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UPDATE: ALL QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED! Thanks to everyone who contributed to this finished guide to attaching almost any Bionicle/HF head to any Bionicle/HF torso! How to attach (almost) any Bionicle head to any Bionicle/HF torso Mata heads to... Metru or Inika torsos: Use a 3-stud-long axle with a Technic ball (preferably the type with the axle hole on only one side). Alternate Inika torso solution if you need the head to stick out a bit more. This removes compatibility with axle masks, though.CCBS torsos: Best answer. Alternative solution that requires no building on torso. To prevent the head from coming off the T-nozzle, you can use a 2-stud-long axle & this piece in place of the T-nozzle. (Stick the axle in the eyestalk.) This makes the head a bit taller, though.Metru heads to... Mata torsos: Best answer.CCBS torsos: Best answer. Alternative CCBS solution for hunchbacks or long-chin masks.Inika heads to... Mata torsos: Attach a 2-stud-long axle & this piece to the Inika head piece. Then replace the Mata torso's neck axle with a Technic ball + 2-stud-long axle. Alternatively, you can use attach the Inika head piece to a BA head with a 2-stud-long axle if you don't have any of the special Y-joint-similar connector. If you happen to lack any of those as well,CCBS torsos: Attach a 2-stud-long axle & this piece to the Inika head piece. Alternatively, you can use attach the Inika head piece to a BA head with a 2-stud-long axle if you don't have any of the special Y-joint-similar connector.Av-Matoran, Glatorian, 2013 Brain Attack, or 2015 Reboot heads to... Mata torsos: Just use a 2-stud-length axle & a Technic ball.Metru or Inika torsos: Just swap out the Y-joint with a standard Glatorian neck. Questions you may have involving masks, heads, and torsos: Can any of the Metru eyestalks fit in the new 2015 heads or vice versa? Nope. What does an Inika head piece look like when attached to an Av-Matoran, Glatorian, or 2013 Brain Attack head? It looks ridiculous, except on the Brain Attack head, which looks ok when attached to the front of the head. Here are some pictures: On an Av-Matoran head. (with mask.) On a Glatorian head. (with mask.) On a 2013 BA head. (on top) (on front) Are the 2015 masks backwards compatible? How about vice-versa? Yes, the 2015 masks can attach to the axle holes on the sides of a 2013 Brain Attack head. It can also attach to Y-joints and other things with axle or minifigure bar holes on each side of a 2-stud-long area. It cannot attach to a Glatorian head without looking silly (because of the small bumps next to the axle holes that are on the sides of the head's jaw), and it cannot attach to an Av-Matoran head. OLD POST: I've been wondering lately about whether or not certain connections are possible, and also what is the best way of attaching this head to that torso. So I need your help in answering these questions... The question list will be constantly updated as questions are answered. If a question has been answered but you have a better solution than the one provided, please let me know! I'm on a quest to discover the absolute best techniques for Bionicle & HF cross-compatibility. Fully answered questions shown in grey. Questions that could still possibly have a better answer are shown in dark blue. Can an Inika head be attached to the a 2013 Brain Attack head? Also, can it be attached to an Av-Matoran head or Glatorian head? How does it look on both? ANSWERED: It can, but it only looks decent on the Brain Attack head. Is there any way to attach the 2015 masks to an Av-Matoran head? ANSWERED: Nope. What is the best way to attach a Mata head to an Inika & CCBS torso? Best answer for Inika torso: use a 3-stud-long axle with a Technic ball (preferably the type with the axle hole on only one side). Alternate Inika torso solution if you need the head to stick out a bit more. This removes compatibility with axle masks, though. Best answer for CCBS so far. Alternative CCBS solution that requires no building on torso. To prevent the head from coming off the T-nozzle, you can use a 2-stud-long axle & this piece in place of the T-nozzle. (Stick the axle in the eyestalk.) This makes the head a bit taller, though. If you have a better solution, please let me know! What is the best way to attach a Metru head to a Mata & CCBS torso? Best answer for Mata torsos so far. Best answer for CCBS so far. Alternative CCBS solution for hunchbacks or long-chin masks. Do you have a better solution? What is the best way to attach an Inika head to a Mata & CCBS torso? ANSWERED: For CCBS, attach a 2-stud-long axle & this piece to the Inika head. For Mata torsos, use the same technique for the Inika head and use a 2-stud-long axle & Technic ball on the Mata torso in place of the neck axle. What is the best way to attach a 2013 Brain Attack head to a Mata & Inika torso? ANSWERED: For Mata torsos, just use a 2-stud-length axle & a Technic ball. For Inika torsos, just swap out the Y-joint with a standard Glatorian neck. Can either of the old Metru eyestalks fit in the new heads? ANSWERED: Nope. Can the new 2015 eyestalks fit in the Metru head? ANSWERED: Nope. Can someone show me a picture of an Inika head piece attached to the top of a Brain Attack, Glatorian, and Av-Matoran head? ANSWERED: On an Av-Matoran head. (with mask.) On a Glatorian head. (with mask.) On a 2013 BA head. (on top) (on front)
