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Just to get people mad these sets could include a one special minifig per set :D

While Tahu has absolutely none transyellow pieces, save for his flame pieces on his larger swords/lavaboard. All the other toa have their corrupted/melted/whatev masks in the same secondary color as Protectors. And as trans light blue is arleady taken by Kopaka so Gali would have it the same way as the protector of water, in trans blue. So wouldn't it make sense for Tahu to have a golden mask with trans yellow as a secondary color and not in reddish orange?

It's the problem on Lego's end but I didn't like the idea of possible need to discuss with them how I exploited their system and in the process making it longer to arrive. That's why I'll rather have another PoI.

Already bought three PoS in total so I guess that's the thing With the Hero Pack however I took PoI, as I have quite a lot of CCBS but I really wanted, again those new piston add-ons, this time in white :P

Lego tends to change colors but yeah, might not in this case. Tan could suit him fine setwise.. What I did really forgot was that these guys are supposed to be 20$ sets. Now this looks like a 15$ one.

Might be that the Dark red is used again. We already got the Chest plate in Dark Red with that Chi wolf... thing. Anyways here's a quick Obi.

Some Lego employees that don't follow the morale code are trying to make a quick buck?

Get on my level (this is a legit screenshot)

There are those strange pillars on the bottom of the stone region. Could that be the ancient city? Also just to note that while Makuta clearly is/was an earth villager Ekimu is either ice or water. (My guess is on ice) It would just make sense that the ancient city is directly between them.

...why it has the prototype MOCr on package?

Well I'd guess the story goes like this. Makuta/MouP created obstacles so no one could resurrect Ekimu. Ancient deceased warriors from the era of Mask Makers are reanimated by MoUP as nightmarish Skull warriors to make sure no one gets to Ekimu (apparently it took some other guys hands to slicer but mistakes do happen). The skullguys take toas' golden masks and destroy their elemental powers They need to find their elemental powers from themsleves. The masks just kinda ignited them while they were extinguished during the travel to Okoto?. (Could work as a hint towards the G1 connection) I hope they lose their golden masks forever, I don't personally like how they look with them. And now is a great opportunity to do that. And just to say, the toa have some resembleance even to their Mistika/Phantoka forms. Lewa has those things on his shoulders, Pohatu's boomerangs could be what's remainign of his rotors, Gali has large shoulderpads (Mistika had ones that were raised up), Onua's torso armoring is very much similiar to the one in Mistika, Kopaka has the least resembleance to his Adaptive armor form. only his launcher has a little simliarity with his spear. Tahu has more golden pieces than any other toa, resembling his golden armor. All in all. The toa are a mix betveen their normal Nuva and adaptive forms, aside from their masks they have close to no resembleance to their mata forms. I see people comparing these to nuva and Mata all the time but completely forgetting Mistika/Phantoka.

The sets are not outright bad but with small fixes the would be so much better. No exposed joints on Slicer and the case of the armor addon not pushing that much outwards. Maybe it will look better in person who knows what "effect" aesthically the other side of it has. My guess is that i still looks too much outwards tho. Could it be the case that while broken the armor is also supposed to look like it's bent?

Scorpio's function, colorcoded because it's not that simple. I'm not 100% sure of the top of the tail.

My guess on Basher's function.

Well my guess on not including Jedis was that they are harder to make organic enough with CCBS. Glad I was wrong. More capes is always for the best. Possibly not picking any of these expect for possibly Grievious.

So what we can wait from these, aside from the obvious headpiece that can't really be used on anywhere else without looking out of place than in the set itself of course. One of my main problems with the ultrabuilds, was that the neck connection was also placed horribly. Could these sets be the reason why the Skullguys of summer had such a poor budget? That they are making many of these SW ultrabuild parts possibly also Bionicle 2016 in mind? I wouldn't bet that we will get any Jedis. I can see them Making Grievious, and Darth Vader. Boba was already confirmed. Dunno about the rest. Stormtrooper is also a high guess.

Yep it would definetly had made more sense. Even more so with a gunmetalcolored one. While it would had took some out of Scorpio it wouldn't at least seem out of place. It would had definelty helped Slicer to look less cheap.

It could very well be that these pieces, if not for of course the weapoons and in some cases maybe the torn shell add-on might be only things with some recolored bones that will carry to the Winter wave. I'm not eager to get any of the Star Wars ultrabuild sets (those horrible horrible prices and the so overly milked franchise into Disney's pockets, ugh makes me almost puke) but, I could almost bet that we will see plenty of the pieces with them carry to the Bionicle 2016 sets, even more so than the ones from the skullguys. This is why I can't wait to see the models and analyze the new pieces. I really at least hope so. Any guess when they will be revealed?

It's funny I saw most of these things right from the prelims... I don't get what's wrong with asemmytery it makes even more sense with these guys, they are fallen warriors. Their armor was broken before they even were dead. Armor doesn't break symmetrically. In Warrior's case, yes his legs are too much different from eachother in aesthetic way.. Keep in mind these guy's are not trying to look like zombies. They have the "skull" in their name for a reason.

