>The World of BIONICLEMedia: https://biomediaproject.com/bmp/Story: https://wallofhistory.com/Wiki: https://biosector01.com/BTS: https://www.youtube.com/@BonkFoundArchiveMagnaleaks: https://magnaleak.github.io/MAGNALEAK/>Building with BIONICLESets: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=S&catString=273Studio: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/download.pageGuide: https://bioniclerebuilt.wixsite.com/fallingstars/studio-guide-v2Prototype gallery: https://biosector01.com/wiki/Gallery:Prototypes>Archive:https://archive.palanq.win/toy/search/subject/%2Fbiog%2FPrevious Thread: >>11729519
>last thread's been archived for like 2 days without anyone starting a new one>no one posts in this oneWhat's going on?
>>117630671. Great moc2. Were a dying breed.
>>11763067Is there another head or custom head that would both fit on the Stars body and fit Stars Tahu's mask? I'm trying to use that torso, get a better, less hunched head, and add in some torso articulation. Probably just use ccbs limbs for those. Any thoughts? The stars torso feels a bit limited but maybe with some technic beams it'd be possible to get what I'm trying to achieve.
>>11763312>What's going on?I think Bionicles were discontinued years ago.
Are you getting the mini fig or nah
>>11763447If I can find one, for sure. Hoping it won't be too tough.
>>11763416Singapore
>>11763416Is there any source of new/compatible parts (outside of 3d printing)? Or is it reselling a shrinking pool of parts made back in the day.
>>11763447Yup
>>11763626Slowly getting more third party offerings, anybody ordered from sidorak? Thinking of getting some pink parts for an odd piraka and some other stuff
So has anybody tried using these heterochromia eyes and had one of the eyes be cast in pure black or gray and the other be clear, or do it in general themselves, just curious how that would look for a proper missing eye toa or baddie
>>11763067>>11763312>>11763322i think sexualizing your bonks makes you a bad fan. there is no reason to give your models tits and an ass and a tiny waste other than to get your weewee hard. convince me otherwise without outing yourself as a slave to your animalistic gooner urges/trying to turn me into one
>11763790>i think-I don't give a fuck what you think
>>11763347the glatorian head works well for the stars hau mask
I buyed boughted it
>>11763711beautiful bionicle with homophobia
>>11763815I tried that but fitting it onto the body comes off hunched and kind of ugly, but you're right that it fits. Since the Stars mask is smaller, it can't fit a Mata head properly, which is unfortunate. Certainly is an option though. Just the way the Stars torso is built makes the articulation feel rough. I do want to introduce a waist too, but I'm still trying to think up a design.
>11763814>too much of a pussy to give a (you) Yawn, come back when you grow a spine
>>11763951
>>11763790I'm not sure I'd go as far as "bad fan" but I do agree it's strange. I think something that can be enjoyed without any sexual frisson is wonderful. But then I'm one of the apparently rare people who managed to grow up with peak Sonic and Pokemon and not turn into a furfaggot so maybe I'm the odd case.
>>11763790>>11764131Can't complain about roodaka because that's official, but yeah, not everything needs to be porn, and I say this as a massive coomer.
>>11763790>goonerYou have to be at least 18 years old to use this website.
>>11764150>>11764131I would prefer if we get sexy stuff it’s at least odd looking fuckers instead of only being Sexy Toa, part of what makes Roodaka work is due to her being a scaly weird offshoot species personally, some of the rahkshi stuff gets it somewhat right but they fuck it up in other spots too much, sexy xenoish stuff is where it is best done
>>11763951>>11764042fucking peam. icarax was my first kraakhan
>>11763447Yeah...>>11763711The only issue I could imagine aside from how you'd get it is light piping. Do printers print translucent?
>>11763951This dude and was the coolest Makuta. All the Phantoka Makuta were goated
>>11764150>>11764198I don't like Roodaka either tbqh. I'm glad that sort of design didn't become a fixture of official kits.
>>11764450Resin molding
>>11764024picrel, the metru head is pretty good from what ive seen, very little stress
>11764030you dont deserve a (You)
>>11764752it's okay to admit you don't know how to reply directly, anon. here's a tip: click the number and you will reply to that part of the thread :o)
>>11764749Any advice for where to buy the Metru eyes
>>11764754>>11763790Reddit behaviour.
