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That the Ignika doesn't fit on a Toa Mata head. Or a Mctoran head. In fact, it only fits on a Metru head. Huh...
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Tahu 2008 rules. First off, I never liked the Hau Nuva, it reminded me of an angry bear. I think its new form is MUCH better, as it bears at least SOME resemblance to the 2001 Hau. Also, it looks less angry and more noble. Which fits Tahu. His "shuriken" might come in useful in a swamp, after all, you don't want to trip on a vine. And as for the blaster, Tahu seems like the type to carry a machine gun, right? Well, due to the target age group, that Nynrah Ghost Blaster is the closest to a machine gun Tahu's going to get. And he has 72 pieces! That's the most a canister set has EVER had! And some people, you know who ya are, are complaning about too little pieces? Well, here you go. (Although Krika has 40 pieces... XD) What am I trying to say, you may not ask? Well, I dunno. But my point is that TAHU RULES! And is better than his old Nuva/Mata form. And he's not a clone of his past self with armor,leg pieces,and a new mask. And he's cool. Blah, blah... Blah...
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I dislike Makuta's "real" name. Do you?
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Does anyone know what the "Outer Cable 256Mm", is in the online Lego Pick a Brick section? Here
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A series of MOCs I will be creating some time in the summer... inspired by Seranikai's character in the epic...
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As I said yesterday, I have a Slappy Fly update! Yay! Anyway, here's the pic. What I changed: Friction pins: Blue to black Eyes: Glorok to trans lime Wings: Tips are now trans lime Tail: Added Feet: Hand pieces to ... whatever they are now. -K-
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I've recently been taking some close examinations towards the new summer canister sets. I do have mixed feelings on the look of them as of now. But, I have put them aside do to the large amount of MOCing possibilities! Yes... yes... this will be fun! I have been making some plans for what I'll do with each character for revamps. I'll begin with the Makuta in this entry. Bitil: Bettle I suppose by the context of the name. He strangely resembles the Cicindela aurofasciata, a type of tiger beetle. Tiger beetles often have large bulging eyes, long, slender legs and large curved mandibles. He is lacking a few of the details, so I'll give him the slender body, instead of the short and bent one. I'm thinking of a tall frame, and neck to match. A custom head will be in need. It'll have to fit with the long neck, and iclude some custom antena. Like all insects, beetles' bodies are divided into three sections: the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. I may attempt to seperate the body into the three parts, but still keep the appearance smooth. It all depends on my skill level by that time. I'll need to work on some layering with this guy. Probably black as an outer color, a the yellow as an under layering, to create that exoskeleton affect. I'm really feeling the urge to make wings that fold over the back like a casing. Of course, this means I'll have to ditch those other ones... -------------------- Krika: I'm not sure what this one is. I like him though. I have a few ways to attack his design. The whole main body will be one long slender structure. No spikes, or armor that disrupts the elegence of this creature. The head will be the same, with a similiar neck to the one I will use for Bitil. I'm not really sure with the appendages yet... they will take time... As far as colors go, I'll stick with these. Similar to Bitil with the layering. No wings... -------------------- Gorast: She has a strange head.... it will be hard to work with. I'll add antena, and probably round out that head of hers. Same with the layering, black, with an under belly of green. I'll probablt stcik with the four arms also. I'm thinking of long legs and an average body. Ah! Love the wings, and I won't change the one bit. I'll probably need four though... Well, that's it for now! See you later with my plans for the Toa!
