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  1. The concept art looks very good. It's clear that you have a passion for building these things and I think we can all appreciate that. But your idea simply won't happen. Lego aren't ones to give up rights to things. If you wanted to bring this into existence the way you want it you'd need actual investors and a company. You clearly have very good art skills and I would suggest you make this into a comic or flash animation. I know bionicle meant a lot to a lot of us but I'm afraid it's time to let it rest.
  2. Back in 2002 a very young boy started playing with a line of toys known as bionicle. That boy would someday become me. I feel there is no one person you can thank for this theme. So many people worked on it to make it what it was. And now that's it's gone (possibly forever), I feel the need to thank them. My childhood wasn't the easiest. However this theme was a light through all of it. It was something that always made me happy. No matter what it did. It was a thing that defined my taste in story. Ever since the days of viewing promos on mini discs the theme always left me awed to some degree or another. Even as a near adult I look at my old canisters and sets and think of a time long before now. Of different people, different places, a different me. In a lot of ways a happier time. And this theme was present throughout that time. It was always such a great feeling to get a new set and open it up, see how it all goes together. And those characters were genuinely inspiring to me. Some of the earliest heroic characters I can recall. So I would like to thank everyone involved in G1 for all of this. And I also thank the G2 team. We may have had different ideas on how to handle the theme but you were clearly doing your best with what you were given. You wanted the kids of today to grapple onto bionicle like we did. And although it may not have been a success your efforts will not be forgotten. Thank you for reading. Feel free to post whatever you like here.
  3. This is such a strange move on Lego's part. Their own highly secure chat system that parents can leave their kids on, gone? Maybe it just wasn't active enough. That might actually be the case seeing as with the fleeting glances I give that website these days I noticed it's a lot of the same older users who are still using it. Oh well. Although I'm not really sure if I want LMB users to flood other Lego communities. I know there are some mature users on that site but a lot of them are young children who spam a lot. Call me harsh but I think it's probably for the best that those less mature users don't enter the other websites. Then again I'm not sure how much longer I'll be active in any Lego communities so it's not my problem. Still though R.I.P old Lego website. You were way better then the current one.
  4. The activity on this forum seems to have decreased already....

