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These are so terrific, so many wonderful pictures, I love the vivid colors! Many of these would make great profile pics.

new hero factory creation in 2024, excellent

This is terrific, I love the golden nose ring and the treaded hind legs. Excellent mesh of animal-like and mechanical traits.

IC: Jolek [Ta-Wahi, Fowadi Internals] Although he'd drummed up his share of attention on the surface, Jolek nonetheless found himself taken a little aback at the bustle his shepherd had lead him into as they descended the hatch— for the conversation he'd kicked into gear up top, it quickly became apparent that the ironclad beast never slumbered as it slipped out of the Ta-Koro Bay and into the black of night. As tight as the corridors were, barely three of him apart at their broadest, in a matter of minutes he counted at least a dozen and a half faces milling past, purpose in their eyes only allowing them a quick glance at the gunmetal newcomer before they marched onto the task at hand— whatever it may have been. He couldn't delineate rank or uniform from one another in these foreign symbols, not at a glance, but whatever they were they permeated the air in a low roar. He frowned, reminded of a base or three. Impressive regimentation, but it ran counter to the sales pitch. Whatever the big man had planned for him, it couldn't be all this. Another thing stood out pretty readily, too. His eyes slid over his right shoulder, meeting those that had planted themselves onto the back of his head from the jump. He wasn't a De-Toa like Krayn, and there was enough going on down here that the Matoran's dissonant stride hadn't been what'd clued him in. He was far removed from even pretending to be that good a hunter. But a hunter's instincts still survived in him. A lot like the Forest, little more than a day prior, he'd more felt the eyes on him than heard or seen or smelled or any other type of sense. A gaze was like a weight on your back. Meeting hers, he definitely didn't discern any odd intent that'd undercut the general vibe of the welcome so far, but there wasn't any doubt it was on him. There was something tucked beneath her arm, but the sudden gloom once you got inside was even giving his night eyes trouble, more used to adjusting beneath canopy than steel. Only one thing left to do, then. "So boss," he breathed, turning to the Po-Matoran ahead after a moment. "Is it normal for newbies to get tailed on the way in, or should we wait up on her?"

Good to get those big grinds out of the way and the last remaining achievements have been unlocked. As much as I'm looking forward to seeing you get through Lego Indiana Jones 2 (a game I do like quite a lot because of its unique structure), I'm okay with waiting until after your two week break. Besides, I very much welcome seeing another build stream, as I would like another opportunity to just relax and chat rather than focus all my attention on how you're progressing through a game. And, uh... that's pretty much all I have to say here. See you next week.

IC: A notch or two was not sufficient after the talk turned to Skyra’s affairs and Praggos’ complaint about his personal stock. The dial clicked down two more, and the noise around him faded further to something he could ignore without too much effort. There was no further need of him with the newcomer, so he turned towards the mast and paced around to the other side of that large wooden beam. Despite his time aboard the Fowadi, and despite his desire always to pull his own weight, Krayn wasn’t much of a sailor. While the ship was underway his only responsibility was to stay out of the way and not fall overboard. Fortunately the deck was spacious enough that he could claim a little of it for himself to stand and try to run through some of the stretches that had been suggested to him. He had stopped briefly in Ko-Koro on his way in from the wilderness to consult a doctor; the ill-tempered man, after insisting that he could discern nothing wrong, prescribed a series of stretches and strength building exercises. All oriented around his shoulder, of course, and he detested doing them. They didn’t feel like they were doing any good. The simplest was to brace his forearm against something to his side and gently ease himself forward, stretching the muscles in the process. He stopped when he felt resistance, almost instantly bordering on pain, and held the position. After a count of thirty he released it, waited, and repeated the process. On the fourth stretch pain shot through the joint as soon as he began, and he decided that would have to do for now. The frustrating thing was that he couldn’t find anything wrong, either. That didn’t stop him from feeling the spot experimentally, as though he might find something below the faint scar that he hadn’t the first hundred times. He didn’t. The scar always seemed too small. It spoke to how well the healers had done their job that all that remained was a scar like a burn well healed by the passage of time. Of the wound that had required cauterization there was no sign. Medicine wasn’t his profession, but he’d had his share of experience with first aid in the field. With enough concentration he could learn about what was under the surface by feeling the way sound moved through the area. He hadn’t found anything that way, either. Krayn sank to the deck, leaning back against the mast. He fixed his eyes on the sky and allowed his sixth, elemental sense to wander; even with his hearing reduced, sound was everywhere. It was only vibrations, after all, and a ship in motion produced so many. The footsteps of the crew, waves striking the hull when the water grew rough. The sources were innumerable, wherever energy was transferred between one body and another there was sound. Paying attention to the soundscape was a much more relaxing prospect than musing over his shoulder yet again, so he allowed his mind to wander with his senses. If someone needed his attention, he would know. OOC: Small Krayn post as I work to get back in the swing, others to follow elsewhere as needed and time allows.

Oh, I meant to try out some more complex designs, but alas I kind of ran out of time. So here's a simpler concept of what I've been trying for, heh.

