Ah, "Promotional Set". On every kid's wishlist, back in the day. All of the fun of Lego but with cardboard cut-outs, instead.

Do elephants eat fish?

Absolute Legend

Lego needs more triporeurs. That’s an awesome looking yellow barque too!

Fabuland has fallen into the same boat as Animal Crossing. If all the people are anthropomorphic animals, wouldn't it be weird for them to eat fish?

I’ve always preferred Retail Set, but that’s just my opinion.

The next LEGO movie should be Fabuland vs. Bionicle.

Oh that background is quite nice actually!

@Harmonious_Building said:
"The next LEGO movie should be Fabuland vs. Bionicle. "

Who would win?
Not the viewers, obviously.

@CarolinaOnMyMind said: " @Harmonious_Building said:
"The next LEGO movie should be Fabuland vs. Bionicle. "

Who would win?
Not the viewers, obviously. "

I don't know. Can the Fabuland characters bring all their Chima arsenal? Giant beasts and huge transforming robots that are all armed to the teeth?

I'd be okay with this.

Ah, Parah’mo Sh’nalset, easily one of the most overlooked characters in the Bionicle canon. But this was one of my favorites as a kid. The LORE from the Faabu Lan Saga is some of the best in the series. I’ll never forget when Parah’mo defeated Blip Blorp and Zeep Zop in battle.

You just don’t get it if you’re not a Bionicle kid at heart...

It looks like Butteredwaffles's cat sat on the keyboard.

It is notable how close that rowboat is to the standard minifig version.

Something tells me Just2Good wants to know this set's location, not sure what

@WemWem said:
"Ah, Parah’mo Sh’nalset, easily one of the most overlooked characters in the Bionicle canon. But this was one of my favorites as a kid. The LORE from the Faabu Lan Saga is some of the best in the series. I’ll never forget when Parah’mo defeated Blip Blorp and Zeep Zop in battle.

You just don’t get it if you’re not a Bionicle kid at heart..."

Given most of the BIONICLE names were either Maori words in the early years or Latin derivatives in the later ya'll are tipping close to flat out racism with those jokes. People like you are the reason the Monkie Kid show has only just started calling him Sun Wukong instead of Monkey King and that the BIONILCE reboot had such childish names like "Lord of Skull Spiders."

Ya'll wanna make that joke actually funny change "Blip Blorp" and "Zeep Zop" to "Blooporak" and "Zeepzu" and get rid of all the apostrophes, then you'll at least be in the ball park.

@GSR_MataNui said:
" @WemWem said:
"Ah, Parah’mo Sh’nalset, easily one of the most overlooked characters in the Bionicle canon. But this was one of my favorites as a kid. The LORE from the Faabu Lan Saga is some of the best in the series. I’ll never forget when Parah’mo defeated Blip Blorp and Zeep Zop in battle.

You just don’t get it if you’re not a Bionicle kid at heart..."

Given most of the BIONICLE names were either Maori words in the early years or Latin derivatives in the later ya'll are tipping close to flat out racism with those jokes. People like you are the reason the Monkie Kid show has only just started calling him Sun Wukong instead of Monkey King and that the BIONILCE reboot had such childish names like "Lord of Skull Spiders."

Ya'll wanna make that joke actually funny change "Blip Blorp" and "Zeep Zop" to "Blooporak" and "Zeepzu" and get rid of all the apostrophes, then you'll at least be in the ball park."

Are you saying that 'Blip Blorp' and 'Zeep Zop' is racist? Because that sounds rather tenuous. And if you didn't get the riff on "Promotional Set" then you need to stop looking so hard at things to be offended by.

@GSR_MataNui said:
"Given most of the BIONICLE names were either Maori words in the early years or Latin derivatives in the later ya'll are tipping close to flat out racism with those jokes."

I really hope that you aren't being serious. How any reasonable person can construe that joke as being even remotely racist is beyond me.

@Spartan_Ghost said:
"Why does this even exist? I mean, it’s a pop-up book with just enough plastic bits to legally qualify as a set. I dare you to try and change my mind."