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Well, I thought I'd throw my two-cents in. But, not from the point of view about the sets. More on their MOCability. Gali: Well, I've seen that torso waaay too many times. I probably have.... many.... The Metru waist piece is also nothing new. Some nice new wing pieces would make me happy inside, but I can live without them. The new shoulder pieces are quite interesting. I'll have to find a use for them sometime. The Metru-Blue Inika connectors will certainly come in handy. You can also never have too many Metru-Blue hand pieces. SILVER LIMB PIECES! =O Those are WIN <-(that's for you, Bunda) The new jet pieces are interesting. Not sure what I'll use them for, but I'll figure it out. The new blaster is meh. If it were smaller, I'd like it. The aimer part is cool, though. The mask: I'll admit it. I like most of the Mistika masks. They make me feel like I'm back in 2004. The wing pieces would be ok, if they didn't have the connection from the Mask. Maybe coming from the head. That would leave the mask extra thing free. Now, on to the cheese grater. I'm not sure what Lego was going for here, but I don't like it. If it was symmetrical, I'd love it. That is, if it didn't have the wings. The $13 price tag is making me unsure about buying her, so, <Possible Buy> Tahu: Torso's boring. The myriad of jet piece makes me happy, though. The Metru-Red Inika connectors are nice. Metru armor's getting boring. Silver Piraka legs are nice. I want those feet! His launcher doesn't seem to have the aimer like Gali. Why? The spiky pieces on his legs are interesting. I wonder how those could be used. The spinny-shield is cool. Another triple axle and new sword pieces? Count me in. I adore his mask.... Like I said before, it makes me feel like I'm in 2004. I will most certainly be using that. Making him <Probable Buy> Onua: Slightly boring. Gray and black pieces that I already have. I do like the red pieces, though. The new torso armor is also nice. The shoulder armor is odd. I don't know if I'll be able to use it. His launcher seems modified, but I can't tell what that piece is. The mask is cool. Could be used for a Makuta, or a Rahi. <Possible Buy> Well, there you go. An opinion on the Toa Nuva Mistika from a MOCist's point of view. -K-
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Yes, I need to work on a new arm design! ------------------------------------ So, after much thinking and such, I have decided to slash half of my revamps (not including the Mistika) to the ones that will prove the best. I've decided to focus on more non story related characters instead of revamps, so you'll being seeing less in the future. They are as follows: Once I finish MOCing the last two people who won my contest, I can finally get to work on them, insted of just talking! -Some updates- >>>>>>>>>>>Spinax is basicly done, I just don't know what to do with those feet! >>>>>>>>>>>Spinax is so far my favorite MOC of mine. >>>>>>>>>>>Bohrok looks nice, although I can't figure out a core body yet. >>>>>>>>>>>I have traded the Kanohi Dragon out for one of the Manas. >>>>>>>>>>>Have no clue how to design it.
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Nothing much to do at the moment, sooo... First, I'm not going to go on a tirade about how dreadful they are as the Nuva. I did that with the Phantoka, and these are even worse as Toa Nuva. Next to no points of recognizability (except on Onua). But I do have to say, again, that Tahu and Gali could work swell with dark red and dark blue if only they had Kanohi Nuva-like masks. Now, with that out of the way... Gali Mistika :: I rather like her design overall, ignoring that she's Gali. The dark blue is good with silver, and her mask looks nice – I had told myself before the preview night to try to imagine it in normal plastic, but I forgot to. >> There are some glaring design flaws, though, again with the reversed Piraka torso and ridiculously long arms. The shoulder armor has the potential to be a very nice piece, but it's just so flat, doesn't cover anything at all from the front and back, and the attachment point looks contrived to me... At any rate, the blaster looks so much better with the scope, especially in silver, and I also think it looks a lot better held two-handed. Again, the whole thing could be great for a Dark Hunter, or some Toa much more ruthless than Gali. Back to her mask, though. You know what it is? It's an Elda. A normal-style Elda with a mesh eye covering. It has the same forward-jutting, roughly triangular "jaw", leading to a swept-back, mostly smoth top, and if you take off the fins it has the same cylindrical features at the back/top of the head as the Elda's