Over in the System-Based Creations forum Nuju Metru has started a new mini project that you all need to check out! The Body Battlers are his own custom theme in the style of a real LEGO playtheme and combine 1950s styling with a science fiction twist. It's like if instead of going 20,000 leagues under the sea, Captain Nemo had shrunken himself down and gone into a human body! I love the diner and flying car, plus the minifig designs are all fantastic. I especially love how the larger sets even include a brick separator! They all deserve a good look and you should share your thoughts on them with Aaron too.

According to the Reputation Institute, The LEGO Group is currently the top-ranked company in the world with regards to corporate social responsibility. What does that mean? Stephen Hahn-Griffiths, Executive Partner and Chief Research Officer at Reputation Institute says the, "dominant drivers of CSR are defined by ethics, fairness, and societal impact." So basically LEGO is doing a good job of not being perceived as a greedy, uncaring corporate entity. You can head over to their website to check out the full press release. Keep it up, LEGO!

A fresh week brings us a new interview on the LEGO Ideas blog. Hasan Jensen has sat down with another successful builder, which you can check out in the 10K Club Interview: Meet Jaijai Lewis of NBC's The Office. As a fan of the show, I was interested to learn about the builder's inspiration, how he went about building the model, and what secrets he used to get it up to ten thousand votes. If you're interested, give it a read to learn some more about how the process works and what makes Jaijai tick!

There is always a fancy new LEGO Star Wars set with a big shiny box, a display stand, and a heavy instruction booklet. Released earlier this year is the Snowspeeder, a ship known for its tricky leg work at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back. This is no ordinary T-47 Airspeeder model though, this is the Ultimate Collector's Series set. The UCS sets are larger than minifig scale and the center of attention when displayed. Does this set hold to that standard, or is it shot down by an AT-AT walker? Read, and watch, the review to find out!  

Last night we started building some of the fantastic sets from the theme based on the upcoming LEGO Ninjago Movie and had a blast! We hardly made a scratch in the total number of sets though, so we're going back at it tonight. Join us at 6 PM Eastern on the BZPower YouTube channel to watch the fun take place. This is going to be a shorter stream than last night, but it's also going to be the last one before we go into full prep mode for BrickFair New Jersey. So make sure you tune in to watch and have a chance to win some cool polybags or collectible minifigs!

Yesterday we received an awesome delivery from LEGO - a collection of sets from The LEGO Ninjago Movie theme! So it only makes sense that we build some for you to check out over on our YouTube channel! We'll be going live today at 6 PM Eastern to build and give stuff away, but if you see this right after we post it, you might want to stay tuned to our Instagram where we'll be doing a quick unboxing. Of course we'll be doing some giveaways tonight as well, so make sure to stop by and watch!

A new The LEGO Ninjago Movie "Behind the Bricks" featurette surfaced today, in which the minifigure cast talks about their on-set experiences much like they did in the similar featurettes for The LEGO Movie and The LEGO Batman Movie. Also within the past week, nine new movie clips were released on YouTube. Let this be your spoiler warning: these scenes are a bit longer and possibly more revealing than the snippets we've seen in trailers, so be sure to use spoiler tags when discussing them in the Talkback thread. With that out of the way, follow the links above or read on to watch the new videos!  

We're a little over a week away from The LEGO Ninjago Movie hitting theaters, and with it we're getting a tie-in videogame as well! Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has shared a new teaser for the game with us today, as well as some nifty tidbits of info, like the fact that the game will include characters and locations from the TV show in addition to the film. For the video and more info, read on!  

Earlier this week, the latest wave of expansion packs for LEGO Dimensions hit store shelves. You can now add characters from Teen Titans Go!, The Powerpuff Girls, and Beetlejuice to the game as well as play new levels and explore new worlds based on the popular franchises. To check out the launch trailer and read the full press release, continue on!  

