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I like that Speeda looks like an imp without the bike. But the bike does not look good to me. I don't know, too many gaps?

Mostly because I don't need them, as in at all. I don't need their hands covering what I am looking. I don't need they moving around things and not letting me see them. I don't need their bad lighting. Don't need their voices. And yes, youtube interviews tend to come with extremely lame opinions.

Another thing that bugs me about video reviews is the reviewers. Stormer looks great actually. Definitely the build has more hopes than the Firelord build. Once they perfect the structures at the back and the leg armor this can turn out great.

Not a fan of video reviews. Take ages to download and at the end, since it is a compressed video and the reviewer keeps moving the stuff you don't get to see that much. I think stormer uses stickers because those wings are bland and can't be printed. Stringer looks great from the front. The trans armor was one thing, but the guy has a great shape too. The back will need modding effort. Meanwhile, I am more concerned with the first wave because it just arrived. I got splitface and he is cool. But it seems that they didn't bring Breeze, Rocka and Black Phantom, and that is making me very angry. I didn't notice this with pics, but splitface is so using the Breeze/Samus style armor in his red area. Which is ever so... ...feminine. I am not saying that Splitface looks half male and half female to me, but... err, wait I am actually saying it.

Hah, reviewer got bad taste. Just alter the color scheme a little and the combiner is a perfect monster. I doubt the new torso piece is going to be used a lot in future sets. Unless it is adapted to a new titan build.

To be honest I am not as ultra excited about the new torso piece as others. Mostly because I can already make small MoCs by combining parts I already got. And I mean: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=496647 But it is a good addition to a set that already had good stuff.

I mean really. I have a Hazmat team full with all the stereotypes. Brave guy, nervous kid, scientist (he is got glasses) and token female.

both kinds of football players sound disappointing to me. Anyone who needed an American football player would just need to remove the skies from the Hockey player.

You know, his tail and other fish body parts are Gali Mystica wings but in new silver.

Finally got toxic reapa and jaw blade. Jawblade is all right. But I think it is more of a parts pack. I have so many ideas for the wings in new silver and the head... Reapa is as amazing as I thought. I will wait till there is a new shipment to buy more reapas though, because it got the old feet.

Here's me hoping the enemy robot takes ideas from the spyrius guys.

Hero Factory in space? Make them fight space-borne aliens full of tentacles and giant brains and it is a deal.

Anyone got ideas as to how to recognize if a reapa bag has the new feet?

They look better than the original. I think Meltdown and Corroder have the same issue with the front armor. It is too rectangular. I would replace it with three shells - closer to Xplode's if possible.

ooh ooh. I hope the lot that comes to my store is the new one.

I never really cared for the story. I collect construction toys, because they look good and interesting and because it is fun trying to build them. I liked Bionicle, but right now I am not sure if Stockholm syndrome was in effect or something. Nowadays, I have tons of Bionicle pieces, but many of them do not look aesthetically pleasant to me in comparison to HF parts. Another bunch of Bionicle parts are so disgracefully specialized and large that I can't come up with a good use. Then there's the other chunk of them that are broken or very prone to break, and sadly it is the very Bionicle parts that don't look aesthetically bad to me and are not ultra super specialized. So, what's left? A couple of "male" (it is a technical therm, really) articulations; Bohrok teeth eyes, cockpit, shields and other decorations that are not Bionicle-specific anymore; Kanohi; 10% of the weapons; and all those parts that are really Technic parts. The HF build system is great, specially because of piece quality. I also can't be happier with the much more inorganic, robotic setting. Then we have how the smoothness matches better with system and how decorations are system compatible. I do hope that he disturbing trends started in 2012 are short-lived. I want bone colors to be neutral and mostly black and I want LEGO to ease out in the color schemes and stop making such Frankenstein mixes. I would also like them to start using technic to make Titans, because it seems that the HF build system is only good with small figures. Otherwise, I think Hero Factory is superior in every way imaginable to Bionicle.

I guess that in order not to make it obvious, you can put a 80.0 USD's set bar code in a 100.0 USD one. The clerk would then just think it is in discount. But some clerks are really just zombies (Not like I blame them). No surprise he did this in large stores.

Bar code switching: http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_20675946/silicon-valley-tech-exec-gets-popped-allegedly-stealing I doubt it was his initial motive: Sounds familiar?

Nothing really. The guidelines say that the project has to involve sets. This project has a couple of sets in its list. I think the larger risk comes from the need of custom molds, to be honest. But the theme vs set part is not that much of a problem, I think that all the ideas in the page (robots, ship, tank) can be made into a single set easily (IF it was necessary to).

Alternatively, the designers just like asymmetry (Explains other things like Stormer 2.0's legs, Nex's shoulder armor, etc...

So, this is very late (was very busy these two days). But I managed to extract the biggest quality shots from the incredibly lame and annoying amazon.fr interface. For completeness. Here's the other sets' images I extracted from the other site a long time ago: (Pictures are links) (brickshelf gallery (not approved yet) ) . I am not liking Stormer's connection in the part behind his chest. It will surely look bad in some angles. Stormer also looks a bit chubby... Core hunter should have lost the gun metal. In fact, that color is becoming the new silver and needs to stop appearing that much. Voltix should just replace all red with black and all black with purple.

Brasso + paper does not leave scratches in transparent parts - In fact, it can also be used in fixing small scratches in them... Meanwhile, stickers ruin everything.

I think Stringer will look terrible from behind. I guess that's good news because it ensures I won't have to buy twice to have one for show and one for bricks. I'll only need a brick one.

Some cap reviews in brickset: http://www.brickset.com/reviews/?set=4597-1. Nothing extremely amazing except for some pictures with odd perspectives.