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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Bob Parker wrote:
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Even as a fan of Bionicle, I can’t say I am all broken up about this. It may
even be past due. Hopefpully the new action figures won’t be Galidor-esque. If
there is a story component, it would be good if it is more cohesive than
Bionicle’s which was all over the map.
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Dateline: BZPower Nov. 24, 2009
Dear BIONICLE Fans,
In reviewing the business across all of its play patterns and properties,
the LEGO Group faced a tough question: should we take on a new creative
challenge in the world of buildable figures that we pioneered in 2001?
BIONICLE re-invented the way consumers think of and play with the LEGO
system. Through many chapters of compelling story and innovative product
development, BIONICLE became a very strong property and an important part of The
LEGO Group’s business. We think there is a significant opportunity to grow the
buildable figure category, but it will take a more flexible platform that
appeals to a wider range of ages through a variety of different entry points
than BIONICLE has proven to deliver.
The easy decision would be to stick with a known entity in BIONICLE; but as
history has proven, The LEGO Group achieves its greatest success by embracing
the uncertainty that innovation brings. After all, BIONICLE almost never
launched because it was such a big risk to the company’s way of doing business.
Because you have been such an important part of building the BIONICLE
franchise and have been among its most valued fans, we are writing to tell you
that the six BIONICLE Stars launching in January will be the last BIONICLE sets
for the foreseeable future. Beginning in summer 2010, The LEGO Group will debut
a new, more flexible buildable figure property created by the same people who
brought you BIONICLE. At the same time, we are also expanding the category to
appeal to a younger audience through an established third-party property,
starting in January.
Since its beginning, BIONICLE has reflected the union of great product and a
compelling story. Although there presently are no plans for more sets, the
BIONICLE story is not ending. BIONICLEstory.com will remain an active site, with
new story content updated by long-time BIONICLE writer Greg Farshtey. In
addition, LEGO Group hopes to work with you, the fans, to continue to grow and
expand the BIONICLE story universe.
This was an extremely difficult decision for all involved. But as seen in
the tales of the Toa, striving for success in any mission requires imagination,
new ways of thinking, and the willingness to take risks. We hope you will share
the same level of enthusiasm we have for our plans for the buildable figure
category.
We invite you to remain a part of the BIONICLE universe—a universe you have
helped to build, and that we are confident that you will continue to build—in
the future. Thank you for your continued support and dedication to the BIONICLE
and LEGO brands.
With our very best regards,
Jan Faltum, Global BIONICLE Director
Lincoln Armstrong, Senior Brand Manager, BIONICLE Team Member since 2002
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I've been thinking for awhile that a mantis-like creation would fit in well with
my Vedraan Empire sub-theme of Silicon Psyche. Check out the "Deathstrider"
droid host unit-
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=377349
Over the past few years, I've accumulated a lot of metallic Bionicle elements. I
thought it was about time to see what I could do with them. Check out this
centipede in my Miscellaneous section.It's 21 inches long and has 20 legs-
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=377347
If only I had more red leg bits, it would be longer.
LMKWYT,
Todd
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"Todd Amacher" <atamacher@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:KF57qL.87x@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.build.mecha, Eric Sophie wrote:
> > In lugnet.announce.moc, Andrew Todd Amacher wrote:
> > > This is a revamp of the "Gorgon" that I made back in 2005. Its larger
> > > and has
> > > more articulation than its predecessor. Even the main eye pivots.
> > >
> > > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=368213
> > >
> > > LMKWYT,
> > > Todd
> >
> > Hey Todd, this is really cool. It looks big and certainly uses lots of
> > nice
> > parts! I also really like how it is a bigger version of one of your older
> > designs. Interesting way you made the feet, I also dig the quad arm set
> > up.
> > I'd like to try that some time.
> >
> > Good MOC, thanks for sharing!
