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    Mask of Horror

    By Nescent,

    Just finished up my second (and final) entry for #BionicleMaskMaker.
     


     
    Mask Power: Instills fear into the opponents of its wearer.
     
    Here's the full gallery.
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    Mask of Murk

    By Nescent,

    I've got another thing to share.
     

     
    I felt like an idiot photographing that
     
    Two of October's contests down, two to go. I'd still like to build something for the Halloween BBCC, and also for /r/bioniclelego's Technic-function contest.
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    Combiners

    By Nescent,

    Wildlife of the Ancient City is out.
     
    FINALLLY BECAUSE HOLY MONKEYTRUMPETS THAT WAS A LOT OF WORK
     
    Most of the combiners that I made were included in the final project, but there were a few that didn't make the cut. Figured I'll post them here because why not, a couple of them are kinda cute. I'll even make up some names and descriptions.
     

     
    Scuttle
    Found in and around the streams in the mountain range. These are a small and friendly Water Rahi which use a saw-like appendage to dig into the ground in search of food. (This is the only one that I kind of regret not including...cutie-pie.)
     

     
    Charged Hunter
    A vicious predator found stalking the marshes of the decaying jungle. These Rahi are indistinguishable from their surroundings, and have a massive pincer-tail which they use to restrain their prey.
     

     
    Rock Drifter
    An absurdly large, slow-moving beast found in the highest and flattest parts of the mountains.
     

     
    Ice Vulture
    A similar species to the Vulture which is more cruel...This guy is cold to the heart.
     

     
    Stream Scavenger
    I had to dive into the icy-cold streams of the mountain stretch to find this little guy. Stream Scavengers poke around in the mushy bottoms of the streams, scavenging for small plants to eat.
     

     
    Tenlim
    He's called Tenlim 'cause he's got ten limbs. Seriously the ugliest Rahi I've ever seen, I mean what's with that face?
     
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    Anyway go and read Wildlife of the Ancient City! I'm going to take a nice long break from making combiners.
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    CCBS Warrior Guy

    By Nescent,

    The figure itself doesn't use any creative techniques or anything, I just wanted to share the shield design.
     
    Building this made me wish we got mask packs. I get why they're not a thing, but it sucks being forced to work gold into so many MOCs just so I can use different masks.
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    Spent half an hour fishing broken joints from my Bionicle drawers, took some photos.
     
    Here is the whole pile of broken joints. May they rest in pieces.
     
    Most of them just had small, unexciting cracks, so I picked out all the horribly disfigured parts and took some glamour shots.
     

     
    The obligatory 2007 lime green comparison. I was actually surprised to have so many still in tact, but I've probably never MOCed with those pieces since they're so fragile.
     
    To be honest though, I think this is the most fragile piece in all of Bionicle:
     

     
    I could only find one that didn't have any cracks.
     
    The dark red 2008 hands also put up a weak fight:
     

     
    This was probably the most interesting ruined joint.
     
    Anyway, it's nice to have those cleaned out, although I'm sure there are still some left for me to find. Observation: Aside from the 2007 lime greens, there was only one - one, amongst hundreds - cracked 2001-style hand piece. It was a dark blue piece from Gadunkadunk. I really wish they never replaced that mold.
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    The Summer wave is firing up and I'm really hyped. As of right now I won't be able to afford the Skull baddies, but I'll definitely buy Basher as soon as he hits the shelves, and hopefully the others before too long. I want to do a "Wildlife of the Ancient City" project, like a "Wildlife of Okoto 2.0:" Combiners for the Skull villains. Probably a lot of skeletal, undead Rahi to fit the wave's theme. Who knows what creepy wildlife has been developing in the spooky, abandoned city?
     
    I also made a complete set of mask racks: One for the Protectors' masks, one for the gold masks, one for the corrupted masks & the gold Skull Spider mask & the MoCr (hopefully the MoCr will fit), and a small one for the Hero Pack's MoF and the Comic Con MoF (which I still don't own ). I'll probably share all that in BBC when I have some of the corrupted masks to display.
     
    I wonder when the new sets will be available in the US...time to start selling some G1 sets to afford the G2 sets. Out with the old, in with the new.
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    3D Huna

    By Nescent,

    About a year ago I was trying to learn some basic 3D modeling, going through the stuff I made I found this Bionicle thing.
     
    First, just a Huna: Front, Angle.
     
