Some images for some 2016 sets: http://www.bzpower.com/story.php?ID=8127
Revelations:
http://www.lego.com/en-us/bionicle/story/episode-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsoT-fPe0LU&index=1&list=PLhu2VtAo89tdVuLXHS5tJUJNp3xgmWLKn
Old Testament:
http://cross-wired-freak.tumblr.com/post/68472919868/bionicle-chronicles-bionicle-adventures-bionicle
Get up to speed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpfNrl6RIvM
G1 comics: http://biomediaproject.com/bmp/comics/
Where you can buy pieces: http://www.bricklink.com/
Building instructions for technic sets: http://biomediaproject.com/bmp/building-instructions/
Previous Thread:
>>5357916
Hey /biog/, have you ever discovered an emergent properties of your particular building style that you didn't expect?
I myself have come to discover I have a... height. I'm not sure how nor why, but all my main builds, no matter how different their construction, all seem to creep closer to each other's height the closer they are to completion. This would not be remarkable were they traditional sizes, but I'm fairly confident in the fact that my main builds are all unnaturally large compared to most, and all somehow the same height. It's like my building style has a height cap.
Also all my legs all look flat as fuck.
How about you guys? Any unintentional trends popping up in your mocs?
>>5365543
not even teridax's shadows can free him from this cap, pictured here with onua mata for size comparison
For anyone with the graphic novel and chapter books, do they share the same plot or are they different? I'd rather get the graphic novel if they're the same but the chapter books if they're different, just because of personal lore conveyance preference.
>>5365548
G2 I mean
>>5365548
Book 1 and the graphic novel are sorta similar, but the graphic novel goes a bit more indepth with some of the Toa's adventures to the golden mask, but covers slightly different story material overall (same general events, from different points of view than the book), the second book is completely different and it's own story.
What's thhe plot of Revenge of the Skull Spiders? Does LoSS return?
>>5365593
Here's a full plot synopsis I guess
>Vizuna watches Toa beat LoSS, then meets up with the other protectors
>They decide they are going to go into the city and help the Toa since dangerous monsters may exist inside the city
>Onua breaks the bridge with his giant earthquake
>Vizuna points out a second, unofficial bridge made by his archaeologist friend Harvali a year or so ago
>They go across that and then end up blowing it up to prevent the skull spiders from chasing them.
>Skull spiders find the unconscious body of LoSS and take him back to their lair (some big cave around the old city's reservoir) to let him recover
>Protectors walk around the caves beneath the city, Korgot helping with her drill, discover a few ruins that go over some lore stuff about Ekimu
>Suddenly they meat Harvali who has been living underground for over a year after trapping herself in there
>They are attacked by a giant snake (8 times the size of a protector) controlled by a skull spider, but they beat it and it befriends Nilkuu
>they all ride the Snake to LoSS's lair in order to make sure he is defeated
>find LoSS healing in a cocoon surrounded by over a thousand skull spiders
>blast open a hole letting tons of water in flooding out a lot of spiders while LoSS starts to wake up
>They start riding the snake around the cave blasting everything with their weapons causing the ceiling to collapse, crushing the remaining Skull Spiders and Loss
>Go to surface and learn Ekimu has risen and that their is a big battle happening at the once-sealed forge of the mask makers
>arrive to see the Toa and Skull Grinder unconscious while Ekimu is reforging their masks, Harvali faints in excitement
>They drag the unconscious Skull Grinder and Skull Basher into vaults, saying that they wont be able to be a threat anymore without their masks
>Ekimu tells them that evil is still out there and that evil is still out there and then they get the villagers to return to the city after thousands of years.
>>5365619
>Protectors walk around the caves beneath the city, Korgot helping with her drill, discover a few ruins that go over some lore stuff about Ekimu
So what was written there?
>>5365631
It was mostly just stuff about how the whole prophecy came to pass. During the "Festival of Masks" the Ekimu sights the legendary creatures, and takes their appearance as an omen. In response, he puts on the mask of time and uses it to see into the future and see the great cataclysm that destroyed / changed the islands geography and created the six regions, and knowing this event would come to pass he talks the protectors about how they will need to summon the six Toa and what have you.
>>5365619
>Protectors riding around on a giant snake blasting skull spiders.
Sounds rad af desu
>>5365534
relatively new lurker here, what dose /biog/ thing custom bionicle wiki?
>>5365665
I haven't checked it, but I assume that /biog/'s MOCs are better.