tubes ended in. It fits perfectly... Tahu Mistika :: Lovely recolored pieces, design could work, if it weren't for the reversed Piraka chest, long arms, and thin thighs and upper arms. The jets are... interesting, but spoiled by the glaring blue pins. Mask... eh. Without the large, round mouth and fierce eyeholes, it can't compare to the Hau. Weapon-thing's not bad. His set has one thing that's very nice in principle: 73 pieces. Nice. Onua Mistika :: I've ranted about him already, but I can't deny that by color scheme he's clearly Onua. But I just think that color scheme is poorly executed – too stark a division between black and grey on his limbs, and too much grey showing under the chest armor. Plus the whole thing looks stringy and weak and awkward, even ignoring that it's Onua. The red's more than a little odd, too, stuck at the back of his legs... The pauldron-like arm... armor is a nice idea, but Bitil's wing is just too big and flat to be perfect – especially with the only other silver armor being a Metru chest on his waist. The mask would make a nifty Kraahkan, too, but it's not working as a Pakari for me... (for comparison, I think the Miru Phantoka is fine as a Miru.) Blaster cover is an interesting idea. Takanuva's a rather good titan, very solid design, and good color scheme, but the whole thing just looks blocky and his chest is rather flat. I can only really say "meh" to it. Midak under the arm is a nice bit, though. Sméag made a good point about the vehicles – they hearken to the complex Technic builds of the early years, and that is a very good thing indeed. Rockoh is the only one I find unsightly; the others look pretty good but don't pique my interest enough to want to possess them. Axalara's deploying Midak and the folding... things... at the end are nice, and Jetrax's unfoldable wings are good, too. As to their figures, "Antroz" is the most boring thing I've ever seen, Lewa still confuses me, and Pohatu's color distribution is quite awkward. But I still want one of their visors. ...Wonder why there have been so many guests viewing my blog lately... ~ ToM
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Bionicle's focus groups are wrong. There, I said it, the line that will bring all the bones-ites down on me like vultures on a rotting carcass. The focus groups are simply a bunch of kids who must be horridly overjoyed that they're getting to see Lego sets long before they're released to the general public. They probably don't care what's being shoved in front of their faces, because they're getting to see it before everyone else. And most of the consumers are just cattle, mindlessly accepting whatever Lego puts out, attempting to justify the fail with increasingly idiotic arguments. Wake up. *yawn* Theory: Controversial entries are likely to get a large number of comments, be they good or bad. >Theory test initiated
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I got the rest of the Av-Toran I needed. Now I just need Toa Ignika. I can never find exlusives. My Auntie and Uncle are staying here with their dog, Banjo, it's been quite fun so far.
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Current thoughts and impressions: I mostly like the Makuta Mistika. They're original, have mostly good designs, and the Avotoran limbs don't bother me much, but I know that's one of my eccentricities. Aside from Gorast's incongruous dark grey body (silver would make slightly more sense, to match his her claws, but black would really be best...), and Bitil's red spikes (which look fine but are odd as the only red he has), they look good overall... Krika is both an awesome new design and actually looks frightening – I was sort of disappointed when she he didn't have the four legs his leaked picture made it look like he had, but even so he still looks great. Aside from that extra limb, which I won't even bother attaching. And yes, I too think Krika ought to have been the female Makuta. Something about her…him just looks more villainously female – maybe it's his vague resemblance to a Stilken. That and his name. Gorast both looks more masculine and certainly has a masculine-sounding name... though her being a female mosquito makes sense enough. Now, as to the Toa, you can probably imagine what I'm going to say. I think they're absolutely dreadful as Toa Nuva, and unlike the Phantoka aren't acually good designs on their own. Gali and Tahu have no color at all from their Nuva forms (unless you count the silver), and of the three only Tahu's mask looks anything like a prior form – but it just doesn't look like a Hau to me. None of the fiercity of the Hau and Hau Nuva's eyes, or even the Hau's trademark mouth... And I agree with Janus