>>11764758bricklink always, or local markets if you're lucky. Though if you're buying anything other than trans-neon green or orange i would highly recommend buying a complete toa and making sure they have the color you want
>>11763790
>>11763790trvke
I got the stupid ass red nigga guard from the sequel trilogy skirt piece, along with his shoulder guards from bricks and minifigs why did I get this, should it be some Rahi frill or some shit like those frilled lizards or is some guy gonna be cursed with Scottish Disease? What the hell do I even pick man
:(
>>11765613Post moc
>>11765154I didn't know this existed, I should get this for my Superman mech.
>>11765613GPS moment>>11765643It’s really short for how wide it is, again more skirt than that, just use one of the kk2 capes or something if you want supes, then again theres about nothing for that, you may have to stitch it together or something if you don’t want it in 3 parts, god why does the cape section have to be a million miles long
>>11764716Makes sense lol>>11764749I can confirm this works alright from my own moc. Stays on well.
>>11766194>it is now gay to not want to fuck your plastic toys
What are the best customizations/improvements I can do to the original toa mata? Ideally using only legal or legal-adjacent techniques and legitimate Lego parts. Could be technic or mostly system, don’t have a preference as long as the build is roughly the same size as the original toa mata and looks good
>>11763790But what would the case be if instead the bonks were complicit with those urges?https://mega.nz/file/77pFhDoS#pRMTPzoLbOmYvVffxl9rf_CiQN8FD0Vfs5HkBGdXeXQ
Rahkshi of lust design, huh
>>11766879Where?!
>>11766982In my mind, you aren’t getting the Paradisa Pink or Hot Pink Rahkshi for free
>>11767013So what, they consume love like some kind of succubus?
>>11767060No they just make you too horny to properly fight
Need to sort out some bricks to build this summer, lotta bionicle stuff in my collection and now a lot of technic bulk too, may go out and fetch a bit more bulk but not 100% sure tomorrow
>>11766879I love rahkshi.
>>11767607I wish the chains came in neon orange, “orange” just looks ugly for non amber stuff
>>11767609Sometimes we have to make do with what we have unfortunately
>>11763790I want to rape kiina!
>>11763447I don't know how to scan the boxes and I also don't know where they are sold in my area so the answer is maybe
>>11766580gaaaaaaaaay
>>11767741>>>/b/ is that way. or maybe you were looking for reddit's r/funny or r/dankmemes
IWTCIR
>>11765641>>11767607Here you go.>>11763790>>11761581na.>>11766734You could try using mixel joints both from lego and third party vendors, but you lose the gear functionrigid hoses also work very well as neck replacements
>>11769141More pics.
>>11769141Is that shit flat silver
I almost added a couple of those star wars shoulder pieces to my bricklink order... you people have corrupted me
>>11769380The fat red ones or the boobs
>>11769386the boobs
>>11769411I wonder what pallets I got in all the bricks I have
>>11769380just do it brochacho
>>11769141Nice gurl, you got more pictures?
>>11769570>no trans purple parts in general, bohrok eyes are uber expensive and no trans purple rock raiders crystalSuffering is eternal
>>11769592Such is life. Have some trans blue instead.
He's trying so hard to come up with topics and clickbait titles for his videos lately.
>>11769672I fucking hate how he refers to shit, awful
>>11769669Would hump
I found an old kindle and I'm thinking of jailbreaking it, should I read the bionicle books with it?
>>11770026You have my permission to read the Bionicle books with it.
>>11769853Same.
Why are there only female rahkshi mocs? Is there some kind of lore reason I'm missing out on?
>>11770265People aren’t prepared for the rahkshi bara porn
>>11770265we're all straight here but someone should make a twink
>>11770265My headcannon is that they have a very skewed sex ratio in favor of woman. Males are quite rare so the population is led by females.
>>11770265Furries are weird.
>>11770265>>11770316Uhm ackshully, bionicles have no sexual dimorphism. Some of these are male
>>11770342>bionicles have no sexual dimorphismThat's one of Greg's bs retcons after Bob Thompson left the team, so it doesn't count.
