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>The World of BIONICLE
Media: https://biomediaproject.com/bmp/
Story: https://wallofhistory.com/
Wiki: https://biosector01.com/
BTS: https://www.youtube.com/@BonkFoundArchive
Magnaleaks: https://magnaleak.github.io/MAGNALEAK/
>Building with BIONICLE
Sets: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=S&catString=273
Studio: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/download.page
Guide: https://bioniclerebuilt.wixsite.com/fallingstars/studio-guide-v2
Prototype gallery: https://biosector01.com/wiki/Gallery:Prototypes
>Archive:
https://archive.palanq.win/toy/search/subject/%2Fbiog%2F
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>>11729519
I don't think I've seen MOCs use the CCBS shoulders as boobs before. They're almost always utilized for the ass
Nonetheless, how many times are we putting tits in the OP for this shambling corpse of a general
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Latest haul for 50 bucks including a ton of spare parts.
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>had the dream again
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>>11729622
$50 in this day and age? Not a bad deal. Looks like you nabbed a few spare masks, too.
Wish there were people selling sets around me, or at least bulk. My collection is more or less set, but I'd like to find some HF and Star Wars CCBS on the cheap.
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Vs this being 50 dollars for me, way worse deal kek
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>>11729757
Pic related
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>>11729764
I dunno where people find all these amazing deals
I never find any good Bionicle for sale
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First heterosexual thread in a while.
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>>11730183
Local 2nd hand stores.
I was able to put this guy together from the parts i got in my latest haul. >>11729764
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>>11730183
Got all this and a few Galidor parts at an estate sale for nine bucks, those aren't bad places to check.
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He got the toothbrush part and fucking gold chrome mask and you focus on the kraaakhan? Kek
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Thought I had a neat idea making thighs out of Mata torsos, but now I can't figure out any good way to make knees that aren't extraordinarily-bulky or barely-usable. The foot/Nuva leg thing is just to add some bulk and curvature to the front, but I suppose I might be able to make use of the free ball joint. Any ideas?
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Need to work this shit out
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Side connections
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40€ incl. Shipping. Pretty good right?
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>>11731527
Reading comprehension?
>>11731052
Imo you need to go really clean and tight in terms of shaping to make these kinds of MOCs work. And the larger you go in scale the more uncanny it gets.
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>>11729622
Very nice
>>11731635
What is this "sorting" you speak of? Assorted lego goes in the bins
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>>11731667
The box pic makes it look like the eyes are printed, while this clearly doesn't have that. A plain pink head is the second best option to a printed Mata head.
The lack of printed arms is unfortunate. Given only the new helmet, it feels like they could have splurged a bit extra onto the arms.
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>>11731527
The thighs have a pretty good range of motion forward and back, but with the armor piece on the hips they don't extend much side to side. I can take a picture later after I fiddle with it more.
>>11731395
Digitigrade could be cool, but obviously I'll still need to do some rigging to keep the nuva leg from flopping and let it support the torso weight. Thanks for the idea.
>>11731554
I'm inclined to agree with you, and I recognize that these thighs might not allow much clean, tight building to begin with. Still, I think it could be cool if I got it to work. I'll keep trying.
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>>11729613
It's not super common but typically seems to work well when done.
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Need to sort through my matoran dump for good toa pallets again, I like this guy's looks
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>>11734031
Bionicle gf
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Rahkshi Gorilla Beetle (of Heat Vision)
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Im going to order parts to recolor his skeleton to black and gold to accent it
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Relax bro, Princess just wants to play, just let him smell your hand.
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Yes that's the movie Kraakhan, got super lucky there. The trans green head-thing is from a toothbrush, pretty neat but those aren't really rare. Gold mask is spray-painted, for a second I thought I stumbled upon one of the solid gold ones they gave away, but I'm not that lucky lol.
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Cool
I’ll never understand why Lego made the yellow Rahkshi head and spine one piece. They’d be so much more useful if they were separate pieces.
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>>11734804
https://raw. githubusercontent. com/anonhostpi/-Commissions/refs/heads/main/Lego/Mixel-Style/Legends-o f-Chima/Model/Instructions/Instruct ions. pdf
I found some instructions for a different moc by him
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>>11734871
>I’ll never understand why Lego made the yellow Rahkshi head and spine one piece. They’d be so much more useful if they were separate pieces.
