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Pffft... first I ever heard of it. >:-( I love Kevin for what he's created... but god damn... there's something inhuman in not warning people a decade or so of their life is about to vanish. And there's many a philanthropist who would've helped him save the data more securely. I truly do not understand him.

Hahaha... Cajun of In_the_Bricks points out a good idea to recover some of our lost data. Good ol' WebArchive. ; ) http://web.archive.org/web/20050428212135/...ery.cgi?f=13895

Wow. Hey guys... know all those mocs I've done? My hobby, my life since 2001? Gone. Backups died on crashed hard drives. Kevin killed Geekshelf while I was offline. Invisionfree1 servers lost all their image data. Brickshelf was it. I'm now nothing in the mocing / Lego community. ; /

Ugly. As. Hell. But an awesome parts pack, worthy of purchase.

Roll... out? http://seibertron.com/news/view.php?id=11128

It's so hard to look at that & not think it was 100% intentional. You see Kongu and are like, "What the HELL did they do to him?" followed soon by, "Oh wait, if I get THIS set, he can be fixed".

Well, it's hitting rock bottom in: -structural design -aesthetic design -color coordination -doesn't jive with sets in line before it The only place that comes to mind where it can get worse is if it was one big Duplo part. :-|

Indeed. I never really liked ExoForce's FAILED ATTEMPTS at looking like anything even REMOTELY having to do with the japanese, or designed by the japanese... but this stuff is just off-the-wall worse than what's come before. Then again, look at that first set. Yeah, it's design is the quality of dog poo immortalized in plastic, but the parts are decent for building other junk yourself. Yeah, why can't non-japanese mech designers realize gaps = taking out $1,000,000,000 mechs by simply sniping a head shot on the exposed pilot? Kids aren't stupid. I'm sure the line would (would've?) been more successful if the pilots had been truly protected by their mechs inside closed canopies. It's fun for kids to "hide" one toy inside another. And it's just... logical. LEGO... get yourself some JAPANESE mecha designers if you want to not make embarrassing mistakes in the culture everyone else in the world currently lives in... but your company.

Only one store here sells Lego... Walmart. I kid you not, their set variety is IDENTICAL to the day the Barraki came out. Same Spongebob, same Star Wars, same Bionicle. I've been going back for months just to find nothing new. No Exo-Force sets are around, either! I could just get Nocturn at shop@home, but something tells me he'll just appear one day from the depths of their stockroom and into a shooping cart outside for a sidewalk sale... at a ridiculous discount. (That's how it aaaalways goes. Every year I've been here, since 2002). :-| I made a closing post and noticed it was 667. So, in the name of humor, deleted it, merely editing my post into #666's. :-D

On a good note, I'll restrain myself from using physical violence, brainwashing through indoctrination, fear, banishment, ostracizing, or undeserved guilt from normal human functions in my pursuit of having others understand my position on said matter. ;-) Even were my response to have been a simple "Yes" or No", they would have been me thinking I was right. However, I do tend to use visually descriptive wording to allow comprehension of my thoughts to as wide an audience as possible.

The problem with religion on a forum is the same as it is in real life. A handful of missionaries can fly to a jungle to preach to the "savages" of their god, only to find the savages have a god that says praise is in the form of consuming their flesh. Hey, it's happened. One can talk respect and understanding all they want, but in the end, it's a bunch of people thinking they're right, backed by this creator of all things... arguing with a bunch of people thinking they're right, backed by their creator of all things. Oh yes. Conflict unavoidable. Resolution impossible.

I have a feeling this thread is already starting to be a discussion on religion ;-) O-oh! Just merely getting a head start on it if this new forum is a yes, or simply illustrating the inevitable downside should it in fact, as it seems, be a no. X-D

Well, that in itself isn't reason enough to not discuss things. Alot of what we talk about is very personal. The real problem is alot of religions just can't seem to keep things on a personal, individual level... trying to grow outside the boundaries it should stay in... trying to forcefully assimilate the rest of the world... consume everyone and everything around it like it's Tetsuo at the end of the movie Akira. Then, to get defensive and or violent when someone unintimidated places a mirror in front of it. That's why it can't be. Religion, beliefs, politics and the like, though often stated otherwise, are REALLY immature subjects. As for the request for "lifestyle" discussion... I see not too much of a problem in that.

