So many beautiful kraata!

 Well me a Hanahtu bought our selves many kraata sets. We got at least one stage to 33 of the type of kraata. With this I am only missing 50 kraata. Close but not close enough.

Voporak!

So I recently ordered a Voporak set from Bricklink and today was the lucky day it came in.

 Although I didn't build the featured figure. I already had Voporak built but I did not have a Roodaka or Sentrakh. I mostly got the set for the box and instructions for Voporak as well as a Roodaka. Sentrakh was just a nice use of the last two sets.

 I was surprised the Sentrahk (a combiner of Sidorak and Keetongu) didn't use nearly as much parts as I would have thought.

 Needless to say the purchase was well worth it for the box and instructions. Voporak is one of those "sets" that I made a long time ago and kinda became a favorite of mine. Helps that I really like his build and overall look.

Of course we needed a group photo of the three "Titan Combo models" from 2005. The ShadowOne (far right) isn't mine as Hannahtu owns him. I do plan and building my own which may bee sooner rather than later.

One last not of interest is the condition of the three sets that comprise of Voporak. Sidorak's parts seemed slightly dusty but nice. Keetongu where virtually untouched but Roodaka had the interesting parts. Not only was her parts in great shape but bag 2 of her set was still sealed (This is her leg partion). Seemed like the original owner never actually build Voporak. Cool and weird. 

Trans neon green mask. Need I say more

So we ordered three of these. Two for me one for Hanahtu. One of mine will be for a moc while the other for display. This means I am only missing one Gen 2 mask. However I can't see myslef ever  buying the Trans blue mask of water.

Some new stuff!

First off win a new find in Value Village.

Best part of this is it completed my collection of the young reader books. Funny enough this one and "Desert of Danger" were both found at the some store.

Second part of this post will go to this lovely pile of Bionicles.

Hanahtu got this stuff from a coworker friend. More will be posted on this later.

Been a while since something new for gen 2

Finally got this in a Bricklink order. It's nice. Not much else to say except it means I really only have three more little bag sets for get to until I have all of the sets.

More collections complete

So been a while since I have posted here but I guess I got really lazy. Plus I forgot. Anyways with recent Bricklink orders I now can proudly say I now own all the krana and nuva masks.

With the nuva it may not be in the picture but I do also have the infected hau nuva.

Been a while

So it's been a while but sadly it has a lot to do with Bionicle taking a side spot to other Lego themes. However Hanahtu did find this beauty which I was able to acquire for my collection.

A little beat up but it's nice to have one of the brown sets sealed. Also this is the only box from the brown line of sets I was missing.

I have it!

Well this happened a while ago and kinda forgot about but a while ago I finally went to my local books store and what do I find? TIME TRAP!!!

I've checked countless thrift stores over and over around the province and never found this until now and I can thank my younger sister for dragging me there. It was the only book I was missing from that series and I finally have it! Ah life is good.

Also to note this was my favorite Bionicle book for a long time. Might still be kinda hard to say as it's been a while since I've read them all.

Bionicle Room update.

A couple weeks ago I acquired a new shelf (Perks at working at a  cabinet shop) and figured it would go into the Bionicle room nicely. (You can also see I acquired some new posters)

 We also reorganized the back end of the room

Yes more Bricklink

So continuing with Bionicle we have done another order this one mainly for sets plus a few extra such as more krana, some Bioncle game cards and a watch.

 

Now because of this I have all the turaga posters while now Hanahtu has all the canisters to the toa mata as befoe he was missing Lewa's lid. 

Not a lot else to say except that I got Nuju and he got Onewa but we swapped boxes so I have Onewa. I haven't had one of those in over 15 years.

Feels like highway robery

So on the weekend Hanahtu came across a lot of Bionicles online by the help of our sister Mithra Nui. The whole lot was for $200 CA and this is what we got.

 This was all the parts left over. You can see there is a couple visorak chunks as well as a hero factory set Waspix(I think that's what it's called)

 Then there is this hug batch of toa, toa nuva, bohrok, rakshi, vahki, toa metru, a couple toa hordika and metru nui matoran. Most of the sets in this picture are complete. Also those two trans orange masks are pretty nice.