I understand why they did it. Because it's much cheaper to produce one new specialized mold they're never going to use again than producing two separate ones.
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>>11734748
Kinda, the front two arms are attached to balls on the upper back arms
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can we set up a dog playdate
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I wouldve been fine having the spine and back together and the head seperate if it meant a new rahkshi head color
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Haven’t been in this general for a while, hi! Got this EBay haul a year or two ago but today was the first time I opened the box to actually parse through the contents in full and disassemble the intact figures. Most, if not all, Glatorian related pieces were broken, as expected. Found this Ackar in there. Guess the owner really had to Jerry rig this shoulder together. Kinda ingenious imo. They even used red wire to match the colour scheme. Don’t know whether to be shocked or impressed.
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>>11735795
Well, it's a string wire that goes straight through the axle holes of the upper arm and then wrapped around the ball joint on the torso. It's not stiff at all, so holding the arm up just makes the arm flop back down. If I took it off and tied it back on tighter, with enough friction, maybe it would work?
Also, after looking through the rest of this bin, this guy must've been really rough on his parts because there's a few broken weapons and even CCBS limbs in here. Sheesh!
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>>11736158
Just like all of Lego these days, a lot of the sockets develop hairline cracks from just being connected - you don't even need to play with them rough or excessively or connect and disconnect them too much.
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>>11736570
tbf wear and tear is the part of any toys lifecycle, even lego which is supposed to be a bit more durable
yes kids should be taught to take better care of their toys but boys will be boys
theres not a world where cool buildable figures arent put through the wringer from being subject to so many make believe battles lol
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>>11736158
Socket joints were just faulty in that era. I don't think I have a single one of picrel that isn't broken. At about the same time there was also a plague going around specific to brown and lime green parts.
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>>11736986
It's been around the last decade, and Lego throws out things like the gwp and now the Tahu CMF, so no, it'll continue to exist. Outside of for the sets, G2 is just about forgotten, but G1 stands the test of time.
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>>11736986
I think it’ll be like other old toy IPs like that make the rounds on social media to keep up relevance, but the fact that it’s LEGO means it’ll never truly disappear as long as technic and the LEGO company is still around. Also, unlike other toy IPs, Bionicle has the benefit of being a completely customizable toy line so as long as you have pieces, you can create more content for yourself as long as you have the imagination unlike other action figure lines that require new characters and sets to be released.
Oh, and Roodaka is such a baddie, she transcended the fandom into pop culture, so that helps.
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>>11736970
People like to blame kids not following the story anymore being what led to Bionicle sales dropping, but I still think this was the problem. When the Mahri came out, I had multiple joints break and decided I was done buying Bionicles.
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>>11734892
Thank´s for sharing Anon!
Just on a side note, anyone know how to search for pic related from the instructions?
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>>11737478
there were a lot of issues that were piling up
kids who weren't already following the story had no idea what was happening
the joints had gotten increasingly brittle since 2006, and the sets had also somehow gotten even more samey, with nearly every medium set from 2006 on falling into either the piraka or inika body type, with the only exceptions being some of the barraki
the oldheads at lego having a bone to pick with bionicle in particular, iirc they didn't consider it 'real lego' or something to that effect
i also personally think that removing the technic function was also a huge loss in the franchise' identity, they perfected it in 2004 with the toa then neutered it in 2005 and dropped it entirely in 2006
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I watched a video today discussing the ravenous fan base that is Bionicle. I dug a little deeper and found fans that would make a 40k fanboy blush. What is Legos reasoning for not rebooting it? It seems like free money. Especially them banking on modern adult toy buyers. I am pretty sure this dude Duck Bricks would sell his soul for a mask no one owns.
Genuinely uninformed and curious.
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>>11738615
While it's not outright confirmed, it's widely speculated/rumored that there's a strong resentment towards the Bionicle brand from Lego's executives because it's not part of the main Lego system and therefor not real Lego. Despite it being the line that saved the company from bankruptcy, the only mention of it in the Lego Movie was a couple frames in a slideshow of Lego worlds that don't need to be mentioned. There were even plans to include Takanuva in the sequel, but those were scrapped too.
