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  1. Mandate
    I don't want to see them remake the DB just for pirates. Kind of makes "The Last Voyage" even more noticeably redundant after season 5. Would they even need to remake the set anyway?
  2. Mandate
    I'm not so sure of that. Now, I will admit before I say this that I don't have as extensive a collection of Gen 1 sets as other people will (nor have I had mine used for 15 entire years), but my Tahu Nuva hasn't got a single crack in any of his joints, the same of which cannot be said for my copy of Hordika Nuju whose sockets are very cracked, although not broken. I'm going to commit heresy too and say that people don't give the 2008 joints enough credit. Only one of my 2008 sockets (of which I do have a fairly extensive collection) has lost friction, the rest are tight as nails. For every socket I have that has cracked there's 5 CCBS joints that have lost friction. Master Lewa was barely with me five seconds before his arms started swinging downwards without it being the result of the gearbox. CCBS pieces may be damn near destructible but I've had far more problems with them than I have with Gen 1 parts so far.
  3. Mandate
    Personally, I really love the look of the Okotoan alphabet, it's distinct and looks more like an ancient language to me than alien symbols like the Matoran language. As others have said though, writing with this will be far more difficult.
  4. Mandate
    We don't know what happened to the Ancient City yet (unless the book has revealed something that I'm not aware of), so it's equally likely they forgot over time.
  5. Mandate
    New names are a bit strange, but they're meant to be unique (as much as I would have loved the Turaga's names to return ). I'm sure Bingzanuva will make more appearances in the future, and I really like the foreign feel of the story now. I seriously hope that the slime ghosts isn't going to be the next set of villains. They're retread NINJAGO's story enough this year already, and we haven't even gotten half way through the story yet (barring the books).
  6. Mandate
    Spoiler tags, people. It's not that hard.
  7. Mandate
    I'm half expecting Makuta to sound like Barbie at this point.
  8. Mandate
    The website has been updated with a working trailer. As far as I can tell, nothing else has been changed.
  9. Mandate
    I assume you have a better name for it, then? It was still a building system in its own right that featured its own formula for making action figures. The Inika, Piraka, Mahri, Barraki, Phantoka, Mistika and Glatorian had a common blueprint to them in most cases. The only difference between the development of each system was that one was developed gradually over time to "improve" itself whereas the other was made with the explicit purpose of having to not go through that again and having been built from the ground up. Because of how smooth the base pieces of CCBS are, the pieces are a lot more consistent in creations for the most part. The ball joint system can be a pain to work with, but as long as you have plenty of ball pieces lying around you can create impressive things easily. Fair points.
  10. Mandate
    Ninjago is the "base" world which all the realms are connected to, not a realm itself.
  11. Mandate
    Kiina used a limb piece for torso armor. Gorak used a neck piece as feet and had four arms by creative use of parts. Bitil used an upper limb piece for an extended neck long before Cragger and had wings that were made by using an upper limb piece and "outdated" parts from 9 years prior. Matoro Mahri used a Mata foot for both torso armor and a neck connection. Pridak used a neck piece for a torso connection. Matoro and Jaller used the same piece as shoulder armor and torso armor respectively. Jaller reused his own upper torso armor for a crab. Iruini used a shield for torso armor, and Norik used armor sized for Matoran for the same purpose. Do I need to mention the Nui-Rama? And what of the dozens of Matoran designs that rarely used new parts for their construction? The Gen 1 system had its own set of rules as well - anything that can be connected to a Technic pin can be connected to somewhere else. And while a lot of BIONICLE sets suffered from the limitations of pricing and its system (some of which are on the list I just gave) there's no end of CCBS sets that feature the same design problems - and worse. CCBS is more versatile than the BBS in the right hands, and the BBS is more versatile than the CCBS if also in the right hands. Frankly, both of them suck because neither of them fully capitalize on what has been the true core of creativity when it comes to constraction: Technic. Technic was always what allowed for creative designs prior to the CCBS (and I'm going to give the BBS some leeway on the Technic side because it would fall apart without it) and the CCBS itself relies on Technic all too often for a system that was "designed to be better" to the point where back armor was such an issue that they had to use a foot for back armor and even then it was lackluster. The shell system has overt flaws just like the limb designs of the original BBS. A system that relied on what the BBS did well and the CCBS did well but based heavily on Technic would have been a better option and made backwards compatibility far easier.
