2016 Action Figure Wishlist

[TheOneVeyronian]

Even though CCBS parts were removed from PaB quite some time ago, LEGO do continue to sell them through their Bricks and Pieces service, often at fairly reasonable prices, so it's really the place to go especially when you want loads of a shell that only appeared in a quantity of 1 in 1 set. Like PoE's trans-purple mace half for instance. It's a godsend especially when there are almost zero CCBS specialised Bricklink shops (that sell CCBS parts made in the last year or so that is) in my country, an those that do stock CCBS at all stock very slowly (seriously, I think I've emptied most of the UK BL stores of their 5M cup-cup bones, my staple MOC'ing bone )

The only problem I have with that is that I feel they've been incredibly slack with getting the summer set parts available for sale (not just Bionicle), and it doesn't instill me with much confidence that the BnP service will continue. This in turn has forced me to start buying multiples of sets instead

Anyway... I'm still hoping for new feet, and Earth Blue shells. Give me those and anything else new will just be extra gravy

[Lyichir]

That's quite interesting, but also a shame. I don't use PaB, so I don't really know how the system quite works. Are parts separated out into categories? If so, surely CCBS parts were in their own category?

It does use categories (the same ones used by Lego's customer service database and Brickset), but those categories are far from intuitive. Most CCBS shells are in "Figure, Accessories", but even I sometimes mix that up with categories like "Figure Accessories, Upper and Lower Part" (Mostly non-standard minifigure parts like the parts to Herofigs, Battle Droids, etc.), "Figure Accessories, Upper Body" (minifigure neck wear), "Figure Parts" (Mostly old Bionicle parts plus a few early CCBS parts), and even "Figures, Accessories" (only used for a few Duplo figure accessories). There is no one category for CCBS parts—things like weapons can even be split between multiple categories in some cases. In short, while there's some categorization, it's almost more confusing than having none at all.

Edited August 24, 2015 by Lyichir

[TheDesuComplex]

It does use categories (the same ones used by Lego's customer service database and Brickset), but those categories are far from intuitive. Most CCBS shells are in "Figure, Accessories", but even I sometimes mix that up with categories like "Figure Accessories, Upper and Lower Part" (Mostly non-standard minifigure parts like the parts to Herofigs, Battle Droids, etc.), "Figure Accessories, Upper Body" (minifigure neck wear), "Figure Parts" (Mostly old Bionicle parts plus a few early CCBS parts), and even "Figures, Accessories" (only used for a few Duplo figure accessories). There is no one category for CCBS parts—things like weapons can even be split between multiple categories in some cases. In short, while there's some categorization, it's almost more confusing than having none at all.

I really wish that on both PaB and Bricklink there could be categories dedicated to CCBS. Such categories could include: CCBS Bones, CCBS Shells, CCBS Armor (Addons), CCBS Weapons. Sadly, in terms of Bricklink, they most likely don't care about it enough to switch it from everything tossed under 'Hero Factory', 'Bionicle', and 'Large Figure Part'. In terms of PaB, it is most likely mixed up the way it is because that is how the parts are categorized internally. Speaking about Bricklink, I really wish that decorated parts were available as 'sub-parts' and options, but that isn't pertinent to the topic of this discussion.

[Mutant Orc]

A while back I decided I wanted some more of the parts in colours that were exclusive/new to some of the Bionicle sets, and when I did I comparison between getting the parts I wanted from the bricks and pieces service or getting doubles of the sets, doubles of the sets turned out a huge amount better value.

[Kalhiki]

But something like this would be the best darn thing.

Give to me...

That's gorgeous. I'd love to see an official, Lego-produced one.

Actually, just give me a bunch of G1 inspired armor add-ons. I'd love to see an add-on that's based the Vahki leg.

[GK733]

I'd love to see an add-on that's based the Vahki leg.

...oh the Irony.

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[TheOneVeyronian]

A while back I decided I wanted some more of the parts in colours that were exclusive/new to some of the Bionicle sets, and when I did I comparison between getting the parts I wanted from the bricks and pieces service or getting doubles of the sets, doubles of the sets turned out a huge amount better value.