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>>11738622
Any good videos you know of explaining that in more detail? It's a very interesting topic. It takes a lot to get a company to say "no" to free money.
> it's not part of the main Lego system and therefor not real Lego
As an outsider with no Lego... it plugs into the Lego hole and has technic, no idea why a person would call it not Lego. I guess because they have a lot of non-standard special parts?
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That's what interests me, it has to be anger, but an anger enough to overshadow money, which is A LOT of anger. And from what I have seen, it's insanely popular. It's like 100 episode lore videos on Youtube before it was a thing.
Just crazy to me, from a marketing perspective, they wouldn't want free money.
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I always thought this was such a retarded conspiracy theory. Absolutely zero proof as far as I’m aware. Just salty fans looking for a boogeyman to blame for Bionicle being cancelled.
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https://youtu.be/99F8kFe9Upo
There's been explanations that making the new molds needed to produce the toys, with at least 12 new characters coming out each year, but Lego's more than willing to make new molds if it's for the sake of their licensed lines. It's probably just more profitable to put all that effort into shoveling new sets towards the Disney adult crowd.
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I’m trying to find a post I made on here a bit ago about some weird wheels or lid things included with a bionicle order on facebook, that’s all
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>>11738665
Nevermind found the listing again, 10 dollars for all of that isn’t too bad for a box and instructions plus those weird lid caps
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>>11738673
Also some guy’s selling this mini-moc for 5 bucks
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I wonder if the hole in the middle can fit an axle or especially a peg to be used as actual wheels, whole thing is only 10 bucks but would have to drive a while to get there
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>>11738673
i think i bought one of these, they come from krana canisters
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they are definitely from a wii balance board, seller probably thought they were canister lids
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I am not a fan of Bionicle although of course I do think they're really cool toys having grown up a bit after Bionicle ended with Hero Factory, I just love the look of the cannisters. Maybe I should take the Bioniclepill after my salary bump this summer.
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>>11738995
Maybe I could build a fort with them...
>>11738998
Sounds like fun, but I think I'd prefer just to have a few with genuine toys that I could play with. I was only remarking that the packaging itself was a thing of beauty, even to a Bionicle outsider.
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Proto Bionicle came in the mail today
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>>11738622
i think it's entirely possible they didn't include takanuva because they apparently destroyed all the old molds for the bionicle parts
although iirc it's standard procedure for lego to trash the machines for the old molds, it wasn't to spite bionicle specifically
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>>11739186
it was the trifecta of star wars, bionicle, and harry potter that saved lego
hp was the lesser of the three but it still made decent money due to the movies arguably being at their most popular in 2001-2004
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big yellow fella has come a long way
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>>11739557
I apologize for the spam anons it will never happen again
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>>11739558
Moc spam is never bad.
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I call this one "Champion of the Aether" though I would like a real name than a title. I took advice from draw anon and ordered the sword piece, pictured, from bricklink and made a zweihander out of it.
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I'll do it again then
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glad you liked it :D
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this one is my favorite pose so far
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He's got a socket that lets me attach an admittedly wobbly stand
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>spite
I've always thought it was more of a short-sightedness. I feel like much of the direction at Lego is guided by the most boiler plate marketing people who base their entire personality on linkedin or out-of.touch old execs. For any of those two the only IPs are those which are said to be massive hits. Bionicle falls outside that zeitgeist because it's not an established brand (at least because their only frame of reference is the 80s and maybe just because they hear the opinon "80s=good profit", or maybe they understand Nostalgia as only for the 80s because they cannot abstracize that Nostalgia can apply too to people who grew in the 00s too. I meant my words when I said they are shortsighted) nor a new phenomenon like Live Action One Piece or K-Pop Demon Hunters. They look only at the lowest common denominator of playing along a big name that every other brand has without realiizing they can have their own name too.
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>>11729519
>is effortlessly the leon kennedy of bionicle
why is gen 2 so kino? Is it because it’s the most frutiger aero?
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>>11743078
I don't think I'd call Gen 2 "frutiger aero" but it certainly has an aesthetic very specific to the early/mid 2010's.
