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I have some weird sort of MOCing preparation style: once I had all my pieces assorted by color (or color group for nearly identical colors), which helped me keep coordination. Next I had them sorted by piece type (torso, limbs, weapons, feet, etc.), but it may have hindered more than helped because I think it stifled my creativity process... I used to grab almost blindly, looking only in a particular color, seeing what came of piece combinations. The first process also took fewer containers because there are only so many colors, but the second took up several containers because the piece types are so diverse. From the first process, I still have a couple MOCs that I built some time ago that I'm proud of. I have that house that's in my profile pic: it's been completed for nearly two years. I also have the top... somewhere around here. With the second, I have no MOCs remaining intact... not even my last contest entry even though I liked it. (I made something weird from part of the construction.) Of course with both ways, scrapped MOCs/sets almost never made it back to their designated containers, so now I've dumped almost all my pieces together in one box to see what comes of it. I'm not sure how well this will go over since digging for some of the connectors is painful and just a bit arduous. Here's to my future MOCs! May they break ground... but not my toes, fingers, or the pieces themselves. ©1984-2007 Toaraga EAM
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I couldn't resist. The purpose of this entry is to rave about Brutaka. I finally unpacked my assortment of Lego from Christmas yesterday (I haven't had any time this past week), took him out of his box, and he just radiates power. It's the combination of being really tall (he ties with Roodaka as tallest, excluding Kardas since that's a combiner), bulky, covered in spiky golden armor, and weilding a huge sword. He has a really solid construction, both in build and posability, as the 2006-new pistons give him a lot of support. His body and feet are solidest in appearance, and, though I wish the insides of his thighs were filled in, they're still excellently bulky. I like his extra arms... They make for an interesting appearance in an action pose, but make his body even bulkier when stored away (and some nice back armor). His normal arms are somewhat impeded in posability by his body armor and the extra arms, as well as the odd angle of the wrists. The tubing along his shoulders is a nice touch, though. And despite their highly simple construction, they still look good. As do his claws, despite their positioning. For that matter, his whole set looks great. As I said, he's really sturdy, so he can go into all sorts of stances easily... And all that gold, too. It's pretty. Now imagine him delivering a blow with the serrated side of his sword. Ow. That is all. ~ ToM
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Because the Barraki are very much like them – each one looks like a different sea creature, but they all share a hominid structure, which I've always liked. Even before we knew what they looked like, Greg's statement that they were all unique made me think of the crew of the Flying Dutchman... Plus the fact that the storyline is underwater! And they achieve that look amazingly well. Ehlek and Mantax, at the very least, look awesome in hand. To start with, Ehlek has that amazing new green color for his head and spines. I call it translucent green, as it's closest to the original green, but semitransparent, though not the dark color of transparent green, and with a slight hint of teal in it. It's blended with yellow so that the yellow is entirely covered by the green, but you can see through the green to get this amazingly bright, vibrant color. That alone makes Ehlek worth buying. And his construction is great – the structure uses no new molds but produces an entirely new shape. Despite his marketing as an eel, he looks exactly like a sea urchin, and the thin, spindly construction of his body augments that. He also has a hunchbacked appearance from the side with his body obscured with his arms, and that with his thin limbs make it look like he could curl up into a ball with only his spiky back showing on top – as a sea urchin. And the wide Piraka feet also work well, continuing his pattern of thin broadening into wide: thin upper arms with wide forearms, a thin body with a wide back "shell", and thin legs with wide feet. With his legs bent and his body hunched, from the side his set just forms one smooth curve, a little like a backwards S. It's an excellent appearance, especially with the unity of the spikes on his head, back, and claws. One thing I have changed on him, though, is getting rid of his squid launcher and attaching his left claws the same way as his right. It makes him look much sleeker. And the red axles are also really garish, as with the yellow-orange squid, which I've also taken off... As I've said before, I'd love for his entire color scheme to be translucent green over lime green, but what he has now is great too. And