Swert

It's times like these time and time again?

Yes, they should convert over easily. I didn't want to spend too much money on these than necessary.

So awhile back, I posted I had collected all original 100 2001 Bionicle masks (aka, the ones from any 2001 set that was commercially available, minus the red Ruru). Of course, that's without the misprints and other sharp rarities such as a 14 karat gold Hau, but those are sadly going to be out of my reach for a good long while. Once I finished amassing this collection, I asked the million dollar question: How do I display it? Well, make a plaque like everyone else, of course! Wait, I ran out of wall space with my three large bookcases. Huh, okay let's just.. uhh... make a stand? Sure, let's do that. Okay, how? Well, I knew Technic would be a little pricey, so I tried out system plates and stuff. ... That didn't work out so well. What about brick? ... Nope. Okay, back to Technic! What about this? ... We're getting somewhere. But at that pace, I'd need to make about 18 of them just to display my masks. What can we do with that? ... I think we have a winner. Oh yeah, found a winner. So basically, I prototyped out a single unit, used bulk masks we have in stock at the studio (we have a TON of these, so many that Xccj and I used some of them in the Mata Nui model we built a few years back) and tested the math a little. With some adjustment, and some PAB mayhem, I was able to solidify a design I'd be proud of. The parts for this unit are already on their way from PAB, and I will able to build it and put the first set of Kanohi (Akamai's group I think, or Gold/Silver/Matoran, haven't decided yet) on it. I also plan to display the pair of Avohkii I own (Gold and Transparent Gold), my Kraahkan (MEK and standard), the Copper Masks, Rahi masks, and one Silver Avohkii to represent my old character Scohu. So yeah, I hope this (extra long!) blog entry will help to inspire some members in displaying items. Each unit will only measure 7.5 inches wide, be less than 4 inches deep and only go up to about 5 inches in height. This will easily fit on my bookshelf units on top, though I will most likely have to retire a few units to a box from there (or just clean it up x_x). Oh, and if you feel you could use those system prototypes for anything, go for it. I washed my hands of them months ago

I think we need a proper Lego Seahawks jersey for this I'm actually looking forward to the Jurassic World sets. I feel we never got a true JP experience with the LEGO Studios series of sets, then all we got after that was JP3, and that was a letdown on its own. I just hope we get to see the sets at NY ToyFair coming up. Knowing LEGO, they'll probably wait to get closer to the movie's release though.

Huh, I haven't posted in like a month? Welp, time to lump all my updates into one entry, as I am wont to do. So, where do I start? My new year's eve was immediately turned into a downer when my mom went to the hospital. She stayed there for a good 2 weeks (she's back home, and healthier than she's felt "since 1998"). From that day til pretty much last week I've been working my mask off in project after project. While this basically means it ate up all of my time I wanted to wisely spend on BS01, it does mean I am happily building up a budget that will help go towards (POSSIBLY) a better server, which means I can possibly bring HS01 back full-time. No promises there yet. Christmas stuffs, not much happened. I took it upon myself to buy all my own decent gifts; This included all six Toa Masters (I'm keeping it going for ya, Jason), two Protectors (Earth and Water), LoSS, the Double Decker Couch and Bad Cop's new car set. Two of the Toa, LoSS, and the two Lego Movie sets are still in shipping as I type this, but I have four of the Toa already built (Lewa, Pohatu, Gali, Kopaka). I also treated myself to the EMP Museum up in Seattle on a slow day, which means I got to see the Vince Lombardi trophy the Seahawks won last year in person, plus a few other things that made my day. I absolutely love the EMP, it is a wonderful venue, and I look forward to the day when we return to it with even more Lego displays. Currently debating whether or not to retire this laptop for a touchscreen to get ahead of Windows 10's release, or jus build a new desktop instead and let the laptop ride until summer. If I do the desktop method, I'd want a new monitor and peripherals too, so it'd probably cost the same as a touchscreen laptop. Halp? Otherwise, not much else big is happening. It occurred to me while writing this that in 2 days I'll have been on BZPower for 12 years. That's an interesting thought; I'm only 27 years old, which means in three years I've have been on BZPower for half my lifetime exactly. And with all that, I have only one more thing to say: Go Seahawks.

Since my name's been brought up, I decided to chime in a bit. I do indeed have a similar mask, and I have provided two photos with comparison to the "traditional" gold masks to help us determine what's going on here: Linked because it's a larger photo (Shows the mask on a Gali Mata set) I'm not sure what exactly happened here, though I'm looking at both masks and the thickness is identical, the plastic looks identical, yet for whatever reason it's more translucent and it's brighter. I don't necessarily support the theory of it being "bleached" since it doesn't appear damaged, nor does it have a marbled effect, and it still has the glitter on it. If anything, I suppose "faded" is an option, though it'd require the entire mask being exposed to sunlight or something for it to happen so cleanly. If anything, I support the theory it's a manufacturing error of a kind, making it rare in its own right. But yes, it isn't a trans yellow Kaukau, sorry

I also need that guy's leg to pull it off. I really do.

