emily

I don't, sorry! Or if I do I'm not sure where they're stowed away.

Hi! I've been wanting to work on my 2001 mask collection lately, but as some of you may have noticed, masks have gotten really Really expensive in the past couple of years. So i figure, hey, maybe I can get a better deal and help someone else out at the same time, by trading some of my spares for someone else's.

Here is what I have to be able to trade to you (pardon the blurry image):

Uncommons (trading 1 of these for 1 of my wants each):

• Lime Huna x1 claimed
• Dark Grey Huna x1
• White Miru x1
• Black Miru x1 (not available, i realized this actually isnt a duplicate, lmao)
• Brown Akaku x1 claimed
• Red Kakama x2
• Green Akaku x2
• Tan Mahiki x1 claimed
• Teal Kakama x1 (same thing)

Commons (I can throw some of these in to sweeten a deal from my side if you happen to be looking for any):

• Silver Akaku x1
• Trans Blue Ruru x5
• Blue Huna x2
• Dark Orange Kakama x4
• Sand Blue Akaku x4
• Green Miru x1
• White Akaku x1
• Red Hau x2
• Light Grey Matatu x1
• Dark Grey Matatu x3
• Brown Kakama x1
• Trans Blue Kaukau x4
• Orange Huna x1
• Black Pakari x3
• Tan Komau x1
• Orange Pakari x2
• Lime Mahiki x2

Below are my wants - masks I would like to trade for:

• Black Kakama
• Blue Kakama
• Blue Miru
• Dark Grey Rau
• Green Hau
• Green Kakama
• Light Grey Huna
• Light Grey Mahiki
• Light Grey Rau
• Light Grey Ruru
• Lime Matatu
• Lime Rau
• Lime Ruru
• Light Blue Komau
• Orange Komau
• Red Miru
• Trans Black Kaukau
• Trans White Kaukau

And I'm interested in extra of these common masks, if it factors into a trade:

• Black Huna
• Teal Miru
• Yellow Hau
• Silver Kakama

I'm also on the hunt for most misprints, so if you have specific ones you're selling let me know and I'd be interested in potentially paying money for them. But hey, you didn't come to someone else's B/S/T topic to sell things, did you?

Thanks for your interest, and good luck on your quest to Find the Power.

On 1/18/2022 at 2:08 PM, Illuminatus said:

On a similar but slightly off-topic note, can anyone tell me how to source the original thumbnail files on LEGO's current instructions database? It looks like BMP has managed to do it for most if not all BIONICLE-related images available and they are surprisingly high-res.

Would be happy to be able to accomplish this for the Slizer and RoboRider images available.

i actually scraped the slizer/roborider images when i got the bionicle ones for bmp. unfortunately a lot of them suck, but a few are comparable to the bionicle images. here's a download:

https://mega.nz/file/No5gUZhQ#97S6yenoIq0ufd5AGs_PisKS3VSu0N9y9KqdvBxC8As

i'd love to get a look at what you have on your CDs if its ever possible! i had to manually recreate a lot of the graphics in my recreation of the 2001 site, but having some reference like this might help with accuracy.

1 hour ago, That Matoran with a Vahi said:

In any case, this is an amazing resource; thanks!

thank you!! im happy for anyone to get some use out of it. it's got listed all the scans i'm aware of for Adventures, too - probably the same ones you've seen on brickipedia, though.

those two comics were contributed to bmp by PANGOLIN_2, who only scanned them specifically. iirc he didnt have a setup ideal for scanning, but wanted to contribute those since theyre fairly significant from a bionicle perspective.

good thing i decided to poke back in on the site today. this archive is still on bmp's server, just not linked on the site presently. i have a directory of lego mag scans (mine and other's) that ive found online, here on my site: https://emilyinternet.zone/realm/scans.html. you can find everything there. enjoy!

5 hours ago, thatguy said:

The link for Dark Hunters no longer works. Is it possible to find a functioning link? If so, where?

we've got most of the guides on bmp! https://biomediaproject.com/bmp/story/books/guides/

He was found by somebody in Vahkiti's discord server via this video he narrates and is credited in (https://youtu.be/Yy8YThhaAxg). Not sure who exactly it was that made the discovery, since I myself learned about it second-hand!

Just a couple months later I came across a documentary on Netflix he narrates - though unfortunately I can't remember now what it was about.

https://voicemedia.tv/en/audios/audio-download/

cute site! reminds me of some sites folks would make back in the day. yours is very expansive!

Hey folks, just a heads up, bmp already has a working archive of these going. they keep adding more for sale so ive been maintaining it, this whole thing goes back several years at this point. bmp's download isnt very up-to-date atm, but i'll upload all the most recent boards soon since there's some active interest.