  12. Mandate
    Spooky Scary Skeletons entered the Tournament of Elements and lost the first two words of their title. That is all I have to say about this trailer.
  13. Mandate
    The ninja being on the run will be an excellent change of pace from the usual "quickly forgotten" or "work not appreciated" intro plots.
  14. Mandate
    I found more but the image sizes are too big and I'm too tired to care sorry What you call "clashing textures" some call part of the artstyle of Gen 1 and its pieces. I've seen more than my fair share of clashing textures with large CCBS MOCs, and I can honestly tell you this: both of them suck because System is better than both #shotsfired *ANYWAY* Can we please get back on topic? The "which system is better" argument never ends well or productively and it currently has nothing to do with Bio 2015 because people veered away from that part of it. edit: this post was originally part of the Bio 2015 thread, please ignore it now that VBBN has moved it
  15. Mandate
    Are you hinting that you know something we don't, or are you just teasing us?
  16. Mandate
    MLP, the MU, the DCU and the Transformers universe all have one thing in common: they aren't trying to tell a tale about robotic villagers on a tropical island, and most of them are based off of the modern world. It's not so much names or titles being made from real words is a problem (because we're insulting a lot of people if we pretend that they weren't), it's that you strip away a lot of the "feel" of the world when you create a location with a culture very far from most modern ones and then give them common names. As I said earlier, the line benefits from a deeper lore that fits in more with the overall theme. Kids almost literally absorb stuff like that as if they were sponges. If a kid finds an abstract word like "Turaga" in BIONICLE, they're going to want to find out what it means. In many cases, that also encourages kids to look up real-world words they've never heard of or don't understand if they were to come across them in a book (!) or other media. Fictional languages such as the Matoran Language help in similar ways, it's ironically educational for kids to fill their heads with fictional worlds like that of Gen 1. And likewise, no one had to learn the Matoran language to follow the story. No one has to refer to the Riders of Rohan as the Rohirrim, but I think we can both agree that Lord of The Rings would be lose a lot if these terms were to be removed. The Nazgul were almost always called the "Black Riders" by those that knew less about them than a main character. On a side note, the Rohirrim and the Riders of the Rohan are actually two separate things. All Riders of Rohan are Rohirrim, but not all Rohirrim are Riders of Rohan So exactly how are you suggesting the books and media refer to him then? Continually calling him "Protector of Fire" doesn't make him mysterious as an excuse for calling him that.
  17. Mandate
    I refuse to believe that LEGO Universe doesn't exist in one of those other realms. It DESERVES to be, even if it failed as a commercial product.
  18. Mandate
    Being teased or ridiculed over a story that is far from mainstream is more universal than you think. It happens to virtually every series with a deep lore and at varying levels depending on how mature it is. For instance, the HALO lore is very deep and complex and the people that take the time to learn it are called nerds for it. People that have invested time into learning Tolkien's Elven language are ridiculed for doing so. And people from all across the world that put in the effort to learn everything about comic book characters are still seen as weird, even with the increasing presence of said characters in mainstream media. The problem you're facing is that older people (15+) generally won't take a toy line and its story seriously or accept that there are people out there that enjoy it, and simplifying the story to the point that it's a bare-bones plot isn't going to help this mantra, it's only going to enforce the idea that it's nothing more than "advertising and a quick buck from a gullible and tasteless consumers". The problem with names didn't come from the first few years of BIONICLE. It came from ten years of character swapping, non-set characters and names for ridiculous amounts of collectibles (looking at you, Kraata and Krana). Many things had very particular naming schemes that could be applied across all of the island of Mata Nui and were very easy to remember, eg Ga-Koro and Ta-Koro, Le-Wahi and Po-Wahi, Onu-Matoran and Ko-Matoran and so on.
