Bionicle

>>94987194
>He doesn't know
I won't post it, it's too sad.

Thread theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faPbRmUHFpc

>>94987218
Wait, what happened?

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>his power is being able to light up a cave
What a shitty fucking power. Everyone else gets like shapeshifting and beast mastery but he gets a fucking flashlight?

Does he do anything else?
Because "I can make my mask glow" is TERRIBLE considering they all can do that.

I think both the gold and platnium mask found their way into the hands of a hardcore collector who paid thousands for them.

>>94987632
The guy who owns it showed up here sometime last year

He shattered it with a hammer, then put the pieces in the toilet, and flushed

Then posted a gif of him backing over a kanohi vahi with his car

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>>94988589
the animal

>>94988589
source on Desuarchive?
Did /biog/ find out?

>>94988589
I literally don't believe this, because it's just as fucking easy to just make one and fuck around like that rather than selling it for like 500 in cash

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>>94988687
I always wanted a fucking mask of time, too.

>>94988067
He also has X-Ray vision.

>>94988783
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh...for a miner that's dope as fuck.
But I'm just, I'm not fully feeling it.

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>>94988589
This better not fucking be true

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>tfw for a hundred dollars or so I could get the turaga set and manas on ebay and complete my pre-bohrok collection, which is when the sets started getting really repetitive

>>94988743
>>94988732
>>94988926
It's real sadly, /toy/ was fucking pissed when they saw it. One guy was super depressed and started said something like "It's watching someone take a shit on your childhood."

I used to have the cap of it, but I lost it when my HDD crashed a few months ago.

>>94989081
The sets were repetitive until Mahri, which in retrospect was probably the best generation. That or Glatorian.

>>94989112
Can you find it on Desuarchive or Nyafuu?

>>94989245
It's doubtful since I'm on my phone

If you'd like to search through all the bionicle threads thougj, I'm sure people would appreciate it. I remember the OP image was shadow takanuva, from phantoka.

>>94988589
Fucking why? To piss people off?

>>94990134
Maybe he pulled a Jake Lloyd and gave up on Bionicle?

/biog/ just confirmed
FUCK

>all these words I don't remember
Is it more or less autistic to have only ever just bought probably 3 generations of every bionicle, lots of technics, and just fucked around with those for years?

>>94990633
Link?

>>94990745
>>>/toy/6505566

>>94988753
I think I got one at Costco. Gave it to a friend or something, though...

>>94988589
Some people really want to see the world burn

>>94988753
I forget how, but I have one of those myself.
It's somewhere at home, though, probably lost in my basement. We've been meaning to dig through and clean it all out, but we never have the drive to do it all in one go.

But at least I know to save my Bionicle toys when I find them. I know for a fact that I have Takanuva somewhere down there.

>>94990633
>>94990779
I'm willing to wait until someone can find it in the archives. I need to see it with my own eyes, in order to truly believe it.

>>94992431
inb4 it's an elaborate ruse /biog/ made up on Discord

>>94992654
That's the basic principle of what I'm considering. After all, everyone who 'remembers' it thus far has simply deferred it to "it was a long time ago; I don't have a source, but believe me".

>>94992431
>>94992654

It's probably still a ruse.

Multiple gold masks were given out as prizes by LEGO. Just mentioning that.

But that aside it'd be pretty trivial to fake a gold bionicle mask, and who cares if they ran over whatever with their car that mask is like $20 tops on the market.

>>94992773
>Multiple gold masks were given out as prizes by LEGO
I know that, but I recall it being five in total. If even one was deliberately destroyed, that would still be a shame.

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>>94992773
>>94992800
I think there were around 30 or so given out? Not quite sure of the exact number.

>>94992811
30's what I remembered, googling to back that up found me http://www.bzpower.com/board/topic/11558-solid-14k-gold-kanohi-hau-review/ which was posted by a (new) owner of one of them, saying that "32 were made, 5 of which were given away, the rest were kept by lego" so presumably lego designers/employees if that's true.

Thought there were more distributed publicly. Oh well. The imaginary post we're discussing is definitely imaginary and never happened.

>>94987194
Which chapter is that from?

>>94992884
>5 of which were given away
Aha, I was right!

>>94988753
Not sure how I got it, but I have a golden one.
Not gold the metal, but as opposed to that orange one you posted.

