Nathan Evo

On 3/26/2022 at 5:43 AM, Sailor Wah! said:

Castle has already won. Promobricks has already published information about the set: Set number: 10305 Lion King's Castle,based on set 6080 King's Castle from 1984, price: 349.99 euros, Release date: August 2022.

Not gonna lie- that is pretty heartbreaking. I was always kinda hoping to get the original Toa in minifig form, but whatever.

Might end up picking this one up... and also trying to figure out how to build the rest of the Toa in that style.

Itchy from the Star Wars Holiday Special or no money from me.

Para-Beetle.

That is all.

"Would I Mixels to be constraction". That is definitely a question.

Now, would I CONSIDER Mixels to be constraction? Eh... To my knowledge, the term "constraction" is pretty loose. I mean, I guess I could consider it a sort of constraction line, but not, like, an heir to Bionicle or Hero Factory. I think that's part of what made the line special, too.

As for Mixels "suspiciously ending in 2016 prematurely"... I mean, I'm bummed Mixels ended and all, but can't things just... end? Is there actually any evidence of the line ending prematurely? It was kind of a flawed idea to begin with. By all means I love collectable characters, but creating twenty-seven new characters a year won't lend itself well for a cartoon format.

I'm not buying these until we get a proper Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way minifig.

Maaaaaybe not give the TV show production to the people who made Foodfight!?

I'm a crotchety old fossil who would normally find something to complain about for everything, but in the case of BIONICLE sets I tend to find something to love about all of them. That said, if you asked me what my least favorite set(s) were (which is basically what this topic is for) I could give you a handful of sets I had the most minor gripes with.

I gotta admit the Exo-Toa was a pretty cool set, but as Onua is my favorite Toa, you can probably imagine my disappointment when I found out he couldn't actually fit in the thing (without, y'know, rebuilding him). Pohatu can't fit in it either, meaning only four of the six Toa could actually fit in this thing. (Or nine out of thirteen, if you count the Toa, Toa Nuva, and Takanuva all together.) Also, one of the gears on the back kept falling off, which was annoying. Pretty fun set though. Liked the punching hand.

Speaking of Toa Nuva, as someone who witnessed firsthand the Great Mistika Quarrel of 2008, I'm surprised no one's mentioned them or the Phantoka yet. (Or maybe someone did. I kinda skimmed through this topic.) I don't hate then the way people did twelve or so years ago, but overall they were pretty meh. The Makuta Phantoka were okay at best, but I found the Makuta Mistika to be pretty messy builds. As for the Toa... well, I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm pretty sure they designed some generic Toa sets beforehand and slapped the Toa Nuva's names on them at the last minute. Obviously, with Onua being my favorite Toa, I found Onua Mistika to be the biggest offense: the big shield and heavy-looking launcher were plenty Onuaworthy, but the lanky, stick-thin proportions were not. To add insult to injury, prototype images of Pohatu Phantoka used black parts, and actually for made a better Onua. (I kinda liked the Toa's masks for some reason, though.)

Now, if you asked me what my #1 least favorite set was, that would be Roodaka. Between the, erm, anatomy, and the high heels, you've got a set that's trying a little too hard to be a female character. (Not to mention, though I have never personally experienced this, I have heard that high heels are insufferable to wear for long periods of time, so I assume Roodaka exists in a state of constant pain.) I skipped out on Roodaka back in 2005 just because I felt like owning that set would be kinda awkward. I eventually did get two sets years later, but that was just so I could build the Shadowed One and Voporak. Anyway, now I have four silver Rahkshi heads, which were the best part of the set. You wanna build silver Chain Lightning Rahkshi? So do I. They're great parts. That's the best part of this set.

anyway that's my essay

The first two were both from my old stuff.

HI, BILLY MAYS HERE WITH YOUR CHRISTMAS PAST

CRAZY MATAU'S FURNITURE WAREHOUSE

The Billy Mays joke is a bit dated, but I still kinda get a kick out of Crazy Matau's Furniture Warehouse, personally.

Man, you wouldn't believe how hard it was for me to find this topic.

Anyway, a long time ago I fixed the black, blue, and dark blue, but I was bitter for some reason and decided to hoard it all for myself because I was a bitter little miser. But recently someone asked for the kit because it was on majhost and majhost doesn't exist anymore. So I decided to do the normal, non-obnoxious thing and share it with everyone. Here you go.

Keep in mind I don't remember the last thing I threw into the kit so I can't tell you if there are any new sprites there or not.

Also if anyone wants me to sixshade anything new, feel free to throw me a request! But I'd prefer it if you showed me the sprites of the thing you'd like me to polish up, just in the event I can't find it. (Or you can just do it yourself and post it here. I'm 100% fine with that now.)