  5. Something else I'd like to point out here. If your theory was true then how come matoran sets got produced year after year? Think about it. If the constraction figures in boxes didn't sell well then why were matoran and titans made year after year. Surely Lego would have stopped making them if they didn't make any money. Plus why wasn't there a massive drop in profits in 2007? The toa Mahri didn't come in canisters. Yet the theme wasn't cancelled till the next year and with decent profits. Clearly it was something else that made those sets sell.
  6. Move on I guess. Bionicle and Lego have dominated my life for years. Bionicle is gone. And current Lego themes no longer appeal to me. I must admit I can never be a dedicated fan of something to the point of trying to actively continue it. I just find new things to latch onto. And even then I don't want bionicle to come back. For all the things that G2 did right it was still a far cry from the theme I used to love back in 2002. Yeah I think I'll just focus more on video games and youtube from now on. I think I probably will leave BZP eventually. Normally when I lose interest in something I end up not being active in the community. And with nothing new to stimulate my love of bionicle (I don't tend to read fan stuff) I don't know how much longer I'll be around. Sorry if this isn't as positive as previous posts.
  7. The situation seems worse then I thought. Went to Oxford and wanted to see how the bionicle sets are doing in one of the main places to get sets there. They still had a pretty full shelf of 2015 sets...
  8. IC: Kavok Quake - penitentiary 1331 "GET DOWN" He yelled at night stalker Feeling the jolt of instinct he began to shoot at the remaining guards.
  9. Clearly took a lot of effort. Very impressive. Real shame Lego never did anything like this.
  10. GM IC: Black Phantom/Corrodor - Penitentiary 1331. Well... that was easy... While Black Phantom was remarking on this fact, Corrodor bounded back into view, laden with Kavok Quake's and Night Stalker's confiscated weaponry and equipment. The ammo had been taken away, of course, but Black Phantom had secured a supply of the duo's preferred projectiles in the hold of his ship. Assuming the pair didn't try to betray him before they'd even left the prison, he'd give them access to the ammo once they were safely on board the ship and en-route to their destination. "Corrodor, if you will," he took a step back from the cells, making room for Corrodor to open the cells with a few careful blasts of his signature acid. "Now, I believe these belong to you," he gestured to the pile of equipment that Corrodor had dumped before the two former prisoner's cells. OOC: Sorry. College/high school started up again "Thank you Corroder. And why wouldn't I go with you? You actually have posed a threat against HF. It's more then in my interest to destroy them any way I can. So where are we going next?"
  11. IC: Kavok Quake "Oh that little event. Impressive...." He paused a minute "Your wish is my command"
  12. IC: Kavok Quake He saw the black figure staring at him. Startled he looked at him and said "Who are you?!"
  13. There are Lego Castle Forums, and Lego Space Forums, and etc. Just look over on Eurobricks. And in the case of Castle I have seen a lot of harsh vocal criticism of certain "not-a-castle" themes this year... But just because the Bionicle fan base is vocal now doesn't mean it will still be vocal in 5 years, or 10, or 15. I was a Bionicle fan as a kid until 2007, when I abruptly stopped buying sets after being dissatisfied with the Barraki. I watched the story from afar but didn't participate actively in the Bionicle fan community again until 2015. I bought G2 sets because I thought they were brilliantly designed. Now that the line has been cancelled I hope to collect the remaining G2 sets I lack and MOC a few things to go with them. With that said, I don't know how long my interest will continue in Bionicle. While I love Lego and hope to collect System (and maybe soon Technic) sets for life, Bionicle sadly enough is something I would be content to ignore; something to remember as a fun part of my childhood and young adult years. And the truth is the fan base will lose members, for one simple cause: life goes on. Go and ask almost any millennial and they will tell you they remember Bionicle a bit, maybe even had a Toa Mata or two, maybe even once were active here on BZpower. But they grew up, interests changed and now they'd be lucky to even name the few sets they have stuffed away in storage. That is the case with all my friends who liked Bionicle when we were kids, they grew up. Do I think G3 could happen? Maybe. If it does I hope to someday be a parent then, as perhaps the best way to rekindle my best memories of Bionicle would be to share it with my kids. My G1 experience was that of a child, my G2 was that of a cynical adult. If G3 does happen I would hope to experience it very differently. Yeah it's true. Truth of the matter is that most of the people who were into the line in say 2002 are gone now. The modern bionicle fanbase is only a small percentage of the kids who grew up with it. Audiences online may appear big but in reality they're a very small minority. People don't tend to go and actively engage with the things they grew up with. The people who do it online are people from many different areas and countries. And when anything dies content for it online begins to stagnate. It happened with G1 despite it's rich universe. If that's what happened to G1 then how will G2 age?
  14. I don't think it's gonna happen. When you think about it bionicle is the first proper reboot lego have done. They have done space police and other themes a couple times but at the end of the day they are reboots in name only. Bionicle seems to be the only unique concept of there's which was rebooted and took a lot of elements from the original. What a lot of people forget with the original is that it wasn't a failure by the time they decided to cancel it. It actually still sold and was still relatively well promoted. It's just that the profits were consistently going down. The reason Lego brought it back was to try and recapture the popularity of the original. But it's failed and presumably got even less money. It took the early 2000s profits to justify a comeback in Lego's eyes. That's their standards to do such a thing. So I think unless there is a major policy change at Lego they won't do it again. And if they create a line that's able to be more popular then both bio G2 and HF then I think that's gonna make it even less likely. Hate to be a downer but I think this is the end.
  15. I think Lego will just give up on constraction for a while. When/if they do make a comeback I have a feeling they'll make a theme that's somewhere inbetween bionicle and HF. Not too complicated but not too simplistic (kinda like ninjago).
  16. So I took a quick look at the lego message boards and found that there's only one petition on the bionicle forum calling for it's return. Did the fanbase really shrink that much?

    1. Rahkshi Guurahk

      Rahkshi Guurahk

      Well, that iiiiiiiis the lego message boards, and most of the people still on there weren't into lego for most of bionicle's lifespan. =P

    2. Ghidora131

      Ghidora131

      People still use it?