>>94992914
It's just another color variant. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=41413#T=C

they're worth about the same, $10-$20 each.

>>94993024
Well, I never got the jar of parts, so I must have gotten it from one of the Vahki.
Unless they just gave it away for some reason when I ordered some sets.

>>94989141
Mahri's my favorite too (barraki rock), but Mata had all the great varied Rahi sets
for that alone it's probably my second favorite year

The guy that won the one-of-a-kind platinum Mask of Light fucking FORGOT HE WON IT and eventually pulled it out of a box he had under his bed after everyobe started wondering who the fuck won the contest years after the fact.

Not only was he sleepng over a one-of-a-kind mask for however long without realizing it, he was sleeping over a hunk of fucking PLATINUM.

>>94988589
I remember that thread it was a get thread and nobody thought that anon would actually do it

fucking hell. I have no idea how my father convinced me to throw my collection away a long time ago.

>>94993181
Was it the guy who sold it for like 15 grand, or did the mask change owners by then?

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>>94993341
Your.... father..

He convinced to to do what?

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>>94993386
All my bionicles. We had a ton of storage piling up and it all went away. Had a small suitacase full of parts.

So manys gens, and i had the taka nuva and Makuta sets in there.

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>>94988589
You can't shatter gold with a hammer. The worst you could do is deform it.
The kanohi vahi thing may be true, but there is no way that was a real gold mask.

>>94987194
The platinum mask was lost under some kid's bed for over ten years, until he found it sold it to a store owner, who in turn sold it to a collector.

>>94993491
Welder/Metalsmith here, if it's anodized you absolutely can. They actually do that fairly often in manufacturing, mostly for small commemorative pieces, probably like the gold kanohi. My cousin got a miniature silver golf club from his work and i was able to tell that it had been treated with iodine due to how brittle it was. So that part at least checks out.

>>94993548
>anodized
Iodized, damn auto-correct

Wait people collect bionicles? fuck if i had known that i would not have burned my cousins lego and bionicle collection

>>94993574
If i had known they were so popular, i would have kept all of mine instead of launching them into orbit.

>>94993377
The guy who sold it for 15k bought it from the guy who won it in the Toonami sweepstakes.

>>94988589
Sounds like Bionicle G2 in a nutshell.

>>94993837
kekd
but really that would be more like making a replica of kanohi vahi out of feces and then when no one wants to buy it, concluding that there just isn't a market for the vahi anymore

>>94993837
>>94988753
Despite my indifference to it, I'm actually kind of curious as to what the G2 Bionicle story was setting up the Vahi for. Apparently the G2 version was supposed to be the upper half of the G1 Mask of Time.

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>>94987194
YOU ALL SUCKED AT YOUR HOMEWORK OKAY? I DO NOT TOLERATE THAT CRAP IN MY CLASS

>>94993567
Chemfag here. You had me wondering if welders had been sniffing too much from the TIG tanks for a second there.

>>94993940
I'm guessing it would've been something like a simple callback or a very basic connection that doesn't make any sense beyond "he old fans, remember this?"

Of course maybe I'm just too cynical, but judging from the rest of G2, I don't think it would have been some real deep, meaningful revelation. But who knows, perhaps somewhere down the line we'll learn that G2's lore also had some serious wasted effort put into it behind the scenes, similar to Hero Factory. And then we'll hate Lego more.

>>94994009
goddamn blast from the past right here

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>>94988589
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

I have a collection of 3 years of Mata Bionicles rebuilt as Starcraft Terrans and Zerg, do people on /toy/ like looking at that sort of thing?

>>94995033
Dumps of anon's creations are not unheard of but it might be more polite to post one pic and link to more
One of each different thing is probably fine

>>94988067
Which is worse?

>Mask of Glowing Head and Bonus Consolation X-Ray Vision
or
>Mask of Water Breathing but only for a Limited Time and Depth

>>94996284
How about

>Mask of levitation when you can already literally control the air

That never made any sense to me, especially when tahu got a fucking force field

>>94996836
It's useful for the other Toa who don't control air, and it came in handy when they lost their elemental powers. I'm not sure if Lewa could lift himself up without the help of his mask power either, as he needed a combination of mask power and elemental power to "fly".

What I don't get is why the Mask of Water Breathing couldn't have been a general all-purpose Mask of Breathing that gives the user oxygen in any environment.

