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  1. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    This comedy is the worst thing I have ever read and I despise myself for giggling at it even in the slightest. Also, I now have bonewheel PTSD. Thanks a lot, jerkface. T_T
  2. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    Ah, thanks. I can work with that.
  3. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    I was mostly worried about if the guards would even let someone looking for survivors (or hoping to at least drag the bodies somewhere where they wouldn't be disturbed) that close.
  4. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    So I'm planning out an intro to a new character to maybe get back into the swing of things, and I'm considering having a flashback to just after Ko-Koro got taken over, not too long after the new management set a bunch of villagers free to send a message- and then shot half of them down as they were running. Would it be feasible for a character to show up something like half a day later, find a survivor left to die in the cold, and drag her out of there?
  5. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    The only Ghost in the Shell material I'm familiar with is the 90s movie and its sequel (and I guess The Matrix, if you wanna go that route), but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate a good MoC when I see it. Nice.
  6. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    That touch with the Turaga is neat, yes. Although it strikes me as a bit odd that the Great Beings would design their evolutionary representatives as what happens when Toa lose their phenomenal cosmic powers. Ah, well, the wisdom's more important, I guess. I'm ambivalent-to-mildly-pleased on the idea of Great Beings being empowered Glatorian. To be honest, on some level I always kinda figured that they were just normal guys with extraordinary universe-breaking powers. At the very least, it fits with how, for all their power, they kept making very mundane mistakes when working their wonders, and it reflects how the average Toa is hewed from the stock of Matoran commoners.
  7. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)

    Welp, I just noticed the Bornicle quote in your signature. Caught me off guard and got a genuine IRL chuckle out of me- I feel like I should've read the source material back when it was still accessible. I really like the touch with putting 942 instead of 941- it's the little tidbits that make the moment for me.

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      Thanks! I didn't imagine there was anyone left who would get a kick out of that. Too bad the banner GIF that someone made for the epic comedy is no longer active. I was really fond of that.

  8. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    The main system bulk certainly looks like it could come from an actual set, albeit a rather plain one. I'm not so sure about the Tarakava, although its construction is quite inventive.
  9. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    Roboriders are where it's at, man.
  10. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    As much as I hate to give the stereotypical geewunner answer... 2001. Mata versus vortex. The MNOLG animation had a lot of hurdles to overcome, its choreography marred by LEGO's then-current nonviolence policy, but it was dripping with atmosphere and the dialogue was fantastic and larger-than-life, and that really left an impact.
  11. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    Bionicle G1 came out at a time when LEGO wanted something distinct from its usual fare and was willing to pour in unusually high amounts of resources and promotion into it. G2 came out at a time when LEGO was doing extremely well for itself and didn't need the proverbial killer app that the original line was, and so it didn't get such a disproportionate amount of attention. Despite its impressive pedigree, G2's shelf life essentially amounted to how well a constraction line could sell itself on its own merits in the mid-2010s- and judging by official reports, the future of constraction sets seems questionable, which means G2 was probably doomed from the start. It's a shame, really. The only LEGO sets I buy are constraction sets, and from now on I'll be stuck with licensed products with specialized molds that don't often lend themselves well to MoCing, with little chance of the bizarre, inventive custom builds that nonhumanoid sets or combiners tend to have unless we start getting more droids and cyborgs.
  12. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    Took this picture yesterday. The store was a Toys'R'Us different from the one in my last picture. As you can see, we've got all the summer 2016 sets (including lots of Umaraks and I guess excluding Quake Beast), a couple Creatures, Skull Basher and Skull Slicer (those two just do not seem to want to sell for whatever reason), and Uniter Pohatu, suffering eternally from the Curse of Brown. Also, apparently Ekimu IS $15- online. You can get him for that price in person as well, but you have to ask the cashiers to match the online price or they'll just go with what's on the tag, I think.
  13. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    This is absolutely beautiful and if it were a set I would totally buy it. Man, it's been a while since I said that. Feels pretty good. (Where'd you get the skis? The greebles make them look Bionicle-y, but I don't recall any sets that could've used them.)
  14. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    Looks pretty solid. I like the bulked-up arms and torso.
  15. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    Not much to it, but nice use of the skull mask as torso armor. Also, chef yes yes I approve chefs are good.
  16. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    Everything about this is great, but the head is easily the main draw. It even sticks out like the G1 version! The only way it could've been better is if there was a way to put Krana in it.
  17. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    Impressive. The pieces flow together very well for the most part, the colors are perfectly done, and the head design is fantastic.
  18. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    I just realized- whatever happened to the First Toa's canisters and Suva? Are they still being cared for, just like they were in G1 canon? I imagine the Suva aren't actually in use anymore- the Maru don't use them, and if they don't, who else would?
  19. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    Rhotuka! Oh, it's been so long!
  20. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    In my experience, it's hard to make an MoC of that size without it becoming an absolute mess of pieces, but you've done a pretty good job with it anyways. You got a lot of mileage out of the half-and-half concept, especially with the weapon designs.
  21. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    Oh wow. The color contrast and lighting already makes this thing stand out, but then you start to notice the actual build and it's even more phenomenal. That helmet design in particular is amazing.
  22. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    I'm honestly surprised this never got featured. It's fantastically well-made.
  23. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    I think my favorite thing about this is how seamless it looks. Feels like I'm looking at a singular object rather than a scratch build.
  24. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    What a glorious mess of transparent pieces. I approve.
  25. Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)
    Oh wow, they actually fit together! I honestly had no idea how that would work until I saw that picture.
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