>>5365543
Nah, I have some intentional trends, though. Use of different template-ish bodies at different sizes, but they always come out unique
>>5365543
Wow these are a mess
>>5365619
Honestly the fact that the islanders have all (or at least mostly) returned to the ancient city makes up for the fact that the villages were so undeveloped I feel, as we got a solid idea of what the city is like and that's where the villagers are going to be hanging out now, presumably for the rest of the story.
>>5365610
You could probably use this black technic they use on the bows or for PoJ and Skull Warrior and attach them to the sides of the angled technic connectors that hold onto his silver collar.
Book 2 is good and all but we also got the description for the next graphic novel today:
>On the mythical island of Okoto, six heroes have united to protect the last of their tribes. Once, peace ruled the six divided regions and their people--that is, until a battle erupted between two mask makers. As Makuta sought to control the ultimate power, only his brother, Ekimu, could stop him. Join Tahu, Kopaku, Onua, Gali, Lewa, and Pohatu as they learn about the origin of their masks and where their elemental powers come from.
The last part in particular is pretty interesting to me.
>>5365726
Eh, I'm just learning the ropes, although I will say these pics do not give them justice. Currently my biggest problem is getting legs to not look like solid slabs while still being able to support the weight of my builds, of which I think only Teridax and a couple others successfully manage.
>>5365807
Sounds like there will be some interesting flashbacks in this one, but it'll obviously need some kind of present-time plot as well so Lego can shill the current wave. Unless the summer story is actually set in the past, but even then the book is a few months early.
>>5364667
That be some interesting moob grabbing.
hey guys, ya wanna see something fucked up and only tangentially related to bionicle.
>>5365807
Hopefully we get some proto-Toa sets.
>>5365925
Is it that image with Takanuva giving a thumbs up?
>Almost January 1st
>time seems to have slowed to a standstill
AAAAAAA
>>5365931
http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?P=15100&idColor=11#T=C&C=11
>>5365934
Thanks a lot, man. But how new are these pieces? We're they made just for these sets?
>>5365938
>Years Released: 2014 - 2016
They're rather new, but there's still a pile of those for sale.
>>5365941
Thanks again. I should've read that.
>>5365976
Hell yeah
>>5365976
Yes please
>>5365976
Do it
>>5366031
I'm pretty sure your image must be put under a spoiler, since /toy/ is SFW.
Other than that, it's as fucked up as you described it.
>>5366036
Shit, I forgot to do that, damn it.
>>5366039
You can't spoiler on /toy/ anyway, im sure someone will have had that stuff saved who knows, if you want to avoid a tempban just delete it for now.
pretty fucked up tho
>>5366039
what was it
Is there an archive for the flash game?
I want to relive my childhood.
>>5366043
>>5366064
Here, it's censored this time.
Pohatu's pretty fucking disgusting out of the box, tried to salivage him
>>5366065
MNOLG? http://www.templar.com/games/mnog/Player.html
>>5366070
That's it! Thank you!
>>5366069
I don't think anybody will understand what Lego was thinking when making most of these toa.
>>5366076
Brown doesn't sell (again) so they decreased the amount of it.
>>5366069
I don't get why people buy Pohatu, despite hating the set so much.
They reason I'm getting him is because I have a Collector's obligation.
>>5366067
I wouldn't put a huge watermark there but k.
>>5366087
So why don't they just make him energetic orange like they did later in the original Bionicle line?
>>5366110
Orange ones never sell.
>>5366069
I honestly don't find vanilla out of the box Pohatu that bad, the lower arm shells were the only part that bothered me.
Ketar is a bit worse but can easily be fixed by changing up the tail placement.
>>5366090
That's basically why I got him. I thought the other five looked pretty good so I picked them up and I figured I might as well go for pohatu too. I don't know why, but pohatu's gimmick seems to be that all of his sets are really basic and really shit. It sucks, because the other 5 are pretty great.
I dont think anyone buys these, but this is the new wave of Legos we have at Toysrus.
>any of them worth buying?
>>5366146
I personally feel like they have a certain aesthetic they try to go with on Pohatu that kinda looks like shit as we cannot tell if things are done intentionally or are just bad design. Personally my problems with Pohatu arent nearly as big as other people's, as I feel he looks a lot better in person than in promo material (since the trans-neon green matches the crystal armor much better in person), but I do hate his weapon alongside Galis, Gali has a pointless keychain and spinner on hers that dont make any sense, and Pohatu has a random rock on the end of his spear.
Had they just given Gali a spear and perhaps re purposed Pohatu's weapon entirely as a Ball and chain or a Flail, it would have been a lot better.
>>5366156
Well, the Nexo Knights and Splatoon amiibo are the best things on that shelf.
