JINZONINGEN73

To clarify, this IS an over-18 site and you can curse (in moderation of course)... ...but disrespect and insults are more or less swooped down upon rather quickly and harshly. That goes for posts both out in public view AND in PMs, okay? ...besides... you don't need super high quality, grade A, 8mb pics to see what these figures are. The images retrieved so far tell almost the entire story of their build. They're annoying to look at, but they're PLENTY clear to know almost every part that makes them up.

To clarify, this IS an over-18 site and you can curse (in moderation of course)... ...but disrespect and insults are more or less swooped down upon rather quickly and harshly. That goes for posts both out in public view AND in PMs, okay?

Lol... it looks like, well, antiquated crap in the first pic... the kind of non-moving junk you'd see in a preschooler with a handful of System bricks. But then picture of him posing kicks all sorts of megablocks. They don't even look like the same model! Nice job! Reminds me of the Gold Lightan figures from Japan. Box one second, robot the next.

New one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11579617@N02/2255286277/ (click on "all sizes" to see it huge)

Indeed. When you've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.... better be an open cockpit. ;-) </BubbaTheLoveSponge FullTruckerEffect>

All it was to me was: --Cool new "angry" minifig faces. --Manga / anime minifig hair. --Robotic fingers that were LONG OVERDUE to give all the mecha builders out there real hands and not minifig legs. --A cramp in my neck, from shaking my head back and forth at how MISERABLY Lego failed at "doing the anime thing" that's so popular these days. I've seen more anime looking characters scribbled on the notebooks of elementary schoolers. Wide eyes does not the japanese anime style make. Hopefully they've learned that open cockpits on machines of war is nonsensical and return to the piloted mecha theme at some point in the future.

Cannon boobs are always fun when it comes to robot toys. The third one is pushing the limits of credibility though.

It's nothing too amazing, but it's not the worst it's been. Still looks very kiddy. Those laser blasts are flying out at random angles. They look more faithfully drawn to the sets, which is good, only they're carrying Chicken McNuggets or balls of marzipan in their chests. Maybe I've just read too much Japanese manga and have set my standards too high. ::currently reading GantZ::

Oh, I had a few... at the very start of my trip toward Legodom. I'd built a pretty damn freaking sweet brick version of a Micronauts Hornetroid from a pile of space Megablocks and primarily a Sonic Stinger from Lego. Needless to say, the Megablocks kept making it fall apart. How do I know it was them? Well, the loose points were where the Megablocks had turned white and cracked upon first insertion. Insult to injury, they were connecting into bricks of their very same brand! This goes without even mentioning that the connection points were misaligned horribly, with no 4 sides the exact same thickness in a 1x1 brick. To Megablock's credit however, Lego still hasn't made a GIANT freakin' purple canopy that I need to try and recreate the Hornetroid with. It's entirely possible their quality has gone up in the last 7 years, but I'm not about to waste money finding out. Trust me, I hated Megablocks MONTHS before I had jumped on the net's myriad of Lego fan sites. It was instantaneously clear that they had inferior plastic and quality control. We're not talking blind, uninformed riot mentality here. Nor are we talking about the kind of blind allegiance one has for "their guys" when talking of sports teams. The disgust people have for Megablocks is as innocent as choosing between a broken crate of eggs at the supermarket versus ones whose shells are still intact. Granted, my personal data IS 7 years old, but...

I'm not sure if I should really post my desktop pic here, despite it's aesthetic aspects. It's a painting of an anime chick drawn by CLAMP... she's naked, swimming in a sea of blue circuitry, with a bunch of little lines coming off of her body. As someone told me, it's a hacker from a manga, who attaches to the internet through little wires that go into her pores all over herself. (X 1999)? I'm guessing that as docile and artsy the pic is, there might be just enough nipple to open up a can of worms by posting it. I only recently have acquired this image. It used to be on a poster I had in my fish tank back in 1998. Here's the image I used on the internet to ask people where and what the image was from. (Look at the background) http://www.maj.com/gallery/JINZONINGEN73/J...IOUS/fish1a.jpg I kid you not... it took me 7 years to find this picture again. (on a side note, it is actually aiming the wrong direction in that picture, as well as how I have it on my desktop... she's supposed to be turned 90 degrees, as if diving down into the depths of circuitry) Captivating...

Just remember... your interest in Lego would not be as much fun unless our wives are in a constant state of being pissed off by them. :-D

Another possibility is that Lego might not have even cared, but had to go forward on this as a condition needing to be met by potential investors and or potential insurers to the company who don't get the big picture. Pure speculation! X-O

Yeah, I'm not totally ignorant to their reasoning. I do see the direction they're approaching from. It's just after seeing how they SWOOPED down VIOLENTLY on Newgrounds, who weren't even selling anything, merely making fan videos about Lego... along with how they try to control dedicated Lego fan sites all the darn time... I think it best to be wary of moves they make related to the deletion of "anything". Likewise, it's too bad they feel they must do this to stop anyone REALLY unclever from thinking these are stores related to Lego.

