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Anyone else heard about the single-issue Blasto comic coming out?

You get piranhas.I wish my PS3 wasn't broken.

Okay, name five canon Hutts that weren't in some way terrible and/or loathsome.

Granted, but the monster eats everyone else.I wish for the monster to be defeated.

Of course I know of Lowbacca. And I do remember that one other Wookiee Knight.But at some point after their introduction, Lucas said "no more Wookiee Jedi." Reasoning being some species just weren't capable of using the Force, like the Wookiees [and Ewoks, thank god]. I found it ridiculous, and apparently so did the Clone Wars writers. Ha.~|ET|~

I never realized how cool a Prince of Persia style Bionicle game could be. And I always love seeing the sets shown in a different style. I think that concentrating on only one year of the story would make this game much better than its predecessor.

Granted, but he steals all of your possessions to keep in his hoard.I wish that I was better at forum games.

So... I'm the only one who liked Jar Jar AND the prequels?

Well, my "like" of those episodes is not a strong one, and I never bothered to revisit them. It is more that they were the only episodes that even resembled something half decent at that point in season three (coming out right after the terrible first half of that season concluded). Though I do hate the ending to that arc.

In regards to this balance of the force debate, there were some Clone Wars episodes that were supposed to answer what that meant. I know they left it sort of vague besides the fact that it did not mean the ultimate victory of the Jedi or the destruction of the dark side. I just looked up the episode titles, and they were "Overlords", "Altar of Mortis", and "Ghosts of Mortis", and they appeared in season 3. They were a bit weird, but I liked them.I have to agree that most Sith/Dark-Side users are boring villians that are evil for evil's sake, though there are a few good ones. But the only pure evil Sith that works for me is Palpatine, because his manipulative nature makes him more interesting character than the ones that just slaughter everyone in their path.

Zahn was my least favorite author.So The old actors may come back... That's actually kinda awesome!

If they do an original story, I do hope they do not make one that contradicts the EU. At least not much.

I am not sure how to feel about this news. I think I'll be cautiously optimistic, and I hope that the new movies will draw from the EU instead of replacing it. Maybe we will even get movies that don't focus on the Skywalkers. Who knows, maybe the new people running things will have more respect for the EU than Lucas had.

I believe the link is broken in the first post.

Always nice to hear from Greg. I understand that he is busy with his job and baby, but I do hope he finishes the serials one day.

No, no, no. We all know Bionicle's line has technically ended. It's not that. It's that it never had a theatrical release during its 9 years of storytelling, and a line only three years in the running suddenly has everything Bionicle did not. You simply cannot argue with that. That's why people are disappointed. And of course Bionicle and Hero Factory merit comparison. One is the successor of the other.Obviously, however, I understand that HF is easily transferrable to the films. I'm just pointing out collective disappointment.The whole reason DC and Marvel get re-imagined constantly is because things are far too complicated. Alternate universes galore, character X is a clone of character B who killed the alternate universe self of his villain, characters dying then somehow coming to life 10 issues later, the works. Also, time passes on, and the characters must be rebooted to fit modern times, lest they fall to the ashes of history. Iron Man, for instance, originally started as POW in the Vietnam War . Now he's one of the Iraq War. And don't even get me started on Transformers G1 continuity. But I digress.