>>5366156
I'll have the Splatoon amiibo and the Stormtrooper. Phasma's cape is too expensive.
>>5366156
The 2016 Star wars contraction sets are pretty shit, Stormtrooper, Phasma, and Ren are serviceable but still underwhelming.
Im still a bit salty that all these star wars figures are showing up in stores but I still can't find any of the new Bionicle sets, especially since this upcoming wave appeals to me more than pretty much any Bionicle wave ever since the original 2001 wave.
>>5366174
Oh, I'd still get Phasma and Stormie but I know they'll be ridiculously overpriced in Europe.
>>5366174
Which TRU is this? If it's in Bongland, could you check that everything is actually priced? My local one's a mess. Do many people actually buy Bionicle sets where you are? Hell, I've seen more people interested in buying a Wii U than the G2 figures. I seem to be the only person who even looks at the Bonkle shelves.
>>5366198
California; and more people buy Ninjago/StarWars/Minecraft sets than others.
Bionicle, and a few other Lego sets are shelfwarmers until the previous 3 are gone.
>>5366205
Goes to show how much shit taste kids have these days. You either need a TV show, a movie, or shitty youtubers promoting it to get kids to like it.
>>5366174
>>5366178
>>5366168
Rey is pretty good though. She's the same lower pricepoint as Stormtrooper, and has tons of tan shells, gearbox, and fleshie hands.
Missourifag here. Anyone find the Uniters in STL?
>>5366222
Google "shopkins".
It's literally your worst nightmare
>>5365619
>They drag the unconscious Skull Grinder and Skull Basher into vaults, saying that they wont be able to be a threat anymore without their masks
>Implying they wont be able to be a threat anymore without their masks
>>5366237
Meanwhile poor LoSS jobbed, was healed back up, and then jobbed again immediately afterwards.
>>5366222
Rey's also a Jedi, so that's a plus.
>>5366232
>That's how it starts. The fever, the rage. The feeling of... powerlessness that turns good men... cruel.
>>5366087
they didn't even bother putting Pohatu or CoS in the lego catalog that I got this week
>>5366253
Why does this exist? Can I lose any more faith in humanity?
>>5366270
They could become so popular that Lego goes out of business, that's definitely worse.
>>5366253
Tube Heroes? Since when did this garbage enter the world?
>>5366222
>You either need a TV show, a movie, or shitty youtubers promoting it to get kids to like it.
It was like this 30 years ago. TMNT, transformers and all that would be shelf warming if they didn't have shows.
>>5366298
>Implying Transformers in this day and age don't shelfwarm anyway.
>>5366348
RID2015 is surprisingly decent and references a lot of older stuff, but it's NEVER DAMN ON.
It also doesn't help I watched all of it half a year ago online.
>>5366293
I was surprised too. I saw them while walking through the toy aisles in Walmart, and I nearly threw up once I realized what it was.
>>5366364
Thankfully, such trash is not common here, then again we don't have Walmart or Toy R' Us, so I can't really bump into these kind of stuff.
>>5366069
Looks pretty good senpai
Any Canadians here use Bricklink? What seller has a lot of the new parts I can order? Sorry, I haven't used Bl before.
Any ideas for MOCing cool torsos with the size of the The Toa Inika's one?
>>5366418
Just use a lot of small technic pieces. Bonus points if you can give it waist and shoulder articulation.
any good kulta wearing MoC mocs that don't require me to buy skull scorpio. Tried making something with him and basher, but you're limited without the double socket joints. I wish they were as common as they were in g1.
>>5366422
do you have some cool example pics?
So another thing the book confirms about Korgot is that her blaster is mounted on her chest, not really embedded in her torso like on the set. You get this impression from how it is at one point described that she "adjusted her chest-mounted rapid shooter as she moved past Vizuna to enter the cave first." indicating that it is something just sitting on top of her armor or whatever. Minor detail but a detail nontheless.
>>5366455
Honestly just get Scorpio, he's a fun little set despite the shitposting and has some pretty neat parts.
Anybody still have a link to that Halloween special for Reviving Bionicle? I lost it and want to check that channel for new content(if any).
>>5366526
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3axkmj_reviving-bionicle-halloween-special_fun
>captcha: 666
>>5366528
Thanks... Oh and HAIL DENMARK!
>>5366253
but these stinking shits are shelfwarming hard into deep clearance territory now
>>5366168
check your local Barnes & Noble
>>5366559
>Canada
>Any Barnes & Nobles whatsoever
I'm just going to have to wait until January and hope that the Lego Store I always visit carries them (I wasnt able to get my hands on the 2015 sets for a few weeks after launch, despite the store being in a fairly high end mall).
