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  1. Lyichir
    The problem with that is that there was never any chance of a new mold being designed for an exclusive figure like that. It's completely economically infeasible, and has never been done before. The chances of a Centaur (even a dwarf centaur or something) are infinitely greater for a regular CMF series than for any sort of limited exclusive.
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    I certainly can. There's a difference between formal and informal situations. Talking with a newly met acquaintance is an example of the former, whereas chastising a friend who has just done something unbelievably stupid is the latter. Just as a point of comparison, contrast this: "A threat has been made against Canterlot. We don't know who is responsible for it, but Princess Celestia asked that I help provide additional protection." With this: "Twily! Ah, I've missed, you, kid. How was the train ride? I–" Those are two lines spoken by Shining Armor, a character in My Little Pony with essentially the exact same voice as Jaller from Mask of Light. The first is spoken with grave earnestness, as a military matter. The latter is a cheerful greeting to his younger sister, and is obviously quite casual. So I don't really need to imagine the two lines you mentioned in the same voice, since I've already heard similar lines that prove it can be done.
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    To a certain extent. But I imagine the setting is one aspect of the story that DOES precede the sets, since it's part of a theme's long-term master plan rather than something that's planned out on a yearly basis. I suppose the Rahaga might just as well have been traveling Turaga, but a year where Turaga outnumber Matoran seems improbable to me (and as I already mentioned, 2001 was the only year which supported two full waves of small sets, and only because of the McDonalds promotion).
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    The Rahaga decidedly did NOT use leftover Rahkshi heads, seeing as every single Rahaga head was in a brand-new color (even the white and black ones used standard white and black, as opposed to the rare metallic colors the Rahkshi used). Frankly, I thought the Rahaga were a great deal better than the simplistic and awkwardly-proportioned 2004 Matoran... even though by that point I was starting to get tired of clone sets in general. New Turaga would have made zero sense in 2005 anyway since both of Metru Nui's known Turaga were out of the picture and there was no change in setting.
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    The P in "Corp" is pretty much never silent. You might be confusing it with the P-S in "Corps". But any way, since that P isn't silent I can't imagine the one in "Glorp" would be.
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    Re: this and all your other posts: While this may be an act of intrusion "in your view", you are wrong. This is not the equivalent of breaking into someone's house and stealing a confidential document. This is the equivalent of looking over at their yard from the street and seeing a rare butterfly perched on a rosebush in the front lawn. The image is publically accessible (despite not being linked from the main site yet). This didn't involve any sort of hacking or illegal activity, someone just guessed the URL based on the other Lego.com theme images, and their guess was correct. The image was not leaked by a third party who was not legally permitted to share it, it was added to the site by a Lego employee (likely because they were supposed to do so as part of their job). This is no different from the Shop at Home accidental confirmation from when the site redirected Bionicle queries to a "coming soon" page. So while you are free to act all high-and-mighty about ethics, the fact is that if anyone else shared this to BZPower it could not be justifiably removed because it does not violate any rules in any way, shape, or form, and as such BZPower itself sharing it is simply cutting out the middleman.
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    The Turaga had been portrayed the way the movies did from the very beginning. The set pictures may have featured them in slightly more actionlike poses, but the comics and Mata Nui Online Game ALWAYS portrayed them as "old and wise". They were never included in action, mostly standing around and telling stories. The fact that they were not hunched (except Whenua and Matau, who WERE) is just a consequence of their fairly limited design, which had to make do with standard Technic elements at a very cheap price point. In fact, in 2004 it was somewhat of a surprise that the Turaga had been Matoran alongside familiar faces like Jaller and Takua. I'm really sick of the revisionism that people try to force by claiming the Turaga were never meant to seem old or that the Matoran were never meant to seem young, and that the movies ruined that. Those aspects of the characters were always there in one form or another, and the fact that some fans didn't pick up on that is irrelevant. More to the point, the fact is that 2001 was the ONLY year in which there was a full set of Turaga and a full set of Matoran, and that's because the Matoran were McDonalds promotions. In 2004 a Turaga was made as a set only because they were the main villain, and thus an integral character who could be packaged in a larger set. But small sets sold worse and worse as the years went on, and by 2006 there was simply no room for a full set of six Matoran AND a Turaga. In 2007 there was not even room in the lineup for a full set of Matoran, let alone a less exciting elder character. Matoran are essential, far moreso than Turaga—there's no need for a wise leader without the people they will be leading, whereas villagers can go without leadership much more easily.