       

      Wow.

    3. masterchirox580

      masterchirox580

      Yeah it's pretty ridiculous. But I did notice a lot of the people who were on the bionicle forum did say they were into G1 when it was still around. Even then though it does show how unpopular it was with today's kids. Real sad sight to see. I can still remember back to 2003 (might have been 2002) when bionicle was still really popular. I remember seeing banners for it. Merchandise. And there would always be a canister sold out. Times change I guess...

  17. Doubt it would have helped. The only country this series is known to have aired in is the UK. Although I am thinking of getting in contact with Huw of brickset to see if he knows anything about it. He's been running that site since 1997. was talking about bzp Yeah I know. Just saying the Huw might know something.
  18. Doubt it would have helped. The only country this series is known to have aired in is the UK. Although I am thinking of getting in contact with Huw of brickset to see if he knows anything about it. He's been running that site since 1997.
  19. I'd donate if I could. But I'm surprised he's in this situation. With his work on Lego Island you'd think he'd still be in the games industry somewhere. I'll spread this around.
  20. The secret life pets. Boring, forgettable, and cliche.
  21. Hello there. In recent months I've developed an interest in lost pieces of media (particularly animation) and has made me want to find a lost piece of Lego history. Look at this topic for more details on that piece of history: http://www.bzpower.com/board/topic/11717-old-lego-adventurers-cartoon/ I believe this may exist somewhere and I believe I may be able to find evidence of it by looking through archives of Lego fansites. However though I don't know all the fansites and the only one I could think of did not have archives going back to 1998. If anyone could help me find old lego fansites that have archives going back to 1998 I would appreciate it. P.S Not sure if this should go in the Lego discussion. I consider it off-topic as it is about my search for a very obscure mini-series.
  22. I liked it when it first came out. Bionicle had been present as far as I can remember so it was nice to see something different. But my opinion towards it has declined over the years. Whilst sets such as witch doctor did show that the theme could do something it was too bogged down by the cheaper sets which have not aged well at all. The 2.0 sets look terrible now and they were out only five years ago. In all honesty the only thing that really held the theme together was the time it was released. They had a whole new building system so the sets were kinda interesting at the time. But G2 just blew nearly 5 years worth of sets out the water. So these days I don't really care that much for HF. Or even miss it for that matter.
  23. I would like to point out the wording of Lego's tweets. They simply said bionicle. They did not specify which version. And the recent press announcement shows that G2 is now the official name. They also said that some products were more successful then others. This could mean a number of things. For example select figures could have sold well whilst the others sold poorly. Or G2 may have failed and they could just be referring to G1.
  24. So bionicle ends again. And I'm not even half as sad as I was the first time this happened.

  25. Well I believe all the villains are in a temporary prison as the HF was destroyed. So from there I have two proposals for escape. Scenario 1: The temporary prison is poorly constructed and he exploits this to get out. Scenario 2: A prison guard is sympathetic to him and let's him get out. Actually, all the villains are in a proper prison- to be exact, the prison Corroder attacked in the second Hero Factory episode. I think it was mentioned by another GM somewhere? Another thing to add to the FAQ I need to do I guess. Additionally, Hero Factory is certainly not the only place to keep villains; there are several named ones in canon, and it's implied Hero Factory sends them there too. Point is, the prison would be pretty decently made, which knocks out your first scenario. Your second scenario is highly unlikely. Kavok Quake is in there for mass murder. I'm assuming the guards would have access to this information. That's a tough thing to feel sympathetic about, and additionally letting him out might mean he'd just go do it again. It's a really tricky situation, honestly. And I'm not doing it to be mean, it's just that this is where the last RPG left him, and we want him out but with a reason that would work. I've been talking with some of the other GMs about it, and hopefully we'll be able to get you a good reason he's escaped soon. I know we have to keep things making sense. No need to apologize. Anyway: Scenario 3: Quake is broken out by a villain who wants to use his knowledge in making explosives to their advantage Scenario 4: Finds a way out while the guards are distracted.
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