--S7 underwear when the secret agents had to strip down. --Military was your usual, patriotic drivel. --Goofy, bumbling, keystone cops type law enforcement characters (overdone cliche). --Potty humor with dogs whizzing on robots, robots whizzing on people, etc etc... --Most of the human characters were "goofy". The whole thing felt like it was trying to be humorous every 2 seconds. Then all of a sudden, some Citroen car commercial busted in near the end and people are getting killed. Anyway, Michael Bay blogs (poops) on producers, then (tries) deleting entry. But it was saved: http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/mich...facts-straight/

Oh, no no no no no. There's definitely ways to please me. Like Skyfire dying (and never being resurrected!) in the early cartoons. Older cartoons like Starblazers and Battle of the Planets pleased me too, people died and never returned. And they had "ending" episodes. The 80's cartoon Exo-Squad had it's moments too, humans dying sometimes a few at a time. I dunno, Transformers had lasers flying everywhere, but noone dying (until the movie!). Same with GI Joe... they'd shoot down a sky full of Cobra planes, then just as the scene was changing, they'd draw in all these little pilots in parachutes lol. The old Transformers movie tossed that child-protective bullcrap down the toilet and showed fighting = bad news for someone. It's not exactly calling it anal, wanting just a simple, basic truth like that to be conveyed when the subject is metal giants in the middle of a war. What was your point, anyhow? That because some things in the 80's were goofy, that it excuses things sucking? So you're saying the new movie is allowed to suck because Bay's and most movies these days are just out for a quick buck piles of advertising, CGI nonsense and undeserved hype?

I understand them wanting to cross-market System into Bionicle through making playsets, but perhaps it'd be better accomplished (and make kids hungry to buy more sets and moc further) if they made "weapons packs" for the canister guys, or the same canister guys, but in a "deluxe", Systemized price point.

I was the opposite. When the robots FINALLY started actually getting hit by laser blasts and then when they ACTUALLY started dying... wow. I was blown all the hell away, going back to see the movie 2 or 3 more times over the summer. It was frustrating watching the cartoon on TV and seeing lasers flying all over the place, followed by noone getting hit, save for like a pile of rocks getting hit and coming down on someone (a classic and annoying "anti-violence" trick in cartoons of the day lol). Sure, we knew it was all just a convenient way to spark interest in the newer guys... didn't matter. It was the most awesomest way to do so. Placing Transformers into a more realistic world, where there's actually consequences and loss in war. This new movie? Meh. It's Independence Day, just not as well written. (Yet retaining that similar, very NOT serious feel). And for being so very long, there's no excuse that the only Decepticon who had a recognizably different character from the rest was Frenzy.

Moving to Community.

Special editions are nice when there's truly something special about them. I doubt I'd buy a special set if there was merely one different colored part, but a whole different color scheme might get me goin'. Truth be told though, I'm STILL waiting for my Walmart to get in Nocturn. Their Lego section is... ailing.

True, he can't. But when trying to emulate something you don't understand, one often finds a completely new way of doing it, sometimes with better results. And that's okay. More power to ya. You do have to admit though, just by the nature of Lego parts, that there's also a large mocing community who shouldn't be forgotten when a set's part design / inventory is considered. We eagerly await to see new sets and the parts they hold... though newer Bionicle sets leave a good deal of us with not much reason to purchase them. (And we want them to. Here's the money in my hand! Gimme!)

And Freema IS going to return for awhile, as well as Piper possibly being in a, as they put it, "movie" of Doctor Who. :O So like... there's possibly a Doctor in her reality too, huh? Sounds like a good place to start.

That's just how I felt after getting done. The trailers WERE the movie, conveniently glossing over the multitude of people scenes. Lots of explosions and The Matrix style moments, like every movie does now. But when I went to work, there was no hyped up happy feelings that gets you thinking back all day to what you just saw. No robot character developement, man. : /

SPOILERS. Whoof. Did not like. And as for the movie guys saying the script from February 2006 was a rough draft with many changes since then... ...LIES. It's virtually identical, right down to the "funny" human scenes. >__< And human scenes are the movie, the robots being just these things hardly getting any spotlight. Notice too that the robots never stay on screen too long for any given amount time. The "dramatic" battle at the end (especially Jazz vs. Megatron lol) being a shakey-cam fest, somewhat incoherent in how the fights were being fought and where characters were just "disappearing" to. And the end? LOL Ok, so the world nearly gets destroyed by these hyper-techno aliens, and after the final battle, instead of DISSECTING THEM, the US government decides to "erase the evidence" by dropping the dead Transformer bodies INTO THE OCEAN?!? WHAT? LOL. And "erase the evidence"that it ever happened??? Dude, people were witness to the battles on an uncontainable scale! Ugh, I probably have more to say, but I JUST got back from work. If you like an assload of explosions, and not much else... have... fun...?

Well, we do occasionally see the before-budget designs. They're usually not that good. I kind of see what you're saying, but no. There's some builders on Brickshelf (usually Japanese lol) who do astounding things using even less parts than in official sets. If a set looks good enough, you can get away with it not being electronic, not using a giant volume of plastic to make things the mammoth size of recent canister guys, and not need to redesign the packaging every darn year. From the execs to the (alleged) "Master Builders" ...bleccchhh. They need to look for sculpting / design talent and business practices from the land of the rising sun. No, there are. I've seen (some) prototype sets that were most kickass, turned to a puddle of applesauce by the time it went into production.