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The voting for Official SBC Contest 4: The Gift That Keeps On Giving! concluded and... there was a tie! So Tufi Piyufi has launched the Official SBC Contest #4 Tiebreaker! for the two best-performing entries. Go vote before April 19th at 11:59 PM Eastern to help us determine the final-final winner!View the full article

http://www.bzpower.info/Imaging/stories/2023/04/2023-Bracket-Toa-Teaser_7.jpg It's time to call the results from BZPower's Best Bionicle Toa Bracket, Round 4. The people have voted, and the top Toa has been chosen. It is none other than 2004's Toa Lhikan! It was a very interesting bracket and I hope you all had fun following it. Read on for more insight, and stay tuned to BZPower for future Bionicle brackets. (I asked if y'all wanted more, and you said yes!)View the full article

Now that we're back, we're back, and you can't stop me from streaming if you try! (Until I have to take a break due to real life in a couple weeks.) We successfully finished LEGO The Incredibles last week, getting 100% completion and all of the achievements, so it's time to head to another game. Come by the BZPower Twitch channel starting at 7:30 PM Eastern tonight to watch us play LEGO Jurassic World, where we'll begin by collecting the red bricks to give us bonuses to make the rest of the challenges less complex. I'm excited to be streaming again and to be hanging out with dinosaurs and our community!View the full article

The poll opened yesterday for the Official SBC Contest #4: The Gift That Keeps on Giving!, giving you the opportunity to pick your favorite creation! Go hit up the Official SBC Contest #4 Voting! topic before midnight on Wednesday, April 12th to cast your vote. May the best build win!View the full article

After a couple month hiatus due to hardware failures, we had a successful Twitch Tuesday stream this past week! That means we're ready to stream some set builds again! Join us tomorrow over on the BZPower Twitch channel at 2 PM Eastern as we build the LEGO Star Wars set 75296 Darth Vader Meditation Chamber! See you there!View the full article

I really want to put all of these technical issues behind us and get back to our weekly videogame streams. I think we're almost there, and tonight I'll be heading over to the BZPower Twitch channel starting at 7:30 PM Eastern to take a stab at it again. We'll be playing more LEGO The Incredibles, with just a couple more levels to do and a handful of achievements standing in the way between 100% completion. With luck the audio will be clear and it'll be smooth sailing from here on out!View the full article

Happy April! We've long since stopped doing April Fools jokes here on BZPower, so we're happy to say that the 2023 Member Raffle #4 is no prank! Head over to enter to win Star Wars Buildable Figure 75529 Elite Praetorian Guard, from the memorable scene in a film most would otherwise like to forget. Perhaps you'll be as lucky as Mask Hunter Lewa, who won the March raffle!View the full article

There's only a few more days left to enter the 2023 Member Raffle #3 for a chance to win LEGO Star Wars Buildable Figure 75115 Poe Dameron! Don't delay - enter today! (Or any time before April 1st.)View the full article

If you already entered the Official SBC Contest 4: The Gift That Keeps On Giving!, that's awesome! If not, Tufi Piyufi has extended the deadline one more week until Sunday, April 2nd at 11:59 PM Eastern, giving you more time to finish up that build. I'm looking forward to seeing all the great MOCs when the voting opens!View the full article

There's a little under a week left to enter the Official SBC Contest 4: The Gift That Keeps On Giving! You have until Sunday, March 26th at 11:59 PM Eastern to build a Bionicle character out of primarily System parts, similar to the awesome Tahu and Takua Gift-With-Purchase set from earlier this year. The winner will receive a Trans-Clear Mask of Fire and there will be a random drawing for a Trans-Neon Green Skull Scorpio Mask, so there's no reason not to enter!View the full article

http://www.bzpower.info/Imaging/stories/2023/03/2023-Bracket-Toa-Teaser_6.jpg The final choice is upon us. Three rounds of votes have narrowed down our set of Toa to just three favorites. Left standing are Tahu Mata, 2003 Takanuva, and Lhikan. Who will get the top slot? Vote now in the forth round to help us determine the outcome. Meanwhile, read on for some thoughts on the results for the third round.View the full article

We did it! Thanks to the entire Bionicle fan community's outpouring of support, the Bionicle: Toa Head Statue project has received ten thousand votes and will be considered in an upcoming LEGO Ideas review phase! Congratulations to yannickbuildsthings aka ToM Dracone for making an awesome build that brought us all together. Whatever happens next, we've shown that our passion for Bionicle is still strong, all these years later!View the full article

It's been nearly two months since we last went live on the BZPower Twitch channel to play some videogames or do any streaming at all. I think most of our technical issues are behind us, so we'll be doing a test run tonight at 7:30 PM Eastern, hopping back into LEGO The Incredibles to pick up wherever it was that we last left off. There may be some hiccups as we adjust settings and make sure things are working properly, so please bear with us. Also, this unfortunately will not be a regular return to streaming, since BrickFair Fredericksburg will be keeping us busy the next two weeks. Still, we're excited to give it a go this evening!View the full article