So when I get my Toa Mata in a week or so, you guys want me to do any specific poses with them? I have the 2015 Masters and am rebuilding the Nuva if that helps.
>>5366621
Tahu and Gali pls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR4oJ482WYw
>>5365534
Someone needs to make TR-8R out of the First Order Trooper.
>>5366559
Checked two in LA. Found some Nexo Knights, no Bionicles though. Why does 3 days feel like forever.
>>5366671
what technic parts would be needed to make his baton?
TFW I'm gonna have to buy Kylo Rens, one for parts and to enhance his Grandpa, and one just to do the standard build.
Just a heads up for Toronto folks who live in Toronto and not fucking Guelph or Brampton or whatever - Mastermind seems a bit more stringent about release dates for Bionicle this year, (probs got a C&D), but the TRU at eglinton and yonge had a single Umarak on the shelf, which they'll probably restock soon.
>>5366087
>Brown doesn't sell well
>Consistently make Brown the worst sets
Good thinking Lego
Found these three today, how did I do?
>>5366770
Not bad anon. How is onua? Is he all he's hyped up to be?
>>5366770
bretty good
I did the same but I couldn't find Terak anywhere, so I figured it was best to leave that for later.
>>5366758
Regular Pohatu and Protector of Stone were great though.
>>5366775
Not that anon but I'd say he is. Kind of dissapointed with the mask, but that's just me I guess.
>no pakari design will ever be as based as the mata pakari
Anyone have a solution to create a ++ version of this function? Need it to take up as little space as possible .
Don't get why this piece doesn't exist
>>5366781
>skull scorpio
>>5366661
Fuck. Well, I am a man of my word, so I'll try, but I'll hate myself while doing it.
>>5366784
You won't have to create one. Just pick up one of the sets listed. http://bricker.info/parts/45590/
Pic to the right is a less fitting alternative. You probably already have some of these.
>>5366802
Noice.
>>5366786
>>5366819
misquote?
>>5366818
I have some of those rubber pieces and they don't stay turned.
Your pic is +o connection also :p
>>5366784
two bushings and a dab of glue.
>>5366828
What do you mean? Both the holes are the same and for axle pieces.
>>5366832
I need to have axles on both sides
>>5366832
I think anon means he wants a piece like in his original post, but instead of a pin hole next to an axle hole at a 90 degree angle, he wants 2 axle holes at 90 degree angles
>>5366832
Exactly
>>5366825
oh shit, nah, didn't read the post right gimmie a minute
Do Nuva symbols even exists or they are just pictures with no meanings on their chests?
>>5366862
we have no idea, not only are the nuva symbols printed on their chest, but they are also molded into their masks.
>>5366862
We don't know yet; we'll have to wait for Plot to happen. It's probably meant to signify some connection with their creatures or something.
>>5366825
>>5366786
>>5366929
goddammit
Tell me /BioG/, why do the new torsos for the uniters feel so fucking good? From the custom upper bodies, to the added arm tidbits on a few selected sets. Maybe it's just because there's no hallow chest gap in the sides.
>>5366906
I still feel like G2 is tied into the G1 universe somehow, like a distant future. Maybe their Nuva symbols were used to represent them in historical records, and Ekimu inscribed them on their respective armors and masks for show.
>>5366934
and jungle creature/lewa are the only ones I haven't got yet. it was really difficult to actually make this combo look decent.
>>5366932
Honestly I think the open ball joints were a lot more annoying than we may really have noticed if that makes any sense. Like, we looked past it, but maybe it was just enough to make the torso feel kinda incomplete and weird.
>>5366936
oh, if you have them, can you show the fire/umarak combiner? I remember seeing a stock image of it somewhere, and it actually looked halfway decent. If that were the case then it would support my decision to get umarak/tahu/CoF as my first sets of the wave.
>>5366935
Stop before I blow my fucking brains out.
>>5366970
calm down anon, what's the problem?
>>5366941
went ahead and did the rest of the combos too. umarak's trap shoulder bits kinda suck for this aside from fire/jungle creature.
>>5366979
how do I fix this shit again?
How do you anons take pics of your mocs? I tried using my smart phone, but I'm always over the image size limit. Is there some trick to making the images smaller?
>>5366984
I take pictures all the time from my smartphone, and as long as I hold my phone correctly (horizontal with the bottom of the phone at my right) the pictures are always upright.
