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Since you're talking about licenses, I'll move this to the theater forum

They look like chain guns, they act like chain guns...so yeah, they are chain guns. Um...actually yeah

Why, are there supposedly large people pushing on the backs of their guns to fire the missiles? Besides, why does the air/water pressure matter? They look the same, don't they? That's what matters to the kids. Except these are machines Could you please stop putting words in my mouth? :-| I just mentioned that the commercials and the sets indicate something specific. Is the left hand not talking to the right hand, or are the submarines etc. entirely a construct of the commercials and not at all what the atmosphere of the story is about? Oh wait, there are entire sets dedicated to the sub... Moderate? They're like swat teams at this point. I'm as qualified as anyone else to assess the realism of a toy, yes. It's a giant chain gun, that deviates so far from the originals it's not even recognizable. That's all I need to know. What does "short time" have to do with anything? They've been going down hill IMO, I didn't say this was very recent. And that wink definitely helps me believe you ;-)

Nah, chuck. That doesn't sound brash, just incredibly arrogant :-| Seriously, do you ever post anything other than "that person doesn't MOC well" or "This is my MOC. Don't I MOC great? I think I'm better than everyone"? Because it's getting so old, so fast. You really didn't mean that apology at all, did you? Not that it's a surprise, I didn't think you meant it at the time...

Funny, from this angle they look remarkably similar... Well they're robots, more or less, right? So it pretty much is a built-in breather. It doesn't look like gills, and the hoses give it a distinctive technological edge. Not only the sets, but even the commercials are trying to send out the "high-tech modern attack force" vibe, rather than a group of heroes... Nope Did you hear me say that I only dislike 2007?

It's just generally considered a bad move for your fanbase, if you take almost everything your story is built around, and switch it into an entirely new and different direction with little transition. From what I understand, when it first came out, people had no idea what they were. I guess they officially changed the story now? But here's the thing. If they're stuck in the jungle in tribes using spears and swords, they shouldn't within a very short period of time, switch to blasters and submarines. It's just not believable at all. Most people paying attention would go "wait...what?" They probably would have been if the story wasn't altered so radically for no real reason. Why must a "deep story" need guns and blasters? Was there any reason to switch to those gimmicks for the story, or did it just sell better when they play-tested it to 8-year-olds? That's the reason for the grey/brown switches, afterall. They care about, primarily, selling as many sets as they can to their target: the 8-10-year-olds. Which is fine, since they are a business, but then they shouldn't go around trying to pretend there's some good reason for this "story" to have such a radical and unwarranted switch, because it's sort of an insult to the people paying attention... They should be catered to because, as I said above, it's insulting to their integrity to do this radical, unexplained switch, and still try to sell this as one cohesive story. It isn't about the story, it's about the sales to little kids. They story is just there, unfortunately, to humor people who want an action figure. You keep saying that (and you may be right, I'm not calling you a liar), but could you give me figures for sales of Bionicle compared to, say, Star Wars? And even if that's the case, you need to take into consideration the makeup of that population. EB is an inherently different type site than BZP, with as expected, a largely different userbase. BZP has many more members who are in exactly TLG's target age bracket, which explains a lot of support. But didn't you just say that you've seen a lot of negative topics springing up lately? Well good, their marketing worked on someone :-P ;-)

In your opinion. I just see it degrading more and more. Funny enough, you're the uneducated one here (which I DO mind). I haven't watched a single one of those movies, rather I know what I know from the sets themselves. What did I say to indicate anything about the movies? Nothing, you just pulled that out of nowhere. The sub? breathers? Chain guns? That's all in the sets. And it moves entirely away from the magic of the start. I didn't know there was such a thing as a "generic underwater scuba story", but I'll go with that. It's moving away from what made bionicle special at the start. It's becoming more scientific, it's becoming more high-tech, and that never should have been. Well, it is. And if you continue throwing insults at people rather than at points, as a good debater should, you won't be around here much longer. Got it? Harsh criticisms? From what I've seen of it anything that comes out of Greg's mouth is pretty much god's word, and every new set is almost worshiped... I didn't say it was bad in and of itself, I said it's bad in the context of how drastically it deviates from what it began with. It's more or less an entirely different setting now than it was. The only reason they switched over to more guns and less myth and lore is because little kids can't shoot things from myth and lore... I'll leave this comment to the bionicle AFOL... And yet many others here have agreed with me, isn't that funny...well, the fans who have been in it since the beginning at least, and hated seeing what their favorite theme got turned into :-P

Well I'd assume this is the same guy, no?

Congrats indeed, though from the page on BZP: How does that give him insight into TLG? :-P I believe we also have the other winner on this site, Trexxen, so congrats to him as well ;-) Winning a contest is always fun, though I'm not sure why this really belongs here...at the very least I'll move it to community.

Fantastic! This next Brickarms series is going to be amazing. And...Harrison Ford used one *wub* How can I not buy some? :-D

This is for all lego stores generally?

Very true! Who doesn't like a nice, big behind to grab? 8-| And Sirnadroj, I think you have something caught in your eye...in the last 50 posts you've made :-P

Funny you should say that, Lasse D. I've almost never had any missing parts, but lately I've had a lot! Two in the JSF, two in the Dwarf Mine... This makes me worry about the UCS MF. It's so huge, I'll be looking for weeks for a part that my not be there *sing*

Voted for *yoda* Simplicity ON!

Thanks :-D Sex fantasies ON!

Where's Katara? :'-(

This might help. It's similar to PS. And did I mention that Paint.net is also free and better? :-P

:-D :-D I picked the Jogger, though the Police woman came in a close second. What? You need to take me in for questioning? Yes ma'am *wub*

Crystal skull? I wonder what that will be...a trans-clear head with a skull pattern, or a new mold? 8-

I haven't even heard about new MM sets. Kind of disappointing considering how poor the aliens were. I just hope they introduce a new, more articulated alien. Thanks Sam!

Either the hippogryph wings, or the yellow voldemort head

It would be funnier if it wasn't true :'-(

Well, I'm going to fill it with pipes and whatnot, and then tile in everything around it :-)

Please try to refrain from spamming...

I ended up using some of those to finish the mechanism off since they're shorter in width than the normal gears, and the normal gears couldn't fit. As for the internal engine room, the most exposed it is, the most likely it is to be damaged in a fight. And access is always good, the more mobility you have while fixing things, the better. Spacewalks would interfere in that. Anyway I updated the middle section, and figured you might like the gear mechanism or something :-P I also cleaned out the parts since everyone was so pissed off about it :-D See? I said those central pillars were temporary...