mistergryphon

I'd like to pick up a copy of the Telltale game, it's apparently one of the best games of 2012. I've seen a few episodes of the show, and a few of my friends are pushing me to watch it, so I think I might watch the whole thing after I'm done with Sgt. Frog and TBBT.

O_O That is beautiful. ....My precious. My precious! *Gollum voice*

*dumps out parts into huge pile*

*pays little brother a shiny quarter and some minifigures to play with to organize by color*

*looks at box and challenges self to build without instructions*

The third part is the most difficult, but it works fairly often. Unless it's Technic...then I end up being a large yellow blob of nothing.

Oh, this is a while back.... (not much time for LEGO anymore ). Probably a Hero Factory set, one of the animal themed ones. It was cool. I could probably locate it if I wanted, and I think I bought it right after that wave was released.

 

 

 

I love Crysoshell, and I always have since Creeping in My soul. to me, their songs were the representation of BIONICLE. The song "Falling" to me is the unofficial 2010/2001-2010 song. I just heard the preview for "Breakout" for Hero Factory, and it sounds good, even though the original artist is not singing it -Star

I believe Christine Lorentzen is still on maternity leave (or at least, was when that song was being recorded). Being a parent means that she will probably have much less time for the band, but she can't be faulted for that. In the meantime, it's not the first song she hasn't been a part of by any means-- Face Me and Gravity Hurts both featured different vocalists.

 

Wasn't Gravity Hurts done by Phantoka? Or was that the name of the album?

 

"Phantoka" was the name of the album if you downloaded it from LEGO.com. "Gravity Hurts" was sung by Niels Brinck, the same singer who performed "Face Me".

 

Ah, yes. Derp.

Mark Stafford or Samuel Johnson. I need more people involved in LEGO Ninjago to join. Also, would people like Jay Vincent, Michael Kramer, and The Fold who are contracted by LEGO count?

I would love to have them on here.

 

Hey guys, discussion pertaining to Speedorz or anything not related to the show goes in this topic.

 

And now because I just thought of Speedorz I have to say how awesome the Speedorz look animated in the TV series. And I'm so glad that they are canon, unlike the Ninjago spinners.

The Ninjago spinners weren't non-canon so much as they were a physical representation of the more abstract Spinjitzu. I feel the sets that represented this the best were the NRG Ninja spinners, with their transparent colors and elemental patterning.

 

I thought of some ways that the spinners could be a little more canon, but they weren't very practical. One idea included slimming down a spinner and making a web-like spinner that had a color that corresponded to it's element that would be placed on the top of the spinner.

1. What country are you from?2. What languages do you speak?3. Can you easily buy Lego products in your country?4. Can you still find Bionicle/older Hero Factory sets in your shops?5. How long does it take for the latest Lego sets to reach stores?6. Do you buy Lego products in shops or online? Which is easier?7. Would you like to see more Lego products available in your country?9. Why do you think I missed out the number 8?10. Am I wasting my time, and does anyone remember me?

1: 'Murica

2: English, a bit of Korean, I can read Spanish, and my Latin is limited to about 15 words but I still know a little bit.

3: Yep!

4: Yep.

5: Not very long.

6: Online, because I don't have a LEGO store VERY close, but I can drive there if I can't find it online.

7: Nope.

9: Because your brain was addled by a nipsy attack?

10: No and no.

I'm Haruhi. This is an adventure, right? Right?!

 

 

Well, since Aanchir is my brother, he kind of just said the same thing I would. But if you are physically incapable of scrolling back to his post, here:

My family has always encouraged it and hopes, just as I do, that I will one day get a job with the company.

One difference is that I love to lol at some old themes like Paradisa and Belville, and sometimes even the various gimmicks in Bionicle. Another difference is that I kind of want to get a web development job at LEGO, while Aanchir wants to get a set design job.

 

Belville. Pfft. What do you mean by gimmicks?

 

 

gim·mick

Noun: A trick or device intended to attract attention, publicity, or business.

 

Squid launchers could be an example, and so could masks that would fall off if attacked.

 

Yes, I knew that. But whatever...