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    That's assuming the defenders are the antagonists—and I wouldn't say that's a safe assumption to make. The Skull Spiders (which appear to be able to replace masks, like Krana, and are included as opponents in every Toa set) seem to be filling the antagonist role, and I would expect that would make the defenders allies of the Toa. The defenders would likely be featured in the same commercials if they're featured in commercials at all, but not in an antagonistic role (that is, unless the Skull Spiders take control of them). I do wonder what the chances of individual character-based commercials might be. Perhaps there might be individual commercials for characters of each element. Or perhaps they'll be grouped into team-ups of two or three. I don't think it'll be limited to one commercial for the full assortment—most commercials these days highlight no more than three different sets per commercial.
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    More options for rotation and the ability to add custom decorations would be nice, but I think resizing parts or adding new parts/colors sort of runs against the core purposes of LDD. LDD exists to allow you to build whatever you want out of Lego elements, digitally. Adding parts or colors which have never been produced by Lego, or allowing you to resize parts (a straight-up impossibility with physical bricks, and one which would screw up compatibility between parts) don't strike me as particularly relevant to those aims, if not completely off-mission. LDD is in many ways the most realistic Lego CAD program, and I'd prefer they continue to work on making it more complete and realistic (by adding more real pieces, improving the connections between them, and possibly even implementing new features like physics simulations for gravity or functionality) rather than adding features which divorce it from reality altogether.
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    I meant "accompanying" as in "sold alongside". But their roles and size seem relatively consistent with Matoran. The shared masks are unusual but there are plenty of reasons why that might not be done—firstly, to reduce the cost, since 8 molds (6 Toa+Skull Spider+Defender) is a lot cheaper than 12, and secondly, to make sure the Toa are distinctive (i.e. don't share mask designs with other characters). I've even hypothesized that the shared masks are simply a substitute for randomized ones—unlikely, but would be quite a neat feature that may be the only way to get anything like the classic mask packs. While that may seem possible, remember that Bionicle attempted varying levels of that three times—first by shifting the character focus in the Metru Nui arc, then by focusing on six brand-new Toa in the Ignition arc, and finally by abandoning the entire Matoran Universe entirely in 2009. Each time, the complexity crept back into the story. The same would inevitably happen in a modern continuation, since there's really no point in a continuation unless the goal is to refer to past story. "Dumbing down" the story would likely be a turn-off to older fans (the only ones who would care that it's a continuation), and retconning it would add complexity due to varying levels of canon, in addition to defeating the purpose of a continuation by ignoring past story developments.
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    The characters resemble their original forms (including Kanohi, colors, and several of their tools/weapons). They are accompanied by small "defenders" (resembling Matoran) and are facing a primal force of destruction/corruption (the skull spiders, which seem to play a similar role to Krana or infected masks). The art we've seen, along with the golden masks included with each Toa, suggest a mask quest. A reboot makes more sense business-wise, since the bloated story of the original was one of the biggest factors contributing to the theme's decline, and connecting the new story with that would surely result in the same effect over time (don't forget that Bionicle's attempts at a soft reboot in 2004, 2006, and 2009 were largely unsuccessful at staving off that decline). Greg Farshtey has stated that he would personally rather have a reboot than a continuation, and while his inclusion on the new theme's story team is uncertain, it would not be unlikely given his ties to the original theme's story as well as his position as one of TLG's top employed writers. That all points to a reboot. Meanwhile, we've seen nothing that would hint at a continuation. So while either option is still possible until we actually know exactly what the story will be, I think expecting a continuation at this point is just setting yourself up for disappointment.
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    Chances are that's not why the new sets share that color, because chances are it's not a continuation. Everything we've seen thus far suggests this is a reboot, which would almost certainly mean no adaptive armor.
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    Personally I wish that her whole body were pink or even red. She's fine the way she is, but she doesn't quite fit with the previous genie.
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    This is a great review! I ordered one off eBay for the relatively affordable price of $80. I haven't opened it yet—I'm telling myself that I won't open it until the price of opened ones starts to approach what I paid for it MISB, but all things considered I'll probably break down and open it long before then. After all, I didn't buy it as an investment, I bought it because she's my favorite!
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    It's not just about the number of attendees, either. SDCC is a very big event occupying a comparatively short period of time, and there's no way any one attendee will be able to see everything. With Lego's competitors offering exclusive products and giveaways, Lego has to have something comparable or people will just pass by the Lego booth with the knowledge that what it does have (like new set reveals) can be seen online after the show. And of course, unlike Hasbro, Lego is a building toy company, so they have to have something to offer that couldn't just be assembled with existing parts. Exclusive figs are a cheap and easy way to do that. I recently bought this year's Comic Con Unikitty off eBay for about $80, which I figure is a fair price for an exclusive version of one of my favorite characters. I haven't opened her yet, but I figure I'll be comfortable doing so once the price of her opened climbs closer to what I paid for her MISB (which I'm sure will happen within a year or so, if past exclusives are any indication).
