Evergrey: Toa of Music

Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do) - Van Halen

3/5 - there are some really cool moments throughout the song and the vocal performance is AMAZING! But the song is too long for what it is. It's too repetitive at that length. New Trivium music from this year!

3/5. It's a solid song with a good groove, but it's not really my cup of tea. This is my college's marching band from 6 years ago (no I wasn't in the band at that time).

The Louisiana State University (LSU) Tiger Marching Band's version of All of the Lights (Kanye West)

For sure! While people may think that Disney is becoming a monopoly within the entertainment industry (actually, where is the lie?!), the fact that they consistently deliver quality entertainment 7 to 9 times out of 10 is amazing. They've established that they have the guts and the means and the desire to deliver the best they possibly can on any endeavor/project they have. I would want to see a dedicated/developed story done for the sake of making a good story and having a quality show/movie series. AND THEN having toys to sell based off of the story, not the other way around! (To be fair, Lego is a toy company, so their main goal is selling the toys and not the shows).

If they were to do the continuation route, I think it'd be best if the story started at the end of 2008. I think creatively, an exterior company could summarize the original 8 years (or heck, re-release/redistribute the original books) and take the story in a different direction. Now, I know this isn't like Star Wars in the sense that all 10 of the original years are canon, but if it was acquired under a new company, that new management would have total say in what's still canon and what isn't. Ideally though, it'd be interesting to see how a different vision changed that era of the original story. 2009 is where I stopped following the story all together and I honestly think that had the story stayed on the original planet (or whatever) as the past 8 years, it could've been less chaotic to follow. But on the reboot side of things, I do see what you mean about the Spiderman and Marvel type movies. I think dedicating a cinematic trilogy or at least a stand-alone story (with good world-building) could launch it onto a larger platform.

I think a healthy mix of open world gaming (like Skyrim) mixed with the gameplay of a FPS and some objectives to be reached. In my mind, you could start off as a matoran in Metru Nui and make all of your own choices and if you have the means to do so, travel to other lands within the Bionicle Universe. If you find a Toa Stone, you can choose to become a Toa (which would then give you objectives to complete). If you get captured by the Dark Hunters, you can bargain with them to become one of them (and then have objectives to complete). You control your own destiny by your actions, but once your destiny is revealed to you, you fulfill it.

Or if it was published as a video game, why not just have the developer put a boat load of effort into making a fantastic campaign mode? (And have a serial made to give more backstory/world building to the franchise). In that particular scenario, I wouldn't necessarily have a specific company/publisher in mind to work on it, but as far as teams/crews are concerned, I'd want some of the people involved to be the ones who worked on CoD: Black Ops 3 (regardless of CoD as a whole, I think that Black Ops 3 story is awesome).

Obviously Bionicle was cancelled, not actually bought out... BUT! Just like Star Wars, what do you think would/could happen with Bionicle if a company like Disney were to buy the rights to the name and story line of Bionicle? Think it would go good or bad? Think they would let Lego be part of the design process/toy marketing? Or just completely own it and release their own action figures? Think we'd get continuations of the old story (G1) or an entirely new story? Think we'd have the whole works like cinematic movies and video games? I wanna hear what ya'll think would happen if Disney took over Bionicle (or at least just from a story line perspective, worked on it).

Deadpool. Or just Ryan Reynolds. Or both in one set

I'd want to be friends with Nokama so she could help me understand things in different languages. And I'd also want to be friends with Whenua because I have a great interest in learning about the past to prepare for the future. And I'd want to be friends with Tahu & Lewa so I could learn to surf on lava and how to crack good jokes

Captain Marvelous? Or a baseball cap that says "MARVELOUS"?

I'm giving it a solid 2.5/5. The vocals didn't turn me off, but the overall style did. It's just not my thing. The guitar part at 2:52, like you said though, is very good. That part alone is a good 4/5, but the rest of the song just didn't appeal to my ears.

The textbook to the managerial accounting course I took in the spring

Madden NFL '16

I remember I went to the Lego Store with my cousin and we each got a Lihkan set from there. Even if a set is exclusive to Target or Toys R Us, is it possible to still get said exclusive directly from a Lego Store/Lego's website, or is it 100% an exclusive (not just talking about the Lihkan set, but exclusives in general).

Toa "I'm a rookie" ???

