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This is fabulous. I love the colors, and that parrot especially is top-notch. Some real nice parts usage with the Technic chain as dreadlocks and the nexo bot shoulder for the bottom of the beak.

It can take a while for Lego to get prizes sent out. In this case especially, we don't know how far along the artbook was in production at the time it was announced. It could be a super last-minute thing that they need all the time they can get to put together. I'd give it another month or two before getting worried.

Official pictures of the 2017 lineup on Brickset. They also have six more listed for the summer - not sure if that's news or not.

I mean, I guess they could be fake, but they look pretty darn legit to me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/5bggky/75524/ https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/5bghjc/75525/ I dunno, humans still just aren't a strong suit for ccbs

They're distributing the DVD version, just like Netflix distributes the digital version. Warner Bros is in charge of Lego DVDs for the most part these days, but in 2009 - 11 or so it was Universal, and they seem to have held on to the vestiges of that contract. See their re-release of Clutch Powers last year or their re-release of (surprise!) The Legend Reborn this year. Them publishing something they didn't originally publish is new, but there's no reason to think it's a bootleg - unless the bootleggers have access to Universal's library of TLR material and also cared enough to make their packaging look authentic and even use the Universal logo.

It isn't a bootleg. The DVD has Universal branding, and they published The Legend Reborn. They just reused assets they had lying around from that movie, because why bother when A) Bionicle is dead and B) the DVD seems to only be getting a limited Australia release. It reeks of "nobody wanted this, but it's some weird contractual obligation. let's get this over with and pretend it never existed"

Oh, of course! That makes sense then.

I just want to point out that compositionally, this image is very similar to the fake leaks from just a while ago - the ones with Sports, Cars and PoTC. Also in both cases, there are convenient reasons that no actual products are shown. Some of the wording in this one strikes me as rather unprofessional, too, but maybe Lego's standards for that kind of thing aren't as high internally. Since when has D2C ever been referred to as a part of the company, with the ability to "reveal" something? D2Cs are handled by the team that works on the actual theme (Creator, Star Wars, whatever it is). Also, the RRP is $2,699 dollars. Which is absurd, unless that somehow represents something different in a way I'm not aware of. I'm not convinced, but I guess we'll see!

With regards to the kinda subpar animation, I wouldn't be surprised if this went into production on short notice when the movie was pushed back. They might not have had enough time to add as much polish as usual.

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A combination model with a special mask - just like Ultimate Dume! It seems unlikely, but I do hope they put up instructions for him. That dude looks impossible to reverse-engineer.

They said that one was made by an intern, so I doubt it's too reflective on anything in the story.

Some say, he will have three heads. Others say, he will have many forms that change.

This vid definitely wasn't supposed to be up yet - not before the new Journey to One episodes come out at least. I'm almost afraid to say it, but the "Overlord" Makuta does look like it may actually be a... set? I mean, the new pieces, and unlike the other models in the video it has a clean colorscheme and no apparent crazy/unstable building techniques. And if they're showing it off in a video for 2016... well, I guess we really might be getting a surprise Makuta titan this year after all. EDIT: He has a trans orange version of the current headpiece, too! This is crazy and its going to be awesome seeing what happens going forward, either way. At least we know there's an ART BOOK coming. Seriously, an ART BOOK. Something that fans have been asking for! It's really cool that they heard us and were able to give us this.

He does! He's a remake of the original Dash minifig.

I don't particularly think it's gonna be a set either, but for what it's worth the chest does actually fit if you shift the connection point for the shell down a notch.

Aw heck, I knew it looked familiar. I'm pretty sure that's exactly what's going on - the crest is from this Mask of Creation prototype, which is like the only other part of the mask. So I guess they just mixed up a couple of masks for it, which says to me that it is almost certainly a placeholder they made up to fill the masks's space in the series before it is properly finished/revealed for next year. Kind of like the lower Vahi in the graphic novel, I guess.

I wasn't really subscribing to the idea that Ekimu 2016 was a temporary power-up type thing, but looking at the colored outlines he's got in the poster (a la the Chima figs when they powered up in the show), maybe that's really what's going to go down.

Mette sounds like a really cool guy! You're quite the interviewer, too. Another Bionicle contest is sure to be fun.

Just so ya know, Drome Racers was called Lego Racers 3 during development and was developed by the same studio that made Racers 2. I'd love to see a new Lego racing game. There was one cancelled in 2009, but I think we've moved far enough past that that it's plausible another one could come about. Its such a huge shift from all the stuff TT has been doing, though. I'm not sure its the sort of direction they want to move in.

I voted indifferent. I respect the set designs but most of them don't appeal to me aesthetically, and while I really liked the 2015 webisodes the rest of the story has been a disappointment for me. I know opinions like this can come off as sort of blind - with set design especially - so I want to emphasize that I actually think the new sets are better than the vast majority of comparable sets offered in G1. That being said, it's still not really the sort of design philosophy I came to Bionicle for. There's no accounting for taste, I guess.

It did actually, in 2004. The year that was the height of book sales, for what it is worth.

Not that it has any bearing on your point, but I wanted to mention that the only reason the Mask of Time had story blurbs from the beginning was because it would have had a story role in the cancelled PC game.

As someone who holds the old Flash content in the highest of esteem, I think you're being a little too harsh on the new animations. It's true that they aren't up to the storytelling caliber of MNOG, but they're also from a very different time in LEGO's history. I'm not sure something like MNOG could really exist today. But for what they had to work with (incredibly short 1:30 runtimes), the 2015 animations did a good job of establishing the Toa as characters and squeezing in some fun interactions between them. Certainly, I feel like I know the Toa of the webisodes better than the Toa of Journey to One. As for Lewa losing his mask, I don't see what is so problematic about that. Its a joke that plays on our familiarity with the character. We laugh because we know Lewa, and think that this is just the sort of situation he would find himself in. It doesn't feel too different to me from when Taipu is abducted by Nui-Rama, which is an abrupt reversal of his enthusiasm and wonder for the world around him. He's a little naive and it gets him into trouble - yep, that's Taipu.