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... until you extract the game data (Note: This video contains ~naughty things~, but it's all straight out of LR2. If you are averse to such naughtiness, I advise you burn your copy of the game... Or just not watch the video.)

nod is my hero

I'm appropriating this thread for REBEL NATURE, the new story from Christian Faber, because let's be honest there's not much bionicle stuff to talk about now anyway http://faberfiles.blogspot.com/search/label/Rebel Nature Rebel Nature is a story Faber has been posting about and developing on his blog since 2012. It looks like it's going to be a post-apocalyptic adventure about a girl and her robot with some heavy environmentalist overtones. There's an app on the way, and a movie was mentioned at one point. Nothing seemed to have come of that part - until today: All things considered the whole deal is shaping up to be a who's who of the team behind the Hero Factory Invasion from Below short and, earlier on, the Bionicle CGI web shorts - Faber at the helm, Ghost as the production company, Cryoshell for music, heck, even the underwater theme seems to be carrying over. Going further back, you can even find its roots in the Technic CD-roms of the 90s, products of Advance (with Faber) and SPU Darwin (which, after closing up shop, saw several of its members turn around and form Ghost). So I guess what I'm saying is that this has a lot of Technic DNA in it and that alone makes it interesting to me. Visually I know these guys can do some amazing things, but in my opinion they've yet to prove themselves when it comes to storytelling. I'm hoping that moving into a longer-form production like a film will shift them into gear towards really developing that ability.

Cool. Cool. Cool. Oh no.

Back in the old days of Adventurers, LEGO would always release a ton of building instructions for alternate models. In addition to those already provided in the set's enclosed instruction booklet, you would occasionally see more instructions released through LEGO Mania Magazine, including Mummy's Transport, Jungle Explorer, Adventurer HoverCraft, and HelioRaptor. There were even online instructions, such as Secret of the Jungle Shrine and Race to Burning Mountain... but unfortunately, due to the spotty nature of the Wayback Machine (particularly in LEGO.com's earlier days of insisting on cookie-accepting browsers with Flash player), a few of these online instructions have apparently been lost forever, such as Rudo's Creepy Crawler advertised in this LEGO Mania issue (I still wonder if LEGO has the files backed up somewhere). Still, an abundance of inspiration models without instructions would... well, inspire kids and challenge them to reverse-engineer these models without instructions. Flash-forward to 2011, and this practice is (in my opinion, very unfortunately) largely abandoned. Sure, you occasionally see instructions for some model in the LEGO Magazine or on the LEGO website, but they're nowhere near as abundant or frequent as they used to be, and are usually restricted only to the really popular stuff like Ninjago. The Pharaoh's Quest line sought to recapture the same magic as Adventurers and I'd argue that they succeeded in many regards, but there was a conspicuous lack of alternate models with instructions to complete the experience. Or was there? While I was browsing Brickshelf the other day, I noticed this LDraw screenshot in a folder of official combiner and alternate LEGO models. The filename indicates that it's an alternate model for 7326 Rise of the Sphinx. One Google search later... and the only thing I can find is this post by Christian Maglekær (the same guy who made the Brickshelf folder) saying that it "was featured in LEGO Club/Brickmaster magazine". I've never seen this model before. I just checked my collection of LEGO Magazines from 2011 and could not find any reference to a Pharaoh's Quest alternate model... however, I am missing the March/April issue and, for all I know, it could be in there. Does anyone else know about this? And if you have the instructions, could you please scan them and upload them to Brickshelf or something? Otherwise, I suppose I could create an account on that LDraw forum and try to contact Christian Maglekær himself via PM. But, it would seem silly to create an account on a forum I wouldn't visit just to ask one question to one guy. Especially if the answer to that question could be easily found by another forum of nutty LEGO maniacs such as ourselves. Also, while we're on the subject of Pharaoh's quest alternate models, the November/December 2011 issue's comic featured this Pharaoh's Quest mech, and I could've sworn that I remembered seeing instructions for it somewhere... but that doesn't seem to be the case, since I can't find any reference to instructions anywhere. Does anyone else remember anything about this?

Yes please. Yes. Please. Well, hopefully it won't be a problem on a PC. I can always put it on the SSD. And if it is truly TRULY a LI2 successor then we'll be able to completely negate the loading times by changing a value in the .exe so we should all be good, right?

[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.

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