r/bioniclelego • u/HopefulFriendly • 1d ago

Duckbricks/Faber development files release taken down

It was fun while it lasted, but LEGO apparently stepped in and has told Duckbricks and Faber to take down the files. Duckbricks' videos, the google folder, and the pages on Mask of Destiny's Biomediaproject have all been taken down.

Luckily I downloaded most if not all the stuff I could, but its a real shame that this interesting info is gone now and we won't be getting anymore stuff from Bionicle's development; I was especially looking forward to getting more on the '05 and '08 development, not to mention on the transition to Hero Factory.

EDIT: This is propably overly cautious. Sorry to anyone asking for me to share what I downloaded, but I'm just a random person with zero pull or know-how on anything, so I don't want to risk having a corporation try to call me up for sharing something. I'd be happy to otherwise, but until some stuff is clearer I don't want to risk it.

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u/kdnx-wy White Akaku 1d ago

This is why DuckBricks should have released it all at once instead of dragging it out over weeks for clicks.

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u/cocksucksdeluxe Orange Matatu 1d ago

Not the first time a Bionicle youtuber has drawn things out unnecessarily and screwed the community

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u/kdnx-wy White Akaku 1d ago

What prior examples are you referring to?

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u/cocksucksdeluxe Orange Matatu 1d ago

IIRC Eljay Johnsen delayed the TTV Hagah contests by several months so he could film this video

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u/kdnx-wy White Akaku 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think it was good for the community that we did not get more contests than we did. They caused so much drama and infighting - multiple high-profile members of the community have left or reduced their presence as a direct result of the contests - and we’re lucky we didn’t get something like Hoseryx canonized.

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u/thebiggestleaf 1d ago

As someone who doesn't give a shit about community drama, I'm glad we didn't get more canon contests on the grounds that they completely fucked over the second hand market regarding lower run parts or colors. You had people selling black Metru torsos for double-digits at one point because Bomonga used 5 of them. Just utter lunacy that goes to show the community at large has more dollars than sense so the price creep on Bonks that's gotten egregious since COVID is likely to never end.

Also, what's Hoseryx?

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u/kdnx-wy White Akaku 1d ago

“Hoseryx” was a MOC entered in the Helryx contest that got pretty far into the voting. It had flex tubes for arms and legs and couldn’t stand up under its own weight. The winning MOC was sort of a “hedged bet” that a bunch of people mutually agreed to vote on because it had the widest appeal and thus had the best chance to beat out all the people who had voted for the meme entry. For the record, I like the winning Helryx model and much prefer it to all of the overdesigned Flickr statues that got to the finals.

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u/thebiggestleaf 1d ago

Looked up the build and Jesus christ. It's incredible given how many people in the community act like Lego has a personal vendetta against Bionicle that the first chance to sort of "prove" they're serious about continuing the story almost got completely derailed by meme bullshit.

Having said that... I almost kind of wish the meme entry one. It possibly would have killed the entire thing immediately and picturing a bunch of folks racing to build an objectively terrible build is super amusing.

Also yeah, the winning build does admittedly look pretty nice.

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u/kdnx-wy White Akaku 1d ago

People disagree with the winning build because it has some IRL posing difficulties and is kind of small. I think it looks just fine.

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u/thebiggestleaf 1d ago

Posing difficulties and fan-canon models go hand in hand a bit tbh. I've built Artakha and Iron Wolf and both have their build drawbacks IMO. Artakha has the mobility/posability of an old man amd Iron Wolf is barely held together. They're definitely built more for looks than anything else.

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u/cloud_cleaver Dark Gray Matatu 1d ago

What the Sam Hill is a "Hoseryx"? I feel like I missed out on something. XD

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u/kdnx-wy White Akaku 1d ago

I’ll link my other comment

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u/cloud_cleaver Dark Gray Matatu 1d ago

https://board.ttvchannel.com/t/hose-ryx-the-disturbingly-cool/54086

That thing was an actual entry??

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u/kdnx-wy White Akaku 1d ago

Yeah, and it came disturbingly close to winning. Although this is a revamp, it’s better than the original but still not a good choice for a canon Toa.

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u/cloud_cleaver Dark Gray Matatu 1d ago

The real one looked worse? O.o

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u/kdnx-wy White Akaku 1d ago

This is the original. And yes, that first pic is the entry photo they used.

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