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  1. SPIRIT
    Guys
     
    I think I found some LEAKED SCREENSHOTS from an upcoming video game based on Bionicle 2015!
     
    Here's Skull Basher and here's Skull Warrior. I'll post more if I find any. Should I report this to the BZP news?
     
     
    My thoughts:
     
    It's cool and all that Lego is making video games again, but I really don't see this one being that successful. Certainly not the sort of thing I would spend 424 hours playing.
  2. SPIRIT

    Memory Lane

    By SPIRIT,

    Ah, SPIRIT has homework again, so you know what that means? Yep, a procrastinatory trip down memory lane looking at some gems from his Brickshelf gallery.
     

    Gotta love the classics.
     

    Anyone remember when this movie was eventually supposed to happen?
     
    A MOC of Thok I made back in late 2005 based on preliminary pictures
     

    Movie-style Jaller.
     

    "You and Ashbear got no wrong-quarrel. Just doing her duty."
     
    The truth comes out at last.
     
    Best idea for LEGO ever.
     
    The wondrous days when I was the world champion at the Spinner Challenge.
     
    The wondrous day when I ninjaed Greg.
     
    Not in Kansas any more.
     
    It all makes sense now.
     
    Not Slytherin, eh?
     
    A whole gallery of what could have been...
     
    Silly Toa,
     
    Trix are for kids.
  4. SPIRIT

    The Facts

    By SPIRIT,

    So I've been compiling some information, and I think I've stumbled upon something big.
    Even for someone working at a Lego design shop, Swert has an inexplicably extensive access to Bohrok-Kal parts
    Swert recently acquired a WMKK
    Swert is obsessed with the Nuva Cube
    Swert's OC's element is Gravity
    Swert is a known associate of the voice of Gahdok
    Swert himself is the voice of Tahnok

    Quite obviously the Swert you know is none other than Swert-Kal!
     
    WAKE UP, MAHIPLE!
  5. SPIRIT

    Life As A Judge

    By SPIRIT,

    As many of you know, I'm an acceptance judge in the recent S&T contest and I have to say, it's a pretty demanding job. I have to read most, if not all, of the entries made, most of which, I'm sad to say, aren't very good. In fact, I got to a point where I had read so many that I began to expect random people to save the day in poorly described fight scenes in my everyday life. Thankfully, there were enough good entries that I was able to regain my sanity... well, most of it...
  6. SPIRIT
    Hey folks.
     
    As you are my very close and personal friends, I thought the very least I could do for you is offer you an
     
    AMAZING INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY.
     
    That's right. You, yes you, could have a once in a lifetime opportunity to invest in greatness. If you can help me raise $10 000 (AUD, CAD, or USD -- they're all more or less equivalent these days), then I can sortofalmostmaybe guarantee all sorts of great stuff.
     
    Uh..
     
    Flash PSAs with Bionicle characters? You liked those, right? And how about another Bionicle in Under 2 Minutes? How about this time in 4 minutes? Oooh, or how about 1 minute?
     
    And uh
     
    Fanfics? Comedies? Movie spoofs? Text-based RPGs? Self-aware blog entries?
     
    You want it, you've got it.
     
    I will literally probablynot do anything for your cash!
     
    So if you're interested, drop me a line and you could become a great Patron of the Arts today! Put that on your business card. "John Q. Whatsyourface: Patron of the Arts".
     
    $10 000.
     
    Arts.
     
    This message brought to you by the Give SPIRIT Money Definitely-for-Profit Organization Ltd. None of the proceeds will go to charity and there's only a 48% chance of SPIRIT actually using your money to make something creative. All sales are final, refunds will not be honoured. If you are not completely satisfied then go find someone who cares, because they sure ain't here, sister.
  7. SPIRIT
    As many of you may know, yesterday was my birthday as well as easter. As far as I can remember, this is the first year that they've ever landed on the same day, so this was certainly an odd birthday. For starters, it was spread out over the whole holiday so I unfortunately didn't get to enjoy it as much as I would if it were all crammed into one day.
     
    Friday was cake day. Didn't do much that day except visit my grandparents and eat cake.
     
    Saturday was present day. I got all six Barraki, new headphones (the wire being exposed in my old ones), a t-shirt that said National Sarcasm Society: Like we need your support, and a ridiculous amount of cash.
     
    Sunday was age increase day. 12:00 PM and I was officially 17. Also, my other grandparents and aunt came to visit and I got another cake and two pies (because my aunt's birthday was five days prior).
     
