Toa_Kralich

I've kept my Bionicle Heroes DVD I got from Legoland Windsor as a kid even though I don't actually have a DVD drive in my PC and I have to use MyAbandonWare.com now these days to actually play the game. It's a nice memento, I suppose. Maybe it might be worth keeping the disk of Lego Universe for the same reason?

It might be worth considering he has a good reason for keeping it under wraps. If it wasn't officially through Lego he obtained these and instead through a friend who used to work at Lego, for example, that friend might be put into deep water if he's named. I don't know him or the stuff in question very well so maybe it is or isn't genuine, but not citing where the source is from could be to cover himself or others, which is reasonable.

Ooh, I can see my girlfriend liking this a bit. Get some pink and red lego and she'd have fun building with it. I'm not sure if she'd wear it though...interesting choice, wearable lego clothing.

It looks cool, but I'm not super impressed given its price tag. I remember paying a bit less than that for a full-sized Star Destroyer when I was younger, which was a way cooler set piece. I feel the Master Builder stuff looks more appealing when it can be both a set piece and a playset, and I feel this one is going to be good for playing with but a bit too disjointed to be much else. I can't recall if they've already done this, but a Master Builder Mon Calamari Cruiser on a similar scale to the Star Destroyer would be awesome.

I don't recall seeing it on BMP either - did you try joining their Discord server (the link's at the top of the main BMP page) and asking one of the archivists there? They might be able to shed some light on this

They're like chicken nuggets, but in the shape of unicorns, and, er, turkey, instead of chicken. I always felt turkey was just dryer chicken so it's never really been one of my favourites, but it's alright. I'm a junior manager at an Iceland I've been working at for two years so retail is pretty regularly on my mind! I don't mind it - I've made close friends with my colleagues - but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to a change of scene once I finish my degree.

Wow, awesome! I've seen your account around, really cool stuff!

Now the last one's Bionicle Heroes. Writing up documentation for making your own mods for the game requires lots of trial and error first to figure out good methodologies. I've probably played more Heroes in the last three or four weeks than in the rest of my life at this point!

I think the movie benefits as a result, for sure. I often use weapon parts for more utility purposes in my MOCs. I do wonder how they might've worked had the middle connection been something like chains instead to hit home the "swingable" motif, with the top and bottom parts being solid pieces instead, the midriff being the chains. Thinking about it, I might've seen a Nokama MOC that did something like this once, but I can't be sure.

If they're made out of lego...maybe it's possible to modify the maximum circumference with a little bit of clever MOCing?

A lot of people sell Bionicle-themed stuff on etsy and such - custom masks, moulds of existing masks but with different plastic colourations to what we got, painted masks, etc. I think a hand-made hand-sewn face mask would probably get along alright as a result?

Changing out the turkey unicorns for turkey twizzlers in the freezers after the 85th customer in the last 10 days asked when they're coming in.

To be fair, the only reason I knew what a piton was was because I was looking up a VR climbing game once - I don't claim to be more than a geek myself On the topic I s'pose I will say I was never a fan of either Nokama's weapons or Onewa's - they both felt too specialised and not tremendously MOC friendly when it came to using them for bulking armour or weapons or suchlike. I think they work on the original models, but that's sort of it.

I saw a bunch of these when I went to Legoland yesterday with my girlfriend and she loved how they looked. As I recall, Lego had an older line of Lego jewellery that also came with little figurines - she even had one when she was a little girl. Reminds me, personally, of those Lego watches - I had a Knights Kingdom one when I was little. Wonder where those went.

That too. Given how masks and other tools sometimes shift and change depending on the being using them, it's perfectly reasonable to say the proto pitons do whatever that particular Toa fancies doing with them.

I don't even know how you'd fill that space. The big shop in Legoland Windsor is still the biggest Lego shop I've ever been to and it seems to have all the heavy hitters already. Can't wait to see pictures of it when it's done!

Were you planning any other mask designs like this? You might also do well with an Etsy, if sewing up a few more of these sounded appealing!

This really hones the idea of Kalmah pre-mutation in The Pit to me. A sea dog like Blackbeard always seemed like a good fit for him. Now being turned into Davey Jones does, too. Really cool!

The Bionicle Heroes game isn't too helpful in this regard either as the thing is a rocket launcher there. Bizarre. Anyway, I would tend to think they're climbing tools. A piton is a spike you use in climbing, though I don't know what the "Proto" is meant to mean - it's probably just Lego getting alliterative with their weapon names. I imagine judging by their looks it could function as a sort of flail, too.

I often wonder about what a Bionicle G3 - like got teased a while back - would even look like. G2 had a pretty strong hook with the Mask of Creation, being the only one we never got of the original three legendary masks. I'm not sure what a G3 would be. Certainly, to be successful and engaging, I feel it'd need to be something new. G2 feels like it failed because it was an attempt at telling effectively the same story in not too different a way, but with sets that weren't as innovative. Should a G3 occur, I don't even think the original six Toa should feature - not, at least, until later into the line. Better to make new heroes and new legends to stand on, rather than continually hopping on the shoulders of the Toa Mata. I do think we should find our own way to celebrate two decades, and then anything Lego gives is a bonus. If it's simply a tweet or instagram post, fine; if it's an artbook, nice; and if it's more substantial than that, even, great; but the community is what kept Bionicle alive all this time. The community giving Bionicle its own cake day is fine enough.

Sounds fun! It's really great that Lego still sends you guys stuff like this for community purposes even after all this time.

Wicked cool! Great stuff to encourage responsible mask wearing

Been playing a lot of Master Chief Collection as of late with some friends. I played most Halo games as they came out, but these friends are experiencing them for the first time, and it's great fun. Halo 3 was our most recent finish - Legendary 4 players co-op only took us about four hours. It's surprisingly short! Compared to Halo 1 on Legendary co-op, anyway, which took much longer.

Always thought these wheels were cool. The cyan/teal ones have the benefit of being some of the only teal technic pieces I have! In any case, this purple one looks cool - I have the orange one on the left, but the one on the right does, as Illuminatus said above, look like when you don't have enough ink in a printer. A cool find for sure!

I'm going to Legoland tomorrow with my girlfriend for a nice, light-hearted visit, and it'll be interesting to see how it holds up. They've been open again for a while now. I know Disneylands all over the world make up a huge amount of Disney's yearly income and they're quite a bit down as a result this year, but I wonder how significant the theme parks are to Lego? I remember them being packed when I was a kid.