I suppose that IS a pro to it. Haven’t thought of that.
I would disagree. We’re talking about the contents of BIONICLE 2016 sets.
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The instructions give a good reason for people to go to the website (which tbh is the only thing getting me to the site). I mean the only other worth while thing is the monthly chapters and those aren’t much to write home about.
THAT is actually a big problem with the digital age. But since lego products aren’t obscure we don’t need to worry about that kind of thing happening. other sites like brickset store alot of data.
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Actually I believe Biomediaproject manages to save them on their website.
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There are countless sites besides LEGOs main one that archive the instructions by this point. Its never lost.
Best Onu Archivist I have seen.
It also sucks realising when you are older that all of your old physical instructions and canisters were thrown out by parents and realising that you have no place to get them again without paying money…unless you use sites which archived them (well not for canisters, we are not to those levels of 3D printing yet)
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Which is why they should be included in physical copies.
Anyways, I’d like to say that, after playing with Storm Beast, his function gets a bit annoying to use at times. Sometimes I go father with the arm than I want to. However, the force of the punch is VERY strong, something I commend Lego for. The added friction is also a nice touch.
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I find it interesting that LEGO chose to do a trans-black for the colors of the crystals on Lava Beast’s arms rather than trans-orange.
I actually like it.
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it’s actually trans brown, according to lego that is.
disclaimer I may be wrong xd
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I like it, too. One issue, though: There isn’t any other trans-black CCBS to go along with it!
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I want lava beast for the infected hau. It’s kind of tradition for the hau to be infected. That’s why I hated 2015.
Oh yeah, I remember Pohatu having the Kaukau in that colour.
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I think electronic instructions are good. Even if they’re removed from Lego’s main site, you can still have access to them via sites like BrickInstructions.
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Link?
This is the same trans neon orange as used for the current line.
Not to confuse it with trans orange, which is used on sets like Jaller (which is a bit less sharper for the eyes the trans neon orange)
http://www.bzpower.com/Imaging/stories/Jaller_Pieces-4.jpg
(My Kulta has both of those oranges and they are different in a not much but still noticeable way)
But today trans neon orange is used as the trans equivalent to…regular red.
And trans red is used as the trans equivalent to…dark red.
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Haven’t been paying much attention to the discussion but do the summer sets not come with instructions?
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Like, I can kind of see why people are upset with this wave, but most of their complaints are directly about Quake Beast, and that’s just one set. Honestly, Quake Beast is just the Krekka/Gadunka/Chirox/Krika/Kiina/Keetongu/Pohatu Phantoka of the wave. They were all awkward and were either gappy, or had some type of posability/unsightly unarmored places. Some of them, like Quake Beast, had all of those.
I don’t even think that the function is what got in the way of his looks, I think they could have tried harder to make it more cohesive and just didn’t. By now I’ve learned that when making a set, LEGO also considers part numbers and quantities for MOCists. It was the sole reason Tahu and Kopaka use piece of unification on their legs (confirmed by their designer, John Ho). With the large amount of those shorter brown axle pieces (first introduced in Uniter Tahu’s sword function) in the set, in places they don’t need to exist, along with the oddly out of place sword pieces and haphazardly made “rock arm” (if you can call it that), it seems pretty clear that LEGO made this set a parts pack first, and an actual figure second.
My point is, while Quake Beast is a mediocre set in all honesty for a lot of people, the rest of the wave is pretty solid, with a few flaws (but what sets don’t have flaws?) that are easy to look over with what they bring to the table. It’s a really good wave, and I don’t think people should drag it through the mud just because of one bad apple. Otherwise a lot of other waves and themes deserve the same treatment.
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Oh, they come with instructions.
Just not for the huge combiner of Umarak the Destroyer and the Beasties.
That’s an online thing.
@TeslaEffect @Darknova3529
I need the link for LEGO stating the crystals on Lava Beast are trans-brown.
Quake Beast is way better than Bruizer, the one everyone compares him to. Despite the asymmetry and questionable building choices, he still is a very creative set and conveys the mutated crystal-like being perfectly.
@BBC1Wholock1 There is no actual statement, rather it was used as a trans equivalent to brown in 2001.
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