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Ok wait, they have a bulk loose lot here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LEGO-HALF-KILO-MIXED...1QQcmdZViewItem Then they have another bulk loose lot here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LEGO-HALF-KILO-MIXED...1QQcmdZViewItem SAME PICTURE IN BOTH AUCTIONS. This has got to be a scammer... or a hijacked account... or an accidental reuse of a picture instead of a different one?

THANK YOU. Credit where credit's due. That's how OJ Simpson got off... because even though there was stacks of evidence and his blood all over the crime scene, the cop(s) involved were blatant racists who were caught tampering to make the scene worse. Beating someone up where they deserve it=OK. Beating someone up where they don't deserve it= They become a martyr. Credit where credit's due, credit where credit's due... Bah, how very Lego Throwbot. Even if it was a honest to goodness ripoff... we're talkin' Megablocks here. Their whole deal was made from ripping off others.

Hmm. Things seem to have fallen flat here. Do the 2 contestants have any suggestions? :-/

This topic is done for! 8-

Ooh. Those are cool canisters. They're FUNCTIONAL. Haven't seen that in awhile. *sweet* I liked the look of the Barraki canisters, but they weren't playable. The Mahri canisters are a throwback to 2001 and even Roborider days. Even earlier, the whole thing can be used, like the carrying cases of the Throwbots / Slizers. :-) Lol. Come on, play nice.

Nuts, noone in this town carries Milliput, Green Stuff, Sculpey and my Walmart just stopped carrying Fimo (which I think was highly similar to Sculpey). There's not even Testor's modeling putty in the toy car section anymore! Ok, when you make stickers for their chest and stuff, you download templates, blank minifig-sized chest shapes, from the internet. From there, you edit it's appearance in either Paint, Photoshop, etc on your computer & print them out on sticker paper. As was suggested, you can bring a disk with your design already made to a professional printing shop and have them do it for you, and if you want to pay more, likely on better (thin plastic?) sticky material. As for sculpting, I only have experience with Fimo. ( http://www.maj.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=126333 ) It's good when used alone, but when you use it on plastic figures underneath, things get tricky. Fimo, in order to get hard, must be heated up. So since you're not going to be melting your creations in an oven, you must use a heat gun from a crafts store. (Then again, minifigs are tiny, so a hair dryer might do). It takes practice though, as it's easy to bring the underlying Lego piece (or other action figure) up to it's melting point without realizing it. ... ... ...yeah, know what? You might want to stick to a hair dryer, now that I think about it. : p Aside from drastic, non-Lego changes such as stickers and sculpted parts, don't discount the amount of customization you can do within normal parts-swapping. If your guy needs a black hand, don't paint a yellow one. Just aquire a minifig who already has one (might need to check out Bricklink.com if it's a strange color). In case you didn't know, a normal Lego minifig can be broken down into 9 parts: -head -torso -2 arms (be gentle when removing them) -2 hands -hip piece -2 legs (oh, it's a tough pull, but they do come off) Times 9 parts by the vast amount of colors / designs each piece is available in and you have a LARGE number of possible customizations. You might find non-Lego changes weren't even needed. As for custom capes... well, it's pretty much the same deal as with stickers. You CAN print it up yourself, or bring it to a print shop to do in more color-staying inks. (Even though you can buy Lego cape-like material for printers at home, the inks usually tend to suck, running at the slightest drop of moisture).

Hahaha, I'm with you. Same story, except it was about 8 rich-boy jocks on metabolic steroids and other drugs. I realized after a few years of hell that "pitying" them for being the way they were, by using "faith" was literally the act of doing nothing at all.... no, the act of making them worse. By the time I caught on that asskicking and fighting back was the best for all parties involved, (and the fun the act of THAT brings, when justified) ...it was a few months before graduation. >__< Faith... it's something that people who can afford to have it have. For the rest of us, break out the guns.

Yah, that big Spielberg set with the webcam and (useless) green dinosaur. Yah, but I snagged three of them, under $30. They were opened, but complete... one actually crammed full of smaller Studios sets. Goodwill stores... lol. X-D

DAMN. I grew up during that time, and my brother had the tall Kenner Death Star... but for being cardboard, i almost like this one more. The artists did an EXCELLENT job on it, between placement of images and the images themselves. The sturdy supports make it all the more cooler. We also had a cardboard set that was supposedly rare, a Cloud City one, complete with a cardboard chair for Han to be tortured in and a hole for Luke to be frozen in. : p I bet a SW site out there has the pieces scanned... that'd make a sweet moc along the lines of yours. Props for giving the Leia minifig her "classic" Kenner look. :'-)

Yah, and if his story ideas are hacked to pieces / edited by the executives as bad as the initial set designs from the sculptors are, then his accountability for the whole mess is even that much less. Hey... you know what'd be cool? If Jaller is tagged along by that crab dude as a seeing eye dog... his sight no longer with him for some reason.

