Friday, May 28, 2010
BIONICLE 2010
• Mata Nui gave the ability to understand Agori to all the Matoran universe inhabitants on Bara Magna as well as on Aqua Magna and Bota Magna. However, Lewa Nuva and the others with him in the Great Beings' fortress were shielded from the transmission by the building itself and never received the ability. [source]
• On the plausibility of the reuniting of Spherus Magna: "Think of it this way -- you tear off a chunk of Earth, say with America on it, all the w
Saturday, January 30, 2010
But check this out.
BIONICLE STARS
• A heat vision Rahkshi loses its power if it does not have its staff in hand. [source] [source]
• Same as the Rahkshi in 2003, the heat vision Rahkshi's tools aid its flight. [source]
• Tahu will feel some frustration over his devolution back into a Toa Mata. [source] • Tahu's mask is still adaptive. [source]
• The Golden Armor does not make Tahu invincible. What it actually does is to be revealed in March. [source]
STORY
Friday, October 17, 2008
KARDA NUI
• Rockoh T3 is faster than either of the other two vehicles and is built for ramming attacks.
• Greg doesn't consider Gavla evil -- he considers her lonely and friendless. Think about it -- Gavla, before becoming a shadow Matoran, never stole or robbed or killed anyone. She wasn't evil. But she didn't feel welcomed or wanted by her tribe. She did feel needed by the Makuta, which is why she didn't want to go back to being an Av-Matoran. That's not being evil
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Yeah... sometimes it's easier when I save this for Saturday.
BARA MAGNA
• After pursuing Stronius after the battle at Roxtus, Gelu failed to capture him and is now with the rest of the Glatorian.
• The Skrall River has been undammed.
• Tarduk, Crotesius, and Kirbold had an encounter with the baterra after meeting the Element Lord of Rock while walking for hours along the banks of the River Dormus. • Since the Matoran universe robot was constructed near the G
Friday, May 1, 2009
BARA MAGNA
• Bara Magna is viewable from the endless ocean planet with the use of a telescope.
• Greg: "I think it is safe to say the MN telescope is not powerful enough to see out of the solar system…" meaning that Bara Magna and the endless ocean planet are in the same star system.
• North of Bara Magna's desert are primarily mountains and valleys, and inhabitable terrain is concentrated to a small region. To the south, on the other hand, the desert stretches all the
Friday, October 24, 2008
KARDA NUI
• Vican couldn't care less that Mutran is dead.
• Greg: "There was a process in place that the Nuva could have used to wake Mata Nui up without the Ignika, but it would have been time-consuming to do. With the Ignika counting down to extermination of all life in the universe, there wasn't time to do it that way. But it was still the Nuva's destiny to do it -- the Ignika was simply the tool they used to make it happen. (Who got the Ignika into the Codrex? Wh
Friday, March 27, 2009
BARA MAGNA
• Greg: "I see Malum as very protective of the Vorox, especially the ones in his tribe. Let's face it, they took him in when his own people cast him out. As a result, he sees more "civilized values" in them than in Agori and Glatorian. Vorox don't lie; they kill only to protect themselves or to get things they need to survive; and they judge others based on something Malum respects, namely strength. So I would compare it to someone who has spent a lot of time
Friday, January 30, 2009
Decided to go with bold orange dot to hilight interesting ones, for now.
BARA MAGNA
• Inhabitants of Bara Magna are not born with their mechanical implants, and they can live just as well without them.
• Exsidian is a metal that resists wear and corrosion really well (a constant problem in a desert), so it's prized for use as a blade coating, etc.
● Greg, on destinies on Bara Magna: "While I am not saying BM characters do not have destinies (I believe everyone
Friday, March 20, 2009
BARA MAGNA
• Mata Nui does not get his shield until some time after he forms his body.
• The Sand Tribe was a very populous force even before the disaster.
• Tarduk borrowed the sand stalkers from Metus. • The Vorox and Zesk's regression had more to do with their psychology than anything else.
• Certavus was one of the founders of the Glatorian system. Tarix got along with him.
• Whether or not Bara Magna was once part of Spherus Magna and whether or not Skrall l
Friday, December 5, 2008
It's that time of week again.
BARA MAGNA
• Greg: "The Skrall situation is different from the rest. Skrall do not have individual names -- they're just called Skrall, which is the name of their group -- unless they distinguish themselves and so earn a name. Other Glatorian have individual names and are not strictly a part of a "tribe" -- they just work for the tribe."
• Skrall are not clones, but rather living individual beings who happen to live in a social group
Friday, April 10, 2009
Good Friday
Ask me about adulthood.
BARA MAGNA
• The implants used by the inhabitants of Bara Magna are so efficient that they can be passed on to new individuals without use of sophisiticated technology, which they lack.
• Glatorian death is extremely rare -- Glatorian matches are not to the death, and killing an opponent in the arena is treated the same way as a boxer killing another one in a match. Injuries, of course, can and do happen all the time.
• Hundre
Friday, January 8, 2009
BIONICLE 2010
• The mega-village on Bara Magna consists of dwellings that were being sheltered, not housed, by the construct Mata Nui has now usurped. The Agori vacated the robot before Mata Nui took control.
• Although the Golden Armor would function on any Toa Mata, it was always designated for Tahu's use.
• Tahu's new firesword is still his adaptive weapon. • Nektann is considered a Piraka insofar as that is what other Skakdi now think of him for siding with Maku
Friday, February 6, 2009
BARA MAGNA
• Greg: "Sandbat is a creature, looks like of like a python with bat wings. Lives under the sand, mostly, springs out, attacks you, then dives back under." Greg would say sand bats are a good 7-8 feet long.
