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(...) crowd pretty succinctly here. I watched the anti- Bionicle harangue with some alarm from my various perches, but I hadn't realized they really did pack it in and head over to bzpower as a whole. That makes me rather sad, because honestly I (...) (21 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) When you deviate from traditional building standards (hmm, SNOT?), it enables for many more possibilities. For an example of Bionicle models, look no further than Bryce McGlone's mechs: (URL) are many others, his models just stick out in my (...) (21 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) I find it funny that Castle fans are the most vocal about being 'left behind' by LEGO, while Castle received two Legends and a MOC set which are absolutely fantasic. Plus, many Castle parts exist on the market today (albeit in Harry Potter (...) (21 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yeah, funny thing that -- give people a limited supply of good technic and a whole bunch of other crap and they will learn to make do with what is available. That doesn't mean it's the stuff of choice though does it? It's just what is (...) (21 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) And that is perhaps one of the most ignorant responses to a good point I have ever read. Why? Because that reply indicates that you don't know enough about Bionicle to comment on it, let alone bash it. Ask a few Mecha builders how much they (...) (21 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) (URL) the Bionicle fans are there. The online Bionicle community is huge, and I think LEGO would be wise to try out something new that would be Bionicle-related. Perhaps not relpace Castle, but a suppliment to it with a Bionicle-like storyline (...) (21 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hi Anthony, You have made some good points there. Well thought out. I must say I may have been a little overemotional when I wrote that post. Lego needs to be the one supplying the bricks, with juniorization and pillar-brick construction, they (...) (21 years ago, 15-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) That's about the stupidest thing I have ever read... -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 15-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) But who are you going to blame? The toy or the peole making the toy? People who blame it on Bionicle are placing the blame on a item of plastic. How is plastic the same as a person? If you do not want to buy it then thats fine, nobody is (...) (21 years ago, 15-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Mark, While I am not a fan of Bionicle and haven't bought anything to do with it, you have stated your case clearly and succinctly. Well done. Alan (21 years ago, 15-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Well said, Anthony. I wish I'd said it. Alan (21 years ago, 15-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) I withdraw my comment. You are correct, Mark, that Bionicle is a big money maker for the LEGO Company. I should have done more research before I implied that it isn't. However, no one is "blamimg" Bionicle fans for anything. It's just that we (...) (21 years ago, 15-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I see little difference there...a toy I don't want to buy is still a toy I don't want to buy. That line of product places Lego in the same category as hundreds of other manufacturers, at least for me. The problem with Bioknuckles is the break (...) (21 years ago, 15-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) LOL - Thats actually funny. The reason that part of Lugnet is dead is because the Bionicle fans were basically bashed and bashed and bashed by the folks here on Lugnet until they went to another site to play. Go visit the true home for (...) (21 years ago, 15-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Backatcha! (...) Okay, i think i have to announce this. Im a bionicle nut. Bionicle is absolute junk now after they went and ripped the plot to shreds, but i still collect old bionicle and i still flame the new junk their making. So i just (...) (21 years ago, 15-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) GREAT job. Now if someone (at least more talented in such matters than myself and ol' BMP2DAT) could come up with a LDRAW file for these stickers... BTW - they look more like Griffins than Lions to me :P (21 years ago, 15-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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If they make medieval Bionicle sets in ADDITION to normal castle sets, then that's OK. However, if medieval Bionicle is all that they're going to give us, then I also am very disappointed. (21 years ago, 15-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) At least they didn't make Sir Jack of Stone. Bionicle is infinitely cooler than Jack of All Trades (no doubt swordfighting and princess stealing would come naturally to him too, except his hair is styled wrong for it.) Ever since they gave (...) (21 years ago, 15-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) But that's the real kicker of it all, isn't it?. LEGO Castle is what it is because we make it what it is. LEGO Castle is the fan's theme. LEGO only supplies the bricks. It's the same with space, with town, with trains, with all the known (...) (21 years ago, 15-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) I just went to the Bionicle Forum (inside the Technic Forum) and saw that the last four posts are 1 and 2 months old! It seems like the Castle community is much more active and it would be a shame if The LEGO Company just decided to dump us in (...) (21 years ago, 15-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle)
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