> >
> > Eric Sophie
>
> Thanks Eric- my motivations for building it were to make a droid host
> unit
> roughly equal in stature to my Traikon mecha and to test the stiffness of
> those
> rubberized socket joints. The hips were a bit weak, so I added tires
> underneath
> the feet to keep the figure from doing the splits.
Great! I half expected it to transform into a vehicle and drive off the
first time I saw those tires! ;-)
Do you think you could build a version of it that actually would transform
from a robot mode to a vehicle-like mode?
I'm a big fan of anything that's a Transformer, it's rather hard to do
properly in LEGO, though it's definitely possible to do.
Cheers ...
Geoffrey Hyde
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Eric Sophie wrote:
> In lugnet.announce.moc, Andrew Todd Amacher wrote:
> > This is a revamp of the "Gorgon" that I made back in 2005. Its larger and has
> > more articulation than its predecessor. Even the main eye pivots.
> >
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=368213
> >
> > LMKWYT,
> > Todd
>
> Hey Todd, this is really cool. It looks big and certainly uses lots of nice
> parts! I also really like how it is a bigger version of one of your older
> designs. Interesting way you made the feet, I also dig the quad arm set up.
> I'd like to try that some time.
>
> Good MOC, thanks for sharing!
>
> Eric Sophie
Thanks Eric- my motivations for building it were to make a droid host unit
roughly equal in stature to my Traikon mecha and to test the stiffness of those
rubberized socket joints. The hips were a bit weak, so I added tires underneath
the feet to keep the figure from doing the splits.
Later,
Todd
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Andrew Todd Amacher wrote:
> This is a revamp of the "Gorgon" that I made back in 2005. Its larger and has
> more articulation than its predecessor. Even the main eye pivots.
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=368213
>
> LMKWYT,
> Todd
Hey Todd, this is really cool. It looks big and certainly uses lots of nice
parts! I also really like how it is a bigger version of one of your older
designs. Interesting way you made the feet, I also dig the quad arm set up.
I'd like to try that some time.
Good MOC, thanks for sharing!
Eric Sophie
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Kyle Beatty wrote:
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With a couple of exceptions, the packaging can’t be recycled and has also
become egregiously un-MOCable and just plain BIG.
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I can’t believe I’m even suggesting this, but if there’s a triangle made of
arrows with a number inside located somewhere on the bottom, that piece of
plastic can indeed be recycled. But if you plan to keep the sets intact, but
don’t plan to display them all at the same time, they are quite useful for
storing the parts, or, in many cases, the assembled models (I think that’s why
they keep getting so big).
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You are corect, sir! Many of the containers are “1”; but some of the components
are “5”. Seattle recycling has a nutty rule for plastic, anyway: “Ignore the
numbers—recycle only plastic bottles, tubs, jugs, and jars, plus shopping,
newspaper and dry cleaning bags. The number indicates the resin (a type of
plastic) content. The cost of recycling some items exceeds the value of recycled
plastic.” So the most useless bits (I’m looking at the Phantoka canister
decoration) would have to go to the landfill. Sigh.
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Kyle Beatty wrote:
> With a couple of exceptions, the packaging can't be recycled and has also
> become egregiously un-MOCable and just plain BIG.
I can't believe I'm even suggesting this, but if there's a triangle made of
arrows with a number inside located somewhere on the bottom, that piece of
plastic can indeed be recycled. But if you plan to keep the sets intact, but
don't plan to display them all at the same time, they are quite useful for
storing the parts, or, in many cases, the assembled models (I think that's why
they keep getting so big).
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Allister McLaren wrote:
> In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Kyle Beatty wrote:
> > Yoiks! The price for Bionicle canister sets has jumped 30% since the last
> > release. Is it just the weak dollar? The piece-count is roughly the same.
>
> Those sets certainly do have increasingly elaborate packaging for you to throw
> away.
Indeed. I feel more than silly trying to find space to store it because I can't
stomach putting that stuff in a landfill. With a couple of exceptions, the
packaging can't be recycled and has also become egregiously un-MOCable and just
plain BIG.
