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Re: US Mania Mag w/ Bionicle Comic and Contest Brochure
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lugnet.technic.bionicle
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Wed, 16 May 2001 07:09:39 GMT
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Gee, I hope I got the Lego Club form sent in soon enough to get this issue of
Mania. The Manas, by the way, are the remote control crab-ish things.
Bionicle.com doesn't have them but pictures have been floating around the net
for months.
In lugnet.technic.bionicle, David Wertz writes:
> I haven't been able to check this site for about 10 days, and was suprised
> today to see how much has happened. I got my Mania Mag in the mail later
> today, and with it came the first Bionicle DC Comic, and a brochure
> advertising the "Build Your Own BIONICLE Website Contest" and the "Search
> for the Gold Mask Sweepstakes." I haven't seen this stuff mentioned in the
> US on this site. Did anyone else get the Bionicle stuff with their Mania?
> Here is the stuff that I think is worth noting or hasn't been noted before
> to my knowledge:
>
> In the BIONICLE Power Prize Package Grand Prize, on of the prizes is a
> "BIONICLE Handheld Game." I wonder if this is referring to Gameboy game or
> a possible seperate self-contained handheld game.
>
> There is a alphabet translation on both the brochure and in the comic book.
>
> The price on the front is $2.25, so that suggests to me that it is probably
> different than the UK version that has already been mentioned, which I
> assume has a price in pounds.
>
> In the comic, there is a caption saying, "Learn how Pohatu, the Toa of
> Stone, found his first Kanohi Mask...at: www.bionicle.com/pohatu." I don't
> see anything though.
>
> There is mention of the Manas, "fierce predators with power that no single
> Toa can withstand...," which I don't think have been directly mention on
> bionicle.com yet.
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> There is a page dedicated to Andy Macdonald, featuring a small Lego mural of
> him riding.
>
> In a full page spread about bionicle.com, there is a section titled
> "Bionicle Beta Test" stating, "The Toa need your help to succeed. Come to
> our website to see if you qualify for the Beta Test,
> www.bionicle.com/betatest/." This link doesn't seem to be working yet.
>
> The back cover of the comic is an ad for the Upper Deck trading card game.
> There will be 3 Toa Theme Decks: 1 - Gali and Pohatu; 2 - Tahu and Kopaka;
> 3 - Onua and Lewa.
> Contents: 40 Tohunga Cards, 14 Mission Cards, 12 Great Mask Cards, 6 Turaga
> Cards, 6 Challenge Cards, 2 Toa Cards, 1 Rule Booklet, 1 Legend of Mata Nui
> Booklet, 1 Ancient Map of Mata Nui, 2 Toa Mask Markers. June 2001.
>
> There is a nice Bionicle center spread in Mania Mag with one of the gold
> mask clues on it.
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