>>11770377I say there is some sexual dimorphism but more extreme in case by case, like some rahi
>>11770342Hmmm. Nah.
>>11770316they're machines piloted by slugs
>>11770342So what do male vortixx just have breasts and high heels too?
Has anybody designed a mask of toonforce or the closest aproximate thing to it? The idea just came to me and it sounds awful but funny, I imagine a very big chin and wide cheeks for such a mask, maybe something like this, also going for the user having the pallet of him be very joker (orange and purple), I would guess a Makuta would be the one to use something like this but who knows, shit literally hit me and I had to write it out like the rahkshi of lust lore or yandere gf piraka, then again cursed ideas or odd shit is a specialty of mine
>>11770342They're all genderless but that won't stop furries from being weird
>>11771409Slug
Why are there no old technic retrospectives, considering how a fair bit of people consider the technic stuff in bionicle was important to the identity, so why not analyse technic stuff and its eras without bionicle or some of the weird pieces that made it in
You like rahkshi girls, I like rahaga girls. We are not the same.
>>11771536Nigga likes old 3 foot dwarf midget girls
>>11771568So what?
>>11771527You think that would be of interest, but Lego fans get super weird about Technic. Even me, I'm pretty limited in what I collect and enjoy with that subtheme but I treasure the wild and experimental phases Technic went through.
Rebuilding my Nui-Rama and Nui-Jaga sets from bulk and finding out I'm missing a fair few pieces. At least I finished Teridax save for his red/blue head piece. I swear I had that somewhere still.
>>11771369Your image reminds me, has anyone done actual Maori style carvings of the original Toa masks? I've been building a tiki bar at home and fuck it, year 1 Bionicle is Polynesian enough.
>>11771536It's just a catch-all for rahkshi headed lady mocs.
>>11772374I am guessing no as far as I know, but it sounds like a fun side project
>>11771633you can stay in your one man corner
>>11773041Same
>>11767741Back when I was a kid I disliked/didn’t get the switch of the setting to Bara Magna but now that I’m older Bara Magna has grown on me. Lots of interesting lore stuff there. The toys were marred by the fragility of the parts but still they were cool.
>>11763814>>11764157>>11764826>>11766194>>11767741not an argument. coombrains seething>>11770969unironically yes.
>>11773249owaow
>>11773564Dont care about your "opinion". Still making and postin superior tiddy mocs
>>11773710hmm i wonder why you have to sit online and goon to bionicles instead of get pussy...eh, they probably aren't related
I can't do custom bodies or limbs for shit! Fuck!
Does anybody have that giant Scala Saddle piece, and has it been confirmed or denied compatible with bionicle yet?
>>11773790I've seen a couple mentions here that it is, honestly I might snag a couple next Bricklink order and test it myself.
>>11773790>>11774066also I think it was the Belville saddle, not Scala
>>11774068https://cyclopicbricks.blogspot.com/2012/05/belville-saddle-awesome-bionicle-piece.htmlYeah, lmao triple posting but who gives a shit
>>11773252thanks>>11774066I am the main anon who keeps on mentioning it, there are less than 40 total for sale across the planet much less undamaged so far as I see, the giant ones>>11774068>>11774070Oh those are much more common but a great looking piece, want some since they have such a unique silhouette, while the scala one is more in scale as an actual saddle
>>11773722Thats something coming from the guy posting on /toy/ in a bionicle thread on 4chan.
>>11774197You got any interesting bricks to post? I got a lot of nu bright yellow plus maybe another brick in the og color recently, and wish somebody would give either a spraypaint or whatever aproximation or some resin remake of some of the newer colors/some of the interesting ones like royal blue or belville pink, that new blue violet and reddish orange would likely look really nice on cbbs, along with an approximation of the solid neon colors from the watches
>>11774197i get pussy from another autistic person who browses toy forums. keep gooning to your MOCs
>>11774277Boypussy dont count
>>11774286Darn
>>11773564ok tranny
Has anybody used these for anything, only thing I’ve ever seen interesting with them is that old USC X Wing which used them for engines in gray (their only system appearance)
man lego in general seems pretty dead this year
Guys
>>11775251
>>11775251>>11775252Stay in your own containment zone shillpedo.