    Monday, today, was do nothing day. Today, all I did was make a Content Block listing all my sets because I was bored.
     
    Now I'm filthy rich, loaded with chocolate, and all around content with the way things went on this long weekend. I'm finally getting around to starting the giant blog entry I promised so sit tight. And as for the PSA, I've decided to wait for Rayg to do a little more 2.5 work before I get down to business myself, since I need some of the sprites he has not yet drawn.
  8. SPIRIT
    As of Tuesday September 29th 2015 at 11:29 AEST. I DO give Facebook, or any entities associated with Facebook, permission to use my pictures, information, or posts, both past and future. By this statement I give notice to Facebook that it is strictly encouraged to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can't be punished by law (not even you, UCC 1-308-11 308-103 or Rome statute). NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members should stop posting notes like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish this statement at least once nothing will happen to your photos, as well as information contained in the profile status updates. OR YOU CAN SHARE. You CAN copy and paste to make this your status.
  9. SPIRIT

    Christmas is Cancelled

    By SPIRIT,

    Like so many others this year, I won't be with my family this Christmas because of the pandemic.
     
    I don't visit often, but you guys are still like an estranged family to me.  So merry Christmas everybody.
  10. SPIRIT
    If Lego put me in charge of doing a solid Bionicle Gen 3 reboot, I'd worldbuild the new island around the theme of renewable energy. It'd be easy to divide by element, and who wouldn't want a generation of youth imagining a cleaner planet?
     
    The setup would be that you've got these robots living on a tropical island with these jury-rigged energy capturing devices that help power their meager villages. Kind of like a rural Star Wars planet.
     
    Ta-Koro: Geo thermal. Village built by a volcano. No brainer.
     
    Ko-Koro: Hydro electric. There isn't a lot you can do with ice, but you can do a lot with mountains. Waterfalls, dams, that sort of thing. That being said, you'd have to make the Ko-Matoran more of a mountain people than an ice people.
     
    Ga-Koro: Wave power. This is totally a thing (look it up). You've got these generators on the ocean that turn the movement of waves into power. Plus Ko-Koro doesn't have anything else that makes sense, so had to give them hydro.
     
    Onu-Koro: Nuclear power (or at least something similar). An almost endless power source that you can just dig up from the ground. Remind anyone of lightstones?
     
    Le-Koro: Solar power. Let's double down on the jungle theme here and back off on the air theme. Jungle is a fine element. Plants grow using solar power. Plus Ta-Koro already had geothermal so someone needed to take solar.
     
    Po-Koro: Wind power. Stone was a dumb element anyway. Make Le-Koro be about plants and let Po-Koro be a big windy field with windmills all over the place.
     
     
     
    Regardless of what Lego does end up doing, it would be nice if we got a bit more worldbuilding for Gen 3 than we did for Gen 2.
     
    How would you worldbuild for Gen 3?
  11. SPIRIT

    Dear Autocorrect

    By SPIRIT,

    Dear Autocorrect,
     
    Whilst I appreciate your wide array of word suggestions, never have I ever, nor will I ever mean to start a sentence with the abbreviated forms of Hawaii, Indiana, or Ohio. So when I start a sentence with "Hi", "In", or "Oh", for goodness sake, why do you keep correcting them to "HI", "IN", or "OH"?!?!! Why would anyone want that? Do you seriously expect me to believe that more people talk about the state of Hawaii than greet each other?!
     
    Yours Sincerely,
     
    Typing on touchscreens is hard, otherwise I'd turn you off and never look back
  13. SPIRIT

    Oh Nose

    By SPIRIT,

    A terrible thing has happened today. My sister was watching TV a few hours ago and then she went upstairs during a commercial (I can't quite remember why, but it's not important). Anyway, when she came back, she asked me if I had turned off the TV. Having been at the computer the whole time, I told her that I hadn't and that she must have done so and forgotten. Shrugging her shoulders, she reached for the remote and pressed the On button but nothing happened. I was called in to investigate and found that no matter what I did, I couldn't turn it on. So then I called down my dad; still no luck. He and I then hoisted the TV onto its face, opened its back panel, and then looked around, but we found nothing and still couldn't get it to work. So in the end, my dad decided that it was toast and now plans to throw it out.
     

    It was a good TV. It played VHS, DVD, PS2, antennae, and satellite faithfully, but now it's time has come. Farewell old friend, I shall never forget you...
     