and Toro that Gali's mask would be great on a Dark Hunter, but as Gali... *shudder* If she only had chest armor (the Phantoka, at least, had chest armor) and the shoulder armor covered her shoulders better, she might look cool as something other than Gali, but... oh, and especially because she has dark blue. Nice to have the pieces, but why in Mata Nui's name make Tahu and Gali so dark? Then Onua I think just looks terrible. He's strongest and bulkiest of the Toa – so why does he have the spindliest limbs available, and a straight-backed, tall, thin body? The mask might have been good as a remade Kraahkan, but certainly not as a Pakari. And the boosters on his legs look... awkward. They stick out too much. Wouldn't be as bad if they were right against his legs. As to colors, he at least has his proper color scheme (THANK THE GODS), but I think it's arranged terribly and that the whole spindly look just doesn't work on Onua. ... I'm ranting again. I hadn't planned to, really. So, let's move on from the Toa (anyone notice that none of them actually has a tool except Tahu's shield-like shuriken-thing?). The vehicles evoke nothing in me, except confusion as to why they would essentially stick Lewa and Pohatu into a larger set. Seems counter-profitable. And I find Vultraz the epitome of boring, both in vehicle and in rider. Takanuva... Well, I hate that he became a titan – and one who looks to be $30 all on his own, to boot – but I have to give some credit: he looks like Takanuva. The mask, little though I like it, is clearly an Avohkii, and he has Takanuva's color distribution (added thigh armor) even if he doesn't have any gold. And green eyes. Not a bad set, okay as Takanuva, but that doesn't mean I like him. So, there we are. I'll probably go into the Makuta more thoroughly later. And if anyone was wondering, yes, I am going to draw up my designs for all six other Toa Nuva – counting Takanuva among them, for whom I'm inventing a canister set form. ~ ToM
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Yeh, the Draxon photo shoot went horrible today, so I will have to get it up this weekend. All the lighting was off, and I can't seem to get it looking like my Follium shoot.
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Oh yeah, it's time. Tahu Nuva is here! The pic links to the topic. Wow! Argetlam awarded me with this for it! -K-
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I've been wanting to buy the rest of my Phantoka and start my Matoran collection(my TRU got them late)but my mom kept on saying no because of the weather(-42 don't believe me? I'm Canadian)but for Valentines she showed me a surprise...Vamprah and Radiak. No Tanma was there though. My baby brother built Radiak, I showed him how.
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*Gasp* It's Kopakalaka's Blog Exclusive MOC #1! I made this fella a while ago, but I never posted him on BZP. Why not now? Gallery -K-
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OVERALL: Toa: Makuta: Warriors: Vehicles: OVERALL OVERALL: Canister Sets: Boxed Sets: OVERALL OVERALL OVERALL: All Sets: Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.
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So high-quality pics of the summer sets are flitting around; rather like flies, except that BZP isn't squishing them anymore. Methinks I must review. MakutaVillains: Bitil: Mata yellow(so it seems), and no Metru head. this is a good thing. His mask is interesting, reminds me of Sidorak for some reason. Wing piece are awesome, very beetle-like, which, given his name, might've been done on purpose. I don't particularly like the foot design, though the upper leg claw/armour pieces look promising; good ribcage material. I detest the launcher and will say no more. Gorast: My least favorite of the villains, due to the color scheme(Lego, that Inika torso exists in black), feet, and the fact that a Visorak head looks horrible on a humanoid set. At least his color scheme prevents the launcher ammo from looking horrendous and messing up the color scheme further. Only reason I'd get him is for the wings, which are the best insect wings Lego has produced to date(other than the Insectoids, but those were system). Krika: Very Tyranid/Alien-esque, which is a good thing. And a color scheme, were it not for that launcher(which I prob'ly won't take out of the can). Head looks very useful, somewhat like a Rahkshi head/spine crossed with Takadox and Ehlek's spines. Blades look a bit wierd, but they're not bad. A definite buy. I'm not even going to bother reviewing the Nuva, as my disgust cannot be effectively conveyed through any form of communication known to man. Part Two coming sometime this week.
