kopake600

I will chime in to say that I think Constraction_Deva's estimate is about right.

Hey all, About a month ago a user posted on the Bionicle subreddit about a seemingly rare bag they had come into possession of. It's labeled as part of the "LEGO Cargo System," produced by a company named Kabooki under license from the LEGO group, and there are a few non-Bionicle Cargo System bags inventoried on Bricklink, but this post appears to be the first ever record of the bag online. One Reddit user mentioned seeing LEGO employees at the Legoland California location with the bag "a lifetime" ago, possibly around 2003 when the bag is dated, and another says they have a foggy memory of having a blue Cargo System bag with a Kopaka Mata design. I just wanted to share that I have purchased the bag from the user who shared it, and I picked it up from the post office this morning. I'm mostly posting for the sake of other obsessively curious Bionicle fans and anyone who one day decides they want to try to track down what happened to it. I made a $200 offer plus $50 for shipping from Finland to the USA. I thought it was somewhat of a lowball offer for something that seems pretty rare, but I'm not too wealthy and it was pretty much the best offer I was able to make. If anyone has more information on this piece, I would be very curious to hear it!

Thank you to everyone for the kind wishes! It is really great to see this is still such a welcoming community. That's a fantastic question. I might have to say the Rahkshi -- they just looked so unbelievably cool when I first saw them, and I remember designing my own Rahkshi OC named "Klaw" as a kid (I recently came across a notebook from 2003/2004 with some notes and drawings I made of him, as well as some D&D 3.5e variant rules I wrote for rolling up Bionicle characters). That whole year was amazing; I remember showing up at Legoland and being blown away that they had Toa Nuva, which weren't widely available yet. I was so excited that I ran up to the store, grabbed a canister, and ran back to my Dad to show him, and he had to tell me to stop because it looked like I was trying to steal it (I just got carried away). My favorite year, lore-wise, might have been 2004, though. It was such a major expansion in the lore, opening up so much possibility for new OC's that fit within the canon beyond just the Matoran of Mata-Nui. I was also a big fan of the Jak & Daxter games as a kid, and it sort of mirrored the transition from Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy to Jak II, when the series took on a much more edgy, urban-centric feel compared to its previous happy-island vibe. The only thing missing was an online game that could rival MNOG or MNOGII.

Also, really sorry for not posting in the Revolving Door thread -- it's sad how hard I tried to find an "introductions" type thread before posting this, and still I missed it.

Hi everyone, I just finally made a new account for BZPower. I wanted to take a moment to recount my memories of BZPower from my childhood and share my thanks to this community. I was born in late 1993, so I came of age just in time to get my first Throwbot at my 5th birthday party. When Bionicles came out, I must have been in 2nd grade, and as a LEGO magazine subscriber I was exposed to the comics from the beginning. It was right around that time that my dad bought my brother and I our own pair of personal computers, so so I had the opportunity to experience MNOG and MNOG2 chapter by chapter as they were originally uploaded. My daily routine after getting home from school everyday was to check LEGO's website and then check BZPower. I read every news article that was posted, I checked out my favorite sprite comics, I participated in the BZPRPG with my own characters. One of the highlights of my experience was eventually getting my own guest appearance in the Rise and Fall of the Toa (the Chilli God was pretty generous with guest appearances) -- my username had been Kopaka600, so the Chilli God adjusted it to Kopake in order to avoid the thorny problem of two Kopakas in the comic. Hence the name for this new account, Kopake600. I ended up losing interest in Bionicle around 2005, but ended up rediscovering the fandom two years ago after, on a whim, searching YouTube for Bionicle content to enjoy out of random nostalgia. I stumbled across the 9-hour Duck Bricks lore video and fell back in love with the fandom. Since then, I've mostly been active within the community on Reddit (and Discord to some extent), but I wanted to fully complete my odyssey and finally return to BZPower. It's kind of wild to think about being the first cohort of human beings that grew up truly online, and what a wholesome experience it was compared to a lot of what the internet later evolved into with the advent of Web2. This community really was the first grew of folks I interacted with online, and I have such positive memories of it all.