Logan McOwen

If they were to do Space Marines, I think something akin to WH40K would be more appropriate.

I actually got around to watching TFA last night, and rebuilt Rey and Finn while doing so. Watching the film really made me want figures of more of the characters, like Maz, Chewie and Han.

Does Jyn have dark bley shells on her arms? If so, she and the 'bot are day one purchases.

I saw Gali, Terak and Onua on clearance at Sainsbury's on Saturday. Felt weird.

I went ahead and poured over these photos last night to build myself a copy of Makuta. I had to make a couple of assumptions when building him though, such as the internals of the staff and how the Ikir head and gold horns are set up at the rear. All in all though, the process was really fun, and the finished product pretty rewarding. My only two points of contention are the connectors for the shells on the top of his chest (which are very loose and hard to position right) and his very bare lower back.

If you want to enter it, you ought to recolour the parts so that they match what's currently available IRL.

...yeah, I was made aware of the meaning of her name in a certain European language. Oops.

The Facebook page admins have added a new profile picture and cover photo. One last hurrah for the contest?

I actually had a dream last night about what it could've been like. This is all verbatim, and I'm filling in a lot of details I can no longer recall. In the dream, Lego just flat out announced all the sets in one go. I was at a toy shop for the release day of the winter wave, and got to see the summer wave in a catalogue. Synopsis Since the departure of the Toa, Okoto had been at peace. All of the Okotans had returned to the City of the Mask Makers, and in only a couple of years had restored it to its former glory. Little did they know that the Makuta and his armies in the Shadow Realm had also been busy. A great rift opened up at the northernmost point of Okoto, which Makuta and his armies used to spill out onto the island, bringing a wave of chaos beneath their feet. The current Protectors became aware of the oncoming invasion, and rushedly gathered with Ekimu to summon the Toa once more, to ward of the impending danger... Sets Year three had two waves of sets, split in a similar fashion to 2008. Each one had a B build, much like Technic sets do, which offered different weaponry and switched up armouring. Winter Lewa, Destined Master of Jungle - £9.99 Kopaka, Destined Master of Ice - £9.99 Pohatu, Destined Master of Stone - £9.99 Each of the winter wave Toa had a recoloured Uniter mask (their main colour with their trans colour blended), the swivelling Uniter torso, a torso shell like this with a separate printed Superheroes chestplate, a two handed weapon (Pohatu got a hammer, Lewa got an axe and Kopaka got a spear) and a stud shooter (Pohatu and Lewa had them shoulder-mounted, while Kopaka had his built into a shield on his right arm). Each Toa also came with a non-blended gold version of their mask. Otau, Beast Knight of Fire - £11.99 Etox, Beast Knight of Water - £11.99 Unga, Beast Knight of Earth - £11.99 The Beast Knights were essentially more humanoid versions of the Beasts. They had the swivelling Uniter torso, a shoulder gearbox like that on my modded Ekimu, two weapons each (Otau had flaming swords, Etox had metallic claws with electric sparks coming off of them, and Unga had two massive axes), and gunmetal recolours of Ekimu’s shoulderpads. The Beast knights all wore Beast masks, but blended with their respective elemental trans colours as opposed to lime green. Akiktu the Beast Master - £14.99 Akiktu was basically a large version of Otau, with more Technic-based legs and a bulkier, more buff build. He wielded a really large sword, and had complex gearbox that swung his right arm normally, but moved his left shoulder back and forth a la Quake Beast so he could bat with his clawed left hand. His Beast mask was gunmetal with a trans orange blend, and he also wore gunmetal Ekimu shoulderpads. Puto, Fire Guard - £6.99 Eko, Water Guard - £6.99 Ogo, Earth Guard - £6.99 These three were fairly identical Okotan villagers, with fancy gearboxes that allowed them to swing a melee weapon up and down in their left hand (Puto had a sword, Eko had a trident, Ogo had a hammer), and draw a very Bohrok-esque shield back and forth. It was hyped up big time on Puto’s boxart that she was a girl (which made even subconscious me cringe), and Eko’s mask was silver and trans dark blue. Beastling of Jungle - £6.99 Beastling of Ice - £6.99 Beastling of Stone - £6.99 These were essentially tiny Beasts. Each was built practically identically, with arms that could swing up and down with a 2015 gearbox and different appendages (BoJ had clawed wings like a bat, BoI had clawed paws, BoS had big rocky fists). They wore Beast masks of their respective elemental opaque and trans colours. Summer Tahu, Destined Master of Fire - £11.99 Gali, Destined Master of Water - £11.99 Onua, Destined Master of Earth - £11.99 These were pretty similarly handled to the winter wave Toa, but each one had a gearbox akin to those used by the Beast Knights and had gold armour here and there. Tahu wielded a new pair of fireswords and had two shoulder-mounted stud shooters, Gali had a new version of her 2015 axe which could yet again be turned into flippers and a trident, and Onua had a new version of his 2015 hammer which could open up like a clam to reveal a stud shooter inside. Oh, and they each came with non-blended gold versions of their masks, of course. Krika, Vermin of Ice - £9.99 Bitil, Vermin of Stone - £9.99 Gorast, Vermin of Jungle - £9.99 Yes, you read those names right. These guys were all very reminiscent to their Mistika namesakes, but they all wore identical, translucent masks on top of trans orange heads with light blue eye stalks. In fact, these guys were covered in trans pieces, coloured respectively to their elements (Krika being trans white, interestingly). Krika had a Beast Knight gearbox, While Gorast and Bitil had Ikir-esque gearboxes that allowed them to flap Ant-Man wings. Each Vermin included a silver version of their mask, with a trans blend at the top matching their main trans colour. Ekimu the Mask Maker - £7.99 Basically the same build as the guards from the winter wave, but swapped hand orientation and his iconic hammer and mask. He also came with Agil, which could perch on a perch attached to Ekimu’s back. Makuta, Master of Shadow - £39.99 Oh baby. This was basically just the big purple Makuta from the contest video, with a Protector-sized Makuta added as a bonus model. He also included trans purple version of the MoUP, and a really messily blended black and dark orange 2015 MoF.