    BTW, did I mention I'm getting a new LCD television in the near future?
  14. SPIRIT

    Tales from Speech Therapy

    By SPIRIT,

    So this one kid I'm working with is 9.  He has a lot of difficulty saying vocalic /r/ (e.g. car, stir, bear, deer, etc.), but we've made some big strides in the last few months.  He's also a major bookworm.  Magic Treehouse, Minecraft novelizations... if you think a nine year old would read it, he's read it.  Often we'll read passages from his favourite books and practice some good vocalic /r/ sounds.  Today, to my surprise, he's waiting for me on the stairs clutching a familiar red book...
     
     
    Yes, friends, it was none other than BIONICLE Adventures #10: Time Trap
     
     
    Kid: Yeah, I really like this book.  You're probably going to think some of the characters have really weird names.
    Me: 4_parallel_universes_ahead_of_you.png
     
    So the legend of Bionicle isn't quite dead yet, folks.
  15. SPIRIT
    Well, I think it's time to lay my good friend The Funny Messages Content Block to rest. He had a good run. He served as a repository for old messages I put in the Flash banner I used to use before I got lazy. Now, though, I think it's time to remove him for good. The messages he once held will now be displayed in this blog entry, allowed to sink into the obscurity of my blog. They might not have always been funny... or made sense... but they... well, here they are.