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How to retrieve the brain/eye/things from the early sets(I'm talking toa mata/nuva). Does anyone know if and/or how it can be done?
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Stalking Shadows Detective Case File 257 - Status - Closed, Personal File of Toa Spawn of Teridax- "I really, really despise having to go through the courtroom process," Tomana groaned to Hanahlii over the videoscreen.- Ordinarily the Toa of Lightning would have felt a twinge of sympathy for her boss, but not this time.- "You send me out to Ta-Wiki all the time, and Xondahis testifies on all of our cases. You barely ever go, unless you are summoned or required by law." She grinned, "Get over it. If you didn't want to go, you shouldn't have handled the entire case by yourself."- As the founder and lead Investigator of Ko-Wiki based The Detective's Company, Tomana (the Detective of the company name, under whose license the others operated) had pulled rank and done all the work himself, forensics and ground-work, to uncover and bring down a smuggling ring. Consequently, he was tied up at the Great Courthouse until the trial was over.- "Remember," Tomana changed the subject, "we weren't able to satisfactorily link the group I took down with the Ringmaster, as our mole said we should have, nor were we able to find that Toa."- When Hanahlii had vindicated a candidate for, and now current holder of, the office of Le-Wiki District Attorney some months before, she had been able to information from a now deceased source that the Ringmaster had been funding the ring Tomana had brought down. Spawn had gone after the sniper that had shot the mole, but his quarry had disappeared just like Tomana's kidnapper had. Spawn could only say that the two were the same Toa. The Shadow Toa rockstar was about to start throwing Shadow bolts first and not bother with asking question, not when it might mean getting his man.- "Give Spawn full freedom to search for that Toa," Tomana said grimly, "I want him in the interrogation rooms at our Ta-Wiki office before I'm done with this trial. I have questions."- There was a loud whoop behind Hanahlii, followed by the sounds of Spawn grabbing his special pack and slamming the door as he ran out.- "He was always a bit enthusiastic about playing "Hide and Seek" while we were Matoran wasn't he?" Tomana smiled, and then slowly began to double over in laughter, Hanahlii joining in.* - * - *- "Have the Detectives been able to find anything?" Twilav drank the glass of water that Eleven handed him. Tomana had assigned Eleven, Toa of Air and Cheif of the Le-Wiki Police, to keep the Toa Effigia apprised of what they knew about the Ringmaster, which wasn't much.- "Tomana is in court testifying against a crime ring we suspect was funded and organized by the Ringmaster, but we can't get them to make a deal." Eleven grimaced at how little they knew about this master criminal. Even the species that the Ringmaster belonged to was a mystery.- "And the mysterious Toa?"- "Nothing, but Spawn is on the case. Tomana has given him full autonomy on this one. The Effigia have any leads?"- "Nothing that you don't know. Lord Oblivion and Biostane have done their best but-"- "They're oblivious?" Eleven grinned.- The two Toa looked at each other silently for a moment, then simultaneously let out a long "YEEEEAAAAAAAH!", their laughter echoing around the well-lit Onu-Wiki cavern the Effigia used as a headquarters. It was owned by Lord Oblivion, under his real name Xetrax of course. He had been wealthy as a Matoran, owning a mining company that had excavated the cavern roughly a year before the Detectives and Effigia had become Toa. When the Effigia had developed their extra powers, Xetrax had allowed them to practice there and eventually it had become their home.- "I sent Shad after the Toa last week. I don't expect to hear back from him for a while," Twilav said when they had calmed down.- "Ummm..." Eleven rubbed his Miru, "Spawn doesn't know Shadonix is out there... And you know how those two get."- "Oh..."- "This is going to be..."- "Bad, but interesting. Whoever catches interrogates?"