I'm surprised no one has come up with an Exo Toa for minifg Tahu yet. I like the idea of him sitting inside of it like the original, but I'm not opposed to just sticking the head on a stud either.
>>11775912
>>11775251>>11775252soul is finally back on the menu, those bucket pieces will be great for bonkle mocs too
>>11775995Hopefully those pieces come in more colors than yellow later this year, I think the frame window could make good toes on a big guy for example, also when are we getting more of those ribbed pipes
Anybody active? or no
>>11769324no definitely not>>11769209>>11769570yea, took a while to get new pics because i ordered off bricklink to complete and several other builds. She wields chakrams and I don't have another name other than Rahkshi Girl of Heat Vision
>>11777094more>>11776309just post bro
>>11777098This gal could use a friction extender or one of >pic related
>>11777447ill see if I can fit it, but my real problem is I need to move her entire rahkshi shell up 1 or two studs and im not really sure how to go about that without potentially needing to rebuild everything else
>>11777447>>11777450unless I say fuck it and snip the spine away
>>11777453It is up to you but your idea is shared by others.
This was my dream piece as a kid, too bad they made it during the angled socket era...
>>11777935i remember how excited i was for that piece to come out, just for the sockets to be gigashit
>>11776086I don't know how well can they fit, but it's good to see so many liftarms in such a small set, hopefully something with connectors is next (though, are the bucket and the piece used for cockpits new?, The later looks like the Technic counterpart of piece 2432)
Hi guys, i figured i should ask here over anywhere else so here goes, im looking for a pdf of the entire bionicle storyline (Gen1). I had it downloaded on my old phone during covid but the phone shit the bed and it was sadly lost to me. The pdf was several hundered pages long and covered everything from tahus drunk ass picking himself up on the beach to makutas bonk on the head. Would be grateful if someone could assist in finding. Also i am aware that the biological chronicle is up to download but all i can find are just the books stitched together. What im looking for was 1 singular document that covered it all.
>>11778174literally found it immediatly after posting lol disregard
I wish there would be more activity, MAY go get some random bricks for 14-30ish bucks tomorrow but not 100% sure, I need to build something>>11777935Is there a recreation of this but older styled?
>>11775912Like this?
>>11779634Bionicle but with system bricks seems promising especially with Mixel joints
>>11779634Very nice>>11779720Much as I agree, there's a lot of contention there.I think the honest truth is we will never see a specialized constraction theme again unless Lego's on the brink. They've all but stopped producing most molds aside from ball joints, and revving up production for an entirely new system again will cost a fortune. The best bet will likely remain a full integration of System, Technic, and whatever constraction they still have around.If they can make it cheap and keep it budget priced (as Bionicle should be), then they'll find success. But you'll have too many people throwing a fit for the "impurity" of it all.
>>11779634Ya, I've seen i think 4 of them so far, and this one is the best. I appreciate the working gimmick of the arm, but I was thinking stud shooter for the cannon arm. Definitely good inspiration though and some nice techniques on these.
Thoughts on Phantoka?
>>11780302One of my favorite waves, it's just a huge shame angled sockets also started with Phantoka
>>11780302Prettty cool except for chirox' lanky arms.
>>11780302Pure Kino
Aside from online resellers and flea markets, what's the best place to buy bionicles if you're in europe?
>>11780302
>>11780922Would that make Lewa "offshore accounts" and the corrupt matoran "auditors"
>find out Legoland pressed pennies for Bionicle exist>only listings are $75/each and from the one faggot that bought out Medium Blue Pakaris to mark up to $10
>>11777508Reminds me of Biorockdude
>>11781209It is his after all.
>>11780302Piggybacking Matoran was pretty sex. I also got Ignika for Christmas as my first titan, which is a nice memory.
>>11781668>Piggybacking Matoran was pretty sexWhy did you have to word it like that, it spawned in my mind the cursed image of the Toa/Makuta attaching to the back of the Matoran
Bionicle is a weird franchise for me. It dropped at the perfect time for me to hop onboard and be intrigued by the mysterious "safe edge" world it presented in print materials and with the sets themselves (particularly by 2004). You look at any piece of promo art, or listen to any piece of music, and there's this potent draw to uncover its secrets. But my limited experience in engaging with actual Bionicle media is at odds with that childhood perception of mine. Is it all so kiddie, or is that mostly the movies?
