Heir of the Chronicler

Hey, folks. I used to frequent here halfway regular a few years back, but then the dreaded RLS took over and I've been, well, out of the loop, as it were. Would like to get back into the groove and maybe stay awhile again :) So, 'bout me, 'bout me... hm. I turned 20 last month, an' I've been a Lego maniac all my life, having grown up mostly with Pirates and Adventurers. In 2001 I got the first Lego Bionicle comic and was sold from there, remaining a loyal (if vocally dissident!) fan for it's entire run. Few years back I opened up a Bionicle customization shop, "Vakama's Masks - Forge & Foundry", which eventually died off as real life laid claim to me. But, if there's any interest left, I'd be open to new business. Never felt right about drifting away from the community like I did. Anyways, here's to bein' back! Take it easy, all. - Heir

Everyone, The 'Bionicle Heroes' soundtrack was ripped from the game by our member Clonie. As I'm a connesuer of Bionicle music, I have them, and, with Clonies permission, am going to put up an open-source pack with the themes ASAP - both of the full soundtrack, and my personal picks for a 'Bara Magna' soundpack :) Now, many of you will remember me as Lord Admiral Helden Ravensdorn; my old account got eaten in the most recent server transfer. Anyway, those of you who remember me will also remember me as a fanatical critic of Bionicle. I'd just like to say that I haven't felt this kind of anticipation since the buildup to Bionicles 2001 launch. I'm honestly looking forward to this year, and see echoes of what drew me in back then in this years lineup. - Heir

As you well know... Toa Hagah = Toa Valan Brutaka = Naladwor Axonn = Nomir Dorn

I'm with Diver. Those animations gave the Vahki character :-D

You sound like Bonesii :P I'm sorry, I should take the advice of a BZPer who is a member of the "Target Audience": Anyhow, I've vented, so... goodnight. (Oh, and as someone who has collected Bionicle for 7 years and has an entire shelf and three boxes full of them, I don't think you can say I "hate this line" ;-) )

I'm jus' gonna ask Jinzo to delete this for derailing :P Sorry.

There. Spoilers. And just because its successful does not mean it is not made with 80% distilled fail. You know what I mean, Jinzo. - Heir

Yet even Ghost cannot save this toy line.

While I, like many of you, will wait for final pictures before giving it an or , I can tell you right now that green + neon orange + shoddy technic construction + white and blue figures = BAD, BAD omen. (For sets, at least. As someone said, probably great MoCing mines.) - Heir

Grievous, not to get in another flamfest with ya, but please tell me how that is an "awesome" color scheme

What he said!

Haha, very nice! :-P Been to Antietam myself. Nice place, if perhaps with a gory history The blood in the river and the fire are innovative, I must say! - Heir

Hello, all! I've always liked Alpha Team... I drooled over the original series sets when I got their launch issue of Lego Mania Magazine. Unfortunately, I could never afford to buy any of them, and the following two (poor) installments to the series pretty well dulled my interest. A while back, I found a couple of the original sets at a yard sale. That, coupled with the new "Agents" line - which I feel is kind of a watered-down AT, taking the "secret agent" cliche to a new level - prompted my imagination earlier today. So, I whipped this together, an' I thought you guys might like to read it. I recommend listening to while reading to get in the "mood". Its from the Iron Man soundtrack. Hope you like it. Didnt know where to put it, so please move as you see fit. - Heir P.S.: I'm "Lord Admiral Helden Ravensdorn"; Heir of the Chronicler is my BZP alias. I seem to have lost the ability to sign into my Helden account when the forum made its switch over, so I registered a new one.

Hah! As a dedicated Warhammer player of 5 years now, I like it - alot! The face on the gun is a nice bit too :-D

It goes from worse to terrible.

Wrong - three years after it came out, someone *did* find a way to TRICK the game into getting past the major glitch point that had held everyone up. Also, someone else found a "debug mode", and fans have since made great strides in editing the code into something playable. But I still don't like it. - Heir

Indeed, Alg - because those cheesy gimmicks, which I find truly irritating, sell to hordes of fans who cannot possibly comprehend using "imagination" whilst playing with their sets. Jus' stand 'em up, shoot, an' see who gets knocked over. Oh, the excitement

Look at it this way; MNOLG II had tons of "gameplay", and what happened? You spent hours gathering seaweed and making flax instead of saving villages and kicking Rahi butt :-P

Thats funny... I found it *impossible* to take the '06 storyline seriously in the least :-P And, meh. At least the MNOLGs "talk to this person, go get that" gameplay was involving, if simple. And Templar did a superb job on portraying the world - something not even the movies have truly been able to do since. - Heir

Aye, me, th' mask-melter :-D Been 'round here a while. Jus' not under this name.

Bwaha, good points all, Hewkii :) And aye, I know what ya mean, Grievous. That universe o' mine still exists, far more complete then you ever saw; I developed it all in my mind and was simply writing it down :-P Meh. Glad to be back. - Heir

Actually, Alg, he's directly responsible for the story goin' down ;-) - Heir

Tempt not the fates! Stupider... it always can get.

Eh! Bwuh? Nih! *hic* Did shomeboddier mention mah name...? *hic* My, my, looks like they did. And here I thought you hated me for my somewhat... passionate views, Grievous! Its good to know not everyone thought I was a *complete* as-(bleep). I got sick of my Bionicle rivals writing me off as "Oh, you're just a nostalgic whiner, you don't know what you're talking about, leave it to the pro's." So I ditched that approach. Every time I take up the Bionicle argument, I try to analyze where the subject in question is weak, where it is strong, and then show how it could have been improved before it went public. Sadly, this approach rarely gets me any further then just straight-forward complaining, so I've stopped pretty much entirely. Pencoin, thats because Greg is a comic book writer. He is not suited to this sort of work. He shone much brighter when he simply did what the rest of the story team told him to do. He likes to think he's made the story "dark" and "action packed", but I'm afraid he's no Christopher Nolan. - Heir P.S.: Yeah, I havent been on here since February, shortly before the forum switch. My old account doesnt seem to work any more, so I used my BZP account; its probably better known to some of our "new" folks from BZP. I drifted off for a number of reasons; I didn't like how the Pirate section fell apart, I got burnt-out and hot under the collar about my Bio arguments here, and the cats threw my entire collection of meticulously sorted parts off the shelf, so until I feel like spending about 15 hours cleaning and re-sorting everything, I'm pretty well out of the picture on MoCing. As for my writing - for both Pirates of the Archipalego and my re-written Bionicle universe - I ended up having more important writing projects, and I kind of drifted out of the "mood". I may come back and finish them some day, but nows not the time :-/ Cheers!