Dorek
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I thought it was funny :U
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Well, Amazon lets you cancel your pre-orders at no cost, but yes, good news for people who like theirs in hardcover! I'm likely going to get paperback, since that's better for scanning purposes.
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I feel like this was mentioned at some point, but I just noticed that Amazon already put the second graphic novel up for pre-order, with a preliminary release date of February. Still no pictures, for this or the first one, but still.
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That's a fun way of looking at it. I always assumed that his were looked down upon because they were inferior in quality. Or plot twist, Ekimu made them and he's secretly the bad guy.
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Well, Slicer is apparently wearing some form of actual Skull Spider on his head, so it's possible the other ones are masks too. Maybe the others have similar resurrecting properties.
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Still August for an official release date, huh? Silly Europe. Almost July, anyway, so we'll be seeing them soon enough.
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I don't think they'd necessarily re-use the MoCr logo, but maybe? I kind of hope not. I'm worn out on the IfB talon.
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Ah, I thought that some of them were also Ameet books. Oh well. I was kind of expecting the Trans-Orange Mask of Fire, since they often have a surplus of those polybags, but maybe they got their stock right this time.
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I'm not a minifig expert at all, but I don't think that's entirely true? In any case, it was a selling point of the actual book, and they've obviously been trying with the exclusives this year. Possible? You betcha. Probable? Well, your perception of that is likely where the disappointment will stem from.
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Well that was quick. Maybe they're supposed to be released July? Bummer about the mask, too. Bit disappointed in that.
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Wishful thinking unfortunately. The prototype images showed SG's weapons with chains on it, but those don't appear to be present in the final product.
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Ooooooh that's sexy. Loving the blaster. Not loving the immediate milking of the franchise just for a movie cash-in, though.
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Pretty sure they cut out the chains from the MMvSG set, which is a bummer. They looked cool.
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Except then he runs into a barrier and just sorta gives up on all of those =P. It's no real fault of characterization, just that he gets marginalized by the plot and shuffled around without much chance to express himself (although I suppose 2008 could have tried a tiny bit harder). I wish we had gotten to see his destiny play out in the serials, Greg's plans sounded really interesting. #pewkugen2confirmed
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I wouldn't mind a fem-kua/kanuva since the original Takanuva was pretty void in the personality department post-transformation. So if they did, it would be more for design than anything else, and a G2 Avohkii would be sick.
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More colors, definitely! I'll be okay with whatever concepts they decide to revisit, if indeed they decide to revisit any at all. But definitely more colors, and actually, y'know, USE the colors (looking at you, medium sets!).
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Maybe it also had something to do with the design time and process? I note that BIONICLE doesn't use the newer parts from Star Wars (and Star Wars only uses the skull torso once, which I think is the only specific part it borrows), unlike some past years Ultrabuilds.
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Sounds like pandering to me. Give me Lewa saving Onua. THEN I'll laugh.
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As always, there will be some broken street dates. But official release is August, so don't hold your breath until then.
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Well yeah, in the story it probably doesn't mean anything. But since all three are the more expensive sets, the gold is probably used as a draw; "these sets are worth more because they have GOLD you should buy them".
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They're the larger sets, so I can only imagine that's why.
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But the blue is inconsistently on the outside vs the inside, so the bodysuit analogy doesn't really work, since the "layers" have to be imagined in that case as opposed to what's actually there. Kopaka's coloring is smart in terms of how it breaks things down; trans-blue underlayer, white armor, gold on top, but only occasionally inverting the white and the gold to prevent it from being overpowering (the opposite of Gali, who can't figure out what color she actually wants to be). At this point I'm just going to leave the rest to be said in my review, although we're still not going to agree on it =P. Thank goodness we're all entitled to opinions~ You'd be a saint among critics :U
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(why am I defending a review that hasn't even come out yet :U) Right, but there's a difference between contrasting colors and clashing colors. If they were the same, people wouldn't flip out over MoCs that use the newer grey alongside the older one. Just because they're complementary shades doesn't mean they go well together. They're all placed haphazardly on things anyway; transblue on grey, gunmetal on transblue, silver on dark azure on transblue, dark azure on black, etc. There's barely any consistency. You want well-thought-out, go look at Kopaka. Reviews by nature are opinionated, so... no? I must have missed where having a thought was automatically a bias. We're a full LUG, this is how we serve the member base.
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Right, there's no hard-and-fast rule; it works in some cases, but not necessarily in others. I'm inclined to think Gali's a case where it doesn't, and since she's a basic humanoid not trying for much else, it sticks out all the more. But they can't be perfect, neh?
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Ouch =P And I'd probably agree with you on most of those (although I thought Queen Beast worked for the most part? Might just be because it's the only IFB set I have). But Gali has Dark Azure, Tr. Light Blue, gunmetal, silver, and the yellow accents (which I actually thought were handy, but again, in due time), as well as the slight gold for the spear and the eye color. Given the distribution, that's four primary colors, which is at least one too many. Cutting out any one of the primaries (preferably silver) would have made it a lot more cohesive, or if she had maybe been a bigger set it could have been less noticeable. (spoiler alert: not a bad set otherwise!)
