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This I don't understand. It's hard to see in many pictures, but in clear pictures where you can see it, he actually does have a layer of lighter color up in the neck and shoulder area. I'm beginning to understand your complaints about the torso, but I'm not sure I understand what makes Grievous's superior. His is far gappier and visually awkward to me, and anything that makes that excusable has far more to do with the difference in source material than any inherent quality of the build. (Also to be fair re: the slightly red eyes, that would require a new plastic color to pull off, and LEGO is past the days of making new colors for limited use.)

Aw, he's responsible for the Protector of Earth being female. I'm happy he spoke up on that.

Honestly, I dislike most of the masks past 2004 for being just to detailed. They're so covered in greebles and fins and weirdness that if you put one next to one of the original 12, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who believed they were supposed to be from the same toyline. The early masks had a wonderful simplicity to them that the later masks lacked. Specifically, though, I'd probably say one of the Mistika masks, probably Gali's. They not only had the late design aesthetic of greebles and stuff, they were supposed to be forms of previously established masks that looked nothing like them. The Ignika deserves a mention, not because it was especially terrible or anything, but because it was such an important mask, and it ended up with the same baffling overdetailing all masks got.

It you think so than why are you commenting in a place where others think otherwise? Because when people are wrong it's usually a good idea to correct them?

Hmm, I personally interpreted those "memories" as a byproduct of the mental link the golden masks gave them to Ekimu, but you make a good point that it could mean Ekimu was actually involved in the new Toa's pre-crash-landing backstory somehow. Hm, I guess that's possible. It just seemed to me that it was an implication towards the mystery of where these Toa came from, but you're right that it could just be an allusion to the visions of the masks.

The Toa hold memories of Ekimu? Goodbye, "these are the same Toa as G1" theories. You won't be missed.

happy birthday! heres your cake

I think it was more of a roundabout way of saying "biological". After all, all living creatures go through evolution. Granted, it's kind of a weird way to go about it. I'm glad for the name they settled on in the end.

re: giant robot: even if LEGO COULD pull off the secret again (though considering people have brought up a giant robot all the time in their speculation, it seems they can't), I'd sure feel cheated if I thought we were being set up for a new mystery just to get a rehashed old one. Reboots are a chance to do something new, not just retread old ground.

You can't really pull off "there's a giant robot beneath the ground" more than once. They tried in 2009, and people noticed almost immediately.

Considering he was pursued by a swarm of them trying to get his golden mask, probably.

It cost far less to make a bunch of three-inch figures than to design and produce $10-$30 constraction sets. Thus, the number of toys Bionicle can have vs. Star Wars is far smaller. In addition, the Star Wars toys were spread out over years and years because you only get a new Star Wars movie about twice a decade or so, while Bionicle was churning out new story each year that the sets had to be relevant to. At that point, it's either work with a small cast of set-only characters, or delve into non-set characters that will probably never get toys. Transformers does the same thing all the time, and this is even though there literally hundreds of Transformers characters that do have toys. Sometimes, you just need that degree of flexibility with characters.

Sure sucks that the toy company that makes toys made what made sense as a toy rather than catering to the whims of story. You know what else sure sucks? Your un-called for passive aggressive sarcasm. I suppose my response was a bit unnecessarily caustic. I apologize. I just don't get all this clamor about "non-canon masks". Why is it such a big deal that some of the set masks don't actually pop up in the story? The story doesn't exactly have time for all of them (and I don't even know how the scorpions are supposed to put on a mask to drain it) and they can't just leave the drained masks out of the sets for the sake of adhering to canon when that will hurt sales. It just seems like much ado about nothing.

Sure sucks that the toy company that makes toys made what made sense as a toy rather than catering to the whims of story.

Normally I don't apply stickers, but Onua needs them to break up that mass of black and get him some more purple and gold, while Kopaka I reviewed for a blog so I kinda had to apply the stickers.

happy birthday tall one. may the birds bestow birthday kisses upon your brow as they pass your head.

Sure, if you're going after the whole wave it's going to be expensive. It's also expensive to buy an entire wave of LEGO City, or LEGO Ninjago, or, going beyond LEGO, an entire Combiner in the new Transformers waves. A lot of toys will cost a lot.

One nitpick: the tubes on the back of the body shouldn't be sticking out like smokestacks, they should be tucked into the back to represent the pistons there. I really love the look of this set. Can't wait to get one of my own!

Or it's just easier to get the impression across that it's Makuta's silhouette if he's wearing his mask. Not sure how I feel about us getting a clip show when all the episodes together are about the length of a single episode of a usual-length show. I don't think there's much chance of people forgetting the details, and the pacing is already muddled from the length and amount of episodes...

Pretty sure I've seen that Vulk costume in a nightmare before...

re: Kopaka's mask: I don't understand the confusion, quite honestly. Of course Skull Warrior came with a drained mask. Do you know how horribly it would sell if it was the only Skull Villain without a drained mask? It didn't matter whether or not they ended up using it in the story (which I imagine they didn't because, unlike the other 3, Skull Warrior is a swarm. there's no single Skull Warrior that they could single out to be the one to wear the mask.) I doubt they even quite worked out the final details of the story at that point. They probably just figured the general idea of masks being drained, and the drained masks coming in the sets. Avoiding rambling too much: the mask was put in the set because that's the Thing. It doesn't matter how "canon" it is. All skull villains come with drained masks.

The same was true of the one-handed geared Toa in G1. In a society dominated by righties, you don't see a lot of left-handed action figures. I mean, there were some arguably left-handed figures, but they happened after gears were long gone. The kulta/ekimu/scorpio combiner has the gear function in the left arm. Jus sayyiinnn Only because it has an even more eye-catching function in the bigger weapon in the right hand. Still seems like a right-handed figure.

The same was true of the one-handed geared Toa in G1. In a society dominated by righties, you don't see a lot of left-handed action figures. I mean, there were some arguably left-handed figures, but they happened after gears were long gone.

If this means a Bionicle version of TFWiki (and I mean like TFWiki; BS01 doesn't count) then I am all for it.