I've found the same thing as well this year. Even if you pay full price for the sets, it's better value. There's a reason why I've bought extras of all the Skull Villain sets (aside from inability to buy the new armours directly from them), and a ton of Ice and Jungle Protectors from Tesco when they were £2.50 each. And if LEGO keeps up their incompetence with keeping BnP up to date with new parts (and, though I have some reliable and cheap-ish CCBS sellers bookmarked there that get new CCBS recolours in fairly quickly, Bricklink will no doubt be very slow in adding the new Bionicle parts), I'm likely doing the same with the 2016 sets too.

Oh, and I just thought of something else I'd like to see in the 2016 sets (to add to the SW shoulder armour in black, Earth Blue shells and new feet): the new piston add-on in black (or even titanium metallic) would be great. I have some dark coloured CCBS mechs that could really benefit from the piston add-on in a dark colour. Silver is just too bright sometimes!

[Aanchir]

Oh, and I just thought of something else I'd like to see in the 2016 sets (to add to the SW shoulder armour in black, Earth Blue shells and new feet): the new piston add-on in black (or even titanium metallic) would be great. I have some dark coloured CCBS mechs that could really benefit from the piston add-on in a dark colour. Silver is just too bright sometimes!

Agreed, more colors for that part could be great, especially darker neutral colors like black or titanium metallic. For a while I was hoping that the summer 2015 sets might use those (back towards the beginning of the year, before we really had any clue what the summer sets would be like).

[Kalhiki]

...oh the Irony.

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Haha! I have no idea why they decided to use the Vahki leg for that comparison considering the part is clearly based on the Toa Mata body.

[MakutaOfWar]

If they added detail resembling G1 pieces to the shells wouldn't they be saving money on plastic? I know the cost for new molds would be high but having little details carved out would lower the amount of plastic needed, right? Might add frailty though, I guess.

Either way I hope we get more add-ons that resemble the old aesthetic, and multiple molds circulating... and in more colors. I guess it shouldn't be too much of a problem. I thought they had already retired the HF add-ons but I didn't realize the sw ultrabuilds use them. Except that round one, right? Havn't seen that since 13'.

[Aanchir]

Either way I hope we get more add-ons that resemble the old aesthetic, and multiple molds circulating... and in more colors. I guess it shouldn't be too much of a problem. I thought they had already retired the HF add-ons but I didn't realize the sw ultrabuilds use them. Except that round one, right? Havn't seen that since 13'.

The Darth Vader set uses both the square ones AND the round ones for his shoulders. Kinda surprised me too! Not in a bad way though. Those are useful pieces.

[MakutaOfWar]

The Darth Vader set uses both the square ones AND the round ones for his shoulders. Kinda surprised me too! Not in a bad way though. Those are useful pieces.

Really? I guess I didn't look hard enough. That's cool, maybe they don't retire molds as much as I thought they do. *Looks at Drilldozers shoulder/torso armor with hope*

[CabooseBM]

Even though CCBS parts were removed from PaB quite some time ago, LEGO do continue to sell them through their Bricks and Pieces service, often at fairly reasonable prices, so it's really the place to go especially when you want loads of a shell that only appeared in a quantity of 1 in 1 set. Like PoE's trans-purple mace half for instance. It's a godsend especially when there are almost zero CCBS specialised Bricklink shops (that sell CCBS parts made in the last year or so that is) in my country, an those that do stock CCBS at all stock very slowly (seriously, I think I've emptied most of the UK BL stores of their 5M cup-cup bones, my staple MOC'ing bone )

The only problem I have with that is that I feel they've been incredibly slack with getting the summer set parts available for sale (not just Bionicle), and it doesn't instill me with much confidence that the BnP service will continue. This in turn has forced me to start buying multiples of sets instead

Anyway... I'm still hoping for new feet, and Earth Blue shells. Give me those and anything else new will just be extra gravy

I didn't think that would actually work, is that really a thing I can do??

[mysteriouspi]

I didn't think that would actually work, is that really a thing I can do??

Yes it is, though "reasonable prices" is a matter of opinion. When I need a bunch of 3M bones and they're $0.36 each from BaP, I'll look other places.

[Aethersprite]

Takanuva plz. Give me my favourite G1 character and I'll promise to buy Lego forever.

On a serious note (okay I'm pretty serious about Taka) - I'd love to see more vehicles/figures paired with 'beasts' used for transportation a la Nivawk or Cendox. I love humanoid builds but I'd really like to see more non-conventional builds, especially with the all the potential diversity the CCBS provides.

