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Hi, guys. I wish to encourage you to go support these Lego Ideas projects (and hope they will make it): 
1. https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/0c0af951-ac83-4953-b375-8439dae22d40 (Bionicle: Ta-Koro). 
2. https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/adb5ec0e-b1ed-4298-b1d5-2521c3c5b059 (Jaller and Takua). 

Both are related to the movie, Bionicle: Mask of Light, in 2003. This year is Bionicle’s 25th anniversary, so be serious on that, please.

I like Lego, Bionicle, and Hero Factory!:)

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I'd already seen the Jaller and Takua one because it was featured on one of the site's weekly email updates; but that Ta-Koro one is new to me! It looks seriously impressive, and a slice of the Bionicle world like that is exactly what I'd love to see in a modern-day Bionicle set. Incredible work on the part of the designer :D 

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The Ta-Koro design is very cool. The stud hole bricks on the bottom layer make me wish they lined up with the Modular Buildings connections, lol.

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13 hours ago, Lenny7092 said:

Tahu Mask - Bionicle Picture”. It’s basically a mosaic

this isn't actually that good at least in my opinion. it's not based on particular piece of art, making it much more detached from the tahu it's trying to potray. it's by no menas perfect, but i prefer my tahu mosasic. 

 

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14 hours ago, Cheesy Mac n Cheese said:

It would be nice to get more stuff, but it’s sad we’ll never get another constraction set.

Who says “never”? I know we haven’t seen a constraction set for a long time, but have hope for that. For now, please support the projects presented here.

I like Lego, Bionicle, and Hero Factory!:)

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3 hours ago, Lenny7092 said:

Who says “never”? 

Lego did. When they scrapped the moulds for the entire CCBS parts library. 

Given how constraction ultimately failed, there's simply no financial incentive for Lego to create an entire new building system again. 

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It just isn’t really Bionicle when it uses System parts. Bionicle was almost its own brand, and Lego purists actually dismissed it. And I don’t think modern Technic parts are suited to posable characters (that was never really the point of them anyway, the Rahi using mostly standard parts took a lot of creativity, though they were lacking in the posability department).

Also, Lego sadly gets most of its visibility from licensed properties now, I think. I haven’t really been closely following them as an adult, but just walking through the toy aisle says a lot. Some Creator sets, but a ton of Star Wars, Mario, Sonic, Wicked, whatever. And a third to a half of the aisle is for adults anyway, never thought I’d see that when I was a kid.

(Rant: adult collectors and investors have ruined the toy market. You can almost never just go to the store and buy a toy anymore, scalpers take anything popular. I say this as an adult who occasionally buys a toy as a collector’s piece and as an uncle who buys toys for the kids in his family.)

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9 hours ago, Cheesy Mac n Cheese said:

It just isn’t really Bionicle when it uses System parts. Bionicle was almost its own brand, and Lego purists actually dismissed it. And I don’t think modern Technic parts are suited to posable characters (that was never really the point of them anyway, the Rahi using mostly standard parts took a lot of creativity, though they were lacking in the posability department).

Also, Lego sadly gets most of its visibility from licensed properties now, I think. I haven’t really been closely following them as an adult, but just walking through the toy aisle says a lot. Some Creator sets, but a ton of Star Wars, Mario, Sonic, Wicked, whatever. And a third to a half of the aisle is for adults anyway, never thought I’d see that when I was a kid.

(Rant: adult collectors and investors have ruined the toy market. You can almost never just go to the store and buy a toy anymore, scalpers take anything popular. I say this as an adult who occasionally buys a toy as a collector’s piece and as an uncle who buys toys for the kids in his family.)

Facts. Around me the LEGO aisle feels like 60% Star Wars, Harry Potter and Super Heroes with tiny enclaves of City and Creator (plus a noticeable amount of those real-life racecar sets which I suppose is a gray area). We all laughed at Friends and Elves but in hindsight I miss LEGO taking risks with original IPs like that.

The last LEGO IP that felt unique to me, at least in the online space, was Monkie Kid but now that I think about it I don't remember ever seeing actual sets on shelves promoted heavily.

I'm an adult fan who uses LEGO as an escapist coping mechanism and now that it's so transparently trying to be nostalgic, it's not. The grimdark stuff of BIONICLE 2005/2006 was important because I think kids should be able to explore darker themes without being traumatized for life and it feels like everything for kids now is either all in or all out.

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5 hours ago, Lenny7092 said:

Here’s a new one, guys: https://ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/e416d33c-7f8e-4385-a082-fe541114f77b (Bionicle 25th Anniversary - Mata Serie : Toa Tahu). Go support it, please! :)

the molds of the sword and mask no longer exist, don't they?

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1 hour ago, InfinityStuffBionicle said:

the molds of the sword and mask no longer exist, don't they?

Or feet for that matter. But if Lego wanted to they could bring them back.

There's a new(ish) book called the secret life of bricks, and it goes into detail about lego molds and that its actually cheaper for lego to get rid of molds and then make them again as opposed to sitting on them without using them for years. 

Not saying they will, they probably won't... but if they wanted to they could. :P Anyways, it's a cool build.

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2 hours ago, TERIDAX941 said:

Or feet for that matter. But if Lego wanted to they could bring them back.

There's a new(ish) book called the secret life of bricks, and it goes into detail about lego molds and that its actually cheaper for lego to get rid of molds and then make them again as opposed to sitting on them without using them for years. 

Not saying they will, they probably won't... but if they wanted to they could. :P Anyways, it's a cool build.

a cool build indeed. an impressive system-ization of many of tahu mata's design elements.

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10 hours ago, Lenny7092 said:

(Bionicle 25th Anniversary - Mata Serie : Toa Tahu)

Please not another Tahu. There are so many other characters to choose from. 

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11 hours ago, Master Inika said:

This is another one just in "cool MOC" territory for me

agreed. it doesn't seem like a full new Lego set as much as just a fun redesign of an older Lego set.

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