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Re: Rumored Castle sets now a nightmare.
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lugnet.castle
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Sun, 16 Nov 2003 09:26:15 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Mark Papenfuss wrote:
> In lugnet.castle, Stephen Wroble wrote:
> > In lugnet.castle, Rich Manzo wrote:
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> > > If Bionicle is TLC's #1 selling theme, and it is, wouldn't it make sense to
> > > replicate it somehwere else in an attempt to mirror that success?
> >
> > 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 favor of the Bionicle line.
>
> 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 Bionicle fans:
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> http://www.bzpower.com
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> We have 13,800 + members and we get more posts in 30 minutes than Lugnet gets in
> a day. Bionicle has the most tie-ins than every other Lego theme in history
> combined. 3 movies, 4 different lines of Nike shoes, toothbrushes, more odds and
> ends than you can ever imagine. Yes, Bionicle is the top money maker for Lego,
> and a Bionicle themed castle line would bring in many times more than a "true"
> castle theme could even think about.
>
> Lugnet members made it clear Bionicle fans were not really welcome here on
> Lugnet - and the tone of the post that started this thread is a good example as
> to why.
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> But really - if *anybody* thinks that Bionicle is to blame if no "true" castle
> sets come out in 2004 then you will just be passing the blame. The fault will be
> Lego's, not Bionicle's. So place the blame where it should be - with the Lego
> company, not in the Bionicle theme.
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> Mark P
> http://www.landofbricks.com
As always, you've stated the case of the Bionicle
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 rather
like Bionicle; it has some very useful bits and
parts, and even some of the weapons and special
pieces can do some excellent double duty in mecha,
spacecraft, and Heaven knows what else. In fact,
I picked up a lot of the Bohrok and Toa Nuva copacks
on clearance from walmart.com, and am absolutely
drooling at the possibilities for greebling they
provide.
I'm not entirely liking that pearl grey (silver)
they use, but the parts themselves are not nearly
as bad as people seem to paint them to be. And
what Anthony said in the other wing of this thread
is very true--the entire line is only what we make
of it. I mean, I think the last time I kept a model
together in its LEGO official incarnation for more
than a week was the BT1 Invader.
So yeah, Bionicle is a huge moneymaker for LEGO--
finally after the false starts of Throwbots/Slizer,
they got it right and made it interesting. Now,
I'm just hoping for a wider array of ball housings,
and I need to devise a way to hide a pop-up gun in
the Rahkishi larvapult thingy... :)
all best
LFB
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