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  1. So I was watching a few Japanese Bionicle commercials and I noticed that Japan had a dedicated Bionicle site, www.bionicle.jp.

    I looked into it and it turns out there's a decent amount of pages preserved on the internet archive. Some of them seem to be more complete than their corresponding English language versions, especially the 2004 era stuff which I haven't seen backed up anywhere else.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20030808042209/http://www.lego.com/jpn/bionicle/

    https://web.archive.org/web/20031124212551/http://www.lego.com/jpn/bionicle/

    https://web.archive.org/web/20040924021333/http://www.lego.com/jpn/bionicle/

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  2. God the Mistika and Phantoka were so hideous, although I actually like the bug Mistika. Not necessarily set related, but I HATE the easily cracking pieces of 2007 onward. They are so poorly designed it boggles my mind how Lego could have allowed them to ship. I mean this genuinely, I don't think I have a single uncracked piece in my collection, and I distinctly remember some of them cracking on first time use. Unacceptable.

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  3. Seeing Lego directly acknowledge previous sets in the 2010 Stars line was pretty surreal. I was 9-10 at the time so I had a Goldfish's attention span, and a year felt like a REALLY long time. So even in 2010, the Piraka felt ancient... the Takanuva set Kanohi even used the original 2003 mould I think. 2015 was mind-blowing for a similar reason, seeing Lego pay homage to MNOG, the original Toa, and bringing back functions in what I hold to this day to be the perfect marriage of the old system and the new was amazing.

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  4. What style of music do you think fits Bionicle best? 2000s style techno? Orchestral? Tribal? Rap? Not sure what you'd call it, but like, rock?... (think gravity hurts, cryoshell stuff).

    Personally I prefer techno, especially MNOG's music and the Power Pack. By the way, does MNOG's music composer have any of the old tracks in high quality still? What a tragic loss it'd be if he didn't. Come to think of it, most Bionicle media has surprisingly good music.

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  5. 26 minutes ago, That Matoran with a Vahi said:

    In 2004 I was... going through a phase of realising that model paint, that I had got for something else, could be equally well applied to Lego pieces to give them new and unique looks. This was all well and good, in its way, when I was just slapping it around randomly on non-essential masks or other spare parts, but... I then had the great idea that this boring (?!) white misprint Ruru, that I didn't fully realise the rarity of at the time, could be painted red to make it Kapura's mask from the 02 Matoran renders.

    This reminds me of the phase I went through trying to dye lego pieces... never did get it to work since Ritz changed their formula or something.

  6. Chewing the rubbery pieces
    Throwing away the boxes
    Keeping the pieces together in one massive box for over a decade, grinding against each other anytime I went building
    Handling the sets way too roughly, especially the joint pieces (nearly ALL of my childhood joints are cracked, scratched, pitted, you name it)
    Oh, and one thing in particular. Once when I was a kid, I got some of my brother's Toa Mata chest pieces, and I inserted the little black neck sideways, and held it in with two little pins. Well, once the deed was done it was impossible to undo and I wrecked them trying to get the stalks out. Recreation:

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  7. So what were the Toa Kaita for? Such a big deal was made in 2001 about them in promotion CDs, and it's all the Turaga talked about in MNOG. And besides all that they're important thematically, the Toa's hard-won unity, given form. But then they are immediately trashed by the Manas and torn apart upon entering the Makuta's inner realm. Does anyone else find this a little, I dunno, ANTI-CLIMATIC? I think it'd have been better if the Toa Kaita properly defeated the Manas without "cheating" by destroying those weird control towers. And while it makes sense that the Toa's fusion would be forced apart in the inner lair of the Spirit of Destruction, I think it would have worked better thematically if the Toa remained Kaita during their confrontation with the Makuta, and then consciously make the decision to unfuse after being teleported out of his lair, "victorious". 

    After all, isn't unity what the Toa spent all their time that first year trying to attain? Why then, after uniting literally to the point where they merge into powerful, god-like beings, would they be painted as incompetent and powerless? What are your thoughts?

  8. 48 minutes ago, Sir Keksalot said:

    I think this could not possibly be less important to me because AFV is garbage television for boomers and infants and it doesn't matter when somebody from 2003 mentions things beyond the show itself.

    And yet you still felt the need to let everybody know in the most snarky and passive-aggressive manner possible?

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  9. Creepiest part of Bionicle for me, ever since I was a kid, is right after the Battle of the Kini-Nui in MNOG when you have to go through a completely abandoned Onu-Koro to get to the opened sundial room, the golden mask inside of which now nowhere to be seen. It's creepy for a number of reasons, after Maku wakes you up no one will have a proper conversation with you, if you click on them you just get a sentence or two long text bubble. There's a general feeling of being in the quiet before the storm. Miles below the surface of Mata-Nui, the Toa are about to fight an entity so powerful that merely stepping into his inner realm was enough to dissolve the Toa-Kaita. Stuff like this is why I love 2001, but admittedly without Templar to flesh out and embellish the relatively simple story, Bionicle very well could have just been another forgettable line like Robo Riders/Throwbots. 

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  10. 44 minutes ago, Xboxtravis said:

    Is that the Hydrogen Peroxide method? I hear it works great. 

    As for cracked parts, I just buy used ones of Bricklink or dig them out at bulk bins at Bricks and Minifigures. Lego is a mass produced toy, no reason not to take advantage of it and just buy the more parts. 

    I used 40 volume cream developer and some saran wrap, works a treat for computer plastic but I had never tried it on lego pieces before. Here's a before and after, for some reason the camera didn't capture how yellow some of the parts really were. But regarding buying up spare parts from online vendors, are you worried the supply might run out some day?

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