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  1. TwistLaw
    ... and in italian they translated (even on the official website!) only Skull Warrior's name. Another reason generic names, if really needed, should be handled with care. While I'm about it, do any italian fellow know it the sets hit physical stores?
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    Very, very nice. I like it a lot!
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    I don't know about you, but since BIONICLE is back on the shelves my life feels a little bit better. Just the thought that there are fresh BIONICLE sets out there makes me really, really happy.
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    I love you VVBN. Also this set gave me an erection.
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    While the scenario is different for sure, I think that surviving Pokémon and Nintendo DS' golden days is a strong proof that the LEGO brand doesn't fear competition from electronic devices. But we don't know what the future may bring, so I won't say that twice... On topic, I'm thankful it's been cleared what i was trying to say: the only thing BIONICLE has to fear is LEGO itself, since it's selling succesful themes addressing the same audience.
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    It all depends on how well BIONICLE fares in the future.
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    If someone kills constraction, or Lego in general it's not because of some other theme, but because of those cash crab Game Boy games that take kids attention and of what I have a deep hatred for. Many of them tend to be unethical in their business model (just look at Pokémon!), have poor quality overall and are hurthing both game and toyindustry. The idea that I should be thankful for SEGA for what they did four our country is sickening.
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    Thanks for the insight! Transformers apart none of them seems really threatening for BIONICLE, but I still can see that competiton abounds.
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    I am curious, who are the competitors in the buildable action figure area?
  10. TwistLaw
    That's exactly what I said in the OP: "It lasted four years, which are A LOT, but didn't really innovate after 2011"
  11. TwistLaw
    G-g-g-guys I was just trying to be a BIONICLE fan boy, no need for bashing, b-b-b-b-bakas >/////<
  12. TwistLaw
    I wouldn't go as far as saying CCBS was more innovative than Inika build, but I get your point.
  13. TwistLaw
    You're a tough nut to crack I'll just make one post. 1) 2013 and 2014 saw very little new pieces introduced, especially armor and weapons, and for how well known LEGO is for the clever recylce of its bricks it is... sadenning I guess? Or maybe I'm just nostalgic of the fresh feeling you could experience in 2004 or 2006. All those new pieces still, I didn't say we had no interesting sets, just few new pieces (and new pieces= high budget= LEGO trusts the brand) 2) In 2012 we got the first Hero Factory novel... and the last one. it was not for a HF merit, rather than because of the success of Ninjago novels. They've bitten, but the taste wasn't good. 3) Yeah, we had tons of ultrabuilds and this is a point for you, but I think it's more an attempt to make CCBS truly profitable. Sure, CCBS is also really adaptable. 4) I know that too, but a parent ain't gonna buy two LEGO sets for her/his kid. If one has to be bought, Ninjago is the most probable choice, even though it's a completely different toy.
  14. TwistLaw
    Right. Different but with the same pieces as always, cockpit excluded. Still something, but... meh. The TV special had to be done, since the contract LEGO signed for two more BIONICLE movies hadn't expired yet. In 2002 BIONICLE amounted for about 25% of LEGO revenues. Today constraction is a niche, as it's been often said. There's no need to citation, a confrontation between BIONICLE 2003 and Hero Factory 2013 should be quite self explanatory. Of course not to constraction, but as a LEGO IP in general. Back in 2001 LEGO had no other IP, and those later introduced until Ninjago had never an enormous success (Exo-Force, Knight's Kingdom, Galidor ).
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    Hero Factory was an average line, that's no news. It lasted four years, which are A LOT, but didn't really innovate after 2011 and had in general a fairly small budget that allowed it to "sell what it has to sell", as many LEGO employers reported during the years of its run. So, with books at the horizon (and HF had nothing like that in its first year), sets on shelves and early feedbacks, do you think this new generation of BIONICLE will be able to resuscitate the constraction area, nowadays a niche - ten years ago a LEGO mainstay? It's an harsh world for BIONICLE G2, with Ninjago stronger than ever and the constraction area a shadow of its former self, but I have hope for the future.
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    In G1 didn't we get pictures as early as late august? Even during HF we had pics by september.
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    When should we expect 2016 leaks? Like, in a month?
  18. TwistLaw
    Looks like it's not a lie when they say italians are lazy. The summer wave won't reach stores until september, even though the italian section of the Lego Shop lists the sets as available. Grrrr.
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    LewiMOC, I was there in that thread and seeing how you took that comment and put in in your signature makes my sides go in orbit.
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    So, I noticed since the early BIONICLE days that italian was always an almost non-existant language in LEGO merchandise. The good old CD ROM included in canisters were dubbed, but the names, slogan and most of the extra material had no italian nowhere. And still, my language is always the 4th in the legelese area (all that gibberish about not eating your bonkles). And even the last wave of Skull squad has no italian name on the back, even though an italian transaltion exists on the eshop. There's even european portuguese, and I think Portugal has a much smaller market than Italy, at least for obvious reasons (60 milions VS 10 milions inhabitants). So WHY does LEGO keep on forgetting about italian? Does my people buy so few sets they don't even bother translating the basis?!
  21. TwistLaw
    No problem :D I know it would be a nightmare, and that's exactly why I'd love some made up name: no problems with translation. But I'm becoming boring by now, so i'll just cut it :P
  22. TwistLaw
    I thought it was clear I was referencing the names printed on the boxes. Did this create an amount of russian media dedicated to HF comparable to the one North America got (while Europe didn't...) during Bionicle's run, as far as you know?
  23. TwistLaw
    It may be, but I fail to understand why they didn't receive at least a german translation, and I think nobody here has a doubt that Germany is LEGO's #2 market, almost for sure as far as sales are concerned, without a doubt as long as brand history is concerned.
  24. TwistLaw
    Since I've often read people whining about the scarcity of new names in G2, while other people said it made it easier for parents and other adults to remember the names, I have one important thing to point out. Not everybody understands english, at least in non-UK Europe and Asia. And sadly the new Bionicle are sold there with their english names, which sound meaningless as much as Pahrak or Keetongu to the average mother. So I'm quite sure when I say that names, while useless most of the times, are a great gift to fans without hurting anybody. When I wanted Suukorak I just told my mom to go buy me the white spider, and guess what she made it!
  25. TwistLaw
    I remember Greg said this, but I can't find the source. Do any of you know it? Also, do any of you know more about this? Like, did the Bohrok-Kal really sell that bad?
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