>>556 I was reading wikipedia and the company ceased to exist in 1993. I feel so old now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tente_(toy)

>>556 Oooh that's awesome, i think that picture made me cum just a little. Just a little bit of Woody posting once again >Hello, im calling to inquire about this "escort" service i just found online…

>>558 Why all your Woody pictures are nice and cute and mines are always lewd and fucked up? It makes me feel a little bad about myself.

>>559 I just spent a lot of time scrolling down on google images when i searched for "revoltech woody". But not all of my pictures are nice… Killer Woody: One more victim to my list.. Victim Woody: Hehehe, this a prank….right? Woody in the background: Im not even mad, this is my fetish!

>>556 >>557 I used to spend much of the time from 2005 to 2010ish surfing eBay for collectibles, and I think there was a listing for a rare prototype sketch from their space theme listed more than once but it was too expensive. LEGO's monopoly on building blocks is as tight as ever, but I always thought the clone brands were pretty interesting. I wonder what a construction maestro who grew up with Mega Bloks would be like. I think all children deserve construction toys, and it's kind of cool if it came from your own country instead of say China. The few LEGO sets I saw at a large bookstore in a third-world country I visited were marked up 300-400% in USD!

>>561 >LEGO's monopoly on building blocks is as tight as ever, but I always thought the clone brands were pretty interesting. I wonder what a construction maestro who grew up with Mega Bloks would be like. I think all children deserve construction toys, and it's kind of cool if it came from your own country instead of say China. Construction toys, best toys. >The few LEGO sets I saw at a large bookstore in a third-world country I visited were marked up 300-400% in USD! Yeah, if they are considered expensive in the first world, here in the third world its even worse. I had two really small sets and that was it. Since i stopped playing with them, i gave them to some poor children from the favela when my family moved homes about two years ago, along with all my other toys. I don't have any regrets, it was only a few pieces so i was unable to build anything interesting anyway. >>562 Its perfect, mate. Since we're talking about LEGO, check THIS out. If i had this many bricks, i would have kept them all, but i think i only had 20 or 30, not even 50.

>>561 It was a cheaper brand but doing certain certain things was easier with TENTE, particularly all related with ships and military vehicles. I must have played it in late 80's or first 90's but I still remember the texture of the pieces like it was yesterday.

>>564 That's one awesome little truck and trailer, the tank is great too. Have a Metal Gear model picture in return.

>>565 MGR is one of the classier mecha concepts floating around. I can't be the only one who felt the subdued techno-thriller aesthetic of METAL GEAR was what made it so glorious?

>>561 >>563 >>564 Damn, you guys really triggered my autism. When I was a kid back in the 90s my Mom used to bring me some LEGO stuff each time she came back from weeklong business trips and also as birthday presents. However, neither she nor my Dad seemed to understand the concept or aesthetic value of sets or themed collections, so each time it was a little piece of a different theme - once a bulldozer from construction works set, another time a motorboat from a harbour set, next a pirate landing party, a spacepod, a medieval carriage, a techno car, etc., the main reasoning being "But you already have X! Why do you need something practically the same? Here, take something different." Still I was happy with what I could get, since my parents were far from being richfags, and my autism was only budding at that age. So instead of feeling depressed about never being able to complete a theme, I just spent hours browsing through though printed LEGO catalog brochures, imagining that I had full sets, not just a piece of each. Sorry for this rant, guys. It's just that I mostly left "material" kind of hobbies like this (collecting stuff, etc.) behind a long time ago - now all my obsessions are purely digital/informational, so it was a kind of a "blast from the past" for me, triggered some memories and feels connected with them, mostly fuzzy ones. Also made me wonder whether I'd still be collecting LEGO (or similar) stuff and sperging out over it if I could afford it now (meaning, if I weren't a lazy poorfag hikkiNEET). Maybe. Maybe.

