Quisoves Pugnat
-
Posts
363 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Everything posted by Quisoves Pugnat
-
This is already a thing, no? EDIT: Well, I guess you mean stud-based parts, not simply pin-pieces.
-
I suspect it's simply the continued integration of CCBS and Technic, in the same way that System has become considerably more Technic oriented post-2003 (or thereabouts.)
-
Well, there's not much for me to say that hasn't already been said. Lewa is probably my least favorite, though he's still interesting, the creatures are sweet, Tahu is much better than his previous iteration, the masks are cool, combined!Kopaka might be my favorite of the lot, and these are all around wonderful. PERMISSION TO SQUEE I doubt that there's been much time for such complaints to affect the current wave. I imagine they'd wait on sales-reports before weighing any criticisms of the line, and I am reasonably certain that 2016 was planned-out before LEGO had any such opportunity.
-
It's something that's always stuck out to me, so I'm not surprised to see LEGO capitalizing on it. I wonder which other Gen1 pieces will surface.
-
The figures look intriguing, though rather too indistinct for me to pass judgment. Lewa's mask looks worryingly like its counterpart from a certain BZPower series of comics, and Pohatu's puts me in mind of Vakama's mask in Legends of Metru Nui. Anyway, cool beans, though this does set a rather bad precedent in regards to BIONICLE leaks.
-
Swiveling arms are hardly the be all and end all of constraction, are they?
-
What's the earliest date, in recent years, that the November/December LEGO Magazine has surfaced? That's likely to have some sort of teaser for 2016.
-
Cut the guy some slack. Judging by his post and his post-count, he's an infrequent visitor to these forums.
-
Certainly not as the Big Story Engine. Though the "universe inside a giant spacefaring robot" idea could certainly be reused, if only in passing. Okoto, however, is most likely what it seems (though the Ancient City being in the shape of a Bonehead face is interesting...)Whatever the Big Twist is, assuming there is one, I imagine it'll be of a considerably different nature.
-
There's another reason that I think makes a Gen2 Takanuva ill-conceived. Takanuva was designed as a counterpart to Makuta, a diabolical entity with a strong motif of decay, corruption, and darkness. Gen2's Makuta seems far more defined by his covetousness. He wears the Mask of Control, he forged a mask with all the elements, and he's been described as "the Mask Hoarder." Barring a major change in the emphasis and portrayal of Makuta, a Toa of Light would come rather out of left field.
-
Thanks! I wonder if it will function as a Club Code.
-
Hidden letters? This is the first I've heard of this.
-
I'm curious as to why some folks are so certain that leaks are iminent. Sure, we could get leaks around this time, but there's no particular reason to assume that. I'd think, if anything, that the leakings of the 2015 sets would have prompted LEGO to tighten its security in regards to BIONICLE.
-
Hero Factory 2013 also did, but its numbering was non-linear, so I'm not sure it counts. Regardless, you have a good point.
-
By that logic, Tahu, Kopaka, and Onua shouldn't be larger than Lord of the Skull Spiders.
-
It does. This is a fundamental principle of economics: Supply and demand. What a product has to do is sell, and if it's not popular, it won't. There is a middle ground between "smash hit" and "abysmal failure." Generating enough sales to merit continued production sounds promising to me. If this is the case, why didn't LEGO let Hero Factory die without a replacement and simply continue CCBS as an extension of certain System themes? Also, I should like to point out that the Chima Ultrabuilds were part of the first year of Chima (ditto Nexo Knights.) LEGO had no guarantee that Chima was going to be successful when the Ultrabuilds were given the green-light. It still costs money to make. Why spend money on a failed system? Besides, the sameness is part of its whole ethos. It works well enough for System. Also, I'm hardly an expert on these things, but the wording of the news item suggests to me that the absence of a mention of BIONICLE may in part be due its odd position as a returning theme: The first five are evergreens, while the last two are new. BIONICLE is not currently an evergreen, nor is it strictly new. One more thing: Friends isn't mentioned in that report, and it's currently in its fourth year.
-
Be reasonable. If it were economical for a TV-series to employ animation of that quality, it would be all the rage. Considering that these are shorts of no more than two minutes in length, it seems especially impractical for LEGO to pay that much for them.
-
To reiterate what the Chir brothers often point out, it is not 2001. In 2001, BIONICLE was both novel and a diamond in a financial rough. Now, constraction has been around for sixteen years, BIONICLE is fourteen years old, and LEGO's System themes actually sell quite well. Constraction is, and always has been, niche. Never has there been more than one independent constraction theme at a time (okay, there were Galidor and Knights Kingdom, but they were a different flavor of constraction, the former a cul-de-sac, the latter's system surviving only through System sets.) If constraction were unpopular, LEGO wouldn't be making it, no? That flagship System themes like Chima, Nexo Knights, Superheroes, and Star Wars (that goldmine of goldmines) have constraction supplements suggests that the latter building-system has gained in popularity.
-
I see no evidence of Onua having flown. It looks like he might have leaped, however. Pohatu is hovering. Gali looks not so much to be wall-running as to be wall-climbing, with her fins anchoring her. Tahu seems to have climbed up the wall by projecting his heat-power through his swords, a perfectly plausible action, if you ask me. Kopaka slipped. =P
-
The concept art we've seen has been stunning. It's probably too much to hope, but I'd really like for the graphic novels to be done by the same artist (but then, who wouldn't?) That said, I am saddened that we haven't seen more of these awesome locations in the actual story. I understand that this is the introductory year, and that MNOG was quite the fluke, but it's a crying shame, nonetheless. Interestingly, the Ancient City picture uses superimposed photos of the sets.
-
Egads, that looks fake. I find it hard to see why it's being treated with any credibility. Gen2 hasn't been around long enough to be giving us part-barf-polybags (and judging by the general attempt at recapturing the Mata Nui years, most, if not all, exclusives will be masks.)
-
It's not as if it all could have fit into the comics, is it? Perhaps if the LEGO magazine had been monthly, it could have. As it was, there was one issue every two months. See, I never got this impression. I always had this feeling that the books were part of the expanded BIONICLE universe. Events exclusive to them were almost never referenced in the comics or the website or the product descriptions. Just reading the comics was, for the most part, enough to figure out what was going on. Lariska, Karzahni, the Shadowed One, Takanuva popping between realities, etc. were never mentioned in them, yet (excepting years with a film) you could glean the central from them, without (with the possible exception of Inika-to-be's journey to Voya Nui,) getting the sense that you were missing something. If this is the case (and I know that LEGO employees have stated it is. I just have a hard time believing it,) then why didn't sales increase in 2009, a year with no returning characters, as such, and only a single book, which was most definitely a side-adventure. Surely, if the plot had been an alienating factor, then that year would have seen a horde of newcomers?
-
Yeah. It's important to remember that the first three BIONICLE novels were expanded retellings of the first two-and-half years.
-
What are the most underrated Hero Factory sets?
Quisoves Pugnat replied to Logan McOwen's topic in LEGO Action Figures
I really need to get more Breakout sets (Rocka being the only one I own.) 2012 was the best year of Hero Factory by a country mile (though 2015 was probably more innovative.) If it hadn't been for my health, I would no doubt have generated the enthusiasm to snap up a few more of them. One of these days, I'll at least buy Thornaxx. -
Surely there's more to either site than the discussion of leaks? It's not as if leaks are the be all and end all of BIONICLE discussion. Not being allowed to discuss leaks is no different than not having leaks, and that is the status quo for most of the year (anomalies like 2015 notwithstanding.) Suppose LEGO tightened up its informational-security, such that there were no leaks. Period. Would you abandon Eurobricks?