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There's a Lego store in Brisbane and Melbourne now, though they've been open for a few months now. Should I bother reporting it?
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The Toa Mistika, the latest hot-button issue amongst BIONICLE fans. If you like them you're considered a noob who knows nothing or at best a supporter of the dreaded focus groups, if you don't you're clearly a purist who worships the very ground 2001 stands on. So, what are my thoughts? Well, I'm going to be misleading and cruel =D. Y'see, this is Mistika I, the first part of the article which deals with the setup and background for the advent of the Mistika. This will be a multiple part series and worry not, it will eventually get to my thoughts on the Mistika. To understand my thoughts you need to go waaaay back into 2001 when BIONICLE was just beginning (please hang on before you yell OMG HE'S A PURIST GET HIM). The Strange and mythical Toa were first revealed and frankly...I was not impressed. In fact I was terribly underwhelmed and refused to have anything to do with it. The 'teaser' of Tahu and Vakama did nothing to whet my appetite and I just wanted this expected failure of a line to get on and die just like RoboRiders and Slizer/Throwbots. But it didn't, in fact it was a few weeks later when a comic book detailing the lush world that these warriors lived in debuted in my very own mailbox. I read it from cover to cover repeatedly and instantly knew that unfortunately, I was hooked. Gradually the story evolved, bringing in the mysterious Bohrok and even the ungainly BOXOR and EXO-TOA suits (They've always seemed like they should be in capitals. Deal with it) and with it came the promise of change--perhaps the Toa we knew and loved were destined for something greater. 2003 appeared with mixed sentiments. Most of us here on BZP and across the fan spectrum had been eagerly studying the leaked images of the So-called Bohrok/Toa hybrids, with their strange and rather evil looking "Kranohi," could these things possibly be our much beloved Toa, or were they yet another fearsome enemy for them to face? Well as we all know now, the so-called "Kranohi" turned out to be the powerful Kanohi Nuva, powerful and mysterious artifacts and the transformation of the original Kanohi masks--but more than that, as was rather clear from looking at the new masks (Minus the Kaukau, but it was always kind of an odd duck out) they introduced something new to the BIONICLE mythos (Or at least the plastic) unlike the previous Kanohi they were organic. Again fan reactions were mixed, some still stand by the fact that Nuva-ization was the worst thing that could possibly happen, some eventually (and grudgingly) accepted that it was bound to happen, and others loved the changes almost immediately. I myself was between camps two and three. Upon the advent of the Nuva I proudly announced my disdain for them--minus Kopaka and Gali--and to this date I still regret not picking up a Tahu Nuva. Like what many perceive the conflict over the Mistika to be, the primary conflict about the Nuva was those masks (some of which I will not deny were godawful). Very few had issue with the characters or their presentation in the storyline--even the basic construction received props in most circles I frequented. It was just those masks. Sentiments on the Nuva remain mixed, but the fact remains it was a key part of the BIONICLE franchise, the first transformation of our primary heroes. And I think that's something that's forgotten fairly often--especially here on BZP. Back in those days (Man do I sound old) the Toa Nuva were the only heroes we knew about. The Metru, the Inika, the Mahri, the Hordika. These were concepts we couldn't even begin to grasp because we knew in those days that the Toa Nuva were destined to wake up Mata Nui--how could the story be about anybody else? It would be like Spider-Man comics suddenly passing off a new Spider-Man and telling us to love him instead (Funny story about that...) Naturally the move away from the 'main Toa' ruffled a lot of feathers, but most were content until it became apparent that the Nuva were to be shunted to the back of the story while more, newer, edgier, cooler heroes were pushed to the forefront (Jeese, am I writing this on Marvel Comics or LEGO?). And then there came that first hint of something wonderful. The word that the Toa Nuva were not only going to return to their place in the story--but that they were to be redesigned and re-released. Try and imagine the joy that old fogies such as myself felt. Our heroes were not only taking back what we always felt was their rightful place--but additionally they were coming back in plastic! Of course many of us (including myself) were also rather hesitant at accepting this at face level--not only because people can say just about anything on the Internet (By the way, I'm really Bill Gates. Don't tell anyone) but also because we had seen how few similarities were shared by the Matoran > Inika > Mahri transformations. but hey, a little hope couldn't hurt, right?
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It cost me over sixty dollars to order just four Bionicle books.
