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I've recently realized that I need to slow my role on the WIPS. The more I work on one, the father I get behind in another and forget about it. Here are a list of ones I have partially built. . Spinax . Maxilos . Bohrok (Nuvok) . Cahdok . One I haven't named . Vamprah I'm basicly finished with Spinax, who is my favorite. Vamprah's waist and legs are done, and wings are in planning. Maxilos has an upper torso, and I'm working on a sweet custom head. Nuvok is going to be good. I just need two more black exo fingers. Cahdok is my secondf avorite, although I have to rebuild it beacuse I took it down. That was a dumb mistake. The no namer is good, it's not a revamp, but I still like it. It's yellow and black, and I can finish now that I have yellow viking horns! So I have quite the bit to do, not to metion I have to keep up with project ancient. And remember that voting begins tomorrow for the contest!
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Well, I went back to Toys"R"Us to check for the Av-Matoran again, there just so happened to be two at the very back of the very top shelf, one of which being Radiak. So I bought him and I am happy. First off, he was just about the easiest Bionicle building experience I have ever had... And that includes the McDonalds Matoran. He is made up of all new pieces, save his weapons. I don't necessarily like how his wings are one piece, but I'll live. The new Matoran's faces are just about the ugliest faces that Bionicle has ever spawned. Worse than the Toa Mata, in my opinion. And I think that the Toa Mata had some ugly mugs back in their day. The box is full of win, though. *Walks off mumbling something about four step instructions*
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A lovely revamp of Tanma. Check it out here. Tanma's Little Topic
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Man I'm wishing I had gotten Maxilos earlier now seeing as I didn't get him for X-mas and now he's sold out...this sucks. *Yami*
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So my Vahki was just childs's play, but this new thing... tee hee hee... will rule! Something to go along with my Bahrag revamp, which is coming along nicely. It will be quite interesting.... and to scale with Seran's Boxer revamp... which totaly owns. Also, I'm turning this into an I am Legend discussion. Did anyone see it? It was interestingly creepy and sad at the same time.... It had me at the edge of my seat the whole time not, to metion I was scared all night. ~Blue Diamond~ = scaredy cat
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*gets Mobbed By People Who Only Got Into Bionicle In 2005*
cags//cunninghat/2x2b posted a blog entry in blogs_blog_238
Heh, long title. I hate Makuta. Or, rather, I hate what he has become. *wonders who wrote the story for MNOG1* ~D -
On humans, each leg segment is about as long as the body. On Bionicle figures (or at least 2001-2004), they are usually only slightly longer than the body combined. Upper legs are shorter than lower. Arm segments are slightly shorter than leg segments on human forms, with the elbows being slightly above where the hips begin to curve out, so that the wider part of the elbows fit in the thinner part of the body. Hands usually end, when fully extended, halfway down the upper legs. On Bionicle figures, this is about the same; or should be... When the arms are raised as high as they can be, the head ends just below the elbow's starting point. Unless you're drawing ridiculously big-headed cartoons. Masculine torsos are hard to draw. Any tips?
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as those of you who frequent LEGO system sites know, many builders of Castle, Space and other system themes use minifigure hands for small details, well I am going to try to bring this into bionicle Mocing I have one Moc already that uses this to a certain degree, but I hope to make it a main feature on a MoC in the future. on an unrelated note, brickshelf seems to not be accepting uploads from me, is this going on with anyone else, or is it just me? Also the WAMALUG pics seem to be MIA, so whenever they show up, I'll make a new update about them for all those interested in my personal life (stalkers ) picture a santa hat, with black instead of red, and a skull and crossbones on the front... that's what I'm wearing the day before school lets out for winter break "If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door." ~Paul Beatty
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*wants a PG13 Bionicle movie* ~D
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My list of awards - Best Barraki - Ehlek, I love the weapons, the spines and the way the body is built. Best Toa Mahri - Toa Mahri Jaller, he looked the most stylish and the Hannah Crab was cute. :blush: Best Store Exclusive - Karzahni, mainly because of the story, but the set is pretty cool. B) Best Matoran - Dekar, yellow's my favoruite colour. Best Hydruka - Thulox, he's got better body armour. Best Titan/Warrior - Gadunka, he's very posable and the colour scheme works really well. Now for the bigger awards. Each winner of the awards will be given a trophy by the IAIA's leader, Winner! Best Canister Set - Toa Mahri Jaller! His prize - Best Small Set - Dekar! His prize - Best Large Set - Gadunka! His prize - Now the big one! Best Set of 2007 - Gadunka! His prize -
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Me and my mom agreed that she would take me "Phantoka hunting" during the week of vacation that we have in January. Now I look in the Official 2008 Sets Topic and find a Canadian guy saying that the Walmart or TRU guy said that they would get the Phantoka on shelves in the first week of January! SUUUUUUUHWEEEEEEEEET!!!!!!