    But I also made the top half of a Bionicle character and gave him some animation (pardon the unfortunate camera movement): Video.
  10. Nescent
    Has that gold Skull Spider mask actually done anything in the story? I need to watch the rest of those webisodes.
     
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    I just finished reading The Subtle Knife a few minutes ago, and can't wait to start The Amber Spyglass. I last read the His Dark Materials trilogy 6-7 years ago in middle school so it really feels like the first time reading it, yet there's a lot of familiar stuff as well.
     
    I also finished the Harry Potter series some time ago and shed more tears than I care to admit. After His Dark Materials I'm going to read Hyperion, I'm looking forward to seeing what that's all about.
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    My Mixels have been gathering dust so I built these savage little jungle-dwellers.
     
    Well I am heading off to Charleston on Wednesday, I'll only be there for two days but I am anxious to leave Florida. The time has come for me to get a job (I submitted a few applications, with reluctance), so I'll probably be locked down here for a while still.
     
    Did I say I'm trying to get a job? Oh god please someone stop me. I think that a nice long 16-hour road trip will make applications and such seem like a lesser ordeal.
     
    I finished the fourth Harry Potter book, and now I have nothing to do while I wait for the next one to arrive. I read the series like seven years ago, and I know that the Order of the Phoenix was my favorite, so I can't wait. The last book I ordered was "Out For Delivery" for five days. Like...was it sitting there in my mail lady's car for five days? Hopefully that was a fluke.
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    To Charleston!

    By Nescent,

    On May 15th I may be making the 8-hour trip to Charleston, SC, to see my oldest brother graduate from his military training, and after visiting for a couple of days I'll be returning with my belongings (PC & speakers & Midi keyboard & other things that I've missed dearly). I mean it's probably going to happen, it just depends on the condition of my parent's car. So I'm really amped right now and just wanted to share with someone!
     
    One or two or none of you may have noticed that my activity around these parts has dropped almost entirely over the past month or two. I still frequent BZP and the blogs every day, and hopefully this place flares up around August when the skull gang is unleashed, so I'll feel compelled to participate in discussion again.
     
    I had a dream this morning about Bionicle sets. Next year's wave had been released, consisting of underwater-adapted Toa that looked pretty much identical to the Mahri, except in the new oddly-shaped boxes. There were also Turaga, and I collected them all. The interesting part of the dream was that I was underwater, in this magnificent dark blue sea filled with wreckage that had been inhabited by friendly mer-people. It was one of those dreams where I spent the day wishing that it wasn't a dream...it was just so cozy.
     
    I am also rewatching Lost again. I think this is my third time watching the show. Every time I rewatch it, I discover new stuff that makes me giddy and excited. Little things, like Kate's toy airplane. It was in safety deposit box #815!
     
    A few days ago I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I'm ashamed to admit that it is the first book I've read in over a year, but it reminded me that I love reading, and since then I've also read Ender's Game, and have some more HP books in the mail. I think I'll give The Wheel of Time a shot in the near future. I know little about it, but I've heard some outstanding reviews.
     
    Oh and my little brother bought a bass guitar. For at least 4 hours a day (but usually longer) I have to listen to him struggle to strum the same four melodies over and over and over and over...it's quite agitating.
     
    That's about it. A little general update, for anyone interested.
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    Purple Mixel MOCs

    By Nescent,

    So far I own Glomp, Wizwuz, Magnifo, and Niksput, and they are all super fun. Here are a couple little guys I made for fun this morning. Mixels are a lot of fun to build!
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    Magma Tahu

    By Nescent,

    I just had to build something with that pretty transparent Mask of Fire. In my head this is just "trans-fluorescent-orange lava Toa," but officially he's a Tahu remake. For the most part there are no new tricks with this build, but I am extremely happy with those upper-arms (even if they are a major hassle to pose).
     
    Anyway, hope you like it, here's the topic in BBC.
     
    On a totally unrelated note, I've been producing a lot of music for the past few days, and I'm going to share one of the songs here because people might actually be interested in it...it's a Plants vs Zombies cover! It is a Dub remake of
    , and it's sounding pretty spectacular if I may say so myself. I'm pretty stoked about it.
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    Glomp

    By Nescent,

    I was at Walmart today and the Minecraft sets caught my eye. If they had Snow Hideout I probably would have caved in and bought it...fortunately they didn't, but they did have a bunch of $5 Mixels, so I decided to finally buy one.
     