>>94994009
Oh my god they're here to assassinate me

I was not ready for this today...

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Who /rahkshi/ in here?

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>>94998840
not all that great desu, total clone sets

>>94999363
But the basic design was great

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Post your dumbest OC

>>94988753

I remember buying one from some guy's collection through bzpower. Was my prized posession then, along with Lhikan, which I think was a limited release back in the day?

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>>94998840
Those poses only looked cool in the promo shots, getting them to work on your own was a nightmare. I envy /toy/ photographers, it seems like such a difficult yet easy job.

>>94999934

It helps that they use 3D models, not the actual toys.

>>94996836
Controlling air lets him move horizontally, levitation let him change and maintian altitude easily. So he could hover in place with it, or raise up and down vertically with the mask. But he needed his air powers to blow him about and make him fly, and wouldn't be able to hover like that with air powers.

The Mask of Flight meanwhile didn't let you hover, and took a lot more concentration to use.

What really sucked though was Lewa having the mask of levitation while also having the adaptive armor that let him fly anyways.

>>94999934
The lack of joints in the arms is largely to blame for that.

>>94999992
To be fair the AA was some special gear made by Artakha, so that gives it some leeway. It wasn't common tech that was available to everyone, and in other environments, the Mask of Levitation would still have been greatly useful. They just never made AA-wearing Nuva for other environments.

The movies did worse by giving low-level powerless schmucks like the Rahaga built-in headlights and rotor packs. And Nuju also got an x-ray eyepeice that required no powers.

>>94994009
Oh my fucking god, I remember watching these and those shitty chronicle storyline things when I was younger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_wV4_yHhnA

>>95001300
This one was prophetic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XZN2i2ZGR4

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>>94988589
There are specific circles of hell reserved for these kinds of people.

Krika did nothing wrong

>>95000666
Nuju's wasn't x-ray, it was just a telescope.

And in all fairness, Whenua's mask wasn't just a flashlight, it's powers were depicted inconsistently, but most of the time it was depicted as giving him perfect night vision, even in pitch black, without actually giving off light that others could see.

>>95002738
He didn't stop the plan because he was a lazy, defeatist piece of shit. If he had had more spirit he could have done something about it. But all he did was not kill Miserix, and imprisoning him on an island, which didn't matter jack and or shit, and then just help Teridax anyways while being a moppy bitch.

Not to say Krika wasn't a good character, love the guy, but he was a punk bitch who did plenty wrong. If you want to talk real did-nothing-wrong, Pridak, as well as Kalmah and Mantax.

>>94993548
>Iodized
So wait if it was gold PLATED- because if that's the case then it would never be "solid gold" like they claimed, which would be even worse. A LIE told for decades.

>>95002785
>Nuju's wasn't x-ray, it was just a telescope.
A telescope that saw through rock. In a funky faux heat vision, but still.

>>94988753
They started super rare but I ended up with like half a dozen by the time I checked out of Bionicle

>>94992773
>>94992800
>>94992811
Could someone explain the whole ordeal to me, please? I don't mean the dude destroying the gold mask, i mean the masks themselves.
Were they won on lottery? Prizes in competition, or given out at special events? Are the supposedly solid gold masks some ultra rare collectors item?

>>94999574
That's actually fuckin cool, anon.

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>>94999574

ok

>>95004683
Most were given to Lego workers. There are (were?) only about 30 in existence.
Some were given away with competitions back in '01. There was one where you had to design a website related to Bionicle. The guy who won this was a former BZP admin and was later hired by Lego. Another competition involved finding gold masks hidden in various places, like Lego's website, magazines and in online games. This is the reason why there is a random floating gold mask on the Mata Nui Online Game.
They were made of solid 14 carat gold and could be worn as necklaces. Some value them at over a thousand USD.

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Wait you can just BUY a new one anyway?

That really takes the pain away.

>>95005275

>shapeways

I'm sure that counts as cheating.

>>95005275
They even have an 18k choice, which most gold jewelry is made of.
24k is considered standard in Asia but the west work with 18k for durability as 24k is soft and dents super easy.

>>95001300
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3L5PTzXlGU

>>95005060
I see. So they are similar to the gold nintendo competition carts? Unlike the nintendo cartridges which weren't actual gold.

>>95000666
>They just never made AA-wearing Nuva for other environments.
I just loved how AA Pohatu got the power to Meep-Meep during the Phantoka storyline.