[Umbra-Manis]

Boba Fett. Sand green FTW!

[Cheatster9000x]

This spills into 2015, technically, but Gearboxes for Lightsaber users for the Star Wars sets.

[Shakar]

Well, let's try to make a comprehensive wishlist.

BIONICLE

-More good looking and multi-purpose weapons

-Masks in more than one colour, like 2015

-More colours for the piston add-on (red, black, titanium metallic, etc)

-New bone colours

-More cool printed designs

-A cape that fits gearboxes

-Mask of Control in at least two colours- gold and titanium metallic/black would be ideal. I do think we'll see Makuta wearing it before the MoUP, as it's clearly designed to be a villain mask (those ram horns!) AND to be reminiscient of the Kraahkan

-A proper, Darth Vader/Grievous level Titan (30-35 Euro) as Summer's Big Bad. Not necessarily Makuta, though I'd except the same treatment for him whenever his time comes.

STAR WARS

-More colours for the new parts

-Purple lightsaber?

-More capes (I'd really like a white or tan one- enough with black ones)

-C3PO (gold hands! Gold armour!)

-Yoda and Boba (sand and possibly olive green)

-At least another Titan

[Frozen Assasin]

Also, return of old pieces and molds. No Inika bodies, but something like Mata feet, Bohrok Shields and feet, Agori legs , old weapons , Vahki legs...You get the idea. It would be cool if they rerealesed some old HF parts as well - returrn of 1.0 bodies and feet.

[GK733]

Also, return of old pieces and molds. No Inika bodies, but something like Mata feet, Bohrok Shields and feet, Agori legs , old weapons , Vahki legs...You get the idea. It would be cool if they rerealesed some old HF parts as well - returrn of 1.0 bodies and feet.

Old and brittle designs... no thank you. agori/avmatoran parts are trash, rest you mentioned are just un-usable or don't fit the style of CCBS besides the HF 1.0 feet but they were made strictly for that theme.

I'm holding my hopes to see Kopaka's sword because it still existed in 2010 as did the rahkshi spear, but I would rather see new molds that try fit into the Bionicle aesthetic and are versatile enough for other themes.

[Frozen Assasin]

Old and brittle designs... no thank you. agori/avmatoran parts are trash, rest you mentioned are just un-usable or don't fit the style of CCBS besides the HF 1.0 feet but they were made strictly for that theme.

I'm holding my hopes to see Kopaka's sword because it still existed in 2010 as did the rahkshi spear, but I would rather see new molds that try fit into the Bionicle aesthetic and are versatile enough for other themes.

Not immediately. Mata feet are great in Mocs and fit the aestithic quite well. Same with most parts (or maybe they just could adapt CCBS to fit them , hm ?). Agori parts - okay, maybe, but who says that they cannot make them more sturdy, as they did with the general "feet/hand/head/..."-connector part, which was changed for HF 2.0 ?

[Logan McOwen]

If they added detail resembling G1 pieces to the shells

Agori legs

Vahki legs

1.0 bodies

Devolution is generally a bad design choice.

Edited August 26, 2015 by LewiMOC

[MakutaOfWar]

Devolution is generally a bad design choice.

So you would say Nex 2.0 was an evolution visually or functionally?

Clarification so we can avoid any arguments and people justifying why they are right and why others are wrong like people usually do; I'm not saying sacrifice all current CCBS pieces in existence or the aesthetic, I simply said "more" detail akin to G1. It is Bionicle, afterall, not Hero Factory. I understand the design choice of CCBS is allegedly-I-don't-know-if-officially 'bland, smooth, cheap(y'all love this word), etc.' to fit a vast majority of possibility. Robots, organic organisms, other dimensional beings, whatever. I just want more detail, because standalone, they're beams and blocks with very little other defining features. All I want is more detail, not that I'm right or wrong to others, but because I'm a slave to my personal preferences. That is all, because this is a wishlist thread.

Edited August 26, 2015 by MakutaOfWar

[Logan McOwen]

The issue with detailed shells is they can't really be used for a lot other than their specific intended use, and often just sit around doing nought when in one's collection.