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It shall be up this weekend..... and strike fear into the hearts of slacking matoran. I also am going to slow my role on blogging... give some people a chance to catch up. P.S. this has nothing to do with my current WIP...
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(Because I refuse to use that linguistic collision of "v-m." It simply doesn't happen.) Before I begin, they're generally good sets – good designs, good color schemes (not so fond of Photok's distribution)... and no storyline inconsistencies the way the Nuva have, since they're all new characters. Being Avo-Matoran, they have enormous amounts of potential – but none of it was used. Their basic color scheme is white and gold, but none of them have gold and only one white, and although both male and female Matoran exist, the only female just happens to be the one who colored herself blue. Also, I'd really have liked to see recolored masks on them – Tanma's I like, and the Shadow Matoran's masks work with their designs, but I find Solek and Photok's very boring and the corrupted ones' more bestial than the rest of their designs allow to really look like Matoran. Plus, recolored masks are always a good thing! And they're so simple in pieces that I'd much rather they at least had a body-socket-Metru head construction for necks... with actual eyes, of course. If I were to go all-out, I'd make their bodies just an upper half, then use a (OO/+) piece attached to single sockets for hips (see the Mahritoran), with existing limbs for their legs. But that's just an idea, so don't pay attention to it during these. (Though it would make wide hips for Pohatu possible...) Tanma ~ I love him as he is, but to fit with the rest redesigned I'd make all his grey white, then give him a lime Great Huna. Or perhaps Lhikan's Hau, but the Huna is closer in shape... I actually like the mask he has better than the Huna, but one can't have just one with a new mask. Solek ~ She would definitely be female, to begin with, and all her grey would be made light gold. (Avo-colors!) Not only would that look totally awesome, there would finally be gold sockets and Toa feet! Oh, and a white Great Ruru for her mask. She and Tanma would both use yellow Metru eyes, too. Photok ~ Orange Toa feet are awesome. So, like Tanma, make all the grey white, and for his mask an orange Zatth is not far from what he has... Then either neon green or yellow eyes. (It was Takanuva's eye color, after all.) Radiak ~ Well, he looks quite cool in this picture, if not very Matoran-like, so I might go with a transforming thing for him... Instead of just the sockets for his back "feet," give him black Toa feet. Then stick one of these in the center of the foot so you can plug in the Mahri blade and he can go from bipedal with spiky weapons to quadrupedal. For his mask, definitely a trans-red Great Rau; it's the only one with similar side ridges... And orange eyes. Gavla ~ All I'd really change on her is her mask, giving her a dark blue Arthron. Swirled with silver at the top would look nice, but might be odd against no other swirled masks... Oh, also, her eyes would be trans-red, because that would look awesome. Kirop ~ I was looking at his mask a couple days ago and thought woah, that would work well as a Tryna. The slope, the bug-eyes, and even two of those pointy little things at the bottom... So for him, a solid black Tryna – with a trans-red visor. It would look amazing. He wouldn't actually need eyes under it, but for form's sake I'd make them red like Gavla's. Although making his arms and feet silver wouldn't hurt. ... It would also be nice if their wings were two separate pieces; that's probably the only real complaint I have about the sets. As I said, there's little wrong with the actual sets. I'm sort of indifferent to them – totally getting Tanma, maybe one of the corrupted ones, but otherwise... But things like these I would absolutely adore. Not only would you have a bunch of recolored pieces (Kirop's Tryna and visor... *dies*), but you'd also have the dichotomy of white for Light and black for Shadow between the two groups of Avo-Matoran. Although the result does look sort of like fruit... ~ ToM
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I haven't posted in me blog for like, a week. In other words; I'M TOTALLY EXITED FOR THE PHANTOKA! I even made a detailed plan and estimations about what my brother and I are going to buy and such, including our budget: no limit. 18 more days until I unleash the ultimate Santa-Hat Nova Blast known as Christmas.
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Some more WIPs I'm working on.... this one will be real good.
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I NEED TO GET ICARAX. I NEED HIS MASK.
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I do not like the way Kopaka Phantoka looks. I refuse to complain or get real angry about it. For I do not have the set. "Anger is the most useless of emotions, destructive of the mind and hurtful of the heart." Alku
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I have a couple of projects for this upcoming new year, including the more slots for project ancient. By the way, any ideas for the project, I can't realy decide which toa to come up with next. If you don't know what I'm talking about, visit my Toa Nidhiki topic. As for my lastest project in the mists.... Here is a little hint of who or "what" you may be seeing soon....
