A few nights ago, someone mentioned “Krana-Kal”, which I immediately misheard as Kraata-Kal. Pretty soon, I was examining the list of Dark Hunters, most of which were, of course, canonized via TLG-sponsored building contests. Frankly, even though Kraata-Kal isn’t particuarly great, I’d really love to build some of these.
The fact, however, is that very few of these models have corresponding instructions. Most of them are seriously blurry, or created by folks who are no longer involved in the fandom - or both.
However, I suspect that bringing the entire BZP community together to try to find some of the original creators may be fruitful, within the bounds of our ability to contact people. Perhaps there are even some long-lost instructions out there. Obviously, there are a few that we pretty much have no chance of finding, such as the instructions to Miserix; that said, while combing through the BS01 records, our chances of finding or making the manuals for some look pretty good. I’ve thrown together a google spreadsheet outlining some of the basic information that might help with tracking some of these down; all the info is from BS01 or a little research on the BZP names of some creators. Here it is.
Good luck!
-Azani
EDIT: Cross-posted from BZP. Hence “the entire BZP community”
Near the bottom of this doc are instructions for some of the Dark Hunters and rahi. I believe it continues to be updated, so new stuff could be on there eventually. Bionicle Combiners - Google Docs
Y’know, I’ve seen those before, but thank you for reposting them here. As far as I’ve been able to tell, none of those folks are actually Justin Lamb, the guy who designed the model. A few of them expressely state that they aren’t, and the rest look a little questionable.
However, this image showed up with the query that you linked to. Does anyone know where this comes from? Was it in the BrickMaster magazine or something? It definitely appeared before September 21, 2004.