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  1. Xinlo

    The Toa's Hideout

    By Xinlo,

    There's a site out there called The Toa's Hideout (or tTH for short) that maybe some of you remember? It was started by a few BZP members way back in the day. It did pretty well and I somehow managed to become staff. Eventually, after many incarnations, tTH3 happened and it was pretty successful. we got that site running right as BZP had its famous 6-month downtime, and a whole bunch of wandering BZPers found us and it was great.
     
    After a few years and bionicle's demise, we closed it down and packed it in. But now that bionicle's back, we thought maybe there'd be a chance to restart it! I'm still running the new site (which is, funnily enough, tTH4) along with BZP's very own Scythey (Ryuujin) and Mask Of Destiny's Takal (aka Takal). The premise of the new site is to be a bionicle discussion site as it always was, but to be geared more toward general discussion and older users (so like all of us who were original bonkles fans). Basically we just want it be a cool place to hang and be a little more off-topic than BZP is suited for. That's not to say, of course, that younger users aren't also welcome! Also just a few little perks, we have custom member titles by-request and personal subforums to act as member blogs when you reach 100 posts!
     
    I know some of you were there for varying amounts of time, and others (probably vastly more) have never heard of us, but either way we invite you to come check it out if you are so inclined!
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    Can't believe my luck

    By Xinlo,

    Found these lil dudes on facebook marketplace, all sealed! Had to drive an hour to pick them up but I couldn't pass on them. I have probably quadruples of each by now I think? But having some sealed ones is pretty amazing

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    Yearly Blog Post

    By Xinlo,

    It seems I missed last year's post so this'll have to do. I keep forgetting BZP still exists and then every time I come back I recognize fewer names! Apparently I've been a member here for 15 years according to my new spinny, it really is amazing that I recognize anyone at all and that this place is still around. 
    No real point to this post, just wanted to say hi to anyone I know who's still around. Until next year, probably!
  5. Xinlo
    Hola BZPower, long time no see. I've been keeping pretty busy with work and stuff, but more importantly I've been slowly chipping away at the creation process for my band's debut album over the past 9 months! It's been a long time coming, some days I didn't think it'd ever be ready, but I finished it and here it is.
     
    I wrote every song on the album with the exception of one, which I co-wrote with a good friend who is not in the band. All the musicians volunteered their time and energy to learn my songs and record them for this, and I engineered/produced/mixed/mastered the thing with newfound skills from my time at music school. The cover artwork was done as a favour by a friend of our drummer from Turkey, and the artwork inside the booklet was done by BZP's own Serein/Scythey/Ryuujin! The whole project was volunteer work, and with the resources at school this cost me nothing to make, which is an opportunity I'll likely never have again.
     
    So without further ado, you can give it a listen and download it for free on our bandcamp page or you can give a little bit of money if it suits you. Thanks a ton if you take the time to listen, and if you enjoy it let me know!
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    My Christmas Loot

    By Xinlo,

    Well merry christmas to eeryne! Hope you all had a great day yesterday. As I do every year, here is a list of the tings I received from my family:
     
    -1600 pc. Tower Of Creation lego parts box
    -Anakin's green jedi starfighter lego set
    -Death Star trooper expansion lego set
    -Simpsons minifigure (scratchy)
    -Series 12 minifigure (space miner guy)
    -Pink Floyd shirt
    -Other cool blue shirt
    -Lots of socks
    -$30 7/11 gift card
    -$50 gift card for local record store
    -ipod emergency charger thing
    -Lots of chocolate
    -$140
     
    yeah. so hopefully I'll get to go down to the US soon and hunt target for new bionicles, as well as more TV show dvds and records and stuff. presents aside I also had a nice day, playing monopoly and having a great family dinner and being super tired because I was up for 32.75 hours lol. again, hope everyone had fun as well and that the rest of the holidays treat you well.
  8. Xinlo
    Hey there bzp. long time no see. figured I'd just pop in and throw a little update for fun since it's going around.
     
    A lot has happened in the last few months since I last posted in this blog, so I'll split it into two categories:
     
    The Good Stuff:
     
    -Saw Avengers. Loved it (aside from bad opening CGI)
    -managed to collect all the 2015 BIONICE so far
    -made a lot of awesome friends at college this year, hung out with a lot of people and generally improved my social anxiety situation
    -graduated music college as an audio production/bass major, mostly A grades, highest GPA I've achieved
    -decided to attend an extra 3rd year as a composition major to work on songwriting skills and put an album together
    -performed in 4 of my friends' graduation showcases to great success
    -kinda feel like a legit musician
    -reconnected with one of my high-school friends who I haven't really spoken to in almost two years
    -managed to get myself out of my near-five-year depression finally thanks to the help of some really wonderful people, felt legitimately happy for the first time in a long time
     
    The Bad Stuff:
     
    -Most of the great friends I made I will either never see again or might run into at some point in the far future due to college being done (will see a few of them back for 3rd year)
    -My mom moved out and got her own place, wants a divorce from my dad, haven't really spoke to her in over a month now
    -very broke right now, cannot currently afford gas. will have a job at the end of the month but tough going until then,luckily dad's letting me stay rent-free but
    -dad was injured in summer of last year and won't been able to work until october-ish this year, so family funds are also tight
     
     
    so as you can see the good far outweighs the bad, but the bad is some heavy-hitting stuff. I'm keeping going though, determined to keep everything in perspective and not let another long depression sink in. Life is mostly good right now and I'm just trying to appreciate that.
     
    hope everyone else has been doing good here, sorry I don't blog that much I guess haha.
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    Xinlo Music

    By Xinlo,

    hey so I realized I've talked about my times in music college a little here, but I've never actually posted anything that I've done there. I don't know if anyone will be interested in it, but I've got A WEBSITE that has 5 songs up on it (mostly finished, minus some tweaks I want to make), all of which I wrote and played and produced. The styles range from doom metal to pop rock to new age/trance to prog rock, so hopefully one of them might be to your liking. I'd appreciate any feedback you may have!
     