the blue eyes Lime green short double-sockets! Yee! Now, on to Mantax! I like him just as much as Ehlek. His new feet actually work really well – working with his Vahki shins, Piraka thighs, and shoulder armor, they give him a bulky but smooth look, from his wide, round feet to his even wider, round shoulder armor. His shoulder armor! It is awesome that Mantax's shoulder armor is the same piece as Carapar's chestplate. One of the best set quirks to date. Anyway, his whole design really looks like a manta ray – his body is mostly horizontal, which is emphasized by how low his neck is relative to his hips. His long legs help, too, accentuating how small his body is vertically. From the top, his body is wide, his head protrudes forward – and he has a tail! He just screams "manta." And his head is great, too, with the ear-like appendages like what a manta really has beside its mouth. (I don't know the term for them.) And the smooth, long, flat shape of it even more makes it look like a manta! I originally wanted his arms to have armor of some sort, but their thinness further offsets the width and bulk of his shoulders, which looks great. At any rate, I think they ought to have been symmetrical, perhaps with Toa Metru shins as forearms, but they still look swell, so who cares? The minifig Piraka spines on them are a cool touch, too. Useful pieces, those. His claws are good; nothing I adore but certainly not bad. Color wise, black, dark blue-grey, and silver are an infallible combination, and the red accents of his eyes and spikes look great. Even the squid are okay, as the red compliments their orange. The mandibles in both aren't bad, but are a little out-of-place on a manta ray. And the squid launcher is a nice piece, very aquatic appearance, if a bit hard to use right, and inexplicably made of a slightly rubbery plastic. If you're having trouble launching the squidlings, try this: hold the launcher with your left index finger in the loop (or your right if you're left-handed) and your thumb on top of it, so it points upward at a 45º angle. Then stick the squid in and pull it back parallel to the ground – I've gotten them to go 15 feet that way. (Also, I confess – I got the squids. They look like water made solid with their bright blue-green color, something irresistable to me. They actually come in a spectrum of clear blue to pale green. They're fun!) Overall: the Barraki are awesome. Or at least Ehlek and Mantax are. Mantax has a bulkier build and looks more like his intended sea creature, Ehlek is great in his thinness and has those aresome back spines and new green color, and both of them have great builds. I can't speak for the rest of the Barraki, but Ehlek and Mantax alone are easily some of the best canister sets in quite a while. Plus the fact that they use so many old pieces while being new designs is great. And their canisters look really cool, if still being about as tall as the Inika's. Finally, Mantax's feet really look like nautical boots of some sort. Can't you just see the Barraki marching out of the sea like Davy Jones's crew in the island scene in Dead Man's Chest? Swaggering onto land dripping with water and seaweed, weapons drawn... "So tell me, what has become of my ship?" ~ ToM
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I got Kardas Earlier than I said in the last blog entry!. Well long story My mum was dropping me off at my grandparents house till after lunch when she left she noticed a mail truck drive by,the same mail truck which delivers our packeging and so-forth(All who can see where this is going raise their hand) She asked if they had my package they said yes and around two minuits later i'm opening a big cardboard box withall the pieces for Vezon&Kardas So anyway i helped my grandparents set up a Huge table and began building. And in around 2 hours give or take a few minuits Kardas was build in all his fearsome glory. Anyway as always with sets their are its pros and cons. Cons 1.The legs can barely support the torso unless you put it in a crouching possition. 2.When Putting Vezon on the back it can be a bit tricky if stuck stick some round studs on thebottom of Vezon's feet and be sure to attack the chain to Kardas' Head or neck 3.When moving Kardas around there is a chance vezon may fall of if he is riding Kardas (This happened to me twice) 4.Kardas' head is really flimsy unless you attach vezon to him with the chain. 5.(This is a warning for stop-motion animators) If you want to make an animation of Kardas then i wish you luck seeing as ther is a 95 out of 100 chance of kardas toppling over after moving it. Pros 1.If you place it in the correct pose it looks pretty cool. 2.If you don't have Any of the 3 titans Kardas makes well heres your chance to get all 3 together for a bargain price. Well with Kardas this makes 2006 my third comlete set year (Meaning i got all the sets for that year) the other two comlete set years are 2003 and 2004 (Was missing a few visorak and 1 rahaga for 2005)