• The water tribe is probably the most economically powerful village, due to its water resources. ● Greg, on the Rock tribe's access to advanced technology: "Has nothing to do with where they live. Has to do with where they LIVED." "Like the Skrall, the
Friday, September 12, 2008
Hello there, readers! This is the first entry of the Farshtey Feed, my OGD Weekly Digest. Come here every Friday to get condensed notes from the OGD. Notice the new bar in the Links box. We'll see how this goes!
KARDA NUI
• The waters of the swamp glow in places.
• Tanma, Photok, and Solek are off fighting other Shadow Matoran during Endgame.
• Mutran creates the Klakk that end up in Karda Nui.
• Mutran creates Klakk in Karda Nui for defense and because Ra
Friday, September 19, 2008
Here we go -- Farshtey Feed #2. I'd like to congratulate my brother on turning fourteen today. Wish him happy birthday!
KARDA NUI
• The Axalara T9 was not intended for any specific Toa.
• It will take hundreds of thousands of years for the Ignika to run out of power.
• All of the vehicles could get supercharged under the right circumstances. • Even if one of the Mistika Makuta got new protosteel armor, he (or she) still would have limited access to his power
Friday, November 14, 2008
BARA MAGNA
• The inhabitants of Bara Magna have heard of the Great Beings but generally do not call them that.
• One of the winter Agori sets is the leader of his tribe.
• Neither Fero nor Atakus is an Earth villager -- Rock is black, and Earth is tan! • The inhabitants of Bara Magna have seen the Three Virtues symbol but have no idea what it refers to.
THE UNIVERSE
• The Three Virtues map does not show a means of getting from one universe to another.
• Th
Friday, April 24, 2009
BARA MAGNA
• Greg believes the Vorox always had their stinger tails.
• Malum did not kill the former pack leader of the Vorox.
• Greg would say most if not all the known Agori were alive before the Shattering. • All of the known Glatorian were alive before the Shattering. Gresh is indeed a younger Glatorian, but he does remember the Shattering. He was simply too young to have fought in the war.
• Greg: "Bone hunters generally don't use vehicles, because vehicles ma
Friday, June 25, 2010
SPHERUS MAGNA
• The three classes of male Skrall are physically distinguishable from one another from birth. [source]
• Greg would bet that Surel is older than Ackar. [source]
• None of the Agori, Skrall, or Glatorian we know of are related. [source] • The powers of a Toa of Psionics would work on the organic inhabitants of Spherus Magna. Although one would expect the brains of the Matoran and those of the people of Spherus Magna to be very different physically, the Mat
Sunday, January 24, 2010
BIONICLE 2010
• On how Mata Nui made it possible for the inhabitants of the Matoran universe and Bara Magna to speak to each other: "Simple. Mata Nui had to be able to understand the languages of the planets he visited, which means he had to have something akin to a universal translator built in. Which also makes it logical that the prototype would have that as well." "[it's t]he equivalent of a universal translator. After all, MN had to be able to understand the langu
Friday, November 28, 2008
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving .
BARA MAGNA
• Bara Magna is a lot older than the Matoran universe and is most likely older than the Great Beings.
• Greg: "The black and green Glatorian […] fight in the first comic -- but reasonably, any two Glatorian can fight in the arena, because it's not about being friends or enemies. It's a job."
• One can get a pretty good idea whether or not a Thornax is going to explode if one knows when it was harvested or if
Friday, December 19, 2008
Happy Holidays!
BARA MAGNA
• Greg would not say that Thornax grow abundantly. Like water or food or anything else, Thornax are a scarce resource that has to be sought out or traded for. That is why Glatorian have them and not Agori, because Glatorian get first dibs on whatever is found.
• Bone hunters work for whoever has something that they want. They are nomadic bandits. They do not participate in the social system.
• "Bone hunters" is a tribe name. They are
Friday, December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas!
BIONICLE 2010
• Greg is sure that some Glatorian died in Teridax's attack on them.
• Click is now outside of Mata Nui's current robot body.
• In Mata Nui's body Teridax can only use what Makuta powers he was able to use as Maxilos. • The energy source retrieved by Mata Nui was made active in the prototype robot body's head. Its power bound the components of the body together.
• Mata Nui now remembers his lost knowledge thanks to something he ha
Friday, January 1, 2010
Happy New Year! 2010!
BIONICLE 2010
• Tahu's adaptive armor is still functional and should innovate some sort of cooling system for use in Bara Magna's desert.
• The Ignika devolved Tahu because the Golden Armor was not designed for use by a Toa Nuva.
• The three armor pieces on Tahu's Stars model represent what his adaptive armor looks like in neutral form. • Greg's understanding is that Papercutz will be publishing a smaller, hardcover version of Mata Nui's Guide
Friday, June 4, 2010
BIONICLE 2010
• On whether the stages of growth of the Kraata whose powers Tahu assimilated matter: "I really haven't thought about the level question, but it is probably something worth us discussing." [source] SPHERUS MAGNA
• The Skrall homeland is located in the forest of Bota Magna. [source]
• On whether clothing is common in Spherus Magna: "Yes. You wear fabric under the armor. You don't wear armor against bare skin in a desert, you would fry your skin right off." [
Friday November 6, 2009
MATORAN UNIVERSE
• On the Makuta's villainy: "I see it as there being a fundamental flaw in their design. My thesis all along has been that the GBs are imperfect, so what they made was imperfect too."
• On the communications gear within Mata Nui's consciousness: "It wasn't designed specifically for communication with the Ignika. It is communications gear, period. Tren Krom knows how to use it to contact the Ignika."
• The two Glatorian species members in Mata Nui's
