More evil Lego!

Okay, I love the Bionicle Lego sets. I just think they look cool, and the technic-y widgets let you make all kinds of articulated wacky things out of them if you choose to craft your own horrors. They've got another set of six things, called Rahkshi, and they're easily the most evil yet of the villainous ones. They've got little computer generated Quicktime clips of them skulking around and acting sinister on the web site, no less. I saw them in a store yesterday, and I think I'm going back today to snag one. I really want to check one out for real, and not just go by pictures. I think I'll go for the green one, Lerahk, the Poisoner. Mmmm...evil.

Lerahk the Poisoner

Definitely evil. I've been consistently impressed by the Bionicle toys from Lego, and the Rahkshi are no exception. Wish I was young enough to actually play with this stuff. Sigh. Anyway, Rahkshi take the Bionicle can-sold figures to new a new level of articulation. In total, joints are found at the neck, shoulder, wrist, hip, knee, and ankle, and the crank on the back swivels the entire arm assembly from side to side so you can whack things with the staff-like weapon each of the Rahkshi weilds. Then there's the opening case on the back so you can flip spooky little rubber leech/slug things through the air. Each one of these things appears to come with a miniature CD full of Quicktime promotional stuff for the toys, game, web site, etc. The voice is a bit melodramatic, but it's still kind of neat. I like the 360-degree rotating model of the toy you just bought...sort of redundant, since you can look at the one in real life, but nifty all the same. One thing that mildly disappointed me is that the Rahkshi's weapon isn't really an independanly existing object - which is to say that the bar held between the "hands" is only attached to the hands, not the heads of the weapon. This isn't a really big deal, except that it means you can't have the figure hold the weapon in only one hand. Overall, still a very cool toy.

Castle of the Wasp!

The preview page for the next L5R set, Winds of Change, has the new Mantis stronghold up today. I'm not a tournament level L5R player, but I think it's good. Better than the other two Gold strongholds for my Mantis deck, anyway. Well, City of Lightning is okay for it, but I'll swap to Castle of the Wasp as soon as I can.

Finally made some more pictures for use on Livejournal. Don't get me wrong - I still love my burning lightbulb. I just thought some variety might be nice, though.