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Could somebody PM me a text copy of the second part of the "The Kingdom"? No Adobe Reader on my computer... :blush: Thanks, ~SB~
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I'm back! HOORAY! It's been a while because of homework and such so yeah. Anyways, Its my birthday coming up so I'm gonna get alot of money (I hope) so I can buy bionicle. I'm also getting the Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull set, an ipod, and something else that I don't know yet. Iggy-X
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I've never posted any stop-motion here before, as the short clips I've done don't really warrant a topic. But now that I have a blog, I guess I can post a little. These are the two best out of the ones I've done. The Velika one is pretty shaky towards the end, and the Idris one is a bit blurred by the effects, but whatever. Velika Inspects His Weapons Idris Does the Same Your average member, Dr. Keerakh
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Ok, now I kind of want BBC Contest 50 to come. The BBC topic has been pretty dry of new stuff lately... I guess I can take some WIP pics later on. I added Spiriah as a quick little project. His build seemed a tad strange to be called a Makuta. I can finish him in like two days if you guys can come up with some color suggestions. S&T entry is coming along well. It's a description, but you guys will enjoy it. In other new, Iron Man and Indiana Jones was good, but I am now looking foward to The Hulk, The Happening, and Don't Mess with the Zohan, and The Love Guru. Well that's all that I have for today. Feel free to shoot me a P.M. to talk about whatever you want. ~BD~
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I was telling my mom about the Mistika and she said "You know, I think we should just get them all at once" because gas is getting really expensive now and stuff. It's gonna be sweet!
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One down... many to go... *Hate working with that color* Yes, I know that ball joints sticking out look really bad. ~BD~
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I calculated how much me and my brother need to save up for the Mistika that we want . . . it's not pretty. At least I have someone to share the expense with.
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I actually have no clue if this makes sense... I've had these strange thoughts on MOCing lately as my time winds down for departing with you all. Where should I begin? You look across all of your pieces huddled together in a large blue container. Many,many,many, pieces of diffrent shapes, sizes, and colors. Anyway, as you begin to build something, you get hit with reality... MOCing can be difficult at times. But that's what you like about it. It challenges you to try something diffrent. So you push on working harder every day to master new designs and skills. A week later, and you have finally finished your masterpiece. You build something totaly diffrent... a design never done before... and your like WOW... all that effort and hard work really payed off! So you get your little camera out a set up a nice photo shoot. Next day you load the pictures to brickshelf. After a few days on BZP, you notice another topic with a similar design to the creation you just put up on BZP. You then realize that that design was to intricate for someone else to have just suprisingly come up with. The only diffrence happens to be one piece. You get angry becasue you worked hard and someone just ripped you off. But then maybe that actually was their own design and they had never seen it before. And of course, shortly after, more of the same design begins to put up on other MOCs. Do you get angry because that is your design and you should be entitled to it always... or feel happy becasue you actually made a good MOC and enjoyed doing it? So ask yourself this.... Do you MOC for fame? or do you MOC because you just love that challenge of doing it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Okay, so this isn't really directed at anyone, because no one (I hope) has stolen my designs. It does raise questions for others who have had their designs stolen though... P.S. Anyone is welcome to correct my spellings. I typed this in a rush before my show came on. ~BD~
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I've been really sick this week, but today I felt good enough to go shopping and get some air. My mom was going to a Mall near a Chapters, so we went there and got some books for me and my baby brother so he could start reading. Luckily I got the last Legends #8, #9, and Adventures #4. I would have gotten more, but they didn't have #5.
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Spring has fully come, absolutely everything has become properly green again, the weather is amazing, and that means it's time to go outside and take some more Tohunga pictures. As well as some gardening stuff on the side. I really can't get enough of them. First, we have Jala – actually the Tohunga I've had for the longest, since 2003, after Nuparu and his Boxor. I really like the picture on the left; it's one of the few instances I've gotten a good close-up shot where my camera focuses properly and leaves the background blurry... Next, Kongu. (One of my favorite sets ever.) Once again, I like the first picture best, this time for the way the colors turned out... and apologies for the out-of-focus last shot. It was windy. And now for some familiar faces with unfamiliar names. For a while now, I've been compiling a list of every Matoran to show up on Mata Nui, including the MNOLG, the 2002-3 update videos, and selective characters from the MNOLG2. I've also been trying to come up with names for all of the unnamed ones (all, of course, in the style from 2001-2003), though that's very far from complete... and also changing the less-Maori-like names from the MNOLG2. (Though I'm not keeping all of those Matoran anyway.) There are a few Matoran I shot today who still need names, and some names I made up whose