You do have to remember that this was 2001, when playground rumor style leaks were a lot more commonly accepted as plausible. This wasn’t too long after the likes of myths like Mew from Pokemon.
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I think that it was getting sent around in 20013, right before MoL, but I might be wrong there. Feel free to correct me. 
Even with that said, I still feel like you’d have to be really young to seriously believe that Voriki was going to be a real set after a few minutes of looking at that; probably no older than ten or eleven, to be honest. The visual nature of Voriki, especially with the way that the shadows around the mask and the lightning bolts are done, is just silly.
I’m looking up Mew, as a side note.
EDIT: 2003, lol. I’m leaving the typo up there for the sake of humor.
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Man I remember the Second Great Alien War for Alpha Centauri. 'Twas an interesting war for certain. Humanity was nearly destroyed.
Joking inside, people DID fall for Voriki back then. We just mock it nowadays because people easily fell for it. They still do.
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I’ll put a reminder in my calendar for 17,996 years from now.
Is it safe to assume whether or not they would have been old enough to use this site?
Serious apologies in advance if you were one of those people.
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Beats me. I was 2-4 at the time. My brother vaguely remembers it. I just know from reading up on this it fooled a lot of people. No doubt they were really young, though, and the internet was in it’s infancy anyway.
Which is why I’m always skeptical about leaks. Nowadays people know how to make them more convincing if they’re faking it, which leads to people being tricked.
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Well, that’s how Bionicle G2 started.
However, all we have is an unverified claim with no images or info to back it up, so there’s no hope of proving or disproving yet. We’ll wait to see if anything more arises, otherwise it’s just another flimsy hoax.
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I doubt it, only because Lego would be really unwise to flood their own Constraction market with cheaper non-licensed sets, since their Star Wars line is doing well, even though price per part is super expensive. Additionally even if there was a new theme, it probably won’t be related to Bionicle, because after the G2 failure, I doubt Lego would take a Bionicle G3 reboot pitch very seriously, let alone green lighting it.
Plus, we’ve all seen hoaxes before.
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Ah, I’d bet that most of us definitely don’t think that it’s any form of a G3; there likely won’t ever be another official reboot. If there’s a new theme, it’ll be different enough from SWC to resist encroachments on its sales, as you seem to believe. I would agree with your further points, though.
I respect that. Stay tuned. 
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And there’s the fact that LEGO basically sabotaged G2 from the getgo.
I still want a new constraction line, though.
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I get the want for original themes, (I’ve been wanting a non-Star-Wars-Universe original space theme for years) but that brings up the question of quality vs quantity Lego themes.
Would it be more profitable to have a broader selection of less developed themes to catch new interests among customers, or a narrower selection of scripted, more in-depth story themes?
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Definitely this, as long as they’re not licensed themes.
Which, unfortunately, has been the main direction Lego has trended lately, it seems. It makes sense - why bother putting in the effort to come up with, develop, write, advertise, and of course actually sell a risky non-licensed theme that may or may not take hold, when you can cash in on a franchise someone else is already doing most of the heavy lifting on for you, and you know kids will eat up?
I’m glad things like Ninjago have stuck around, and appreciate that they’re at least trying with Nexo Knights (regardless of my opinion on the final product) and of course there are things like City, Creator, and Technic which aren’t likely to die out anytime soon. But I really think it’s stuff like LotR, Superheroes, and Star Wars (don’t even get me started on Star Wars!) that may be doing Lego good in the short term but are ultimately harming their ability to properly handle their more unique ideas and story-driven lines.
So yeah, I hope that if (and of course that’s a big if) there is a new constraction theme on the way, it’ll both be really good and a strong success; so as to show Lego there’s still viability in Constraction. It would significantly improve the chances of an eventual G3, and we’d get a cool new line to discuss in the meantime.
But again, at this stage that’s all mostly just wishful thinking. Hopefully we’ll know for sure whether this rumor is fake or not soon, so that I don’t wind up getting my hopes up too much.
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Oh man I remember when I made voriki 2015 as an early April fools prank.
Iirc it was one of the incidents that spawned our current rules on fake leaks.
Fun times…
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Well late night I did tweet to Lego about a possible 2018 Standalone Constraction Theme and this is their saying about the idea.
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sounds like lego is saying vague non sense to you
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no, lego uses HUMAN FLESH to power there machines , didn’t you get bones in your ccbs bones too?
@Spiderus_Prime remember those are the people who said ¨Bionicle Sold Well¨
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…is it just me, or was that a “We’re not allowed to talk about this yet, so look out for when we do officially announce it”? I might just be optimistic, but that sounds a lot like an indirect ‘yes’ to me.
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Uh, sorry, but I can promise you with one hundred percent certainty that this means nothing, in and of itself. It doesn’t discredit or corroborate any ideas.
Funny as it is, i’d agree with this.
See, that was a pointedly different situation, becasue that was a citable fact that we really have no reason to doubt. See my other ~100000000 posts on why this is, in fact, the case.
This is just a nonanswer. It’s the same answer that you’d get if TLG had internally decided to abandon CCBS forever, with zero exceptions, as of yesterday evening.
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lego is the least honest/direct company there is so what do you expect
This is not true; pretty historically obvious tbh.
I can… definitely see that, as in I can get why you’d think that, but I still don’t think it is that. At least not yet.
I think that it’s very fair to say, with plenty of old-fashioned evidence, that TLG has always stuck to being unable to “communicate anything at the moment” for themes that are over six months out, and since @Spiderus_Prime clearly is interested in their products, they’d like him to “stay tuned checking [their] Social Media Platforms” because they want him to stay invested.
I won’t be doing this personally because my Twitter account is decidely personal, but I’d like to invite anyone to ask if we’re getting a new LEGO Deadpool line in 2018. I’ll bet that there response will be functionally identical. Seriously.
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It’s okay to make mistakes. I’ve made plenty since I joined the boards. I accused Disney of strong arming Lego into cancelling G2 (debunked) and of claiming that CCBS costs more to produce than non-CCBS constraction (also debunked). [quote=“Azani, post:344, topic:40794”]
Hi Josh, we can not communicate anything at the moment but stay tuned checking our Social Media Platforms!
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Interesting. Normally a Lego reply which means “no” is something like “We currently do not have any plans to introduce…” etc. THAT is the best piece of evidence I’ve seen so far that there will be a new theme.
An interesting experiment would be to ask if Lego is planning a G3, and see what kind of response that yields.
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