- "Deal!"* - * - *- Shadonix, Toa Effigia of Shadow, used his secondary power of Explosions to send the door of Apartment 153 flying. Blanketing the rooms in Shadow, he rushed in shouting "Weapons down and hands up! Toa Effigia Snapdragon would like to have a word."- A ball of Fire came hurtling out of the darkness. Shadonix neutralized it by enveloping it in Shadow, letting the cover of dark fall away. The Skakdi he was hunting fired another volley out of a gun-shaped device. Shadonix dodged and snapped his fingers, causing the device to explode in its owner's hands.- "Put your hands over your head." Shadonix commanded, glaring at the Skakdi. The Skakdi took a step towards a sword hung on the wall. Shadonix held up a hand with his fingers poised to snap, saying "Step away from the weapon or it'll be your leg armor next."- The Skakdi paused and slowly moved to the center of the room he was in, raising he hands.- "Now," Shadonix pulled a sketches that Xetrax had made using Tomana's description and Spawn's camera shots, "I want you to give me information about this Toa." He walked over and held them up in front of the Skakdi's face.- "And why should I?" Shadonix's captive crossed his arms.- "I won't knock you out to leave you to be handled by the Wiki Nui police, with evidence of the crimes you've committed for the Ringmaster, courtesy of the Toa Effigia."- "Hmph," the Skakdi shook his head, "That Toa won't be let the likes of you get anywhere near her. The Ringmaster doesn't let just anyone into his inner ring."- "Inner ring, eh? Where can I find him."- "Him?" The Skakdi laughed, "The Ringmaster doesn't exactly let us common criminals know where he stays. For all I know he could be right downstairs in Apartment 53."- "I meant the Toa."- "Oh, I have only ever met her at-" he stopped as he heard sirens.- "Go on," Shadonix urged, "Someone had to have reported the explosion."- When the Skakdi explained, Shadonix put away the sketches. "I know that place," he grinned. "Tell the police that Toa Effigia Snapdragon ran through here, pursuing some criminal Toa."* - * - *- Spawn stepped down into the De-Shelek, a Ta-Wiki music club that he and Shadonix had debuted their old band in. He hadn't been in there since he had become a Toa. All over the large open room sat musicians with instruments in hand, silent at the moment as they listened to an old band called the Gukko play a long-time hit of theirs, Hotel Wiki Nui. When the all-male group of Vortixx finished, the whole club clapped and slowly began to slip into the chaos of several dozen musicians rehearsing.- "Angelus!" the owner called to Spawn by his stage name, "long time no see. Looking for fresh talent for the band? I know a few promising ones I can send over."- "Studio doesn't open for another month, Norak," Spawn smiled beneath his black Hau, "but go ahead and send some of the good ones to me when it does. I'm here on Detective business," Spawn pulled out the sketches Xetrax had made. "I'm looking for information on this Toa."- "Hmmm.... back of the room, right corner, tuning an old-fashioned acoustic guitar."- "The Water Toa?"- "No, can't you listen?" Norak, a De-Matoran, had learned to by instinct to listen to anything he wanted. The downside was that he thought everyone else should be able to as well. "She's just listening to how the instrument sounds, it actually belongs to the Matoran in front of her. I meant the Toa in shiny black armor with gold filigree. She's a regular, and a Toa of Light despite her armor."- "And she will know about this guy?"- "No," Norak grinned up at Spawn, "she is the Toa you are looking for."- Spawn looked at the Toa and then at the drawing. She was.- "Grab her!" Spawn yelled over the din of the practicing players.- A trio of Skakdi near her saw who had yelled and who he meant, but as they moved to catch the Toa of Light she ran towards the back door. Spawn ran at her, the sea of people parting for him as instantly as he took off, he was a minor legend outside the club but a major legend inside it. Spawn threw a bolt of Shadow at his target, catching her in the shoulder. She made it to the door, but as she opened it Spawn tackled her, falling through the open doorway and into a vortex of energy. They crashed to the ground, but not in the street Spawn knew to be beyond the De-Shelek backdoor.- The Toa at whose feet they had slammed backpedaled.- "Spawn?" a shocked Shadonix nearly yelled.- "No," Spawn grunted, "I'm Makuta himself. A little help?"- Shadonix moved to help, but hesitated. He wasn't in his Effigia armor, public action without activated armor on was the the top of the Forbidden list for an Effigia, and unless something distracted the people staring at him, Spawn and the Toa he had been heading across town to arrest he wasn't sure he was able to do anything.