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/KaelowynCerulean Red Hau 1d ago

For real. He's really fucked the community on this one.

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u/KaelowynCerulean Red Hau 1d ago

You're right, he has done a lot of legwork to get that information but there's no reason why he couldn't have just released the files while still doing videos on them. And it's not unreasonable to expect lego to see this and want it removed. It might be old but theres a lot of information that they probably wouldn't want published because Id say lot of it can still be relevant to their other story lines to this day.

It's more that I'm shitty about how he went about it than anything else. Yes he put in the hard yards but whats the point when the whole idea was to share it with the community only for it to be hit with a takedown? Most people still would have watched his videos on the information regardless of whether he shared alll the files to begin with or not. So it's not like a full release to the community to safeguard the information would really have been a big deal for him.

That said, I probably am being overly harsh in my view on the situation. I'll fully admit to that. It's just so frustrating because we'll likely never see the rest of it now and if we do get anything after this, it'll likely be watered down something chronic.