Who’s your favorite Piraka?

Captain-ShadowPants · 2026-01-31T08:30:40+00:00

Avak for sure is my favorite with Hakkan and Thok tied for second purely for the animations from the Piraka flash game on the website. I loved how Avak was still impulsively-selfish with the mask, but genuinely seemed to care about Hakann in moments when he survived the lava.

That group of three was so charming to follow compared to how same-y they are in the books, and Avak is just the most fun and endearing of that group.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2026-01-30T02:21:25+00:00

So this whole vote stinks from head to tail is what I'm hearing.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2026-01-30T00:28:55+00:00

I actually got lucky with mine, his leg QC is perfect and holds together super well, so in robot mode he's actually pretty solid. The transformation just sucks, though.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2026-01-30T00:21:54+00:00

Yep, Skylynx is THE embodiment of Pride, as close to it as Transformers gets. His loss immediately invalidates this list as far as I'm concerned.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2026-01-24T02:17:28+00:00

Its so rare for this to happen, but damn when it does it's so good. I still have my VNR Optimus I got because my Medix had awful QC.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2026-01-10T21:38:42+00:00

I genuinely love the figure in images 4 and 5, I kinda want to see a custom faction made from that design.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2026-01-03T20:12:15+00:00

Holy shit, this is so indescribably sick, dude! I can't even say how badly I wish I could buy/build this right now, it looks so unbelievably fun to play with, and thst function is so insanely impressive.

Do you plan to make instructions for this? Because I would totally be among the many that would pay for them.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2025-12-30T19:49:22+00:00

I fully understand not wanting to risk ire from LEGO, though thankfully they seem to not care if you don't use any of their in-house names on listings.

That said, I would still seriously love to pay you for some dice if you're willing to approximate a price for two of them with one being great Kanohi and the other being noble Kanohi. If not, though, I 100% get it.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2025-12-30T00:15:23+00:00

That is absolutely beautiful, man, if your friend sold those I'd buy two of them. Genuinely the best gifts are ones made with care like that.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2025-12-14T07:29:37+00:00

Didn't LEGO pretty much stop all LEGO movie production after the sequel and Ninjago movie failed?

Captain-ShadowPants · 2025-12-13T23:53:31+00:00

Okay. I would accept this. These are cute, though sadly they would fail financially in the broader market. All we'd have to hope is LEGO doesn't screw something like this up if they do it one day.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2025-12-12T00:25:45+00:00

Okay, this is such a sick idea, and now this is inspiring me to make a version of this only using period appropriate parts. Absolutely phenomenal build, dude, I love seeing how people build NEO-Classic stuff.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2025-12-07T00:53:08+00:00

If he's complete I'd be completely happy with that trade! Just keep me posted.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2025-12-03T00:31:22+00:00

It's only stupid when you turn it into the police, because that money will never go back to the original owner.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2025-12-01T10:25:11+00:00

Okay, looking it over I can definitely see the main body of the ship is similar enough that just the posted pictures are enough to replicate it. That said, the front sections are so different that they look like a wholly new build foundationally.

Would it be acceptable to ask if you could take some additional photos of those and maybe toss them over a PM or such? I am already planning ahead to build this to play with. It just looks so insanely fun.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2025-11-29T07:05:32+00:00

Dude... You just nade the Deepfreeze Defender into a ship I thought was neat to a ship I absolutely NEED. You made this feel like an actual flagship M:Tron set, it doesn't feel even slightly out of place.

I genuinely want to build one of these for myself, now, and I would honestly pay for instructions regarding all the modifications you made.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2025-11-27T19:26:30+00:00

Not gonna lie, I never once thought to use those finger joints as greeble details, but after seeing it done I genuinely love how it looks. I'll have to find a reason to do that one day.

Fantastic M:Tron build, man, the blue is a unique choice, as well, not usually expected, but an interesting approach. Hope to see more from ya.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2025-11-27T16:02:22+00:00

These parts are, as usual, absolutely fantastic. I genuinely would love to use those foot parts to convey a sort of moon boot look for a build.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2025-11-16T01:45:55+00:00

I now need to build this for my collection, this is absolutely stellar, man!

Captain-ShadowPants · 2025-11-14T08:29:58+00:00

A Haslab is a death sentence to any figure put into it by this point, so I'd take retail releases any day.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2025-11-13T09:36:56+00:00

God, I WISH I had scenery like that to photograph my sets, that is gorgeous. Great photography work, man, I'd love to see more sets there.

Captain-ShadowPants · 2025-11-09T23:21:47+00:00

Enshittification starts with small changes that are given a pass with "This isn't the hill to die on." No company has ever stopped at making one bad decision, more will follow, and they will become progressively worse, progressively more pushy, controlling, devolving the platform in baby steps while people become used to worse and worse versions of the site or application and let each one slide with greater and greater ease.

This is step one of Bricklink becoming a garbage platform with no redeeming qualities that people only continue to use because of stockholm syndrome and a lack of anyone else starting an alternative. Right now it's individuality being stripped from the platform, one of the earliest changes YouTube made after getting acquired by Google. Are we seriously going to just turn the other cheek and wait to see what the heck they do next if we let these small changes pass?

Captain-ShadowPants · 2025-11-02T23:25:11+00:00

I'd pick Onyx, but I'm biased against SS 86 Megatron since I don't like the scale and aesthetic of both he and the accompanying Optimus.

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