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Hey everybody! I recently have been having ideas and fantasies about making replica bionicle Weapons and Kanohi out of lightweight metals. I was planning on doind this soon but it may take a while to bend and shape all of the diifferent pieces. I think my test subjects will be either the Kanohi Hau or the Kanohi Kualsi. I'm leaning towrds the Kualsi more but the Hau is more well known... As for the weapons, I'm planning on making the Aquatoran/Mahritoran Weapons. If not those, then I'll probably try Kopaka's Ice Blade (of the original Toa Mata). I'm anxious to see how I do and how many things will be possible. My dad owns a metal making company, so I'll have the materials and techniques at my disposal. I'm eager to here feedback on this, because if I make fairly good weapons and people like them, I'll plan on selling them to anybody who will want to buy them. NOTE: I'm not planning on making the weapons sharp in any way, nor are these said weapons intended to be used for attacking another human being (or if you're an alien, another alien therof). The above content is copywrighted by King Kobra. <I>Kobra<I>
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So I got Pridak, but I'm not totally impressed with him. I do like the feet, big as they are, so that's not my complaint. What bothers me is he's somewhat lanky for my tastes, but less so since getting an idea from Pekel's review. (Funny that I should read that before making this: I was about to when I noticed the review.) Anyway, one thing that bothers me about the lankiness is that it's almost as if Pridak wants to collapse. Something that seems desparately needed is some armor, which leads me to conclude that I'm going have to work on that myself. Of course, now that I think about it, isn't that what LEGO was originally about? It wasn't about having ready-made, do-it-yourself sets. It was about creativity. Life is funny sometimes: I start writing about one thing only to change my mind midway through. I also have Kalmah, but aside from the somewhat lackluster foot design, I don't think I have any complaints about him. ©1984-2006 Toaraga EAM
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Well, I was at a store today that happened to have the Barraki and the four (so sad it's not six) small sets. I might've bought one of each to check them out, but I wasn't about to stand in a very long line for two items I know will be there after the rush. What I really wanted to do was compare a Barraki canister's size to a Toa Inika's; alas, the store had no Inika with which to do so. Something I don't like is that the "lid" is on the bottom, but the canister isn't see-through like the Rahkshi: they seem more crowded with the new design. Depending on the shelf size, this can make it very difficult to track down individual sets. Oh well, I still haven't gotten four of the Inika yet anyway, so I'm not going to really focus on the collection of the 2007 sets very much right now. ©1984-2006 Toaraga EAM
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Mom's Descovery (and) Does Anyone Have Ear Plugs?
Soaring Strawberry posted a blog entry in blogs_blog_443
A few days ago, Mom found an Anna's Linens advertisement that featured Bionicle bed sheets! I was excited, because I thought that I'd never get to sleep with the Toa Metru in the USA. But I'm not going to get it, imagine how some random teenage girls would react. Just now, I've been helping Mom on a CD of fun Christmas Music. Mom would sit in the dining room and say, "Go track 8" and I would walk to the blaring speakers in the next room and change the track. My ears hurt, so there went any idea of listening to music here. EDIT: Another highlight is that Cocoa's family sent us a Christmas card. -
Something cute that happened today ... I received in the mail this morning at work a copy of Archivaria, the Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists (number 61, spring 2006). And who do you think is on the cover?? Tehutti! I had been in contact with the folks there for some time, and they were just thrilled that we made an action figure of an archivist. So we made arrangements to get them packaging art that they could put on the cover of their journal. So Tehutti lives on, in the hearts of Canadian archivists everywhere ... (o)
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I decided to enter the contest, I think I've got a pretty solid MOC. I would have liked to improved the head, but I entered already. Topic Go check it out! Kohaku
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My model's coming a long with only a few more problems to settle now, and I may have to scrap this body and go for try three. My head is going to be overly awesome, but I'm afraid my legs and arms are so far seeming unoriginal. Good luck to my fellow competitiors. Also, don't forget to check out this
