http://photos-g.ak.instagram.com/hph...75640856_n.jpg

I worked some more on Ultimate Tahu, a version of Tahu from another dimension.

I like the orginal Tahu head on new bionicle body.

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...psm1qa7ear.jpg

It's been too long... Anyway, I'll post my mask collection later.

Oh wow, can't wait to see you build your stuff up. :) I'd love to see that mask collection.

Mind if I join the fray? Just assembled these guys last weekend!

http://i.imgur.com/N3LecFU.jpg

Haha... Lower your expectations. I never got past the most rudimentary creations with ANY kind of building set.

So here's my mask collection.

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...psvbcufqtc.jpg

At one point, I DID have the Gali version of Kopaka's mask (which I forget the name of), but I either lost it or had it stolen. Also swear I used to have a golden Hau... Like, right before I packed all these up. Weird.

One of the Xa-type Krana I took a silver sharpie to (it was one of those slate gray versions before). I'm thinking of taking some of my Citadel silver paint to it at some point to make it more... seamless.

And down in the lower left-hand corner is the pride of my meager collection, a copper (not really) Vau that my dad gave to me when he came home one weekend he had off from working up in Virginia. These were given out at LEGO-sponsored events at Toys R Us stores and the like. A common uncommon mask.

You really do have a mask collection to be proud of, especially that copper one! It's amazing, I would treasure one well.

I hope LEGO releases more masks in this new generation, they're always a ton of fun to collect.

Honestly that was one of the things i loved about the original line. Every Monday a bunch of my schoolmates and I would gather under the soccer goal at recess and trade and compare our masks. They were dirt cheap so we always managed to get them (though some of us did so in... less than legitimate ways), so someone was always trading for something. I actually got all those Gali masks for a single black Kaukau and... whatever the speed one is (the guy just COULD NOT pull any Onua masks).

That sounds like such fun. I quite envy you. :D

Trading masks is such a good idea. It remains to be seen if LEGO still thinks so, but I do believe they should reignite that aspect of it again.

I expect they won't be quite as cheap as they were back then, but I hope that if they expand the line further, with new versions of the Matoran and such, that they start putting out mask packs. They make a killing off of minifigures, they could easily do so with the masks again.

Though frankly I'd kill to see them update the old, iconic masks to the new standards used by the current figures. As neat as the new Kaukau is, it was the fact that Gali's mask actually looked like a piece fo SCUBA equipment that caught my eye and made an instant fan of me.