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So there are Toyfair pics up on Bshelf Maj. So I can finally post my opinion on the summer sets. The "Newva" suck. Horribly. I cannot think of a single redeeming quality that they possess, other than that "Gali's" ears seem to be detachable. Oh, and "Tahu", spikes do not go on the inside of the knee. The villains don't look too bad, except for Gorast, whose Visorak head bugs me because it's used in conjunction with a humanoid torso. LINK
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First time I've ever been able to do this. ________________________________________________________________ || || It might be a tad better with the gold Pakari on top, but that's still on my list of things to get... And I don't have six Toa heads with trans-green eyes, so I had to add in neon green. But anyway, I finally have all six of Onua's masks, so I'm quite happy about that. (Ignore the canister-stickers, though. I never took them off of most of my cans... maybe I will eventually.) I recently realized I have four or more of Onua, Kopaka, Gali, and Pohatu's masks, but only one each of Tahu's and Lewa's... Just the red Hau and green Miru for them. I will have to remedy that. ~ ToM
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How much time do Lego's designers spend on each individual canister set? 2 months? Three? If they spent say, 10 months creating a single awesome set design, and then simply made different masks/weapons for each of the six, I'd buy 'em. If well-designed, clonism would not matter, as 6 clone sets simply means the same parts in six different colors.
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Wal-mart=win
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Alrighty then! It's the weekend! The time to sit around doing not very much. No, wait, that's my life generally. Hmm, let's start this again... Ok! As it's the weekend and I recieved a request from my readers to review Lewa, here it is! The original spirit of air, ruler of the skies and prankmeister himself in a glorious new wrapper! Once again I'm going to ignore the canister. It's the same as Antroz's except green, and there's really nothing about it which can't be ascertained through sight. If you're really interested in the lowdown of the canister, there are hundreds of images on the web, or you can go to your local store and peer at it yourself. That's if you don't have one already, which I sincerely hope you do! Ahem, yes. So, what do we get? Pieces, that's what! No set is complete, or indeed anything, without pieces! Parts A jumble of lime, bley and silver confronts you as the contents are tipped out into the conveniently placed Kardas box which is so perfect for building sets in. You may have noticed a bit of blue peeking through. The three length friction pins join the now highly limited club of mata blue pieces and the ever-growing club of colour-scheme wrecking pieces. Delighful, to be sure. These, in addition to the red friction pins and blue...whatever they're called...all appear in the set. Hooray! But this set is not composed solely of rods and pins (thankfully). There's far more to be explored! Notice, for example, that there's an enormous total of FIVE new molds in this set! That's so many it could never possibly be beaten by, say, a Matoran! No no, that would never happen... I do like all of the new molds. The new strengthened joints are really nice, and I'm sure the Matoran connection piece thingy will have many uses. The jetpacks are wonderful things. Quite simple designs which are nicely curved and really can't be mistaken for anything else, although I'm sure MOCers can find other uses for them. As with any Toa, the most noteable pieces are the mask and tool. I think both are wonderful! The weapon is like a larger, heavily upgraded version of his old Katana and is wonderfully detailed. It reminds me quite strongly of the Inika weapons. It's very big, has a large base and a hole going through the middle. Instead of a light-up feature it has lightning travelling up it - and of course the Inika are famous for having lightning abilities. Perhaps it was a dropped prototype, although why anyone would want to drop something so artful or cool looking I do not know. This set is almost worth it just for the weapon! The mask looks great, too! Unlike recent masks, the set designers seem not to have felt the need to go into complexity overdrive. No, it is relatively simple and sweeps back nicely. Just...don't use it without the blue visor. It doesn't look right at all! So, this is the Toa of Air! His primary colour is green - right? You'd think it would be, wouldn't you? Let's have a look at the green to bley colour ratio. Um...yes. Green. Primary colour. Right. I mean, you can practically build a Toa just with the bley! What is up with that? My final note on pieces must be to mention the Midak Skyblaster. I LOVE that weapon! It fires beautifully. Quick, accurate, good distance and can hold multiple ammo! Looks