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    Despite having little interest in the Castle Cavalry set, I have a real soft spot for the little wheeled Micro-Manager in that set. It looks both adorable and pathetic, zooming along the ground while other Micro-Managers stomp around or fly.
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    The Lego Ideas sets always START with a limited run but additional production runs are typically made based on demand. For example, the initial Minecraft set has been produced many, many times and is still available, whereas the Curiosity Rover only secured a single production run to my knowledge. Given the success of this set and the hype around, I imagine Lego will continue to produce it at least for the near future.
  18. Lyichir
    Ah, the old "Lego forces kids to follow instructions" argument. I would have thought The Lego Movie would have highlighted the idiocy of that mode of thinking, but I guess not. The instructions are there to get you started, and have been that way for decades. I've drawn more inspiration and learned more about building from official sets than I ever could have with an open-ended bucket of bricks. I think the only people who would consider the inclusion of one set of instructions to restrict creative play are those who are too small-minded to move past them. The idea that established worlds and characters also restrict creative play is equally ludicrous. To say so is to deny the creativity of ALL works that derive from predecessors, including fanfiction and fan art, and, looking further, entire genres including science fiction and high fantasy that have built upon established tropes and motifs since their establishment.
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    That's a perfect example of when it ISN'T a legal connection—connecting a piece to a Technic hole by more than one stud locks the parts together too tightly. I wouldn't mind if connectivity like this were added, if only because I frequently use the offset between bricks with side studs and bricks with Technic holes to make minor adjustments to the position of floating bricks (or supposedly-attached bricks on sets which feature technically illegal connections) and it can occasionally become frustrating to have to recall which bricks have connectivity and which don't.
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    Yup. A sequel (as well as a standalone Ninjago movie) are confirmed to be in the works. Which is part of why I don't understand the assumption that these unannounced movies are based on Lego properties—apart from the possibility that one could be based on an unannounced theme (like next year's Bionicle relaunch), why not just up and say that they're Lego-related if that were the case?
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    I think you're vastly overestimating the number of older Bionicle fans versus the number of potential new fans. Consider that even at Bionicle's peak, the number of fans in organized fan communities like BZPower represented only a fraction of the theme's audience, and that the number of fans who have maintained that devotion to the brand has dwindled significantly since then. And back then, Lego's overall audience was itself much smaller than it is now, thanks to breakout successes like Ninjago and The Lego Movie. Bionicle's role in 2015 will likely be similar to its role back in 2001—to try to appeal to Lego fans who, as they grow up, are becoming less interested in simple, iconic themes like Space or Castle and are becoming more interested in larger-than-life heroes and stories with a deep mythology. The older fans who were in Bionicle's target age range back when it was still running are going to be as much of a minority demographic as older fans of most themes are—not insignificant, but not the target audience by a long shot.
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    The TV show is the core story. Everything else is supplementary side stories. So if you're trying to get up to speed as fast as possible, the TV series is the way to go. The chapter books and graphic novels are both excellent. When buying the chapter books be sure to stick to the early ones by Greg Farshtey. The past few years have only featured dull adaptations of the TV series by Tracey West, but the Greg Farshtey ones tell independent stories that are really quite good. The graphic novels are all good, so no worries there.
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    Oh, I have no doubt that they'll keep making Lego movies if they can. But there are already two other Lego movies in production, and it's stupid to assume that EVERY other movie announced by Warner Animation Group will be a Lego movie, especially when Warner Bros. owns many high-value cartoon properties ranging from Looney Tunes to the entire DC animated universe. So many sites are reporting this as "three new Lego movies", but the actual news suggests no such thing
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    I was very particular about capitalization for a brief period a while back, but I gave that up after copy editing gave me the realization that adhering to every brand's style guides for the formatting of their brand names can get slightly ridiculous. If I were writing an article for a Lego fansite or something I might still capitalize the brand name, but in casual forum posts and discussions it's not that important. I occasionally might use "Legos" in casual speech but never typed out, unless of course I'm using it ironically.
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    Those aren't confirmed to be Lego movies and even if some are I doubt they all are. The Lego Movie may have been the first successful movie from Warner Animation Group in ten years, but they aren't going to want their success going forward to be completely tied to a single brand they don't even own.
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