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Part I, chapters 7-9 are updated! yay progress

And just like that, May is nearly behind us and the summer is fast approaching. If you missed it, make sure to go enter the 2024 Member Raffle #5 while you still can! One lucky winner will receive the LEGO Star Wars buildable figure 75525 Baze Malbus. Will it be you? We can only hope!View the full article

Have you done the other skull villians or just this one?

With the holiday this week, my schedule is a little messed up, so we'll just be streaming on Thursday, May 30th this week. You can find us over on the BZPower Twitch Channel starting around 7 PM Eastern time, where we'll hopefully be wrapping up the last few achievements in LEGO Indiana Jones. We made some great progress last week, so there hopefully won't be much to do this time other than a bit of grinding. Looking forward to chatting with you all while we do it!View the full article

The annual Bio-Cup Bionicle MOC competition has begun. The Preliminary Round began last week and will run through Tuesday, June 4th, so there's still plenty of time to build and enter? And the theme, you ask? It's none other than SPACE, and all the exciting ideas that inspires. Get to building your entry, and check back here for MOC highlights over the next couple of months!View the full article

Hi, guys. I found some Hero Factory stuff, found in Lego Magazines, that HEROsector01 does not have. It’s a good thing that I have these Lego Magazine issues before Hero Factory got canceled. The stuff that I found are: 1. 2010 - I think that’s all from the Club Magazines. I already have the Hero Factory Promotional Magazine from the July-August 2010 issue of the Lego Magazine. The pictures for the booklet’s pages are in HS01, but the guys from HS01 should do prefect scans on them. The September-October 2010 issue of the Lego Club Magazine has a version of “Comic 2: Core Crisis”, where Von Nebula erroneously said “William Stormer”, when the correct name is “Preston Stormer”. I don’t have the instructions for Lucas Valor, seen in the September-October 2010 issue of the Lego Brickmaster Magazine, but that is shown in HS01, despite having imperfect scans. 2. Early 2011 - I think that’s all from the Club Magazines. I don’t have the instructions for Makuro-X1 (the large monster that Akiyama Makuro created), seen in the March-April 2011 issue of the Brickmaster Magazine, but that is shown in HS01, despite having imperfect scans. 3. Late 2011 - I think that’s all from the Club Magazines. 4. Early 2012 - I think that’s all from the Club Magazines. There’s that non-canon comic called “Breakout Issue 1” in the January-February 2012 issue. HS01 has the scans, but they are not perfect. There’s a little booklet that tells you hints for the Breakout game. HS01 has imperfect scans for that thing, too, though. 5. Late 2012 - I only have the stuff from the September-October 2012 Club issue. I don’t have the July-August Club issue, sadly, but I heard it has that non-canon comic called “Breakout Issue 2”. The November-December 2012 Club issue does not have any Hero Factory content. 6. Early 2013 - This only has stuff from the March-April 2013 Club issue. The January-February Club issue and the May-June Club issue do not have Hero Factory stuff. 7. Late 2013 - I only have the stuff from the September-October 2013 Club issue. That issue has a combiner of Furno XL and the first Laval action figure from Legends of Chima. I don’t have the July-August Club issue or the November-December Club issue, sadly. However, I heard the July-August issue has five pages of Hero Factory content: two for a battle in Makuhero City, two for a fight between Dragon Bolt and Jet Rocka, and one for a Hero Factory building contest. I heard the November-December issue has a non-canon comic called “Double Dragon Danger”. 8. Early 2014 - This only has stuff from the March-April 2014 Club issue. The January-February Club issue and the May-June Club issue do not have Hero Factory stuff. 9. Late 2014 - This only has stuff from the July-August 2014 Club issue. I don’t have the September-October Club issue or the November-December Club issue, sadly. 10. Random stuff - Two pictures that I found in Google. One of them comes from the March-April 2011 issue of the Lego Club Jr Magazine. The other came from a Lego Magazine in late 2013 (the November-December Club issue because of the art style, maybe?). I don’t know what magazine issue. 11. Random stuff in 2011 - Pictures that I found in Google. I don’t know what magazine issues. 12. Random stuff in 2012 - Pictures that I found in Google. I don’t know what magazine issues. There are also Club Code pages, which are online pages exclusively found in Lego Club website when you enter a Club Code found in the magazines. Plus, there are Lego Club Inside Scoop pages. I hope HS01 has saved all of that stuff before everything is taken down, sadly. If you guys have all Lego Club, Lego Club Jr, Lego Brickmaster, and UK Lego Club Magazines that have Hero Factory stuff, and have saved the Hero Factory online pages before they were taken down, please post them here. HS01 may have scans on all of them, but has forgotten to post them for some reason. So, just in case.

Hi, guys. If you are annoyed by the fact that YouTube gave you low-quality versions of the Hero Factory TV episodes, I found something that can fix that: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-reqEjSTjg1dYKf90ODyTs9kPZ_lOfrG . I believe you should use your Gmail account to have access to these versions. That’s what I did.

