week has been completely screwed up for the past year. I used to take sundays off, so I had a certain feel for the the weekend and when it was coming. Now a days, I take thursdays off usually, and I never have any clue what day of the week it is. My boss is gone from now until tuesday as well, so it looks like it's going to be another cycle of more than 7 days without a day off. This happens a lot honestly and I really don't mind it. I love my job so i can't really complain about anything. That eventual day off after like two weeks of straight work is always pretty uneventful. I'm usually so drained that I barely make it out of bed at any point. Last night I watched a few episodes of that new hulu show "difficult people". It brought some good lolz. Some of it was pretty dry, and there were a whole load of references to people and things I had never heard of. They constantly refer to twitter and the internet, and it's definitely interesting to see that on a show. I mean, in real life, we all talk about internet stuff and things people tweeted and what not all the time, but I've never seen a current show actually have people interact about things like twitter. It's a little weird honestly, but I think thats only because it hasn't really existed yet. It definitely makes sense to exist, twitter is just soooo prevalent in a lot of peoples lives nowadays that it was only a matter of time until someone made a show based around people talking about it. They also say a whole load of really offensive stuff that made me die from laughter. Definitely going to keep watching. I got lego wall-e yesterday. Its pretty sick. The only thing that sucks about it, is that his head flops around pretty haphazardly. The whole head attaches to the neck with basically a single technic pin, and the head is actually a pretty solid and heavy unit, so there is no friction at all holding it in place. It definitely looks amazing though. Like when I finished it, I was actually amazed at how awesome it looks. All the cute. All of it. Now the trouble is finding a good shelf spot for him. Bionicle sets pretty much take up 90% of my shelf space so I dunno what to do. I refuse to ever take down a bonkle, like ever. I have a bunch of new ninjago stuff that I have out too OH WELLLLL. Literally none of the things I just wrote out have anything to do with each other. What is wrong with me. Pink Floyd is on the radio at work right now and I do NOT like them. AHHH
  12. All of the inika kanohi. Except the kadin sort of.
  13. oh its way creepier than galidor. creep city.
  14. Anyone here get the app controlled bb-8? I kind of want it. Like, I definitely want it…..

    1. Voxumo

      Voxumo

      I've never heard of it.

  15. Oh man those are all awesome. The one with the rahkshi backs as hands/weapons is truly genius. Love em. Excellent find!
  16. I feel like a lot of people dislike the hordika, but they're one of my favorite waves, if not my favorite wave of toa. I love the rahaga too. 05 in general. I don't felt guilty about it though, I loooove that year.
  17. Okay. It is the sunday after force friday right now. I'd like to talk about the construction figures for a moment. I got all six of them, three on friday and three yesterday. I also got the FO tie fighter. Its pretty sweet. Back on topic...... The figures are AWESOME. Like really frickin awesome. Every single one of them is a good set. The highlights would of course be grievous in his entirety, because he's so huge and insane, and vader's custom torso build. I really was not expecting them to be as big as they are. Even the smaller of the 6 stand with the tallest of the toa. Vader is just under a foot tall, and grievous is just over a foot tall. All of them were fun to build and are proving fun to pose/play with. I'd like to talk about vader's custom torso. This was really impressive. It definitely shows how hard they tried to make this figure look good and cool. The whole thing is pretty much smaller technic pieces used together in really cool and unique ways. The end result is a torso-esque shape with ball joints all around it to attach the limbs and armor. I loved building it, and I love looking at it. Now I'd like to tie this in to bionicle. I think the 2015 toa are cooler than these sets. Even on a purely objective level. Grievous and vader are the only ones that give bonkle a run for its money, but the rest of the 4 are put to shame by even pohatu(who is actually my favorite of the '15 toa). The new star wars sets do look awesome and pose well, but gear functions from the 2015 toa alone just puts the star wars sets to shame. How awesome would it have been if vader and luke could swing their light sabers at each other? Oh well. They're still awesome. Bionicle is better. Never surrender.
  18. After seeing a custom painted all white ruru, it looks quite amazing. That would have made an awesome mask on some kinda set.
  19. I got this today as well, along with the vader, jango, and grievous figures. Can't wait to build it tonight. I almost got the tie fighter. They're all pretty great.
  20. I agree that this is one of the better of 6. He actually has a couple functions which are cool. The fact that his pistols attach to his thighs is definitely very, very awesome. The jetpack it also awesome. My only complaints are the lack of armor on the back of his lower legs and the gappyness between his jetpack and torso. Even with that said, I still think he is awesome.
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