Aiden

Huh, I never noticed that while watching the video. To my knowledge nobody has really ever seen the masks shown in this video in person, so we don’t know if the hau would be painted or not. I was going to say we don’t know if the masks of ultimate power are painted either, but it doesn’t really matter as much since they’re unique molds.

I don’t, you’d have to jog my memory. I tried to find said topic as well and wasn’t able to find anything.

I know there’s a prototype one in brown, haven’t seen a black one before though.

Skopio is easily my favorite, it’s just huge and imposing, and looks great especially with that red color scheme. That being said I didn’t build the one I had, I bought it used and refurbished it- I would hated having to build it. I actually really hate the building process for the battle vehicles so much, just because they’re a pain (for me)- my fingers were mangled corpses by the time I finished building the Rockoh T3. So something like Vultraz’s ship or Toa Ignika’s board would suit me really well, being smaller builds- if you’d consider those “battle vehicles”.

I had a dream where I found select masks in the Lego Store, packaged like the SDCC g2 masks and hung on racks like old minifigure battle packs. The only ones I remember is a trans neon green mask of life (the more detailed one) and a black g2 hau. There was also a trans blue shadow leech with pearl gold fins, and a solid navy leech in a little bin of parts.

Don’t worry, you’re not missing out on much. He seems like a nice guy, but his content is pretty lazy, (imo) quite often being hours long of him just talking with little to no editing or cuts when needed. It’s been awhile since I’ve watched him, so I’m sure he’s improved since then, but it’s just not for me either way. He’s got a pretty cool collection, at the very least!

In my opinion, it doesn’t make sense to do this. You’d essentially just be commissioning somebody else to do the work, then reselling the product. There are already people who cast their own masks in the community, like Nate and Socket. This feels like unnecessarily adding a middle man, it’d make more sense if you were making them yourself. I think this is something you’d do if you wanted specific masks that weren’t made for your personal collection- but at that point, you may as well just go to somebody who specializes in it in the community. I’m not trying to necessarily discourage you, more so encourage you to put more work and effort into it if it’s something you really want to do- it would be really cool running your own mask making operation. It’s also much more rewarding when you can say “I made that”, rather than just “I sold that”, if that makes any sense.

The big reason for that being that it’s just that much easier to have a fake just be a low-ish effort 3D print. Particularly with shadow leeches, since the actually pieces are rubber- it’s so much easier to just 3D print. I’ve only seen one person making custom shadow leeches. I think the big thing with 3D printed prototypes is that they NEED to have a story- they need to have something that checks out and leaves you with no doubts. I think that applies to all prototypes, but especially with the 3D printed ones. I would also like to note that all (as far as I’m aware) of Lego’s printed protos that have been found and verified (to the best of our ability) have had some sort of a spray paint on them, and not left blank (The Axalara’s 3D prints, my print leeches and tridax pod, for example). The tridax pod is definitely weird. I think the possibility that it’s a knockoff should also be considered- as knockoff sets often false advertised what was included and had very, very low quality parts. I think the main thing that makes me lean towards it being fake (besides its quality) is that it’s never been seen or mentioned anywhere prior. That’s where most of the validity of prototypes come from, knowing the source and the story behind them.

I saw that as well sometime after my original message, don’t plan on buying it at all after hearing that. I heard that they’re somehow legally fine using people’s mods, which is insane to me.

The reviews are overwhelmingly negative, which is hilarious. I might grab it in the future when issues are fixed and there’s a price drop, as well. As for the last game I played, Slay the Spire. Wonderful game that I swear is impossible to beat. Not even with the best luck and most stacked layout can I beat the final final room.

They are more than likely fake, I recommend checking out my post on potential shadow leech fakes here: There just really isn’t any evidence pointing towards them being real. Nothing substantial, anyways. Lots of suspicious coincidences surrounding them. (And since there has been some misunderstandings, anybody mentioned in my post is not being accused of anything, they are simply being used for example). TLDR I wouldn’t recommend going after these. Stick to what you see in the Official Collectibles Topic, if you have little experience with these things.

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I listen to 80s/90s rock/pop for the most part. Love some more classic tunes like Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass as well, though. The Bionicle movies are alright, I enjoyed watching them but there are plenty of other things I’d rather watch. I used to really enjoy the Star Wars books, I remember in particular enjoying The Force Unleashed. I’m not really into Star Wars anymore, though. I’m not super into sports either, but I’ve got a buddy who I enjoy watching hockey and soccer with every once in awhile. I’ve had a guitar for years, but never learned to play. It’s something I’ve been meaning to make time for.

I highly recommend at least trying it out, it can be somewhat therapeutic. It doesn’t require much discipline either from my experience, the most I ever have to do is get myself to actually do them since I’m sticking to a schedule. Cartoons are a blast, I’ve been binging shows I wasn’t able to watch when I was younger, like Adventure Time or Over the Garden Wall. Right now I’m watching Regular Show. I watched Binging with Babish for a little while, very fun! I never have the energy to cook, so can’t say I’ve tried any of their recipes. Whenever I’m looking to watch something food related nowadays, my go to-s are Ericsurf6 and Food Theory. I’ve kind of wanted to get back into reading, but it feels like a chore when I do. If I ever end up reading anything I’m doing a deep dive into some random show’s lore on wiki 😂 honestly ridiculously solid hobbies/pastimes you got there. I’ve really been needing to diversify what I do each day.

We all have one thing in common, being our enjoyment of Bionicle. I’d love to get to know some of you better, and hear your other interests. My main hobby is making video essays- which can be a blast, but equally tiring at times. My favorite part of that is making the thumbnails, because I draw them in MS Paint. It gives me a reason and motivation to actually express my artistic side more. I also quite enjoy playing video games, as I’m sure most people do, and I’ve recently gotten into playing my 3DS more. What do you all enjoy doing outside of the Lego space?