When you have a basic design that you can build on, you can do a lot more with that. That's why we have armour addons as opposed to detailed shells. The only exceptions at the moment are of course torso shells, due to the nature of how torsos are built in current sets.

But even then, the texture of these parts isn't too specialised - the Brain Attack shell's corrugated tummy is a very generic shape, as are the ribcage pieces from the Skull Creatures. If these were more detailed, they'd be much trickier to use creatively without making things messy - a ribcage piece littered with hydraulic rams and bolts would look most out of place on a more organic design, but as it is now it can be used to achieve all sorts of aesthetics. I mean, when was the last time you used those big detailed shells from the Ordeal of Fire?

Also, with G1 parts, you had way too many different textures floating about the place, so when you mixed up parts which were originally from different sets, things looked way too jumbled up. For example, the Toa Inika have a very cohesive aesthetic in their build up until their lower arms, which possess entirely different textures and shaping to the rest of the figure - the blockiness of the Vahki leg and the striped aesthetic of the Metru leg do not "go" with the otherwise very bevelled, streamlined aesthetic across the rest of the figure. I fear that this too would be the case if TLG introduced detailed shells as opposed to using optional addons. And I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that I do not want patchwork quilt sets again.

And anyway, G2 is G2. It has a mostly different aesthetic, and that's fine.

Edited August 26, 2015 by LewiMOC

[Frozen Assasin]

The issue with detailed shells is they can't really be used for a lot other than their specific intended use, and often just sit around doing nought when in one's collection.

When you have a basic design that you can build on, you can do a lot more with that. That's why we have armour addons as opposed to detailed shells. The only exceptions at the moment are of course torso shells, due to the nature of how torsos are built in current sets.

But even then, the texture of these parts isn't too specialised - the Brain Attack shell's corrugated tummy is a very generic shape, as are the ribcage pieces from the Skull Creatures. If these were more detailed, they'd be much trickier to use creatively without making things messy - a ribcage piece littered with hydraulic rams and bolts would look most out of place on a more organic design, but as it is now it can be used to achieve all sorts of aesthetics. I mean, when was the last time you used those big detailed shells from the Ordeal of Fire?

Well, that's what MOCing is for. You cannot say that Nui-Jaga weren't believable scorpions or that Kardas wasn't a believable dragon. And both of them looked (quite) organic and natural,despite utilizing non-organic parts and mechanisms. And even when that is not the case, you could simply explain it by saying that "he's a cyborg" or what-the-fracking-ever. Use you imagination and creativity.(And the fact that they have pistons on their claws could easily be explained story-wise).

And even then - every part could be multi-functional or decorative. I can say for sure that the Glatorian heads and Brain Attack heads make for excellent hands and feet (or even tails). And Kinna is an example of utilizing a very generic part (in her case, a leg) as a body part. So, even specialized parts could be utilized in dozens of different ways (I'm wondering why I haven't yet encountered MOC's that utilize the lower body of a Toa Metru as a head of an animal).

Also, with G1 parts, you had way too many different textures floating about the place, so when you mixed up parts which were originally from different sets, things looked way too jumbled up. For example, the Toa Inika have a very cohesive aesthetic in their build up until their lower arms, which possess entirely different textures and shaping to the rest of the figure - the blockiness of the Vahki leg and the striped aesthetic of the Metru leg do not "go" with the otherwise very bevelled, streamlined aesthetic across the rest of the figure. I fear that this too would be the case if TLG introduced detailed shells as opposed to using optional addons. And I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that I do not want patchwork quilt sets again.

Okay, maybe. But one of the biggest problems of the Inika was that streamlined aesthetic - that's the reason why people hate the Inika build and body. Hell, they didn't even look like robots at all (an issue that I have with the latest batches of HF as well). - at least not in the classical sense. And the "patchwork quilt" thingy was something unique to G1 Bionicle and I'm quite sure that there are lots of people out there who want this to return in the new Bionicles, since this was kind of the thing since 2004 - you have to admit that the Mata arms didn't look that great on the Vakhi either.(BTW - their (the Toa Inika's) legs looked even blockier than the arms and you don't have an problem with that.)

And anyway, G2 is G2. It has a mostly different aesthetic, and that's fine.

Yes, but returning to the roots is something most people expect.(Or I atleast hope so.) Edited August 26, 2015 by Frozen Assasin