Bionicle General Discussion

[Midnght]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggghhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you guys are sssssssssssooooooooooooooooo lucky to have all those sets. O well, I'll be happy when I get Skopio. As for the vehicle rider helmets:

Crotesius has the same helmet as the Kaxium Riders, just reversed.
Sahmad and Perditus have the same helmet.
Telluris has the same mask/helmet/face as the Spikit(tho he only has one) but reversed.

and yeah, the riders are pretty plain IMO(but that's not why anyone is getting the sets. The vehicles are the real prize.

@Midnight: how do you extend the wheels(I know there's an elastic involved... but that's it).

There's no doubt about it Thornatus is way cool despite the items I listed.

The side wheels OMG.


How to best describe this.


The band is straight across ------------

The side wheels

Slide along a track in the middle with a shield on top of it they go towards the front and make a very slight V formation.



When you slide them backwards they do a severe backwards V to the body of the vehicle (back by the seated figure giving it more protection if you look it at from that perspective) and looks like a massive Y trike.

Here's a pic someone took of Thornatus with the wheels back.



The whole vehicle is a Y trike so to speak. 4 wheels in the front left and right two on each side.
One big wheel in back.
Literally took me a good 4 hours to put together. With breaks inside that. I did it over two days.
A very sturdy peice good heavy weight.


But see this is why I say the extended wheels could have been been better IE they could have a lever or something you could move to bring them forward and back. They don't have it. You darn near need three hands to move 'em. One to hold the body the other two for each side wheels to pull or push backwards. It can be done with two hands just compared to some of the previous vehicles with levers to flip out the wings and such they should have done the same on these wheels IMHO.
But no matter what extended or retracted the vehicle is phenominal IMHO.

Another thing I really love about the front wheels.
They use silver Krika skulls as wheel covers (in real life they like your bicycle keep mud from flying up your back.
And on the front again they use silver krika half front arms as blades.
The skulls are just soo cool used in this way.

The only vehicle I didn't pick up was skopio I just don't like it's alternative mode. As the upright 4 legged beast it's pretty cool. The tracks are awesome. Dut the turned more into a quick driving tank mode, so to speak just isn't all that great IMHO.  But as the skorpion mode he's pretty cool looking. I may pick it up in a few months when the sale price drops to clearance for about 25-40 bucks. };>)


As an aside. Don't be too jealous. I'm an adult with money to burn. }:>)
I'll post a pic of my latest collection there's 34 sets in the pic i'll add in a moment.
Thornatus is not in the pic haven't brought it to work yet.
I do have some older sets back when bionicles first came out even some of the silly mcdonalds happy meals sets.
But I have to go home to CT and dig em up out of my ninja, egyptian, and technics lego sets.

[mtmerrick]

if anyone here is near legoland, i'll be @ bionicle evolution @ 1:00.

[The Host]

Thornatus looks pretty cool, but I have to say that Skopio and Cendox are better(well, maybe not Cendox, but...)

Skopio has a huge amount of pieces, and just looks amazing standing up, and even in tank mode it's cool. And the fact that it can switch completely is cool.

Cendox is amazing because it's such a small thing, but it turns. The little vehicle just looks complete, and I must say that the Lego designers did a great job with it. I don't have any summer sets, so I can't comment and be 100 percent sure of myself, but from various reviews I think I'll keep my opinion even after getting sets.

@mtm: I don't even know if Cad has a Legoland...

[Plotkin]

Cendox reminds me of a snowmobile and probably a really nice vehicle for that price

and Im nowhere near legoland. or a lego store. they need one in wisconsin

[Midnght]

Cendox reminds me of a snowmobile and probably a really nice vehicle for that price

and Im nowhere near legoland. or a lego store. they need one in wisconsin

That's very acurate. A sandmobile so to speak hahahahah.

The front skids are built well to they are loose and not stiff so they can manuever the vehicle in a turn quite easily.

BTW here's the images of the the Characters for each vehicle. Exceptions No thornatus or Skopio characters.

Crotesius


Kibraz


Scondius


Sahmad



All four side by side.



And the Destral cycle is the BEST Bionicle motorcycle ever.

[Trijhak]

I find it weird that they gave some simple Agori some Life Counters...
I can see Sahmad's Case (He can be used  as a Glatorian, He has a Thornax and Life Counter but is an Agori), but not Crotesius'.

[Plotkin]

They gave em life counters for the vehicle battles =P

[mtmerrick]

woohoo! not only did i get tarduk, i made a deal with a neighbor kid and got 7 sweet kanohi/BM helmets. i'm uploading a pic to brickshelf now.

[Plotkin]

Nice! Although he reminds me of a rahi. Do you have a link to that?

[mtmerrick]

soon. i got a metru-gold avohkii, a trans-glitter avohkii, a grey arthaka-style hau, a great komau, a vorox helmet, strakk's helmet, and malum's helmet, plus some various other small peices. some kinda rare (and highly awsome!) kanohi there.

[Trijhak]

Okay. Just ordered Ackar and MN from Lego.com

Didn't get Vastus after all -I need that mata Red.

[Iconox]

Getting Thornatus later today. There was a huge storm yesterday so we had to stay indoors.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

...? How'd you get a grey Artakha Style Hau, or is that the Tahu Mata Hau?

[Trijhak]

I think he may actually be talking about the Grey hau on the Ussanui.
Because there's no Artahka Style Grey hau, only a gold.

[mtmerrick]

*facepalm* and you guys call yourself bionicle fans... you should know that tahu Mata wears a arthaka-style hau. Lihkan wears the standard version, its everywhere EXCEPT metru nui (& arthaka). so yes, it is  the one from the ussani!

[Solo Rogue]

I got messed up by the names, I thought it might've been the Metru version that Lhikan wore...

[Trijhak]

...okay, that was random...

I didn't know that was the 'Artahka Style Hau'.
It's probably not... as far as know, Lhikan wore a special Hau...

[Solo Rogue]

Makes sense since Tahu was originally from Artakha... Right?

[Trijhak]

well, It kind of does....

(though I stilll have no idea where every member here is coming from)

[Plotkin]

Wow, I just went to Wal-Mart and they have tons of all 6 canisters