>>11781682No hate, obviously. As I implied I'm an OG. I still think the sets are rad as shit.
>>11781682Mainly the movies. They genuinely are at odds with most of the franchise in terms of tone.
>>11781682The comics are kind of kiddie in a different "quips and one-liners" way, the books also have that but with much more substantial content in between, and just as you say, the various media that leave more to the imagination actually tend to best convey the type of atmosphere older fans like to imagine. It's an interesting spectrum.
In this update, the Kraata acquire armor and a bunch of firespitters become homeless.https://bye-project.xyz/releases/release-birth-of-the-rahkshi
Every time I see another one of these shitty ass animations by the fart of agitation an immense sense of motivation to properly learn Blender comes over me just because of how bad and awkward these are.>inb4 you should learn maya or someshit instead
>>11781968>inb4 you should learn maya or someshit insteadOnly the deeply depraved would push you into Autodesk's grasp for hobby level stuff.
Found a complete, non cracked Matoro Mahri at an affordable price and bought it, my collection is at my parents house, can't wait to go back and put it with the others, and take some pictures with my (bootleg) ignika.
>>11781682>>11781683play mata nui online and legend of mata nui if you haven't, then watch the metru nui animations and play the DS version of bionicle heroes (console version is alright if you just want to see them 3d modeled and moving, but it's too goofy, the DS version feels mysterious and cool). Those are the best bionicle media related things out there. Shame there's nothing for the mahri saga, I think it's the most interesting in terms of story.
>https://youtu.be/Lt5hMKGOV00The Vahki animations make me sad we never got a Metru Nui Online Game from Templar.
I need bionicle memes, I lost my folder
>>11782829
>>11782862lol
>>11782829Does this count?
>>11783149I remember those bracelets, I need to find my Remove Kebab one
There are the Toa Mata, then the Toa Nuva (sort of an edge case), and then everything else is mental illness.Am I correct to think this?
>>11783512Why are the nuva masks so ugly?
>>11783512larping as an OG while using fandom terms like "toa mata" is really funny
>>11783536Not larping at all. I haven’t paid attention to Bionicle in over 20 years. Is “Toa Mata” unusual? I guess they were just “Toa” to start, and the “Mata” was tacked on to distinguish them from the “nuva” “metru” etc.? “Toa mata” feels very natural, though.
>>11783551They're retroactively referred to as the Toa Mata to avoid confusion, yes. The story was originally planned to end in 2003 and there weren't any other Toa before that point. Anyway it's not exactly an new take that the first years were the best. The vibes of the original arc are unmatched but there's plenty of good stuff both toy and story wise from the other two thirds of the run
Did the masks always fit so tightly in the face hole? I’ve got this red head, and there’s quite a bit of resistance with any mask I fit to it. As a kid, I feel like the masks fell off without all that much effort
>>11783558>The story was originally planned to end in 2003And you're calling other people newfag tourists? Faber had GSR sketches before the line even launched.
>>11783635Stars Hau is slightly smaller than the standard Hau and doesn't fit on the Mata heads the best
>>11783668anon...the GSR reveal was originally planned for 2003... why do you think mask of light awkwardly ends with mata nui "waking up" (but not really) and then a metru nui tease?
>>11783527they fell in protodermis and melted
>>11783669I believe this is the regular ass Hau. And I don’t mean it’s small relative to the head, it’s that the little notch is very tight in the mouth hole. Same goes for all the other masks. But the masks fit alright in the light grey head. Still, I feel like these used to fall off at the slightest impact when I was a kid.
So how are we feeling about this Bionicle thing? Will it catch on?
>>11784088>upside down handit triggers me
>>11783551Specifically, they started getting called the Mata after the Toa Metru seemingly introduced that naming scheme (even though it only actually got used once more for the Mahri). Before that there was also "Toa Olda" as the counterpart to the Nuva.
>>11784088>boxing homerwhere to buy??!
>>11784577If you're in the US, I found two listings on Mercari.
>>11784088The way lego has been flopping recently this feels like a desperate move. Galidor sucked, roboriders was okay. But who the fuck wants action figures from lego?