Yeah, we're harsh on Bionicle. But Bionicle is harsh on us lately. But, unlike the reason it's harsh on us, that reason being the designers / writers / executives are out of their freaking minds, WE are harsh on it out of love. We know what it's capable of and are SOMEHOW smart enough to see what will happen to the line in the next few years, which could be very bad. At the same time, I'm not AS bad as the majority of Bionicle-bashers this year (which is suprising, I'm usually the loudest). Despite all the problems, Bionicle has at least created what I'd wanted the first Toa to be... honest to god action figures. They are. Stand-alone action figures that can now hold their own in the boy's toy aisle against other action figure lines. Second, for the moment anyway, their sales have been good. Sure, HOW the sales were achieved will hurt them later on unless some intelligent choices / changes are made... but for the moment, it's a positive thing. They can't keep going as they're doing things now. If we truly love Bionicle, we'd be IRRESPONSIBLE to not beat the drums of war.

"Every time a person cuts a Lego piece, an angel gets it's wings torn off."

Bingo. :-)

Hahaha... everyone's pics are so "neat". I used to have dozens of different shaped and sized containers all over the freakin' place, in every room of the house. It was nuts. So now, I've exclusively dedicated one room of this house solely to Lego... nothing else in there but a space heater, incense burner and a few pillows. Oh, also a fluorescent blacklight, because some identical colors are in fact 2 different ones underneath that spectrum (fun for building glowy mocs). Then, i sorted my parts out by color, putting them in these tall shiping boxes that the US Postal Service sends one free when you order them off their website. So everything should be cool, right? Pffffft. When I start on a moc, no less than 3 of those colors get dumped on the floor. Next thing you know, during THAT build, I'm dumping other boxes because ideas for another moc presented themselves. As it is now, ...well, it's a disaster area of parts. I love it, but it's a disaster. No pics, for they would be most shameful. :-D

Back in 2002, my mocs won me 2 contests. "Make a hero and villain" http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=22435 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=22438 "Make an animal" http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=24677 No "awards" to show though, the prizes being a bunch of Bionicle sets. Aside from that, I never had any physical trophies for anything except for stuff done in elementary school. Did have a stained glass window I made of a dolphin photo put up in the school library though.

X D Well said. I mean, I like Bionicle and Lego and all, but I've NEVER considered ANY Bionicle set as something that could be described as having been designed / built by a "MASTER Designer". You or I could do better, along with a LOT of others. These are just some parts tossed haphazardly together by the janitor at night after he's done cleaning the toilets. Bionicle Master Designers SUCK, and always have. :-D UGH... that red mask on the big guy... I hate non-symmetrical parts. GREAT, there's a big freaking ARM coming off the side of his face to hold 2 Barraki eyes, and since it's ONE BIG PIECE, I can't remove it. >__< Just another part to toss onto the pile of Kopaka masks, right alongside the tohunga throwing arms and Visorak shells...

I understand Lego Star Wars success. A household brand name (well, TWO), and the whole minimalistic "cute" factor previously seen only in classic Lego or 100 million successful Japanese toy lines. It's nice to remove the graininess of real life and real people down to it's most basic elements, then return some of real life to them. It's funny, clever and cute at the same time. Now bionicle's success... hmm. Well, Assuredly Lego Star Wars has brought alot of kids into the Lego universe, and alot of THOSE kids surely still want the grittiness of real life. Set-wise, Bionicle delivers that better and cheaper than Batman or Exo-Squad could. It's positive that the sales are up NOW, but as alot have said, they're gaining that popularity using cheap methods. In time, things like that crumble into dust with no solid skeleton inside. Making a quick buck in the toy world is EASY. But making something popular a decade in a row takes well thought planning from a home base. But hey, hopefully I'm full of horsecrap and everything will work out ok in the end. And Lego, if you're listening... GO ONE YEAR WITH NO BIONICLE STORY. I think I'll add that to my sig. :-P EDIT: Hahaha... missed this. Any of you who know me probably know the events that lead me to being disenfranchised with BZ, but damn... this is SO worth linking to: http://bzpower.com/story.php?ID=3153 :-D NICE.