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I just read the Bioniclestory updates and upaon hearing Itd I've suddenly become afraid of the Ignika. Dont know why? read the updates.Lets just hope that mask doesn't go black. *Yami*
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I should probably make it clear that I do not intend to start ranting about 2006 in general. I intend not to make the slightest comment about the storyline or to particularly critiscise the sets. So what on earth do I plan to talk about? Well the answer is two-fold. Firstly, there are the Piraka torsos. Secondly, the Inika torsos. When I first saw them, I was quite excited by the idea. They took Bionicle in a whole new direction - one that easily allowed poseability. It opened up numerous doorways and was a good step forward. Unfortunately, the set designers appear to have become complacant and refuse to budge from their current position. I'm sure I'm not alone in noticing just how much the torso pieces are cropping up. This screams 'dull' to me in a thousand different ways. Up until that point, almost every canister set had tried to be different. Noteable exceptions are the Nuva and the Kal, and the Kal certainly proved to be a huge mistake. The situation now is also slightly different, as it is not a line that's being cloned but an individual set. The Mahri and the New Nuva do, for the most part, copy previous styles to such an extent that, weapons and masks aside, you could practically build them yourself. Obviously pieces might not exist in those particular colours, but between an old piece in a new colour and a completely new piece I'd say the latter is much more interesting. Now I'm not saying every set should have completely new pieces for everything either. A certain amount of copying from previous sets is inevitable, not least to address the clone issue. But really, does that mean no new pieces can be released? This year there has been precious little that is genuinely new. Not a single new arm or leg piece was made, and next year appears to be following here, and only one set introduced a single new body piece - Kongu Mahri. Unfortunately his proportions and colour scheme were so atrocious (there's only so many metru green and bley sets I can stand) it almost negated this fact entirely. As much as I like humanoid sets, some originality in their construction wouldn't go amiss. I cannot bear building exactly the same set over and over and over again with every purchase, and steadfastly refuse to buy any canister set unless there's something worth buying it for. Infact, this goes for all sets, hence my only purchase this year being Maxilos (maybe I should consider Mantax - only Barraki with an interesting non-stick design). Next year's evil Phantoka sets show promise. I'd need to look more closely, but they appear to have something new in terms of body design. Definitely need to check up on that. I strongly suspect I've missed my own point somewhere along the line, but ah well. The odd rant's always fun, and my opportunities for them are so few!
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So I was shifting around with some of my pieces and something began to appear in the shape of a well known friend.... Weird<<<<<<<<<<
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So I have a WIP up my sleeve... well it's out now, but I've been holding back on it for awhile. Mainly for the reason of being distracted by other contest and ideas along the way. *She* actually has a tail now, and has been updated more, with major added details, but the bad weather has left me without pictures.... I leave you with this Pic for now.... can anyone guess what it is? Or what it is going to be? Or what it will be in the future? Weh, to many qustions for ya. And Ballom, you know, so no cheating.
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Well, today my new membership was activated, and I couldn't have been any more excited to start my Blog. It just seems more *magical* when you have your own blog... to get to the point, I have noticed that I've been here for about 4 years, yet few people know me.... so, this is the perfect chance for people to get to know me! Just like youv'e seen in most Blogs, ask me anything you want. Don't hesitate to ask random questions. They are always welcome here. Hope to have a great year with you all!