>>567 try making lego blindfolded. It's absolutely the greatest experience you'll have for a very long time

>>567 You were lucky. When I was a kid I only had some playmobil. Nothing new, all old stuff from a store my parents worked in. Someday they bought me some pirate, brand new with all the accesories, and it was amazing. Seeing things like the pirate ship in TV was just fuel for my imagination, it seemed impossible that such a thing could exist just for kids to have fun with. I thought those things were made only for the richest kids of all.

>>566 Yeah man, the MGs are the things that make the story's blend of fiction and reality feel so surreal. >>567 Those wizard figures look great, wish i had one. >>569 Playmobil is pretty good too. > thought those things were made only for the richest kids of all. Not only do i know that feel but i also still feel it, just on a larger scale. Here's another Saint Seiya diorama set in the Poseidon arc, just beautiful.

This thread is making me need some income, preferably soon. Why people who earn money always spend it in some stupid shit when they could be having this great treasures? I mean, why do you want clothes or a car when you can have your own Cirno?

>>571 She's so beautiful, i want to squeeze these rosy cheeks! > I mean, why do you want clothes or a car when you can have your own Cirno? >A car As someone whose family never owned a vehicle other than a bicycle, having a car would be nice, they are not useless or frivolous at all, a better example would be those new smartphones that come out every year but are barely different from the previous model. Anyway, its been a while since the last Woody post so…

>>572 I should have said "new car", of course it can be a necessary thing to have, I hate driving though. I just feel bad about how normals spend their money. They can have jobs and earn tons of money and they spend it in the most stupid shit, like overpriced alcohol.

This place is getting really slow lately. Are you all alive and well?

>>574 Jesus Christ man, the board slows down just a little after a period of high activity and people already start complaining…

>>574 I'm dead and not well at all.

>>575 I'm sorry.

>>576 Are you some kind of undead?

Bumping with another beautiful Saint Seiya diorama, this one is nearly perfect.

I feel unmotivated to keep posting here since it seems I could never afford this beauties. But I guess I will have to embrace the pain until the end. This is my favourite maid Sakuya.

>>580 She's perfect. Take a look at this Vash, it looks like a drawn image or 3D model but nope, its a figure.

>>581 Looks great. I have this one, cheaper but with some nice details. It's amazing I haven't lost any piece or broken anything in all this years.

>>582 Love the detail on the base, the little casings on the ground, pretty good. Have a Raiden in return.

>>583 I like guns.

>>584 MP5SD is a fucking ugly gun. Still, the fact that when combined with subsonic rounds, the cycling of the bolt is probably louder than the shot itself is really neat.

And that's all that was saved - the final post was made on 02/21/17. If you guys are able to, I'd really recommend downloading this >>8 as it's where I got this thread from. Browsing magicchan once again is very nostalgic.

>>586 You did a great work, thank you very much. I was the anon that couldn't shut up about dolls for a second. I wonder if the other anons that posted in the thread are still here. I hope you're all okay.

>>587 No problem, and you have good taste - I'd love to be able to afford one. If you want any other threads re-uploaded I can do that too.

>>590 If you feel like reuploading something else, please do it. I don't remember that well what threads we had in old magicchan but anything you feel it should be here will be appreciated.

>>593 I'll keep looking for threads to post but I won't get them up right away because I don't have much time to sit down and reupload them. Also while some threads are great (i.e. most of /sad/) it would clog this place up as we're only one board.

Rember the dolls.

>>650 If only I didn't remember the cost of these things every time I see one. Really cute but they'll set you back a lot.

>>667 They are expensive but it could be worse, there's a second market and if you pick the body and head separately you can get something good for 300$ or less, I think. And if it's still too much you can always get an azone for 100$ or less (pic related). If you compare it with the cost of most PVC figurines isn't that bad. Sadly things have gotten really expensive, even figma are getting prohibitive.

>>668 Yeah companies in general seem to be raising prices while keeping the quality of the product the same if not worse. Figmas are a good example of this, like you said.