You may wonder what this headline has to do with LEGO. We'll explain below the fold. In short, you can currently (for the next 30-some-odd hours) get a $399 annual subscription covering books and more for $199. This includes dozen of explicitly LEGO-related titles, hundreds of books that touch on LEGO, and thousands of books for further exploring related topics, such as robotics, programming, design, and 3D-printing. There are also "serious" learning offerings (like instructional videos, online training, interactive tutorials, and more great books) in there too, in case you wanted to show enough educational or professional value to justify getting your parents/boss/spouse/Toa/etc to buy the subscription for you.  

Just one day after the Boat House Diner by RobenAnne reached ten thousand votes of support, yesterday another project joined the 10k Club on LEGO Ideas! Go check out The Lighthouse by RobenAnne, which is the fourth model in his coastal modular series to achieve its goal on the platform. The modular itself is very impressive and deserving of consideration, with lots of great details and an overall interesting design. Four projects might be a sign that LEGO needs to consider hiring him for their Creator Expert team - let us know what you think in the Talkback!

We'll be back tonight on the BZPower Twitch channel to play a LEGO videogame for your fun and enjoyment (and ours too). The action will kick off at 7:30 PM Eastern Time, or thereabouts, when we start up our Xbox with the game of your choosing. You can help us pick which title we select by heading over to the Twitch Tuesday discussion topic and casting your vote. I'm looking forward to a fun stream as we beat up baddies and solve all the worlds' problems, or at least of those of LEGO minifigures!

We haven't featured too many comics on the front page of BZPower recently, but a new addition to that section caught my eye right away. The Toa - A retelling of Bionicle by NickonAquaMagna goes back to the beginning of our favorite legend and tells the story anew. The creator does a great job conveying the plot without words in the beginning which evokes a feeling of the classic animations. He diverges a bit from the canon, where he's taking the best parts of the original and streamlining things into his own tale. Go check it out and let NickonAquaMagna know what you think!

Let us not forget what happened sixteen years ago today. We were here at Kanohi-Power and BionicleZone back then, and we all lived though 9/11/01 as a community. Sixteen years later, we are still here, members are still here - and the site, the members, and the world are just a little less innocent because of that day exactly sixteen years ago. The world is now different, as is our community that has lived through a difficult time - it is important to remember all those who lost their lives.

It seems like every Monday there's something to talk about coming out of LEGO Ideas. Of course there's a new 10k Club Interview, which means yo can go Meet Chiho Kim of Jeep Wrangler Rubicon as Hasan Jensen talks to one of the latest builders to have their project reviewed by LEGO. In other news, the Boat House Diner by RobenAnne achieved ten thousand votes of support! This is a pretty big milestone since his Old Fishing Store project was recently released as a set and his Boat Repair Shop also reached 10k votes! Go check them out and share your thoughts on them in the Talkback!

Just a friendly reminder that there's still well over a week left to enter the latest contest on the BZPower Flickr Group. The entry period for BZPower Flickr Contest - September 2017 ends on Sunday, September 17th and is open to all. The winner will walk away with 71305 Lewa - Uniter of Jungle as well as bragging rights until the end of time! So get building, and good luck to everyone who enters!

A couple new featurettes have recently surfaced for The LEGO Ninjago Movie in advance of its September 22 premiere. In "Back to School", Nya meets you in the hallway of Ninjago City high school to deliver "The Ninja's Guide to Everything a Ninja Needs to Be a Ninja", full of tips on what you need to be a successful ninja during the school year. And in "Kicks and Bricks" the voice actors for Wu, Garmadon, Koko, and the six ninja take you behind the scenes where they dish about the recording process and what makes their respective characters tick. Follow the links above or read on to watch the videos!  

In December of last year, nine-year-old Sienna won the LEGO Friends Design Contest. Nine months later, her idea has become the Heartlake City Playground and was released to the world on September 1st. Sienna had the opportunity of a lifetime to visit LEGO headquarters in Billund, Denmark and work with the LEGO Friends team to turn her contest entry into a real LEGO set, complete with a mini-doll of herself! You can check out the press release on the LEGO website for more details and a short video showing how her dream came true!