>>11785068And are these not just Throwbots rebranded? Shameless.
Got myself an infected Hau and a lot of black pieces, planning on building MNOG Makuta. Anyone have advice for the center "base" which will hold the head and around which the vortex will be built?
Do you guys have any mask displays?
>>11763790I think there's a right and wrong way to sexualize bionicles. Bionicles are at the end of the day supposed to be cool, and that's the thing that matters most. As long as you can reasonably imagine your sexy bionicle slaughtering her way through hordes of Rahkshi then there's nothing wrong with giving her boobs.
>>11786734It's been more than a decade but I still can't assimilate Rahkshi being powercrept to the point they became cannon fodder when just 6 of them were so scary in the first movie
>>11763790Ten trillion percent correct
is it controversial to say that the genders being element based is dumb i don't see why it can't be 50/50 across all of them
>>11786799Probably had to do with Matoran in 2001? They all had the same build so it was probably either a couple masks or elements being female-only in order to visually convey which character is female.
>>11786799no it's common, i thought gali was a dude when i first saw her in heroes gba
>>11786734what does a MOC gain from having nuva boobs and a snatched waist and a round ass other than to give you a boner? /gen. you dont see male MOCs with toned abs and other musculature. i cant understand there being a purpose other than to arouse you. roodaka, THE canon bionicle with boobs, was designed around being seductive, feminine, and intimidating, as shown in the metru movie and detailed in the bionicle adventures series
>>11787365It becomes more beautiful and accentuates its femininity. It's not something for every MOC but there's no inherent sin to make things more beautiful.>you dont see male MOCs with toned abs and other musculaturehttps://www.instagram.com/p/DE1KerEN1s1/See also the G2 chestpieces
>>11787365To make it look feminine.>>11786742They did them dirty.
>>11787365do nu-biofags really?
>>11787378comparing the G2 chest piece to ass tits and waist is laughable. not the same at all>>11787412feminine is fine. i am talking specifically about over-sexualized body proportions>>11788028just because you disagree doesn't make someone new, but i guess you wouldn't know that
>>11788174If Lego can give their main characters pseudo pecs to make them look masculine then you shouldn't complain about fans giving their MOCs feminine proportions to make them look feminine.
>>11788174Sure some of them are truly only tits and ass but there are some good ones out there.
>>11763790if you are heterosexual you don't see them like that, it is women's spell they have over us
These were inside my latest haul. Anybody know what the green roborider wheel is from?
>>11788327I believe it’s from a Japanese roborider, kind of the equivalent of a polybag
>>11788327This guy, right?
Okay, I'm not gonna (You) at everyone because I'm not reading everything posted since I've last visited this thread. I've had this in my mind for a while but forgot about it.The point is I love sexy MOCs but I have standards. And imo for this kind of MOCs to work they have to be extremely clean and seamless and you need to have at least a vague idea of proper human anatomy, even if you're going for more stylized and anime-esque proportions. And the skills of most Bionicle fans, building their OCDonutSteel Toa Brazika defender of Kratuma Nui (or someshit) MOCs, are just not there. Not even close in the vast majority of cases. Like, why the fuck do these people keep putting the boobs so high they touch the chin???The dogshit on picrel is a good example of this.The other thing is, it just doesn't work with "lore accurate" or Bionicle-styled MOCs. The original style of Bionicle is just too blocky and rigid for it to work. And those large Bionicle masks usually look really weird and out-of-place on them. This kinda also ties in with the other point I wanted to make. A lot of people get angry at MOCs like this because they believe constraction = Bionicle. But I noticed that it's also often the case with other MOCs that don't follow the style of Bionicle G1. Bionicle pieces, CCBS and the entire Lego system is really versatile. And a lot of people now build characters and creatures that don't fit into the lore of Bionicle mixing Bionicle with other kinds of pieces. I think it'd be a waste if people were only allowed to build lore accurate and Bionicle styled MOCs.
>>11788542So, how would you do a female Piraka? I was thinking of more thing in some spots but still gnarly, also basing the smile off of that crazy gf meme
>>11788555Something like this which isnt mine.
>>11788592These look kinda ass too.
