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Leewan
Action Figure Regulator
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And would buy, which would make a poor marketing decision, IMO. x/ -
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It's BIONICLE too.
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At this time, they were losing money, lots of money.
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I just made this (really quickly, it's almost a sketch, and I'd need to spend time on some details to make it perfect) : It works just like LewiMOC's concept, but it's a single part. There's also room for a 12t simple bevel (the 0.5 stud thick one) above the pins, because... why not ? Of course, the actual part, if there is one, will look in nothing like that (at least I think so, I'm pretty sure this has many flaws I can't think of right now).
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I've never found them personally, but I know HF knockoffs are / were available in France, and they have interesting new parts. The brand is Betoys, some of them can be found on ebay.
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Wow, I love the Orbitonz.
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C'mon, they can't be that early prototypes. And there are trans-purple parts on the Earth sets, and Trans-Yellow on Stone sets. Do such parts already exist ? Nope. Does the SH chestpiece exist in gold ? Nope. Does the Hulk chestpiece exist in black ? Nope. There are plenty of obvious recolors on this picture, some elements can change, sure, but not as much as you'd want.
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But they don't have to do 72 different masks, they could just produce each Toa Mask in each colour (which would make 36 masks), and maybe even add gold and silver, we would then have 48 masks to collect. They could sell packs of three masks for 3-4€/$, which means we would have to pay a minimum of 48-64€ to get the full set. I was thinking of something, BTW. I don't know if it has been discussed before, but they could throw in let's say three random masks of the Protector's color in each Protector set (e.g. the Protector of Fire would have three red masks), so you can give your character the mask you want, and he / she would have to defend the two other ones. I don't know if it could fit the budget, but, IMO, that could be an interesting feature, you would have playability (defend the masks), and collectible items at the same time.
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Lego can also just sell a plain bag of parts, and tell the kids to use their imagination to build whatever they want. What I mean is yes, Lego is about imagination, but that doesn't mean every set has to be a parts pack like the parts buckets. Especially when it comes to Bionicle, which is more focused on roleplay. Yes, you can imagine your own character, but a kid with action figures (not necessarily buildable ones) will imagine his / her characters' adventures and stories. So you can actually tell a kid to use his / her imagination and give him / her the instructions for a super Toa. It's not incompatible. Plus, the combiners have a marketing value. They say "Hey, have you seen this cool big Toa ? You can build it if you buy two other ones !". It's a very simple way to advertise the other products.
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Some news guys. The release date should actually be January. So for the lucky ones who have the luck to get them earlier (which rarely happens here in France, we usually get the sets after the official release date, unlike in the US, hence the previously announced date of February, it was more likely to be a date for the toy shops release), you might get BIONICLE sets for Christmas. I don't know how it will work, but there will still be combos. I'd like to see Kaita-like combos (even if they're not canonically the Toa Kaita, it would be a cool "easter egg" if the official combiners were made of Lewa, Kopaka and Gali and Tahu, Pohatu and Onua). There will be commercials for the Stone Protector and Gali. And maybe for the whole wave / theme, and other characters (I can't imagine there won't be any promotional media that won't focus on Tahu, he's the main character), but these two will definitely have their own TV commercial. My source is the same as before, you can see his original post here, so if you report the news, all credits go to Exo-6 (but you can also credit me ).
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2011 was the first year we had CCBS, it's kinda normal that there weren't as many original and "advanced" designs as 2013 or 2014. As you point out, there were more creative designs in 2009 because it was the fourth year of the "Inika system", it was expanding, and we started to get something different of a basic Toa Inika.
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