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Welcome once again to the realm of my blog. This poor thing has been devoid of life for over a year. An unfortunate lapse, if so long a time may be called so, on my part that I now hope to correct at least in part with this entry. I am sure most people are aware of recent spates of 'Bionicle is bad, it used to be great' topics. I want to throw in my two cents penny (I'm British! I refuse to use american currency systems!) on the subject, but I don't particularly want to make a new topic about it. This would firstly be repetitive and tedious, and could easily result in another opportunity for people to say 'argh, it's so bad!' seemingly without thought or reason (if you feel insulted by that then sue me...except don't! Because I don't have much money and it's much harder to sue people over here, so hah! ) Now, what I think would be useful is for me to state exactly what I think has changed. I shall do this by comparing 2001 with 2006/2007, which for me represent clearly the shift in focus. In 2001, everything was mysterious and new. We were introduced to the huge, fascinating and geographically impossible island of Mata Nui, inhabited by strange Bio-mechanical beings (who, for any fan of the slizers before, wouldn't have seemed that odd) and threatened by the dark spirit Makuta. This shadowed being had cast his brother, the Great Spirit Mata Nui, into an eternal slumber and existed as a symbol of evil - forever hidden and shrouded in mystery. His appearence, powers and abilities were unknown, and his greatest strength came from the fear such an entity can create in his enemies. The island itself was lush and beautiful, each region spanning an incredible distance and hiding many mysteries. It was the privilage and joy of every fan to explore this wondrous landscape, uncovering its secrets and learning more about the fantastic world. Enter the Toa. Powerful beings whose coming had been heralded for centuries by the wise Turaga, elders of their villages. Each Toa was equipped to survive and harness their element to maximum efficiency, and seemed as one with the place in which they lived. They were more than just beings of power - they represented their element perfectly, with personalities and appearences flowing straight from them. It was their mission to uncover the powerful Kanohi masks and then to confront the darkness at the heart of Mata Nui - the Makuta himself. The story was one of adventure, mystery and intrigue. Every revalation and solved mystery for the characters was shared by us, and it was these mysteries that drove the story. You could truly emphasize with the plight of the Matoran and the struggle of the Toa as they desperately tried to save their island, because you truly felt it was worth saving. Cut to modern day. Toa are no longer the fabled warriors, each harnessing the full power of their element, but heroes born from the Matoran themselves. Makuta is not a shadow in the darkness, but a powerful entity - part of a brotherhood of equally powerful entities. We are no longer treated to the cinematic exploration of a lush land, but instead are given a barren island or a single city (which we see almost nothing of) and a huge expanse of endless...blue. The Toa burst in to fight very visible enemies, and indeed seem to do nothing else. Every step of their journey is halted by battles and action. Terrible, really. To look at it another way, we have a desperate race against time as the true plight of the Great Spirit is unveiled - he is not just asleep, as we all thought, but dying. Makuta has an entire Brotherhood to back him up, Dark Hunters stalk the shadows and the numbers of Toa are falling drastically. The universe is in peril, and all adventure must be put to the side as a last attempt to save the life of the Great Spirit is made. The island upon which the heroes find themselves is in desperate peril as the villagers struggle to forge even a basic existance. Worse, six powerful and ruthless villains have enslaved the entire population and are determined to take the one thing that can save Mata Nui's life - the Mask of Life - for themselves. They mercilessly dispense with the battle-hardened Toa Nuva, and the fate of the universe now rests in the hands on a rookie team who must find a way to achieve what the Toa Nuva could not. There. That's not so bad, is it? And for those crying for some character development, at least one character this year grows exponentially. Know who I'm talking about? Yup, it's Matoro. I would agree that there is less development (and less room for it) of character, but to say there is none is completely untrue. What is impressive is how such a large range of characters can be given screentime without becoming sidelined or too similar. Every story has its merits. The original style of 2001 was all about adventure and mystery, while the current storyline focuses more on action and combat. Both of these give ample space for character development, and I would say an action can let you know the characters even better. The original stories on the other hand allowed for much more detailed environments and (arguably) a more engrossing storyline. I've no doubt I've presented my points very badly, but what I'm saying is, whether you think the old-style stories are better or not comes down purely to your own preferences. Each story has its advantages and disadvantages, and each has its merits if you'll only look for them. Also, things cannot stay the same forever. By 2003, I honestly feel that all possibilities for the island of Mata Nui had been exhausted. How could they continue the style of 2001/2002 when there was nothing left to explore? It was really a case of "been there, done that...can we move on?" What's more, how could Makuta hide in the shadows forever? A villain you learn nothing about, who does nothing but hide, is a boring villain indeed. He needed to be flushed out sometime. Mysteries can only endure for so long until they're solved, but the best ones have new mysteries to take their place. For example, while we can now identify Makuta and know his abilities, we have no idea what his ultimate plan really is or just how he plans to achieve it. In many ways he is as mysterious as he was in 2001, except now it's his mind we can't see. Speaking for myself, I prefer mystery stories. I enjoy becoming engrossed in a good mystery and take great satisfaction in seeing it uncovered. I also find it very satisfying to see Toa using their intellect to defeat enemies (Bohrok) as well as, or even instead of, their powers. While I agree there's nothing like a nice, big confrontation to decide the fate of the island/world/universe, it's always fun to watch a good plan come to fruition - especially when it encounters problems that must be overcome. This isn't to say I haven't enjoyed more recent, action-based years. I definitely have, and believe them to be a necessary change. I would be very pleased to see more of a mysterious feel returning to Bionicle in the future however. In short, both mystery and action are good, there's nothing worse about today's storyline it's just different, but I like mystery.
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Grr! My Mom won't let me buy any Mars Mission junk stuff because she says "it's too close to Christmas". :annoyed2:
