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
No smartphone? Play the mobile game here:
http://www.lego.com/en-us/bionicle/games
Previous Thread: >>5327451
-B6
Reminder that sets arent officially due for release in the US until January 1st, you impatient fucks.
>>5337929
lol look at this non bzp staff pleb
>>5337930
hows the mlp doing btw?
>>5337929
I don't work at a LEGO store anymore, but it was pretty rare that we couldn't put stuff out whenever we got it in. The dates were mostly fixed for licensed stuff. And even with that stuff Targets and Walmarts were putting that shit out a few weeks in advance anyway, so it's not that unreasonable to expect them early.
>>5337929
Reminder that Toys R Us usually stocks new Bionicle sets by this time in December.
Was this posted in the last thread? I dunno if anyone really cares about it though. http://brickset.com/sets/5004409-1/Accessory-pack
Lets hope this time it's not just released in Russia and Ukraine.
>>5337929
I know, I've been checking the lego store I pass by on the way to school every other day since december 1st anyway, just in case.
>>5337972
Seems more like something Pohatu would wear, huh, cool.
Lazy anon who wants free masks coming through as I do on every thread.
How can I make my own trans blue gali mask? Has anyone done it before? Is it possible to do without spending huge cash piles on supplies?
>>5338000
>cast it
>mold it:
>A: in clear resin and spray it with Tamiya clear blue
>B: in clear blue resin
Easy peasy.
>>5338000
>Has anyone done it before?
I was planning to do it before summer but IRL shit happened so I never bothered.
I might try it again sometime soon.
>>5338024
I have no experience in any of these things, but I figure they can't be too hard then. What brands of shit should I buy?
>>5338053
I have no idea, honestly. I know it's not difficult, but I've never had much reason to try it.
Netflix show when
>>5338196
Next year
>>5337926
Did you really make the new /biog/ thread and add nothing to it after getting buttmad over me doing the same?
Guys, what if LEGO didn't release any kaita instructions because the toa were supposed to be "united but not one" as the narrator puts it?
claim your toa waifu, /biog/
>>5338303
Can we plant our flags on them?
>>5338303
>anthro
I'd sooner claim a bullet to the brain, thanks.
>>5338320
Doesn't anthro have to do with non-human anthroporphic stuff? If so then most bonkles are anthro. Enjoy your hydruka.
>>5338335
Those aren't human noses m8
>>5338288
don't mind him. he is just a tripfag
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/1606924/1/The-Greatest-Love
this is one of the most glorious piece of bionicle literature ever written, the feeble scribbling of Greg farshtey pale in comparison to this masterpiece.
>>5338473
Toa aren't for loving or kissing eachother
They are siblings
How would you feel if they removed Pohatu and Kopaka and replaced them with female versions?
>>5338619
wouldn't care
I've been looking at Hugebricks lego cat waifu, and am trying to figure out the pieces he used for the legs that make it seem different from his Moenicle 2.0.
Not sure if they're a similar procedure, just different colors and that's what's making me see them as vastly different?
>>5338619
>Kopaka
>Female
Wouldn't that just change the bromo-erotica about Tahu and Kopaka that a bunch of degenerates already write into hetero-incest-erotica?
>>5338619
A pointless change, kind of like the new Ghostbusters reboot
Who gives a shit?
>>5338619
Kopaka becomes an ice queen and Pohatu doesn't change much.
Lewa might make a better girl though, with the whole reckless newbie thing.
>>5338619
Here's a better question.
You're hired to write a toa team to step up to the plate after year 3 of the new Bionicle story. Which element or elements do you write as female, how do you characterize them, and what are their dynamics like with the rest of the group?
Lore questions I've always wondered, if anyone knows that would be neat
Why did Mata Nui aka Great Spirit Robot crash onto spherus magna? Was this crash what caused the planet to shatter into aqua/bota/bara magna?
How long did the great spirit robot lay dormant under the sea? Long enough an island to form on his face and develop life, along with the planets to reform into spheres instead of space debris and produce an atmosphere + life? (Seems to be hundreds of millions of years)
Did the Agori/Glatorian species evolve on Bara magna during this time? Or are they related to the GSR/great beings somehow?
Was the matoran universe active during this time in metru Nui and other areas, or were they dormant as well?
And most importantly, why did the great beings Construct this God-Being in the first place and then do nothing when it crashed or intervene when Makuta tried to take over etc
(Bionicle has really great lore. Aside from the alternate universe/time travel shit or retcons and literal fanfic-tier stuff)
>>5338713
>Why did Mata Nui aka Great Spirit Robot crash onto spherus magna? Was this crash what caused the planet to shatter into aqua/bota/bara magna?
Mata Nui was built before Spherus Magna crashed by the Great Beings to eventually repair the planet. He crashed onto Aqua Magna when Makuta's virus put him into a deep sleep.
>How long did the great spirit robot lay dormant under the sea? Long enough an island to form on his face and develop life, along with the planets to reform into spheres instead of space debris and produce an atmosphere + life? (Seems to be hundreds of millions of years)
1000 years.
>Did the Agori/Glatorian species evolve on Bara magna during this time? Or are they related to the GSR/great beings somehow?
Okay, you clearly have no grasp of the lore, at all.
>>5338738
It just seems like an entire island geologically forming on his face and then developing soil, and then soil suitable for plantlife, and then a wide variety of planlife migrating to this island would be MUCH longer than 1000 years. 100,000 at least. (yes, even with a volcanic hotspot)
>>5338713
>Why did Mata Nui aka Great Spirit Robot crash onto spherus magna? Was this crash what caused the planet to shatter into aqua/bota/bara magna?
The GSR crashed into Aqua Magna because Makuta rekt Mata Nui from the inside. This caused the Great Cataclysm (which broke Voya Nui off of the Southern Continent, among other things). The splitting of the planets was an earlier event known as the Shattering, which happened because the Element Lords were warring over energized protodermis. Or something.
>How long did the great spirit robot lay dormant under the sea? Long enough an island to form on his face and develop life, along with the planets to reform into spheres instead of space debris and produce an atmosphere + life? (Seems to be hundreds of millions of years)
Give or take, 1008 years, from the time he crashed to when the Toa Nuva woke him up. Don't ask how an entire island complete with lush greenery and wildlife formed in the short time it took for the Toa Metru to get to the surface.
>Did the Agori/Glatorian species evolve on Bara magna during this time? Or are they related to the GSR/great beings somehow?
The Matoran/Toa were created based on the Agori/Glatorian, but that's the extent of the connection.
>Was the matoran universe active during this time in metru Nui and other areas, or were they dormant as well?
The Great Cataclysm basically destroyed Metru Nui (most importantly the Archives, freeing all the Rahi inside and complicating the Toa's rescue of the Matoran).
>And most importantly, why did the great beings Construct this God-Being in the first place and then do nothing when it crashed or intervene when Makuta tried to take over etc
The robot was constructed for exploration/information gathering or some shit. The Toa/Matoran/Makuta/Rahi/basically everything inside were supposed to keep him functional, but obviously when you fill a giant robot with people, at least one is gonna want to take control of it.
>>5338750
The Mata Nui Robot was specifically designed to create landmass to hide it, through the power of programmable energy-matter that is energized protodermis.
>You will never have your trans purple eye stalk
>>5338787
But apparently it's not able to take off the disguise without the use of bohrok?
Werent the borok just for plants anyways, not the actual landmass?
I just don't see why a half a planet sized spacefaring robot would need a disguise
>>5338713
The Mata Nui robot project was a two fold experiment.
First of all, it got rid of all the energized protodermis, a powerful substance that caused the Core War (that originally employed the Glatorian) and ultimately caused the planet to destabilize enough to fragment into Bara, Aqua, and Bota Magna.
Additionally, the Great Beings, being sad/disappointed that their adopted planet fell to war so quickly, tasked the Great Spirit Robot to travel the galaxy/universe, and observe how other cultures on other planets lived in peace/dealt with their problems. Of the hundred thousand year journey, Mata Nui only fell asleep a thousand years ago and fell on Aqua Magna, so we can assume Mata Nui's mission was almost done.
The Great Spirit Robot was more of a hands off type of experiment. The Great Beings were never known for being particularly responsible about their creations after they made, after all.
Since Mata Nui was extremely analogous to a living body (Matoran are red blood cells, Toa are white blood cells, Bohrok clean up, etc.), we can assume Mata Nui being asleep for 1000 years was more literal than a giant robot would normally be. There was no brain (Metru Nui) activity, but the rest of the body still managed to function.
Ironically, it was the Toa Metru's decision to bring the Matoran to the island of Mata Nui instead of staying in the ruins of Metru Nui and awakening the Matoran that really kept Mata Nui asleep, not Makuta.
>>5338684
hmmm...
New Team of Seven Toa.
Female Toa of Fire, logically the hothead
Male Toa of Water, surfer dude
Female Toa of Lightning, tomboy/leader. Yellow in color.
Male Toa of Stone, engineer.
Male Toa of Jungle, more plant than air, the large/combo set and thus the iconic spot (akin to 2016 Kopaka)
Female Toa of Ice, Elsa ripoff.
Male Toa of Earth, more purple than black, skinny, scaredy cat, Fear from Inside Out.ripoff.
None of the elements are tied with a specific gender. 3/4 in favor of males, and really only the Elsa ripoff is apparent from first sight to be a girl. Hothead is more normal and Lightning Leader is in story a tomboy, or from fans, a dyke.
There. Variety of genders, colors, and characterizations that stand separate from the Toa Okoto.
>>5338806
Have you seen the last Star Trek movie? Where they hide the Enterprise so that it doesn't interrupt the natural evolution of early civilizations? That's pretty much why. So that it can land on planets and hide there in plain sight without freaking too many people out.
It's camouflage systems go beyond just the face, it just so happened that the face was the only exposed area above the water on Aqua Magna, so that's all that was covered after it crashed.
Also, the Bohrok do more than clean up plant life. Pahrak level mountains and Nuhvok create tunnels to weaken the structure of the entire island so that when the robot is ready to leave, it can easily break through. The Bohrok also serve to push citizens of the GSR back into the robot, and native lifeforms of the planet away from it so that hopefully nobody is harmed when the Mata Nui emerges.
>>5338297
But Kaita still wouldn't be ONE. It'd be united, but TWO.
>>5338297
>kaita
>united
>not destiny
How else would you beat the Mask of Ultimate Power that combines multiple elements?
>>5338927
>something something prophecy shit
Huh.
Ugh what's the name of the bionicle video where the main characters are Stars Tahu and Mata Onua/Kopaka, Perditius is the villain, and the creator uses a text-to-speech program to make them talk? And this was leading up to the 2015 reveal? I wanna watch it again.
>>5338297
separate but equal
so their regular forms are 'apartheid' forms?
>>5338927
By not being a jackass that uses the sharp end of his warhammer to make masks.
>>5338939
gotchu senpai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR4oJ482WYw
>>5338951
>see preview image
>'wow they actually gave it an abdomen articulation'
>realize it's just the orange-eye one's hand over the other's barraki eye nipples
Think we'll ever see Kulta again?
>>5338963
'will gen 2 be complex?'
no is and will forever be your answer
>>5338963
Probably not as a whole but as a trophy slapped onto something.
>>5338971
Makuta-Garmadon's already more complex than the rest of the characters and he hasn'e showed up since the flashback.
>>5338974
Makuta-Garmadon?
it really clonks my bonkers that the new masks aren't either like
>solid primary color/trans associated color
or
>solid color/trans clear
Because at least the second could be a Bohrok reference, even though the first would look the best.
>>5338951
Fuck off.
>>5338984
where?
>>5338939
Reviving Bionicle
>>5338939
This is it here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTxO_pgMqys
>>5338981
It's a nuva reference. Everything's a nuva reference
can we all agree
Lewa Gali and kopaka were the best of the 2015 toa
Wairuha master race
Pohatu was meh, onua was good but ended up looking awkward with how wide and short he was and tahu was a bit of a gappy clusterfuck
>>5339091
I don't care, it looks like shit
>>5339129
Nice.
When will Lego smarten up and just create a simple, non bulky, concave type shell that goes on the back of limbs
Instead we either get no armor on the back, or huge bulky ways to attach 2 shells
>>5339095
Compared to lanky jungle man Lewa who couldn't move his head, goldpuke Kopaka and Gali who didn't even try to be feminine?
Sure, if you say so.
>>5339141
Like with SW figures?
>>5339145
>Gali who didn't even try to be feminine
Has that ever been a thing?
>>5339147
Yeah but that piece wasn't the best, it was really thin and too long for many limbs. I imagined Just something shaped like the outline of a shell with pin connectors to go into the back of the limb.
>>5339145
Whatever you say anon
>>5338978
Evil brother that becomes a shadow spirit and the first thing he does is control an army of skeletons.
Literally what happened in Ninjago.
Also, purple.
>>5339183
Ninjago isn't Bonkle
>>5339189
No it isn't but it brings a point of what you can expect from Makuta because their actions are very similar and follow the same scheme.
>>5339145
Femininity comes from good posing, it's not the set's fault if you're too retarded to do that sort of thing.
>>5339215
2015
>Broad shoulders, good hips
2016
>Thinner shoulders, shitty hips
It seems to me that they tried to fix her feminity but failed because the new torso shell is too wide from the waist.
And the hips, I hate her new hips.
She is now androgynous, rather than being an athletic (Wonder Woman for example)female.
>>5339183
Supports the theory that the Mask of Ultimate Power is the true final antagonist, if you compare it to the Overlord.
>>5338535
toa metru tho?
>>5339233
Oh shit.
This almost confirms it.
Could very well see Makuta being released in the next winter and see MoUP break out a s a giant entity on it's own in the 2017 summer.
>>5339220
The only Gali that looks like she's supposed to be feminine is Mata.
>>5338619
female g2 pohatu would be shit
But fem g1 pohatu? That would actually be pretty great
>>5339255
What if just new characters instead of making everyone a tranny?
Would that be a better idea?
>>5339260
It wouldn't be making everyone "a tranny" but making new characters is a better idea.
You know, Gali is female because the original test kids thought she looked like one the most.
Do you think Lego would've changed that if the new kids thought that, say Pohatu looked like a girl?
>>5339266
They probably wouldn't be asking that because the genders have already been established and they might not even still have test kids.
>replace Kopaka Uniter's dark blue forearm shells with white ones from last year
>colour scheme immediately becomes more cohesive
I don't usually mod official sets but I think I'll cave on this one. I wonder if it'll look better with Kopaka 2015's thigh stickers on or not, though.
>>5339181
Why does kopaka look like a mongoloid?
>>5339273
>>5339274
It's pretty obvious.
knight (Christian heritage)
white, grumpy, asocial (stereotypic Finn)
snow, cold (Very typical weather in northern Finland)
This coming from a Finn.
>>5339295
Gondolewa
>>5339295
working on spurdpaka right now
>>5339295
Is this a qualified meme now?
>>5339316
not done btw
>>5339269
Kopaka's leg sticker design is dark blue so those shells would fit very well. But I'm curious to buy an extra set of stickers and apply them over the dark blue shells. Sticker sheet are dirt cheap on Bricklink.
>>5339345
>tfw charge only 10 cents a pop for stickers on BL
>nobody still buys those
>>5339316
Do you take requests?
>>5339316
BENIS :-DDD
>>5339401
Banned for profanities
-B9
>>5339384
nah, maybe. it depends
>>5339345
The only issue is that Kopaka's torso has dark blue tattoo print and his 'shield' has dark blue stickers. Having them on his forearms as well might make his upper body too noisy.
>check S@H out of boredom
>Onua, Kopaka and Umarak listed as coming soon Dec 31st
My boner cannot be contained. But it'll probably be few days until they pop up in retail here
>>5338303
No Gadunka? This is shit
>>5339467
Gadunka a shit to compared my Bahrag queen. Where are they?
Kopaka is 25 Euro!
http://biosector01.com/wiki/index.php/Review:71311_by_Dorek
>>5339451
Just a few days isn't much to wait for. I expect the sets to hit the stores some time in march where I live.
The only things that make the waiting easier is that all I've wanted since day one was Makuta's mask (which we won't be getting since the toy mask is very different) and LoSS so I could use his chestface, which I did.
Umarak the Fudd doesn't live up to my expectations as a parts pack so I'll probably wait till the summer leaks to buy him and if. And if the Destroyer is better and comes with the MoC, then I'll get it in October. That's over 3/4 of a year spent waiting.
>>5339491
Oh really?
>>5339491
Interesting that so many reviewers complain that the gearboxes are gone.
I miss them too, but it wouldn't work at all with the other gimmicks
>>5339502
Did the gold skull grinder mask ever get released in NA?
>>5339512
I'm surprised the same company who has anxiety attacks over it's reputation took the bold decision to jam axles and gears up the toys' asses and instructs people to turn them, encouraging (in the eyes of soccer moms) sadistic sodomy.
I wish they only gave Gali this function. The sjw tears would be salty and plentyful like a second Dead Sea.
Seriously though, good riddence to yellow gears. They ruined colour schemes that didn't rely on yellow/gold. The gearbox itself was a drain on the piece count and it pushed placed the characters' arms and shoulders back a lot. Especially when taking into consideration the breastplate that juts forward enough to accomodate breasts.
I'm half-worried that those gearboxes will return because their supporters are vocal and in places where they can be heard.
>>5339565
If they return I'd believe they will just use the SW type connection.
>>5339565
TLG's probably already made plans for it; the Darth Vader set's cape actually has a hole in the back at just the right place for a gearbox to go, so it's not unthinkable we'll be seeing them again soon.
>yfw Umarak the Destroyer has a cape and battle arms
>>5339565
I still find it weird how almost every single 'high profile' member of the bionicle community (fansite staff) hate these sets despite them solving most of the issues people had with the first sets, the fact that the majority of complaints were about the detail on the parts when the smooth shells of ccbs were a common point of contention last year. If I could have fixed one thing on the new sets it would have been to ditch the old feet in favor of something with a more detailed design, but it seems so many people would rather get rid of any detail and have the sets just be plain CCBS shells
>>5339600
I feel like last year everybody was so clouded by the simple fact that Bionicle is back that nobody wanted to say anything negative, but now that it's been out a while they're finally willing to point out the flaws.
>>5339606
I feel like it's either that, or some people were so defensive of the flaws in 2015 due to it being the return of Bionicle that now when those flaws are corrected, they need to pan the corrections so that they still seem in the right for defending them last year.
I mean, liking the 2015 sets more is fine, the 2016 sets aren't perfect, but when you have BZP putting on an hour long podcast explaining how the sets are shit, and Eljay and Deevee going around the TTV message boards telling anyone who likes the new sets that their opinion is wrong, it gets pretty bothersome. Especially for myself who likes the new direction 2016 took and fear they will go back to 2015s style and problems rather than building off of what they are doing now due to these vocal complaints
>eurobricks review claims Terak and Melum's differences are as large as Ixir and Ukar's
I don't buy it.
>>5339612
Aren't you a bit young for 4chan?
>>5339600
My major complaint is that despite having a large pool of different CCBS bones, shells and armor they keep falling back on the same parts and are phasing out more and more of them.
Why didn't they give Melum this one here as hands for example to make him look even less like Terak?
The crystal add-ons meanwhile could've wandered onto Kopaka's forearms.
>>5339614
Terak waves his arms up and down, Melum hugs with them. There, that's the big difference.
>>5339599
Take a look at Obi-Wan.
The cape has a hole for different head connection
>>5339611
Most reviews have been positive m8.
>>5339624
Oh, really? I've only seen the Darth Vader set so far so I had no idea. Neat.
>>5339626
BZP is just awful in general, the fact that people consider it the hub of the bionicle community when they barely post Bionicle news anymore and focus on general Lego news, and actively discourage Bionicle discussion with their leak policy baffles me. Its a relic of a line that ended 5 years ago and had nothing going for it nowadays other than it's name.
>>5339637
Seems kinda strange when their podcast was full of negatives and saying how bad every part of the set is.
Then again B6 did the Onua review and he was positive the whole podcast, and anyone who could hate on based Umarak has poor taste.
>>5339611
It's like some people have taken it upon themselves to go out of their way to fight greeblyness. I realize it's a matter of tadte, but it drives me berserk. We've had bland, flat and smooth for years now. Would it kill a select few loud and visible people if the designers tried something different for a change? Fuck's sake....
>>5339620
It's a general friend, not a just a gallery.
>>5339626
Go trigger them by opening a discussion about Fluffy Ponies then. And keep it going for as long and civil as possible.
>>5339641
The podcast struck me as very casual and unofficial, and pretty much seemed to showcase how they actually feel about the sets deep down, rather than their "official" statements in the reviews.
>>5339640
BZP has always been kind of shit but I think the real tipping point was when Bionicle 1.0 got canned and everybody left except the most devote fans and people who already had reputations on the site. Some freaky shit develops when you put a bunch of autists in one place with nothing new to talk about for over five years.
a friend in NY claims to have seen onua and the creatures for sale at toys r us. no pictures so im a little doubtful.
Remember getting the first few 2015 sets from mastermind a week before christmas last year though.
gonna go check it out tonight
>>5339663
>NYC
>enough demand for new sets to get stocked early
I believe it.
>>5339678
i think that's where people saw them for sale first last year too
>>5339655
This.
My number one complaint about CCBS is that it looks generic as fuck. People complained about it for four years and qhen Lego starts addressing it they get shit on. They really should not be listening to fansites.
>>5339614
Jesus, Terak looks so much better than Melum. That little nigga ready to fuck shit up.
Did every Toa need friction adders on their ankles? Strange decision. Looks funky when posed. Guess they're easy enough to remove, then account for the height difference by swapping leg pieces.
>>5339721
I kinda get it that they need a lot of friction due to the new function but that's just too much. Though some of the new SW figures have it too.
>>5339721
It wouldn't bother me nearly as much if it were in different colors
>>5339725
They need to develop an entirely new foot piece with the friction rubber built in. Hoping so see that next year.
>>5339721
>>5339730
Yeah, the Hero foot is a solid piece, but we've had it since 2011. A new foot with the friction rubber added in would be great.
Now, please don't replace the small Beast/Protector feet. They have tons of connection points and are very evocative of Matoran feet of past years. They also have that great combo with the large Beast/2015 Onua feet that'd be a shame to retire.
>>5339451
The last line of the descriptions seems to confirm that there will be animations on bionicle.com in 2016 as well. I just hope that the main plot will be left to Netflix and not forced into 90-second clips again.
>>5339772
>the Hero foot is a solid piece
It's terrible senpai. Pretty much everything in the back half of the piece is done wrong and ruins an alright moulding in the front
Umarak the Destroyer confirmed to wear the Mask of Control
>>5339817
That first panel of Ummie just prancing about in the jungle never looks not funny to me
>>5339817
So Makuta isn't wearing it? It's just floating somewhere? Where is Makuta exactly?
>>5339835
I'd guess he materialises after Umarak TD is defeated.
>>5339835
He's [toyspoiler]inside the Mask[/toyspoiler], anon.
>>5339835
Makuta wasn't wearing any mask when he was defeated by Ekimu, he had made the MoUP for himself to use instead of the MoCo
>>5339856
I figured he was laying in a crater somewhere like Ekimu was. They were both "put into an endless sleep" after all.
>>5339868
With that said, you guys think Makuta did something similar what Ekimu was to the Toa? Giving telepathic commands/summoning people to do his bidding to resurrect him?
>>5339866
How what he able to take control of an army of spiders and skeletons then?
>>5339872
Maybe thats what the skullfuckers and Umarak are for
>>5339876
I was thinking more along the lines of an actual team like "Dark Toa" or heck the Rahkshi even, if they really want to throw those into the mix, going around more secretly like spec ops while the spiders/skulls and Umarak are distracting the Toa and Ekimu.
>>5339863
Ahh, classic Bionicle bullfuckery. Should've known
>>5339884
>Dark Toa
As edgy as they are, I would love to see those, only because we only got teases in gen 1. Makuta's lair had shadow Toa guardians but their canonity could be argued, Toa Ahkmou was planned but they didn't go for it, and then they introduced shadow Matoran but those went nowhere too
>>5338622
Specify further. Do you mean 2.0-3.0?
>>5339966
Pretty sure the villagers do at least.
>>5339614
i wish i understood why the ice vole or whatever had to have literally nothing for legs
>>5338951
this is the worst fucking video ive ever seen in my entire life. thank you
>>5339721
The legs this year do seem to be using shorter bones; they're probably just there to make it longer.
>>5340020
That new long ass torso fucked up the proportions. Should've been accounted for with longer limbs to keep it proportional, but the heights needed to be kept the same.
>>5340045
To be fair, as much as everyone said 2015 had amazing proportions, as much as people will tell you otherwise, people's shoulders are not 20 inches behind their neck.
>>5340095
I saw that as an issue as well, have heavily modified the sets since then.
I spend tons of time modifying sets, one of the most fun parts about it for me. They're customizable, that's awesome, but they shouldn't look so bad straight-built.
>>5339966
Well the villagers have families with fathers and sons and shit, so I can assume the natives of Okoto biologically reproduce.
>>5340136
But can they LOVE?! That's the most important question.
someone spotted kopaka + melum in atlanta. post is in the 2016 thread on bzp.
>>5340095
2015 toa torsos were too short, if anything. Especially on tahu
>>5340194
Who the fuck cares? That's irrelevant to the story. Nobody cares about your shitty fanfic, anon.
>>5340210
>they could be hidden this well amongst the 2015 sets
Fuck I have only been doing passing glances at Bionicle sections of toy/lego stores in order to avoid awkward glares, but now I have to actually try harder.
You know what I'd like to see at some point? One of these with CCBS parts.
>>5339957
2.0 I believe.
I really want to make the delicious legs fo 3.0, since I find them a bit more appealing.
>>5339966
Agori, Glatorian, etc. and the Okoto villagers reproduce, but not Toa or Matoran. Rahi probably also do.
>>5340308
>Christmas time
>worrying about akward glance
>worrying about what strangers think at any point
are you 12 or something?
>>5340210
>tfw haven't even started looking
I'll probably check out a few stores tomorrow
>>5340315
I wanted one during hero factory for alt color hero masks.
I'm sad they had almost NO recolors.
>>5340394
But hey, at least we got three versions of the spooky skeltal robot mask!
Recolors are essential for MOCs, and they refuse to put them out. I'll never know why.
>>5340308
It's nearly Christmas. Anyone who sees you will assume you're buying them for a child, if you're that worried about it.
>>5340423
For a MOC, sure, but when little Timmy buys a new set, he wants it to differ from the old one he has.
>>5340431
Which brings us back to the parts bucket. That would sell like crazy.
>>5340443
Recolors aren't new pieces. 90% of the audience is kids who want new weapons and masks, they don't care what mishmash of colors their creations turn out to be, they just like to build stuff
>>5340504
>you will never travel back in time and slap your kid self's shit because of his bad taste in lego
>>5339966
Gender's not just about reproduction, you gender-conforming CIS scum etc etc.
We know that the protector masks, tools and rank are passed down from father to son, so both gender and intercourse are canon. The real question is if the toa themselves can fuck and reproduce.
I mean, toa-sized people aren't uncommon, and the one thing that really sets the toa apart is their elemental powers which they have because of their masks. Toa are no longer an offshot of a species that doesn't reproduce anyway.
>>5339835
Ekimu wasn't wearing his either, but in the webisodes he mentions that Kulta dropped by his crypt and took it just before the toa dropped by.
So, the then protectors found Ekimu *and* the MoCr and rather than place it back on his face and make stuff happen, they entombed him wearing a ceremonial deathmask and placed the MoCr outside his casket. These midget people are clearly too dumb for their own good. And noone was even tempted to just try the mask on? This is stupid.
Not to mention that we'd been lead to believe that LoSS was using it to create skull spiders and Kulta was raising the dead with it.
And why the fuck did Makuta or Kulta decided to up and do what he planned to do during the eleventh hour when he had generations' worth of time. What, was he trapped in the same jar as Rita Repulsa for a thousand years or something?
>>5340095
One motherfucking underrated five-star post. I wish we could write that mirrored on the designers' foreheads while they slept.
>>5340107
I wonder if anyone's made a custom body build where the belly and crotch continue straight down from the superchest piece rather than behind it like on the normal sets. I'd also love to see a build with a multi-part main body below the superchest. Preferably looking either layered or mechanically complex instead of just solid plates.
>>5338821
This...actually sounds really cool :/ I'd definitely pay for these sets.
>>5340547
Isn't Korgot a girl?
>>5340547
What does Gali's vagina look like?
>>5340607
We dont have the technology to figure that out yet. But there have been many different interpretations
>>5340365
You could probably reverse engineer the lower boots with some finagling, that picture makes the assembly relatively clear. You will probably need those voodoo ball variants with axle holes running straight through.
Upper legs you will likely need to fool around with a bit but you can see at least some brackets as well as 2x2 cruved slopes on the inside of the thighs, so if you can build the outside shell and then fool around with the innards, I'd expect you could at least get something that looks extremely similar to what's going on on Kiri n' co.
>>5340604
Yep.
>>5340572
This post of mine made me reflect even further on the original's story.
Vakama was originally called "cross wired freak" because of his visions, but they all ultimately came true or helped them, so the rest of the Toa Metru eventually accepted this power as genuine.
With the revelation that Mata Nui was just a giant robot and all the Matoran were just nanobots, Vakama was back to a faulty freak.
But since "destiny" as a nanobot/cell is just "making sure the creature/machine continue to function", I think Vakama's visions were not a mistake, or at least not without merit.
Whose idea was it to bring the Matoran to the island of Mata Nui? Vakama.
Whose plan required Mata Nui to be sleeping for a good chunk of time to work? Makuta.
Vakama received visions from the mind of Makuta, so that he'd do exactly what Makuta needed.
Remember, Makuta only got his ultimate plan after the Matoran Civil War on Metru Nui, that he played the major role in breaking up. Makuta noticed how the state of Metru Nui corresponded exactly with the state of Mata Nui, and this probably prompted him to search for the higher management- the two Glatorian who were to be pilots if Mata Nui failed.
The game was rigged from the start.
I'm really liking the earth guys with the new Gen Bionicle. Skull-basher and 2016 Onua are sick.
>>5340607
It kinda looks like a raft. Puffy, rubbery and wet.
>>5340604
Yep. A broad-shouldered chick that really lifts and can snap her sissy male counterparts in half. I'd "hit" such a woman. Also she's got a gun between her tits. As in, those two small shells on her chest left and right of the launcher; them's titties.
>>5340661
Also, Nilkuu, the Protector of Stone (or Herbs and Spices if you're cool) is definitely a trap. No male should have thighs that thick and arms so dainty b
>>5340661
She'd snap you.
>>5340682
>No male should have thighs that thick and arms so dainty
Gotta keep up with Pohatu's tornadoes, mang
>>5340691
>Nilkuu skipped arm day to keep up with Pohatu
That's dedication.
>>5340710
>day 122
>my wife has started working out with korgot
>now both of them are bombarding me with questions about my workout routine
>vizuna slapped my ass later that day, too
>goddammit pohatu slow the fuck down
>>5340607
She doesn't have one, toa don't have reproductive or sexual organs
>>5340764
they do, here's proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR4oJ482WYw
>>5340787
>if i pulled it off will you die
>it would turn me into a sex doll
>>5340787
Jesus christ
>>5340787
This is one of the greatest pieces of Bionicle media I've ever seen.
>>5340764
Sauce?
>>5340819
In G1 no on inside the GSR had reproductive organs (though Greg implied the bara/spherus magna inhabitants had humanlike ones), we have no idea how G2 works, though the villagers have families / children so that's a thing.
>>5340210
Time to start looking around
>>5340834
Yep, heading out tomorrow. I probably won't see shit, but I'll still pick up some older sets for parts. Gotta prepare to make the necessary fixes.
>using 3 different shades of brown on one set
JUST
>>5340859
Why the fuck is there that one tan piece on the tail.
>>5340859
Whoever decided on the colors for the new sets should be beaten.
>>5340859
>3 different browns
>black
>dark bley
>light bley
>silver
>lime
>trans neon yellow
We're almost reaching umbra levels of shitty color schemes.
>>5340869
But blue has always been a viable color for ta-matoran
>>5340869
Not even one of Bionicle's designers has any sense of color theory and it's a tragedy. At least they had the sense to pair the brown with trans-yellow instead of trans-lime this year, with just a bit of lime left over. They need to cool it with all the fucking gold and silver everywhere too.
>>5340859
What's even worse is that Pohatu's only bits of dark orange are his mask and the glatorian necks on his upper arms. Everything else is trans lime or silver.
>>5340869
Tahu's fine if you just accept that he isnt the red guy. He looks firey enough with all that trans-orange and the azure complements that well to look even more hot.
The stone guys are the only real tragedy in terms of color scheme.
>>5340859
>recolor the vorox armor in dark tan
>only use it on one set despite all the other possible applications and the fact that it would have looked fine in silver there
I dont understand, do they have some plan to use a bunch of them on quake beast or something?
>>5340891
To be fair, Pohatu looks a lot worse than he is in pictures because the trans lime on the crystal armor and sword pieces looks correct in photographs, but on his arms appears yellow like always, making him look even busier than he is with his two shades of brown.
>>5340903
I want to believe it's actual trans-yellow this time, seeing as there are pieces clearly colored trans-lime that look different.
Just found this guy going through some old bookshelves. Should I try to rebuild him and then upgrade him with CCBS parts?
>>5340912
Yeah, I rebuilt him awhile ago, stiff as a board.
>>5340912
Go ahead if you want. Just know there aren't many sets with dark red shells.
>>5340636
IT IS THE BAAAAAAANE BLAAAAAAAAADE
>>5340869
>yfw all the gold and trans-red actually makes him look more like fire than before
>>5340910
The bone on the Creature of Stone's tail is the same color as Pohatu's arms in that CGI render, and we know it's trans-lime. Sorry, anon.
>>5340944
I think it really would've made him look better was if some parts of the chest piece were trans red. Maybe around the ribs or the part between the stickers.
>>5340944
I've never been a big Tahu fan but I really, really like him. Speaking of which, I've noticed one of his blades has an axle and the other doesn't. Are they supposed to combine?
>>5340953
God fucking damn it. Why do they do this to us?
>>5340944
That's not the issue at all, you fuck. It's the horrible distribution of colors, use of black and grey bones, the tiniest bit of blue that does more to distract than provide contrast, and the appalling silver sliver on his mask.
>>5340869
He doesn't look that bad, but I might be wrong about it in person.
I'm wondering why add the azure blue if they weren't going to swap out his fire bits for Azure bits?
It'd look bitchin' if you ask me. Would explain how his flame is getting more intense, y'know?
Maybe even go with the eventual white flame or a burned out?
But eh.
>>5340973
Because the brown sets have always sold the worst
What they don't realize is that they sell worse because they always give them shit designs compared to the rest
How come no one on bricklink in the US has these? I'd rather not wait 2 weeks to get them from another country, or be forced to buy the entire set.
>>5340979
>burned out
Shadow Tahu, yo.
>>5337926
If I pull off that mask will he die?
>>5341123
It would be extremely relaxing.
>>5337926
Can Umurak wearing the MoCtr still combine with the creatures?
>>5341127
Yeah why would he not
>>5340607
>vagina
>>5341127
Yeah, why else would they change it from the original Dorito chip shape?
>>5340996
>brown sets
>shit design
Well, I mean, shit is brown.
Is umarak designed to combine with any beast, or is he supposed to hijack lewa's specifically like on the box art?
>>5341140
>hewkii mahri
>pohatu nuva
>pohatu phantoka
>pohatu 2015
All objectively bad designs on Lego's part
>>5341145
>>pohatu nuva
>>pohatu phantoka
>>pohatu 2015
>>objectively bad
u wot
I'll give you phantoka, but nuva is literally the mata version with armor and a better weapon, and the 2015 is just a samebuild with one of the cooler weapons
>>5341143
>not creating a mega-beast using Uxar's head for Umarak along with him using every creature
>>5340996
donchu be talkin shit about my nigga Panrahk
>>5341146
Nuva's mask looks terrible and has a bad body design. He's like a super fat midget
2015 is too bland, has the least pieces by a large margin, is short again, and has no back armor
>>5341164
They'll never understand his true meaning
>>5340966
I think all of the toa have long two handed weapons for the new gear function
also speaking of, someone needs to use the new bone structure to make a more G1 Pohatu
>>5339181
Unf
>>5340879
This. The new designers don't fucking know shit about colour coordination.
Brown looks garbage with trans yellow, they should have used trans-ivory.
There are two many dual colour sets. They need to fucking read the /fa/ sticky and coordinate similar shades complimented by suitable tones.
>>5341207
>trans-ivory
The hell even is that? You sound like a pretentious asshole.
>>5341211
He probably means trans black, like Onua's Kaukau.
And I disagree, the trans lime is fine as it is.
>>5341212
That is like literally the opposite of ivory.
Ketar's review is up on BZP and it's not that good