Try to imagine walking around a toy store in the 80's and admiring the gray Castle sets, the 8860 Technic car chassis, 12V train sets (7740, 7750, 7760, signals and remotes), and then there is the shelf with all the bright green Fabuland sets and the little transparent packaging for the small sets (with figures and attributes as above). Below that you would find the plastic Service packs and once a year: a new Lego catalogue with all the new sets for the coming year. If you're over fourty, this may bring back nostalgic memories. And aren't the figures just cute?

@GSR_MataNui said:
"Fabuland has fallen into the same boat as Animal Crossing. If all the people are anthropomorphic animals, wouldn't it be weird for them to eat fish?"
Nah, there isn't any anthro fish character in Fabuland.
In mature anthro fiction this is a prominent topic: in BoJack Horseman it's normal for "animal-people" to eat "animals-food", they look the same but they're grown differently so they don't develop intelligence; in Beastars there's an illegal, but tolerated, black market where carnivores can buy the meat of dead herbivores coming from hospitals and morgues, and there are criminals kidnapping animals to be eaten alive...
And even in Disney comics you often see Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck eat meat...

@Zordboy said:
" @CarolinaOnMyMind said: " @Harmonious_Building said:
"The next LEGO movie should be Fabuland vs. Bionicle. "

Who would win?
Not the viewers, obviously. "

I don't know. Can the Fabuland characters bring all their Chima arsenal? Giant beasts and huge transforming robots that are all armed to the teeth?

I'd be okay with this."

I’d rather see Scala vs Galidor!
Who’s with me?
The 8321 Nepol and Shimmel vs 3220 My Dad battle alone would be stuff of legend!
(Ooh, I got goosebumps just thinking about the epicness)

@GSR_MataNui said:
" @WemWem said:
"Ah, Parah’mo Sh’nalset, easily one of the most overlooked characters in the Bionicle canon. But this was one of my favorites as a kid. The LORE from the Faabu Lan Saga is some of the best in the series. I’ll never forget when Parah’mo defeated Blip Blorp and Zeep Zop in battle.

You just don’t get it if you’re not a Bionicle kid at heart..."

Given most of the BIONICLE names were either Maori words in the early years or Latin derivatives in the later ya'll are tipping close to flat out racism with those jokes. People like you are the reason the Monkie Kid show has only just started calling him Sun Wukong instead of Monkey King and that the BIONILCE reboot had such childish names like "Lord of Skull Spiders."

Ya'll wanna make that joke actually funny change "Blip Blorp" and "Zeep Zop" to "Blooporak" and "Zeepzu" and get rid of all the apostrophes, then you'll at least be in the ball park."

I genuinely apologize, it was not my intent to mock tribal languages in any way. I can see how my joke could be interpreted in that way, and you’re right that I should probably be more careful when making “funny names” jokes.

I was just trying to riff on set’s name, as well as the Bionicle deepdives we’ve been getting in RSotD. It’s both humorous and endearing to me how Bionicle fans can recite a compendium of knowledge at the drop of a hat, same as the way I used to be able to do with Star Wars (and still can to some extent).

TL;DR No offense was intended, but I’ll be more careful about these kind of jokes next time.

WemWem said: "I genuinely apologize, it was not my intent to mock tribal languages in any way"

IMO you should never apologize to these kinds of accusations, the people who comes with them will never be satisfied anyway. As I see it this toxic "everything is racist" attitude is promoted as a part of of a modernist/normalist cultural eradication agenda, to make *everything* related to traditional/native cultures so sensitive that no-one dares touch it with a ten-foot pole, and force everyone to avoid anything that's not a part of modern globalist/consumerist mass culture.

It doesn't matter if you're a member of culture [X] or not, if you're not a member you'll be accused of "racism" and "cultural appropriation", if you ARE a member you'll be accused of promoting "negative stereotypes" of your own group. This is not limited to native cultures, you'll see the same attitudes in for instance the "camp gay" vs. "straight gay" conflict.

IMO today's so-called "tolerance" is nothing but a fraud, as it *only* applies to things like skin color, sexuality, handicaps and similar stuff you can't be "blamed" for. It does NOT apply to opinions and personal choices (like lifestyle, wardrobe and preferred intoxicants), I genuinely believe society was far more tolerant and diverse in the 70s than it is today.