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https://www.facebook.com/LEGOBionicle BIONICLE 2015 CONFIRMED PROPERLY OHMYGOD I'M SO EXCITED. (Even if we've known about this for months now)

These are definitely much better than last time! Alright, time to make the list of shame. For those who have not completed their parts yet and are way overdue. JimbobJeffers - You sent me samples quite a while back ago, but these were not the final. McJobless - You never sent me anything aside from unscripted samples. - I know you are working on it, but you are still not completed Ayliffe - You said you were going to try out for Jay. You never did. McStudz - You were going to try out for Rocket Racer and Male Player. I never received anything. Xiron - Not keeping up to speed with scripts modifying although having plenty of time to do so. I added this list to the OP to bring even more public shame. If I was suppose to send feedback on anyone's voices that I forgot about, please do remind me. I'd also at this time like to point out that Warrior is still unclaimed. Anyone up for voicing him?

The fact that North Korea expressed their support for Scottish Independence, for one, very much scares me. Scotland, I'm English and I love you, but for crying out loud you are being absolute idiots right now. Ever heard of 'divide and conquer'? No, you can't make it alone. We need to stick together, especially in today's tense world. Now pull up your kilts and knock some sense into yourselves. Oh, and nice comic Ayliffe.

The key difference, for me, is that Greg wasn't on the story team in 2001/2002. He was given the job to write the comic at the last minute in 2001 when he showed up whoever it was they had writing it originally, and his role grew from there. I try not to put my dislike of anything about BIONICLE post-2003 on Greg, because I realize that he was only a part of it. Even if he wasn't there, I wouldn't be super happy with the direction and aesthetic BIONICLE assumed over time. I guess what I was trying to express in my last post was that I was glad it looked as if Greg wouldn't be writing any of the final story material. His writing style is definitely not to my tastes, for one reason or another, so for me it is encouraging to see that it would appear new people will be in charge of the books/comics/show/whatever media the theme will be conveyed in. That's just a subjective thing, though, I know lots of people will be sad to see Greg's role reduced. As for your second question, I'm just not personally engaged by the type of story that BIONICLE eventually became. It was a little too serious and intense and sci-fi for me. I prefered the freer, less defined, flowery style that was present at first. Again, that's just me, really.

The Scottish referendum: an event so crucial that no-one in the UK was allowed to talk about anything else at all for about two weeks. No, seriously. :P

Fair enough. It's just that I hate to see Greg used as a whipping-boy for the Bionicle franchise, though I don't think that's what you were doing. You know whom I would really like to see brought on board Bionicle's writing team? Robert Shearman. He's renowned both for his prose and his drama, so he could write both books and TV stories (I assume we will be getting these, given that Ninjago and Chima have shows.) His ability to mix levity (such as the Tohunga/Matoran and their lives and antics) with mystery and darker material (such as Makuta and his infections) under the surface might just, I think, be perfect for the nature of the Mata Nui years, which the new Bionicle seems to be emulating. And he'd bring some truly world-class writing to the franchise. His Doctor Who audio drama The Chimes of Midnight, makes a good case for this, I'd say.

The Hype train has achieved liftoff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXgFu3RpYk

Well that was unexpected. Nice! That is exactly much what the list of shame does though... it lists who hasn't submitted their lines. Anything not listed has been taken care of already. Anything listed as free is in the OP (hint: there is none, no one gave anything up) Any file sharing site. FileDropper doesn't require registration, so you can use that.

Another quick update today as I've made a bit more progress on the B-25 so here's what's been done. The main thing I've been focusing on over the past few days is the tail section which as you can see is starting to look a bit more like the real thing. I still have a way to go yet but I've finally got the control surfaces on the tail working well so the only control surface left to get working is the ailerons which I can only to do once I've actually made the wings. Something I forgot to put in the last update was that I had actually built the propellers. They are a similar design to the propeller on my Spitfire but smaller as this model is in a smaller scale. Finally as usual a shot of the overall model.

*pokes head in* You guys do realise that if you host a mafia game on a lego site it's supposed to be called "Deconstructors", right? *pokes head out*

That is... quite interesting to say the least!

I love those videos, I remember getting the dvd just to watch them all. Though the strings one used to creep me out. It'd be really interesting to see it LEGO form.

Xiron had an avatar that blinked, people got annoyed at it for some reason, one thing led to another and now Scotland is voting on whether or not to be an independent country.

Go home, Ben. You're drunk. But to be honest, I have... no idea what to think of this story.

Well that's all of the votes, 3 votes me and 2 votes Boba. I'm out! *jumps off of side of ship*

I like my rendition of a bear better.