Dorek
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They might be evenly distributed, but there's way too many to be reasonably considered a "scheme", and they're often haphazardly applied. I think they clash a ton =P.
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Really? I think the opposite. Her colors are a complete mess. But I'll save that for my review...
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August 1st has been the typical release time for mainline constraction for the past few years. As always, somebody will break street date, and you'll find them earlier. If somebody does get them earlier, a review would probably depend on how strict an embargo in place would be.
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The "Great Sea" was something tweaked a while ago, I think I mentioned it at some point, but yeah, it wasn't there originally.
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Hence why I used "scale" and not specifically "height" =P. Any reason the sets are coming out in September? I recall the Ultrabuilds releasing around the same time (or earlier) as Hero Factory sets. Is there some Star Wars scheduling thing I don't know about?
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That's the kind of scale we need in BIONICLE. Onua is almost there, but not quite.
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Well, actually, The Avengers was summer of 2012, plus he was in GotG, so... a bit less than three =P (no the alleged Infinity Gauntlet in Thor doesn't count) Anyway, I'm on board for a "it was Makuta all along" twist, since really we all know he's behind it, so why are we putting it off?
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I doubt it's the same mask. We know that the Skull Spiders can brain control their enemies (which needs to happen in the story, dammit!) so reanimating/controlling a dead body doesn't seem too far out of the equation.
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I'm actually a little disappointed in Basher, the new pose does not make him look as formidable, just more gangly. But the others still look amazing, and there's a good amount of story to be mined. Personally I'm hoping the "multi-headed warrior" features in the story somehow. The three humanoids get taken out, and resurrect again as some huge monster.
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Veeeeery cool. I'm looking forward to the summer wave, the Skull villains have a surprising amount of personality.
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Doesn't show up in my browser probably because 'Murica. Prices for the summer sets, I presume?
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Huh, that's pretty neat. Hopefully we find out more about it soon. (I'm sure it'll show up on ebay soon enough)
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It was mentioned =P. It's meant to tie in with the poll on the LEGO Club website, which was unfortunately posted slightly too early, so there's the usual hubbub of "down with the Fire kids for being popular!"
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I'm curious as to what these "huge swaths" are; there's the MNOG (which has its OWN problems of being held up as sacrosanct and untouchable by the community) and there's Hapka's novels, which themselves were inconsistent with whatever characterization we had gotten before anyway. If we want to talk about poor writing for females, that started way before Greg took over as the book writer; every single movie is atrocious in that regard, and that includes TLR, which is the only one he had much input on anyway. This seems more like a nostalgia-based argument, since the "overall tone" you're describing is basically whatever was in the MNOG. The BIONICLE story has always been pretty dark, but it's not until loosening standards that it could necessarily express how dark it actually was; implied violence only carries a violent story so far. Jaller's sacrifice at the end of 2003, for instance, was immediately negated by his deus-ex-machina revival. If we had kept that "tone" through 2007, it would have been a far less compelling quest to revive Mata Nui. Of course, 2006 was a fair amount of overcorrection on that part, but when the stakes are universal, there have to be consequences for that. There's plenty Greg has done wrong, but he gets a bum rep for stuff that was often not his total decision, and not enough credit for things that actually were.
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His gender-flip decision was more made because he had previously identified them as female and, when reminded of that, wanted to adhere to his previous statement, presumably because he actually agreed that the universe needed a better gender balance and didn't want tor retcon that out of existence. It was a ham-fisted explanation, true, but Chiara's (alleged) killing of the lizard was meant as a counterbalance, to show that the Great Being's sexist stereotypes were actually wrong in the first place. Had she perhaps just beat up a couple of Bone Hunters, we might have had less of a problem. Or maybe if they had eaten the lizard for sustenance, or whatever. That said, this is still a post-cancellation thing; anything pre-cancellation we could maybe hold up as an issue? I feel like the same arguments get recycled a lot, mostly due to enormous (possibly unwarranted) fanrage.
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A lot of this probably belongs in the G1 topic =P. I will say that I think some of the hard feelings about canonization overall also stem from the fact that people against canonization were actually in the minority; most polls actually reflected a desire to see more things canonized, and the have the various pockets filled in. People were never going to be happy with all the reveals, and I'm also not saying that a majority opinion is inherently right, but at least in terms of post-cancellation, he was writing to a very specific audience, and this is what the audience showed a desire to see. I genuinely have a hard time faulting him for this, because while he handled it somewhat poorly, the backlash was completely out of proportion, especially considering that he was just trying to rectify a previous mistake rather than actually include a retcon that probably would have been received even worse. His road to hell was clearly paved with good intentions.
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I think most older fans (the kind that frequent this board, at any rate) are pretty vocal about their overall displeasure of the way Greg handled the story =P. Personally I think it's his post-cancellation cavalier attitude that tends to perhaps corrupt people's recollections. 2007 was amazing, and 2008 was still pretty great in its own sprawling way, and it's miles better than nothing at all. But, I'm also not opposed to fresh hands at the wheel, and I look forward to seeing how the new authors tackle the mythos.
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I know, I was more poking fun at the placeholder cover. Also there hasn't been anything to talk about.
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COVER NOT FINAL
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I like the idea behind it, but the resulting winners are often a little bit underwhelming. That said, the previous contest had the opposite problem where overcomplicated and unnecessarily grandiose entries were often the ones being rewarded, so I don't mind a bit of simplicity here.
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Slizers were the best end of discussion
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Haha, now that I re-located my old trove of magazines, I've been going through them to find some old building contests. And don't get me wrong, some of them had tons of BIONICLE content. But still, we're only half a year in (and so far there's been something every issue!). I think the next year or two is when it'll hit its stride.
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I think people vastly overestimate the advertising in previous generation; if there wasn't some kind of building contest (which there often was, granted!) or a comic, there was usually only a page or two dedicated to BIONICLE. The actual magazine content we've gotten so far is pretty on par with that.
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Turns out the LOSS poll was actually meant to tie in with a stats spread in the next LEGO Magazine issue, which is pretty neat!
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Wouldn't that be a... pre-vamp?
