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That's a good joke.

G1 is dead, as is the old building system. And it would be best if fans bury this axe like they should have 7 years ago. We are not getting a direct story continuation to a theme that stalled sales-wise because of the inherent complexity of its ever-expanding story line. And we will never see the return of a building system that CCBS was specifically developed to replace because of its long-running limitations and lack of cost-effectiveness. Look, just because you're personally nostalgic about something doesn't mean it would be financially viable to bring it back. In the case of G1, which was canceled because it was no longer financially viable, I'm afraid you're grasping at straws.

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Seriously people: Lego Dimensions isn't a portent of Lego's supposed troubles. It's simply another reminder that toys-to-life was a fad, one destined to be short lived. I'm personally happy that Traveler's Tales is going back to the old style of game, where you pay 60 dollars and get to unlock all the characters without having to buy 50 bazillion individual toys. (Too bad the overpriced DLC character packs are here to stay. Warner Brothers Interactive is easily one of the worst publishers in the gaming industry. It'll never happen now, but wouldn't it have been awesome if Traveler's Tales had been bought by TLG after the success of the Lego Star Wars game, so they have could developed all the Lego games in house and not be permanently shackled to such a terrible company like WB?)

It's definitely concerning, but I would argue it's not quite as bad as you have made it out to be - not yet anyways. Besides the titles you mentioned, just this year alone we also got the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Evil Within 2, Resident Evil 7, Prey, and Nier: Automata. Before the year is up, we'll also have Mario Odyssey, Xenoblade Chronicles II, and Wolfenstein II. And that doesn't even factor in all of the smaller and/or indie developed titles that have released this year.

It looks good! However, I'll have to pass, because I already have the first Rey figure. I would like to get that new head mold on it's own though - the only problem I have with the old Rey is that the face is really small compared to all the other non-helmeted figures.

I still don't understand what happened with Hero Factory. You had three years that were semi-connected, and seemed to be building up to some big revelation and ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny. Then suddenly: Brain Slugs! And then suddenly Pacific Rim, and then R.I.P. Plus, you had those novels that were apparently pretty interesting, but didn't have any bearing on the main storyline whatsoever. Were they just making it up as they went along? Or did they initially have some grand, Bionicle-esque plan, and changed course in order to attempt to boost Hero Factory's middling sales outside of Russia?

The toys-to-life concept has never sat well with me. You take a potentially great game and split it up into dozens of expensive little packages, just so your shareholders can make ten times the profit. Only in this case it completely backfired, and lost a whole bunch of money instead. Toys-to-life was never a sustainable genre in the long run, no more than the plastic instrument music games that peaked a decade ago. Warner Brothers Interactive clearly were gambling that they could make a decent profit before the bubble burst, and they lost the bet.

We might have gotten a better explanation if the planned comic detailing the Toa Hordika's search for Dume hadn't been quietly canceled.

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Rest in peace, you genius man. Lego Island was a bright spark in my troubled childhood, and I still have dreams about it to this day. Thanks for all the great memories.

The first film pretty much established that the sword was op. I can see why the engineers said "screw it" and just put them on all the Jaegers. Also, technology has apparently advanced a lot in the ten years between the films. This might be a mild spoiler:

This essay could have also been titled "Why Pacific Rim is a good film, and the Transformers films are not." Because at the end of the day, the former movie is powered by optimism and multiculturalism, while the latter franchise is consumed with cynicism and jingoism. And I'm not just talking about the humans in Transformers, either - I'm talking about titular robots, specifically the ones the film frames as the "good guys." It doesn't matter that the Decepticons are portrayed as murderous creeps, because the Autobots are just as bad, and yet they claim they are doing what is best for both their own race and for humanity. All of this, in a franchise based on a kids toy. Thanks for nothing, Michael Bay.

It's not so much thinking about bad stuff - just my mind racing in general - but I can relate. I'm typing this post at four in the morning cause I gave up trying to fall asleep, after laying in bed for nearly five hours.

But everything we learned about Velika after 2006 is a retcon made post-cancellation of G1, so that argument doesn't really work circa 2008. No answer Greg gave until that point gave any indication that emotions were anything other than a glitch, cause obviously he hadn't planned the whole Velika reveal until he had to come up with a storyline for the serials.

He is on my personal Bionicle shelf. Well, technically he's Maxilos with the 2004 Ultimate Dume Mask of Shadows slapped on - it's the best I could do in lieu of an official G2 Makuta set.

This topic reminds me of how stupid it was that the morality of MU inhabitants was just an on-off switch that could be triggered by any number of random powers, or a stupid Rahi the even more idiotic Mutran just happened to bring with him to the grand finale (for no reason except that it was absolutely crucial that Takanuva and co be cured of their evilz virus - plus, you know, there was an exclusive Brickmaster set to advertise). I mean, I guess it makes since, since the Matoran are all running on the Bionicle equivalent of 1s and 0s. Except it doesn't, because if culture was a glitch, as well as anything else outside of the tasks they were programmed to do by the Great Beings, then morality should have been as well. Which means their system of morals wouldn't have been beholden to their innate programming. That's why Makuta needed masks, and the Bohrok needed Krana - or else you would think every Makuta, Terridax included, would have just worn an Avsa.

Kumo, I'm not sure what you mean about the Movies supposedly being lowered on the canonical hierarchy. Because the exact opposite happened, once Greg F. took total control of the storyline. All of the characters that featured in the movies are now canonically supposed to look like they do in said movies, as opposed to how they look in the comics or MNOG. One of the more interesting examples of this in-story is when Lewa describes reassembling himself in 2001, in the first Bionicle Legends book. The book states that he only had to reattach his limbs. This is clearly based on the more organic, uniform design he and every other character had in Mask of Light. It also contradicts numerous earlier pieces of media, including the MNOG and the opening cinematic of the canceled Bionicle game "Legend of Mata Nui" - where characters in-universe are clearly able to disassemble and reassemble themselves like the Lego sets that they are. DId I mention this really, really sucks? MoL's graphics may have been technically proficient for a DVD movie in 2003, but the character designs were, are, and will always be hideous. More importantly, it clearly took the canonical nature of the Matoran Universe's biology in a different direction than what was originally intended - which in my opinion was a result of taking the "biological" part of the Bionicle Portmanteu literally rather than figuratively. The people in charge of making the movies had no idea how deep the metaphor of the Bio-Chronicle went, and at this point I'm convinced Greg F. didn't either. Even if this isn't the worst retcon, I would argue that is objectively the stupidest, because unlike most of the recent retcons Greg has made that contradicted previous statements of his, this one was made when he was still writing the friggin' story! He literally had to make up a whole backstory for Orde out of thin air because he forgot the gender of an element that he had recently canonized.

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Sahmad. Poor guy just wanted his lover and his life back. (It helps he was like probably the best written character in all of G1)

Do we actually know Teridax began his impersonation about a year and a half before the Catacylsm? Not even BS01 is sure - they've marked that line as needing citation. My guess is the original source was, as per usual, an answer to a question Greg F. gave some number of years ago. And I'm willing to bet he made the info up on the spot, as he has many times before (what else explains the multiple times he retconned himself?).

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Oh wow, I think... I think I recognize this site. I bet I stumbled upon it shortly after I got into Bionicle in 2004, back when I was researching all the stuff I missed in the first three years.

A revival of the old service pack sets, specially the ones featuring minifigs and/or minifig acessories, but extended to themes beyond City.