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Thanks--this saved me from having to take pictures (and they're much better than mine would have been) Nektann and Gresh are my favorite of the stars that I have (all but Tahu and Takanuva)

I forgot to mention--the price was $8.00, and I found it at TRU. Unfortunately, my TRU didn't have Tahu or Takanuva, but I could do reviews of Nektann, Skrall, and Gresh, if people wanted them.

Hello, everyone! I've decided to do a sort of review of the first Stars set I got, the Rahkshi. The build is really pretty simple, although the innovation of using an arm/leg piece to give the Rahkshi the bent-backed look was a cool one. Here is the completed set: Here is a side view: And a back view, showing how the spine connects to the rest of the set: Close-up of the front, showing the head's connection to the spine. This does make the head less poseable (it can't look up or down very well), but it does look pretty cool, I think. The head and the spine, however, are rather . . . squishy. The set is really not very poseable, due to the staff being connected as it is, so I made a very slight modification which works much better: How does this fellow stack up to an older Rahkshi? Well, as you can see, he's a runt: "Are you my mother?" One of the things that stood out about the old Rahkshi, I think, was their intimidating size. They were taller than a Toa Nuva! This Rahkshi, of course, isn't. But comparing this yellow guy to Tahu Nuva isn't quite fair--after all, the new Tahu is only as big as an Agori/Av-Matoran, right? Sadly, the Rahkshi is even shorter than one of these: Final thoughts: The set is a decent one. It may not be the tall, thin, intimidating Rahkshi of yesteryear, but it actually resembles the Rahkshi in Mask of Light quite a bit, I think, with its spine-head connection and its bulkiness. It looks more hunched and bestial than the old sets, as well, and it makes good use of the Agori construction. Nevertheless, I would only recommend it if you're getting the other Stars, and need a villain on the small scale (though I would recommend Nektann over the Rahkshi).

Actually, there were 17 sets at the beginning, not including the Tohunga. There were the six Toa, the six Turage, and the Rahi: Nui-Rama, Nui-Jaga, Tarakava, Muaka and Kane-Ra, and the Manas crabs. Nevertheless, I am sad to see it go. I believe I was twelve when Bionicle first came out, and I had so many adventures on Mata Nui.

Here is my entry: It's me skating with my wife on Christmas day. As you can see, she is considerably more accomplished than I.

LEGO really needs to release sets like this one. People said that about my soda shop, and I think it applies even more here. The small size of the set (when compared to the other modulars) means it would be more affordable, and it certainly isn't lacking in detail, interior or exterior! If this were an official LEGO set, I would buy it without hesitation.

Brilliant! Looks just like a US post office. And the USPS van is spot-on!

Very nice! How did you make the beak?

You can feel free to try the camera design I used in my post office a while ago: Here

The combine harvester isn't a tractor; it's a combine harvester.

I always thought that this guy's beard was a mustache, and his mouth was his nose:

Thanks! I meant more in your size, design, and handling of yellow. We have pretty different styles; I was just blown away with how great yours looked. You really do make the yellow fit in with the modular style (whereas mine is really more like modular-scale classic town style), and it looks just like a building one might find here in Colorado Springs. In fact, I was downtown just recently looking at the buildings and other small details, and this reminds me strongly of one that I saw!

Great review of a nice little set! I agree, it could use a couple mods. I added doors and side mirrors, and it greatly improves the look of the car. I also changed the wheels around to be the slightly smaller ones we got in the post van set.

Wow! That blows my yellow CC-style building out of the water! Excellent work!

I'm afraid that the six-wide police car is out of scale with the buildings. I may have to revert to the old 4-wide one (with modifications, of course)

Thanks! Glad you like it. I look forward to seeing your building, when you finish it.

I like the odd look of the car--it really works!

Thanks, everyone! Yeah, the car is kind of a work in progress, I suppose. It is pretty blocky, but I'm working on that. Benny, you might like to check out my topics "Soda Shop" and "Rossville Town Hall" if you'd like to see the buildings in more detail--comments would be greatly appreciated!

Those are too big to fit in the police car as it is currently designed.

Are these wheels better?

I actually do have a small table with umbrella on the beach nearby; I simply cropped it out of the picture (I'm embarrassed by how my wave attempt looks)

Well, the police car that LEGO provided just didn't seem to fit in with the new Rossville street and cars (you can see my ever-so-slightly modified Boattail Speedster, too--complete with minifigures of me and my wife): So, I decided to build a bigger one. This was tough, as I had never built on 6-wide scale. My first attempt came out looking like an SUV, but with my next try, I got this: Side view: Also, I didn't think that this next bit was worthy of its own topic, so I'm putting it in here. I modularized my old fish and chips stand. That is, I made it to what I thought it would be on the modular scale, then added a back and some more details. Here it is:

Absolutely brilliant! The smooth curves really add a lot to it.

This house is exceedingly creepy. I like the completely boarded-up windows!

Very nice! I like the way you adapted LEGO's design. The slanted tiles are great, and the use of fences around the deck is very creepy!