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Completely forgot about this.

I’d like to think I actually improved in both the writing and art department from when I first made these pages.

I should probably continue this sooner or later but might as well share these in the meantime.

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Foreshadowing in Lego’s BIONICLE: The “Big Secret”

To start off the re-launch of my long text post-centric blog, I will be re-posting a sort of “masterpost” with as many instances of the foreshadowing of the Great Spirit Robot reveal of 2008 that I could find.

While before I left out certain things that I thought everyone knew of already (such as the impenetrable ‘rock’ layer in MNOG), I’ve edited this to include those instances.

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Mask of Light Styled Matoro

What started out as an experiment with the Mask of Light design and the Akaku, ended up becoming a cinnamon roll. Funny how that works out?

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Let people grow.

When I was younger I was very right-wing. I mean…very right-wing. I won’t go into detail, because I’m very deeply ashamed of it, but whatever you’re imagining, it’s probably at least that bad. I’ve taken out a lot of pain on others; I’ve acted in ignorance and waved hate like a flag; I’ve said and did things that hurt a lot of people.

There are artefacts of my past selves online – some of which I’ve locked down and keep around to remind me of my past sins, some of which I’ve scrubbed out, some of which are out of my grasp. If I were ever to become famous, people could find shit on me that would turn your stomach.

But that’s not me anymore. I’ve learned so much in the last ten years. I’ve become more open to seeing things through others’ eyes, and reforged my anger to turn on those who harm others rather than on those who simply want to exist. I’ve learned patience and compassion. I’ve learned how to recognise my privileges and listen to others’ perspectives. I’ve learned to stand up for others, how to hear, how to help, how to correct myself. And I learned some startling shit about myself along the way – with all due irony, some of the things I used to lash out at others for are intrinsic parts of myself.

You wouldn’t know what I am now from what I was then. You wouldn’t know what I was then from what I am now.

It distresses me deeply to think of someone dredging up my dark, awful past and treating me as though that furiously hateful person is still me. It distresses me to see others dredging up the past for anyone who has made efforts to become a better person, out of some sick obsession with proving they’re “problematic.”

Purity culture tells you that once someone says or does something, they can never go back on it. That’s a goddamn lie. While it’s true that some remain unrepentant and never change their ways and continue to harm others, it’s important to allow everyone the chance to learn from their mistakes. Saying something ignorant isn’t murder. Please stop treating it that way. Let people grow.

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Surfing over Le-Metru

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LOOK AT THIS. IT’S THE RACE CLIPS FROM THE US TOUR AND OMG THEY’RE AMAZING. I HAVE OFFICIALLY DIED. OH MY FUCKING GOD.

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Done with exams and Im finally home yayyy

Doodle on plane, CB and Electra

Havent finished Greaseball so I will post him later XD

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I came up with a few ideas of where the characters as toy trains might've came from

I actually had a crazy theory once that Pearl, Electra, and the components might have been fairly new to Control's trainset? Maybe they weren't from the same trainset, but maybe they were all gifts bought around the same time?

Greaseball and Dinah could've possibly been a set

Buffy and Ashley were part of an expansion pack.

Caboose was an unlettered caboose with a bunch of railroad logo stickers and Control just kind of went nuts with putting the different stickers all over. Then the backstory of being a wanted criminal just gelled together from there

The Rockies were a pack of three-four boxcars, while Dustin and Flat-top were a separate expansion pack

Poppa, Belle, and possibly Rusty were hand-me-downs

Some of the nationals may have had trainsets of their own, explaining some of the "doubles" from the Japan and Australia tours e.g. Vladimir, CoCo, Yoshimoto, etc.

Greaseball's gang members might be bought second hand/lack motors, so they don't race

On that note, Prince of Wales doesn't race because the toy train has a faulty motor and gives up the ghost after moving a few inches

Headcanon Express: Where Do Baby Trains Come From?

How do all those poppas and mommas get their babies? I have a few ideas – and, no, none of them involve trains actually menstruating and getting pregnant like humans.

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After Makuta, here’s a concept of the brother Ekimu.

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@themugbearer‘s ko-matoran Kikao from @technorealm.

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A take on G2 Makuta inspired by my MoUP done during Inktober2016.

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The black diamond  on the first picture appears to be the logo for the “Reading Lines”

And the black rectangle in the second picture appears to be the logo READING “The New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Co.” It was a little difficult to find an exact matching logo, but here’s a uniform patch from the railroad to compare it to:

Railfans: Help

My fellow rail fans and model train enthusiasts, below are two photos from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical about trains (where the actors are on roller skates). This character is the red caboose, and you can see that he has the decals for Penn Central, Great Northern Railway, Baltimore & Ohio, Chessie System, and Pennsylvania Railroad (and he has the Northern Pacific on his hat).

My question to the railroad enthusiasts on tumblr is do you recognize the two black logos? The black diamond on the first and the black square on the second?

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I’d say Greaseball is probably an F-3 locomotive like this one pictured here. The headlights, bonnet, placement of the wingpin, and the shape of the plow all check out

Headcanon Express: Greaseball

What kind of diesel engine is Greaseball?

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I’ve been a little out of the loop...did Caboose get cut out of the recent revisions in Bochum or something? I know Krupp was, which doesn’t seem to be a real loss despite being my favorite of the components. Even when Bochum’s production was brought in line with the last set of revisions, he just seemed to lack the menacing factor from the “New London” version. Come to think of it, they actually paired him up with Hashamoto in place of C.B. and he was some sort of psycho who took pleasure in seeing his engine get hurt wasn’t he? Wonder why they never thought of trying some of the C.B. plot points out with one of the components?  

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Decided to update the bg on those since I didn’t like the previous iteration.

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AHHA. AHAHAHAHAHA. HAHA. GUESS WHAT FELLAS BEEP BEEP BEEP

WE HAVE THE FUCKING BWAY PRESS REEL NOW.

God bless aurora spiderwoman whoever you are :’) you keep me going through these trying times.

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Standardized Showcase: Toa Mahri

The complete team re-stylized with my standardized revamp design.

Matoro uses my highest parts count yet, of an approximate 30,000 individual components.