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Thank you very much! I assume you either cut the Gahlok shields' axles off or in half? Also, what is the length of the axle used through its pinhole?

Darnit you stole my thunder... And since I don't feel like actually digging it up... consider yourself rewarded. Ohz Noez, it will take so long to find it! I wish there was some sort of a search engine device that existed... No wait... Seriously? Google Images can be thine friend Bonesiii! Just got to give it a chance, man! This key talk is reminding me of Crash Team Racing/Nitro Kart. Anyways, I imagine if hypothetically, there was some sort of connection, if they simply established them as separate universes nd be done with it, that would neither give fans the 10 year history mandate nor give S&T people a headache. Everybody wins!

Now I kinda want to make a bunch of '04 Matoran...

I wonder if any other information exists on constructing him at all. You're welcome! I'll see if I can ask the person to upload the rest of the instructions. What's the Aqua Blaster Blade situation? Someone simply listed it with the combiners/alternate models instead of the contest models. A minor suggestion, do we user the presumably higher quality uploads of the Kabaya Rahkshi combiners from the website that had the Japanese Bohrok combiner in leau of the Kabaya ones?EDIT: Yeah, can someone ask on the website for me actually? It's just kind of difficult.

It's a contest model, but I think someone got the wrong idea and listed it as an alternate model. I'll go fix that...

Shows you what simply looking around on the set's sources on Brickipedia will do... Yes, Piraka Kaita's legitimacy officially confirmed at last, as we see images of it in real life. And the Irnakk one has instructions! Unfortunately though, the uploader has only put the first half of the instructions. And it seems like (at least to this point of the instructions) the hand that usually involves the extra Irnakk parts is just bypassed, and the pin in the neck isn't used. Still though, it's great that I found this!

See I can almost understand Gaardus in terms of being bound by certain pieces, where as I don't see why they were so limited with those polybags... did they accidentally produce way more of those exact pieces and... ??? Why wouldn't they be limited with those polybags? Those kind of sets have a low part count (and presumably also size) and constraction figures tend to use bigger pieces, so I suppose there would be some limitation when it comes to that. Your theory makes sense. I mean if you look at the canon polybags (besides maybe Click and Klakk, but those were BrickMaster level), they too have low part counts and very small designs. While yes, their designs could have been better perhaps, it just could be the best out of a bad situation.

On one of my holidays in Spain I somewhere found a (sealed? It was definitely a closed box at least) Gahlok Va.

I remember thinking the Manutri was quite haphazard...

Actually that's the thing, they're that bad that people generally automatically filter them out (although it does help that they are random impulse things which where also an outlier compared to the 'matoran'/canister/titan [vehicle etc.]), they're understood not to be a big selling point. & how some people ignore certain years (almost)? & how some claim most of the X fans ignore Y. ...Well I think most fans (of those that have seen them) do ignore them. Every now and again people point out that they're basically just an extra-pieces-pack, but generally, ignored except for the point of "not bad compared to"/"worse than" and generally mocking them... :/ I actually think Zesk is really cute, and Vorox was kind of almost cool, but they still had an underlying obnoxious build (pieces anyway), it's understandable in many ways why the STARS turned out the way they did, but after what people where expecting... But whilst I can also see Gresh as (almost) cool, they all just seem to be comprised with different but similar in heavily restricted pieces (in count and variety) Moral Guys level sets, except they had thought put into them, but not enough to try and work out a combiner mind you. Yeah, it could have been no final wave at all, mind you, but I don't know whether they absolutely had to make them impulse set-sized or not. I assume after expecting to end the franchise maybe LEGO was so scared of no one buying them that they had to be mini-sized with a "collect them all" gimmick put into them, in addition to being new versions of old favorites from previous (most successful?) years? As for the Good/Bad Guys, they could have easily just been the absolute best they could do with a (presumably) limited range and count of parts and size, especially since they're polybag sets, in which making a passable model in the correct size and piece count is even harder because of the bigger constraction pieces. Still, in a head cannon, does anyone like how I use the Stars as just more Matoron and Agori? Matoran with helmets and Rahkshi/Skakdi heads? How does that work? Speaking of headcanon, it's apparently been stated twice from two different official LEGO employees that certain good/bad guy sets were/could be the Matorans' puppets (presumably non-canonically). And of course there's also Gold Good Guy/Turaga Lhikan.

Oh come on, is it really that unofficial if it has the LEGO logo and slogan on it?

If I had one of those I'd perhaps use it to make a Metru Matoran Jaller.