My biggest gripe with Bionicle as a whole: Islands are cool and all, but I want G3 to take place on a CONTINENT! Like there could be a few different large cities and/or independent kingdoms on a single continent with jungles and/or different elements separating them. (Ex. the northern city is colder and is surrounded by snow) I might be drawing inspiration from The Last Airbender here, but Earth & Stone and Water & Ice are redundant: We can still have 6 toa, but make it Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Gravity, and Shadows. As far as the story with the toa goes, do what 2008 did: 3 toa in the winter and 3 in the summer. The story could start off with the Toa of Shadows being sort of an antihero/dark hunter/mercenary in the central city of the continent (which happens to be the largest city, and the most diverse (note, all of the cities have beings of different elements living in them, but they are predominantly the main element)). And the Toa of Shadows ends up meeting with the main villain of the story (a large titan of some sort) who tells her (yes, a female Toa of Shadows) to capture the Toa of Air that just showed up in the city. Our Toa of Shadows sets out to do so and we get a melee battle with no elemental powers used. They're using their staffs and swords to try and disarm each other. The shadow toa finally prevails and knocks out the air toa temporarily. And on the way to deliver the captured air toa, the two talk. The air toa, being a jokester, quickly learns that the shadow toa is a good spirit working a dark job and mentions that he was there to find answers to a prophecy he heard his village leader telling (yes, there are villages and cities on this continent). He makes a deal with the shadow toa to be set free so long as she can come along on this journey. ^That's just a rough outline for origins, but kind of have the toa meet each other along the way to their destinies. Also, the significance of the toa not using elemental powers in their fight is this: At this point in the story, the Central City is just the Central City. Centuries before, however, it was the capital and all the other cities were part of a united country. The council of the Turaga were the leaders of the Capital (and therefore, the whole country) and their guardians were the 6 Legendary Toa. While they weren't the only toa in existence, they were the last ones to have control of their elemental abilities. Long backstory short, the main villain and his army came from another continent and attacked the capital. The turaga all escaped and fled into exile and the Legendary Toa made the ultimate sacrifice to protect them. The prophecy that our Air Toa is chasing in the story says that 6 heroes will find each other and together they will journey to the sacred grounds and discover their true potential. (Basically the 6 heroes are searching for the Great Temple and there, they will find a mentor who knows about how to use elemental energy who will judge their character before agreeing to train them). Side notes, any toa can unlock their elemental energy if they know how to focus on it and reach that spiritual state (kind of like the Avatar State and/or the Force), but most have lost hope of ever achieving it. And yes, the turaga in exile formed villages with their closest followers and live off the grid. A few of those villages have toa living there (like the air toa) TL; DR, I want the Toa to REALLY GROW as characters through the story. And I really would like to see them actually have to train and learn to master their elemental abilities instead of just getting it on the first try or having to get a mask to use it.

Aside from Hydraxon, I forgot to mention Toa Hagha Norik for being elusive. I do actually own Norik, but it was a while to get there. I found Toa Iruni in Target one day in '05 by chance and had no idea what it was. I got it and I wanted to get Norik too. I looked in every store for what felt like eternity and I searched online everywhere for him and couldn't find him. Though both were "Special Edition," I could find Iruni in basically EVERY SINGLE STORE I LOOKED!! But never could I find Norik! By October '05 I had given up the search... ...and then I found a WalMart exclusive 2 pack containing both Toa Hagha. I didn't even think twice; I bought it (graciously with my mother's money) and used the 2nd Iruni for spare parts. But Norik is one of the coolest Toa Sets prior to the release of the Mahri designs.

I'm the drummer/backing vocalist for a groove/hardrock/pop punk group named "The Winks." We just formed this year and we hope to start getting gigs soon. I also march trumpet in my college marching band. (I know both of those aren't metal (well a trumpet is made out of metal)). So as far as metal music goes, go listen to Trivium's new song if you haven't heard it yet ("The Sin and the Sentence"). It's fantastic and I'm very excited for their next album! PS, I also play a little bit of guitar and I'm working a few of my own original songs (I'd classify them as a mix of melodic metal, old school heavy metal (like Iron Maiden), and a little bit of progressive rock/metal. When I'm not busy, I'd like to record them. Cheers!

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4.25/5- Very addicting hook, very good overall band sound. I love how it mixes a variety of sounds musically into a cohesive product!

I saw Evergrey live 2 months ago (and met them and talked with them) and I already owned all of their CD's, but I bought their 2016 release "The Storm Within" on vinyl to frame and put on my wall next to the signed poster and drum head. I also bought CD's from the opening acts: "The Lion and the Jester" by Ascendia and "Decennium" by Seven Kingdoms. I also bought Rikard Zander's solo album (keyboardist for Evergrey). I also recently purchased the "Duke" album from Genesis.

It wasn't necessarily hard for me to obtain Hydraxon in '07, but it was very difficult to get one that actually satisfied me. I bought him once in '07, but returned him because the Cordak blaster didn't work. By that time I owned all of the other 07 sets and (probably just by luck) all of the Cordak Blasters worked very well for me. So I thought it was defective and returned it. Fast forward to Christmas where I received a second Hydraxon and the same problem existed with the Cordak blaster. It bothered me that no other set I had with that blaster had a problem shooting to the extent that his did; 1 or 2 of the rounds wouldn't fire on most of the toa which was ok with me, but to have only 1 out of 6 actually fire consistently on both Hydraxon blasters was upsetting to say the least... I still don't own any Hydraxon set and he remains the only 2007 set I don't own

I applaud a creative use of the vahkki heads as shoulders on the Toa, but I don't think they look the best. You might try a different piece or trying to add a little more armor there because on top of looking odd, it just looks empty for a toa's shoulder. Other than that, I have nothing but praise; the body builds on both models are fantastic, the backpacks are creative and well executed, and the detail put into the designs are great! Keep it up