individual shots didn't turn out well, but I'll get to those later. First up is Hano, a Koli player from the MNOLG. Next, Kepaua, a Po-Matoran who showed up in 2002 when the Tahnok attacked Po-Koro. His/her gender is debatable. But I do know he/she is one of the Guards of Po-Koro. A couple Onu-Matoran now. The one with the Kakama shows up in both games, and is named as Tehuti in the second, but I've decided Telanu is a better name for him, and Tehutti can keep his black Huna. The one with the Pakari is only in the first, and he's still in need of a name... Finally, Akayo. I don't know what his job is yet, so suggestions as to that will be taken into consideration... maybe a member of the Ussalry? And also needed is a name for a Ga-Matoran, with a blue Kakama, blue feet, and light blue body. Fisherwoman type. There are a few dozen of her in the MNOLG. It should be noted that she's different from Kai, because Kai is solid blue. In other news, prom was way more fun than I had been expecting. In the realms of music and dancing, it was little different from any other dance-based event (and it was way too loud, which everyone agreed), but since I hate the type of dancing that involves jumping around flailing one's arms anyway, I had expected to find that boring. But it was great fun to spend a few hours talking to my best friends and taking hilarious pictures. More in the way of pictures inside, where it was too loud to hear each other, and talking outside, where we actually could hear each other (but it was cold). Regardless, it was fun. I'm looking forward to going next year, but it can't be quite as much fun, because all of said best friends are seniors (except my date, who was a sophomore) and won't be there next year, and my own grade isn't quite as fun... Some people's outfits were also quite entertaining. There was a kilt. One of the chaperones was in a purple suit. One of my friends had a lime green tie and green converse (his date was wearing black converse)... And I now have a cold, probably from someone at prom. Blah. *sniffles* Hope it doesn't last long... ~ ToM
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Shasa would really be a fascinating character to find out more about. Think about her. She spends most of her time sitting in her hut weaving and talking about how nice it is that everyone cooperates whenever someone comes by, but evidently she has some skill with weaponry as well, or else she (and Amaya) wouldn't have been set to guard Ga-Koro in the MNOLG. Just that peculiar combination alone makes her far more interesting than I had thought she was. One could come up with all sorts of explanations for it, perhaps involving her as a warrior when she was younger, but who later decided to retire from battle except when direly needed... Next, a question for all of you. As you might know, several of the Ko-Matoran in the MNOLG2's names are taken from Finnish. (Jaa, Jaatiko, Arktinen, Pakastaa, possibly others too, like Kylma, but him I'm not sure about.) I like the sounds they have, and they work for their appearances, but some just have spellings too odd to quite work with the Matoran language. Namely with the r-k-t collision or l-m or the double a's. So, I was wondering this: is it or is it not a complete cop-out to say that the Ko-Matoran's dialect is slightly different, more consonantal, than the rest of the Matoran's, partly due to their isolation from everyone else? And also in the way of questions, I'd love some name ideas regarding the below entry. Really I would. Finally, I'm still sick. Stayed home from school today (having only three classes left does not leave one with many responsibilities to worry about), which I think was very good, because I barely felt... un-headachy? clear-minded? enough to get up when I actually did, around 9:30. I was feeling better through the day, no fever, but then a few hours ago I had a major coughing fit and a high temperature again... I do hope I can go to school tomorrow. Exams next week and I'd like to be there to review, but at least I won't miss Greek if I can't go... ~ ToM
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>Revamp WIPs: .Bohrak (black) .Bahrag (blue) .Makuta Gorast .Gali Mistika >Royal Knights WIPs: . Royal Seranikai . Royal Aklan . Royal Chrome . Royal Nieve (Shine Mode) . Hyperion . Royal Ballom >Finished MOCs: . Keetongu All new designs! I just got done with Seran's upper body. One of my best humanoids yet.... with fusion too! Anyway, alot to do in 3 months!
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No... Not the fourth Indy movie. Actually, I need someone to send me over PM a text copy of "The Kingdom", y'know, the short story with Takanuva and everything. I tried to do it on www.Bionicle.com and I tried to download it, but it's a PDF file and I don't have one on my computer. Not enough memory... Anyways, I would really like it if someone would PM me a text copy. Free cookies to whoever does so! ~SB~
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After Reading your guys's comments on my last entry, I chose to do something. There is one thing I do with Bionicle and Transformers... Now I give you Amphilus's BMV Project! What do you think?
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I wonder how it would be if Majora's Mask ever feel in the hands of the BOM... It would also make a pretty good rival for the Kanohi Ignika.
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AKA, I got Vamparah, Photok and Pohatu today! Still long way to go if I have to get the sets I want... -Kaji
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Poorly drawn, I know, but just take a look at it. You should be able to see what I mean. -Kaji
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Dark Mirror #8 spoilers: » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «The next one wasn't even in FoF. It was Takua in Dark Mirror. Then Kojol (MoArtahka)
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Yeh, where did all the rahi sets go? Either LEGO should produce more rahi sets, or hold another Rahi contest. Or both? What do you guys feel?