Hey, everyone. I've got some bad news.

As I'm sure you're all aware, last week LEGO announced it would once again be ending the Bionicle line. Obviously I was upset as anyone else, but honestly, I think this has been a real wake-up call to me. I can't keep doing Bionicle comics forever. I just haven't been able to keep up with writing comics since the last time I posted one almost a year ago. Since then, I've landed a job that cuts out just about all my time for writing. I guess that, after nearly ten years of writing in the Comics forum, it's finally time for me to move on.

Thus, it is with a heavy heart that I say I will be ending PIRAKA COMICS.

I know this is disappointing news for everyone, and I'm sorry for that. But I'm very thankful for all the support I've gotten- and all the friends I've made- over the years. I wouldn't trade that for anything.

Thank you, once again, for your support.

Yeah, I'm lyin'.

YO YO HITMAN

Thanks for not pestering me for updates! Here's your reward!

YO YO UNHOLY ABOMINATION

This is it. This is the successor to the Visorak costume from 2005. We have finally found it.

As the original creator of sixshade Chimoru, I can pretty much verify everything that's been said here. In some cases you might be able to copy and paste some parts for consistency, but there's no way to magically add shading without a little elbow grease.

Also, does Rayg 2.0 really need a sixshade variant?

I have no idea who you are, but you seem pretty cool.

Neat stuff! My only sort of issue is how the Pakari is smaller than the Ruru... but I'd rather see new material than see that get fixed or whatever.

Looking forward to seeing more! I'd like to use it for something, but alas, nothing I'm working on requires 8-bit sprites...

SURPRISE NEW COMIC: YO YO AXONN

Thanks for being patient (or at least, trying to be patient). Being pestered for new updates is one of my biggest pet peeves.

There's a couple reasons why this comic took so long. First off, I wasn't really liking how it was turning out. Not really sure why- the comic just didn't settle well with me. I did send the comic to a few friends of mine when it was about halfway done, and they didn't really complain about it, so I guess it was fine.

More importantly, I haven't been able to write new comics because I've been too busy offline. I know this might seem shocking to some of you, but believe it or not, my life does not revolve around BZP or writing comics. For me, writing comics is a hobby, not a job. I don't have to write these on a regular basis, and when it stops being fun, there's no reason why I shouldn't need to stop and take a break for a while.

Regardless, even though PIRAKA COMICS ended up requiring a bit more work than I thought it would, I don't consider it dead by any means- much like BAC, actually. The only thing is, here, there actually is going to be a point where I will end it (which is when I run out of Piraka Rap lines to put at the end or something). But don't worry- there's still a ways to go until then, and there's a lot of action/chaos/insanity or whatever in store for the Piraka on Voya Nui or wherever the heck this is supposed to take place.

Anyway, with that said, I give you:

YO YO PROMOTION

Kopaka/Pohatu is the one, the greatest Bionicle ship. All others pale in comparison.

Better than Axonn/Brutaka?

(I'm not big on shipping; I'm just throwing that out there.)

When's the next comic coming out?

I don't know if all the comics you're looking for are here, but here's a link to what I think is Dark709's Brickshelf folder.

As for Superkid11's, I checked his Brickshelf, but it didn't feature a lot of comics, so he most likely featured them on majhost, which is currently down for maintenance. Sorry, I don't control these things.

I was pretty bitter about the new Mixels, but I'm actually kinda digging them now that I've gotten a better look at them. A job well done.

A word of advice: deviantart isn't the best place to post or link to sprite kits, unless you want to show them off to the deviantart community. Through a bit of dark magic, I've managed to get a link to the full-sized version. so here ya go

Anyway, I don't have much to say about Xaniskit in general. The Bohrok are interesting, I suppose, but the Bohrok-Va look a bit... off.

no-good good-doing do-gooders >

(no seriously congrats and all that jazz)

I've seen the bonkles villains, but they were hideously blurred, so it's pretty good to see some clearer pictures of them, even if they aren't that great. The new Toa masks look nice, but it's still a little disappointing they're not new masks. Could be worse, though, I suppose.

Of course, I'm more disappointed that we've only got one picture of the new Mixels, which is honestly the only other theme I care about at this point. I'm expecting Six to handle this problem once that New York Toy Fair thing comes around. Make sure you painstakingly take photos of every single one individually, 'k? Please and thank you. Everyone else, please disregard this post.

As I suspected. Stuart Sayger should not be allowed anywhere near bonkles again. Look at how he's MANGLED Matoro's Akaku. I mean, yikes.