monkeyams

Hi Flintsmith! Insane to see you're still active! I figured traffic here would be pretty slow, but I wanted to post here before going to eBay so people who'd appreciate it most would get the first crack at them. Might end up posting on eBay with higher prices that are unlikely to sell while talking on here. As for your work, the Vahi held up extremely well, still very shiny. I'm in the process of cleaning both it and the bimetallic Kraata (that one is definitely tarnished). Good stuff For the Kanoka, they never gave a card of authenticity or anything, which I remember ###### me off at the time. Here's a link to photos of it and the display box that came with it: https://photos.app.goo.gl/WQQpvKyse7WuiZBf1 You can see it in the pics, but there's some brown "spots" on the surface of the disk. I know next to nothing about metallurgy, so my only guess is that whatever's under the gold may have corroded or something? All I know is the spots are there after a careful cleaning with a mild dish soap. I'm thinking of getting some precious metal cleaning solution to further clean it. Send me a PM if you're still interested! Edit: I cleaned the Vahi and Kraata: https://photos.app.goo.gl/YRFdDLws69145dpX2 Looks like the Kraata might not be bimetallic after all, but I'll only know after I get some proper metal cleaner to get that inner rust off. Vahi is even shinier now!

Hi guys, ex-Bionicle collector here. I recently came across my storage boxes with my old collectibles and figured this would be the best place to find interested collectors rather than go to generic sales sites like eBay. Happy to see this site is still active, since I bowed out soon after the KP/BZC merger (I was either monkeyams or firemaniac1219 on those sites if anyone here traded with me!). Anyway, I uncovered plenty of the more common things, like a few Vahis, infected Hau Nuvas, TNGMs, and a complete Power Pack. Also a full set of gold and silver original Toa masks. The very special ones I found were 1 each of Flintsmith's pewter Vahi and metal Kraata customs. And the crowning achievement of my collection back in the day, I have a gold Kanoka I won from the Toa Metru building contest. The metal items will need a cleaning, since the years in storage have built up a bit of tarnish. As I haven't actively been collecting for many years (still have the early 2000s sets though!), I have no use for these rare collectibles any more. I'd love for them to get into the hands of people that will appreciate them, so I'm wondering how the community would best be served to sell these. Should I open a standard auction/sales thread, or talk about them here? Sorry if I've broken any protocols here, but it's been a decade since I've sold Bionicle parts online!