Bionicle anon, how do you feel about the Bionicle ideas set being rejected? I think in many ways its for the best, as if it was produced Lego would use it as an excuse to finally 'rid' themselves of it. I get the feeling Lego has become more hostile to Bionicle over time, especially with the half-assed CCBS nonsense.

>>741 I don't remember posting about it, so it's interesting to see that someone besides me was keeping track of it unless I did post about it and just forgot. I didn't really expect it to go through no matter what success it had, but I think that it's good that it got the attention it did. I think that at the end of the day you're probably right, and that had it been approved Lego would just leave Bionicle with that set. It would have been a nice sendoff, but it wouldn't have been what Bionicle deserves. It's easy to say that it obviously wasn't going to be approved in retrospect, but I'm still mad at myself for having any hope that it would work and that the greedy faggots that run Lego would do something worthwhile for once. I guess all I can say is that it's an insult, Lego Ideas has its focus to the retarded manchildren that buy legos as "collectors items". Nothing that doesn't have a huge name behind it gets a chance on Lego Ideas, besides a fucking typewriter, which is the only one out of the three approved sets that I'm not insulted by its existence. Seriously, who wants a fucking Seinfeld Lego set? Is there really a market for Home Alone Lego? Neither of these fanbases are the type that would cross over with Lego fans. What a fucking joke. They're choosing shit based on what will look good to the assholes in retail stores. If a manager of a Target or whatever picks up a set with "Bionicle" on the box, he'll go "Isn't that the thing that didn't sell back in 2016?" but if he sees something with "Seinfeld" on the box his retarded blobby brain will get tickled with a little dopamine rush of recognition, and he'll spend the rest of the day ending every sentence with "not that there's anything wrong with that" and other obnoxious bits. Bionicle doesn't deserve this sort of cold shoulder that Lego gives it, but the fans absolutely do. They're the autistic faggots that made sure that Bionicle died with g2. No one bought the fucking sets, even though despite being ccbs they were the best ccbs sets that Lego has put out, and they probably won't do any more ccbs or any sort of constraction ever again. No wonder no greedy businessman is going to do anything with Bionicle, they might lose 1% of the profits focusing on that instead of their much more lucrative "Ninja pirates in space" line, or "Drill monster-fighters from mars" or any of their retarded licensed sets. Anything safer than Bionicle. Bionicle takes effort, it takes 3d designers, writers, and concept artists. All the other shit just takes one bored guy willing to recreate a scene from Avengers that no one remembers and a few recolors, at the most they need someone to design a new hair piece for whatever shitty tv show trash they pick up. A solid 99% of Lego sets, especially these days, only are worth anything for the pieces. When they're so set for cash why would they ever take a risk on the autists that spend all their time arguing about what pieces a moc should use, or about how much they love or hate the TTV autists. What a fucking shitshow on both ends. Feels like I'm the only one with a fucking brain in his skull sometimes, and here I am rambling about something I never really expected to perform well anyways so maybe I'm just as retarded. It was cucked at the finish line for no reason, except for all the reasons that everyone knew would cuck it but ignored. It was cucked by Home Alone no less, and fucking Seinfeld. And no one should be surprised, everyone knows their part in why Bionicle died and why it's probably never coming back beyond some fan projects that the scummy degenerate genderbending egotistical high horse fucks running TTV give their blessing to. What a bunch of spiteful no good faggots. If there's any downside to the fact that canonization contests are back, it's that those idiots are running the show. At least that can't change the quality of what gets submitted. Fuck me why do I expect anything more from anyone. At least the fan games are good, there's hopefully no way that those can get fucked up. Those are the one thing that give me hope. Both Quest for Mata-Nui and Masks of Power look amazing. Sorry for sperging out so hard, my autism flared up here. I'll post a few pictures of what I'm currently working on to make up for it. The silver/gray one is the only one that I'd consider finished, I still plan on improving the arms and legs of the other ones since they're skinny and basic right now. Been trying to focus on poseability and stability, I noticed that a lot of my stuff puts a lot of weight on a few pieces, making them bend or break.

