Grima
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I'm not seeing a wide variety of eye colors which is worrying. if the glow is accurate to their final colors, four of them will have yellow eyes, and two of them will have blue.
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I really preferred the prototype Hau to this one. And yet the Kaukau emerged unchanged from the prototypes, despite easily being the most hideous. Both Pohatu and Kopaka still have the Guurahk staff piece. Time to be smug about being right. (In fact, printing and masks aside, I was right about the leaked images being pretty much final, too.) EDIT: hold on..... are those...... does the LoSS use BLACK 2 stud axles??? after a seven year drought of them, at last they have returned to us. Praise LEGO! (I know they've used them in other sets but they have been sorely missed in constraction)
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Actually, I think it's pretty much the thought that, in late Bionicle, Trans. Reddish Orange was basically used like Trans. Red, so basically what we're seeing may as well be another red and black villain, except we don't even get Trans. Red out of the deal, but more Trans. Reddish Orange. I'm fine with it as long as we don't go back to 2006-2008 palette of trans. lime or trans. reddish orange exclusively, especially when it became "trans. lime for good guys, trans. reddish orange for bad guys" combine that with 2008's terrible single-color color schemes and it was just terrible. EDIT: oh yeah also if the catalogue reddit guy is right the Guurahk staff pieces weren't placeholders and it is now my turn to be smug about being right
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oh hey i just realized the thing i thought was a second wheel on Onua's back actually seems to be his eyepiece if the reddit guy is right which means Onua might not have separately swinging arms, unfortunately. EDIT: On the other hand, the one wheel we do see looks somewhat offcenter, so it's still possible i guess? idk
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I keep revisiting Kopaka's legs in hopes of gaining some sort of appreciation for them but I just can't. It's impossible. His legs are just really, really bad. I don't know who thought calves almost as wide as they are tall was a good idea but they should be demoted to assistant set designer or something because these are just. really bad legs.
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I'd prefer Lewa have his original trans. lime eyes, if only because he was the only Toa Mata to never change his eye color, and it would be a shame if that were to change.
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If we get those combiners and not Toa Kaita, I'll be kinda let down, tbh.
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Not necessarily; the wording could mean anything from special set reviews to just finally unveiling a new front page that didn't cough and hack its way from the early 2000s.
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Not this much earlier, i don't think, if that's where this is going. i'm pretty sure they get them, like, a month ahead of time at most. The only exception that comes to mind is the HF sets for this year, because of the delayed street dates.
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Actually, my worry was that the head would be too tall, since I thought the clips might fit higher on the head than the axle holes of the BA head while still otherwise being the same size. That's a terrible explanation of what I thought but hopefully you can get what I mean? If it doesn't fit snugly on the head, though, and if they really don't bother with friction, wobbling around is a risk with using it with any piece that doesn't snugly press against the mask.
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An interesting thing to note is that the mask seems to rest form-fittingly onto the head (which explains how weirdly smooth it is inside). In other words, it cannot swing. In other other words, there's no reason to give it much friction at all. Some shakier, more speculative observations that groove in the mouth area again makes me think we're definitely looking at a reimagining of the 2001 faces the little mask nubs look like they rest too high up on this head to properly align with the axle holes on previous heads; they look like they're half a studs width higher, roundabout. if this head is the same height as BA/Glatorian heads, it would be impossible to attach it at all. it might be completely backwards incompatible altogether.
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...No, it really doesn't.
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...that's really not an applicable use of the word "cheaper".
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...not only was I being facetious, but I literally just said that.
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Yes, and there are two identical cracks in the rock on either side of the mask. They used a repeating rock texture. That's why.
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No, that's clearly Makuta's finger poking through the wall, and he's going to emerge bit by bit until release day when he'll burst through like Kool-Aid Man.
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we'll finally learn how kapura farts without an anus
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...I feel kind of stupid for not knowing that.
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The environmentalist in me perks up at recycling, though; if LEGO can produce cardboard packaging with even fewer emissions than the pouches, I will be a happy camper, because even if the pouches weren't so unrecyclable, more people think to recycle cardboard than plastic pouches. Arguably, some form of biodegradable packaging would be even better, but I'm not sure how that would work for toys.
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I think it's unfair to call anyone who doesn't keep the packaging irrational; some people have their own storage methods for their LEGO pieces other than kool-aid pouches, and at that point, it becomes a hinderance that they are, in fact, less recyclable than the canisters that preceded them.
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I actually tried running a poll on what different people do with their packaging, and the numbers somewhat confirmed the idea that most people throw away bags, recycle boxes, and keep canisters. It makes sense that not as many people recycle the bags, because they have the least recyclable recycle code. However, this is only after removing the vast results of people that keep everything like hoarders, which I think is still bad for the environment.
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That would be a terrible roundabout way of doing it, and would result in the mask connection not being two modules wide, thus making the mask practically functionally useless as anything else. The photos we have don't really support the idea, either; what few glimpses we have of the head, the face and socket section are the same color.
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I suppose I can see how I may have misinterpreted the statement, and in that case, he would be right; if the new mask connection can't connect like that, then yes, there's no way it could be very versatile at all, really. Interestingly enough, I've tried that with the old dinosaur legs when I was younger. My memory isn't the clearest, but I think I may have run into what I was suggesting might happen with these masks; they swung too freely.
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I've thought plenty critically about my own. I don't see why me being unsure about this new mask connection, and denying the claims of it being extremely versatile, is such a terrible thing to you. They may have some versatility, but what I was denying was that they would be more versatile than the old connection, which is what I seemed to see people implying. That was the entire crux of my argument. The Inika heads being a one year thing did not prevent criticism; I don't see why that should be any different with this. Don't trample my opinion just because it doesn't align neatly with yours.
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Saying I'm unsure about this aspect of the set design =/= a kneejerk reaction to an entire building system, though I suppose if it allows you to sweep opinions you dislike under the rug so you no longer have to think critically about your own, more power to you.