I think the best thing we can say now, is ‪#‎ThankYouLego‬. I'm upset about this, but I don't want to rant. Instead, I want to thank everybody who worked on G2 and made it what it was. To the set designers: Thank you for reshaping Bionicle in a new, modern way. You've proven that the CCBS can do a lot more than it ever did with Hero Factory, and in the process have inspired myself and countless others to experiment with the system and create amazing things. The sets that have been released over the past two years have all been fantastic. Thank you. To the story team: Thank you creating a new, exciting take on the Bionicle franchise. While not the original, G2 was certainly distinct and interesting, and thoroughly engrossing. You opened up a ton of opportunities for fans to come up with their own adventures and characters within the new universe, and I can only imagine that they will continue to expand it further. Thank you. To Volta: Thank you for creating Journey to One, probably one of the best pieces of Bionicle storytelling I've come across. You translated the toy designs excellently, and blended 2D and 3D animation beautifully to create a show that is incredibly satisfying to watch. Thank you. To the social media team: Thank you for keeping us updated on everything Bionicle, and allowing us unprecedented access to concept artwork for the franchise. It must be tough work putting up with hundreds of avid fans every day, and for that I commend you. Thank you. Overall, thank you for bringing Bionicle back. It's sad that you can't continue, but I respect and commend your efforts, and look forward to what you'll be coming up with next. ‪#‎ThankYouLego‬ Very useful contribution, thanks.

I've started on mine. He's got big chunky legs so far. Even if I don't win, I'll still end up with a model I love :)

Okay, so I just sneakily watched the last two episodes of JtO (thank you subtitles), and I can’t help but feel that a lot of the doomsaying going on is way too preemptive.

I'm seeing nothing but disdain for the ending of JtO. I'm now both looking forward to and dreading watching it. Eugh.

This guy is renowed for being overtly negative about pretty much anything. I'd just leave him to it if I were you.

What gold paint did you use on Naho?

I started on something the other night. Something bigger than usual for me, but hopefully still cohesive in the end.

He wouldn't get very far with either of those I'm afraid. Not only is constraction sadly notoriously unsuccessful on Ideas, but this model uses a lot of parts that haven't been in production in many years.

I actually wrote a thing about using G1 parts alongside the CCBS a while back. You might find it interesting. At the end of the day, as long as it meshes with modern styling aesthetically, anything goes really. Just be sensible.

Here's mine; The sets portray the canon appearances of the characters with 99% accuracy The discrepancies being emotive hands, mouths and brows, and the back of armour shells being closed off around the bone. Transparent pieces on the sets represent glowing portions of the characters bodies Said glowing is produced by the elemental/magical energy of the character. Silver, Gold and Gunmetal pieces on the sets represent plain metal Coloured pieces however represent areas which are coated in a natural colourant not too dissimilar aesthetically to paint used on car bodywork, which is also able to heal if damaged. This colourant reacts to the elemental/magical energy of its host, giving characters of different elemental/magical persuasions their recognisable colours. However, it can also be dyed into other colours if desired, and will heal back in the colour of the dye if damaged. Gravity is weaker on Okoto than on Earth Hence why hulking metallic warriors can jump and skip about the place without causing the ground beneath them to shatter into pieces.

Ah yes, Skull Skorpio, with his aesthetically unappealing Technic whatever-the-heck tacked onto his legs... ...wait, his legs? Oh yeah. This is something I presumed the moment I saw Skull Scorpio. His tail being attached to that torso bone's pelvis via what appear to be skeletal thighs, brought up an interesting idea... What if those were his thighs? The Skull Army are reanimated, re-amalgamated skeletal warriors, crafted from the remains of ancient Okotoan residents by Kulta's dark magical powers (as denoted by the glowing orange patches on their undead bodies). But what's to say these skeletons we see bumbling around on Okoto are in the original layout that they were when they were buried? What's to say that Kulta didn't take a little bit of creative license when magicking up his spooky soldiers? My idea is that Skull Scorpios were originally humanoid skeletons, which were then reassembled by Kulta on their backs. Legs were attached to and grown from what were their spines, and their heads and arms were twisted back to face up away from the body. The original legs were left as only thighs, to which the mechanical clamping tails, amalgamated from other mechanical components in the earth, were attached to what were originally their knees. In short, Skull Scorpios are incredibly unnatural, eldritch abominations, which spit in the face of anatomy and logic. So, yeah, that's how I envision it. Or at least, that's how I try and make sense of why the heck Skull Scorpio's tail looks so goshdarn awful. TL;DR My idea is that Skull Scorpios used to be regular skeletons, but were reformed on their backs with big mechanical pinching weapons attached onto what were their knees.

So I take it you cut the torso frame?

Well, there it is. And there he is... With normal, humanoid legs? Okay. More screengrabs of both here.

The Elemental Creatures are the constituents of the Shadow Horde. Simples.

Thanks guys! Firstly, there's no need to worry, the gearboxes are actually fairly solid. Storm Beast's is a little bit flexible, but no more so than the original design. As for the axle in Quake Beast's hand... In an ideal world, that wouldn't be there. It kinda helps keep the Mask of Earth in place in his hand when he's holding it though, so there's that.