JINZONINGEN73

I don't even know what MCN is, but nice entrance! X-D

Ah. They have to look like crap. Got it. :-D Nah, that's not fair. The one from Robot Carnival was pretty bitchin'.

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Unlike the official Lego pics of it, your review has straight-on shots of the base, as if you were driving up the road to it. I didn't think it was all that until I saw the front of the base fully built. And now that I have... can you say Castle? No, Technocastle. I usually never build the intended product, using the parts for mocing... but I could see myself building this, as a template on how to make a mammoth-sized version.

How'd I miss this topic?!? Stupid question #2: Steam-punk mech? :-/

It's a well-designed site. :-) But I think this should probably be in the "Community" section. ...moving.

Indeed, indeed. Though when I think about it, nothing comes to mind as to examples of it. I know there have been, but my brain's malfunctioning. The Metru kind of went there, but there was still a certain blandness to it. One thing's certain though. If war toys CAN'T walk the fine line without falling over, violence is more fun to observe than them sipping a cup of tea. But that's from a builder's point of view. Yours is from the reader's view, and something intellectual SHOULD be the desired image. ...we're babbling, aren't we? X D

I wonder if they glow more because there's better glow in the dark particles used, or if the transparency, the not having solid plastic in between one particle and another (thereby continually charging each other) is the reason? It'd make sense. Less solid + more light = higher charged / higher amount of glow particles.

Umm. Did you actually get any of the new sets? The Inika heads don't glow in the dark. At all. I'm split in two on your overall appraisal. As far as story goes, all the movies they put on cds and dvd and junk... none of it is still as cool as the original online game from like 2001. The Tohunga characters, with all their wit and humor in movement...gone forever I'd say. In the movies, they were SUPER annoying. I was expecting them to say stuff like "radical" and "totally tubular" while jumping on skateboards & blaring boomboxes. So, their lack of presence in the current series was welcome. They've been "dead" for years. But I'm not a man of story, I'm a man of parts. Yeah, the heads leave alot to be desired, as do the bodies, as do the swirly-colored, useless-to-moc-with armor in 2 of the sets... but there's alot of other good stuff. FOUR joint beams in each Inika? And the armor bits are a little better than in recent years, WAY more able to be used in mocs. The heads, while far from the awesomeness of the 2001 plastic masks, at least have room for more customization than all the years since 2001. You can actually put stuff through the eyeholes this time. It might not sound like a big deal to you, but to me, it means the mask isn't just a mask. Music? Bleh. I approach it the same as I do the story. Don't care. Nothing compares to the 2001 online game. One could complain about weapons all being swords, but think back to 2001... who was the coolest Toa? Oh, Kopaka, with his sword. EVERYONE made at least 1 moc holding that sword I think. :-D It's only logical that it'd be emulated further on down the line. I know what you mean about the gimmick sets. In 2001, it was impossible to go into a store that carried Lego and NOT see mask packs falling off the shelves. It was great. But even though the collectibles since then have increasingly sucked harder and harder (well, the spinners were the worst), Lego has at least had the decency to hide them within the confines of shop@home, with few exception. I have yet to see any of the poopy plastic marbles where I buy Lego. Thank goodness. I never saw the silly rhotuka spinners there either. I THINK I saw those worthless Kraata tubs there for 1 week, in super-small quantity. So, it's good to know they're not allocating time and money away from the sets in that regard. To each his own though. I miss the smaller pieces used in the titan sets of 2005, but at the same time I don't miss the illogically butt-ugly set designs or some of the super-worthless <insert that tiresome argument> parts. You mean in comparison to the years before it, where things that were clearly weapons were constantly called "tools", where the showdown of their first movie against the big, evil enemy was... a hockey game? I'll take mindless violence over insultingly veilied, politically correct violence ANY day of the week.

Ew. I was so busy gagging at the shroud I missed the hands. You're right. Yellow. WTF lol.

Holy poop. The new one's TOO transparent. The black head sticks out like a sore thumb now. Not that replacing it with a glowing skull or something wouldn't fix it. Very, very awkward. I'm suprised they haven't made any full-glow minifigs yet. If they did, they could totally bypass the cost of having to add the extra shroud piece.

Next: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

MAN does that ever need better colors / color distribution. Looks more like an american flag.

Agh. I was excited more for this line when I thought it'd be more like Aquazone, black with trans neon green. But damn, looking at the designer's set, and the last Alpha Team aqua sets, AAAAAND the fact two of these new ones are a lobster and possibly a crab... ...it's going to be trans red, isn't it? V__V

Well, they last released the Toa Inika, so I'm guessing the new guys might be enemies first. I also wonder if that's a pun on the word "carapace", like maybe they have shells, or something else Bohrok-ey.

