Toa_Kralich

I love the green elastic band - makes him look like he's got a laurel on!

Thinking about it, I wonder what Teridax looked like before he tried to overthrow Mata Nui. Would he have been a bit more gentle-looking, like Melding Teridax?

Thank you both for your answers! I'll give a crack at looking up champagne gold and also moseying down to the nearest store with spray cans, see if I can match something that way too.

Hey all, years ago I bought one of those Bionicle Heroes Ignika masks off of Shapeways for a Toa of Psionics. Recently I was thinking it'd be nice to spray it pearl gold to fit in with the rest of her colour scheme. I was wondering if anyone here had any suggestions on good pearl gold sprays to use? I'm in the UK so suggestions from UK retailers would be ideal. Thanks for any responses in advance!

Wow - and I thought some of the stuff in Windsor was cool! I really ought to get to Billund at some point and see how that place looks - Legoland Windsor is still one of my favourite places to this day, but I've not been to another one yet.

Wow, these are awesome! They really evoke the style of the animated Turaga.

Ooh, I didn't even notice how the thumbs were put together! This whole build just yells creativity. The more I look the more I find I like about it.

I really wish we'd gotten one or two more versions of Makuta - maybe one to round off Gen 1, and one to round off Gen 2. Getting the Ultimate Power Makuta in Gen 2 and a Makuta in Stars would've been nice, but then again, anything besides Stars to wrap up Gen 1 would've been nice.

Today I sorted through some masks and realised my pearl gold Ignika is a bit more valuable than I thought, going by Bricklink prices, so I found a little plastic sleeve to stick it in to keep it safe. Still waiting on a trans-red 2015 Hau to arrive - got two already, but saw a nice cheap one on Ebay and couldn't resist.

Given how much plastic the company produces anyway, I think it's pretty good of them to start looking into ways to minimise the stuff we don't need. We can always do a little bit more for the environment.

Oh hey, saw this before! I also loved the Breeze helmet being used because it fits a droid face really well.

Wow, some really really cool stuff in here!

Futurama meant a lot more to me as a kid than Simpson's ever did, so I can't not check this out. The set construction is really cool and I love it!

A creative use of the Breeze 2.0 helmet piece - love it!

One of these days I really ought to get around to visiting some of the cool Lego attractions in Denmark. I s'pose this'll be one of them when I do!

Given the more mystical feel to it, I think this is a good and snappy take too. Looking back on it and how the story was being put together, it felt like it could've gone anywhere - doubling down on the mystical tribal feel to things, instead of going for the Sci-fi stuff we ended up with. I've always liked some of the more techy elements they implemented in the end but maybe something more magical, literally, would've been interesting too.

Whilst I wasn't old enough to follow along with Bionicle at the time of its inception, in retrospect, the 2001 sets have this kind of mythological feel to them. They're so basic and bare-bones compared to later Bionicle sets, yet a lot of the core principles were already being explored, and the Toa masks themselves will always be iconic to me. I remember finding a Miru Nuva whilst wandering around a Bionicle pick-and-mix place in Legoland Windsor when I was seven or eight years old. It felt like stumbling upon a bit of archaeology, and whenever I look through my parts boxes and stumble upon a half-constructed old Toa Mata I got from an ebay bundle or something at some point, it's quite fun to rebuild it and remember what came before.

All of these were really great and helped sell the dangerous mystery of the world that felt pervasive in 2001 and 2002. It always felt like if you weren't staying strictly in towns, it kind of sucked to be a Matoran!

Now that's a blast from the past! My older brother had one of these as a kid, but lost the Greedo and the Stormtrooper to the wears and tears of time. We still have the Dewback piece somewhere in the green lego box, I think!

When it comes to Lego Ideas I do tend to prefer the more creative tie-in stuff - creatively made branded sets, or an original idea, even. I like them anyway, but I think Ideas is a good place to push creative stuff rather than marketable but generic sets.

If by interesting you mean pikeys or crackheads carrying razors trying to nick a four pack of fosters...yeah, it's interesting Let's just say you develop a pretty thick tolerance to weird and difficult situations pretty quickly. Smaller shops like the one I work at have really tightly knit teams, though, and we're all close friends that stick up for each other when things get tough. Today was a work day, all went well, except a kid slipped over carrying two pints milk which exploded onto the floor. A messy clean-up but luckily the kid wasn't hurt.

I remember some of Notch's old games he hosted on his website weren't blocked on the school network. Many lunchtimes were spent playing SHAMBLES in, er, geography club.

It'd really be worth making a Discord account to check it out. Then you can ask them in person, and if they don't have it, others might be able to help you. Doesn't take long to make an account, and BZPower has a Discord, too, so you might get something more out of it in any case.

I was too little when it happened to have clocked it at the time, but even in the UK my parents remember seeing it with a mixture of shock and dread. They'd been on holiday to New York about a week before it happened.

I guess this is the part that matters. People pay upwards of $50 on Shapeways for 3D Printed Bionicle masks. They pay tens of dollars for homebrew masks by resin moulders and painters and kitbashers. None of that stuff is legitimate, right? But people like it for the fact of having something that looks cool. I guess it's also worth factoring in collector's items and legitimacy, but every obscure misprint could just as easily have been invented, and Lego is never going to officially come out and say "this is a comprehensive list of every misprint or prototype that left the company's storerooms." Follow how you feel and what interests you.