 We also got all the generation 2 sets. Only a couple parts were missing to Tahu's shadow trap but the rest is all there which means my Makuta combo "set" is now complete as well of Hanahtu missing only Lava Beast. (And yes at the time of the picture the tree was still up but was taken down shortly after)

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 In the left of this picture is incomplete rakshi and toa some of which have been mixed and matched. To the right are one complete Nui Rama set and incomplete one and a small chunk to a fifth rama. This worked out great as earlier Hanahtu and I split one up before so now we a complete set each.

 Here were all the titans, piraka, inika, and small sets like Turaga, Tohunga, Voya Nui Matoran, and the only Bohrok Va. This was the group that helped most for my collection as I got Hahkan, Vesok, Thok, Inika Jaller, Inika Nuparu (for now), Irnakk and the Bohrok Va

Finally there was also this guy which came from the "Battle of Metru Nui" play set from 2005. Pretty cool to have this I must say.

Over all this for the amount of money kinda felt like robbery but hey I'm not complaining. Splitting it three ways with Hanahtu, Leseff and I made it pretty cheap for each of us.

On a side not I was also able to acquire another krana and a couple more kraata to add to my collection.

NUVA MASKS!

Well as we have seen before I have collected all the turaga and toa masks after a lot of time and money spent. Now its' the nuva's turn (sorta). As we can see I've finally gotten all of their regular six however I am still missing two silver, I do have Lewa Nuva's silver but it was/is on a moc right now and wasn't in the picture. I do plan to get a second at some point as to have a complete collection for display.

 Once the Nuva are done the only real other masks I plan to collect are the rest of the turaga misprints and the trans light blue kaukau. Once those are their it's all about getting doubles of mask so I can have one of each on display.

Yes there are masks that I will never own such as the white huna, yellow ruru, and other really rare and impossible to get. However I don't really consider them essential to having a complete collection of masks as those other ones are just so uncommon and aren't part of a set or mask. 

The Chronicler's Company

A simple creation (Well, only 4/7 of it is my own, the rest are official sets) of mine depicting Takua's company of Matoran he had in MNOG 1, but in MNOG 2 style.

Tamaru and Kapura were the last to be completed. Kapura because of his bloody expensive Ruru, and Tamarua, because I hade to paint 8 parts for him, and actually acquire his lime Rau.

A few special masks

So after a few Bricklink orders came in I was able to collect these lovely little treasures. Not much else to say you besides the fact there masks are really cool.

More Posters for the wall!

A while back I contacted our older siblings to see if they would be willing to hand down their old Bionicle posters, as they no longer seemed to have much interest in their Bionicle collection. A couple weeks ago, Hau One (Who lives many, many Kios away) was recently visiting because of Canadian Thanksgiving, and he found where his were. He kindly donated them to our wall.

The Hanahtu side.

Posters acquired were 3 Toa, Onua, Pohatu, and Tahu, 2 Turaga, Onewa and Vakama, 2 Bohrok Va, Pahrak and Tahnok, and the mask list. I got the Pohatu (As it didn't have the stripe at the bottom with all the Toa, so no all my Toa posters match) and the two Va posters. Onvermel got the rest.

The Onvermel side.

As for the posters belonging to Lost Matoran and Mithra Nui, Well, they both have said they know where they are, and both would consider parting with them. If that is the case, then both Onvermel and myself will have all 6 Toa posters, will both be missing one Turaga poster (Maybe, we aren't entirely sure which Turaga ones Lost Matoran had) as well as a couple more Va. Oh, and I should complete my Mata Matoran posters to match Onvermel. Sadly, none of our older siblings have any of the Mctoran posters. The only ones any of us had were acquired by buying a set off of Bricklink.

To our count, there are 30 posters (Plus some others, but they aren't cool) Six Toa, 6 Turaga, 6 Mctoran, 6 Mata Matoran, and 6 Bohrok Va. Currently, Onvermel has 19, and I have 15. Onvermel has the lead due to him having the complete set of the Mata Matoran, and one more Turaga. We have equal amounts of Toa (The exact same 4, even) and both have two Mctoran and three Va.

