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going by my signature's checklist, 221 sets i had a list sitting around my old laptop with all the sets i still need, but i can't find it at the moment

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the game saves every time you enter a loading screen. this has the side effect that any map that won't load (like the cave next to Kapura, "PZZL") will result in a softlock. and yeah, those issues are normal, this was a work-in-progress snapshot of the game. quite a lot of issues with the game have been fixed with the launcher you can get from the game's page on BMP; that said, a couple levels like Gali still have a few issues that impede game progression.

have you tried the fix offered on the download page?

i'd like to chime in that Vahkiti from our group has gotten both the much-higher-res Tech Demo onua (onua_old in the files) as well as the higher-res RedQuark onua working in LoMN. (the better animations from RedQuark's onua have been backported to some of the other toa as well)

Just tried that one too; no better success, I'm afraid. My computer seems convinced that the patch file "contains a virus or malware" and is giving me trouble with downloading it from there. Do you know if that's just the nature of the patch's filetype, or is there really something potentially harmful in it? I know AVG can be rather... overzealous sometimes; but without knowing enough about the reason for the warning, I'm reluctant to bypass it in case there really is a risk ^^; it's an unverified executable that modifies another unverified executable - this is why it gets flagged as a risky program. there's dozens of people on the discord server who can vouch for its integrity, though i personally opt to patch the W10 and zbuffer fixes in myself (mainly because i want as little game content changed or fixed as possible, for documentation purposes).

you can just delete what you don't want to quote in the post editor anyhow, i'd describe home console Heroes as a decent celebration of the series? dang near every major character gets some representation, it has that early Tt Lego game charm, though the base gameplay is rather lackluster and while there are some good tracks, don't think for one second that you won't be listening to the Hero Mode song for at least half of your playtime. i had the wii version, and yes it used wiimote pointing controls a la metroid prime 3/trilogy. honestly wasn't that bad. biggest complaint i have is that it gave me headaches.

DirectX viewer works, but doesn't load materials as they're a bunch of folders away:

yeah roshi's pretty jacked but yeah onua's almost always been a bit shorter, right? and even without his pakari he's still stronger than the other toa, right? i think swol dorf is the only option here.

i got mine rather early in 2004 and they all had the cards advertising the gold kanoka (among a couple other things)

i was part of Brickmaster from the start up till the end of g1, the only bionicle sets were Klakk and Click iirc

my collection status is already outlined in my sig, but to clarify, i'm missing huki, jala, kongu, maku, and the nui rama from 2001, and i'd really like the Power Pack as well.. and i got my manas set used, and it was incomplete. 2002 is only missing the Bahrag in 2006, i'm missing four of the voyatoran plus umbra? AND GOOD GUY 2008 is missing Krika and Tahu! D: and of the 2010 Stars sets, i still need Tahu, Piraka, and Rahkshi. and as for gen 2, i'm missing Ikir, Tahu, Gali, Lewa, Ekimu, the three Beasts, Umurak.. possibly Terak and Pohatu? i don't quite remember.. i'd really like to finish collecting them at some point, but i know once that happens i'll be wanting to get all the kanohi and krana and kraata and discs and etc... and that's a slippery slope i already have trouble keeping myself from overcollecting SEGA hardware, lol

i second planetperson's post, back in 01/02 it was just the island of Mata Nui. the robot itself is just referred to as Mata Nui in the Faber Files posts for the old stuff

well, Kahgarak was a combiner that ended up in two of the playsets at a varying size! my favourite titan would probably be either Brutaka, Kardas Dragon, or Maxilos... i'm thinking for Brutaka and Maxilos they could be some variant of the old Technic Figures (from CyberSlam and such) since that scale's roughly accurate, and kardas would probably be some small technic-built figure like the Tower of Toa playset's kahgarak, but a little bigger

oh, i had the Tahu/Kopaka set back when, this must be where i remember some of this stuff from, like some toa being older or younger, or lewa being monkeylike.

i find it a little odd that so many rahi didn't really get set releases - even not part of the Master Builder set - but still was used in media like the card game, tales of the tohunga, mnog, etc.... and yet the sand tarakava never made any canonical appearance other than mentions, as far as i remember at least.

wait a sec, lego mania/club mag was free? i definitely remember that Brickmaster had a subscription fee, but i guess i never really thought about the older mags that much

oh hum, i hadn't heard of this before. all of my canisters were the glitterless ones, from december '03

i like to think i'm pretty easygoing and flexible about my bonkles, so i'm gonna keep my list short and sweet: 1) hard reboot pretty please. don't reuse names. 2) a larger multimedia involvement akin to the first couple years of G1. 3) a fanbase that'll be accepting of it

Has nobody joked about just ending it at the end of MoL? I'm sure most people would agree that the first arc is pretty well encapsulated, heh.. After giving it a little bit of thought, why not do away with the flashback years entirely? If you really wanted you could have makuta return while the toa are away/captured at voya nui and use the vahki to capture the matoran anyway, and have the nuva rescue them upon returning while the inika do their 06 stuff, but really, you can just skip onward to 06 without losing too much. If we're streamlining, then the 04 bit of makuta + mata nui backstory can be tied to the reveal at the end of 08 anyhow. Drop the serials, drop the blogs, drop the adventures and legends novels. Embellish on the comics. 07 could be shortened to being a final bit of the 06 story, so matoro still gets his moment and we can have the whole 'makuta's still around but not trying to fudge things up' plot point setup for the twist. Cut out the mutation bit, i think just having a misfiring ignika and nocturn + maybe a couple of the barraki + makuta maxilos is enough. Maybe have irnakk follow them down too or something? And then leading into 08, have axonn bring the nuva to karda nui, and their adaptive armor can be from his now-still-mysterious organization. 08 would largely play the same i think, though to cut out takanuva's dimensional voyage and the klakk deus ex machina, have takanuva reflect on his time merged with teridax and come up with a way to restore light himself? Maybe have him perfecting this as the reason he shows up late? I'd keep the ending twist/reveal the same, though. I'd definitely want to rework bara magna out of this, but i'm not yet sure how i'd do that...

i had wanted to try making some cool things myself back when, i got the Master Builder set and later a couple of the Toys R Us piece tubs, but apart from a small squid rahi there wasn't really much that turned out satisfactory, and i was a lot more content building structures and vehicles out of more normal lego pieces, so i ditched attempting bionicle MOCs for a while. near the end of gen 1 though, i had started tweaking Toa Ignika with some of Dekar's pieces, and slowly but surely i started rebuilding him over and over with some more tweaks until it turned into something i was really happy with, despite it not really being anything as cleverly designed as some of my favourite MOCs from others. so yeah, i guess i can kinda relate.

"What do you get when you multiply six by nine" in the screen with nuju, there's generic LEGO packaging information as well. The cut Matoro conversation screen has gibberish/placeholder matoran text.

wouldn't be the first time, i'm pretty sure most players are aware of them sneaking in a Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy reference in the Sanctum as well.

if you look at the back image of the tile, it says "tour exclusive" - which makes me think it was actually a goodie from the "Power Lies Beneath" 2002 promotional van tour, given the Nuva branding.

congratulations! i've been slowly trying to finish up my collection as well (though i'm also wanting some extra sets like the Power Pack, for example)