>>742 Don't apologize for that, anon, autism is the whole reason for this place.

>>742 >I guess all I can say is that it's an insult, Lego Ideas has its focus to the retarded manchildren that buy legos as "collectors items". Nothing that doesn't have a huge name behind it gets a chance on Lego Ideas, besides a fucking typewriter, which is the only one out of the three approved sets that I'm not insulted by its existence. Seriously, who wants a fucking Seinfeld Lego set? Is there really a market for Home Alone Lego? Neither of these fanbases are the type that would cross over with Lego fans. What a fucking joke. Ideas is all kinds of broken. The biggest problem with it is that the majority of people use it like Flickr, Brickshelf, or MOCpages in that they use the support button as a like button and don't buy these sets when they hit stores. Then you have the stupid 10% cut of the sales or whatever it is, so all projects on Ideas are massively bloated so the greedy bastard behind it can scrounge as much as possible. And yeah, the crowd that want x or y licensed Lego set seem to be either fans of the property first and therefore don't care about how the license affects Lego, or they're the type of person who only buys the sets to display. >Bionicle doesn't deserve this sort of cold shoulder that Lego gives it, but the fans absolutely do I'm not that aware of the Bionicle fanbase, but what I have seen they're very closed and clique-y. There's a group that act like they are the leaders of the entire Bionicle community in general and the community is there to stroke their ego. You kind of get this with Lego communities, but for some reason it's really rampant in the Bionicle fanbase. Personally when fan communities are like that I just avoid them altogether so I can still enjoy it without faggots like that ruining it for me. Some sweet builds by the way, I'm really digging the one on the left. Do you plan to draw these?

I wanted to do a Navy Seal diver-looking guy for a while (and I recently realized I don't have any blue mocs), figured I should make it a female to be in keeping with the normal Bionicle genders even though I picture these military guys as being more mechanical/computerlike like a Vahki rather than biomechanical living things like a Toa or something so I guess they wouldn't have gender, but who cares. Unfortunately because of the way her upper body is constructed she doesn't have as much head articulation as the other ones but I think it's a decent compromise since it means that her shoulders are slightly slimmer and her chest isn't the same piece (the piece I typically use I don't think comes in a solid blue, and the end product looks a bit sleeker). I thought it'd be cool to make a flight stand from technic pieces for her so she could look like she's swimming. It's pretty hard to get it to be able to hold all of the weight but I think I did well, it can go in pretty much any angle and hold pretty solid. I wish it could have been a little less distracting but there's not much I could do about that. As a side note since I brought up the gender shit, is it weird to anyone that only water and lightning and psionics and sometimes light and shadow was female? I know I've seen loads of people online talk about how they didn't like that aspect, but I always thought it was fine and maybe even better than if there were females in every element. I feel like it made the water element more interesting and made the interaction between the other elements and water more interesting (water being naturally gentle, meaning it suits the ideal female). Sort of like how the earth element was associated with wisdom and knowledge or fire with valor. Pretty much the only element with feminine traits was water so it made sense for it to be the female one. That sort of worlbuilding wasn't in G2 and I always found it strange that people seemed to like it that way, even among the Bionicle fanbase which despite being retarded normally prefers G1 in every other aspect. I read through old forum posts just to try and figure out the general consensus and I can't tell if the desire to have gender not correspond to elements is something legitimate fans would want so they can feel like their nuvaboob female mocs are "more legitimate" or if it's just a vocal minority of massive fags.

>>876 Very nice MOC; I especially like the head and tubing. >As a side note since I brought up the gender shit, is it weird to anyone that only water...was female? Speaking as someone who has only got into Bionicle in recent years, I'm not too bothered by it though I've always found females in Bionicle odd. It would work better if females were exclusive to one specific element or if they were less common than males because, as you say, it would add an interesting dynamic to the story and change how the other elements interact with them. The idea of having a 50:50 mix in each element is plain boring and doesn't affect the world in any meaningful way, though from what little I have seen of the Bionicle community there are a few vocal 'characters' that project their own opinions through fourms and the like onto Bionicle and expect other people to agree or follow suit. Kind of like the recent canonisation contest which was an absolute farce. The outcome was already decided by a group of cliquey, power-tripping fags .