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I think Takadox is hypnotizing me. I've been wanting his set more and more lately. Maybe it's because of his new armor color. Maybe it's the fact that dark blue and ice blue together look totally awesome lit from the back. It's even managed to overrule the black body and red thorns. Ehlek is looking great, too. I love that new blended shade of green. I wish his whole set came in it. It looks like a swirl of teal and lime... (Thanks to Takua95 for the pictures!) And I've even fallen for those adorable little trans-blue squid! They look so much better than the yellow/orange ones from the Barraki... As a rule I love bright shades of trans-blue; they look like they're solid water... And especially good alongside Ehlek's new green... It's the only logical explanation! – ToM
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So, exactly what kind of a Matoran is Dekar, anyway? Greg decreed that he is a Po-Matoran. However, Shop At Home originally listed him as an Onu-Matoran. But despite all corrections to the contrary, I much prefer him as an Onu-Matoran. For one thing, Po- and Onu-Matoran have often been ambiguous. Tan and black were shared by the two in the MNOLG, with medium orange going to Onu-Koro (the Prospector, Azibo, and Nuparu, for example) and dark orange to Po-Koro (where dark orange was the trademark Matoran color). Taipu and Hafu are almost identical, but from different Koro. And now we have a new ambiguous color: yellow-orange, a secondary color to both Oohnorak and Toa Hewkii. And in addition to this, Dekar, unlike Defilak, has two main colors. On Defilak, black is an accent color, like the original Toa, who all had black joints. But Dekar's arms are black, which makes it a main color in addition to yellow-orange, as the two are balanced in prominance. Black and yellow-orange is a combination we've only seen on Oohnorak so far, so we're predisposed to see it as an Earth elemental combination. Earth and Stone are very close elementally, so it's natural they should share colors, and Dekar could indeed go either way. But I see yellow-orange as being closer to medium orange (a color assigned to Onu-Koro) than to tan (one of the principal elemental colors of Po-Koro, even if shared by both), as it's a bright color like orange in contrast to the muted hue of tan. Dekar especially makes me think of Nuparu, a Matoran with black as a primary color but then a mask of bright orange — so even with the traditional blurred boundary between Onu-Koro and Po-Koro, everything about Dekar makes me think of Earth. Maybe this is just another manifestation of my resistance to the changing of the color of stone to yellow-orange, but ... What do you think? – ToM
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Now that we've had official pictures of the Barraki for a few days, I figured I'd post my opinions on them... After all, that is what a blog is for ... Takadox – Possibly my least favorite. His elongated, thin construction makes him look very stretched, and his long head and thin tools accentuate that. (His Visorak-foot tail was unexpected, though...) He also has a very strange color scheme, with dark blue as a base mixed with ice blue joints, some covered by brighter, more teal-like blue armor. And then, of all colors, he's covered in red spikes. I'm not fond of the piece choice, either, as his legs are identical to Vezok's in construction (aside from thigh armor), and then he has Vezok's forearms as well. Ice blue is also reserved for Toa Matoro. Seeing it again so soon ruins its uniqueness to the Toa Inika of Ice. Kalmah – Calamari, anyone? Easily my favorite Barraki. Unlike all the others but Carapar, he has a solid, bulky build (and although thin is okay, it doesn't look so great on some of them). I was surprised to see the dark red Rahkshi shins from Sidorak in a canister set, and the same could be said of the red Piraka body. Red Hordika feet are a welcome addition, though, and they go well with the rest of his bulk. His best part, though, is that he uses one piece of armor in six different places: his thighs, upper arms, and as shoulder pads! I'm quite fond of this new style of armor construction, reminiscent of the Inika's shoulders, with holes to attach in several places. As Kalmah demonstrates, it lends itself to a variety of uses. The backward body is immensely strange, and I don't like that his tentacles are only one piece, but ... Carapar – I would love him if he were brown. His carapace would look perfect in brown. But as he's yellow-orange, it just looks strange. (See below entry for a further rant on him.) Either grey or iron grey Rahkshi feet are a welcome sight, though. Mantax – For a manta ray, Mantax has strange proportions. Bulky legs, then thin arms and another very thin body. I'm waiting to see him from the top, because I assume that's where he looks like his namesake ... But at least he has a tail. Tails are good. And so are the playset Piraka spines on his arms. But I'm not sure why they made new feet for him – they look like a cross between Metru and round Inika feet, and then inflated. I would have much preferred Nuparu's feet in this situation. His claws are interesting, but I prefer Gali's. Ehlek – An eel crossed with a sea urchin. Not something I ever would have imagined. Where Takadox is thin, stretched, and awkward, Ehlek short and thin, a combination that works well. His urchin spines and wide feet contrast his thin limbs and body