I think it was the Pakari combined with whatever benefit Photok gave him.

>>94988753
I had one when I was 9, but I lost it literally a day later and couldn't find it before my flight home

>>95005402
>"Yay I win because I'm Monkeydude! I kill all of you because I'm a Monkey. A Monkey! A MONK-AGH!"
>"SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!"

>>95005552
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSpKz1FwaE4

LET IT SNOW ALREADY JEEZ!

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>>94999574
Wouldn't exactly say dumbest but meh

>>94992914
I have that one too. I think it must have come in a set

>>95008758
Has a real Bohrok-esque vibe (probably because of the teeth and Bohrok eyes), I like it.

>>95002980
Actually it would be, like >>95005374 said, 24k isn't durable enough and bends too easily. That's why they treat it with iodine, so that it becomes harder/more brittle and won't bend.

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>>94994009
oh my god. YES

>tfw no golden armor

>>95002838
Tren Krom got fucking outsourced and locked in a cave because Angonce and friends apparently don't understand the concept of retirement

>>94993426
all my bionicles are at my nephew's mother's house. i was just there on sunday because i needed the toa inika for a recreation of an old photo. i found their canisters and all my toa mata, mahri, mistika, phantoka, and axonn together, but the inika were nowhere to be seen. rip, they were my favorites

>>94988067
Yeah i remember wondering that when i was younger. Literally the worse Mask ever. the only offensive use for it is making it bright enough to blind people and attack/get away. That's assuming if the mask shines that bright ofc.

>>94988753
Meh it could only slow down time in the movie. Also what happened to it ? was it just doomed to act as a simple plot device ?

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Why did the evil guys had more cooler design than the good guys? Like, toas aren't badly design, but they look so dull compared to most evil guy designs.

>tfw no medabots bonkle

>>95011915
Roodaka killed my dick back in the day

>>95012539
My matoran.
Real talk, I had sexual fantasies about Krika since I always imagine it as a girl (same with the blue Barraki, white Pirraka and the blue phantoka).

>>94998840
I remember thinking the bending knees was the hottest shit back in the day.

Bonkles were pretty great.

>>94998840
The black and white Rahkshis were the sexiest of the group

>tfw no Rahkshi gf

>>95012539
I remember being weirded out and slightly turned on by the fact she was the only Bionicle with legitimate breastplates.

Recently discovered the bionicle "revival"

Now I wish I hadn't

>>95011535
The mask of time could do a lot more, but no one ever used it for more than that. Mostly because it was too dangerous, and even then no one was really equipped to really harness that power. Sure maybe a makuta or other big dick high-tier being like Pridak or someone might be able to harness it's power a bit more effectively, but not fully.

It's like the mask of life, the thing fucking radiates power, the slightest scratch in it is dangerous. Just holding it fucks with you. Matoro used the mask of life exactly once, to bring one person (albeit a giant, psuedo-god person) back to life and it fucking instantly killed him. Any serious timetravel or time-line altering with the mask of time would likely have a similar result.

>>94988589
Was it autism?

>>95011535
>>95015411
Time Trap IMO is the ultimate 'Oh shit nigga, what the fuck are you doing?' moment.
>Vakama straight up threatened to destroy the ENTIRETY OF TIME if Makuta didn't fuck off
>He nearly did it, the absolute madman

This is barely related but seems /toy/ enough to be an alright question to ask, and it is animation related.

Anyone know of a Japanese youtube channel where a guy just did animations using his gundam and anime girl figures, except that the animation for all of them was actually insanely fucking good? It was some of the best stop motion I've seen but I was never able to find the channel again. All the titles were in Japanese characters so I don't know what to search for.

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>>94994009
Robomaniac the Servant 2020

>>95001300
i bet these guys are on 4chan right now.

>>95011535
Basically. The mask didn't have much use after 2003-2004, and even then it barely did anything.

IIRC, the last appearance of the mask was when Voporak stole it, and that plot got left hanging immediately. Maybe the reboot would have had some fresh plan in stall for it, but we know nothing ever came out of it. Even the G2 version of the mask didn't have much significance, and it only made like two appearances, one of which was a drawing error.