- His hesitation was all the Toa needed to push Spawn off and then down everyone around with a blast of Light.- Spawn rolled to his feet and took off after her, drawing a disc from his pack and throwing it at the fleeing Toa. It grazed her mask, shooting out wires that grappled around her head, making her stumble. Spawn caught up and snapped a pair of handcuffs on her wrists.- Shadonix took the advantage of people being distracted to activate the tech inside his armor, shifting it to "Snapdragon Mode". Clapping his hands he sent a wave of explosions down the street and around Spawn and the Toa. He ran down the street amidst the cries of "Look, it's Snapdragon!" and dove into the hole in the street he'd made.- "This is personal," Shadonix grunted as he rolled across the floor of the underground tunnel, ending up close enough to snap a second pair of cuffs around the ankles of the unconscious Toa of Light, "and I'm not letting you best me again, buddy." He grinned at Spawn, who was slowly getting up from beneath some light rubble. "Besides, as I understand it, our catch, our interrogation."- Shadonix touched the side of his Avohkki, turning on an embedded transmitter so he could talk to Cryptod. "Biostane," he said, enunciating so that each word would be understood, "I have apprehended a suspect. Report to my position and take her back to home base. She's a Light Element, High Priority."- "Hands off my arrest," Spawn stumbled to his feet.- "Really?" Shadonix kept grinning as Crptod appeared, "Two on one, one power against five?"- "Hey!" Cryptod looked up from kneeling beside the Toa, "You remembered the Shape-Shifting. By the way, she's a Toa of Light?"- "Yeah. It seems she like to play with her armor like we do."- "I said 'Hands off' ," Spawn pushed Cryptod away from the Toa, "Now lets do this the easy way and have you two leave before I just go Angelus on your-"- "Haha!" Shadonix laughed, "I'd like to see how Tomana would react to that one."- "Then I'll just Nova and-"- "You'd destroy the entire city!" Crytod's eyes went wide.- "Would I? Would I really?" Spawn smiled, his voice playful. "We can always find out."- Shadonix knew that tone of voice. It meant Spawn was about to try the impossible, and even when they were Matoran failing at the impossible wasn't one of Spawn's strong attributes.- "Get us out of here," Shadonix grabbed Cryptod by the shoulder. His partner nodded, and as the air around Spawn grew dark with the Shadow energy he was absorbing, the two Effigia teleported far beyond the boundaries of Wiki Nui to a small islet.- Spawn just smiled.* - * -*- In Ta-Wiki, in the offices that Tomana had rented in the Great Courthouse the Toa of Light and personal agent of the Ringmaster, Laria, sat in a darkened interrogation room bound with chains that drained her Elemental powers. She had been there alone she didn't know how long. The door banged open, making her jump. No light entered with the sound of footsteps. A cold voice spoke to her out of the darkness.- "We have a lot to talk about," Tomana sat down in the chair across from her, instinctively knowing where it was.- "And we have plenty of time to talk about it all," Spawn said from behind her.- It was time for answers.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Well Guys and Gals here is the next installment of the Heads and Tails story series. Written and posted, as usual, out of order, this one references two stories you haven't heard yet, one in the past and one in the future. The reference to the future isn't bladfaced, so make sure to look at who the characters are, and if you don't know their RL counterparts, look them up on here or over at BS01. I'm sure you can find something on them!Make sure you read the other stories in the H&T series, you can post about any of the old ones in the new story topics, or maybe I will eventually set up a library for that. Either way, read up and catch up!
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So I am going to post the end story, and then fill in the middle between my first few stories and this one, and then move ahead in time past this. It'll be fun, and I hope you all enjoy the ride as much as I do building it! ---- Twelve Steps - Twelve more steps. That is all I have to take. Twelve steps until I can finally rest in peace once more.- I am the Ringmaster. I run the largest crime ring on Wiki Nui. It was a masterpiece if I do say so myself. I once had rings within rings going, and wheels spinning within wheels. I was the center spike, the engine, the bottom line. I kept it all going, in order, and out of sight. Wiki Nui was my fiddle, and when I scraped my bow across its strings, my organization, the whole of it would sing to my tune.