Peter Johnson

I forfeit this game...not because Lucina hasn't been on but because I don't go on BZP much anymore so...

 

In any case there certainly is no denying that Adventure Time pushes the envelope farther and farther as time goes on. The episode Breezy, for instance, had some really, uh. Suggestive themes and scenes? Let's call them that, for lack of a better way to describe it considering that this is BZP. Or you have your Lemongrab episodes from late season 5, what with the cannibalism and dictatorship and...yeah. It's a whole thing.

 Breezy wasn't all that bad...

 

So did anyone see the ending to Lemonhope part 2? I don't get it.

I think that just a look at the future for Lemonhope.

 

I saw it, but I didn't like it. It got boring.

That is true. But I love it. Especially the Lich- Adventure Time carries that awesome "yup this show is way off the hook" feeling on the surface, but when you start getting deep down into it, looking at ruins, putting two and two together, it becomes a whole lot darker and more interesting.

You just worded that absolutely perfect

So. Apparently I'm on Team SHM

Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D. Got it off of Club Nintendo, and I must say that I am actually enjoying the game more than I did the first time around on Wii. It is an excellent game, and tempts me to try out Tropical Freeze.

I wanted that game. I could have gotten it, but I couldn't find my 3DS packaging for the code before Club Nintendo was shut down >.< I so jelly.

The last game I played was Dig or Die. Its an awesome game.

I get this strange feeling that Im gonna get kicked out >.<

CCBS

So, we've got the LEGO website with all of the Bionicle G2 storyline up to date...but they are very short and do not go into detail. So I'm starting an epic.

Chapter I

The Legend

There were once two brothers, Ekimu and Makuta. These two brothers were legendary mask makers on the island of Okoto. The island Okoto consisted of 6 regions, each having it's own elemental power. There was fire, water, stone, earth, jungle, and ice. The region of Fire is volcanic and fierce. Magma spills from the huge mountain ranges and run south forming broad, burning rivers. The region of earth is black, glasslike and nightmarish while the region of stone is a great barren desert spreading across the northwestern part of Okoto. The region of ice is extremely frigid (obviously) and glaciers and tundra permanently freeze it. The region of water is composed of lakes and thundering rivers that form large deltas. Finally, the region of jungle is a dangerous place full of gigantic trees and savage wildlife.

Going back to the two brothers and mask makers, Ekimu's masks were considerably more acclaimed than Makuta's masks, expecially Ekimu's great Mask of Creation. Makuta's greatest mask at the moment was the Mask of Control. However, there was an ancient law that states a mask can only have a single elemental power in it, and because of his jealousy, Makuta broke the law and made The Mask of Ultimate Power. The moment Makuta put the mask on, he became so powerful that he grew very large and the earth quaked. Suddenly, Ekimu, realizing what his brother had done, managed to take off Makuta's Mask of Ultimate Power. This created a shockwave, sending both the brothers into an eternal sleep...

Quick question, (I'm pretty new to bionicle), does the G1 Makuta have anything to do with the G2 Mask-maker Makuta?

That'd be "too fast."

Lol, how did I not notice that?

Komodo Dragon seems too much like aligator.

But a frog tribe would be cool.

Yeah, we just won too fast, didn't we?

Hey, my favorite is   but I've never seen anybody else use it. Also, I like

Ive been looking for a G2 video game, and this looks amazing.

Luroka, Burnmad, ToaK, and ShadowVezon. This will be interesting.

Oh, memories. LEGO Star Wars. They don't still sell it, but this was probably my second or third.

It depends. What are you looking to make? A:

Toa?

Makuta?

Humanoid?

Half-humanoid, half-animal? 

Animal?

Toa and Matoran mostly.

A good thing to remember is to try to have stylistic consistency in your MOCs. Often that means trying to use parts that have the same motifs and textures in several places throughout the model. As an example, this leg beam goes great with this torso shell because they both have segmented bands and the same pattern of circular dots arranged in triangles or hexagons. Likewise, this leg beam goes great with this foot because they have similar pistons and trapezoid-shaped pockets or cavities. Using parts that have matching textures and motifs like this can create a sense of visual harmony where all the parts feel like they belong together.

 

Stylistic consistency is easy to achieve with CCBS (Character and Creature Building System, meaning the building system used for BIONICLE 2015 and other post-2010 constraction sets), because most of those parts, especially basic shells and beams, have very similar textures. It's still useful to keep in mind, though. If one part of a model uses very rounded armor and another part of the model uses very angular armor, they might not flow together very well (although this can sometimes be useful if you WANT different parts of the model to be at odds with each other, like Splitface from Hero Factory).

 

Two other useful skills to remember are color layering and color blocking. Color layering means having different colors to represent different layers of the design. The Toa Metru are a good example of simple color layering — their Dark Stone Grey parts represent their inner layer, while their elementally-colored armor represents their outer layer. Color blocking, on the other hand, means using different colors for different sections of the model. The Toa Mata are a good example of simple color blocking — their shoulders and hips are all black, their masks, torsos, and feet are all in their primary elemental colors, and their legs and arms are all in their secondary elemental colors. None of these parts are strictly an "inner layer" or an "outer layer", but they make the different sections of the build stand out from each other.

 

Both these techniques help color schemes feel more thought-out and deliberate, rather than chaotic and random. You can use both together, use one or the other, or even use neither (but this last option generally only works if you WANT a chaotic look, and can be harder to pull off without the MOC looking sloppy and thrown together).

Thanks a bunch for the help.

WOO! That was an awesome and interesting round.

Im pretty new to MOCs and I was wondering if anybody could give me some tips.

(Btw, I didn't know whether I should post this under Bionicle Discussion or Bionicle Based Creations)

habrfadtuegwtdlml? What in the name of sanity?

Maybe instead of this "Flappy" guy they could have Max from "The Adventures of Max" that's on the Lego/Lego Club website.

Omg. Wow. I wasn't even participating in the last two rounds cause I was so confused and didn't even know it had started...

Sorry team.

Hey wait is Aiwendil Doorman's new name? Cause I targeted Doorman.

EDIT: And why do I always die first round? D:

 

Well to my understanding all the comics up to Comic 15: Mata Nui Rising (Ignition era, 2008; Bionicle Battles for Power) can be quite legally copied &/or read legally, as (over)simply the 'licences' have 'run out', so whilst they are still TLG etc. property it's free for all non-commercial uses ie providing no one (else) makes money.

*phew* ok...good.

Sign me up. Slot 99999. If 99999 is not possible, 10.

Though time-consuming to tackle, all the novels can be read here if you want to go in-depth. (They're not each especially long, but there are many.) I also believe most if not all of the comics were condensed into graphic novels, which are probably super-cheap on Amazon, and would be a much quicker read for sure.  I suppose there are also the movies, but those cover less than half of the years G1 ran for, skip a lot, and don't always do a great job of explaining things, so your results may vary.

 

G1 will probably be a chore to catch up on, but each individual chunk is generally pretty approachable, so it's definitely doable.  I hope you enjoy it!

Hmmm....I wanna read these but is that like, illegal?