Greetings! I believe the email based login update possibly happened after a bunch of spambots joined (if that wasn’t just a coincidence)? I had also lost access to my account for ages, but was able to contact staff via the BZP Discord server. Black Six reset my password & email after ensuring proper identity a few years ago. Contacting @Black Six either here or on the discord server https://discord.com/invite/caFWVqR would likely help. Best wishes and welcome back!

Specifically, this one: https://www.bzpower.com/profile/1423-kanohi-master/ The forums are asking me to login with an email, but I've never logged in with an email before, and I don't think there even is an email associated with that account. I've tried all of the emails I can think of. My password manager has a saved login that just uses the display name, and that apparently worked at least twice in the past 11 years. The Forgot Password link didn't do anything.

That's such a cool moment!

See the attached PDF for my entry. Since this is Vakama/Hordika, it would probably look best as black print on a Metru-red shirt (as visualized below in the lower quality PNG). The PDF file is black/white and of higher quality.T-Shirt 2024-DS.pdf

The air of mystery and the environment established around it. It may not be a new trend, but stories can sometimes feel like they want to put everything in front of the viewer right away: they want you to know the lore and the characters and the world and the key plot and THEN you're ready to start enjoying it. Bionicle (thinking specifically of the early years) never felt like it was doing that, never seemed to hold your hand through all the introductory stuff; it just kinda threw you straight into an atmosphere that clearly had a coherent plot and vibe to it, but that you weren't told the specifics of. With that approach, every new discovery felt like a reward that enticed the reader to keep going. It's easy to forget now, when we have an entire decade's worth of content is available, just how little we were given at first and how it stimulated the imagination, making the content we did have feel far greater than the sum of its parts. Picking up comic #1 for the first time, you get... sure, the basics of the story thanks to Matoro and Nuju. But on the whole it's just about Kopaka discovering this new world, and lets you learn about it at his pace; it's enough to whet your appetite without feeling like an infodump. Or - of course - MNOG which puts you in the shoes of an amnesic Takua and is just an absolute treat of a worldbuilding journey, where it doesn't matter that you don't know anything, you pick up the bits and pieces of it along the way to put together the story on your own. Again, enticing you to discover more, feeling like it was rewarding you when you did. The world being composed of so many different but equally compelling environments certainly played a big part in capturing the imagination as well; everything you saw had the sense that it had a story just around the corner, even if you never learned what it was. Likewise, the original Toa's main images showing each of them immersed in their respective elemental environments, really seeming at one with their worlds as they swam or dug or lava surfed or swung through the trees, told you without even needing words that there was a story behind this, something going on beyond just the action figures. I think that, the way all of it immersed you so deeply in the mystery and in the compelling worldbuilding, is to me the defining characteristic of Bionicle; or at least, definitely the thing that drew me in and kept me coming back to it for so long.

Super happy to see Tamaru and Nuparu included; they're both characters who I like a lot The colours on Tamaru look really nice; and I love how spiky you've made the points on Nuparu's mask! I really love the glowing effect you've achieved on his zamor spheres, too ^^ Lessovik looks fantastic; I love how you've stylised him, while keeping him still instantly recognisable. I really like how the shift of colour due to the lighting works on his armour too, especially the lime parts. The painterly look of that Norik is a really neat style; works so well for the character. The study of Matau's wing is really cool. I like your design on him as a whole, too; especially the styling of his mask and chestplate. The red lighting shining on his green armour is a really effective touch as well!

That's matoran-form Kongu, decided to save on time by making it grayscale. ...and with yellow accents Intended as Toa Ignika, with the BH design. Considered! That's one of the characters that aren't Bionicle (the other being the one sandwitched between Kirop and Rocka) - it's Mega Met. And now, the second dump, up to present day:

These are so cool, and it is extra impressive what a wide range of styles you are able to draw them in. Some look very set-accurate while others are more impressionistic. There are so many good ones, but I think my favorites are: Nuhvok Va (he looks weirdly cute like an angry kitten) Kongu Inika Nuparu Mahri Krika Bulk Gorast Good guy Fikou and Click (I can't decide which one is cuter) Dume/Makuta (that one, specifically the layout, is excellent and reminds me of the original comics) Makuta's MNOG vortex form (it's creepy to actually imagine him as a bunch of body parts flying around) I do not recognize the white Miru-wearing character. Are they an OC? I also recognize the Mask of Life as it appears in VNOG and BIONICLE Heroes. Is that meant to be Matoro, Toa Ignika, Mata Nui or possibly the first Toa who used it? Or just a hypothetical character? I would be interested in a full drawing of him, his torso and shoulder armor and weapon look cool but it looks like a cropped version of a larger image. The Sanok with the crosshairs is a creative idea. I also think similar iconographic depictions of Kanohi masks would be interesting. I seriously cannot figure out what the Goomba-looking thing is supposed to be. It is well drawn, I just do not recognize it. If I saw it elsewhere I would not even recognize it as BIONICLE or LEGO.

Andean Quipu Recreation of a Quipu, the traditional knot-based recording system used by some Andean civilizations. In this recording system, each knot represents a number, a letter or a piece of information: a single string can be used to form a complete number, a word or anything you want to keep. In addition to the knots, the color used to paint the strings was also used to record other information. 16/04/2024