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I found a way to prove I'm not crazy!

Here it is next to Gold and Pearl Gold

Green! It's green I tell you!

This isn't just me saying it! You can see what I mean now, right?

Apparently I managed to paint my Bomonga a shade of olive green that almost exclusively looks gold or yellow in photos.

I've had multiple "the dress" conversations regarding my figure in two unrelated friend groups. I was only able to slightly argue that the figure was green when I posted a picture with flash on

They still weren't fully convinced though

So I... I guess I circumvented the whole "gold or metallic green Bomonga" debate by, like... just doing both simultaneously somehow?

Huh

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Apparently I managed to paint my Bomonga a shade of olive green that almost exclusively looks gold or yellow in photos.

I've had multiple "the dress" conversations regarding my figure in two unrelated friend groups. I was only able to slightly argue that the figure was green when I posted a picture with flash on

They still weren't fully convinced though

So I... I guess I circumvented the whole "gold or metallic green Bomonga" debate by, like... just doing both simultaneously somehow?

Huh

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The Zyglak in bionicle are so funny because they like barely show up in the story in literally any capacity and every time they do it's for like a split second. And yet it's also emphasized that they are both a relatively large portion of the sentient population, with their own established culture and way of life, and also an absolutely massive threat and this ominous force of destruction and death. and it's like... all just... something happening. over there. this massive population of homicidal giant lizard pirates who hate everyone. just like this absolutely massive component of the entire universe of the franchise. a significant portion of all sentient life. and they just like... get mentioned five times. and show up three times. and they just sorta exist. somewhere else. like what on earth do you think they were thinking during... really any major event that happens to the great spirit robot. Apparently during the reformation of spherus magna, the Zyglak were still being isolationist and were not evacuated from the robot. so they just sorta lived in the wreckage until forced not to be. It's honestly kinda fascinating to imagine their perspective in all that. and like... what they were up to while alone in there...

but yeah like the degree to which they exist should make them like a massive part of the worldbuilding as a whole. but they just aren't. they're an anecdote in a story that they exist beside. I bet a lot of people might not even know they exist. there's probably a whole ass society just happening over there just entirely unmentioned.

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y'know something that's been increasingly bothering me about the warframe narrative? So... Drifter... ...is there more than one of them? All overt lore seems to frustratingly imply that no, there is not. But they never address that directly at any point so we don't know for sure. Like, this complication first became more relevant when Duviri came out, and it became unclear if the multiplayer was even canonical. But now we're at a point where an entire hub, tileset, syndicate, and narrative now has this problem attached to it. There can be no other tenno there if it's just our drifter who traveled there. but asking people to just not read into that and not worry about why other players are present is becoming... an increasingly big ask. The Operator may be treated as an individual main character, but the element of still being one of many is present. But they don't treat the drifter like something all Tenno have. The Drifter is treated frequently like an individual entity. avoiding the question of whether or not other Drifters can exist is making things just... so... so complicated. and like... if there are multiple drifters, then how could that be the case? where would they come from? when the entire origin story of the drifter, down to the setting it took place in, is dependent on them as an individual? The closest thing I've ever heard to an answer when speculating on this with people is a shrugging reply of "eternalism", but that doesn't really answer anything. I also think there may be a misunderstanding of what eternalism is when people use it to explain stuff like this, but that's a tangent for another time. but just... is this driving anyone else insane? we're getting to a point where the entire concept of multiplayer is being canonically called into question it feels like.

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Everyone is entitled to their opinion and that's valid, but I continue to be absolutely perplexed by the sheer hatred some people have for the canonized contest models and whatnot. How are there so many of them. why do they hate it so passionately. like... for context, my hyperfixation for this series didn't really become active until after they came and went. I wasn't there for any of that. And let me tell you, the amount of excitement that the existence of these designs brought me was insane. I adore them. I think at this point I have a hyperfixation with them specifically in addition to the series as a whole. They're a fun and in depth project to make, and they're honestly the pride and joy of my entire collection when they're done. it feels special just to see them in person to me. Seeing these designs get established in universe ignited an enthusiasm for the characters in themselves; just seeing the toa hagah together makes me love them infinitely more, they went from a fun footnote to something I intensely crave more story content for. they might be my favourite team at this point. I was sad to see that the contests had to end, just imagining the possibilities for the new things I could've collected and seen established properly in the universe gets me excited. and like don't get me wrong! I get that not everyone is going to love this stuff as intensely as me! and that's okay! but like... whenever I see someone absolutely despising the very concept of them, I just... I don't understand. and like... a lotta the rationale I've seen seems to be focused around the idea that it removes the freedom to see and design them as you want, but like... when has having an established design for something ever stopped anyone from doing that?

if you're not a fan, that's fair and you're valid. But if you actively hate them, I'm just... so... so thoroughly confused.

