Bionicle General Discussion

[Chicken Lord]

I've not seen any of the bioncle movies


PS Still no answer on when masterbuilder is?

[The Host]

KZ: everyone fits, although only Agori look good when it it(and Mata Feet people won't join easily unless a piece is added beneath the feet).
Skopio can probably accomodate most sets, although they won't be quite as confortable as Telluris.

CL: I haven't seen any movies either. And Masterbuilder might be 600...

[Trijhak]

KZ: everyone fits, although only Agori look good when it it(and Mata Feet people won't join easily unless a piece is added beneath the feet).
Skopio can probably accomodate most sets, although they won't be quite as confortable as Telluris.

CL: I haven't seen any movies either. And Masterbuilder might be 600...

How do you know? The Baranus doesn't even cover half of Sahmad's Legs.

Also, judging from the new pictures... the movie animators have somehow resorted to doing impossible poses for the characters. The movie sounds bleh. Especially because of three major flaws:

Berix and Kiina
Impossible Poses
Some characters look ugly in some poses

[The Host]

I'm not sure which part of the sentence you're contradicting...

If it's the part about Agori: if you put a Glatorian in there it'd look rediculous.
If it's he part about Mata Feet: the connection is pins like on Ignika's Skyboard, which Mata feet can't go on.

Well, even some CGI pics have impossible poses(I think Toa Ignika had one once). But I think they do the poses like to try and get a living feeling out of the characters, If they only had 13 points of articulation moviewise it'd look unnatural.

The movie does sound(and seem) Bleh. But it's Lego and Tinsletown(who I've never heard of, not that i'm an expert or anything). It's not a high budget thing, probably just to give fans interest. Bionicle Adventure 10 is the best selling Bionicle book, which came out after the 3rd movie, so maybe Lego is trying to stimulate purchase of sets.
I agree with you on the first point, but I think if the characters were limited by setwise posing it would lok odd and stiff. And there's always an ugly person in movies

[Chicken Lord]

KZ: everyone fits, although only Agori look good when it it(and Mata Feet people won't join easily unless a piece is added beneath the feet).
Skopio can probably accomodate most sets, although they won't be quite as confortable as Telluris.

CL: I haven't seen any movies either. And Masterbuilder might be 600...

I've seen members 500-600 with it so I think it is 510 or515

[Ddude The Insane]

BOT CL 

I wonder what other sets I'll get this year...

[Chicken Lord]

BOT CL 

I wonder what other sets I'll get this year...

Sorry.  Last off topic post:

I'm a masterbuilder! For me it was 507 posts.

[The Host]

Cool. But, seriously, BOT.

@DT: I'm getting Skopio, and then hopefully Cendox and Vastus. Maybe Gelu.

[Trijhak]

Hopefully getting Cendox tomorrow, might do a review.

Yes I love vehicles. I just wish we had more sets that could carry two 'agori/glatorian'. Like Kaxium, but much better. I.E: a moving tank-type thing that had a pilot and a turret that had a gunner.

(or a passenger. Baranus and Thornatus might be able to hold a passenger, and so might Skopio.)

[Chicken Lord]

I got a ton of bionicles when I was about 5, but they are all lost somewhere. All I have now is gresh

[The Host]

@KZ: Hopefully my Skopio arrives soonishly... then I can post a review... And yes, 2 riders would be cool(like movie Thornatus where Gresh is left out of the fun... it's hard to believe that Thornatus could actually hold 3 Glatorian, though I haven't seen a pic disproving it...
At Lego S@H, the pics for Baranus include Sahmad standing on the Spikit, so I guess Baranus can hold 2 figures.

[Trijhak]

I have the cendox now. The tracks, being solid, work very well on carpets, but not wooden floors. Skopio has tracks too, so I guess it has the same thing as Cendox. To turn you have to put Crotesius' fists at the same angle (easy if you hold them down and they are actually holding the handlebars, of course.

[The Host]

Cool. Yeah, I've heard the tracks aren't great on solid surfaces. Luckily my house is carpeted in most places, so if I play with Skopio in chase scenes it'll work.
And the turning on Cendox is opretty realistic looking. Crotesius actually turns it, whereas Skopio turns itself...

Skopio has 849 pieces, but sadly 96 of them are tread pieces...

[Trijhak]

Still more than Axalara. 

Cendox is probably the most realistic thing BIONICLE has ever had. Also my house also mostly carpeted. I've also heard that the Kaxium's, baranus' and Thornatus' wheels do not work well on carpet...

[The Host]

Kaxium's look rubber, and Thornatus and Baranus don't exactly remind me of wheels(although the Thornatus back wheel is pretty sweet).

and yes, it's still more than Axalara, and the tread looks so cool.

[Trijhak]

Them being plastic and not rubber help a lot. They don't come off as easily. To take them off you just have to de-clip them. A lot better, and easier to take off.

Also, Cendox only has one track (made of smaller pieces). It looked like two from all the images I saw

[The Host]

I was looking at pictures on the internet of Skopio, and the treads pieces look really wide...

And the back of Cendox looks really sturdy. How does the turning work(like is the front attached to a rod allowing it to move loosely?)

[Trijhak]

Connected to a losse rod that stickes out of the back then covered by the handlebar attachments, making it turn and not be too loose.
That's how Cendox's functions. Also, if you look at the Skopio in the TLR images... why are Telurris' arms the size of its head?

[The Host]

I'm guessing that it's an actual Skopio Scorpion, and the hands are there because that's what the set looked like... Although I'm not sure... but the Skopio looks massive...

[Trijhak]

It probably is...

Bohrok feet are neccesary for the Cendox, so that the holes on them can have the 3-length rod (that has the 'stud' oin the end) can slip into the Bohrok feet of Crotesius.