well. And he has lime green! Whee! He's easily my second-favorite after Kalmah. Where Kalmah is bulky, Ehlek is thin, and both are done well. Pridak – Follows Takadox as second-to-least favorite. Even if he has waist articulation, I just don't really like him. His face scares me, and the red accents (blood? On a Bionicle set?) ... meh. He looks very little like a shark in my eyes. And like Mantax, I'm not sure why they made new feet when round Inika feet in white would have been thoroughly great. I like Nuva legs, but they're just illogical when his arms already have elbows. Four Metru double-sockets in white are very hard to resist, though. The designers of the Barraki certainly nailed individuality. No two of them are alike. Plus, they re-use a lot of old pieces, using four different lower legs and six different feet, although I wish Mantax and Pridak's feet were old. And I'm quite fond of the new style of armor used on Kalmah, Takadox, and Carapar, particularly Kalmah's new addition to the armory: shoulder pads! Old pieces in new colors – red Hordika feet, grey Rahkshi feet, white and lime green Metru sockets – are excellent. Kalmah and Carapar use armor to great effect, while Ehlek has a lack of it but still looks good. As I've said, I don't like all of them, but there's such variation that most people are bound to like at least one. The uniform mandibles are unexpected ... And I really don't like the "squid ammo." But they aren't a bad batch of sets. In design, at least. I personally prefer individuality of the original Toa and Visorak type, with a similar shape but different details, but because these all come from different species, it's great. Any thoughts? – ToM
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If you're wondering about the title ... I shall be discussing it in a review of Hewkii, followed by thoughts on Carapar. Toa Hewkii :: Gallery :: The first thing everyone noticed about Hewkii was his color. He's not dark orange; he's not tan; he's not even brown – he's iron grey and yellow-orange. I accepted the other Inika's color schemes – dark red and bright gold aren't far from red and yellow; white and ice blue are ideal for a Toa of Ice, although I miss sand blue; Hahli's swirled pieces look great; and Nuparu and Kongu are at least still some shade of grey and green. But Hewkii isn't anywhere close to his old self. No shade of grey has been in a Stone set other than as a uniform secondary color. Yellow-orange is an extreme stretch from dark orange and tan and doesn't even slightly resemble brown. It's a reasonable argument to boost sales by changing the worst-selling set color, but ... you don't do it when you're using an old character everyone knows by his color scheme! Hafu isn't a logical choice for Jaller's team of Matoran, but black to iron grey isn't very far. All the other Inika use a standard color for their element, but Hewkii isn't so much as brown. And yet at the same time ... I do love both colors Hewkii uses. A plethora of iron grey is awesome, even if I prefer it on Jovan to Hewkii. Additional yellow-orange is nothing to scoff at either, as with Oohnorak, Keetongu, Balta, and Umbra (a cheaper source for some from the Battle for Metru Nui) there's now enough to make an MOC using the color well. They just aren't Hewkii. Aside from Technic pins and axles, Hewkii has exactly six pieces not new to the Inika: five sockets and a new ball piece. I'm not objecting, though – the stock of iron grey is great, with the notable new coloration of iron grey Vahki legs. His chain was also a large part of what made me get him. I still loathe the Sanok, but it would be very effective as shoulder armor. And I still wish his Zamor were red. The CGI pictures show them as bright red! His axe lights up red! Although they look good with the rest of his color scheme, they really should have been colored as advertised. Now they look like they're filled with orange juice ... Identity aside, his negative points are the same as Matoro's: his arms are too long, shoulders far too wide, and his chest armor is still terrible. It's far too flat, and also too square. It doesn't flow at all, which it would if Lego hadn't put the pistons on either side ... I still wonder why they did that; it doesn't work in the slightest ... And I maintain that clawed feet belong on the Hordika, not the Inika. Overall ... I like the set. Iron grey and yellow-orange are both great colors, and the chain complements the set well. But the chest armor is too wide, the Sanok looks like a tire tread, and it most definitely does not look like Hewkii in any way. It's a good set, especially in the iron grey; they just chose the wrong character for it to be. :: :: And now to the title of this entry: the color of stone. Specifically the Stone-element sets. You just don't go and change one of the six principal colors of the storyline. Stone and its corresponding villains have always been brown. Stone comes in many colors, but in Bionicle its elemental color is assigned to be brown. Back in 2001, the principal colors were brown and tan, colors that matched the deserts of Po-Wahi and the