- My personal playing never happened often. To do so would cause far too much notice to be drawn to my quarter. A cog here or there lost to the impotent police of Wiki Nui was replaceable. A wheel taken out by the Toa Effigia or their legal counterparts, the self styled Detectives, was repairable, but if I was to be removed the whole mechanism would be shattered.- Eleven more steps.- I am the most powerful person in Wiki Nui. More powerful than Swert even, as some of the Sectra are on my payroll. Of course I didn't start out in this position. No, no. Faber est suae quisque fortunae. For those of you who don't pay attention to dimensional science, that's Latin, the dead language of some dimension an associate of mine discovered in a freak accident. It means "Every man is the artisan of his own fortune".- Ten more steps, ten more until I can embrace my future.- I won't bore you with the details of my life before I turned to crime. I will only tell you that I made masks. I had an idea one day, and from that idea blossomed my first heist. The Mask of Travel, a Kanohi dedicated solely to my purposes and my genius. I contacted a partner of mine, and he placed special crystals I created into the doorframes of my apartment, a bank, and a bathroom at the bank. We bled that bank dry, took the crystals back, and slowly used our newfound funds to begin building our crime ring. A few thousand here, a few thousand there and suddenly I had my own gang going, though I didn't tell anyone besides my inner ring about my Masks.- Nine more, eternal steps.- One day we did a job for a bigger crime ring, but found I didn't like the pay. I am more brilliant than their boss ever was, so why should he have been ordering me around? I killed him, the Agori piece of slime. His own people don't know that he is dead, even today. I can do it because he was paranoid, and only I was able to figure out who he was. Hehe, he ran his operation from the dark and there he died. Even my closest partner doesn't know I did it, he just knows I took control of that ring, and that from there we have grown more and more.- Eight left. I have worked it all out. Eight more steps and I will be done. The beginning of the end starts in eight steps.- I killed my original partner, and blamed it on a street thief. Slowly, I got rid of the first inner ring I had carried with me. I was in charge, and they were baggage. I crafted a new group of cunning people like myself, but only two know the secret of my Masks.- Seven slow, soft, stealthy, sovereign steps.- And so I am now the protosteel spike holding the Wiki Nui underground together, the cog that turns the wheels of the machine that is crime in this city. I am the target of every crime-fighter in the city, the target without a face, without a name. It was the press that gave me my name, the Ringmaster. I like it. My rings within rings attached to rings and wheels turning wheels within wheels.- Six steps to destiny. My goal is not far away.- It was like conducting an orchestra. With a mere wave of my hand the screams of the murdered would chorus out as a delicate, haunting melody to my ears, the scrape of steel would ring the harmony, the Ringmaster's Requiem in D minor. The wheels turn, the rings spin, and so my plans fall into place in dissonant chords that work so well to the advantage of my ears. Bliss.- Five steps more.- Until that Agori Agram was caught. A mere spoke for a wheel on the outer rings of my criminal empire, but nonetheless the investigation into him was dangerous to me. I personally oversaw getting his appeals through, the result of my Toa Sectra allies, and by the time he was convicted and the evidence had to be handed over, I had my plan in place, but bringing Tomana into my web did not suit in the end. The Agram evidence has been burned; I had a pair of officers paid off. I thought I had been safe, but the famous Detective Toa Tomana never stopped sniffing.- Four final, fatal steps.- That Toa thought he could bring me down, and he nearly has. But he is not me. I will solve this problem tonight. I will end the nuisance. I am not far from being able to do so with ease.- Three steps to serenity.- I have a network of crystals in doorways throughout the city, and I can use my mask to travel between them all. My genius will prevail.- Two steps.- And now I am here, in Tomana's quarters, knife in hand. I shall sleep with in peace, his death on my hands.- One more step.- The Effigia after the Detectives. I can finally be free.- No more steps. I have arrived. The time is–- Pain. Exquisite pain. The feeling of ice penetrating my armor.- I have been tricked.- I am....- I....- ....- I hear the Detective Toa speaking. I am under arrest. I hear ambulance sirens, and police sirens.- I will not be captured. No. Faber est suae quisque fortunae. I will escape.- Morior invictus.
