August is upon us, which means it's time for a new raffle! Go enter 2022 Member Raffle #8 for a chance to win 75110 Luke Skywalker from the Star Wars buildable figures collection. Maybe you'll be like Emzee, who won the July raffle! And don't forget that we've got a bunch of other raffles and giveaways going on celebrating our anniversary and supporting a good cause!

Just popping in to remind everyone that we currently have five free giveaways and two raffles you can check out and enter, open to all members of the site. You have a chance to win a Star Wars constraction set, New York Comic Con posters, a signed Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui poster, and more! The proceeds from the raffle will support Planned Parenthood and help protect the reproductive rights of women across the country. Best of luck to everyone who enters, and thank you for supporting a good cause!

Tonight we'll be doing our last videogame stream before our two week break for BrickFair. Swing by the BZPower Twitch channel to watch us play, and hopefully beat, the story mode of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. We're in the midst of Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, so the end is nigh. See you all there tonight!

The upcoming Disney+ exclusive LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation is less than two weeks away, and earlier today a new clip went up on the Star Wars YouTube channel. Finn, Poe, Rey, Rose, and the rest of the sequel trilogy gang are taking an intergalactic cruise on the Halcyon, and I'm sure nothing bad will happen. It's looking like it'll be a fun jaunt when it premiers on August 5th!

It looks like LEGO IDEAS isn't going to leave us completely high and dry for Bionicle content; their latest contest is 90TH ANNIVERSARY: BIONICLE THEME CELEBRATIONS. The entry period is from July 21st to August 4th, so less than a week to make something, but there's a plethora of cool Anniversary prizes going out to the winner. (Alas, the winning entry will not be turned into a set itself.) Let's show them that there's still a talented Bionicle building community out here and enter a bunch of cool creations! The judged winners will be announced on August 10th.

It's quite the feeling to wake up and realize that nearly twenty-one years have gone by since you stumbled across a new Bionicle fan site that would go on to alter the course of your life. It's been over two decades since Dimensioneer started the site that would go on to become BZPower (after starting out as Bionicle Zone and later BZCommunity after an early letter from the LEGO lawyers) and somehow we're still here! I'm thankful every day for the friends I've made and experiences I've had thanks to this site and know many of you feel the same. I'm hopeful that we can keep things going for years to come and continue to have great times and friendships through this wonderful community!

To celebrate BZPower's anniversary, we're giving away a bunch of swag! All members can head to the giveaways section of the site to enter for a chance to win some New York Comic Con posters as well as a promotional frisbee and pin. In addition, we're running two raffles: one for a Bionicle 2: The Legend of Metru Nui poster signed by its directors and another for a vintage copy of Bionicle The Game. All of the proceeds from the raffles will go to support Planned Parenthood, and much like our raffles earlier benefiting Ukrainian refugees, I will be matching your donations. Help out an important cause and help us celebrate twenty-one years of BZPower!

Wait, it's Tuesday already? I guess we'll be heading over to the BZPower Twitch channel in a couple of hours to play some more LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga! We hope to see you there, starting at 7:30 PM Eastern!

Our coverage of Bio-Cup 2022 Round Two continues. It was a small enough batch of MOCs that we'll cover the rest of them today, focusing on the numbered subthemes 5 through 9. There were some cool MOCs here, click to see more of them.