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Kyle Beatty wrote:
> Yoiks! The price for Bionicle canister sets has jumped 30% since the last
> release. Is it just the weak dollar? The piece-count is roughly the same.
Those sets certainly do have increasingly elaborate packaging for you to throw
away.
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Yoiks! The price for Bionicle canister sets has jumped 30% since the last
release. Is it just the weak dollar? The piece-count is roughly the same.
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My good friend (and fellow worker), Dave F, brought in his little ‘pet project’
that he’s been working on for the last little bit--
Inspired by one of the latest Bionicle sets, Dave F wanted to build an 8 legged
beastie instead of the set’s 4 legged one (dunno the set number)
The issue of course is that there’s a LEGO fan that I work with so when we hit
the mall for lunch every Friday, we end up at Winners and/or Zellers trying to
convince each other to be good on the pocketbook and *not* buy LEGO (often
fails, especially when BOGO rears it’s u-glay head)
Anyway, more pics--
http://sandysparky.net/gallery/20071129_dave_f_bionicle_spider
Dave K
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Orion Pobursky schrieb:
> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Michael Heidemann wrote:
> > Does anybody has instructions for these models of the roborider series?
> >
> > http://mikeheide.kilu2.de/temp/roboriders-extra.jpg
> >
> > Any help is welcome.
>
>
> http://www.hobby.nl/~afd-amsterdam/brickfactory/theme/robori01.htm
>
> -Orion
Thanks Orion, but I need not the instructions for the sets itself
because I own all of them. I need the instructions for the extra models
(combinations) that are shown on that picture. Those instructions are
not in the normal instruction book. I think they could have been
downloaded from TLC webside with the webcode on the canister.
So is there anybody out there who can help me?
mikeheide
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Ever since NW BrickCon, where one of the Dirty Brickster gifts was a modified
USB thumb drive embedded into a 2x6 LEGO brick, I’ve wanted to try playing with
something like that. So, with all the good deals on personal electronics last
weekend, I picked up a 512MB Flash drive for $14 - heckuva deal. It’s pretty
tiny, and came with a keychain and carabiner which I’m not going to use. The
thumb drive itself, when removed from the external plastic case, was just a tad
too big to slide into a hollowed-out brick, but then I remembered all the cool
Bionicle pieces that might just work...
The result is my Rahkshi USB Flash drive. A few snips with an X-Acto knife (and
some band-aids later), a squirt of model cement, and here we have it. It’s tiny,
just slightly bigger than a Rahkshi head. The blue eyes are a massive bonus,
it’s got a very bright blue LED on the board that shines out through the eyes
and the hole in the top.
Below are some more pictures of the drive. The glue’s still drying, but so far
it’s pretty sturdy.
Another picture
And
another picture
Yet
another picture
And a final picture
For those interested, the drive is by Imation, and is on sale at Target for a
few more days for $13.99.
Kelly
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In lugnet.inv, Eric Strand wrote:
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In lugnet.inv, Rene Hoffmeister wrote:
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On this year’s 1000steine-Land event we held a competition with 20 identical
sets, all bought at the same time at the same place. At least in one step the
sets came in three different versions with slightly different pieces.
It’s also known that TLC uses different parts in the final product than
showed in the instruction (at least since the last two years), so whenever
someone is creating an inv from an instruction, chances are existing that the
inv became “wrong”.
Leg Godt!
Rene
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Rene-
Very interesting! What was the set and parts in question? I’m just
curious...
Thanks,
Eric
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Hi Eric,
http://www.1000steine.com/forum2/forum_entry.php?id=7018&page=0&category=6&order=time
There were three different versions of the string:
1) Green String with End Studs 41 studs in length
2) Black String with End Studs 41 studs in length
3) Green String without studs + 2x part #3134
 
1) and 3) are considered in the BL inv:
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=8757-1
Peeron lists 1) only.
This is a nice example on how people could think, an inv is wrong, but actually
it isn’t.
Leg Godt!
Rene
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