That guy is golden! Hope he will post individual pics. Love those masks for sure. The chest printing is also very nice. Basher's function is goign to be sweet and makes him even better than I thought. Those new armor pieces definetly are not that bad as I thought and make Grinder awesome too. The bones are cool but my opinion on the rest has not really changed. Scorpio and warrior are okay, those masks redeem something of them. And Slicer is still the worst thing for a while. At least it has one of that new armor piece. I really think what hurts him is that they had to stuff him with gicantic swords while smaller ones would had been just fine. All he really needed was leg armor and a new mask.

Made some skullthings http://gk733-bonkles.tumblr.com/post/109420160511/i-feel-like-the-new-sets-are-missing-something Skull Shackler Skull Scorcher Still tried to fit them in their prize point 15$ Shackler has the same function as Bolt Dragon. both use small torsos.

I'm pretty sure I could build these just by looking at the pictures after some mistakes even scorpio. Aside from the masks, I can pretty much think trough how the final product will look later on. The new bone and torso pieces are in silver, sweet. It's better than the white, or light grey we thought about. It really helps to give the idea that these creatures have skeletons made out of metal/protodermis and not bones. While other colors would had worked, it just wouldn't be as Bionicle as it is. Skull Warrior I love the bow and the color scheme works. I don't think the trans-orange shell makes it that much worse, but without it could be better. He has a sword on his back. Nice. Makes it live up to the 15$. Use of the Grinder's mask isn't the best thing to happen, but good enough. The asymmetrical leg armoring is a plus and a con. While the other leg just looks just fine the other looks spaghetti compared to the other. Skull Slicer Outright the worst set of the whole relaunch. Colors work well enough, expect for the completely random transorange piece. At least his claw-chain-thing uses same color. It barely has no armor. only two on it's hands which are the smallest size possible. Use of four arms on the same gearbox is a nice and welcome idea. But... the swords are massive and make it harder to work. They also are possibly the thing that ate this poor guy's budget the most with it's two extra hands. And last and possibly worst, they give him a skullspider as mask. That is just outright pathetic. Skull Basher No trans-pink :( Purple does well enough. The color scheme works pretty well. I love this guy's appearance. if I would be nitpicky I would say it needs some upper leg armor. That wouldn't be the case if those massive new add-ons on the lower wouldn't be there. Oh well this guy is anyway well thought out it's also surprisingly only 15$ which is nice! Skull Scorpio I have grown to like this guy more. I really hope the legs are pose-able from the torso. I don't want another LOSS (get it?) The tail seems to have a gripping mechanism. It leads forwards and grips. (think about-Kanera leaning forward and opening it's mouth). Sadly it has no dark tan shells. the color scheme works fairly well. While the tail looks kinda ridiculous I can give it back for it's function. Depends on if the legs are posable if I like this set more, but I have my doubts with them. Sadly it's not a homage to Nui-Jaga. Still, good enough. Skull Grinder A menacing looking villain with certainly intreseting upperback. Yet he is too short and suffers from the same little problem as Basher on his legs, yet it looks worse. His staff is an original looking, yet strange weapon. It's not magneficent but it's not bad either. The horns are a nice touch and give him an outright demonic appearance. Ekimu. Amazing, the MOCr just makes it even better. really not much to complain. How these could have been fixed (in the way they would still be the same price) . Skull Warrior change the transorange to something else or add it more. balance out the leg armor. Skull Slicer. Much, much to do. change the torso to a smaller one and mount the gearbox there add limb shell instead of the new torso armor and cover it with the same chestplate.. Swap the weapons to smaller ones. Give it upper leg armor, hands are okay. Mold it a proper mask. add more trans orange or remove the one from his right shoulder. Skull Basher Not much can do. It's already close to breaking it's price point. annd works pretty great now. Skull Scorpio if It seems if the legs can't be posed, they should be made from smaller pieces to allow that. Dark Tan would had been better with it. Skull Grinder and Ekimu Remove Ekimu's shield. he already has many, many functions. use the budget of the shield to give grinder longer upper legs, get rid of his small pathetic sword. and armor them properly. Now he needs longer arms, no need for lower arm armort hough. I feel like the desgners were playing around with the idea that the skullguys take toa's masks and corrupt(?) them. Then a Lego guy said their budget and they cut the 2 sets (Skullgenerifireguy and skull-water-thing with 6 legs) out. It's nice we get new bones and all but this wave is really not that great. I really hope they push harder next year.

Is that Rock Raiders? EDIT. seems to be Ultra Agents. Sad, I really want that theme to make a return.

Yeah, I would like to see Lewa x Gali too. It was a pairing seen from miles away in the original but got no attention back then. Hope to see some of that in Gen2. ..but we really should be talking about something else here. Any news from Nuremberg toyfair?

Meh... depends on what is on that little booklet tho. I really have no need for anymore blue skullspiders. The trans-orange tahu mask is not a must own thing either. Map of Okoto could be nice. But seeing that it's rather just the static image of the animation and not the more realistic one. I don't even see any locations marked on the map. Also, see how this is labeled as "hero set" I'd say there is a great possibility we'll get a "villain set" later this year.