>>937 >>937 >characters Eljay is a prime example of the worst aspects of the 'tism. I respect his knowledge of the lore but any sort of theme or message intended by the stories completely misses him, though that can probably be applied to all the TTV retards. Especially the fucking female Lewa shit from that shitty G3 project. Putting aside the fact that minifigures are completely inappropriate for capturing the look of Bionicle, and make the Toa look like normal guys, Lewa's character was meant to be a sort of trickster archetype. As far as I'm concerned that's an explicitly male role and changing that shit is incredibly gay. Even regardless of that it comes back to what I said earlier where if you change the way it is then gender becomes completely pointless and then they might as well be agender or something, which would be more interesting than their gender just being like normal people. I'm tired of people humanizing the Toa Mata especially, since they were meant to be tribal gods where the tohunga would make legends of them and treated them with extreme reverence. Though it's also entirely possible that Eljay just likes the idea of fucking Lewa and doesn't want to be called gay for it. >canonisation contest Honestly I'm just happy that the MOC they went with wasn't ten feet tall with a million misprints that the guy got after sucking off some Lego employee. Although maybe that would have been better than an emaciated Onua with no way to properly pose. I don't really care about the results themselves though, I mostly enjoy the MOCs that come out of it and the way that it encourages people to do their best, and seeing the different ways people interpret one character is fun. That's why I was excited for it anyways. I don't love TTV but I'd rather see the contest happen there than not at all, and since Farshtey can't go on BZP the next best thing is there. Pics related were my personal favorite entries. The result for the mask design/art contest was shit too, looks like a mechanical version of the Kanohi Rau. The artwork they went with does have a nice G1 comic look to it but it's not as polished as it should be. It looks like a knockoff Stuart Sayger piece. I remember there was one image in the style of MNOG that was pretty cool, I feel like that would have been good to use. There was better stuff but overall I'm not infuriated. I don't really worry myself with the gay details of the contest and TTV's clique faggotry, I just like looking at it from the sidelines and enjoying the MOCs that come out of it. Gay shit is to be expected from pretty much any forum. So long as the result isn't horrible I wouldn't complain about it. Picking out a bunch of "fraudulent accounts" by hand is incredibly retarded though, if they're going to mess with the results they could at least try to look less suspicious about it. I am a little disappointed that Hoseryx didn't win.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjTph0xBC1A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ431BwUpFc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoWwzbJrqgs Twenty year anniversary of Bionicle was today, I don't have any builds anywhere near finished to share and I'd rather not show off pictures of a bunch of random arms and guys with no legs, but i did want to make a post at least. Hopefully the games are good when they're done, Masks of Power Legacy was a bit empty feeling and the combat wasn't good but it was cool to just walk around Mata Nui and talk to Tohunga and stuff, even if it is an unfinished version of the game. The new trailer looks good so that's nice, although no gameplay was shown so hopefully it is at least better than the Legacy version when it's complete.

Oh man I remember this thread, I distinctively remember losing my sides at the Woody pictures. >>876 >>937 >is it weird to anyone that only water...was female? >(water being naturally gentle, meaning it suits the ideal female). Sort of like how the earth element was associated with wisdom and knowledge or fire with valor. Pretty much the only element with feminine traits was water so it made sense for it to be the female one. I don't know much about Bionicle other than once reading about how its inspired by Polynesian religion and folklore, but water has been considered a female element since ancient times, and in many esoteric traditions. Poseidon is the only male deity associated with water that I know of, and even that is not his sole association, he has other aspects to him.

>>1602 I can't believe it was only two years ago.

r/sexybionicles is good.

I've been messing around in Bricklink Studio a bit. I haven't used Lego Digital Designer in a long time, but I've found Studio to be much more intuitive to use, and the renders you can make with it are really nice.