We've mentioned it a few times over the past year or so, but now it's really time to bust out all the stops! If you haven't visited LEGO Ideas to vote for the Bionicle: Toa Head Statue project, go do it now! Tell your friends to do it too! There's only 23 days left for it to get a little under six hundred votes and reach the goal of ten thousand supporters and be considered for release as an actual LEGO set! We love yannickbuildsthings (aka ToM Dracone on BZPower) and all of his great builds and art, and we're keeping our fingers crossed for this project! We may have gotten a Bionicle tribute set already this year, but wouldn't two tribute sets be even better?View the full article

Now that we've all had time to enjoy and appreciate the Tahu and Takua Gift-With-Purchase set that released last month, it's your turn to break out the bricks and design something new! Tufi Piyufi has kicked off the Official SBC Contest 4: The Gift That Keeps On Giving! and is challenging members to take a Bionicle set and translate it into the Gift-With-Purchase style of Tahu and Takua. To make it easier to add a custom Kanohi and other details, we're allowing digital builds and custom stickers this time around! The winner of the contest will receive a Trans-Clear Mask of Fire, and one randomly-selected entrant will receive a Trans-Neon Green Skull Scorpio Mask, giving everyone a great reason to enter! The deadline is Sunday, March 26th at 11:59 PM Eastern Time, so go get your brick on!View the full article

As shared on a Danish obituaries page, Erling Thue Dideriksen passed away at the beginning of the month. He worked as a LEGO set and element designer for many years, and is responsible for the design of the 'Erling brick,' also referred to as a headlight brick, among numerous others. Our deepest condolences go out to his family, friends, and colleagues.View the full article

http://www.bzpower.info/Imaging/stories/2023/03/3-01-2023-BioniLUG.jpg BioniLUG Members continue to churn out cool new models, from creepy robots to dancing robots, from helpful bots to hurtful bots, from cat models to Kitsune foxes, and more. Read on to check out some of the MOCs.View the full article

Now's the time to enter for your chance to win a free LEGO set! Drop your name in the virtual hat of the 2023 Member Raffle #3 to be in the running to get a free copy of 75115 Poe Dameron from the Star Wars Buildable Figures collection. Perhaps you'll be the lucky one this month, like Darknut, who came out on top in our last giveaway!View the full article

http://www.bzpower.info/Imaging/stories/2023/03/2023-Bracket-Toa-Teaser_5.jpg We have our semi-finalists for Round 3, after 119 votes. We're down to just nine Toa, so their numbers are dropping quickly, but we're that much closer to seeing who will be the top favorite. You can vote now for the third round, which will be running until mid-March. Meantime, you can see the results for the second round here, or read on for some of my insights.View the full article

How is it almost March already? Before the calendar flips over to next month, it's not too late to enter the 2023 Member Raffle #2! A lucky BZPower member will win LEGO Bionicle set 70794 Skull Scorpio from the G2 collection. Good luck everyone!View the full article

http://www.bzpower.info/Imaging/thumbs/2023/02/tn_31208-Hokusai-Teaser.jpg I picked up 31208 Hokusai - The Great Wave at the beginning of the year and thought it was really neat. Since it is an art piece, it doesn't quite have the same style as most of the sets I review here, but I still thought it would be fun to give it a quick look. Read on for the photos.View the full article

http://www.bzpower.info/Imaging/stories/2023/02/2-25-2023-PrisonersOfThePit.jpg Earlier this month, MOC channels became flooded by a rush of new MOCs featuring all the Bionicle sets from 2007 as part of the Prisoners of the Pit Collaboration. A lot of talented Bionicle builders recreated the Barraki, Toa Mahri, and other Matoran and Titans from the era, with some of the builds staying true to the original set and some of them taking the subject into a very different direction. Read on to see the full set of creations, and let us know which is your favorite of the batch!View the full article

http://www.bzpower.info/Imaging/thumbs/2023/02/tn_75573-Floating-Mountains-Teaser.jpg Last month, I asked what final 2022 set people would like to see a review of, and there were many requests for Avatar. As such, today I am doing a quick look at 75573 Floating Mountains: Site 26 & RDA Samson, featuring characters, vehicles, and locations from the original Avatar movie. Read on for the full review, or check it out on Instagram!View the full article

BZPower Member tourmalinex recently shared the process they use to make custom resin masks. Head over to the art forum and dive into A Pool of Blue Protodermis! to see the steps along the way. If you'd like to get your hands on one of them, tourmalinex has kindly donated some that we'll be giving away to members who participate in the 2023 Convention Circuit! There's still time to get your creations to BrickFair Fredericksburg if you're interested!View the full article

http://www.bzpower.info/Imaging/stories/2023/02/2023-Bracket-Toa-Teaser_4.jpg We're about halfway through the month, and we've gotten 96 votes for the second round of the Best Bionicle Toa Bracket. This seems like as good a time as any to check out the specs and do some amateur analysis. Read on to see how your favorite Toa is doing so far!View the full article