The director who's the obvious choice is Peter Jackson, though I have my own deep set thoughts on how a Bionicle film series should be attempted; but given that I'm going to film school in about a year and a half to hopefully start a career in such things, I VILL NOT TELL YA!

.....Michael Bay? xD

 

 

its a wiki... Cant anyone do that?

TCW's keeping registration closed until we have some more solid story information, since currently we have very little that amounts to more than rumors (and much of what we do have is translated from other languages, so there's the possibility of info getting lost in translation). But it shouldn't be too long now until we have some really reliable info...

 

Actually my primary reason for keeping registration closed is so that all TNW users will be able to have simultaneous logins on both wikis, and when one registers on one site, it works on another, without having to register twice. We are hoping to have TCW open by around Christmas-time. The point about information being added is only a minor concern. We have a large staff team already, so moderation won't be as difficult as it was on The Ninjago Wiki.

GLaD to be on it..... (yes I'll buy you Portal)

A little bit of color similarity so it's hard to discern their differences, but still a very high quality MOC.

I've thought about this before, and the obvious answer is no, it wouldn't work, because there are no human characters in Bionicle.

 

But what if there were?

 

Remember that movies always deviate from their canon source. Bionicle is a dead line, so a live-action movie need only be loosely inspired by the original story.

 

So let's say we wanted to make 2001 into a live-action movie; seems like a good place to start. Let's tweak the backstory a bit: the Great Beings are futuristic humans from Earth (not much of a deviation from the original story, to be honest - the Great Beings are confirmed in canon to not be human but act a lot like us). There was no Shattering - Mata Nui was simply sent out to investigate life on other planets. Many years later, he returns, but crash-lands on Earth (he's also a lot smaller because canon Mata Nui wouldn't fit on Earth) and creates his disguise-island. The Toa Mata are sent out as the failsafe to reboot Mata Nui, but oops! The canisters shoot out of Karda Nui and hit an airplane that just happens to be flying overhead. The plane crashes on Mata Nui (Bionicle + Lost = win) and the six sole survivors of the plane crash have to don the dead Toa Mata's armor and save the island.

 

Sure, it's not the Bionicle that I grew up with, but I'd still watch it.

I'll give an example of something that greatly deviated from the original story (although not because of inability to recreate the story in a movie, because the original was quite short): Horton Hears a Who. If the Bionicle movie was like that, I'd quite enjoy it. I'm going to say it would be a "not that great if you compare it to the original, but in it's own way, not compared to Bionicle, it's pretty decent."

Dang that's a beautiful image. o.o

The Dynamic Height modification hasn't been updated since 2011, and isn't really compatible with the current version of Minecraft.

Oh, darn.

The color of these parts, custom painted? custom cast? Photoshop? Or are they real?Here: http://www.brickshel.../Takanuva/2.jpg^see how they are a really light gold color.Here's the parts in the only gold color I know them in: http://www.brickshel.../Takanuva/1.jpgDid the 2003 Takanuva mask ever come in a light gold color? And if they did, what set did they come in?

I have a set that looks very much like that. I'll have to get it out and tell you what it is. ^^

Well, due to Bionicle being a /child's toy/, I don't think they'd have an actual "mask of death". They may have something that implies it, but they'd never have an actual mask of death.

The only way it can be live action is through stop-motion.

This, although it would be fairly expensive that way as well. IMO, CGI is the only good way to do it.

 

Ah, but see, I think that Bionicle has the potential to reach outside what most people would call the fandom. Not everyone who went to see the Transformers films is a die-hard adult fan who watches the show, collects the toys, posts on TF forums, edits fan wikis and otherwise participates in a fan community. There are many people who went to see those films who hadn't watched a Transformers cartoon in ten years, but had fond memories of the show when they were a child. And I'm sure there are plenty of people with a similar nostalgia for the early years of Bionicle.

 

Those are the people that a movie would be aimed at. Not us.We're insignificant in the grand scheme of things. As the Scott Pilgrim movie demonstrated, if you aim soley at the geeks, you're going to fail.

