 | | Re: Greatest demand is for Bionicle -- Yuck! :)
|
|
(...) Agreed. The lost cost of the Toa and other sets were very appealing... but the bad guys are way up there. Perhaps that's why there are rumors that 2002 Bionicle series will feature simular-to-Toa price point bad guys. You can't accuse LEGO for (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Kopaka
|
|
Well, I finally got my first Bionicle, other than my sister's three Maku (Village people of Water, right?). And I must say, it's not half bad. It's got fairly good playability, and good parts. I'd do stop motion, but my video cam isn't good at (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: Greatest demand is for Bionicle -- Yuck! :)
|
|
(...) I think the very fact that we have Bionicle today is due to the past success of the Throwbot/Slizers and Roboriders sets. Whenever LEGO has a runaway best-seller (e.g. the Aquanaut sets), they run the idea into the ground trying to replicate (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: Greatest demand is for Bionicle -- Yuck! :)
|
|
(...) I think you have a good starting point as to why Bionicle is appealing, but the full reason would be 'It's just Bionicle'. It's the flavor of the month. Lego hit the whole marketing shebang perfectly with this idea, though I believe that (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: Greatest demand is for Bionicle -- Yuck! :)
|
|
(...) Andy, I think this has been discussed before.. however.. (...) This is something I've been pondering as well, as an adult with marketing, collectibles industry (gag), and 'net background... (...) Action figures have always been "cool". I think (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: Greatest demand is for Bionicle -- Yuck! :)
|
|
Has anyone done a study to determine what is so appealing to the buyers of Bionicle? And I don't mean the AFOLs as much as the rest of the buyers... Is it: - Because they are robotic/action figures? - Because they have a full online story behind (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: Greatest demand is for Bionicle -- Yuck! :)
|
|
(...) And Learning Express marks up over retail too! Typically 25% I think (they had 3033 for 25.00). But that's because the individual shop owners are paying more wholesale (to their distributor, I think) than TRU is to LEGO directly. People DO buy (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: Greatest demand is for Bionicle -- Yuck! :)
|
|
"Steve Tanner" <bounga1@REMOVECAPSyahoo.com> wrote in message news:GLCv6K.7nu@lugnet.com... (...) on others :-( (...) other (...) either (...) reorder. (...) as (...) line. (...) I had a conversation with the owner of a Learning Express ((URL) toy (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: Greatest demand is for Bionicle -- Yuck! :)
|
|
(...) Well, unfortunately, this does provide insight from LEGO on how well the line is doing. I wondered myself as you can't seem to see the Toa or other lower priced kits on shelves much by me here in the midwest. Figured either they were selling (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: Greatest demand is for Bionicle -- Yuck! :)
|
|
"Michael Huffman" <mhuffman@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:GLCq2z.H81@lugnet.com... (...) That's done it! Now Lego will have the justification to focus more on this junk, and less on others :-( The only light on the horizon is that these (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | overwrought pic of Maku
|
|
fun with photoshop: (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Slizer & Throwbot: Why the 2 names?
|
|
Yeah, I know I'm talking about a dead product line that many wish never existed (who knows if we'll be saying that about Bionicle years from now)... but I'm interested in marketing, so humor me if you wish. We know that the LEGO company's first (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.slizer, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Here's how to avoid "freezes" in Mata Nui game
|
|
Recent postings on the Bionicle zone suggest that you can get out of the many "freeze" bugs in the on-line game like this: "Click on your flute, then exit out of the flute!" Apparantly, its been tested by others and found to work every time. - (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: I AM SO POed!!!...!!!
|
|
(...) The Gameboy Advance Game is already out:), I've played it, it's fun :) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: I AM SO POed!!!...!!!
|
|
This is unfortunate, but there is really nothing you can do about it. Obviously, there might have been other reasons why the game was cancelled, programming might have been one of them. But ranting and raving on the Internet isn't going to solve (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: I AM SO POed!!!...!!!
|
|
I saw a very detailed notice on Kanohi-Power about this sad news. (URL) really awful news, that the game is not going to be produced at all. It's much harder to develop a game that works on all PCs, and easier to do the Gameboy product -- so at (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: I AM SO POed!!!...!!!
|
|
In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Ben Wu writes: There are also numerous rumors flying around that say that the game also had an INSANE level of glitches (which I don't believe) Well, if the online game's quantity of bugs is any indicator, it's not too (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: I AM SO POed!!!...!!!
|
|
(...) Without being able to contribute to Lego's software development efforts, you can choose from these: 1. Play with more Lego 2. Play other video games I'm sorry your long awaited game was cancelled, I know what it's like. How about: 3. Write (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: I AM SO POed!!!...!!!
|
|
(...) I agree. This stinks. They're SAYING that the game did not meet Lego standards, which, in my opinion, is a STUPID reason. There are also numerous rumors flying around that say that the game also had an INSANE level of glitches (which I don't (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
| |
| | Re: Postman Pat, then what?
|
|
(...) Um, no, you can go back to Po-Koro and discover the plague is back, you can't get the Koli ball to give it to Onewa, and so you can't help Pohatu kick rocks at the Nui-Jaga... If you can get onto the site, that is... Right now, all I get is (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
|