  19. Mandate
    Season 2 (or the second half of season 2 depending on where you live) aired in 2012, not 2013. I also said "in the year before", not "in the year".
  20. Mandate
    With the *edit*recent*edit* trend of the 2015 thread getting derailed, I think it's fairly obvious that now that we're frequently creating new threads for certain aspects of BIONICLE or redirecting discussion to said threads each time the 2015 discussion gets off-topic (but still relevant to BIONICLE) we're going to be having a lot of new threads getting very little attention in the long term and getting pushed to the end of the forum, which eventually leads to the topic becoming discussed in the yearly discussion thread. Most of the time discussion ends immediately in both threads because the chatter has been divided and people simply don't want to take the effort to discuss something elsewhere mid-conversation. Perhaps we could make (and pin) a BIONICLE (or other theme, should the need arise) megathread for discussion of BIONICLE in general and leave topics such as the yearly set thread for discussion of sets alone? I think it would work well enough in comparison to, for example, the thread for a new D2C set alongside a yearly set discussion thread.
  21. Mandate
    (emphasis added) How could BIONICLE have accounted for more than 100% (or all of) LEGO's net profits?
  22. Mandate
    Did they give air, er, water holes for Spinax to breathe with? I myself have just bid on Toa Mata Lewa and Kopaka. I want Nuparu Inika
  23. Mandate
    The "low number" of molds is a joke. There's around 30 new molds for BIONICLE created this year, a far cry from the likes of NINJAGO that had around, if not less than, 15 new molds this year. The reason why it isn't very far from the general CCBS style is because for aesthetic pieces that are going to be directly visible on pieces most of the time consists almost entirely of masks. LEGO insists on keeping to the original style of CCBS (a darn shame if you ask me) is why it doesn't "look" like the Toa Mata or Inika. As for whether or not BIONICLE will reclaim its place as "King" or if NINJAGO will remain LEGO's best seller at the moment, we'll need to wait and see on that one. I've heard rumors that the sets aren't selling well on Brickset and seen people say a LEGO official told them they aren't selling well, but I've also seen the reverse of that and this happens every year a "main" line debuts. I'm expecting a success on the level of Chima, but I won't complain if it sells better than everything else LEGO has right now. In truth, it depends on how successful the line is. NINJAGO was more successful than BIONICLE's first year and has continued selling well even in the face of discontinuation, yet continues to have less media than in the year before LEGO nearly pulled the plug. It also depends on how LEGO reacts to the success of the line, success on minimal media can mean either more media and molds or the same amount we got this year. We don't have access to LEGO's finances, so we're not going to get a concrete answer until next year.
  24. Mandate
    I believe that (or a variation) came from IMDb, a direct quote of the description for the movie is "Ninjas, samurais, and sensei fight side-by-side against dragons, armies of snake men, and a once-banished warlord who is now seeking to return to power." The same description can be found word for word on Cineplex, Cinemablend and Brickipedia. The full quote from Scarilian can itself be found on IMDb here. A quick Google search using the News tab only gives me one source for the version I've quoted, a "fashionstyle.com" (certainly not the best place to get LEGO news from) and Scarilian's quote brings nothing. However, that being said there is an interesting entry on a website called "fanfiction.net" of what seems to be a group of people picking apart the summary Scar stated, dating back to March 7th with a fair amount of confusion over who Ronin is. I've cross-referenced this with our very own 2015 discussion thread, and it seems we already knew about Ronin at that point. Unless Scar can give us a proper source on it, I'm not believing it. We know that TLM and TNM take place in an entirely different universe to the TV show, so I would assume it's fake. Bear in mind I haven't done a great deal of research into where the rumor came from or why the heck anyone would dare touch the "Warnerverse" of NINJAGO, especially for a theatrical film, but stranger things have been true in this fanbase before.
  25. Mandate
    Ehhh... not really belonging in the 2015/6 thread if it's related to the story.
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