Maybe it has to do with the phone you have? I have an Iphone 5 (gift from my father) and while every image I post from my phone (while browsing here on my phone) has the same name of "image", they all are of reasonable resolution.
>>5366990
>Getting phones from your dad at 18+
You did read the rules, didn't you Anon?
Got my phone to work, just needed to hold it sideways. Heres a Pohatu/PoS combiner I made
>>5367003
I know the leg asymmetry looks kinda shitty, but it's like that so he can do this "rampart" pose with the six shooter.
>>5366983
I apologize for any broken necks
>>5366997
>Being enough of a faggot to assume I'd actually buy an Iphone.
And besides dude, I'm 20. Well above the lowest age to post here.
>>5366970
He's right you know. The Mask of time is missing its lower half, which is our g1 Vahi. They wouldn't mention it if the two parts weren't eventually going to be joined.
>yfw the Toa have to use the Mask of Time to summon their past selves in order to defeat Makuta
>yfw the 2017 Toa sets are the original Mata updated for CCBS
>>5367013
final combo
>>5367029
hope they change the main chest shell to fit on two ball joints rather than just one, imagine 2015 onua but vertical instead of horizontal
>>5367029
>Toa Mata in CCBS
I would literally cream my pants as long as they didn't fuck with them by adding a bunch of gold and silver
>CCBS Toa with the original simple and consistent color schemes of red and orange, blue and light blue, white and light gray, black and dark gray, brown and tan, green and light green
Sign me the FUCK up.
>>5367044
Fuck, forgot pic
>>5366770
Onua looks bretty good even without the buddy. I'll probably get Onua for sure.
50/50 on Kopaka, Tahu, and Lewa and their buddies.
Uramak I'll get for sure, but not sure how I feel about his build.
>>5367048
The $20 sets all look great imo, and I'm warming up to kopaka. The 2 stone characters are the only ones that I definitely won't be picking up.
>tfw I always get stone sets first by tradition but I'm just not sold on Pohatu this year
why the FUCK do they keep giving him trans-lime. It doesn't look good with brown. It has NEVER looked good with brown. It's like they actively don't want the brown sets to sell.
>captcha related
>>5366770
Barnes and Noble?
>>5367088
yeah, Gali kinda sucks, but Akida and sharkgirl mode are good enough to make her worth it. I don't mind lewa though, I think his design is refreshing, and the spinning tonfa/blade things are probably my favorite weapon of the line (sorry onua, six shooter hammer is neat, but it's been done)
>>5366253
so most of her subscribers are pedos, right? how else does she have almost half a mil subs?
>>5367089
I'm not the anon from pic, but I went to Barnes and Noble yesterday and got Umarak and Lewa.
>>5367041
Honestly, I'd take the 2015 Toa with the 01 Toa colorshemes. That'd be my ideal perfect team.
>tfw going to bigger city 100 kilometers away with a friend
I'm not going to hope for anything, but it would be nice to see Bonkles there. Especially after the endless sea of City and SW stuff.
>>5366364
>but it's NEVER DAMN ON.
Oh, it is. At 6 AM.
>>5367124
Went to my local B&N and they didn't have them in stock or on their computer yet but I did find a Nexo Knight set and got that for now. I'll just go to the Lego store on the 1st and get them all hopefully
Psst
G2 is asleep
post Teridax
>>5367258
Why not
And now for something completely unexpected:
CCBS Turrican
>>5367320
What was Makooti a reference to again? I've forgotten. I don't think it was that TSCC episode.
>>5367331
It's messy
I like it
needs more rounded silver armor on the upper chest, consider nabbing some of the new starwars sets?
>>5367036
>Umarak gains badass thorn armor if he unites with Ketar
>due to his height the arm-sword and tail placement is a lot better, too
Okay looks like I'm getting that little scorpion bastard after all
>>5367340
It was an Intel commercial crossovered with Bonkle:The Game
I don't know why of all the games to promote their processor they picked Bionicle, so don't even ask.
>>5367429
Oh, I remember now. There was that awful mask.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jDv9czINjQ
Fucking hell. Is there a Makooti MOC anywhere? I'd personally build pic related and replace the head and hands.
>>5367063
They wouldn't sell well regardless, so why bother making them decent?
>>5367458
I hate that so much because they're just making it worse. They COULD sell the stone sets if they would just actually try a little harder. Pohatu's always been my favorite so it's really sad.
>Stone themed sets will never be good again
I remember long ago someone MOCed first wave Gali to look more feminine using just her regular parts. Any anon feel helpful enough to provide some pictures?