    If insects have 6 legs and arachnids have 8, then what the heck are Visorak?? If life is like a box of chocolates, then death must be a peanut allergy. Coconuts kill 150 people a year by falling on their heads. Just be glad they don't migrate! When life gives you lemons, it's important to hold out until it gives you sugar and water too or else you'll have really gross tasting lemonade. In Soviet Russia, you do not Free the Band, the band frees you. When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When life gives Chuck Norris pears, he makes lemonade out of them too. Join the Dark Side. You'll save millions on electricity with Force Lightning! I wonder who brushes their teeth more: Vezon or Fenrakk? *Jedi mind trick* This is not the witty quote you are looking for. Is it really necessary for me to see Stormtrooper wearing blue Speedos in LEGO Star Wars II? I defeated Emperor Palpatine with the skeleton character in LSWII; so much for Anakin being the Chosen One. My computer is virus-free again! Those Inika Zamor really do the trick! Comida is the Spanish word for food. Does that explain why there are so many food obsessions in BZP comedies? Pridak just flosses with barbed wire, that's all. Hahli may be able to walk on water, but Chuck Norris can swim through land. Am I the only person who notices the similarities between Mantax and Chuck Norris? If the server's name is Linus, I wonder if he knows Charlie Brown... When it comes to eggnog, the glass is neither half full nor half empty, it's mine! Tonight you will be visited by three SPIRITs... Make sure to stock up on eggnog. I got two DS games for Christmas and I lost two of the ones I already had. Can somebody say irony? According to cheerleaders, you can never get enough SPIRIT. Where does the Recycle Bin go when you delete it? Aw man, Greg said that Bionicle probably won't last until 3007. That's it, I've abandoned my plans to live forever! If Pridak likes the Pillars of Salt, I wonder how Mantax feels about Pillars of Pepper... I think Ehlek might be Canadian, eh? If Mata Nui has been asleep for a thousand years, I really hope he isn't a bed wetter... Seems to me like the only way to be a success in BIONICLE is to include rap in what you're saying... fo' shizzle. "Creeps from the deep's gonna be feeding off the spine" I wonder what that tastes like. "You know what I hate? People who quote themselves." -Me Well, if Mata Nui's going to die, I hope that he at least put me in his will. Hydraxon: I'm not dead. I'm getting better. Nocturn: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment. "Forums are so outdated. I know you wanted to see this." Now he's taunting me. If most of the members here are male, then how come the cutesie BBC contest had the most entries? I won't make any excuses for why it's been so long since I've updated this; I'm just lazy, plain and simple. Anyone who thinks that BIONICLE makes people violent should be stabbed with Tahu's firesword! In a few years, when the world's plastic supply is exhausted, LEGO fans are going to look pretty smart. Why is it that anyone who spends time with Lhikan turns evil? I sense a conspiracy here. If we all did situps every time got a board message, we'd have six packs by the end of the week. Never fails. I'm gone for a week and they overhaul BIONICLE.com on me. It was worth becoming staff just to see the board when it's offline for everyone else. I'd like to put a quote from Deathly Hallows here, but I'd also like not to be mobbed by fans who haven't finished the book yet. Do you suppose any of the Makuta wear eye-shadow? There's nothing I like more than coming home to 60 reports and to find that I only need to close one topic. If I had a nickel for every time we ignored physics in the staff RPG... Apparently it's illegal to wear a mask in Denmark. This might explain a few things... Did you know that an axon is a microscopic section of a nerve fibre? That's kinda lame. Matoro: Oh, false alarm, guys. I just forgot to change the batteries in the Mask of Life. Mata Nui's just fine. "Who ate all the pies?!" -Po-Matoran in MNOLG1. We may never know. You can't compare apples and Pohatu. Turaga Onewa: Stop! Hammer time! I wonder if Apple will be teaming up with LEGO to make the Toa iRon? Pohatu: Heart of the Visorak? Oh, I thought we were looking for some kind of gas cloud... May the bottom of your tree be filled with many colourfully wrapped LEGO sets this holiday season. Do you suppose for the next single-element environment that the storyline will take place on an island made entirely out of plasma? Takanuva: *waves hand* You don't need to see my identity tablet. If Mutran's "blog" is hidden away in his hive, how is he going to get any comments? Gali Nuva Mistika: Does this piece of Onua's armour on my back make my butt look big? Believe it or not, there is someone out in the world whose name is Terry Dacks. Dark Mirror becomes 100 times funnier if you picture Takanuva saying "D'oh!" at the end of every chapter. Strange, but true: Greg Farshtey was born just seventeen days before author J.K. Rowling. Those boulders in FoF 7 died to... Ah, forget it. The real reason Matoran don't love: So they don't get cooties. When the Mask of Life goes black, nobody goes back! My guidance counsellor doesn't seem to think that hunting for Horcruxes is a viable post-secondary option... Join Toa Tuyet's miracle weight loss program! In just 9 short sessions, you can cut your body weight in half! "My, Takanuva, what big... everything you have." Someone please tell Takanuva what the difference is between a compass and a sundial. After the war, Helryx retired to become a Q-tip saleswoman. "Is that enough cotton to clean out your ears?" Mata Nui: Oi! One thousand years will give you such a crick in the neck! Possession by a Makuta making your eyes red? There's a VISINE for that. Mata Nui in the Ignika: Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off agaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain!!! The Ta-Matoran are so lucky... Theirs is the only Metru with chimneys for Santa to go down. Tuma: The next person who says to me, "it's not a Tuma!" is losing an arm! The first rule of Arena Magna is... you do not talk about Arena Magna. Matoro's not dead... he's just pining for the fjords! I wish Greg would bump off Norik so I could say, "Alas, poor Norik! I knew him well..." Tarduk: Vehicles? Where we're going, we don't need vehicles. Mantax makes the Pakari look like a Q-Ray Bracelet. "Hi, welcome to the BIONICLE News. I'm Onua, and this is Kopaka, my Ko-Anchor." So, if the Baterra only target "armed combatants", it's a good thing Nocturn isn't here... because he's got four arms... *awkward silence* "BOHROK!!!" That was my Bohrok call. Get it? "Bohrok-Kal!" How is the Sets Forum like a retirement home? Everyone complains about their joints. The ability to shatter a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force Blasters. Oh, I see what you did there: LEG-o. Denmark's making fun of me! Either Cryoshell's songs are very metaphorical or English isn't their songwriter's first language. Make your next explosion a Cordak Moment. So I'm thinking the next planet we visit will be called Carta Magna. Should've seen that coming... Mark Baldo is actually bald! TAHU is an anagram of UTAH. This explains so much... How silly of me. I thought Ba-Matoran were sheep! Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'mma let you finish, but Lupin was one of the best werewolves of all time!
  18. SPIRIT

    Wet Wednesday

    By SPIRIT,

    Today was the fateful day that I went to school to receive both the results of my report card and the results of the grade 10 literacy test. All in all, I did very well, I passed the literacy test (obviously) and got over 86% on my report card. The problem, however, was the quest to obtain these documents.
     
