WOW. I thought there were only ~5 sets. I actually have the Super Wind Wheel (though he is in a bad condition). Also, when I was younger, I thought that High Energy and Revolving Star are Baterra. Some of those are actually pretty cool, aside from the socket quality. But some are just ugly.
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well, looking up your magic words made me find (i think) one heck of a deal. from what i picked up, these seem like pretty good prices. i wish i lived in russia. honestly, all of the cheap bionicles on bricklink are from there, too!
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You do not know what you are talking about.
I always thought those partcular guys were worldwide. So there aren’t there many bootlegs in America and Europe?
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Wow, you hit the jackpot in your searches. I had no idea there were that many of them. Some of those parts look great. I wish there was a way to obtain them. Lol like a bricklink for Masters of Disaster.
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Toad Roodaka
Stormer gone bad
Ussal Nivawk
Lady Keetongu???
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I found quite the treasure on AliExpress last night. Black pin-axles! And white too.
45 cents for 10 of them, plus a buck fifty for shipping. I once paid $20 for 8 of these on bricklink.
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Why not paint official Lego blue pin-axles into black or white or whatever?
Or are those actual Lego?
Paint easily rubs off of pins and axels because the holes for them are a relatively snug fit. If you paint them the paint scratches of or it stays in the hole forever because the paint added thickness
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I see, but as far as I know, spray paint is really thin and holds very well, I haven’t tryed myself though (but will).
Also, I haven’t thought about disonnecting the part many times, only about connecting it once to the model, so paint won’t scratch off. But if talking about MOCing and many-times-usage, than it might not work so well of course.
Spray paint is thin but brittle and it scratches really easily even after one or two uses (if it isn’t the super resistent one that needs to be activated and if you don’t use it within a day or two becomes a brick inside the can). For repeated use dying the plastic is a better solution because it doesn’t add thickness at all. I’ve seen it done a couple of times with dyes for synthetic cloth unfortunately it works well only on pieces that start white (because you can tint them any color). You could however still die any piece black since it’s a very dark color. The problem with dying is that the dye is hard to find or expansive
paint is fine for most pieces that don’t rub against anything (such as masks) but it should be avoided for balljoints, pins and axeòs
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Spray paint is actually almost worse
when it dries, it’s almost sticky. I spray painted a model tank of mine, but since I painted the turret ring and bottom of the turret, the turret can’t turn because the spray paint is increasing the friction to the point where it won’t.
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Of course they’re not official Lego. This is the bootlegs thread after all.
Spray paint, or any kind of paint definitely won’t work. The precision engineering for those parts is such that even a micron increase in the part (from a single layer of paint) would make them not fit together anymore.
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White is the only non official though. Black has been discontinued but it was the main color in the first few years of bionicle. Also if it’s just for looks a simple sharpie does a good job as well.
Lego did, in fact, release white axle-pins. They came in the Bahrag.
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Ah. I think I got some rahi back then but I never picked up any of the larger sets other then makuta. Well I’d be curious to see the bootlegs with official parts since those two colors are hard to find now in good quantity.
I bought a bunch of them, so I will post pics when I get them in 6-8 weeks. I got around 20 different types of Technic parts that are either really expensive on bricklink, or don’t even exist.
I’ll be the quality control guinea pig for y’all. lol
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No hard feelings. You just had the most money to throw away.
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