Actually that's the thing, they're that bad that people generally automatically filter them out (although it does help that they are random impulse things which where also an outlier compared to the 'matoran'/canister/titan [vehicle etc.]), they're understood not to be a big selling point. & how some people ignore certain years (almost)? & how some claim most of the X fans ignore Y. ...Well I think most fans (of those that have seen them) do ignore them. Every now and again people point out that they're basically just an extra-pieces-pack, but generally, ignored except for the point of "not bad compared to"/"worse than" and generally mocking them... :/ I actually think Zesk is really cute, and Vorox was kind of almost cool, but they still had an underlying obnoxious build (pieces anyway), it's understandable in many ways why the STARS turned out the way they did, but after what people where expecting... But whilst I can also see Gresh as (almost) cool, they all just seem to be comprised with different but similar in heavily restricted pieces (in count and variety) Moral Guys level sets, except they had thought put into them, but not enough to try and work out a combiner mind you. Yeah, it could have been no final wave at all, mind you, but I don't know whether they absolutely had to make them impulse set-sized or not. I assume after expecting to end the franchise maybe LEGO was so scared of no one buying them that they had to be mini-sized with a "collect them all" gimmick put into them, in addition to being new versions of old favorites from previous (most successful?) years? As for the Good/Bad Guys, they could have easily just been the absolute best they could do with a (presumably) limited range and count of parts and size, especially since they're polybag sets, in which making a passable model in the correct size and piece count is even harder because of the bigger constraction pieces.

I know for a fact that it can be found in the cave section at the beginning of the Shattered Wreck. What he said. Images would be nice! But of course, though to be fair, the Fikou I was referring to (barring the fact there is a unique Fikou in Heroes that looks just like the normal one) has a non-set stinger and pincers. I actually already made my own MOC of that years ago, so I'll just follow that, improve it a little and get all the pieces/colours right.

Well technically the some of the colours are different but your input helps. The project I'm working for is this one: http://www.bzpower.com/board/topic/15332-comprehensive-bionicle-alternate-model-database/ It catalogs the various and obscurest of alternate models and I was allowed to contribute information for contest and buildable media models, which would include the one seen here if it didn't have at least one part that doesn't exist in the correct colour. But I also take note (if only personally) of models that aren't buildable physically (parts don't exist in certain colours, not entirely LEGO construction, stylized etc.) or that you can't see completely very well in sources, and am planning to build some of them such as this and the dragonfly enemy from this game and the Fikou from VNOLG.

Perhaps you could make the Noble Hau of Lhikan's from the second movie or the Kanohi from VNOLG (the infected Matoran's, the Vision Mask and the non-canon "Noble" Kanohi).

Just something to add: Out of the three non-attacking "Rahi" models in BIONICLE Heroes, I think the unnamed dragonfly and fish (Acid Fly and Ruki?) both use parts in non-existent colours, which just leaves the Fikou. That counts, right?

Thanks for the information everyone. This really helped me out. Although I do think it uses a piece in a non-existent colour, thus being excluded from the database, I will still try to recreate it alongside the dragon fly and Fikou 'mobs'. If there are any other non-scenery/golden constraction/character/enemy/boss models let me know.

Here's the promo:

Well I suppose I could have been more sure, I just hope I won't be missing any BIONICLE Heroes models besides the golden constractions and various stage parts.

In my research for the third section of Volitak_Boxor's alternate model database project, I've heard in BIONICLE Heroes (on the BIONICLE Wikia) that among the three other Rahi of the game (Fikou, Visorak and the dragonfly-like thing), there is a fourth Rahi that is a destroyable enemy that leaves currency and is a fish-like creature. Can anyone give me some more information or a picture of this thing?

Funny story actually; I'd just put this topic up, and I decided I wanted to re-read my Bionicle comics because I hadn't done that in forever. Then I came to this panel, which I'd completely forgotten about, and went "Oh *bleeep*!" I wish I could have reproduced those two spines in detail. Maybe someone with more artistic skill than myself could 3D print those two in the style of the legit Rahkshi spines. If you do think they are different, non-original 6 (or even non-Heat Vision, who also appeared in scale in the Metru comics) Rahkshi, which ones are they? If I remember the books correctly, they specifically mentioned an encounter in the Archives with two Rahkshi. One was Insect Control and the other was either Weather Control or Heat Vision. Not sure if that's the case in the comics. They do look like they're orange and gold however. Neat! To reiterate an earlier point, I have to ask people complaining about painting/customizing when it comes to replicating things shown (or in case of the Hagah, likely to have) with pieces or pieces in certain colours that just don't exist and may never unless there's a miraculous reason for LEGO to make that part. What's the closest someone's going to get to making an Olisi or many different Rahkshi without creating, modifying or painting parts? What do we do in that instance?

Should we count the new polybag as a set? It does have an enemy figure in it.

Wow, did you manage to avoid breaking any lime green pieces? 99.9% sure he broke one. One of the biggest reasons that I dislike the Pit War Tortoise. May I ask what the other reasons are? Also, what's this thing in the bottom right corner? Can anyone identify it? EDIT: Nevermind, it's a Vako (thank you BS01).

Wow, did you manage to avoid breaking any lime green pieces?