Well, see, that's part of the reason I think BIONICLE didn't get a theatrical release. TLG knew better than to make those kind of sacrifices with a story that they were trying to tell a certain way. BIONICLE, if anything, was complex. IMO, that's one of the reasons why it ended, but it's also one of the things that made it great while it lasted. Creating a story that intricate and complex just to sell a toyline is an extremely ambitious thing, and I think TLG did it well for as long as they could.And I think simplifying it too much would take away what made it unique in the first place. Hence why I'm extremely cynical about some people's claims that TLG could just make BIONICLE a simple, episodic storyline if they wanted to bring it back... after all, if they were going to do that, then why bother to bring it back at all?Look through this topic and see how many Hero Factory fans are worried this is going to be a huge disaster. If the potential for badness is recognized as so great even among people who like Hero Factory, then what would have made a theatrical release for BIONICLE such a great thing? Hero Factory was made with a certain amount of flexibility that BIONICLE lacked, for better or worse. And I'd have hated to see BIONICLE sully itself by sacrificing that clearly-focused, never-straying vision just so it could get in theaters.You say Hero Factory suddenly has everything BIONICLE didn't, but I say that's hogwash. BIONICLE had great story-driven online games, while Hero Factory has games that struggle to hold my attention for more than a few minutes (although to be fair I've been drifting away from video gaming in general for a long time now). BIONICLE had an amazing book series, while Hero Factory is getting its first actual novels this year, and who knows if those will even be any good? BIONICLE got four direct-to-DVD movies, while Hero Factory has gotten some TV specials that hardly even amount to a miniseries, and that many consider either mediocre or out-and-out bad. BIONICLE got console-based and handheld video games, while the closest thing Hero Factory has gotten to that is an iPhone version of one of their online games.Sure, there are some things Hero Factory has that BIONICLE didn't. It's been easier to custom-order Hero Factory figures using Design byME, Pick-A-Brick, and Hero Recon Team, even if only one of those services still exists. It's also easier to design Hero models electronically using LEGO Digital Designer and the online Hero Creators. And of course Hero Factory has an excellent and versatile new building system in the sets.But frankly, that's just because Hero Factory happened to be around at the time when TLG decided these sort of things would be practical. It's not like TLG decided "well, BIONICLE doesn't really deserve this, but Hero Factory does". Had BIONICLE been around and at the peak of its success when TLG was considering these things, they'd have surely implemented them in that theme instead. Just look at the earliest Hero Factory sets, which were pretty BIONICLE-like, and try and tell me TLG couldn't have switched to a new, ball-joint-based building system just as easily with BIONICLE as they did with Hero Factory. They were already going down that road with sets' increasing articulation for many years. It just wasn't until Hero Factory's first year of sets was designed that they were ready to roll that system out in the next wave.In this way, complaining that BIONICLE deserved the things that its successor is now getting is like complaining that America's founding fathers deserved the Internet more than today's generation does. We could debate about such a thing from now until doomsday, but it's a moot point because such a thing simply couldn't have happened, and if the opportunity had been there then nothing would have stopped that from happening.Finally, in conclusion, it's worth mentioning that TLG is doing exactly the same thing with Hero Factory as they always did with BIONICLE: trying new things. It's just that the things they're trying with Hero Factory are newer than the things they tried with BIONICLE because Hero Factory is a newer theme. If Hero Factory had begun in 2001, lasted until 2010, and been replaced with this radical new theme called BIONICLE, then BIONICLE would have been getting everything Hero Factory fans thought the earlier theme had "deserved". That's not unfair in any way; it's just progress.

You know, the advantage of not making a BIONICLE movie is that, even if we may have preferred that, a failure of that would have been worse. Quite frankly, if a HF or a BIONICLE movie have to fail, I prefer the HF movie to do so. I like HF, but BIONICLE is too epic to be messed up in a movie. Still, I look forward to hearing more from this! -Gata

I really love the MBA series, but if I had one complaint, once you reach the last pack of level two, there is not enough room in that box for all the Lego peices to be sorted nicely. Luckily, level 3 starts off with a brand new box.

I never thought of feathers on a Vortixx, but it looks really great and makes a lot of sense.

Cool. I used to be on the old BZP server. I think I'll join up again.EDIT: So, at what times is the server up?

all the timesALL OF THEM!

Cool. I used to be on the old BZP server. I think I'll join up again.EDIT: So, at what times is the server up?

It is nice to know that Faber and Greg listened to the fans so much. That is why I love Bionicle so much.I think that the three finger islands might have been an early concept of Voya Nui, judging by its position next to an opening to the robot underneath.

I can understand not linking to a video site, but not even being able to mention the popular one by name is sort of inconvenient.I am not sure if this is a problem on the new forums, but there should be a report option for profiles. I once saw a profile that was nothing but hateful attacks on anyone who thought differently than the person to whom the profile belonged.

Retcons are the most annoying part of canon for me, but sometimes they change things for the better, like Asajj's storyline in TCW.

This is Star Wars. Everything is canon. Even the stuff that contradicts itself.. . .for a given value of "canon", anyway.