Really wish we got wave 3 based on the concept arts though because holy hell it was looking like it was gonna be kino.
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i dreamed i sold my titan mata nui ignika then had seller's remorse.
but i'm thinking, will it just keep creeping up in value?
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These pipes are lego and lego pneumatic compatible, take that as you will for mocs, surprised I haven’t seen more bionicle mocs with pipes
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>>11746146
I thought I had dozens of Hoseryxes saved but it seems I don't. Huh.
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>>11729519
Is skull warrior worth it ordering a gray ribcage? It looks so basass I want to order the hoofs as well.
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Do you guys remember the old transforming smiley emoticons on bzpower? I haven’t logged in in years and don’t think I have the same email anymore but I’ve been trying to find them online. I heard that updated the forums like a decade ago, are all the old emoticons gone? Old 1.0 internet had soul.
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Kraata
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Tahnok (they made all 6 of these but won’t spam them here)
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Hau nuva
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Tahu Nuba ( they made all 6 of these as well)
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He comes with a canister
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Oui Oui
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>>11748950
looks good but what is the weird shoulder pad thing? is this supposed to be the mata version? if they make all 6 i would try to get them but idk what the point is of just 1 character out of a set of 6 doesnt make any sense.
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>>11748950
guess the cosplay thing really was accurate. a toa head would have been cooler or even just a trans pink one but I guess the printed canister makes up for it
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>>11748991
This does put a wrench into getting a replacement head since he's doing the Batmon headband thing. I'll have to wait until I get one and play around with heads to see if one fits as a "true" Mata face replacement.
Some really beautiful work on this one though. I know it's unlikely, but it would be cool to see all six done this way.
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With the inclusion of the canister, I could at least picture those making it into Ninjago or City sets at some point, kind of like the Mask stickers did here and there. Hard to imagine they make 6 new unique mask molds. If that stupid April fools 50% is real Mata Nui leak is real, that could be fun, and might contain some more minifigs.
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holy heck bionicle is back! this is so epic!
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>>11751193
https://kaikue.itch.io/matoran-gacha This site, have two folders full of just matoran combos that could look cool for toa pallets or whatever, one of the more famous gens here being Niga
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>>11751433
I recall reading back then that the Toa were meant to go to the realm of shadows to face Makuta, hence why they chose shadow-made armor, to be closer to the darkness.
Take this with a graint of salt, as I read this from an anon in this forum when G2 was cancelled.
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I remember a thread once upon a time where someone mentioned a G1 pen with masks the size of System heads. I would had loved to have them so I could make small toa. But this Tahu minifig's mask is even better. I must have at least one.
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>Skull Warrior has silver parts and a gun metal mask
>Skull Grinder has gunmetal parts and a silver mask
I guess they did it to make the masks stand out, but it bothered me that I had to buy both sets to "fix" the palettes.
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>>11752450
I want to get the pterodactyl cube from that Adventurers cube
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My tests confirm you can fit it on the lower pin hole with a little bending, with the armor flipped in either direction. This doesn't look that great. A form-fitting fit seems impossible in-system unfortunately. You'd need a pin hole between the two on the leg, on a slope.
I also tested on piraka and rahkshi shin pieces out of curiosity and it fits ok on those, bending on piraka and fitting on rahkshi besides being very tight around the balljoints (which you could build around while reducing articulation)
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I'll think of a solution, thank you for testing anon
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Mata Nui I miss the old internet
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>https://kaikue.itch.io/matoran-gacha
Woooow thank you i spent ages looking myself and found like 3 different programs for making custom matoran, very interesting
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Did anyone else get into zoids after or during bionicle?
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Maybe in May I will build something, I got some cool cloth and stuff and maybe will get a job to afford some shit off sidorak or other stuff, just need to work in general and make some toa and vehicles to ride them (mainly vehicles and animals first and then the toa and other shit)
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WOW I hadn't thought of these in years.
i can't login either but bzpower stopped being fun in 2011 when they updated the forum software, they spent 8 months trying to figure out how to do it, no one could post in that time period and it drove a lot of users away right after the line was cancelled. morons.
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Super nice. Great silhouette and cool alternative joints.