Lord Admiral Helden Ravensdorn

... ..... ....... Move along sucked *wacko* I honestly cant tell how a whiny emo band can envoke any of the feelings of valor, destiny and epicness that should go along with BIONICLE. No offense if you like AAR, though. All Im saying is taht I can see why they're rejected :)

Meh... I never really felt guitars fit Bionicle - not as a main theme, anyway, but as a suplement like in this vid. Oh, and the poor singing in "Hero" wasnt that much of a plus :( At least the chick singing in this one gives it a bit more of a mysterious air.

Purely throw away? Allright, hows this: I will take any and all Skeleton figures any of you guys dont want, and will PAY YOUR SHIPPING! :-D ^^^ me being serious ^^^

For once, I'm with Zaktan. The music was better then any of the poor rock/pop/rap trash we've been getting ever since Justin Luchter (Templar) and Nathan Furst (Movies) and for once actually FIT the feel of the story.

Let us recall some epic battles from the MNOLG I. Infected Lewa vs Onua: Lewa, wearing an infected mask and under the sway of the Makuta, approaches captured villiagers that are doing forced slave labor in a Rahi hive. (Gee, what a kiddy, not-dark story!) Onua busts his way up out of hte earth and engages Lewa in combat. While you dont actually see them hacking at each other, you do see the ariel view of them trading blows in the dark (including, if you're observant, Lewa jumping way up into the air and coming back down with a stomp). It gives the feel of a tooth-and-nail battle, until Onua is finially thrown into a wall. Then, Onua uses the mask of Telekinesis to throw some rocks and a hoto bug at Lewa. While lewa blocks the rocks, the hoto bug makes it through and knocks the infected mask off. Using the Telekinesis mask again, Onua pulls Lewas proper mask out of the Nui-Ramas claws and back to Lewa, who then takes over the Nui-Rama and helps save the Tohunga out of the hive. Some of you say, "They didnt use their tools as weapons!". This is true, you never DO see them doing that, though it is implied, as it is in this battle. Some of you say, "The no-violence policy sucked! They didnt DO anything!" This is NOT true in any way. The way I see it, the non-violence policy as well as using the tools as weapons helped make BIONICLE stand out as not your average "hack-n-slash" toy line. The Toa used their weapons primarily to channel their power, and the no-violence policy meant that the battles needed to be structured in such a way so as to make them interesting and engaging but not openly violent, hence the (awesome) Manas battle, where they were defeated by destorying their "leash" towers. Now, with the violence policy removed and the Toa weilding weapons, you have idiotic crap like Vezon ramming Matoro headfirst into a wall. Oh, how terribly epic! d Basically, the tool and violence policies forced the writers to be ORIGIONAL. This is nolonger needed, and thus, BIONICLE *IS* degenerating into the average hack-n-slash toyline - it is pretty much already there, now that we have blood and six-shot chainguns. If I have time, I'll go into a few more battles and make a few more statements later. The point is is that the 2001-2002 storytellers had to write an interesting and engaging (and ENTIRELY CANON) storyline in order to support the sets and attract fans, as opposed to now where all thats needed is tacky gimmicks (Free the Band, anyone?) and 4+ Non-Canon storylines running side-by-side. You, Jinzo, are misunderstanding us, the "Old Guard", when you think that we want a return to 2001. We dont. What is one of my current projects? Sculpting peices so as to make Movie-Style Toa Nuva with full Inika articulation. The point is is that 2001 had a feel to it - a feel that could have been continued, and did continue until 2004. Then, GregF came to the fore of the storyteam and pretty much wrecked the place. Now we have a "living, breathing world" where physics dont apply - but magic apparently does -, all villians are your average "Muahhaha, I are bad!" comic book villians, all 3,000 heroes have been cut out with 6 different colored cookie cutters, Toa die like your average rank-and-file grunts from an RTS videogame, everyone has about twenty powers most of which revolve around lasers and could all utterly obliterate the enemy, except apparently Toa are too polite to kill anyone, and no-one can do anything epic unless they're a toa or have some manner of weapon. Because kids grow? I was pretty young when Bionicle came out. I'm a mostly-fully-grown adolescant now. Guess which years I despise, and would despise had I found out about bionicle just last year? [/rant]