>>5367462
Remember when Pohatu was the strongest of the Toa Mata? Onua needed a mask to keep up.
Lego should bring back old brown. Its the only shade of brown that doesnt look off to me.
>>5366671
>mfw lurking thread for the next few months in hopes somebody gives tips on how to do this
Rate my moc. I call him Skull Garuda.
P.S I love this series cause you can shove in OC and it be completely justified without higher thought.
heres another pose to show he is posable and not completely a brick like some other large mocs.
>>5367596
alittle inspired by MADworld baron von twirlenkiller
>>5367587
Kulta/10
>>5367462
I always thought pohatu was cool because of his 2001 commercial where he kicks the koli ball and wrecks that rock formation and then moonwalks away
>>5366979
that looks pretty good actually
this is stormie. please be kind to him
>>5367649
god his legs are stiff as a board. I imagine him just crawling among discarded pieces with a perfect straight back.
>>5367258
>>5367470
How cool would it be if Bionicle got a location like that.
>>5367665
Man what a great set that was
>Huge
>Tons of cool recolors in gunmetal
>waist articulation
>shoulder articulation
>also comes with a sick ass dog that could have passed as a full set by himself because of how cool he is.
Mask is kind of dumb to me, but other than that that shit was great.
>>5367672
the only thing I dislike about the mask is that it is asymmetrical and has that shit with the baraki eyes on the side
>>5367672
Spinax was basically a silver version of Ehlek, except with less shattering joints. Still not sure why he came with Maxilos rather than Hydraxon.
>>5367691
My feelings on the mask are the same as my feelings on almost all of the 2007 masks, they would have been good if they werent designed to accommodate fucking tubes.
>Only Barnes and Noble near me is run by a jew
>Refuse to give business to their kind
>Desperate for 2016 sets
>Swallow my pride and go to Barnes and Jewble.
>It's closing tomorrow
>"Good thing I came today"
>All the legos were cleared out yesterday
Now I'm pissed
>>5366671
>>5366679
>>5367556
this is why im here too. i made this attempt and was wondering if anybody's done it well
>>5367710
and that's what happens when you're a retarded stormfag
>>5367672
Yeah, it's an awesome set. The mask is kinda dumb, though.
>>5367717
I think a build using these pieces would yield the best results, once I have time I might take a crack at it
Does anyone know how to pop the new uniter torso apart? My Lewa started making a squeaky grinding noise and I guess I need to put some Vaseline on it
>>5367649
Storm Pooper
>>5367854
Just pull it out. It'll take some extra force though.
>>5367890
It's not made to come apart that way, though. I already tried.
I just put some Vaseline in through the two holes in the front. It's nice and quiet now.
>>5367854
Yeah does anyone else have this problem with the uniters waists making a horrible, ear wrenching sound when they turn?
>>5367649
Aside from the asymmetrical legs, this looks like it would have been a pretty good set when it was released.
>>5367922
Shit was pretty cash, anon.
I got that one, and also Vader, Fett, R2D2, C3PO and a little while later the bluish elite droid thing. Never got the Droideka, though, sadly.
>more named villagers
>lego will never release non-protector villager masks ever
It hurts.
well /biog/, I just got back from a 5-hour Uniter hunt in an unfamiliar city, so it's storytime.
>Leave house on bike at 9:30, ride to bank
>Continue for 4 miles to nearest shopping center
>Nearly get hit twice
>Only "likely" spot is a K-mart
>Only Lego is two Vizunas and some ninjago polybags
>Ride 3 more miles to nearest Target
>Nearly get hit a few more times
>Get fucking lost even with GPS because not used to city-street bullshit
>It's now 1:00 on the dot
>Finally make it to Target
>All they have is two Skull Bashers and five Onuas
>Not even on markdown
>Decide to call it quits and head home
>Find shortest route (3.8 miles on a goddamn St. Louis highway)
>Ride uphill for solid mile
>Suddenly, like the ziggurats of Uruk, a fucking Wal Mart looms
>Ride into lot
>Head inside
>Beeline for Lego aisle
>Shit is freshly stocked
>See 2016 Ninjago
>See Ben Solo
>See Nexo Knights
>SEE BIONICLE
>THEY'RE ALL 2015 SETS
>FUCK
>Ride home in sadness. Temperature's dropped 20 degrees since I left
>Get home at 2:30 with a dent in my taint, cock-hypothermia, and no Uniters or Critters to my name.
