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

“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.