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    Lego S@H still has both (technically). Doesn't quite get you free shipping, though. My wife found Ekimu recently, not sure where (suspect Walmart). I just broke down and bought Quake Beast straight from Lego (no luck locally). Backordered until the 18th. Might see that same production run hit a few stores too?
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    "You were not the first Toa!" Voted Kopaka (of the 6). Loved him in G1. Probably prefer Pohatu in G2, simply because he got more development. If we're going more broadly, either Iruini or Vakama (as a character, not purely a Toa).
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    The tweet simply reads as PR to me. Gives you room to make the decisions you need to make without setting expectations inappropriately. I can't say yay or nay to constraction as a product. Bionicle's cancellation feels like a strategic decision rather than a purely $$ one. Sales might have been so disastrous as to merit an immediate halt, but I have a gut reaction that this is an intentional leadership decision about something broader and Bionicle is collateral damage. Now, that decision could be "constraction isn't where we want to go (cancel it all)" or it could be "we want to realign what constraction means, and Bionicle won't make sense in that world 2 years from now". Could be a statement on financial viability, or could be a byproduct of long-term thinking.
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    Skull Warrior is one of the better sets of that wave, and yeah, Akida (water) was amazing! Glad to see I'm not the only one who isn't at Brickfair. You're up in KC, right (thought I saw that in a prior post)?
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    Been prepping to drop the $$ to make him--was just waiting on more formal instructions. We're in luck! Presumably still confirmed as a combiner of the models you reported earlier?
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    I'm still scratching my head about that. Was Templar really in such a time crunch that they couldn't create any sound, or proofread any of the text (Nokama proclaims that they are going to "Metra" Nui if I remember correctly)? The last update went live in January 04, so something tells me they were probably occupied with other stuff. Maybe other LEGO games, maybe work for other clients. Work for a digital agency. Can confirm that sometimes the money just runs out.
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    Latest release was the big one in...09 or 10. I did build some further levels at the time, but there hasn't been a final release. Something I'd love to do someday.
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    Legends of Metru Nui is probably the strongest, looking back. Really enjoyed the darker tone of Web of Shadows though. I have a soft spot for Sidorak.
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    I generally have a favorable opinion of trans-pieces. They should be used fairly sparingly and in a coordinated manner. I think G2 did a pretty good job on the whole, in that regard.
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    Amazing to think that it's been 10 years since I dropped a post in here. Also looks like I was terrible at it. Just to reintroduce myself: Hi! I'm Iruini Nuva. Those of you with particularly long memories may remember me as a former BZP Forum Lead (most notably in Fan Created Games). I was also the lead for Biotech Game Productions, the team behind fan-games like The Insurgent and Havoc (for those who need a blast from the past). The confluence of G2's launch and life stabilizing (graduated, job, married) finally gave me some time to get back into the Bionicle scene as a proper AFOL. I even spent some reconnecting with folks on LinkedIn (shoot me a PM!). To that effect, I've got a new app in the pipes I'm hoping to show off soon. Huge bummer that they canceled G2 a year early (kinda makes launching an app awkward), but I'll see what I can do. I've also got some new goodies on the way for the collection (some G2, some G1)--will toss a post up here once they arrive. Thanks for reading, and forgive the retro mess! We'll get a cleaning crew in here soon enough.
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    Bingo. The magic trick was the happy (and maybe impossible to recreate?) medium between the comics/MNOLG/the mini-CDs that told a deep, but small enough story that 1) you could more or less keep track of by memory and 2) created a fantastic world with a lot of gaps you could fill yourself. Tremendous way to leverage fan-based creative freedom to build a brand. Don't know if that works in today's media climate, but that's what sucked me in then. Now, for G3...I wonder if they end up doing what Star Wars (twice), Transformers, etc. have all ended up doing: Wait until the original fans have kids, reboot for the modern day--whatever that looks like. G2 was awfully soon, in that sense. Old fans are only now starting to graduate and have disposable income/time to become AFOLs. I've been able to share Bionicle with my wife (with great success), but I think they can afford to wait and drop a better nostalgia bomb in another 5-10 years.