    I've also decided to attend school for an optional third year, to work on my songwriting and compositional skills, and I'm in the process of writing and recording demos for my first album which I plan to release about this time next year if all goes well. At the moment it's looking to be a progressive doom metal album, but only 2 songs are written so far so that could change.
     
    Anyway thanks for taking the time to check out my stuff, if you do!
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    Well Jeez

    By Xinlo,

    Just had my 20th birthday last week and 3 days later my 10th BZP anniversary, and I totally forgot. I've officially been on this site for half of my life. Wow.
     
    Also I get a nice new tohu spinny, pretty thrilled about that.
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    untitled

    By Xinlo,

    my family is destroying itself right now due to the insensitive and unexplainable actions of one member and this is going to be the worst christmas vacation ever if it continues the way things are going right now
     
    I don't even want to be at home. i want to just leave town for a few months and get away and live my life without worrying about some huge fight happening every night
  14. Xinlo

    Me

    By Xinlo,

    since the only pic of me on here is like three and a half years old I thought I'd post an updated one (also because I thought my hair looked awesome today)
     

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    A good day for mail

    By Xinlo,

    early birthday gift from my parents. cost about $45, amazingly, for all the roboriders save Boss, two Tahus, Onua, Pohatu, Tahu Nuva, Onua Nuva and Lewa Nuva. Of course I already have multiples of the bionicle sets, this was mostly for the roboriders, but I never had onua or tahu's canisters and all the sets came with their promo material (posters, ad books) which I had long ago misplaced. So yay for that!
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    Star Wars

    By Xinlo,

    Would anyone be able to steer me in the direction of a cool Star Wars DVD box set? I like my DVD collection to look nice and coherent with box sets rather than individual DVDs but all I can ever find for Star Wars is blu-ray. Anyone have one they'd recommend or know of a good one to get?
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    on the Doctor Who finale

    By Xinlo,

    so I got fed up with the show (after being a loyal viewer since series 2) after The Caretaker and haven't seen any episodes since. Ryuujin says the finale's looking to be great, so I thought I'd get everyone's opinion: is it worth catching up on the show to see the finale? Or should I just watch the finale and forget the 4 episodes I missed? or should I just not care at all?
     
    you decide!
  19. Xinlo
    so yeah my room's really small now and I have nowhere to put all my bionicles, so I packed them up when we moved here and they've been in storage for almost 2 years...
     
    with the return of bionicle I was feeling all nostalgic and had to bring them out, even if they have to go back in a few days.
     
    anyway here's some pictures of my collection as it looks at the moment (this is still only slightly more than half, there's all the larger sets in the long box I didn't take out and all the disassembled duders in a very large bucket. also all those ones' empty cases in a bag in storage still).
     

     

     

     

     

     
    and here's a bonus thing, all the original '01 sets that I still have with their original poackaging. Not too many, but it's still nice to look at it especially since I was too young and not quite into bionicle yet to remember what these looked like on the shelves.
     

  20. Xinlo
    these new sets look really awesome and I'm buying them all. I still have some gripes (gali's mask is still too evil looking for me but I am disliking it less with time, pohatu's feet boomerangs seem like an afterthought, onua's hulkness isn't doing it for me and neither is kopaka's bulk. I always saw him as being lean and mean... but oh well.) but overall I am very excited. I'm actually loving lewa so muc which is weird 'causehis mask is probably the furthest from the original but yeah.
     
    also the return of clone sets is a ripoff, but it's a nostalgic one and I'm fine with it lol
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    BIONICE

    By Xinlo,

    So yeah I haven't made an entry about them yet, so because of today's thingy, I will pass judgement.
     
    Edit: Remember not to discuss leaked images.
    -Wind-
     
    ...right. judgement redacted until whenever
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    Toa Mata

    By Xinlo,

    me and my good buddy Takal were debating earlier about the difference between Earth and Stone elements, and we came to a disturbing discovery:
     
    earth and stone are basically the same (bye Onua)
     
    Gali can heat water (she did so in one of the early comic issues, forget which) which means she can also freeze it (bye Kopaka)
     
    following the same logic, Pohatu should be able to heat rock to create magma, and by extension, flames (this would be difficult I'd imagine, and nowhere near as practical as Tahu's fire abilities, but it still makes him redundant)
     
    and Gali could also control air in a roundabout way by evaporating water or simply focusing on the moisture in the air to much the same effect as Lewa's abilities. Coupled with a Kakama for making tornadoes and you're good to go
     
    So that's Kopaka and Onua rendered useless and Tahu and Lewa maybe handy to have around for a shortcut to certain abilities, but the gist of it is Gali and Pohatu could easily and practically be the whole team for 90% of the circumstances they were put in. They're also the only two who get along, so we ditch the angst as well.
     
    Bam. Perfect harmony in a Toa team at last, and a perfect gender ratio. We have fixed Bionicle, my friends.
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    Doctor Who

    By Xinlo,

    I can't even put my frustration with this show into words... every new episode that comes out makes me dislike it more. The potential is there, as it always was, for amazing things, but at literally every turn it's almost intentionally ruined.
     
    it's like every time there might be a redeeming moment moffat goes "lol fart joke"
     
    obviously there aren't (many) actual fart jokes but you get my point I hope
     
    gaaaaaaaaah
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