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| (...) I'm not sure I ever saw that before. The invisible water idea works pretty well in his pool, because it's obviously a swimming pool w/ diving board, but mine would have just looked like a sloped sand-dune without water and someone flying the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| (...) Oh? In a general sense, or did someone actually do that to you? (...) Absolutely! Notice that even bully-droids and tyrant-wizards wear speedos in space. Black and red, of course, because dressing in those colors makes you look extra sinister. (22 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Neptune's Moon Lagoon
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| (...) Certainly is a fun moc! Reminds me of Adrian's pool on his Rigel 7 moonbase. I gotta love that pool! definately need to something like that in a moc of mine! Would love to see this in a moonbase layout - is very nice! -Lenny (22 years ago, 21-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Neptune's Moon Lagoon
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| (...) I totally got a kick out of this. Well done. I identify with the kid who got his sand-castle kicked over :( And to those who say you can't have a pool in space (Manfred) or that you can't wear a speedo in space, I say HOGWASH! The advances in (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Neptune's Moon Lagoon
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| (...) I built it more as absurdist comedic piece, since there are clearly more things wrong about it than there are right. Cartoon physics applies, so the water doesn't boil away, exposed skin isn't desicated (though I did originally plan to have (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Neptune's Moon Lagoon
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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