TwistLaw
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heard you talking sheet about 2007 like I wouldn't find out that was a great year with brilliant sets, and 2015 is much closer to that year's philosophy more than anything else.
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This leaves open so many combinations that it's still worth asking.
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Star Wars Constraction 2016 Discussion
TwistLaw replied to Logan McOwen's topic in LEGO Action Figures
This meem has never been fun to begin with. Well, maybe a bit, but got old quickly. -
Oh boy, this guy is gorgeous. Outstanding colour scheme, great function, and my goodness that torso is just so well built (the Vorox armour looks like it was conceived for this set). Those creatures are miles better than the Uniters, and excellent sets on their own.
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My favourite creature. Less imposing than Ikir but with better looks and colours. Day one buy.
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Oh yes, Ignition saga looked pretty bad for me too, just trying too hard to fit in the edgy atmosphere of the year. The characters in the new comic sure look more alive and all, but at the end of the day the one and only problem I have right here right now is that they could've been drawn better. in my opinion
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When you read a comic, but when your average kid (again, target audience) reads a comic he would prefer something as close as possible to what he can see with his own to eyes. Besides the problem here is that this artistic interpretation just looks bad, for sure something far below the standards we had in G1 comics. I loved this year's animation, even though they didn't represent the sets exactly as they looked. Comics in that artstyle? Anyday of the year, here's my money. An artstyle that has a derp moment at every page? No thanks. (last but not least, G1 comics were extremely close to real sets yet they succeded greatly at giving us an overview of the BIONICLE universe) (thus demonstrating that you can make a toy look like something that could really exist, à la G1 commercials)
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It's... ugly. I'm very disappointed by these comics. If you don't wanna be faithful to the sets, at least do like they did in the animation. Totally gonna skip this, give me more books at least. By the way, where the hell do these masks on the villagers come from?? Again, not being faithful to the sets is always a bad move. It partially was with MoL, it definitely is with Gathering of the Toa.
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I knew about the whole biomechanical stuff, I've read Windham's comment on that german forum. As much as you knew I used the word "robot" for easier understanding. Still, that doesn't justify at all any whining about Pohatu's mask: it's ok to give fictional characters human qualities, it's not ok to complain if such qualities don't match human genders. They're not supposed to be walking stereotypes, Gali can be """masculine""" as much as Pohatu can be """feminine""". Don't make me do that kind of talking, pretty please with sugar on top.
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Thankfully there are many who agree with me when I say that I LOVE this set. It's so technic-ish yet elegan, with great colours and a very interesting build despite the small size. Love this kind of stuff, Akida leaves in the dust LOSS and Skull Scorpio. Huray!
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No sheet Sherlock, the point is we're talking about freaking robots. Their appearance "showing" their gender shouldn't be a problem. Female hyenas have gigantic clitoris (omg lewd stuff), but they're still females. We shouldn't apply our standards to things unrelated to us (if G2 BIONICLE are robots built by humans you have a point, but until the day it will be revelaed you don't).
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> feminine not this sheet again...
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"How to Build a Bionicle Creation" from WikiHow
TwistLaw replied to Logan McOwen's topic in LEGO Action Figures
For a beginner I think it's the best suggestion. If he wanna become the koolest MOCer in town he'll sure find his way sooner or later. -
Hold on, I didn't compare the Uniters to the Toa Metru, I said that pistons worked really good on them. The Uniters are messy, confused in many aspects the first being textures. If they had 50 pistons on their body, but those pistons were as homogeneous as they were on the Metru, most of us could be far more okay with it.
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I think that the expression "school of academia" sounds just a little bit pretentious in the context of toys aesthetics, but I'll give that when something is messy (like this year's Tahu) is messy no matter the point of view. But about the pistons... I'm completely fine with them The Toa Metru had pistons beyond imagination yet they managed to have an outstanding look, I'd go as far as saying they were the quintessential BIONICLE set. So no, definitely no, the problem here is not the overabundance of pistons, rather than the fact the designers didn't really know what they had to expect from the toys they were designing.
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I really don't know what to think of this guy.... he sure looks over the top, a flaming mess of gold, and while I like this it's also important to note how drastic is the change from his 2015 form. A change for the worst. The only thing I dislike about the reboot is the overabundance of gold (we had literally 7 characters with golden parts in G1, something G2 beated in just ONE year), and Tahu16 just makes things even more glaring. I think that the thing G1 got the best was the simplicity of its earlier sets, thus making them more "iconic". 2015 had excellent sets with great personalities, but you need something easy to see in order to have something memorable. While Takunuva08 beats miles his former incarnation, nobody can deny that Taka03 remains one of the most iconic characters LEGO ever made. Simple armour, spot-on mask, nothing else needed. As a whole I think these Nuva 2.0 won't be liked half as much and remembered a third of their former selfs, and not just because we live in different years and all that chatter that pops out every time, but because there are just too many things going one without a clear target in sight.
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So, now there are three sets left to be reviewed: Tahu, Pohatu and Ikir. Pretty hyped for all three of them. (Between BZP, EB and BS01 of course)
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Gorgeous set. Totally gonna buy this green mosquito.
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Meh. Average set, clumsy and with a colour scheme better on paper than in practice. Most definitely gonna skip her. also this, this so much One last thing: why do they keep on saying this year's figures are flat? Gearbox aside they are no different from 2015 sets, and literally everything from G1.
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Star Wars Constraction 2016 Discussion
TwistLaw replied to Logan McOwen's topic in LEGO Action Figures
Looks like they're shelving the ugliest first. :P -
Being explicit about the fact you're trying to sell a toy by writing a book.
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Outstanding set. I'm still not sold on his overall looks, even though I know he's a hunter in disguise and everything. Whatever, day 1 buy along with Onua. And "Umarak le chasseur" sounds so damn good. I wish they translated his name in italian, or at least in japanese (Umarakku za hunta, I love the sound of it).
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I've never read a G1 book. Has it always been so blatant the "mega ultra powerful sword included in 8534 Toa Tahu○" tone?
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I-I-I forgot that Google adapts the results basing on previous searches by the user. This is embarrassing. I guess I shoud've bitten my tongue before writing that comment. EDIT: actually it's the same for me, but if you go to the images section it's mostly grinders. EDIT 2.0: cut and blaze are fairly generic words, and as a not-native english speaker "grinder" rings mostly one specific bell. Then again, if LEGO Italy made the tremendously difficult job of translating the sets' names we wouldn't even have this problem.
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One of the many reasons makes me grateful about names coming back is that we won't have anymore a situation like the one we had with Skull Grinder. Any of you that has googled his name will agree that it was a terrible choice for a children toy.