From: Discussion: The Future Of Bzpower
Entry posted by Aanchir
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I don't see BZPower living much longer for one main reason... no one wants BIONICLE to return. How can we have a forum of BIONICLE supporters if no one wants BIONICLE back? I find that wanting BIONICLE shows people that you're into BIONICLE. Sure, go ahead and call me a newbie for saying BIONICLE deserves to come back and that Hero Factory lacks a good storyline.
Why come to a BIONICLE forum just to tell us you don't want it to return. If you're a fan of something, you should usually want the line to return.
"I am a BZPower member, no? That means I like Bionicle." - MakutaKlak
That quote makes a lot of sense to me. Members of BZPower should like BIONICLE.
This is basically one of the main reasons I'm thinking about leaving this forum. Why should I visit a forum that doesn't want BIONICLE to return?
Without the people hoping that BIONICLE returns, I don't see BZPower lasting much longer... considering it's a BIONICLE forum.
EDIT: This topic kind of spiraled into BZPower's incapability to discuss politics and religion. I'm sorry if this post is out of place.
I take issue with your assumption that a person is not a fan of BIONICLE unless they want it back. I am a fan of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series of graphic novels. Those told a cohesive story in ten books. There have been occasional side-stories released since then, but I have no reason to ever want to see the original comic series come back, because it told a story as well as it could be told in as many books as it needed to tell that story.
Likewise, I'm a big fan of the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. There is still material to anticipate from that in the future, given the recent movie (which I loved greatly). But do I ever want to see brand-new Tintin stories told? No. The author, Herge, is long-dead, and as far as I'm concerned only he could do Tintin justice with his original storytelling. The creators of the new film do a wonderful job piecing together various parts of the Tintin books into a cohesive and entertaining narrative worthy of Herge himself. But only Herge could do the same for a brand-new and never-before-seen Tintin adventure.
A person can be a Beatles fan and discuss their music online without wanting The Beatles to come back. A person can be a Star Wars fan and discuss the movies online without wanting Star Wars to come back (many, ironically, didn't want Star Wars to come back and were quite disappointed when it did). A person can be a fan of any number of things for which the authors are either finished writing or dead and buried, but these fans can still find plenty to discuss about what had come before. That's the thing about ideas. They don't get "used up," contrary to what some people seem to think. A concept that has already been used to its fullest extent can still be a source of inspiration and imaginative appeal for years and years to come.
As it is, I loved BIONICLE. I still love BIONICLE. But I loved it as it was, without needing more from the series than I got out of it, and I can be happy with it whether it comes back or not. New stories could be told, and I'm sure if the demand ever emerges, TLG will tell those stories, and I will lap it up-- along with the sure-to-be-beautiful set designs that the story exists to sell. But I do not need those new stories, especially when other themes exist to tell me brand-new stories with a different sort of tone than BIONICLE's rich and epic mythos.
Many BIONICLE fans felt the same even before the theme ended. They continued producing BIONICLE art, MOCs, and fan fiction whether or not they cared for the newest stories and sets. What had come before was what they found most enjoyable and inspiring. There's no reason to assume that a theme, because it has ended, leaves nothing new to discuss, and in fact the lessons we as a fandom learned from BIONICLE can be used to better analyze and appreciate other LEGO themes, just as LEGO has used those same lessons to create those same themes.
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