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It'll be successful - as successful as Lego's similar constraction ventures anyway I think and hopefully moreso. I think the question will be how much more so and how high expectations TLC have for it. Hopefully it gets to stay around for a while.

I have purchased a few little things here and there, but nothing directly because of the 2015 return I don't think.

I would probably get this if I saw it in store just for Groot.

(The other stuff is pretty cool as well I guess. )

Purely in terms of story I would probably agree with 2008 - though 2006 and 2004 come close after for me personally. Including media and what not though it'd have to be one of the years with one of the "NOG" online games - probably 2006 overall in that case with VNOG.

I'll get any sets that hold particular importance in the story and any that particularly take my fancy. How many that will be will be determined later.

I remember several times where I swapped gender. Not sure if that counts though... Maybe that was just me and a few others.

Yes! They add that extra level of addiction and can sometimes be fun to collect separate to the sets themselves (sometimes it can be hard to get/justify getting all the sets, but something like collectible packs are a fun side thing that you can do with little need for things like tonnes of space etc...). I still have a soft spot for masks (the projectiles never really had enough variety for me to really want to "collect" them) but anything with a strong lore would be awesome.

Great collection of finalists, I honestly feel that the winner could have deservedly gone a number of ways. I'm quite happy with this result however, congrats!

The Muaka in your sig caught my attention, these are really cool! They'd be great for staging certain scenes in the story at a reasonable scale and giving easier access to non-commerical set Rahi and characters etc... It'd be a dream come true for Lego to release small bags of these or something similar to the minifig ones they do at the moment. Not that that will happen but the idea is cool. May attempt to build the Muaka myself on the holidays actually if I remember, its too tempting not to.

That being said I would need to acquire a few pieces or have to settle for incorrect colours hmm...

So where can I buy Time Trap? It's not on Bricklink.

Have you tried Amazon or another online bookstore? I always used to get my books from Amazon - Greg has his own author's profile there too I believe.

Astral Traveling - Lonnie Liston Smith

At the time I think people were annoyed for a variety of reasons (other than the pieces in the sets mentioned above). Story-wise some people were annoyed that the flashback arc was being extended another year, delaying us finding out what was happening in present day with the Nuva. Additionally I think some people didn't like the nice clean heroic Toa Metru becoming uglier and more beastlike - while that was the purpose of the story I think some people didn't like the characters and the appearance of the sets as much as a result. My two cents anyway.

...Adaptive Kaukau Nuva isn't that bad, I think it looks kinda cool. Not a traditional design but not bad.

Personally I actually didn't like a lot of the original Nuva Kanohi, particularly the Hau and Pakari, which sucks cause I really liked the original designs for those masks. The Kakama and Miru Nuva were quite cool I thought though luckily.

I also wasn't a fan of the Inika masks in general I think - not how they worked (I liked the rubber head thing at the time) but the design of the faces felt a little too ugly for me on some of them.

Happy birthday, Mak, have a good one!

Happy birthday, Emzee! Have a great day!

I was slightly unconvinced of the proportions at first - but that last image of him riding the Ussal is perfect! Proportions between the two are spot on.

Tohunga is a cooler word (I love the Polynesian languages in general ) but I like Matoran too and I totally respect their desire to not have such a word from their language used in that way. Taking that into account I actually prefer Matoran in context.

With a return of Bionicle I think it'd be a smart idea for an ebook version to be released - a lot of people would be curious about these but re-releasing the books as physical copies probably wouldn't be profitable. As ebooks though I think it could be done fairly easily since all the copyright issues would largely be sorted and creation and distribution wouldn't be too hard. Cross that bridge when it comes I guess though. I'd certainly be for contacting Lego and suggesting/asking for this though - as much for me personally so I don't have to risk breaking/damaging my physical copies on re-reading them.

I'd say that it's possible that it's possible but effectively won't happen again. By the first bit I mean that it is possible with all the switches that there is a possible pair of Takanuva and Makuta out there that could be destined to have that happened, but in effect I doubt it will happen as the Takutanuva set is no longer current and I doubt they would ever make another Takutanuva as it'd be rehashing - at most we'd get a different combo. So yeah I say possibly possible but not going to happen.

It'd make sense that they can - from an in-universe and story making point of view. In universe they should still have the elements of the component Toa and their entities (like it's not just a being with those elements its basically the three joined) so in that respect I don't see a particular reason they shouldn't be able to. For a story making point of view if they were restricted in that regard it'd remove the motivation for there existence - why form Kaita if doing so essentially removes certain abilities of the team. That being said since they haven't appeared as a set and as a result story feature perhaps that would actually be a good reason not to allow them to do that. Still it'd make there earlier appearances feel a bit odd in that respect (I know they're more powerful in other aspects but still seems weird to restrict them in that way kind of). Either way I'd lean towards yes they can, but of course doesn't sound like we have any actual word.

OP and B6 deliver! Good stuff, guys!

Succulent tasty nostalgia.

That aside aesthetically they had a really cool design, very colourful bodies (not just a grey type torso with coloured armour) and the functionality at the time was quite fun and provided  a lot of entertainment. The weapons were unique and added a lot of character to the characters through the sets alone, the Kanohi's Polynesian appearance added a sense of mystery to them and the packaging as well added to this and was quite cool, even compared to that of the Roboriders and Slizers. All in all I'd say for their time they did a lot of things right and those good aspects have only become stronger in my memory as time has gone on.

(I've not entirely forgotten about things such as trying to separate the head pieces. )

Stars, only because of Golden Armor Tahu.

Yeah excluding this I would say the Toa Nuva (2008 specifically). Any other answer would revolve around hypotheticals involving how the team works together and synergises their abilities I think. In terms of raw elemental power and what not the Nuva win.

Wasn't there a point where I think the word "jerk" was used as an insult in one of the books but was still filtered on here? I always found that amusing.

This looks so cool! Really hope it passes through! A cooler setting than a lot of the existing LotR sets too.