>>11788542>i love sexy mocs Thank god you front loaded this claim and saved me the need of reading the rest of that tome
>randomly find a 2009 LEGO catalog>"Oh boy, I bet this one had the Inika line">mfw it's fucking GlatoriansIt turned to shit so fast, bros. I'm 25 but I wish I was born a bit earlier so that I could better enjoy the peak bonkle era.Every couple months I get a dream in which I stumble upon store shelves filled with revamped/re-released sets from 2001-2004 before waking up feeling crushed by the realization.
>>11788923the dream happens to us allthe peak of bionicle really depends on the person, i would argue it's exclusively 2001 - 2004 but a number of people include 2006 - 2007 as wellonce the gear functions were lost, a lot of the charm went with it
>>11788542>>11787365are you the same person, are you just complaining about the drop in quality
>>11788923I think I've got 2000 and 2001 Lego magazines somewhere but I don't know where they are. I do know where the 2002 onwards ones are though, was flicking through it last year. Seeing the Attack of the Clones sets and stuff like the exo-toa and bahrag was fun.
who's got the best repro masks/ parts?i've been wanting to fill out my mata nui and metru nui matoran for a while
>>11780302My only complain is how brittle the new joints were
Why is the red Ruru so much more expensive than the other Ruru misprints? I didn't imagine Kapura to be this popular
Have you gotten your Tahu yet?
>>11789394The hilt is sort of redundant on Lego's part.
>>11789474Honestly if they weren't going to do arm printing or side printing for the legs we should have gotten a unique fire sword mold
>>11789312kapura looks better with the red pakari anyways
>>11789312Considering it's the most common one (if you don't count the black one which was technically a misprint in European mask packs but was later released in two sets) because of that alarm clock thing, it's probably because of Kapura.>>11789584No.
Name one (1) better mask. You can’t do it.
>>11788542So post what you think is a good sexy moc.
>>11788592no I was thinking of slight differences, not overdetailed fragileslop like that.
you now remember fatdaka
>>11791589what about
>>11791853based
>>11791514So post an example.
>>11791980Chest slightly extended forwards, arms a bit further back, slightly stumpier ankles
After much thought, Bionicle peaked in 2003.>first movie>first console game>Takanuva set>Makuta set>upgraded OG Matoran>the best villain sets (Rahkshi)>Bohroks repainted with two superior combination models2001 will always be important and 2004 has my favorite Toa, but if I were to stick to collecting a single year it would have to be 2003.
>>11792696>Makuta setDunno if this is an unpopular sentiment but I hate that set. It's so awkward.
>>11792696the bohrok kal being easily the laziest cash grabs lego did for bionicle prevents the year from being the best, high tier maybe, but never the best the upgraded matoran only being 4/6 of the tribes is also very disappointing the rahkshi were revolutionary at the time though, no arguments there
a disembodied hand smacks your girls ass, dematerializes and then rematerializes at the end of this man's arm. what would you do
>>11792987Nothing I guess. Even my childhood self insert bonkle characters would have no way of actually killing Zaktann.
>>11789394I finally found some in stock at two walmarts but they were locked up. I'm too autistic to ask someone to open up the doors and stand there while I scan every box so I just left. I know at some point next month they'll be obtainable so I'll just keep waiting.
>>11792987god I wish zaktann could fuck my girlfriend
>>11792696Best release year was by definition 2001, because it was the year I was youngest and least jaded and today am most nostalgic for.Also cool masks
>>11792696From the perspective of only keeping a year as your sets I'd keep 2002. You have your main characters the Toa that are upgraded sets from the original. The Bohrok, Va, and Bahrag make a cohesive enemy group on display. When you look at them they still have that earlier feel to them even compared to what came the year after.
>>11792874>the bohrok kal being easily the laziest cash grabs lego did for bionicleI don't completely disagree, but again, you get instructions for two cool brand new kaitas. The designers were also likely spread thin with the Rahkshi and the early stages of the Toa Metru, so they padded 2003 with some reuse of popular sets. And hey, it justifies buying enough for a swarm if they aren't all exact duplicates.
Anyone else catch the latest makuta servaela comic and dig it too?
>>11793924>fake, because love isn't canon>gay, because gay
>>11793934Wrong, bigot. It's canon. So is this.