>>94988589
why do people always treat vahi as some priced artifact? I got one packaged with one of the metru comics and later down the line sent it to a childhood friend of mine inside a letter fully written in the bionicle ABCs

>>95017320
It used to be pretty elusive and was hyped up a lot back in the day. It wasn't given a wide release in any set, and only sowed up as random promos here and there.

>>94987194
>>>/toy/

>>95005513
Meep meep? What does that mean? Roadrunner powers? He had the adaptive armor and the speed mask, but he always had the mask of speed

>>95004772
I used the pipe cleaners because for the life of me, I could only find 3 white connector pieces, and I would rather die before I gave in and made parts of it gray.

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How did we go from this...

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...to THIS?

>>95005364
It's just an "illegal technique" because it isn't an official piece.

> most Lego pirateship OC models are "illegal" because people use selfmade cloth for the sails instead of only cloth pieces from Lego sets

ah yes, I love my Lego autism.

>>94988589
Yeah, why do that? It just seems like something you'd have to be mentally ill to do.
Why not sell it and make out with a good chunk of cash? Smashing shit when you can sell is is actually retarded.

>>95017986
I really hate the comics. The best year was over in like two issues and after that they had so much filler issues and arcs about the Toa becoming bad or losing their power for some retarded reason.

>>95018001
Couldn't he even have sold the broken pieces to a jewlery or something? I don't believe this happened until someone gives screencaps.

>>95017997
The lego pirate cloths sucked ass tho.

I wouldn't blame someone for wanting badass black sails rather than those lame red and white striped ones.

>>95018015
The franchise did have a strange habit of either handicapping or ridiculously overpowering its characters, didn't it?

>>95015589
This guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqsqGlIiEhU

Lest we forget that the Klakk was the biggest copout of the entire storyline
http://bionicle.wikia.com/wiki/Klakk

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>>95017982
>Mfw this should be edgy but it's not because of his design and colour scheme

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>>95019189
and it's one of the ugliest sets out there too

>>95019189
That's not the red star. But deah the klakk kinda sucked.

At least they all died for their trouble.

>>94994296
Any sources on the Hero Factory hidden lore? I didn't mind it even though I didn't buy the sets. Reminded me of Rescue Heroes

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>>95020859
From a redacted blog post by Christian Faber.

Basically, HF was meant to be a satire of generic kiddy capeshit, and its lore was supposed to outdo Bionicle. Lego said fuck it, and made it generic kiddy capeshit instead with no lore.

>>95014420
yep, lost all of the mystery. Worst of all, their masks don't even have powers any more

>>94988589
Bullshit.

>>95021479
Not like Teridax was the deepest villain ever, but having his fucking lunatic plan spread over millennia, bringing down and supplanting Mata Nui to become god made him threatening and admirable in ways

What the fuck is this flash bullshit giving us the most generic

DURRR DER BE TWO BROTHERS AND ONE IS GOOD AND ONE IS BAD

I wish the bohrok would scrub it clean and start it all over

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>>94988589
There were like 30 of these released, the one the guy destroyed wasn't the only one. You can also buy a 14k solid gold Hau from shapeways for like 200 burgbucks, and it's practically identical to the original minus the necklace holes.

It's not that tragic, really.

Daily reminder that Takanuva is the most patrician Toa.
Toa Hagah are based, and Lhikan is a pretty cool guy.
Aesthetically, the Metru Nui line isn't the most varied, but the MN saga is GOAT.

Is there any RoodakaxTakanuva fic out there?

>>95021479
Technically they do, sorta, but even the new writers weren't sure what the masks did.

>year 1: Toa have to find Gold Masks that let them use elemental powers and realize their equipment can be used as weapons if they hold them a different way
>year 2: Toa get new masks that let them find ancient elemental creatures, which guide them to another set of Gold Masks, which in turn guide them to the Mask of Control
>year 2 ending: Toa discover they had elemental powers the whole time and didn't even need masks

All because Lego thought "Toa has different elemental power and mask power" was too difficult a concept for children.

>>95021875
>not WoS Vakama

Uncertain mask maker is husbando

>>94993024
thanks man, i have 2 or 3 somewhere - they were added to some sets in Poland, Bohroks I think. A lil cash won't hurt, since I never really liked them anyway

>>95022164
I mean, I do agree the whole Metru Nui saga is the best, and Vakama contributes to that in a big way.

>>95014420
The Toa-wave figures were some of the best canister sets ever, the story and lore on the other hand was fucking terrible.