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| Well, since the pool works in a vacuum, the water must be contantly boiling out into space, and with an astonishingly fast rate too. You've modelled this effect nicly with the studs on the trans dark blue plates :-) With friendly greetings, M. (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
| | |  | | Neptune's Moon Lagoon
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| This is my first Moonbase module. It's also my biggest MOC since...well, probably ever (I had a reasonably large collection as a child, but most of it was bright colors that didn't fit with Space or Castle very well). I detailed most of the gags in (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.fun, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
| | |  | | Re: Bulk Bionicle tubs at TRU
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| (...) [LEGOSet 8585] (...) I doubt we'll ever see that happen outside of the BIONICLE line. Pretty much everything else is generic enough that it sees fairly wide use as it is. A lot of the BIONICLE parts have never been used outside of their (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
| | |  | | Re: Bulk Bionicle tubs at TRU
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| (...) snip (...) Thanks for pointing that out, you're right - I'd forgotten they used the same color masks for the "studly" Matoran as they did the McD's Tohunga. Back to Alfred's point, there are a couple of black Ruru that were Euro misprints and (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
| | |  | | Re: Bulk Bionicle tubs at TRU
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| (...) You mean the sand-blue Akaku and dark-orange Kakama from these sets? [LEGOSet 8582] [LEGOSet 8584] Neither were tremendously common at TRU stores, but they did show up sporadically. (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
| | |  | | Re: Bulk Bionicle tubs at TRU
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| (...) Mm, could be... but on looking at the types of parts included, several are from sets introduced just last December, and some of the masks were never included in sets outside of promotions with McDonald's (sand Akaku and light brown Kakama (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
| | |  | | Re: Bulk Bionicle tubs at TRU
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| (...) My theory is this. TRU maybe had a lot of overstock of older Bionicle sets. I bet they called Lego and said they didn't want to buy more if they had all this overstock. So they probably worked out a way to repackage the sets into this huge (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
| | |  | | Bulk Bionicle tubs at TRU
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| A couple of days ago, a (URL) BZPower> reporter (Michael) ran across a very interesting new product at Toys R Us in Virginia. The large tub of assorted Bionicle pieces in many colors contained 702 pieces, and we're not talking about little 2x rod (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
| | |  | | Re: Dark green in 8611
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| (...) No, this is clearly a different green. Think "forest green". It's a color that I know Jason Spears has expressed a desire for (and probably a lot of other Castle builders, and I'd bet it'd be popular with Town/Train and Military builders as (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.general)
| | |  | | Re: Dark green in 8611
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| (...) I believe the first appearance of dark green was in the torsos of the NBA figure sets. It has now been spotted also in the new (yet to be released) Harry Potter sets. Jeramy (22 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.general)
| | |  | | Re: Dark green in 8611
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| (...) There were dark green band links in the "Team Spirit" LEGO watch a couple of years ago, and one of the basketball players has a dark green jersey. I think those were the only dark green up to now. I hope we see more dark green bricks - I've (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.general)
| | |  | | Re: Dark green in 8611
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| (...) I wouldn't really be surprized if this is a new, more vivid green that was approved by unnamed Lego test groups, and will immediately replace the old green. In a few weeks, customer support may know... Yours, Christian (22 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.general)
| | |  | | Dark green in 8611
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| Hi all, I've just aquired the new Bionicle 8611, and was surprised to find dark green elements inside. Does anybody know, if this is the first appearance of dark green Lego?? Arne, Copenhagen (22 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.general)
| | |  | | Re: Bionicle online comics bye-bye?
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| (...) Yeah, all of the old Mata Nui content (including the two MNOLGs, the second of which I never had a chance to finish), have been pulled so the website can concentrate solely on the new Metru Nui storyline. The last three years of storyline have (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
| | |  | | Bionicle online comics bye-bye?
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| Just when I thought I can always go back and read them at my leisure, they seem to have gone away from the official site. Arrr...rrrgh! (22 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
| | |  | | Re: Kiki, the ferret
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| (...) Hey, awesome! I really enjoyed seeing this on yesterday's comic: (URL) That's a real nice piece of work, David. It's fun to see cooperation between lego fans and sluggites (this is definitely not the first time it's happened). -Shiri (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
| | |  | | Kiki, the ferret
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| (URL) Those of you who are familiar with Sluggy Freelance should recognize this character immediately. Those of you who aren't...well, Kiki is a hyperactive ferret (moreso than normal) that just begged to be immortalized in plastic. Seriously, she's (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
| | |  | | Autist and a Writer - BIONICLE means everything to 11 year old Jesper
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| I found this inspirational article some time ago, and am reprinting it here with permission. Enjoy. -Tim Autist and a writer BIONICLE means everything to 11 year old Jesper Jesper Lau Thomsen, a Danish 11 year old boy, is crazy about BIONICLE. He (...) (22 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.people, lugnet.technic.bionicle, FTX) !
| | |  | | Nuva Knees
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| After getting some Toa Metru via S@H, my favorite Toa got jealous of the Metru bendy knees. I broke out the dremel and gave Toa surgery my best shot. Closeup of knee: (URL) whole Toa: (URL) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
| | |  | | MOC Cards
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| Hey everyone! If you're bringing a MOC or two to BrickFest PDX ... (and you should be!) PLEASE take the time to fill out a MOC card (URL) here> for each MOC you're bringing. In addition to being really spiffy to look at, and print out, these cards (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic.bionicle, FTX) !!
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