BleaRGH! :-X Pass! Do that all in trans, then we can talk. As for those blasters, you can bet that the mold itself wasn't made by Lego... there's probably a bunch of them being sold in China under different toy line names. You know, like how sometimes toy and movie franchises find their names on cheap products like poopy flashlights, napkins, party favors, etc... ...the only identifying feature MAYBE being a sticker slapped on the outside.

I don't think they could really get it shut down, but they certainly could do damage. This whole thing is only slightly less annoying then when Lego ceased and desisted on Newgrounds.com, having MANY classic fan-made flash movies deleted by the admins there. I ALMOST boycotted Lego over that. And yes, if they try to harm Bricklink, I WILL never buy another (official) Lego set ever again, no joke. No, so far it seems Lego DOES like Bricklink. Sometimes when a replacement part can't be filled, Bricklink is suggested. If you read the link in the first post, you'll see other positive references. I don't think Bricklink harms Lego's sales at all. You have guys there who buy HUNDREDS of some sets, just to part them out and sell them. There are times when really expensive sets have just 1 or 2 good parts... in cases like that, I COULD buy it and feel burned for being a sucker, but instead have the option of paying just a fraction of that at Bricklink. Needless to say, I STILL wind up buying tons of smaller, more desirable sets anyway. Everybody wins. :-)

http://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp...8170&nID=251313 Yeah, so if there's any stores you wanted to do business with again, it's possible that their names might be nothing like they were before. The thinking is, that SUPPOSEDLY customers going there will get all the hell confused and somehow think that something named, say, Thor's Legos is actually part of Lego. Yeah... right? >__< If Lego wanted to be mean to Bricklink, they could tell them to remove some Lego images, as it's being used for commercial purposes. So, to cover their megablocks, the Admin of Bricklink requested all the stores with "Lego" change their names. Hmm... should this be in Marketplace? Show of hands... how many of you ever shopped on Bricklink and thought you were ACTUALLY purchasing items from Lego itself? :-|

Yeah... about that lol... For reasons I won't go into, might I point out that you're not on BZ anymore (although your thirst for justice is not unwelcome?) ;-) If you see mods and admins doing something, it's (probably) fair game on this 18 and over site. X-D

Bionicle would have ROCKED as movies had the characters remained mute, with maybe just a chirp or some sound with subtitles at the bottom of the screen. Then, it would all be less geeky... visual stories would be about action and make you think... not a bunch of lame-o catch phrases and annoying lines, voices, etc...

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Well, if it's balanced you want, here it is. As credible designs, they are configured most silly. Thrusters as armpits lol. As aerodynamic beings of flight, they are most silly. Nice snowshoe feet! As action figures... they'll suck in a good bunch of kiddies, but they ain't a Lego building set to write home about. :-/ I think that pretty much covers it.

*wub* My first one was orange... a Pharoid with Time Chamber. Yeah, it was like Bionicle, in that I'd dissect them and swap their colors to make "new" figures lol.

I dunno... I used to live in a very busy, very populated section of New Jersey. I regularly visited 3 or 4 Toys R Us, a few child-type toy sores, 2 Walmarts, a few drug stores... ...it was always Pohatu sitting there in the discount bins. Now that I think about it, even though the Bohrok Va sold out quickly, brown was always the last to go. Then I moved to the sticks of Pennsylvania. Brown Bohrok... DOZENS of them. No other colors. In both areas, white always seems to be the instant-sell color.

Sunstreaker's body could use work... hate that I'm hiding behind a giant car hood thing, as far as realistic movement would go. And imagine him turning his head. Powerglide needs to lose the trans on his chest... hopefully it's removable. What a nice bunch of figures though. Pity that Onslaught doesn't have the other 4 guys to make Bruticus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionicle_Chro...ware_the_Bohrok Swarms of mechanical beings, the Bohrok tore through Mata Nui in their quest to destroy everything on the island--trees, ice, lava, even mountains. The swarms did not hesitate to defend themselves against those who would deter them from their strange mission, even if it were the Toa. The Toa, with help from the Turaga, slowly pieced together the mystery of the Bohrok: the connection with the repulsive creatures known as Krana, the fact that the Bohrok were mechanical and not really alive, and the way to stop the swarms. (This was probably no help lol)

Indeed. I'd rather watch the 2001 mini-movies than sit through a made-for-your-little-brother, high budget, badly voice acted nightmare of incompetent boredom. Mute, subtitled, clever, funny little islander guys For The Win.