So up until now, we’ve had topics where you can show modifications you made to Bionicle sets, your own creations, and various Bionicle sets (or other things) you just purchased. But, up until now, we’ve lacked a topic where you can simply show off the official licensed Bionicle sets you’ve collected over the years.
And since we at TTV are in the business of fixing things (with the exception of Kahi’s poor lawyering skills, as those are beyond help), this topic is devoted to that very purpose. Feel free to post pictures of anything that’s an official Bionicle set, whether it be sold in stores, an alt set, a combiner model, or whatever. Official sets that you’ve made some modifications to are fine as well. Basically the only Bionicle things you can’t post pictures of here are MoCs.
Guess now’s as good a time as any to show off the models I’ve managed to keep up over the years. I actually keep almost all my Lego models (the complete sets, anyway) in a couple black cupboards. I use one strictly for Bionicles, and the other for Lego system sets I didn’t have the heart to break down. Here’s all the Bionicle stuff from the aforementioned cupboard. Due to space issues, I could only organize them so much, so some sets ended up in random areas. Here we go:
Depends on how “custom” it is, I suppose. If it’s something like Akamai with a few modifications, then it’d probably belong here. If it’s a completely fullblown revamp of Akamai, or a combiner model between two sets that didn’t have an official combiner model, that’d probably go under MoC.
There’s no real hard and fast rule; I don’t think we’ll be that picky one way or the other.
Yeah, that’s a good way to put it. If it’s still a character that was featured in official Lego material before, chances are it belongs here. If not, it probably belongs in MoC.
One exception to this would be massive remakes of a canon character (say, for instance, making a version of Tahu Nuva designed for water combat or something)
That… would be impossible. I have a big plastic bin (I mean, quite big) full of sets in their canisters. I have all my post-2007/8 stuff on a shelf in one of the cupboards I set aside for Lego. And all my boxed sets are in my little wall of boxes in larger plastic boxes.