I do agree that space, done right, COULD be very successful... but I'm sticking to my guns that the people in charge these days couldn't pull it off right. You know what'd be BEAUTIFUL though? The EXACT opposite. All these goofy storylines from the past and present, all culminating at an "end", a point where all conflicts cease to be. AND THEN... nothing. The Bionicle story writers take a freaking vacation. A whole year (or more) of Bionicle with NO STORY WHATSOEVER. The sets would be a return to the landscapes from the 2001 story. They could focus on peaceful rebuilding, on common exploration, simple but fun stuff. In doing this, Bionicle could also shift over better (and shift Bionicle buying consumers better) over into System. I was one of the loudest voices crying for Bionicle to stop being wimpy and get some violence in it. I do think it was initially good. Unfortunately, just like I'm sure the people doing things now would get 'Bionicle Space' wrong, so do I think they're getting the way the violence is used wrong. They're religiously incompetent, lol. There is nothing worse (boring) to a consumer than watching a story that they KNOW will never end. There is nothing more boring than knowing nobody dies for good and the bad guy ALWAYS comes back. There is nothing worse than the way Bionicle's going now (story-wise) where insanely childish story arcs are tossed in just to 1-up the LAST year's story... it can only go so far before it turns... stupid. So, go backwards, but for real. Make a bunch of Bionicle system playsets. Make a jungle treehouse set. Make a rahi taming / farm set. Make a waterfall set. If you want to go back to a story and annoying battles later, FINE, toss in a "mysterious ruins" playset that the characters are slowly trying to decipher all the while they're doing peaceful things in the other sets. As for canister characters, go back to tools that are actually tools. They don't HAVE to look lame or boring... that's a matter strictly up to how clever or intelligent the designers are. Hell, give each "Toa" or whatever one element to a larger figure that can decipher the ruins. One toa finds a sword that later transforms into a leg. One with a ball / head. One finds armor that becomes a body. You get the idea. It doesn't have to be unexciting. What I'm saying is, Bionicle started off in a certain place, but left it. Why hook a whole year or two of Bionicle fans on the mythos of this "island" only to launch them out their butt into 800 different locations?!? To go into space is COMPLETELY uneccessary. There's a whole freakin' world that was started which had plenty to offer story-wise... but it's been left in the dust.

For the most part, I love studless more. Grass being studded is just logical, but beyond that, I stand in awe of those who can pull off near-studless creations. I think if Lego were to make green tiles decorated with grass painted on, it'd be a disaster among stud and studless fans. I think the main problem with LARGE mocs being studless is the cost of that many tiles. It'd be a pretty penny to tile up a giant castle, as well as turn the look into a modern business office... which would be silly, save for a ball room. I dunno.. mecha are my thing. You have absolute works of art on Brickshelf, perfect replicas of Gundams and other robots... but when you zoom in beyond the thumbnail, they look everything short of asstastic. THOSE need to be primarily studless. Studs on mecha are just really depressing, no matter how amazing the creation. I'm glad to see Lego going crazy with drastic slope production lately. My favorite is the 1x1 slopes. They "complete" so many mocs from the past that I don't know how people got along before them. Took a long time for them to get around to it, but they're revolutionary in making mocs look gorgeous. So yeah, studded for grass or to emulate detail or roughness on something huge, but the rest is all pretty much tiles for me.

If you want to use Tahu's old fire sword, check out the upcoming Exo-Force sets. The "exhaust" on the back of some is the same piece, but now with yellow swirled into it along the length of the blade. :-) Lol... Toa Maxillos' head is so mask-like that he could be called Masky McImwearingamaskenheimer. What the heck is he thinking?!? :-| Hey, who knows... maybe the connection points are something other than an axle or peg this time. Though it sure LOOKS like a mask so far.

X D In layman's terms, that translates to: "Of COURSE it's blood! Look at it! Sharp teeth and the blood it loves. Piranha RAAAAAR! Lord help me I'm being ripped to shreds! Blood, fool, BLOOD! P.S. (We can't officially say that lol)" ;-)

Sets - wonderful. Story - megablocks. :-)

Exactly. Bionicle should never have left nature... not this far. Ok. When a civilization's technology grows, certain parts stay. The Mahri are running around with gatling rocket launchers. Soooooooooo, where's all the older weapons leading up to that point? Why'd Bionicle start off like they were back in caveman days but wound up in something looking like The Matrix? Because... the writing SUCKS... done by people who don't understand why Bionicle was so great in the start. Not just that though, the execs in charge of set designs have to jack the figures up to give them a physical, in-your-face presence on the toy shelves alongside "real" action figures. Really though, Bionicle could still be a hugely successful line if they'd stayed in the jungle. There could have been better set evolution in the rahi beasts. System playsets not of high-tech submarines but of forests, caves, volcanoes, deserts, ancient fortresses. Going into space will DOOM it. System purists already hate Bionicle. Some even hate Star Wars for it's production halting that of classic space. So making Bionicle space would drive a stake between Lego fans even further. NOT a good idea. Even more, the fans from the beginning who are still around will likely ditch if something as annoying as space is introduced. Personally, I could stand ONE and I mean one year of Bionicle in space, but only so the Toa (who originally came from space?) can return to wherever they hailed and hopefully into more non-technological jungles and such. However, something like that, despite temporarily ruining the storyline for bionicle fans, should be LOUDLY pointed out to the public that it's just a 1-year thing which will not affect classic space one way or another. And that knowledge would have to be there before the first "accidental", grainy image were leaked... or risk alienating much of the fandom. Do I have faith that those doing things now could follow such a course of common sense? No. So, no spaceonicles, please.

Right on! Oldskool love! Though admittedly, I capture many frames and turn them into gifs. *wub*

Is this easy to do on older figures? You'd think that UV radiation or whantnot would slightly discolor the area surrounding a decal, thereby leaving the area under the decal more in original color (as in, removing the decal would leave a ghostly silhouette of the decal). then again, Lego is one of those quality items with color-fastness like I've NEVER seen on ANY product, much less a toy.