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We got leaked images of the set yesterday, but now it's been officially revealed! TLG also uploaded this neat little animation for the reveal and I love it to bits: <3

Today has been a bizarre reminder that, yes, Bionicle was a cultural phenomenon for a few brief months and wasn't always the nichest of niche things that it is now.

so Bonkles is now trending on Know Your Meme amazing

Kinda sad they had the idea to include the Nowhere man but not Fred here; Still, the set looks pretty awesome.

http://www.lego.com/en-us/life/ I was flipping through the latest Club magazine online and it had an ad pointing me to... this. Don't let the video fool you, it's still being developed, so it looks like you can only try it out if you are in the UK at the moment. But just what is it? The video's maddening insistence on just using the word "stuff" wasn't helpful, but from what I gather from the actual site, it seems like Lego is trying to set up its own social network that focuses on building contests. Building contests for kids aren't very interesting for us mature, adult, LEGO™ Connoisseurs, but what may be interesting to us is the other stuff - a minifig avatar customizer for your profile, accounts 'belonging to' minifig characters (getting into MLN territory here), and "easy access to all the latest LEGO® news." There's also this, from the FAQ: ...which seems to imply game-like elements are part of the deal. So maybe this is quite literally going to be MLN 2.0. Something to keep an eye on, I think!

Recently I noticed that Toa Mata kanohi are held on using a system stud. Today I was trying out ideas for integrating them into regular system builds using this. I ended up making this little guy out of a Pakari. Here's the internal structure: I'm quite proud of it.

ok nevermind it turns out you have to use the dynamite you get blow up the dam first and get the ore in there, instead of breaking the walls to the red crystals near the base. so basically know ahead of time what order you need to do stuff in or this game will screw you out of gold rank lmao. edit: Terror

[12:07 AM] Bug Catcher: Today I was able to download the HP + adventure time content for dimensions [12:07 AM] Bug Catcher: Exploring the HP world [12:07 AM] Bug Catcher: It's nice [12:07 AM] mumboking: [12:07 AM] mumboking: Explore the HP world! [12:08 AM] mumboking: It's saucy.

But are the pictures going to be scanned by software so no inappropriate images get through and the comments restricted to a white list of allowed words? "Trade Too-tree-our axe!"

I find it incredibly amusing that perhaps the final piece of Bionicle media ever not only blatantly rejects the established tone and world, but also apathetically introduces the use of the term "matoran" into G2 after two years of fighting against doing just that. also it says "for the full story go to bionicle.com," which is good because the story relevant to what it is showing is not on bionicle.com and it never will be

four and a half years... that's gotta be some kind of record around here