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    When I first got into Bionicle, I pronounced Lewa "Lee-wah." I still say it that way sometimes.
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    Might as well list these here too, since I've had no luck elsewhere. 6218 Spiltface - $9 6223 Bulk - $9 6227 Breez - $9 6203 Black Phantom - $16 4528 Green Lantern - $12 44012 Evo - $7 44013 Aquabeast - $7 All are 100 percent complete with instructions. If someone wants to buy the whole lot, I'll give you free shipping/tracking/insurance. Paypal payments only please! Ebay feedback can be found here.
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    Zero arguments against Brick Daddy at number 1. The Space Police reboot was absolutely rad.
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    Frankly, if you have made the jump to selling items on the internet, I feel the impetus is on you to actually use your newfound tool to the fullest extent. I realize many people still don't, but at the same time you also can't assume that they're always ignorant of value just because they've priced an item lower than average. I've been doing some buying and selling on a transformers forum recently, and I've found that the best deals come from people who are trying to unload items as quickly as possible due to some personal emergency - not from people who don't have a clue how much a used Generations Deluxe Blurr is worth. (it can be worth anywhere from 10 to 20 dollars, depending on how quickly you want people to bite)
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    At least you all still get updates. Meanwhile, it's been over 400 days since Team Fortress 2 has had one. The only reason I still play it is because it's my brother's favorite game. (He's only 13, by the way, and already better at the game than I can ever hope to be)
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    So I guess this is how BZPowers ends. Not with a bang, but with a Rbeforeitevengotachacnetoshinethisacornymdoesnthaveneoughlettershelpme'
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    It's not just game franchises that have that problem. Why do you think Disney tossed out the Star Wars expanded universe after buying Lucasfilm and green-lighting Episode 7? It's because most of it was pure unadulterated garbage.
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    It's because she's a Kardashian. If you don't understand the significance of that, I'd recommend you look up Kim Kardashian's wikipedia page, because the exact nature of her family's claim to fame can't really be discussed on BZPower.
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    "They're nothing but trash"
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    Ninjago Fig Collection

    CyclonatorZ commented on xccj's blog entry in J.A.F. Team

    I'll admit, I was a little skeptical of certain people's existence that Bionicle could have stared the Toa Mata for its whole run, if Lego wanted to do it that way. But after seeing how Ninjago has done exactly that for 7 years, and thrived, I think I understand now.
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    Nothing, really. Summer sucked. I had to quit my job due to health reasons, and I'm still not healthy enough to go back. ... I guess my aunt, uncle, and cousins visiting was pretty cool. They're out of the country three out of every four years, so I see them about twice a decade.
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    so like, makuta was a benevolent virus I guess? just wanted to make his bro tougher Oh wow, I've never seen this quote before. So Makuta wasn't just trying to spare Mata Nui from pain - he was actually trying to make him stronger? For what purpose? Was there some greater threat he knew the Great Spirit would have to face eventually? Hm, my Great Being theory is sounding more and more plausible....
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    I doubt you'll find many here who disagree with you on that point, slifer. That's why so many people were enthused about the G2 storyline potentially resurrecting this ditched idea - the popular theory at the time was that the Mask of Ultimate Power had mislead Makuta and made him betray Ekimu. (For what it's worth, that's my headcanon as well. I still would like to build the MOUP MoC I brainstormed a while ago. It was going to be a physical manifestation of darkness that could attach to Makuta in the same way the elemental creatures attach to the Masters. But I disgress.)
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    I think we've had this discussion here before. I believe most people concluded as you did: whatever early plan they might have had for Makuta's "good intentions" was ultimately not used. Likely this happened after Greg became the sole arbiter of the story - he was the one who came up with the idea that the Makuta species was inherently evil.
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    I had the exact same idea back in 2007. My theory was that they could throw in everything from the first seven years that they hadn't used in the first game. The 2001 Rahi could be the stock enemies, like they were in the DS version of the game, and bosses could include Keetongu and Umbra alongside the obvious 2007 candidates like Nocturn and Hydraxon. I think the weapon progression system I had laid out was Nuva >>> Hordika >>> Mahri, with bonus Barraki characters. I even drew concepts for the Hordika and Barraki weapons: Understandably, my gaming interests have changed over time, so I wouldn't exactly be thrilled with Bionicle Heroes 2 today. But honestly, the theme is rich enough to support titles in many different genres. And in fact the online games have run the gamut: we had point and click adventure, RTS, platformer, shoot-em up, fighter, and many more I'm probably forgetting. A higher quality take on some of these existing concepts would be amazing - and with game development becoming more accessible every year, the fans could plausibly make this happen!
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    Sets were always on sale, enough that I was able to collect the whole friggin' theme. I've never done that in the 20 years I've been a Lego fan. My most complete Bionicle year up until that point was 2004, and I still was missing two each of the Toa and Vahki. Ironically, I might not have bought a single set from G2 if it had been successful, because I probably wouldn't stumbled upon a lone Kopaka and Skull Basher on clearance at my local Wal-Mart at the beginning of 2016. Those two sets rekindled my,,.. *ahem* ... mild obsession with the theme, only for it to be quenched merely seven months later with the announcement of its second cancellation. It was even briefer for me than it was for most of you. *shrugs* I suppose it could have been worse.
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    Guess the Set

    CyclonatorZ commented on Trijhak's blog entry in Unspoken Words

    5 - Fero and Skirmix 7 - Gadunka 8 - Hewkii Mahri 11 - Jet Rocka (RIP Stringer and Bulk)
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    It's for the best regardless, as there's a finite amount of oil in the world. Eventually all plastic products are going to have to be made from renewable materials.
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    I know the Misprint masks actually were found inside the mask packs, but I thought the yellow Ruru was just a prototype piece, like the white Huna. I believe the latter just turned up in someone's personal collection one day - it was never actually released in a set.
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    Now I'm really curious. Is he from the MNOG? I haven't played that in ages.
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    I hope you understand I wasn't referring to TTV, Takuma. More fan created content can never be a bad thing. It's the people you mentioned in your last paragraph that are grinding my gears, is all.
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    Wishful thinking. Some people just can't stop beating a dead Kikanalo.
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    Is anyone seriously still questioning this? The line was meant to go on for at least three years, but they made the decision to cancel it early in the second. The sets were constantly on sale/clearance at brick and mortar stores and online, and many physical locations (Wal-Mart in particular) stopped carrying them entirely after the first year. It was clearly a colossal sales failure. It's okay though - Lego isn't some omniscient or infallible company. They make mistakes like any corporation, and Bionicle G2 was one of them. They're still in a far better position than any of their direct competitors. Megabloks, K-Nex, and Best-Lock are basically fighting over TLG's table scraps at this point.
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    Part of the reason for this is that many modern day scores are increasingly based on existing compositions. This is due to the exponential growth of the use of temp music in the film-making progress. Every Frame a Painting on youtube covers this in more detail in their video "The Marvel Symphonic Universe," but the basic gist is that composers are told to make music that sounds like the temp tracks the directors have put in their early cuts of the films - tracks that are ripped wholesale from other movies. Everyone copies everyone else, thus the current trend of Hollywood soundtracks blending together into an indistinguishable blob. I even heard a rumor that John friggin' Williams was supposedly told to do this with his The Force Awakens soundtrack, which is probably why it ended up being thoroughly mediocre compared to his work on the previous six installments. Being that the Bionicle movies were low-budget direct to dvd efforts with little directorial prestige behind them, it seems Nathan Furst was free to compose the most fantastic, emotional soundtracks he could imagine. Crazy, indeed.
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