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  1. Woah, so that's how the Brakas is supposed to be constructed. Until this very moment, I never realized it had a Toa Mata head. Judging from the sprite, I think the feet pieces are supposed to be different. They're this piece in brown, right?
  2. Yup, it's one of the high-quality audio files included on the Interactive Demo CD.
  3. I can also attest that I first heard about Lhii through the "Lhii the Surfer" entry in the Lexicon, but that didn't come out until 2002. I guess the first place was Jaller's bio in 2001. I don't remember anyone mentioning Lhii in MNOG, but I haven't played that game in a while.
  4. From what I remember, most of the metallic silver pieces I got in sets in early 2006 were in a "softer" color that usual. In my case I remember it happening to all of the Matoran weapons. I don't know why it happened, or if they fixed it later -- maybe they were experimenting with a different plastic or dye -- but I'm pretty sure I also have the soft silver version of Thok's gun.
  5. Is anyone seriously still questioning this? The line was meant to go on for at least three years, but they made the decision to cancel it early in the second. The sets were constantly on sale/clearance at brick and mortar stores and online, and many physical locations (Wal-Mart in particular) stopped carrying them entirely after the first year. It was clearly a colossal sales failure. It's okay though - Lego isn't some omniscient or infallible company. They make mistakes like any corporation, and Bionicle G2 was one of them. They're still in a far better position than any of their direct competitors. Megabloks, K-Nex, and Best-Lock are basically fighting over TLG's table scraps at this point. I wasn't plugged in to G2 at all like I was G1, so I really didn't know. I've seen the videos on YouTube arguing why it must have been a huge failure for Lego to pull it so early. I recently caught up on the 2016 novels and graphic novels. They're actually really decent when you read them back-to-back. It's just too bad that they weren't released until after the line was a sinking ship.
  6. I read about this too, and it explains a lot. Shame. You don't hire John Williams to write filler music.
  7. BTW, how's it going getting this on the front page? I mean, this is like... actual Bionicle news here.
  8. I am think it looks pretty sweet.
  9. It's a pretty easy choice -- the character, because it's the more interesting and cheaper option. Characters were always Bionicle's strength. Are you doing market research for Lego?
  10. So, the general consensus of the community usually falls along the idea that G1 was much, much more successful than G2 was in respect to sales; that said, did G1 see a number of instances where sets were released outside of the typical bi-annual, two wave scheme? I feel like there may have been a couple of other times when this took place, such as with a few of the titan sets in 2008, but I can't say that I'm totally sure on that one. As far as the release of Lhikan is concerned, I was unfortunately only five when it happened, so I might not be of much help here. :/ The Toa Hagah are a good example of that. Actually, it wasn't that atypical for sets in the same wave (by wave I assume you mean winter vs. summer) to have slightly staggered releases. IIRC in winter 2006, first the Matoran were released, then the Piraka, and finally Axonn and Brutaka were available later on. 2005 was a crazy year -- in the winter, the Toa Hordika were released in America at the same time as the Visorak were released in Europe. Then each side of the pond got the other wave in the summer. Maybe it was some sort of A/B testing. There were actually quite a few one-off sets that I think match your description -- the Master Builder set, Irnakk, Umbra, Lesovikk, yellow Jetrax T6, Toa Mata Nui... Visorak's Gate, Race for the Mask of Life... I was randomly reading through old posts in Greg's BZP blog yesterday and came across a few entries where he mentioned the Piraka and Inika set sales. Book sales too. Here's one, for example: http://www.bzpower.com/board/blog/26/entry-594-notes-from-billund/ Might give you some insight. I wouldn't be surprised if G2 were a sales disaster compared to G1. G2 suffered from a generic, shallow, uninspired storyline, told mostly through cringey animations, and I'm sure it also didn't help that the sets were an absolute mess aesthetically. They really undershot the audience's tastes.
  11. It does seem like the set was rushed out the door. From what I remember personally, the very first time BZPower or anyone else saw the Lhikan set was at Comic-Con in July 2004 (here's the story). You can see that even at this stage they only had a 3D-printed prototype to show. Before that, Lhikan had been a bit of a mystery, even as a character. He had been mentioned briefly in the novels as the one who had given the Toa stones to the Toa Metru, but he didn't really appear until the LoMN book was released (which was around August I think). He did appear in the Metru Nui guide in the middle of the summer, but the guide used a still from the movie for his picture. Judging from the BZPower stories at the time, Lhikan was released in September in the US, which matches what I remember. It was an exciting set because it also included two Chronicler's staff pieces which had been a collectible up until that point.
  12. Stopped by my local US Aldi this evening, no magazine (no surprise there). Did get my milk though.
  13. Dang, nice find. We have Aldi here in the US too. I'm out of milk anyway...
  14. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS The LoMN soundtrack is really something special. I legitimately find myself humming Lhikan's theme to myself sometimes to this day. Thanks for bringing us the news. Isn't this front page-worthy?
  15. Could you post a picture of the chrome Hau? I'm also curious about the prototype Tohunga and the condition of the WMKK set, could you post pictures of those too?
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  17. Probably McToran Kongu. He was the only one I couldn't grab when they were available, so I ended up buying him for $15 when I discovered Bricklink for the first time in 2004 or 2005. I missed out on most of the original Rahi sets too, so the Tarakava and Nui-Jaga sets eluded me for a long time. I finally found them for sale in a rinky-dink educational toy store in early 2004, apparently untouched for years. It was a pretty amazing find.
  18. Hi, a couple of technical questions: Is anyone else having trouble running any CD's from 2002 or later (such as the Toa Nuva CD)? I'm using Windows 7, and when I try to run the CD after successfully installing the versions of QuickTime and Macromedia Flash that it comes bundled with, an error pops up saying that QuickTime was not installed correctly. What has worked for you guys? Also, does anyone have tips for extracting files from the .cab files in the Toa Nuva CD? I've tried a couple programs, but they say that the files cannot be opened/are corrupted.
  19. Update: I've cleaned up a lot of the broken BBCode markup in the BZPower topics. Quote boxes in particular should look much cleaner now. I've also made spoiler tags functional in the BZPower and LMB topics. If anyone spots any other problematic BBCode, please let me know! As suggested, I think I'll work on adding a search feature next.
  20. Would you consider releasing these as word documents or text files as well? Thanks for your effort.
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