Callan's Curse-Prologue

 -Note this is what I meant to about the Callan Narcotics leading to something.-

"It all started many months ago. I was looking at my mask collection and realized that the misprints of the Ruru's and Matatu's were needed for my collection.". With this thought PurpleWolf knew what he had to do he must go search out Bricklink to acquire these masks. 

However when looking on Bricklink he was faced a problem for none were for sale! "Noooooooo"! he screamed out "who could do this to me"? 

Suddenly the answer came to him. It was Callan! "Curse you Callan"!

"So Callan it's you who has all the Rurus eh? Well I swear on my fedora that I will hunt you down and claim what should have been rightfully mine". With that his adventure begins. 

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.

Brickcon 2016 (Part 1)

So on the 28th of September of 2016 I myself and Hanahtu headed out to Brickcon in Seattle.

 

Was a long journey with our first stop being in a lovely forest. Met some familiar faces there.

 

Sadly it was but a short visit. However I did leave my mark there.

 

At last with my mark made I looked into the distance as to continue my journey.

 Half way threw the first day we had to take another stop for gas this time I stayed in the car to rest and hopefully hide from the Callan Narcotics (more on that later).

 Supper time and being the Canadians we were we stopped at the most appropriate place I we could think of.

 Finally the end of the day arrives and we get to the hotel. We are greeted by PurpleWolf who graciously gave us a room for the night. It was all I could of hoped for.

 Day 2 brought us across the border and into the USA. Looks kinda the same.

 Finally we arrive at Seattle.

 Now here we prepare for the weekend at the Bionicle display.

 During that time I met a great man some of you may know him. His name is Swert owner of BS01.

 Lots of great stuff happened at the convention which mostly involved sitting but I did get some great new sets. I'll talk more about the swag in part 2.

  

After Sunday came to a close I headed back to my friend PurpleWolf for a place to sleep on the home journey. It was my last hope.

 

 Now on the way back we hit a bit of a delay so Hanahtu,  myself, PurpleWolf, ElephantKnight and a bunch of others just all hung out and relaxed. (Man that's one cool Tarakava)

 I think ElephantKnight was really looking for a tan.

 Sadly we got interrupted by rax. The guy had way to much to drink. He and his sexy skrall friend both.

 Our driver at least was always on the ready.

Now about the Callan Narcotics. Threw the whole trip we kept bumping into these trucks which were sent by Callan to spy on us. He even slowed us down the one time we were in a hurry. The jerk. (Just to let all you folks know a story will come out of this so look for updates).

Masks have more uses than just Bionicle

So the trans-neon green miru we can probably all agree on is one of the coolest masks out there. With that in mind also know I build more than just Bionicle as I also build system. In this case space. I have been wanting to use the mask on a Robo-force mech for a while now but just never got the right thing going. Obviously I have now and I must say it truly is an awesome mask.

More pictures can be found here.

Bricklink order and the many bags of Hewkii

Howdy folks!

So about two and half weeks ago Hanahtu and myself did a bricklink order to gather sets to our collections. All of which are shown just below and all were sealed. They were a very reasonable price and fantastic to build and open sealed Gen 1 sets.

 

A nice little surprise that came with Matoro and Kopeke was this lovely Rahksi poster. Only those two sets and not the rest. Also to note these were ordered from Europe and out of all of us siblings (7) here in Canada never got one of these posters from any of our old 2003 matoran that we got back in 2003. I think it must be a Europe things. Still find it weird that it was just two of them. Odd. 

Another thing to note it that it was nice to have it be the same size at the Turaga, Toa, Tohunga and Bohrok Va posters.

Now looking at that Tohunga Hewkii. Those sets were originally from McDonald's in 2001 and such was branded with the McDonald's logo as such on the bag. Now I got one about 5ish years back and it didn't have the logo and also didn't have the same poster rather it had a smaller sized instructions with the Rakshi poster for is poster. Same design as the one above. (comparison photos below of the two versions). So I wanted to get one that actually was from McDonald's so I could get the poster. Now this new one did have the poster but something was odd. No McDonald's logo on the bag....I've seen versions with the logo on the bag so I know those exist. So both of the two I've ordered sealed neither of them actually came from the fast food restaurant.

I find it odd there are three versions of this one set. One obviously came from McD and I think the kind with the small poster came from giveaways in a mall/malls in Europe. I think I remember hearing/reading that somewhere. Now for the kind that has the regular poster but no McDonald's logo I have no idea where it came from. My only guess would be in Europe the McD ones didn't have the logo but in North America they did. If not then I am plain confused.

Thanks for reading,

Onvermel

The Toa, Part 3

I have finally gotten around to making part 3 of my comic.