On 8/5/2020 at 10:02 PM, Bionicle Guru said:

Alongside pictures of the Nuva cube and symbols, other images of the Toa Nuva were released, including the infamous one of Tahu Nuva rising from the energized protodermis, only the top half of his Hau Nuva Kanohi visible. It is an iconic image, but it was often cropped. The full image showed two other menacing "bumps" in the protodermis on either side of Tahu, but further behind him. Early theories in mid-2002 suggested these were the other Toa Nuva rising from the liquid, but the sinister, un-Toa-like appearance suggested otherwise. Eventually, Greg Farshtey came out and said the "bumps" were prototypes of the Rahkshi, and most accepted that, as Rahkshi are formed when Kraata are dipped in energized protodermis, just like the Toa were. This never sat well with me because the Mask of Light movie made it clear the Rahkshi were formed around the time of the Mask of Light's discovery, not when the Toa Nuva were created.

minor but important distinction; greg said those are kraata, not rahkshi. which didnt make much sense to me either, until just recently when these mask of light storyboards came up (https://www.ebay.com/itm/LEGO-Bionicle-Storyboard-Copies-by-MIKE-VOSBURG-133-Pages-2002-Domes-of-Doom/114279737078) that establish the kraata were envisioned as being formed from protodermis after all.

that doesnt totally address your concerns with the time jump, but i think the bionicle team wasn't envisioning such a gap between the nuva and mask of light, considering the kal were such a last-minute addition.

On 7/15/2020 at 6:27 PM, Zestanor said:

Templar straight up admitted they (after being given permission) made up that ending to MNOG. There’s no way an MNOG style ending with a fight against Makuta himself was ever planned for LoMN. 

to clarify on the end of there being a planned makuta fight for Rebuilt: thats something that the Litestone folks are planning to add into it, since Rebuilt is their mod. Its less obvious and more difficult to get to but there are also releases that are pure bugfixes of the two leaked lomn builds, and those'll naturally never have a makuta fight.

For what it's worth, I believe this had nothing to do with the actual lomn script - instead, it would've been a faux 'script' describing a scene related to that pic, created just for this purpose.

On 6/12/2020 at 7:17 AM, TuragaNuva said:

Oh hey, those appear to be my scans of the Bohrok TCG booklet - glad to see they've finally made it onto BMP. It's a neat little piece of early story material.

That 08 history booklet is pretty cool. Haven't seen that before.

 

Ah, I knew I forgot something! I wasn't 100% where those scans came from. I'll edit in some credit for ya tomorrow.

6 hours ago, Iruini Nuva said:

Is there a downloadable version that supports local saves? Heck, even if it's just spinning up a local DB that mimics the main BMP infrastructure, just looking for something self-hostable.

MNOG II Built In Save

VNOG Built In Save

these might be what you're looking for!

1 hour ago, Xboxtravis said:

Although as already stated, the BMP versions are basically the most glitch free and cleaned up versions out there due to community work. I am curious as to what will be done to keep the games running though now that Flash is being phased out. 

The download versions of all the flash games will still work regardless of this! the future of playing the games in-browser is less certain, but I know JrMasterModelBuilder has a couple potential options in mind.

On 3/31/2020 at 4:49 AM, Illuminatus said:

But yeah, here it is in case you're interested in the recording sans subtitlesin ; you'd have to crop out the other commercials and maybe amp up the sound. If there's anything else you could do to make it sound better, that'd be awesome.

Meanwhile, I might reach out to the studio myself if you guys don't plan on doing that.

done and done! by all means, reach out to them if you want - I'll be interested to hear if they have anything to say!

my understanding is that it was to detail Mata Nui's journey north to get the power cube for the robot - so basically, an expanded version of Glatoran issue 5.

oh im pretty sure i figured out the spider! we lucked out because the fikou nui is built very similarly:

Here's my take on the brakas ive been working on based on your rips... im not totally satisfied with it, but its the closest ive been able to get to what the proportions seem to be. your take with the toa foot looks about right too.

Nice! I got this added to bmp, and I updated our copy of the one you recorded in 2006 to what you linked too (before now ours was sourced from a youtube reupload).

Not sure yet if anyone on the staff is planning to try to contact Tridev or not. This on its own is quite neat though.

it kinda looks like the bird's got a diving animation going on in those unused sprites... makes sense for its mode of attack, but i could definitely see it being hard to get the sense of depth to read right for an animation like that in-game, given the perspective everything is at.

excited about this! its very nice to have a full spritesheet for the brakas like this... and the toa stone inventory sprites are quite neat too. looking forward to whatever's next!

I've never heard anything to this effect myself. The early Boneheads protos are kind of all over the place and its hard to get a grasp of how many of them they were thinking of producing, but once things were focused down we only see evidence of six. The RoboRiders set a precedent for a collection of six as well.

10 hours ago, Illuminatus said:

I would literally pay to see this become a reality. Is it possible to modify the MNOG with new content? Can @Peri do that?

I dont wanna derail the thread too much but to answer briefly - definitely possible, and something I would like to get to someday. There's already a mnog mod out there by Nuparu77 if youre interested!

6 hours ago, Mister N said:

I just checked my Russian version of BIONICLE #4 and it has one "new" page compared to the extended version, but without Vorox battle scene. It is the standart version of the comic, am I right?

Yeah! My copy has that page as well so I think it must have been standard. I guess they took out that page and the ad pages to fit in the four new pages.