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Hanging out at the mall with my dad and my dog

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Yknow, I feel like the perception of Sidorak was impacted severely by his depiction in the movie, and it would be different had they not leaned into his pathetic-ness that hard

Now, to clarify, he wouldn't be less pathetic or any more respectable or anything. His characterization is pretty set in stone.

What I mean is... edgy as fuck pathetic bastard man? The retractable sword and the Claws and such giving a hint of badassery in a sea of incompetence?

Don't act like people wouldn't eat this shit up had they been allowed to imagine he was a twink

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This has definitely been brought up by other people, but I continue to remain genuinely baffled that there was never a single official scene of Takanuva meeting back up with Jaller and Hahli after the mahri nui arc? Like what?! That might genuinely be the biggest missed opportunity in the entire series?!!

Especially since Takanuva references talking to the mahri, so it clearly happened, but just… entirely off screen?

And this is coming from someone who’s main attachment to the series is the later years. I can only imagine how frustrating this is for people who grew up with the Mask of Light.

Like they get separated and go off to become heroes and then when they get back… nothing? Really?!

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I'm not usually one to try and "improve" established models, and tend to just appreciate them as is

...but I just modified my Helryx to give her a neck while keeping the rest of her build as unchanged as possible, and like... I adore this

I adore this so much. Her whole vibe has changed somehow in a way i really like, personally. Like I don't mind her usual look, but like... gosh I love this change so much.

I think I'm just gonna make an exception and keep her like this, because I'm just so so damn happy with this tiny alteration to her.

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Y’know I have this weird thing where I’m not a big fan of the Bionicle movie designs by default

(Just not a big fan of how the masks feel like they’re actively trying to not be masks)

…And yet Toa Nokama specifically and literally no one else has her movie mask when I think of the character in my head. She is the one singular exception. And I’ve just accepted that fully into my perception of these characters at this point.

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Actively kicking myself for not downloading all of the free 3D models off shapeways that I could get while I could. They were all just right there dangit! The 3D printing you can source elsewhere, but the models...

If only I had known in advance dangit!

...yes this is specifically about bionicle masks

I hope someone else has these downloaded somewhere. I was hoping a lot of the people who made the models would have moved their resources elsewhere but I haven't seen many of them give updates anywhere. Only some of them appear to be active on socials.

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Shout out to Stuart Sayger for never drawing the mouth on Hahli Inika's mask literally one single time. Could've just been shorthand, but it's so consistent I could definitely see it being intentional.

This like instantly fixes her mask for me without actually redesigning it.

...this is basically her canon look in my head.

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I’ve searched for this on multiple occasions, and I continue to be surprised that it doesn’t exist anywhere:

A comprehensive list of all of the buildable/canon models in bionicle. Not just talking contests, but like… a list of every figure that could feasibly be owned. It doesn’t stop at the sets (unless you’re a purist about that) and I’m amazed no collector has put it upon themselves to make an inventory of what buildable models are available to feasibly collect.

Think about it! Every matoran model from both mnog games would count. Even the ones that have pieces that weren’t made in those colours, by the parameters of things like the Hagah that’s not a dealbreaker.

And stuff like dark hunters! Some people have made lists of them and resources for them, but it’s weird how scattershot those topics seem to be.

And think about all of the rahi that have been put into media. How many of those are buildable? At least a couple, sure, I wanna know how many!

I know this isn’t untouched ground, I know people have these things in their collections, I know a lot of these are well known and easy to find. What perplexes me is that there’s no index for this. There’s no list anywhere. How many buildable canon models do we definitively have? I want a list! I want to know the scope of this!

When thinking about what can be collected, I want a list of the official sets, a list of combo models, and a list of everything else. And the everything else list just doesn’t exist! How many are there?

Like is this a weirdly specific thing to want? Am I just rambling? Or does it feel weird to anyone else that no one has made a list of these? Or at least nowhere I can find

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anyone else find it weird that a major plot point of 2004 bionicle is mask powers being discovered, and yet vakama’s profession was literally being a mask maker? Like shouldn’t he know?

Do kanohi forges just slap a cool mask together and then go “wonder what this one does?”

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I’ve shown this a little bit before, but I just realized I never actually posted the full collection on here since then, so have the full display!

My full collection of every single Order of Mata Nui member! (minus the ones that physically can’t be owned in a canon capacity (I’m sorry Johmak ;-;))

I don't know what else to say other than this was really really fun to collect and aaaah I love them all sm I'm so happy!!!

Sorry the photo isn’t great, it’s like impossible to get good photo lighting where they’re displayed.

So have these instead!

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Fucks me up a little every time I see a Metru build next to an inika build and am confronted with the fact that they're functionally the same size on average even though my brain insists that they aren't

Why does this feel so incorrect to me...

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Slowly but surely building out my full Order of Mata Nui collection.

My remaining checklist is as follows:

1. Get the remaining pieces for Tobduk

2. Get the remaining pieces for Krakua

3. Think about how only Johmak specifically is entirely absent

4. Cry

5. Take solace in the fact that I already own Jerbraz