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  1. Aye, welcome to the crew. I hope you have a good time here.
  2. Now now, Bionicle fans are quite anxious as well. ;) Anywho, I'm liking the dog, hating the villan(impulse). It seems thrown together, ad the figure looks really bad. Whats with the FF on the dog?
  3. Thanks for the awesome review! I must say, I do not like this set. No sail, and most of the room is taken up by the speeder. On top of that, it is overpriced for my tastes. On the other hand, I hope to see that hairpiece in the future!
  4. Ah thanks for the in-build pic. Looks like I will be getting this fine set indeed.
  5. Oh, I'm not getting them. I hate mindstorms. ;)
  6. Welcome to Eurobricks.
  7. The new flame piece is from the Troll fortress. ;) And I want cendox as well. But then again, I'm getting all these sets.
  8. Stronius has new armor, will be used for his shoulder and chest
  9. The two smaller ones are nice but the larger one is overduing those wheels, and it's much to Technic.
  10. Shoulder armor of thornatus shows a fun new part
  11. New Pics We have not seen these yet, have we?
  12. Oh, very nice! THanks for the review! Man do I want this set now, just like all of the other farm sets. Is it possible we could get an in-build photo from the manual? VBBN
  13. Thanks ikky. :) I plan to do the mods you did as well.
  14. Thanks. Glad to hear it. Thanks! Okay, that's what I was thinking as well. :)
  15. VBBN

    Hello

    Welcome to Eurobricks. Hope you have a good time here.
  16. I've seen that elsewhere, I believe it is official. On another note, anyone want to see my custom pianted and sealed black carapar armor? (the smaller bits)
  17. Hello everyone! With 2009 finally here, I find it appropriate to start reviewing some of the new sets. And today I begin with the amazing Glatorian, Vorox. Now I recieved this set from Meijer, at a price of $13. And one other thing, is I am expierencing with a new photo studio, so tell me how you like it. ------------------ Set name: Vorox Number: 8983 Pieces: 51 Price: $13.00, 8.79 GBP, €12,99 Theme: Bionicle Sub-Theme: Glatorian Colors: Tan, Brown, Silver, Dark Gray, Trans Red-orange, Black, Mata Blue, Pearl Gold. Links: Peeron Vorox, Brickshelf Vorox search, Vorox Lego.com(will auto-adjust to your country) Box: Front: Back Now the Glatorian canisters are pretty boring. They have no functions like the past canisters. The tan lid is nice, and so is the CGI image. The scene of Bara Magna is displayed nicely here. Contents: Instructions: Random Manual Image: As always, the instructions are great. I love the "drawing" look to the Vorox in the book. Much better than the ones from 2004. Parts New parts: Vorox comes with a large amount of new parts. From his head to his mask, the life counter, hands, armor, and more! Let's take a look, shall we? Armor: I am really happy lego is making new armor. First with Gali Mistika, now Vorox and Skrall. And this armor is no excpetion. It is AWESOME. I really like it. Firstly, it has a unique shape that we have never seen before, and it is nice and smooth. It also is TAN AND BROWN. Two of the best Bionicle colors are being used here. I love it. As you can see, their is quite a bit of brown on the bottom. It also has two pin holes as opposed to only 1, and also has a plus rod out of the bottom. Mask and Head: By now everyone knows about the iron man heads. They come in three colors, trans light blue, trans lime, and trans orange. I am really pissed at lego for giving us so much trans orange I must say ! But I do love that they are smaller than the other heads. The helmet is one of the best I have seen. And it is finally, SMALL. Yes. No longer do we have outragously oversized metru heads, but now we have a beautiful helmet, with a great head, and size. Finally. Hands: The next biggest change is the hands. Why people don't like these, I have no clue. They finally make the Bionicle sets look normal,a nd humanlike. They also look great when holding a weapon. And good news! They can't hold takanuva staff or Bordahk staff anymore! I must admit, the thumb in the middle looks pretty crappy. Maybe lego will improve this in the future. Thornax and Life Counter: I think for the first time I LIKE a collectable. It's small, and looks great. And it fires quite well. The tornax is a squishy rubber, like the polyps and shadow leeches. The black bado around it, and in it, is plastic. Oh, and the life counter sucks. It just does. I do aplaud lego for targeting the kiddies, but what about us Tfols and Afols? Recolors: One VERY cool thing about this set is the recolors. It has tons of them. Solid colored piraka feet were a much wanted thing, and I like them. I would have liked to see the brown in them however. The metru chest and legs could be useful for making a more tan+brown colored toa onewa metru. The av-matoran limb is nice, and the mata foot is lovely. I think I might add these to Pohuatu nuva instead of his brown feet. Build Toroso: As you can see, this set suffers from the same problem as Matoro Mahri, the red brick. It is very annoying, and I am going to swap it for a black one very quickly. Another problem is that he follows the path of Pohuatu and Lewa Mistika, and Gorast, mainly the backwards torso. But for some reason, it looks right on Vorox. I think it's becuase it makes him look a bit bulkier, as well as his new armor. On his back, he has a tan mata foot, which is not used to hold his head like Matoro. Instead, it holds on his tail. This is a good thing, because it is more complete than the bare back we got on Gorast. Legs: Okay, I'll admit, I'm a sucker for metru legs and piraka feet. I think it looks great. And with the addition of the armor, it looks wonderful. Now, I am going to explain why the blue triple long pic is used here. If you try it with a normal, smaller one, it will fall of much easier, and thusly they used the blue picn. However, I think they could have just put two black pins, the smaller ones, as it would have been much better, and worked all the same. Unless of course, this is part of an unknown combiner. I doubt it's worth it though, as the cobiners are never any good. Added: Added. His legs look great with his torso. Arms: His arms are mostly the same as his legs. It was terrible on Antroz, but it works well with Vorox. Added(yes, I know I didn't crop this picture very well. I was tired. ) Helmet: As you can see, the bottom part is left uncovered, resulting in a very cool look. Life Counter: Like Skrall, He has the life counter on his foot. I think it looks fine, and bulks him up a bit, so I will leave it there. :) Finished Product:(in natural daylight) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3134/319893...fcde17098_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3368/319978...75e73e66c_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3472/319893...c7dfb9840_b.jpg In the process of resizing, so use the links for now. :) As you can see, Vorox is a very nice set when finished. He can make some great poses, thanks to the neck, hands, and new armor. ---------------- Parts: 10/10- Great. So many Reolors, and new pieces, I just love it. Playability: 9/10- It's and Action figure, folks. Price Per part: 9/10- Pretty good for so many recolors and new parts. Overall: 28/30 Enjoy! And as always, If you ahve any pic requests, comments, questions, etc. Please ask. Next up, Horse Trailer review! And keep in touch, as I plan to review all of the 2009 sets.
  18. Happy birthday! Hope you get lego upon lego.
  19. Thanks for the review! Wow, I want this set, but it is a bit pricey. And I wish it were tan or brown. Bu, for what we have, it's okay. I feel the interior could use a bit of modding however.
  20. VBBN

    MOC: Blender

    So small, yet so effective! Great work.
  21. Krika and Bitil rock. Gorast is nice too. BTW, does anyone knoe any yahoo emails for any of the staff over at MoD? I need to contact them, but my yahoo doesn't want to send a message to imatron.
  22. VBBN

    Super Bowl!

    Yay! Super bowl! That means lego sets, a resturaunt, and TV! (And beer...I mean jones. )
  23. -Extra silver winged Dwarve hemet in Dwarve's mine -2 extra gray antennas in police mobile command center Not sure what else at the moment.
  24. It looks to me like it's stronius's weapon.
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