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(...) Makuta followed his brother, Mata Nui from there home. The islanders of Mata Nui worshiped Mata Nui because he had made the world into a paradise. Makuta was jealous and tried to get the islanders to worship him by using fear and pain, but (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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*** "Launching in late summer, the Bionicle line consists of six heroes, known as the Toa, and five villains, know as the Makuta. In addition to the figures, LEGO will launch two Bionicle video games. With vicious-looking villains and grim heroes, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ...Related to Magic though was the big disaster they had with Antiquities (at least I think it was Antiquities), where the distribution of cards was not random. Apparently someone at the card plant screwed up and the sorting didn't work out (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) how the quality of the Lego brick is way down. Anyone that has old Lego can put it sid by side with the new ones and can see that there are huge differences in the quality. Here are a few: 1. The old Lego were much brighter and had a better (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) I believe it's true for Magic. I would not be too surprised if it wasn't true for Pokemon, though. But I suspect it's against the law in at least the US, as it would be false advertising to claim something is available if it is not ever (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) Sorry Eric, I didn't plan to address my complains to you. Of course I noticed that you are not disputing my claim; I only wanted to add to your posting that there is a VERY large difference between: 1) producing really randomly assorted (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer, lugnet.technic.roboriders)
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(...) Oh, whoa, hang on a sec. I'm not disputing your claim that all the wheels weren't produced- I wouldn't know, I didn't try to collect them. It's entirely possible. On the other hand, when someone complains that they got many of the more common (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer, lugnet.technic.roboriders)
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(...) Eric, I also love collecting all these things. I enjoyed when I saw LEGO coming out with disks, then wheels and now masks. I spent a *lot* of money on the disks, then I had them complete one day. A little later, even more special disks came (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer, lugnet.technic.roboriders)
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(...) I used to collect Magic cards (and play the game). I can assure you that you *can* collect a full set of these cards. It just requires patience, and a lot of money and/or hard trading. There's nothing uneducated about it. If you enjoy it, you (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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Michael Edwards wrote in message ... (...) Can you say Pokemon. I refuse to allow any pokemon stuff into our house due to the blatant marketing of a .05 card. I just educate my son on not "collecting" stuff that is just a marketing ploy to get you (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) Wellllll, when Marvel and DC do things like this, they tend to whip out the 2nd string artists and writers, so we'll see how much the art improves. :D (...) Perhaps. I got really excited at first, because I thought it was going to be a direct (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.books)
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(...) That's impressive. These will almost certainly be better-drawn than previously LEGO comic books like Jim Spaceborn and the Pirates one (the latter not being poorly drawn or anything, but a little too "Dinesyified" for my tastes :-)... I wonder (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.books)
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From (URL) : ...as part of the marketing push, Lego has solicited DC to create a three-issue comic book series for them, which according to a spokesperson for the publisher, will not be sold by them, but will be custom created for use by Lego as a (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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Hi all, today, I noticed that TLC must have updated their bionicle.com area once again. - Looking through the telescope at Mata Nui you will now see 'new' stars that I never noticed so far. It's just a few white dots larger than the ones in the (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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This is the 100th message in the BIONICLE newsgroup! I can't stand to see a group with 99 messages, I had to push it over the edge. By the way, can someone PLEASE scan a bionicle's face? NICK (-: (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) The throwbots each come with two certain disks: One of their disks, and one of another throwbots disk, always the same (e.g. Jet comes with one of his disks (two pip), and with one of Granite's disks (3pip).). 4,5,6,7, ect. disks only come in (...) (26 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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I'm hoping that LEGO will do something with the Bionicles like the Toy Gladiator site, where you can register a gladiator, send the gladiator card to friends, etc. With the Bionicle potential for customization (different masks, weapons, Toa, etc), (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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Hey is anyone else expiencing problems with the lego website?? It won't work for me, any suggestions?? Rex (26 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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Works for me, you need to view the raw message source. A few mods, Weapon room - Jala's Room Fire? - Vakama (Tahu Shinre) -- Michael - - - Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Lugnet Member# 151 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) things. (...) Hear the alarm bells TLC! Christian has been the biggest Lego Fan on earth when I first got in touch with him. While most AFOL people are just fans of Lego products (basically the good ones from the past, hehe), Christian has (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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