 

And the need to have human or human-looking characters in movies aimed at adults seems to be on the decline. Perhaps we're not quite there yet, but the advances in technology are making it more possible to have nonhuman characters that look believable and relatable without falling into the Uncanny Valley. Then there's the fact that studios like Pixar are slowly breaking down the perception that animation/CGI films with nonhuman characters are for children only.

 

So, while it's perhaps not as likely to be picked up any more, I don't really see any reason why it couldn't work if it was properly executed.

I don't think Bionicle ever reached the kind of cultural saturation in its ten-year run that Transformers did over its 25-year run before the movie. With Transformers, almost every kid born in the past 30 or so years had at least been aware of Transformers in some way (even if only by seeing commercials for the toys on TV). Bionicle had less than half that time to be noticed, and now that it's ended awareness of the theme is going down, not up (Transformers, after all, never really "ended" completely).

 

Plus, Transformers already had a number of aspects in common with traditional summer blockbuster movies: taking place in the real world, having human characters for audiences to relate to, featuring a disaster scenario in real world cities, having a simple to understand premise, etc. Compared to those, the mythology-heavy Bionicle storyline feels at best like Lord of the Rings (but with hardly a fraction of its cultural saturation), and at worst like poorly-performing fantasy films like The Dark Crystal.

 

I quote enjoyed The Dark Crystal.

Yes, Gryphon, I believe those have all been linked to already. Funny stuff, LOL.

Oops, my bad. Sorry~

As I'm not running a server and that option doesn't exist in singleplayer, it isn't very helpful. I suspect, though, that it probably can't be raised above 256 using that option,so... Yeah, a modification is necessary if I want to build proper mountains.

Oh, I know you probably don't care about that anymore, but I've been thinking about it and I found something! http://www.xboxmb.com/forum/122-minecraft-pc/89198-dynamic-height-mod-256-2048-block-high-worlds.html The Dynamic Height mod (darn word filter).

An apopalyptic lava filled hellish landscape that makes me think of death, Mustafar, and the inside of a pizza oven.

So I was wondering if anybody here has every met another BZPower member in real life, and if so, who?

 

My list goes (if I remember 100%):

• Aanchir: Rachira of Time (hard not to have met my brother)
• Lyichir (again, hard not to have met my brother)
• Black Six
• DeeVee
• Chols
• 55555
• Daiker
• Zaath
• Toa Zaz
• Sumiki
• Brickeens
• Aramor (inactive, but went to middle school with me)

I think that's all that I remember, but I could've forgotten some.

You drive through my town often, or so you say, but never met ya. Unless I carjack everyone in town every time you're near my house.

Dude, you gotta wait for us. And especially don't double post.Anyway, the Neoshifters from Megabloks seemed pretty confusing and could barely pass as a BIONICLE.

I had a few of those back in the day....they were useful for the little light that some of them had on their heads. And that's all. ._.

Oh, and I found a ton of knockoffs.... xD

I'd rather not share the rest so I don't spam the page, but I found many more.

About two months ago, I decided to play a few games on Lego.com. The only Bionicle game still currently available there is Agori Defender, so I decided to give it another try. I played it a few times over a couple of days and, on my last try, I got a new highscore. Not just anywhere in the Top 10, but the #1 highscore! Yeah, I was quite surprised when I first saw that.I've checked back recently and it seems two more people have made new highscores, one of them actually surpassing mine by 6,000. I'm still in the #2 spot with an amazingly high score, so I'm not concerned at the moment.Has anyone played this game recently? Anyone willing to give it another try and see if you can make a Top 10 highscore?

About to try and beat your score - prepare to watch me fail!

 

About two months ago, I decided to play a few games on Lego.com. The only Bionicle game still currently available there is Agori Defender, so I decided to give it another try. I played it a few times over a couple of days and, on my last try, I got a new highscore. Not just anywhere in the Top 10, but the #1 highscore! Yeah, I was quite surprised when I first saw that.I've checked back recently and it seems two more people have made new highscores, one of them actually surpassing mine by 6,000. I'm still in the #2 spot with an amazingly high score, so I'm not concerned at the moment.Has anyone played this game recently? Anyone willing to give it another try and see if you can make a Top 10 highscore?

About to try and beat your score - prepare to watch me fail!

 

I got a score of 1,389. ;___;