This will probably matter to nobody, but I voted no. I agree with the belief that headcanon and roleplaying are powerful tools in the fandom, even more so than Word of Greg canonization. The other problem I have with knowing the rest of the masks is the uselessness of it. The original point behind Kanohi was to have multiple masks; Each Toa Mata used 12 masks (not all at once, of course). Of course, this does mean each Toa of the team needs their own Suva, but it's not unreasonable to assume they had one stashed somewhere like the Great Temple in Ga-Metru. Just because Toa after 2003 didn't use more than one mask doesn't mean they couldn't. So with that said, knowing what their "default" mask is useless, since you can use -any- mask for the circumstance, hence RPGs and headcanon.

It's always awesome to see a new Flintsmith piece. I'm surprised he still does them Great acquisition, Letagi.

Mark me down as "maybe" as usual.

That rocks, man. Time and place, and these answers better be "Whenever Swert's not busy" and "Near Swert." Plane ticket is an acceptable answer as well.

My FB and Skype are always open for ideas and pastedumps, LK : D Also sorry I'm not the third person clapping right now, hands hurt from kitting all month so far. Ow >_o

If the staff doesn't mind guest reviews, I could probably take a whack at it. Then again, that implies I have time to play it ._.

Source: Facebook (and things) He forgot to mention in this post we also now have a Twitter to go with it.

One guess. So given Microsoft just lowered the price of the Xbox One back on Saturday, I decided to pick up an Assassin's Creed Unity Kinect-less bundle, $350. It didn't occur to me when I got it they also planned to give me AC4 as a bonus, which given I already had it on the 360 was a nice plus. I then proceeded to buy Fibbage for $6 and Minecraft XBO edition for $5. ... So basically, I spent almost $400 (with tax) on a brand new console, 4 games, and basically a multipurpose controller (I found I could use my phone charging cable to connect it to my laptop, so YAY BORDERLANDS CONTROLLER <3) and I still have Lego Batman 3 coming in next week. ... Aaand an almost booked solid two months of work, of which I won't see much time in any of these games much before the weekends anyway. Sigh.

Yeah I know D: I was so tempted to swap the dark red down and push orange at Tahu, but then it'd be even worse. red red ORANGE red red red brown brown RED brown brown We just needed a true proper trans brown, smoke isn't enough.

It is done. 1) Yes, I know I'm missing misprints and other rarities. Most notably missing is the European Copper Huna and more premium items (24k Gold Hau for example). 2) Also of note, I have some 02-03 masks in this list, including the gold Avohkii, Nuparu's orange Pakari, the gold Vahi, the MEK and Kraahkan, but they're in my collection so I count them. 3) I don't currently have plans to go get Kanohi Nuva, Krana or Kraata; I might consider the Kanoka, but those are super hard to get just right. So yeah, that's 2 months' work. Just in time, too.

In my defense, that's what I've been pushing for all along XD The current system, while currently flawed, is coming together well enough, though it still has plenty of work to do.

Just to note, I didn't design the gold one That was Lego/whoever they got for CGI this time around. Oh, thanks for the tip there. Not having one is clearly throwing me for a loop. Anyway, working on the next one; I think it'll be Kakama.

Though not one you guys might consider "real." Basically, I'm getting questions about it on BS01; "Will there be vector logos of the new masks? What about the logo?" So I figure to try my hand and see what I thought. I'm quite happy with it, I think. The watermark's to preserve it until I decide what else to do with it. Thoughts are welcome, and I do plan to finish the other 5, the Protectors masks, and the two legendary masks.

Dorek won't let me use BS15 D:

So, if you didn't already notice from the other day when we set it to the default skin, BS01 has a new skin in the works: http://biosector01.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=metrolook I'm still tinkering with it, I have suggestions and I know of at least a mile long list of corrections to be made as we go. At least I fixed the search button (it originally went to a search page, similar to Wikia; it now goes to the page you typed in, with a search being the redundant fallback if no page exists). Basically, it's a WIP which I will attempt to solve before Bionicle is announ- "Bionicle 2015!" ... before 2015 Also GO HAWKS!

... 'Bout time. MAN I'm looking forward to this. Happy times are approaching. THE HOPE TRAIN IS ARRIVING!

... I should build a Bane mask now. "Aaaah, Vakama..."

The "infinitely loading page" is caused by adblockers. I turned mine off briefly and it worked within 2 seconds. Also yeah, it says not open to residents of the US. Probably for good reasons, but still a bummer.