>>11793934>fake, because love isn't canonAccording to Greg Fartshit's retcons.But the comic is cringe regardless.
>want to give the metru colours that are more in line with the turagaok, cool, all the hands are in the right colours lets look at the double sockets>only two of them were done in the lighter colours, one of them being lime exclusive to ehleknever mind then, i supposed my naho 'moc' will suffice for a dark blue/ light blue toa metru
>>11793924>>11793960I do not like this way of drawing Bionicles.>>11794033You ever see the revamp of the Hordika in pic related?
>>11794094those look pretty neat, the teal on whenua isn't something i would've come up with but it looks goodsome of the limbs are a little too gangly though, and it looks like matau and nokama don't have the gear arm
>>11793924>>11793960why do they all look like a scrotum
I have so much fucking dark blue and dark green bricks, and bought some pink spraypaint, may have to look into 3d printing some bricks or some shit since sidorak charges out the ass for basic pieces
>>11793924Bruh, these aren't bonks. They're just dudes in suits.
>>11793924>>11793960yuck
>>11795008Haha long boy
When I was a kid I was into the Metru and Hordika eras, and later the Barraki and Phantoka waves. Looking back now, I have come to appreciate the Voya Nui and Glatorian waves a lot more.
>>11795474metru nui was cool but underutilized the hordika could've been neat but unfortunately are just awkward and cemented the new normal of masks just being faces and mask powers just being a unique ability a toa had instead of a collective of powers they all shared after collecting them, although '04 can also be blamed for that i have the opposite reaction to the voya nui sets, in a lot of ways they were directly responsible for the horrific stagnation the sets fell into going forwards, every canister build sans some of the barraki were some variant of the piraka/ inika style, and as time has passed the only thing i find worthwhile about them is the recolours of older pieces for mocs
>>11794104>tealThe guy who made those also posted a version of Whenua with grey accents, which in some ways I think looks better, but teal is undoubtedly cooler from the perspective of making a good set. Getting cool colours to play with was something that mattered a lot to me when I was a kid.The gorilla-esque pose is also cool.>matau and nokama don't have the gear armYeah, though I think they make up for it with how cool the new silhouettes are (and Matau's vine arm's were my idea while the actual MOCer was iterating in the thread).The guy's ethos behind it was to revamp them without going to far beyond what a canister set could be, and I think he pulled it off really well. I dunno if the long arms or digitigrade legs would hold up to IRL posing, but I think they're sick.I'll post more of the solo renders I saved.
>>11795806Nokama the squid.
>>11795810Matau with vine/viper arms.
>>11795814Nuju looking like a skinwalker. The geared upper arms and reversed scythes make a really huge difference compared to Matau.
>>11795818Onewa the ram.
>>11795821Vakama has the closest form to the original sets.It's funny for me to notice that the Hordika introduced silver accents to the Toa Metru. A funny thing to add to their mutated forms. Thinking from the toy release perspective, seems like this could have been the perfect line to re-emphasise parts packs for, so kids could build various new mutated forms. Trade the parts count of armour in the original sets for a few extra limbs to swap out or something like that.It's also interesting to see how strongly geometric the Hordika are, including pieces that were custom-made for the line like the chest armour. Compare that to the later Barraki and Phantoka- and Mistika-era Makuta.
>>11795829And a collage of sketches I made while the MOCer was iterating in the thread. There was a hot period back then of people posting MOCs, guys using live sets and stud.io. Was a lot of fun to talk about ideas in the threads.
Which region has the best rahi?
>>11795829in many ways 2005 was the end of the 'traditional' bionicle where the canister sets had gear functions, mob enemies, and most of the new pieces were effectively custom made just for them2006 also had new pieces, but their parts were reused up until the stunted 2010 finale
>>11795836>>11795829>>11795821>>11795818>>11795814>>11795810>>11795806damn i rejoined bionicle way too late
What's the best way to map the controls for Bionicle Heroes DS when emulating?
New bread>>11797115>>11797115>>11797115
>>11797117Why? We're not even near bump limit
>>11797120I mean the thread is on page 10 and /toy/ will autosage at a certain point
>>11797140>/toy/ will autosage at a certain pointOh, I didn't know