More collecting!

So with an order we did recently we got some free stuff that was shipped afterwards and coming from work it was here waiting for me. I got the Fiku (hope that's spelled right) spider and the trrans-neon green miru while Hanahtu got the orange Vahi. So now we both have both colours of Vahi's

Recent acquisitions

So over the last few weeks I've acquired some more special collectables. The trans-clear mask of fire from 2015 which arrived in the mail actually just in time for Brickcon. By this I mean the day before we left. While at Brickcon I was also able to pick up a gold vahi and the disk of time.

 I was also able to get a few more krana kal for collecting but those aren't as interesting. Also seeing as Hanahtu had a gold vahi for his toa I decided to compare the two as his always was a little brighter than other gold parts. The result being a slight colour variant with mine (being on the right) as a regular shade of dark gold while Hanahu's (on the left) being a little brighter. In person it's a little easier to see however I feel as the photo shows it well enough. 

Makuta 2016 Combo model

So seeing as we never got a 2016 Makuta set I figured may as well go with the flow and build the combo model that is as close as we can get to an official model of him. However I could not find a Umarak the Hunter so he is still missing some stuff such as a blade for his left arm, the mask of control, some black armor which is replaced by extra trans orange, and a few other small part here and there.

I must say he is quite the interesting build as well as a interesting looking model. He's large and imposing which is always nice and decently poseable. I am however a little disappointing in his arms as they seem a little skinny and his body looks just a little fat. I guess he's been eating to many pizza pops. Also I wish they had used the trans purple pieces instead of trans orange as it would have felt more accurate for Makuta. I feel it wouldn't of been to hard seeing as Onua, Quake Beast, and the creature of earth all have purple. So just using Quake beast instead of Tahu and the creature of fire use Quake beast and the creature of earth. I bet the designer could of come up with basically the same result. However overall I am happy with it and am glad to add it to my 2016 collection. 

Onvermel

Brickcon 2016 (Part 2)

Now to take a look at the loot!

 So this first picture is mostly system but the Bionicle stuff includes...Kohrak kal(with canister), Lehrak kal (with canister), Lewa Nuva (with canister), Onua (eith canister) 3ish bags of loose bionicle parts, a nice card board Bionicle 2015 display sign, a zamore sphere set (sealed) and a sealed Lord of Skull Spiders to start the building of he combo model of the Journey to One Makuta.

 Second I got a bunch of titans and other sets with not box or instructions. This includes, Brutaka, Axonn, Vezon and Fenrakk, Tuma, Nidhiki, Takanuva, Nocturn, Lesovikk, Gadunka, Fero and Skirmix, Kaxium V3,Muaka (but not the kani ra which is good as I already had the Kani Ra), Tehutti, Orkham, Gresh(stars), Ehlek, Kopaka (mistika), Chirox, Kazi, Balta, Gurrahk, Kurahk, Gahlok kal, Korak kal, and hordika Nokama. Also Swert from BS01 was so kinda and gave me that lovely shirt. Thanks again Swert!

 Also with the badges from Brickcon we get to chose what we put on it so for those who know the "Who ate all the pies" quote. Two thumbs up to you!

Now the last thing I got was this Bohrok Swarm Trading Card game sealed! So cool. Haven't gotten around to checking out how to play it but it did come with a black miru and a green akaku for the game pieces. Might do a whole post on this at some point. Only $12 American, now that's a good deal. Now I need to go get the other two.

All them turaga masks

So while Hanahtu been collecting parts for sets I have been collecting masks to my collection. I had completed my toa's masks sets so the next step was to get all the turaga's. This also ended up with me having to get a Matau, Nuju and Whenua (which i also got sealed). I mean I couldn't have all their maks without the characters them selves now could I.

Now that this set of kanohi is completed it on to the nuva to complete which is almost there. Only missing four.Eventually I'll head off to gather up all those misprints (well most of them).

-Onvermel-