    On the way there, it was sort of warm outside, a bit too warm for jeans, but I wore them anyway. When I finally got to the bus stop, I was pretty hot, sweating and whatnot. The bus came about five minutes later and it was packed- I barely managed to get on. After a smelly, hot bus ride to my other bus stop, I was pretty tired. When I finally got there and checked the bus arrival schedule, I saw that it was twenty minutes until the bus came so I decided to walk up the hill to my school (which takes only ten minutes). I finally made it, got inside, grabbed my report card, and left. As I made the trip back down the hill, I heard about 15 splats, I turned around in fear that a flock of seagulls had just flown overhead, but luckily it was only rain. When I made it to the bus stop at the bottom of the hill, it had already started to rain lightly, so I tucked my report card under my shirt and waited for the bus. By the time the bus came, it had started to rain heavily. I got off at my bus stop and the pattering of rain against the pavement was deafening. Dejectedly, I thrust my report card under my shirt again and set off for home. 2/3 of the way to my house, the rain let up, but it was too late, my clothes and report card were both completely soaked. I was then forced to walk the rest of the way home half naked (since I was wearing a white t-shirt) and to make matters worse, a wind picked up that was very unpleasant against my damp skin.
     
    I finally arrived home with an ironic smile on my face and set to drying myself and my report card off with a hair dryer. I succeeded with the report card, but as I type this, I'm still cold and damp.
  19. SPIRIT

    New Clothes

    By SPIRIT,

    And unlike the emperor's, mine are visible... only to smart people, though.
     
    So yeah, I bit the bullet and went shopping for clothes: one of the few things that can't really be sped up by doing preliminary research online, sadly. All in all, I'm satisfied with what I got. The main goal of the mission was to replace the clothes that the paramedics cut off of me after my car crash last summer. What really sucks is that everything I was wearing was new too.
     
    But, what's done is done. Gotta put your behind in your past.
     
    I also got a new t-shirt. And since I refuse to buy funny t-shirts any more (since everyone wants to try to one-up me by making a stupid joke about it and just ends up failing miserably), I went for something a bit more low key. I went ahead and bought a shirt with my BZP name written on it, all in capital letters (of course), and in French.
     
    "... wait, isn't that just an ESPRIT shirt?"
     
    ... perhaps...
  22. SPIRIT

    Asplosion

    By SPIRIT,

    Around 8:00 AM today, my mom told me that she thought she heard something hit our house. Both she and my dad checked all around, but found nothing. Later, it turned out that a nearby house had exploded and that my house (about 3 km or so away) had been hit by the shock-wave! Around 5:00 PM, my family drove over to the site of the explosion and there were people, news cars, firetrucks, and the smell of burning everywhere. The whole area was blocked off by police tape, but we were able to see some footage of the rubble on the 6 o'clock news. Luckily, no one was killed, but two people were injured (the house's owner and ironically the guy who had owned the house 10 years earlier, who was out for a stroll). Even stranger, was the fact that the exploded house in question was actually sold that very day. Police don't know the cause of the explosion yet, but they assume it was a gas leak.
     
    The scary part of it all is that I know three people who live in that area (like a block or so away), but as far as I know, they're okay.
     
    UPDATE: It turns out there's evidence that it was an attempted suicide, but police aren't sure yet.
  23. SPIRIT

    Lost Magazines

    By SPIRIT,

    So, I had been under the impression that LEGO cancelled my Club Magazine subscription as I haven't gotten a magazine in over a year. Turns out my dad has been throwing them away because he mixed up the Club Magazine with the LEGO Catalogue. :annoyed2:
  24. SPIRIT

    Kanoka

    By SPIRIT,

    Is it better to be feared or respected?
     
    I say, is it too much to ask for both?
     
    With that in mind I humbly present you the crown jewel of Ta-Metru's Duty Line. It's the first weapons system to incorporate the latest in proprietary Launching Technology. They say that the best weapon is the one that you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree! I prefer… the weapon you only have to fire once. That's how Dume did it, that's how Metru Nui does it… and it's worked out pretty well so far. Find an excuse to let one of these off the chain, and I personally guarantee you the bad guys won't even want to come out of their huts.
     
    For your consideration…the Kanoka Disk Launcher.
     
     
     
    Edit: Please link to images over 750 kB - let alone 70 MB.
    -Wind-
  25. SPIRIT

    This Isn't The End!

    By SPIRIT,

    Well, it might be the end of BIONICLE, but it's not the end of me.
     
    For those who have been wondering whether I'm coming out with a new Flash video or writing anything else after my comedy, the answer is yes, but they won't to be about BIONICLE.
     
    I plan to still create stuff, but I think it's high time I started making something a little more original than the BIONICLE-based projects I've saddled myself with these past six years. I'll try to keep you guys updated on what I'm up to, but at this point all I can say is that there is stuff on the way, but it isn't BIONICLE-related.
     
    Now return to your chaotic panic about the end of the world.
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