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:: :: A treatise on orange and Pohatu Phantoka: I have come to the conclusion that, given certain conditions, orange can be quite a good color for Pohatu Phantoka. Now, before you all jump on me and accuse me of heresy, allow me to explain. The problem with his color comes from the Adaptive Armor. Without it, his color scheme could just be yellow-orange and reddish-brown (the color that replaced brown in 2004, which Avak had) and things would be simple and everyone would be pleased. But because of the adaptive armor, he's constrained to only two colors. One of those, to match Lewa and Kopaka, is dark grey. This forces his primary color to be something other than brown. Since we all know brown/dark grey sets don't sell very well, as shown by Toa Onewa, Onewa Hordika, Zadakh, and Velika. That means that however awesome the combination of dark brown (Pohatu's shade) and dark grey looks, it would unfortunately be counterprofitable to make a set featuring only those two. And I know you've all heard this a million times, but one must list everything if something is to be demonstrated empirically. And so off we turn to another color to use. Yellow-orange, the new color for Stone, leaps to mind, but there's also the possibility of using something else since the Toa Phantoka of Stone isn't Hewkii. Orange is much closer to brown, and though dark orange (one of the original Stone colors, after all) is even closer, I would guess there are several reasons it wasn't used. One, it might suffer the same fate as brown (although I'd hope not), and two, the brighter orange just works better teamed with lime and white. And for orange versus yellow-orange, again yellow-orange would be closer to lime and thus wouldn't provide the needed contrast among the group, while orange also looks better in Pohatu's distribution. Of course, orange and grey by themselves are far from recognizable as Pohatu. That's where one gets into the actual design of the set, and a debate which has been held a few thousand times before and doesn't need to be again. But hopefully that will provide some justification for the orange. And will also justify my design of Pohatu, whenever I wind up posting it – I'll still put up two versions, though; one with brown (the ideal) and one with orange (what Lego would actually do). ~ ToM
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No, this has nothing to do with the Makuta's evolution into Antidermis or even the Makuta species. It is to do with the two primary releases of Teridax as a set: Makuta 2003 and Maxilos. Has anyone noticed that Maxilos is in essence a direct evolution of the 2003 set? I've modded my Maxilos to wear the MEK with an old-style head (looks AWESOME) and it just looks like a bigger version of Makuta 2003 in every way. I think I need some illustrations for this. Let me see...*hunts around Brickshelf* Now, let me explain just how similar they are: 0: Straight off, the colour scheme. Identical. Fairly obvious one, that. 1. They both have large, domed shoulders. On a related note, both sets use two recoloured versions of an important mask as armour of some kind (hand and shoulder) 2. Very minor, but this little thing really did stand out as something they have in common. That little light-grey piece. Ok Maxilos uses a larger version, but it's in the same place 3. The type of tube and connection method is completely different, but they both have a silver tube where there would otherwise be a gap 4. Their chests are built the same way. Large, iron-grey piece at the front with two smaller iron-grey pieces over the shoulders 5. They both have dark grey arms and a smattering of red. This is a fairly tenuous link, but it's there in my opinion 6. They both have hands with three claws, a red hand piece and, on at least one hand, a blue friction pin 7. Makuta 2003 uses that silver piece as a connection method for the legs. Maxilos mimics this appearance almost unecessarily with two silver pieces 8. Iron-grey piece placed over a red piece for the legs 9. Ah, the feet. These really are interesting. The shape is very similar, with both the front and back of Makuta 2003's at an angle and the back of Maxilos's angled in a very cool fashion 10. Both set's feet put silver bohrok eyes on either side 11. Both sets have a double-bladed staff in their left hand. 12. On the back, both have a large silver piece covering their upper back. Makuta 2003 has a Pohatu Nuva claw, Maxilos uses Hordika armour. Both of these pieces are curved, and curve into and not out of the set. That's basically the crux of what I noticed. There are probably other minor similarities too. On their own I expect each of the points I made could be disregarded as trivial. But together? I am certain the designers at the very least took inspiration from Makuta 2003 when building Maxilos. I even suspect it was their attempt to 'bring Makuta up to date' with the full range of poseability. Has anyone else noticed just how similar the two sets are, or is it just me?
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Project Nuva lives again! Oddly, in the weekend before APs, but... (click for the full image, of course) Most of it is explained in the picture, except for one thing: the red lightsaber beams. I would have much preferred ice blue, personally, since it completes the icy look, but apparently red is needed to add a flare of color to the neutral scheme. And since he did have one red eye and one blue in MoL, I'm okay with it. What do you think? ~ ToM