How in all the pirated freshwater bays of the Archipalego did you manage to come up with all 8 Hornblower films, yet NOT mention the 11 freakin books?! If you thought the films were good (Which, while they are historically accurate, they took the real story and threw it to davy jones locker) then read the books - which, for those of you not in the know, came long before the movies. They are extremely interesting and engaging stories written by C.S. Forester which follow the career of Horatio Hornblower from Midshipman to the Lord Admiral of the West Indes, and - I can talk from experience - are far superior to the movies.

..that IS a good Jack Sparrow minifig!!!

Yup, that gatling guns real usefull

Wait... Matoro (see: The Next Gen of Emo Toa) REALLY has a foot for a torso >_>

Im just trying to figure out if the "TRUE UBER LOYAL FANS" are those of us who remember the true feel of BIONICLE or those of us who just swallow anything GregF and TLC throws at them...

OK... ... the "Character Stats (for Unorigional Children)" are killing my inner child :-X I'd ask why TLC feels the need to give Bionicle to its fans like a parent gives baby food to a toddler, but then I remember that their target audience is 6+ :-|

.... Lego got Exo-Force. Knex got Battle Tech. Is it just me, or is TLC managing to do just about EVERYTHING wrong? :-|

Yeah, Pridak is like a poorly-done horribly-colored Pitch Black creature... .. Anyway, thanx for the reviews! I think I will get Ehlek and use him for a Fell Seeker (Dark Hunter)

@ Zaktan: When the first images of the Inika were released, I said they sucked. When GOOD images were released, I said they were the most atrocious, hideous, Half-Frog Half-Toa THINGS that could possibly be called Toa :P

The way that mask looks... ... is quite possibly the only GOOD thing about 2007. Look at the bios... observe the bland personalities.... the poor set quality... I think the only other interesting thing was the little "notes" thing on the front page... if they had given this kind of detail to 2004-5, maby they would have done better.

The hat is built on a cut-down firemans helmet that was rather damaged in the first place. While in retrospect I agree that the front IS too tall, its pretty much too late to do anything about that now :/ However, I mis-sculpted the back, making it a Bicorn rather then a Tricorn. I will be cutting that off and re-sculpting it.

Let us then look at an image that isnt concept art and is what I printed out to make this lil guy from... Anyway, while I do know the hat is off a bit - both in height and shape, but it was EXTREMELY hard to sculpt :/

The hat is not much bigger then most minifig hats as for the body, it was a markered-up-spare. I have a fair number of heads and bodies that I markered on back in the day.

... Huh? How does it look weird...? >_>

I was thinking of charging a flat rate of 10-15 bucks + shipping, mostly to cover the time and effort of casting, painting, and clear coating it :)

I dont know about the rest, but the Halo 3 picture IS in game. Bungie has always done their cinematics from in-game graphics.

If I can figure out how to cast them, yes, I indended on casting his legs and hands too :)

@Phes: Yes. @All: A picture of our mutual friend, Jack Sparrow, with the Devil himself: Check the first post in this thread for a more complete image of Jones. For Phes: Here is a picture of the Green Stuff before its green: For Zcerberus: Here is the headlamp, which I also used for lighting on all my Davy Jones pics! Good thinking!

I will try to link you all up with some pretty basic model railroading and gaming techniques. Its not that hard, really - All you need is a few supplies. Lastly, masonite is nothing compared to insulation foam and a hotknife.

http://www.maj.com/gallery/takuathechronic...le/scan0002.jpg http://www.maj.com/gallery/takuathechronic...le/scan0001.jpg Age... Six.... *wacko* You could make ANYTHING and these fools would like it, so why not make HIGH QUALITY BIONICLEs!?