village of Po-Koro. All of the characters matched their environments: although Air has no color, Lewa, Matau, and the Le-Koronans were bright green and teal like the forest they lived in. Tahu, Vakama, and Jala were red, orange, and yellow like fire, but some Ta-Matoran had black like volcanic rock. The Onu- and Po-Koronans shared some colors because Earth and Stone went hand-in-hand. The CGI animations of the Toa augmented this, as their colors surrounded them. When Metru Nui came around, the colors still made sense. Darker blue, green, and red in an industrious city, accompanied by the bluish grey of metal. The more earthen, lighter brown of Po-Metru worked well, alongside silver like the Silver Sea and the solid protodermis that made up the city. But now ... brown has been changed to yellow-orange. Velika was brown. So was Avak. Yet Hewkii has a secondary color of yellow-orange with no brown present, and Carapar uses yellow-orange as a main color. I've gotten used to Hewkii, but Carapar's canister picture made him look brown – and he looked great. Spiky, thick armor in a ... natural color for a shelled sea creature. Brown goes well with grey, which Carapar uses in his arms, shins, and feet – I loved how he looked; he just looked hard, as well as hard to defeat. But yesterday he was revealed to be yellow, the new replacement color for the ever-faithful brown of Po-Wahi. Yellow-orange doesn't work unless it's all the main color (like Keetongu) or all the secondary color (Hewkii and Oohnorak). But Carapar is half yellow-orange and half grey, a very awkward combination. Brown, being darker than grey, would have still looked great in that combination, but yellow is lighter than grey, and so it would only have worked were Carapar yellow-orange all the way through. He would have been totally awesome in brown, like my first reaction, but his armor looks odd in yellow-orange. Since brown is a much ... harder, more warriorlike color than yellow-orange, it fits the warlord (and impenetrable) nature of Carapar. And finally, one thing that's always been aesthetically pleasing about Bionicle was that the main colors all worked together and balanced out. There were six main colors, with secondary and tertiary colors to fit the element and setting. No one color drew attention to itself, partly because all the Toa had black hips and shoulders with grey gears and heads. But now there's no uniform color that works well with everything like those, and yellow-orange as a main color just stands out, particularly against the darkness of most of the other Barraki. It worked well on Oohnorak because all the Visorak had vibrant secondary colors, and it was even good with Hewkii's color scheme because it was contrasted by his armor. But it's just too bright as a main color on the Barraki, dark creatures from the deeps of the sea ... where the darker brown would have made much more sense. Yellow-orange isn't a bad color ... but brown is the established color of stone. Yellow-orange is just too bright to join the array of red, green, blue, black, and white ... especially not to replace brown. – ToM
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It should be noted that the word "inferno" originally had nothing to do with fire. It comes from the Latin infernus, referring to something from below, which in the neuter plural form was used to mean the Underworld. It came to mean fire through Dante's Inferno, although I assume the title originally referred to the location and as a place for the dead. So it should linguistically be Bionicle Legends 2 with the title Inferno, as Jaller and company pass through Karzahni, rather than BL5, which has nothing to do with a land of the dead at all. But I digress. After reading the book, my initial reaction was ... suspenseful, but also very quiet. The end is a cliffhanger indeed, but in the form of a lull, an uneasy peace, between 2006 and 2007. The finale of the book ushers in 2007 in many intriguing ways ... As for the rest of the book, there are other forms of intrigue in it – some in the form of mystique and the unknown, others things Greg mentions in passing and doesn't come back to, and still others that play large roles but have a hidden meaning behind them. It's probably the most engaging Legends book so far. And Greg must have thoroughly enjoyed himself writing Vezon's lines. Now I can't get the image out of my head of him having tea with Fenrakk. – ToM