Narrowly missing the deadline for the most recent review period, a new project has reached the milestone of ten thousand votes on LEGO Ideas. The Pop-Up Book by Grant Davis and Jason Allemann is as functional as it is cool-looking. Initially, it looks like a brick-built novel, but when you open it up, a scene comes to life before your eyes! What's more, the vignette inside is customizable to tell whatever story you'd like. This project looks really fun and we wish it the best of luck in the review phase. Let us know in the Talkback if it's something you'd be interested in picking up!

If the recent Star Wars freighters contest on ReBrick wasn't enough for you, the team has just started up a new challenge! Go check out LEGO Batman's Return to the Justice League and test your comic-creating skills. You can create up to five panels using LEGO bricks or LDD showing what you think would happen when Batman tries to rejoin his fellow super heroes. The prizes include a collection of LEGO Batman Movie sets, including one that hasn't even been announced yet, and a custom model from a LEGO designer! You have until October 7th to submit your entries, so put on those thinking caps and come up with your best comic idea!

In celebration of LEGO Technic's 40th anniversary this year, LEGO is giving fans a glimpse at Technic history within their vaults. Fans "will have the chance to take a trip down the memory lane and look back at some of milestones that have happened during the last 4 decades with 3 special guests: Jan Ryaa, the first LEGO Technic designer, Andrew Woodman, Senior Lead Designer on LEGO Technic and Signe Wiese, Culture Mediator at LEGO Idea House," says Kim Thomsen. Fans can ask questions in the video as they see what kind of sets are shown off from the vault. The livestream starts at 3:00 PM GMT (11:00 AM EST) on the LEGO Technic facebook page.

LEGO Worlds, the free-roaming exploration and creation game from TT Games, released on the Nintendo Switch yesterday, adding a new platform to the growing collection. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has shared the press release for the launch as well as a new trailer with us. Read on to check it out, and let us know in the Talkback if you're planning on picking up this game for your growing Switch library!  

Oh, look at the calendar, it's September 5th. That means it's time for a new episode of Bfa Plays! In LEGO Harry Potter - Episode 15: Things Get Sirius, we start the events of the third year of Harry's story: The Prisoner of Azkaban. Check it out for lots of plot-explaining cut scenes and some adventures on the Hogwarts Express. Then you can head over to the discussion topic to share your thoughts! We'll be back in a couple of weeks with a new episode, so we'll see you all then!

The world has spun around its axis seven times since our last videogame stream, and that means tonight it will be time for another Twitch Tuesday! We look forward to see you all on our Twitch channel tonight for some fun. We'll kick things off at around 7:30 PM Eastern and play for around an hour or so. Recently we've been working our way through the criminal underworld in LEGO City: Undercover, but that doesn't mean it's what we'll play tonight! You can head on over to the discussion topic to cast your vote for what you'd like to see us play! It should be a blast and hope you all have as much fun as we do!

It's always cool to see fans re-imagine characters from the Bionicle universe. Today, we're looking at Son of Makuta - Shattering by Gamma-Ray, which is his interpretation of the 2003 set Panrahk. I like the heavy utilization of CCBS parts (how many Finn and Baze Malbus sets did he buy?) to give it a nice dark tan color scheme. There's a lot of classic Bionicle parts as well, which give a nice texture to the arms and legs. This Rahkshi just looks evil and vicious and nasty; it's the kind of thing that might give you nightmares. So head over to give it a closer look and let the builder know what you think!

Earlier today LEGO shared that both their revenue and profits for the first half of 2017 had decreased compared to 2016. This is a striking result considering they have been reporting nothing but growth for the past several years. LEGO Group Chairman Jorgen Vig Knudstorp has stated that the company is planning to make changes to streamline and simplify its operations in an attempt to turn things around by the end of the year. Unfortunately, part of the plan will be to lay off 1,400 employees of the current 18,200 that work for LEGO. We wish them all the best of luck and hope they are able to land on their feet.