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    An overdue apology

    Iruini Nuva commented on GSR's blog entry in blogs_blog_1794

    For what it's worth, over the past few months I've realized I basically went through the same thing. Fan Created Games, the Software Library, etc. were sort of my babies and a lot of my team's work (Biotech) were major pillars in that community for the latter half of the 00's. Got promoted to staff (hat's off to B6 for seeing fit to promote someone that young and awkward), stayed super-involved for a few years, got busy (college), and faded out for 5 years. BZP has literally made my career--really wish I'd stayed more involved. ^ On that note, you made a reply in a topic...maybe 2 weeks ago re. BZP's relevance in a post-forum age (old 2002 homepage, etc.). That is now, of course, a timely discussion (as it was post-G1). I've got some thoughts that I keep meaning to get on paper--would love to help keep this community rolling.
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    Could also consider the Blog feature (granted, it's a Premier thing). I keep meaning to make posts for all of my little finds lately.
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    Presumably you could extract it from the SWF? Don't know that I've seen original tracks outside the Powerpack.
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    Wait... your younger siblings like Bionicle? Huh. Just hearing that is weird. I thought kids had no interest in constraction these days, not unless it's their favorite Star Wars characters or something like that. There's hope, in that sense. My wife was really starting to enjoy G2 as well (still working on introducing her to G1). Might've just needed a few more years of gap than it had? Styles are ultimately circular, after all.
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    Technically, that's a perk, ha.
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    Hate, hate, hate to be the bearer of bad news. Just hit the newsboard from Lego: http://www.lego.com/en-us/bionicle/newsboard
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    Official announcement on Sunday?
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    I have one on the way that's (in theory) pretty closely aligned to Munty's version (i.e. near original, few quality-of-life buffs). Will report back what I can find out.
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    I went with mask packs, but for a more nuanced reason than that. Thinking back, there were a lot of things that drew me to the '01 world, but I remember there was a definite "collect them all" desire. To that end, mask packs were important, but I only ever owned a couple of them. It was more about the integration with the storyline. The knowledge that there was a lot I still had to do was a big driver on top of the story (rather than G2 relying on story alone). I also always loved the huge builds, but I think I appreciate them way more now than I did then. They were important as a way of adding grandeur to the world (Rahi, in particular), but I'm missing more of them than I am canister sets. You'll notice a trend in those two answers: What I'd love to see is a bigger support network around the product line. The supports may not sell in high volume themselves, but they exist to make the core sets seem more viable and tempting. Not dissimilar to price anchoring, in that sense.
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    Good point, technically it's a poll about ratios. I've also been pretty happy with the CCBS/Technic blend in the 2016 wave (2015 was just a hair too much smooth-shells). In that sense, I voted technic because I liked the trend towards layering some custom gearboxes/limbs on top of the CCBS core (plus the increase in greebling). More system + larger technic builds would be excellent.
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    Oh those are fighting words there. I wish that LEGO would return to black axles. How do you feel about tan?
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    Deadpool was outstanding, if occasionally cringe-worthy. Believe the last I saw was Finding Dory with the in-laws. Good for what it is, not convinced it was worth the price of a theater.
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    If you want to build stuff it's way better to get 5 sets of black and gray skeleton pieces than one set of black, one set of orange, one set of light blue, one set of trans-lime, and one set of light gray. Also, the number of recolors LEGO can sustain at any one time is limited, so if you want all the neutral bone pieces colored on a set-by-set basis then you'd probably have to get rid of at least half of the other recolors. Economies of scale wins the day again. Torn on this one. I loved the colors schemes of sets like Hahli Mahri (or, say, the '01 Toa), but yeah, with the much higher piece-counts we're getting today, totally makes sense to leverage color as an accent. That's more of a CCBS mentality anyway (for better or worse). Also helps scale-up MoCs from smaller collections. Now I can own all 6 Toa and leverage the neutrals from all 6 (plus colors from 1-2), instead having a situation where I can use parts from, say, Tahu and Onua, but Gali is 90% useless (to that MoC) because it's all blue. Form vs. function, in that sense.
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    Seconded. Was not aware that there were promo cards--very interested. Same with 197.
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