>Feels fucking bad, man
>>5368053
I feel your pain,
>be me
>spend around 3 or 4 hours to get to the nearest toy store(and then the same amount of time to go back home)
>anticipating some good-ass 2016 bionicle sets
>mfw they only have some 2015 pohatus and skull bashers
>buy Vader, Grievous, Captain Phasma, 1st Order Stormtrooper because I aint coming back home emptyhanded
>while getting home, realise that the next chance to get 2016 bionicle sets is only after the winter holidays, since the store will most probably be closed from 1st to the 10th of jan
>>5368053
Sounds like a busy day.
Good thing I have a train system near me.
say. whatever happened to that one Anon who was gonna try recasting Gali 2015's mask in clear?
...I'm hooping he hasn't vanished forever, because I need my Gali to have a Clear mask so she's not the ONLY one without.
>>5368161
just try and buy one of the thousand dollar official ones :^)
>>5368131
>>5368053
>>5367710
>live like five minutes away from toysrus
>I work there too, so 35%+ discounts/markdowns
>don't play with bionicle anymore
>don't even feel like collecting them because no space in my room
>new sets look ugly anyways
I'm doing the right thing, right?
>>5368187
You are all that is wrong with humanity.
>>5368190
W-Why?
Picked up Umarak from TRU in NJ. Looks imposing as hell, kinda got the urge to do some stop-motion.
Mask of Control looks nice, but doesn't appear as "grand" as the MoCreation. They should have Makuta reforge it into a stronger (better looking) version. Idk, maybe MoCreation is in a league if its own.
>>5368187
>implying the 2016 sets look any different than the G1 sets
>implying the new sets arent based as fuck
>posting in /biog/ despite having no interest in Bionicle
>Teasing the poor anons who have traveled far and suffered much to try and find the new sets to no avail
kill yourself my man.
>>5368203
Mask of Creation was a bigger deal anyway, as Ekimu is the only one who made masks anyone cared about and Makuta always got kind of shafted. He's likely going to be wearing a different mask when we actually do get him in set form in G2, so the Mask of Control is honestly the least important of the 3 legendary masks (though still pretty cool).
>>5368187
Maybe next wave. The feedback for Onua Uniter and Umarak has been positive, consider one of those.
>>5368208
>tfw everyone's hyping up Onua like he is top shit
>tfw he is my least favorite toa this wave by a decent margin
>tfw everyone shit talks the other sets that I like quite a bit more.
Sometimes I just don't understand what aspects of sets the majority of the community likes/wants. At least everyone can agree Umarak is god-tier.
>>5368204
>despite having no interest in bionicle
Whoa, slow down there. I probably know more lore about old bionicle than you guys.
Not that it fucking matters anymore, its not canon.
And I lass by those new sets over 100 times a day at work, they look like shit. I couldn't even bring myself to buy a Tahu for old times sake.
>>5368208
What is a "Uniter"? Does it have anything to do with the Kaita?
>>5368213
This, somewhat. The only Toa of Earth I ever like was Nuparu.
wish they bring back the vehicles. I dont care their pricey I just want the wheels. I actually collect around 50 wheels just from the power miner series
>>5368220
Uniter is the Toa's new title, more or less. Like this year they were "Masters," only now since the gimmick is they've got the creatures to bond with, they're "Uniters."
Is there any reason why Umarak has an ad for uxar on his box? I guess they look cool together but I don't see why it makes sense to match him up with anyone.
>>5368220
Basically, the 2015 sets (the ones you probably see) are known as the "Masters" because of their set titles (Tahu Master of Fire for example), they had good builds and all but had a very smooth aesthetic because of the Hero Factory System being used and a lot of people werent sold on that.
The "Uniters" (e.g. Tahu Uniter of Fire) are the 2016 iterations of the Toa that are slowly rolling out in stores in the upcoming few days, they have an aesthetic and building much more similar to G1 (which a lot of people are hating on now for being too "complex", go figure), they are called "Uniters" because of their new gimmick, in which they can combine with the small sets this wave (which are various biomechanical animal-type sets like Pheonix's, Sharks, and Bugs).
>Not that it fucking matters anymore, its not canon.
Possibly, though there is some debate about that, considering G2's mask of time being described as "an upper half of a mask without any records of it's lower half" (im sure you remember the G1 Vahi), and being the catalyst in which summoned the Toa.
>>5368225
Color schemes match more, plus it is Lewa's eternal duty to get fucked over be it infected masks, krana, or whatever.
>>5368220
Your opinion is perfectly justified but I suggest you to grab Umarak.
>>5368203
Is Umarak as cool in person as he looks in pictures? He is the set I am looking forward to in the winter 2016 wave the most (even though I like almost all of them quite a lot) and I just kinda want to know if he lives up to the hype.