I'm thoroughly unfit for such a contest, as there'd no doubt be a 3-fig high mechasuit as the result.

But you witness something the likes of which sends you screaming out of the ocean for dry land.

Oh god that's freaking hilarious. Bionicle 2007's new gimmick... the URETHRAL POLYP LAUNCHER. God damn... lol

Probably the same way someone put up a request for Diver sets on here a few days ago, only to find new aqua sets for 2007. :-D Proof the people on this site are in tune with Lego. ;) As for these minifig packs... are they verified for a North American release, or was Hasbro belly-aching about them on a global scale?

Easily summed up. --It's a great source of black parts that are used for GOOD weaponry on mocs. --The initial part of the leg coming off the giant mech's body look REALLY flimsy. --My personal favorite mecha color scheme, black with neon green, is somehow not all that cool looking due to a severe lack of green being distributed correctly. And the pieces that are green are too tiny.

A little late to the party, I know, but... Ok. I never saw the first 2. I'm pretty much a hater of American superheroes. However, I DID read my brother's X-Men back in the 80's, around the whole Jean Gray / Dark Phoenix saga. So, because those were such GREAT times, I thought I'd give this a dl, as Phoenix was supposedly in it. ... ... ... >__< What the hell did I just watch? Rogue has no accent? And decided to become human? A ton of missing characters? I just don't know where I'd even begin to start slamming this movie. The old comics this (kind of?) came from were brilliant and full of emotion. There's none of it here. It's been gutted, and replaced with a bunch of craptastically unconvincing CGI junk. You know what it is? This wasn't an adaptation of X-Men from the 80's. This was an adaptation of the touchy-feely, black rights errrrr, I mean "mutant rights NOW" silliness as seen in the poorly animated cartoons. I guess people who never read the comics might like this, but anyone who grew up reading just the few short issues it's based on... I can't imagine it. It's entirely possible that if I'd actually paid to see this, I'd have started licking candy and chucking it at the movie screen to see if it stuck. Having never read "Blade", I can say I LOVED the first movie, liked the second movie, but wasn't too crazy for the third. The ONLY other Marvel comic I read (or ever had a subscription to) back in the 80's was Ghost Rider. Eventually, he was cancelled, then revived RIGHt before the 90's. It had promise, but it seemed to be missing something the previous version had, despite the older version being downright CORNY at times. It was too... I dunno'. It felt wrong. EVERY issue was just a cameo for some OTHER Marvel character. So far, I'm not diggin' what I hear about the upcoming movie. Nicholas Cage is one of the most over-rated actors out there. He's been saying ALOT of stupid poop, like he wants to "add to Blaze's character" and "make him a fan of jelly beans". ... ... ...WHAT?!? *wacko* Hey, getting back to X3... why didn't they just prop up a carboard cutout for Phoenix in all of her scenes? You know, ask the over-paid "special" effects team to CGI in it blinking from time to time? There was hardly any flying, no dynamic posing, no fire and brimstone flying out her butt (PHOENIX, Hello?) and not much of any movement really. Think about it... she could literally have been a cardboard prop. I almost thought she was for awhile, but then she started humping Logan. THIS is Phoenix / Dark Phoenix... shooting fire out every orifice, flying all over the freaking place with glowing eyes, scaring babies from 3 states away: NOT this. Look! Look! She fell asleep! Her eyes are slightly open, but this lady's actually catchin' some Z's.

Oh, they definitely use what seems to be different plastic for identical pieces sometimes. And since I'm a freak for any Lego that works under a fluorescent UV blacklight, here's a good example... Roborider wheels that look quite different in day AND night. The less green one is also pretty clear-lookin', almost pearlized, but not. I'm GUESSING that's a newer type, as glow in the dark toys classicly used to all look dark like the other one. The ghost shroud, and even the Throwbot discs you see at the bottom right... the dark type. If I recall correctly, the whiter roborider wheels came in service packs I ordered from shop@home, whereas the darker ones came in the sets. OH! Oh, wait! I just remembered... I have about 150 of those glow in the dark, modified 1x1 teeth from a year or two ago. They too are all different. Just as here, some are dark, some are whiter. So, one could assume this isn't a grey/bley situation, and instead a matter of perhaps 2 different runs being made simultaneously on different machines. Did I mention I'm a freak for Legos that glow under blacklight? X-D

I can pinch open the clothespin aaaand ...I'M CRUSHING YOUR HEAD! Crush crush crush. Flathead.

Want... the lime... 1x1 slopes... X-D Am I counting right? There's 8 on that green car?

Ah, but now look at that moc and look at the rst of his mocs. See any repetition? That's my point, this kid isn't like DV, isn't making a fleet of Riotfleas like me, he's JUST making good mocs without revisiting near-identical configurations. Which is darn freaky, it is.