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http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/09/06/jackie-chan-master-lego-ninjago-sneak-peek-exclusive/89817888/ I'm looking forward to this movie, seems like a fresh enjoyable take on Ninjago so far.

The skeleton villains in Bionicle 2015 brought with them a cool new collectible: golden masks that were partially transparent. I really liked this, but only four were made. Tahu and Gali got left out. Nevertheless, I was dying to know how these masks were used in the fiction. As it turned out, these masks represent the golden masks after having power drained by the skeleton enemies. A cool idea, but one that didn't really get used much. One episode of the web animations was dedicated to Lewa losing his mask and the others getting it back, though oddly it turned BLUE when drained of power rather than the correct green. Pohatu and Onua both lost their masks and immediately got them back, so losing them had no impact, and Pohatu didn't even have his drained. Kopaka didn't lose his mask at all, despite hashing a drained version in the skull warrior set. I don't really know what point I'm making, I just find it odd. They make new dual-color masks. Only four of the toa get them, and only two show up in fiction, only one having any impact the plot. And then they color it wrong. It's just odd.

MUKAU

I opened the text box to write a reply but apparently I had already started to write one last night and it had saved it but all it contained was this image: I guess that sums up my feelings pretty well.

Scale? Where we're going, we don't need scale!

There's been a lot of content in the last hour, but I'll sum it up with this... [9/7/16, 3:41:44 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: THIS IS THE NEO STREAM [9/7/16, 3:41:45 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: GIVE ME [9/7/16, 3:41:46 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Wait [9/7/16, 3:41:48 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: PS4 Pro? [9/7/16, 3:41:50 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: wtf

BROWN

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It's over 1000 posts because its actually one of the better games around here. If you have the time you should give it a shot and see for yourself. Alright, doing a sign-up purge. I'm keeping you and I on Fush, and am removing chromecrusher @aidenpons & @Yajmo unless I hear back from them.

I guess it was just a time thing. It would've been super repetitive/predictable if all six Toa lost their masks to one of the villains, especially since they only had ~11 minutes to work with for the story. This year, the bonus masks included in the summer wave sets have 0 storyline purpose at all. They're supposed to be corrupted versions of the Toas' masks, but even when Tahu loses his to one of the beasts in Journey to One, they never do anything with it. It might have to do with the rewrites in order to have the story wrap up.

Nothing big today, just officially announcing that I'm on Twitter, as well as the fact that SoundCloud is done. I might consider increasing my upload time someday... What makes this video really worth it (as basically I've told you all that's in this video) is the extremely cool, 40 seconds long ambience track in the background. You don't hear this kind of music every day. Completely free of charge*, made exclusively for you. *Terms and conditions may apply.

http://brickset.com/article/23415/lego-posts-mixed-financial-results They're up 11% from this time last year. Not as big as the ~20% increase 2015 saw coming from 2014, but still pretty big. Here's the twist, though: sales have fallen in America. Only by a mere 2%, but I do think we've finally reached the point of oversaturation here in the US. And we've got two feature films coming next year! Gonna be interesting to see where the next few years take us.

Here's a clip from said Ninjago short! Lookin' pretty nice too. note: it's an actual chicken

See, this is one of the things that bothered me the most about the concept. I've seen the game being praised as a story game, a game that gives a unique, quintessentially LEGO story and game where there was none before. But it's exactly like every other LEGO game, it just has several licenses at once instead of one. And I get to the Simpsons level and it's not like, "okay, here are the Simpsons and here's there contribution to the story" its "hey guys you like the simpsons right remember the simpsons? lol those wacky simpsons" in the background as you replay the lego movie videogame and lego batman 3. (didn't buy the game, just watching a walkthrough, but it works out to be about the same I think)