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Re: New Belville promo polybag
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lugnet.promo, lugnet.basic, lugnet.belville, lugnet.technic.bionicle
Date: 
Wed, 2 Jul 2003 23:30:18 GMT
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In lugnet.promo, Manfred Moolhuysen wrote:
   I haven’t seen it for real yet, but on http://www.c1000.nl I saw the following image of a Bionicle figure unknown to me:



Maybe someone else has any insight about this one?





He’s Hewkii, a revised version of Huki:


    1388 Huki {McDonald's Promo Set #1}
8 elements, 0 figures, US$2, 2001
LEGO > TECHNIC > BIONICLE > Promotional > McDonald's

The storyline explanation is that the Matoran villagers did a great job helping to fight off the Rahi, Bohrok, and Bohrok Va, so the Turaga rewarded them by making them bigger. And they gave them new names.

The more logical real-life explanation is that the McToran design was too restrictive for the upcoming Mask of Light movie, so they redesigned it to be more posable. Evidentally they’d wanted to make the original villager models more articulated than they were, but they had a piece-count restriction to meet for the Happy Meal promo, so it didn’t happen. Now, however, they’re releasing them to regular retail, so piece-counts are more flexible. I have no idea why they decided to start changing the names as well, since I don’t think any of them are borrowed from existing languages.



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  Re: New Belville promo polybag
 
(...) So, there isn't a set number known yet? I'll keep checking on the C1000 promo action to see if does emerege there. With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (21 years ago, 3-Jul-03, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.basic, lugnet.belville, lugnet.technic.bionicle, FTX)

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  New Belville promo polybag
 
Hello all, I did some additional research in the local C1000 supermarket store today, to check out the free promo ploybag action that the're currently running here in the Netherlands. I have positive identification of a new Belville promotional (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jul-03, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.basic, lugnet.belville, lugnet.technic.bionicle, FTX)

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