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The age-old question of four entries ago now has an answer: Toa Hewkii. I still want Toa Nuparu about equally as I did him: both have aspects I want, and I need both for my revamp of Toa Jovan ... I want Nuparu for his claws, Kadin, and general black armor, but Hewkii's iron grey armor, aided and abetted by his chain, won me over. Expect a review and photo shoot of him soon ... during which I may rant about his proportion and identity problems, which I'm resisting the urge to go into now. Mainly because iron grey armor is too awesome for me to do so. I also saw Vezon and Fenrakk for the first time today in real life (in Toys "R" Us), and they are awesome. They're also huge. But that only makes them all the more intimidating, towering over the Inika. Interestingly and annoyingly, the aformentioned TRU had a full stock of Hahli, Matoro, Kongu, and Jaller, but not the slightest hint of Hewkii or Nuparu – not even a space for them on the shelves. Completely full with four Inika, but lacking the slightest hint of the only two I was looking for, and not even any of the titans – except that both Hewkii and Nuparu were fighting Vezon and Fenrakk in the display. Weird. And I also got a new jacket, dark blue fleece with a wide medium blue stripe down each arm. It's really warm, and it looks nice, too ... And adds yet another blue garment to my wardrobe, of which at least half must be some shade of blue now. Shame there's no sale on Inika going on right now, or I'd have gotten Nuparu at the same time ... – ToM
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Sunday mornings are so relaxing ... Nothing for me to do but let my mind wander on the uncharted paths of MOCing, ponder vague plots, and dream up scenes and scenarios from the pieces strewn around my room ... The object of today's wondering was Toa Jovan. I've always pictured him as dark blue against black, wearing a black Hau Metru, with no iron grey at all, actually. Today, however, I was staring at my small pile of iron parts, and I got the idea to rebuild his set form into something more streamlined and coherent, with a reasonable chest size and more proportional legs. I figured I would also use an enhancement I made to Hahli's harpoon a while ago for his weapon. No Zamor, either. But I'm wondering about giving him a belt like he has now, with the claws hanging from it for him to don in close combat. Unfortunarely, this requires both Toa Hewkii and Toa Nuparu, neither of whom I have. Which leads me to the inevitable and entertaining question: which Inika do I get next? Jaller, Hewkii, or Nuparu? Nuparu has nothing I want in specific (other than black armor), but I need him to build Jovan. I love the iron grey armor and chain in Hewkii, which I also need for Jovan. Jaller is probably at the bottom of the podium, but only because I don't need anything from him at the moment. Or I could get none of them and instead get Brutaka. (And yes, I wrote this throughout the day ... I was interrupted.) – ToM
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I've mentioned my epic before... now I'll be doing something which will be connected to it... only because of the fact they are on the same island... and 1000 years apart. This Short Story though, is unrelated to Metroid. Island of Death, Island of Sorrow On and island far south of Metru Nui, there is an island. (I don't have a good name for it yet.) An island with six Toa, the leader being a Toa of Gravity, the have gained the duty of protecting the Temple and the Matoran of the Island. Many foes have challenged them, only to fail. Until one fateful day the Brotherhood of Makuta sent three of its agents to take over the island. If the Temple falls the Protodermic Water around the island will turn do an ocean of sand.. with the properties of water. Coming Soon to a Short Stories forum near you. Kohaku
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So I was right, all of the '06 sets are based off of sea creatures. . . at least the ones that they showed. The only description that wasn't there was Ehlek's, and I wonder why. I wan't to know something about the Ko-Barraki! StF
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Well, my artwork is finished! Thanks to everyone anyways. Click het banner. (o)
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To start things off yesterday I counted my Bionicle Canisters... the number is 101. That is a lot of Bionicle canister sets! It does help that I have 20 Rahkshi. How many do you guys have? Well, today I've had a rather insane day. Let's see my brother came over and he has four sons... all of which wanted to play my GameCube... not to mention they were amazed by the amount of Bionicle sets I have. As well as the canisters... And then there is the fact that my room was kind of destroyed... good thing I didn't have my unfinished Ninjo moc for the BBC in it. That would have been a disaster. I'm hoping to finish it tonight. Also, I'm planning to add stuff to my blog... just what, well... you'll have to wait and see. Kohaku
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While my topic is depriving of nutrition, I know I have at least a small base of following here on my Glob. What are they? I don't exactly know. It's just another Spawntaneous of Boredom. But I do know Croobie is now an art medium in my book. You can use 'em, or not. I don'y care, since I made 'em all within 10 minutes anyways.
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http://www.majhost.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=122916 tell me what you think.
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what set's do you have? I have. All the Inika all the Piraka Brutaka Axonn Tahu Nuva Pahrak Tahnok Takanuva and some other's that are taken apart.