     
    Mixels are pretty great. It was a tough choice between this guy and the purple wizard, in the end I made a snap decision and went with Glomp. I like his mustache.
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    20-Piece Keetongu

    By Nescent,

    There's a contest on Reddit to build a Bionicle MOC with twenty pieces or less, so inspired by BBCC 69 I built a CCBS Keetongu.
     

     
    I made it for lulz, but I know some people here really want a CCBS Keetongu so there you go!
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    Slicer's Grappler

    By Nescent,

    I built Slicer's chain-grappler thing today to see how it works. This gif about sums it up.
     
    The only thing that's gonna grapple is his bony shins. It's a neat idea, but I think it'll be too frustrating to play with. It does look cool though, and it can hold Lewa's mask alright.
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    Those 90 degree axle pieces are new to me, and I've been itching to do something interesting with them. Here's what I came up with.
     

     
    It's really easy to build, and works wonderfully - the claws snap open and closed, and have enough force to lift medium-weight Bionicle parts.
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    Producing Again

    By Nescent,

    I was forced to take a hiatus from producing music, but as of a couple days ago I am able to make stuff again! Here's the first thing I've made in eight months.
     
    When I first got my computer set up, I started producing immediately, but it was awful. I couldn't do the most basic things. Fortunately I wrapped my head around everything pretty quickly, and right now I am working on a Bionicle song that I've been wanting to start for a month or so. It uses samples from the webisodes, and there are sections for each Toa with music that tries to reflect their personalities. Ekimu's Prophecy of Heroes will play through the intro, and some other piece of dialogue will play through the breakdown. It's sounding pretty cool so far, even if I'm only just starting. Maybe I'll share some WiPs after I've spent more time on it.
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    Box from LEGO

    By Nescent,

    I got my signed LoSS like half an hour ago (https://www.flickr.com/photos/129809225@N03/16391291235/). I'm reeeaaallyy tempted to open it. I think I'll keep it sealed for now, and if that trans-orange Hau promotion comes to the US then I'll buy LoSS online and keep this one closed.
     
    The guys at LEGO have some neat signatures. MATT is the best I think
  21. Nescent
    Are your 2015 Gold Masks sitting at the side of your desk serving no purpose whatsoever? Perhaps you should build this simple rack out of common pieces to put them on display!
     
    Front
    Back
     
    Posting this here since I don't think it belongs in BBC. The bonus with this is that they have eyes, and you can pretty much use any color you'd like!
  22. Nescent
    If you're struggling to find the new Bionicle sets (like me), then you'll be happy to know that Barnes and Noble is selling them. My local B&N has all of the Toa, but none the Protectors. Also, if you order online, you get free shipping on orders over $25, and unlike the LEGO store, you don't have to pay sales tax.
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    Having blood drawn

    By Nescent,

    I have to have blood drawn every month to get it tested, and I learned three months ago (the first time that I had it drawn) that I'm totally prone to passing out. Tomorrow I have to give blood for the third time, and I'm dreading it. Here's what happened when I passed out:
     
    -was blind for 3+ minutes
    -the nurse kept putting ammonia in my face and it took a few seconds for me to smell it
    -couldn't talk
    -my hearing got...weird
     
    It was an interesting experience...but I hope it doesn't happen again. Afterwards I am going to check a few stores for Bionicle, since apparently Target restocks toys on Tuesdays.
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    Long story short, I had to leave most of my possessions with my brother when I flew down to FL. So for the past ~6 months, I haven't even had my own computer! Well a couple of days ago he said he would go ahead and ship one of my PCs to me, so in a couple of weeks I'll finally be able to produce music again. After I set it up and start a project (because I've had an idea burning in my head for weeks...), I have a fun music-related activity planned that I will host on my blog. He can't ship my nice Yamaha HS80m monitors to me, so instead I have to use my old M-Audio 4" monitors...at least I don't have to use regular computer speakers though!
     
    I also added a title to my blog finally. But I was too nervous to make an actual title so I just wrote that instead. And the description is because in three days my name will be "Quinary Sector," which is my new permanent alias to replace "Jeordeon."
     
    So that's what's going on in my life right now! While I wait, I've been hunting for the new Bionicle sets. I can afford Pohatu, Gali, and Onua, so hopefully I can find them on Tuesday the 6th. I already have Kopaka and the Protector of Stone, which is keeping me entertained for now.
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