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https://web.archive....ower.com/forum/ (go to the link to the most recent General Discussion topic - "Mistreatment") This topic parrots complaints about the reboot so perfectly. It's beautiful. Especially this post: This is a post from 2003. 2003 And some other things: imagine kids throwing eggs at Swift and Danny as they perform Insane Bionicle Brain

"Aye-aye-aye! The pirañas are too estrong for us!" "Look, Hahli, just because you have those moustache tubes, doesn't mean you're allowed to do an offensive Mexican accent."

Your computer auto-corrects Piraka to Piraña.

Now write a piñana rap.

Oh wow, I didn't realize that that topic was also full of people complaining that little kids were ruining BIONICLE! And just three years after the theme's introduction! Classic! That aside, the fact that teenagers were being teased for liking BIONICLE even back then does effectively put the final nail in the coffin for the argument that classic BIONICLE was aimed squarely at teenagers while the new BIONICLE is aimed at kids. Not that it was ever a really solid argument to begin with... The topic in general offers me some great insights into the community back then since I wasn't active in the online fan community until around 2006.

We awoke in Memphis at 10:00 and began the process of leaving the hotel, which took until an hour later because of the chronically understaffed valet service. Having determined a much better hotel route should we ever go across I-40 that far again, we left Memphis and navigated its traffic through the suburbs and across Tennessee. Our route today is pretty much the exact reverse of our first two days of the first Great American Road Trip, so in many ways our day today—and our overall I-40 route back—have wrapped up these four trips in a way that indeed comes full circle. The traffic patterns moved like an accordion across many sections, where traffic going 0 one minute would be flying at 80 the next and then back again. We stopped for lunch at an Arby's outside of Cookeville, where we got things we knew—save for me, who had curly fries (I'd only ever gone for their potato cakes in the past) and an orange cream milkshake, which was so thick and so cold that it stayed chilly until I finished it off past the North Carolina border. The traffic thinned out and aside from some bits of road construction and a little rubbernecking, we made excellent time as we went along with the wall-to-wall traffic at a clip steadily five over the speed limit. Sunset darkened the sky after we passed Asheville. We stopped at a Food Lion for midnight snack and breakfast supplies, but we had gotten there a few minutes too late and they had just closed. We made our way to a Harris Teeter and were the only other customers in there save for a tattooed, yet very mild-mannered young couple and a convoy of three highly efficient couponing black women. We got home after 24 days, 20 states, 7,215.7 miles and 23.8 average MPG. Tomorrow: we sleep in after a long (and physically exhausting) trip. The past three long days back from Utah have been especially hard.

About a year ago I was trying to learn some basic 3D modeling, going through the stuff I made I found this Bionicle thing. First, just a Huna: Front, Angle. But I also made the top half of a Bionicle character and gave him some animation (pardon the unfortunate camera movement): Video.

Haters gon' hate. That is the way of the Bionicle. -Turaga Vakama

While I won't defend the quality of MoL, it's pleasant to know that it wasn't the fatal crash of Bionicle but merely an unfortunate bump in the road. Or otherwise known as "EVERYTHING AFTER 2001 WAS A COPYCAT WANNABE." Ah, the memories.

The link isn't working for me... but yeah, this is good to keep in mind. If there's one thing the online BIONICLE fan community has always been good at, it's complaining. As such, online complaints are no reason to assume the theme is doomed to failure (especially since a lot of the things people online complain about are of little consequence to the actual target audience). I'm still in the camp that believes that the Kolhii match between Takanuva and Makuta was way more meaningful and poetic than any violent, Transformers-style robot smackdown ever could have been. It's a bit like the "chess with death" trope as seen in works like the song The Devil Went Down to Georgia or the book Coraline. The villain is convinced the hero is no match for him, so to toy with him he proposes a competition on the hero's terms. Ultimately, though, Makuta was wrong about Takanuva, who was not the same hesitant, uncertain Matoran he had been at the beginning of the movie.

If you're considering hanging out in a hotel in between, keep in mind there will be a lot more to do in Baltimore than Chantilly. The Inner Harbor is really nice and there's shops and the aquarium. There's also a zoo in Baltimore. All of it is within a pretty reasonable proximity, and there's the light rail if you don't want to walk.

LOOKIT DIS PHOTOGRAAAAFF ERRY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAFF

You know what's great about having a friend who is extremely adept at making trades and scouring ebay for deals? He knows just how to grab something rad online. A few days later and bam!--Toa Lhikan Hordika puts in my hands the Collector, one of San Diego Comic Con's exclusive LEGO minifigs last year! (A trade, of course.) He looks good with the team, and by team I'm including the proper Nova, of course. And Drax has his signature energy axe. (A second thanks goes to xccj for grabbing me Rocket in his Ravagers outfit.) What is really cool about the Collector is the backing of the case unfolds to show a large image of him, scowling (the other side of his minifig head). Not that any sane LEGO collector would display this unless there was a safe way to do so, but it's a pretty neat bonus. But the exclusives don't stop there! I also have another benefactor: my manager who used to work at GameStop and snagged all kinds of extras for the LEGO video games. So now I have the exclusive Elrond figure and, better yet, Lex Luthor in power armor and, better yet, Plastic Man! Certainly exciting additions to my collection. What's next? Making a display case for all of these (and my other exclusives)! -CF

Anyone else jump with left trigger and grab with X? No? Because if you accidentally use default controls after getting used to your custom controls, and every time you try to double-jump you airdodge... It's bad.

I accasionally use my GC controller and forget the jump and special buttons are effectively switched from the gamepad/3DS/pro controller. Which basically means I flail lucinas sword around wildly and fall off the stage from reasonable jumping distance.

Got an idea for not one, but two 'neutral' secret roles now. Both powerful.

Half-Life 3 confirmed.

The deed is done. -L

Seconded. That is _significantly_ better than my idea. =P

do it.

... With 24 characters as the maximum, I could do "This character limit suc" Which might actually be hilarious. -L

"The character limit sucks for making something wi"

I demand to know why you didn't tell me you were taking part in this charity livestream.

Pff, that's not Sumiki. The guy in that pic is an amateur. Sumiki does hatpiles while standing. Like a boss.

Sumiki - hat-wearing ladies man.