Toa of the Blazing Inferno

 

 

You should try to make a Mask of Ultimate Power based on the images of the G2 Makuta titan builds, since the original guy who said he was going to seems to have dropped the ball on that.

My friend, it's been done. Many times.

You should try to make a Mask of Ultimate Power based on the images of the G2 Makuta titan builds, since the original guy who said he was going to seems to have dropped the ball on that.

The only place I could find Uniter Tahu was Barnes & Noble, in case anyone is having similar difficulty finding that set.

Thanks for the heads up, he has been absent from every store I have searched.  I would have stopped and looked today but I got a cold.

No problem.

I believe I finally got my Makuta right (besides the staff-top ball, which is on its way), after several reexaminations of the images provided.  There are several part choices, as well as placements, that are just barely shown, but I believe I found them all.  I made a couple assumptions as well as a couple alterations to my figure, though.  I used 4m axles with a stop on the end to attach the black bohrok eyes to his feet, so they wouldn't come off, because I thought they'd fallen off at one point.  I also added an extra bush to the other end of the axle connector inside the drill head, so it wouldn't try to slide up the axle it's on.

The only place I could find Uniter Tahu was Barnes & Noble, in case anyone is having similar difficulty finding that set.

Since the link is to the Flickr mobile site, here is the regular link.  I just might build that someday, if I ever decide that I want a shapeways MoUP.

I still want to know the dimensions of the poster.  If it's 16x20 it'll go with my Lego Store poster set, and if it's 11x17 it'll go with my SWCA poster set, but I have special plans for that set.  It might be another size entirely, too, in which case I just hope it's an easily framable size.

I recently discovered that the images weren't auto-arranging correctly according to the numbers in the names, so I made each second and third number three digits long, before any letters, by adding one or two zeroes at the beginning.  I chose three digits because that's the longest that the number in either of those places gets, and I didn't have to do it to the first number because that one was only ever one digit.  That seems to have fixed the problem, so everything should be in the correct order now.

I thought there were three rounds, and yes, that is every single one of them.

I'm tempted to put them on Flickr in their own album, so I can keep adding to it and rearranging it as needed.  I just want to make sure there's nothing wrong with my doing that before I do it.

You don't need my permission lol, just do whatever you'd like to do. Just make sure to send me the link.

I don't mean I'm asking your permission, I mean I wasn't sure it was legal, but I'm just gonna do it.  I'll post the link to the album here when I'm done.

Edit: Here you go.

I'm tempted to put them on Flickr in their own album, so I can keep adding to it and rearranging it as needed.  I just want to make sure there's nothing wrong with my doing that before I do it.

I've been saving them as well.  I was saving them by the QX number, but I renamed them based on the numbers in the corner in a #-#-# format that puts the pages in such an order that some full scenes have come together, and I really like seeing that.

Hey man, can you do me a biggg favor and do this batch for me? 

Do what with this batch?  I can email you the files I downloaded and renamed if that's what you mean.  I didn't crop them, though, so you'll have to do that if you want.

Wow, this is some cool memorabilia. That demo VHS is very cool. Would be cool to have some of this stuff, but I think I'll pass. Hope everyone saves these images, for archival purposes!

 

-NotS

 

http://www.bzpower.com/board/topic/19958-lomn-storyboard-database/

 

I'll be sure to get this round of images as well.

 

I've been saving them as well.  I was saving them by the QX number, but I renamed them based on the numbers in the corner in a #-#-# format that puts the pages in such an order that some full scenes have come together, and I really like seeing that.

I don't remember seeing the Artwork Studios news article, if there was one, so I was glad I heard about it in the video.  None of the rest of it was new to me, but I'm glad something was.

Translation: Surf is up. 

I was wondering what that meant.

I liked it so much that I saved it to use as my desktop wallpaper in the future.

Isn't this the first time in the entire franchise we've ever been given a clear, sustained image of a character unmasked?

 

(compared to Ekimu in the earlier animation, which was about half a second)

Lewa had a brief bit of masklessness in the MNOG, and then there's Tamaru basically mooning the Nuhvok.

 

There's also the original Toa animations, which while not fully visible were definitely prominent.  Then there's the Toa Mahri animation, which was just sort of weird.

I think he might have meant in this new story.

I hope he gets back to me soon about buying the medium.

The stand looks cool and all, but can't we just have the mask?

The stand fills a void that was left by Lego showing the various gold masks on display pedestals, in the animations, while the pedestals themselves weren't available, hence the desire to get more than one of this set and use the pedestals with different masks.

It would have been waaay better if they released an actual LEGO pedestal, rather than a cardboard one.

Agreed, but I'll take what I can get.

The stand looks cool and all, but can't we just have the mask?

The stand fills a void that was left by Lego showing the various gold masks on display pedestals, in the animations, while the pedestals themselves weren't available, hence the desire to get more than one of this set and use the pedestals with different masks.

Man, oh man. If this doesn't come stateside I'll be a salty sailor. I'm tempted to get like 10 of these things just to give stands to each of the golden masks so far. 

That's what I was thinking of doing, too.  I don't have all the Toa, and I don't plan on getting them all, but I can use the stands to display whatever golden masks come out that I'm interested in, like the MoF I have, and the MoC I'm getting, and the one that comes in this set in the first place, plus the masks of control, time and ultimate power once those come out.

I wonder what those leftover tabs on the top and bottom are for.  They just look like weird leftovers to me.

Also, it seems like it would have been better to use one of the short axles with a stop at the end to build that, so you don't have to disassemble the whole thing if the axle starts sinking and you want to pull it up without risking pulling it all the way out.  They even make them in the length that seems to be used here (4M), though not in black, and they use them in sets to this day, so I can't even cite discontinuation of the part as the reason.

In addition, the propeller piece used below the cardboard seems like it'd be better if it was attached upside-down, so the flat side can be against the cardboard underside.  Why they didn't do that is also puzzling.

Ekimu's video is on YouTube now, and there's a slight difference that I thought was interesting.  It doesn't have to do with the story at all, Ekimu's name is just visible in his first scene, where it isn't in the video from the website.  I wonder why they made that change.

I really hope they release a print of that, but I don't think it's likely, unfortunately, given that they usually release the image of the poster well before the actual poster if they're planning to release the poster.

I'm glad that they started uploading the full magazines, because I like downloading the pdf versions and splitting up the pages to put them with my other files from whatever theme the pages are based on.  For example, the DC comics in each successive issue seem to be related to each other, so I put the magazine comics and their club code sequels in line in order of release, and I'm thinking I'll combine all those files into one at the end of the year, once the storyline is complete.  That's one thing you can't do with the physical versions unless you want to make a mess.

Tempting, indeed! Although in fact I could just save the digital images and keep them for future reference. Not quite to the same effect, but saves hassle.

That's what I'm doing.  Did you do that for the last batch too?

I'm enjoying downloading these images off of the listings.  It'd be interesting if the ones for the rest of the movie go up, and I'm able to order the files to assemble my own complete storyboard for the movie.