>>5368241
He's the tallest one yet.
Dunno if I'm welcome here, but I got like a week before I'm back at university. If I did another Bionicle pinup like so, what would people wanna see?
>>5368254
Thicc uniter Gali pls
Although I thought the set was shit, I bought Grievous. The set was even worse than I thought. Why do so many people think Grievous is the best ccbs Star Wars set when it clearly is Vader? Grievous is really gappy and can't even stand straight like in the scene where he is about to fight with Obi Wan. Now I paid 35€ and still have to revamp him to make him work. Fuck ccbs with it's limited connection points.
>>5368254
>>5368265
Uniter Gali would be kinda nice, if you have any trouble figuring out how to translate the design of the figure into something that would work well for this sort of thing, I find the Journey to One design is a bit better in that regard.
>>5368260
Box doesnt really much matter since its just a picture, but nonetheless. Out of Curiosity, what was your favorite set out of the original line?
>>5368272
I just bought him for parts, since I skipped all of Hero Factory and wanted some of the longer sized bone pieces and some of the double socket pieces with ball in the middle (plus some (very large) tan shells), the protip for CCBS is to build with technic like you would in G1 and use the standard bone pieces for stuff like thinner limbs or tails, and use the shells as gap-fillers. Some CCBS purist MOCs and stuff can still look good I find, you just have to get really creative with how you attach things since everything is based on ball joints.
>>5368272
Is that the moc in the rain from that one gif?
>>5368276
Lewa/Tahu
My two favorites; I can't pick just one.
>>5368283
Funnily enough they have always been my favorites as well, mostly just because I got the two of them (their 2001/mata versions), at the same time as my first Bionicle sets.
Not trying to sound like a shill or anything, but what aspect of the new sets do you find the most off-putting?
>>5368276
Huh, Uniter Pohatu looks really good in this compared to his set, I wonder what the set looks like if you give it two tan vorox shoulders (though that requires getting two Ketar sets) and black lower arm bones.
How are people displaying the sets? In their respective Uniter form, or standalone?
I might leave the 15$ Toa standlone, and the 20$ Toa united for space reasons. Forgot to pick up another shelf.
>>5367036
final FINAL combination
>>5368305
I'm just displaying them all separate, maybe use strings or something to give Uxar and Ikir flying poses. I'm freeing up space by taking apart the Master's, Skull Scorpio, Skull Slicer, and Skull Warrior and giving them all a G2 parts bin since they're part in the story is done whereas the other 2015 sets technically have the possibility to be relevant in the story in the future.
>>5368308
And still it is sideways.
I feel like this is the best united mode just because of how Intimidating it makes the already Intimidating Umarak look. How does it hold up in person?
>>5368287
Toros are just a little too long for the length of the arms on the smaller toa.
>>5368319
crap, oh well.
all the sets look better in person, but im not too big a fan of the aesthetics of this wave aside from umarak. creature combinations with him are hit or miss, jungle and stone creatures look the best on him. his trap shoulders just make everything a pain to pose, same with his antlers.
>>5368336
****Torso***
Anon here that created skull Baron and skull garuda. I,ve hit artblock with my collection post ideas. I'll do dubs or higher.
>>5368348
cant get dubs then I'll just choose a good one.
>>5368161
not that anon, but I've been fooling around with casting. Out of silicone rubber, though...
Not sure how to make a cast for an object with multiple holes in it
>>5368359
oh and clear resin takes a bitchass long time to cure, I need to buy a hot plate or something
>>5368336
I suppose that's true, especially in the later years of G1 where arms were the same length as the legs if not longer, making them leagues larger than the torso. Technically the proportions on the newer sets (not lewa 2015 of course his arms were fucklong for some reason) are more humanlike in terms of proportions, but I guess it's not for everyone.
>hitting Glasgow for panto with the family and a friend
>Can pick up new sets while we're there
>Ready to hit the town with my 2swole2control friend after
Gonna be a good new year boys
>>5368388
Hitting the lego store tomorrow, I hope Bionicle isn't still relegated to that shit shelf behind the pillar at the back.
>>5368368
>not lewa 2015 of course his arms were fucklong for some reason
Probably why I think the torso looks a bit long. Got used to the lanky arms of the 2015 set.
>>5368402
>implying it won't be
BIONICLE is a failed shelfwarmer theme now, as much as I hate to say it. It'll end in 2017 and be replaced with some meme shit.
Can the lightup Piraka brainstalks fit in the Toa Mata heads?