pretty neat too. The pattern on the black part...I'm not sure what it is about that, but I absolutely adore it! Building Ever built an Inika? How about a Mahri? Getting fed up with that ol' torso? Not to worry! Oh, wait... Yup! It's an Inika torso, with Inika armour, Inika limbs and basically just Inika all round. How...exciting. Snapping the pieces together takes no time at all, and is exactly the same as basically every other set released over the past two years. The only new additions are the jetpacks, which consist of slapping two pieces together and sticking them into the back of his arms and the Matoran holder thing. Is there really much more to say? Playing with the set Truth be told, he's quite a fun critter to play with. Very poseable, as all sets are these days, and the Midak Skyblaster could provide me with hours of entertainment! The jetpacks don't really inspire a 'flying' feel with the set, possibly because the entirety of the rest of the design is that of a land-based set, but it is fun making him zoom over things blasting them with light spheres. Helpful in this is his head's ability to bend all the way back, as nearly demonstrated here. As always, his back has been mostly ignored and the Matoran holder sticks out like a sore thumb. The Inika armour also looks bizarre overlapping an upper arm with no armour, and I'm really not keen on the setup. Fortunately, it's easy to fix! Simply switch the lower arms and legs round, and all will be well! Looks better that way IMO. This feels wierd... This time around, I do have the set's Matoran counterpart! "Hi, small...person..." They look quite good together, what with their colour schemes being the same, their masks being similar and their weapons complimenting each other so well. Do you think lego went a bit overboard with th - uh oh... "GIVE ME BACK THOSE KATANAS!" Eventually, Tanma explained that they weren't actually Lewa's katanas, and the two were getting on fine! They even agreed to demonstrate the piggyback feature for you all! "So...heavy..." Yes, well, Tanma's enjoying it. As a set, he's very vibrant. The lime managed to overcome the excessive bley dullness and make the set look quite visually appealing. I definitely prefer lime to previous year's Metru green, which was so dark bley was almost sunny by comparison! Although he lacks gears, I think he's an improvement playability wise over the old Lewa. At least you don't have to take his head off and reattach it to make him fly! "So I'm now taller than you, have a bigger weapon than you, can shoot people with my launcher, have a non-ugly mask, can fly without wasting elemental or mask powers and I have bendable knees and elbows. And what do you have?" Yes alright Lewa, there's no need to gloat. Overall "Hey, where's the cool picture?" This guy has plenty of recoloured parts, but not many new ones. Of the new parts, only two are currently exclusive to this set. His construction is also very, very simple and the overpowering amount of bley is a serious downside. Nevertheless, the Inika formula does allow for very playable sets. There's enough poseability to stick them in almost any pose you like, and plenty of things can be added on to the set. Despite various 'problems' I think Lewa is, as a set, very cool indeed. Greater than the sum of his parts, you could say. The weapon is extraordinarily cool, and the Midak blaster is so awesome! The additional playability angles are good too - gotta love watching him soar through the sky with a Matoran on his back! He's very different to his previous Mata/Nuva counterparts. Spot the odd one out! My rating of Antroz wasn't very clear if you hadn't read the entire review, so I'm gonna make this one a bit easier to spot. Parts: 5/10 Building: 6/10 Playability: 9/10 Overall: 7/10 And now, for some fun! Lewa's decided that, with Tanma's help, he can't possibly lose against Antroz! Antroz, however, has other ideas! Note: The special effects team was on strike! RUN LITTLE MATORAN, RUN!!! Never turn your back on a foe! Unfortunately Antroz got away, but I'm sure there'll be other battles. Wow, long review. Dunno whether I can muster the energy to do another one! I don't really want to fill my blog with reviews, after all. There's the Official Review Topic for that, and plenty of reviews turn up in the BZP news anyway.
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Okay, I'm afraid you can only get the Prize if you live in Australia unless people not in Australia are willing to pay postage (Prize is down the bottom). You have to make a Titan MOC that has 1 mask on it's face and 3 other masks elsewhere on the MOC's body. And they all have to suit the colour scheme. You must post your entries in the Bionicle-Based Creations forum and then post a link to the topic by commenting. Prizes: 1st Prize: An Olmak that is one of these following Colours: Lime Green, Light blue, Silver, Orange, Purple or Black. 2nd prize: A Black Power Sword (Jaller Mahri's sword. There can only be 2 prizes. (Sorry) Good Luck. x-L-x
