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, 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
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Mata Nui.
Skrall.
Ackar.
Bonehunter, although this is really Atakus's model. Hopefully the producers won't make this switch in the movie.
Berix.
Metus.
Gresh.
Vorox.
Kiina.
Tuma.
The scarabax beetle Click witnesses the landing of the Ignika. A huge foot is seen in the distance. Bara Magna's two moons (one blue, one green) are seen in the night sky.
A huge bolt of energy gathers.
Some sort of ancient
Friday, May 22, 2009
BARA MAGNA
• The Great Beings once held a position of power on Spherus Magna, up to the Core War and during it.
• Greg hints that it is possible that the Great Beings would not refer to each other as "Great Beings" or their giant robot as the "Great Spirit."
• Prior to the Shattering, many Agori and Glatorian had been outside of Bara Magna. Most are not native to Bara Magna. • Greg, on the Vorox's anomalous tails: "Ah, but who is to say they aren't the same species as G
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Piecing together those hi-res images from Amazon's zoom feature can be a pain. So it's a good thing I already did it for you!
Sets
Kaxium V3
Baranus V7
Thornatus V9
Skopio XV-1
Boxes
Cendox V1
Kaxium V3
Baranus V7
Thornatus V9
Skopio XV-1
Friday, May 15, 2009
GLATORIAN
• Greg: "Strakk's attitude is a lot closer to the typical Glatorian than, say, Gresh's is. Some Glatorian, like Vastus, are motivated by the need to make up for their past, some, like Tarix, by love of their village, but most in general are in it for the shelter, the food, the equipment -- those are things you can't do without in a desert, and at some point, you will be too old to make a living as a Glatorian, so you have to get it while you can."
• Vastus's re
Friday, April 17, 2009
BARA MAGNA
• Vastus is a little younger than Tarix, Kiina is quite a bit younger than Tarix, but older than Gresh.
• The Book of Certavus is currently in Berix's possession.
EMPIRE OF THE SKRALL
• Greg, on the baterra's ability to vanish: "Works like this. You and a friend are walking through a forest. One of the trees is actually a shapeshifted baterra. It turns back into a baterra, attacks your friend. When you turn to see what's happening, it's a tree again, so i
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, April 3, 2009
Terminator: SCC is getting really intense; they built up a lot of plot this season that makes for great drama now. I'm proud of that show.
BARA MAGNA
• Mata Nui has a mask, which he does not know well how to use, since he has never worn a mask before. And while the mask's powers COULD be used to kill all the Skrall, Mata Nui would not do that anymore than a Toa would. Mata Nui is a champion of life and light and does not kill his enemies.
• Gelu did not retire becau
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
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
I got to play with acid today in science. Yup, acid. Of course, there are some lab partners that you just can't trust with acid...
When you put 6-molar acetic acid (vinegar) and 6-molar hydrochloric acid together on magnesium, it fizzes a lot and releases smelly, acidic fumes. Don't want to breathe that stuff -- you wouldn't be able to breathe right for a long time. It would be like having a cough that lasted three months.
Here's a quiz:
Would you rather d
Friday, March 6, 2009
BARA MAGNA
• SPIRIT: "When exactly did the Skrall move south? In the new comic, Strakk mentions that they were at the tournament last year, but I thought they left after that tournament, especially since Tarix won it (which he couldn't have done if there were Skrall in attendance)."
Greg: "No, he doesn't. He says "just like they did last year," not "in last year's tournament." Think of it like this -- we have a tournament in January of 2008. You win. Binkmeister shows up
Friday, February 27, 2009
BARA MAGNA
• Greg, on whether Mata Nui is now more powerful than Toa Ignika: "I would say no, simply because Mata Nui does not have a handle on how to use the mask -- he's never had to use a mask before. Ignika, on the other hand, knew all its powers and how to use them."
• The scarabax beetle is the stag beetle seen on the Bara Magna teaser on the November 08 comic.
• Although the Great Beings did have something to with the Arena Magna's design, it was physically
Monday, February 16, 2009
Presidents' Day
"This is Toa Tahu, the Toa of Fire. He wears the Mask of Shielding and wields the Myranah ghost blaster. He is sworn to defeat the Makuta."
Saturday, February 28, 2009
There occurs a time every year, always February-March, when I tend to forget about Bionicle and BZPower for a while and retreat into real life. This pattern has made itself evident over the course of pretty much all my years as a fan of Bionicle; it's a curious thing, but I do, obviously, get back into it every time. I suppose this is so because nothing really happens Bionicle-wise in these months, and also because I'm always faced with taking care of a dozen other o
Friday, February 20, 2009
Does movie Mata Nui have a mouth? \/
GLATORIAN LEGENDS
• Greg: "[The summer line is] being called legends because we had to call them "Glatorian something" to keep Glatorian in the name, and Legends tied in nicely with the name of the movie."
• Mata Nui's new body will not be made of protodermis, since it is made of materials of Bara Magna.
• The Ignika cannot share its thoughts or memories with Mata Nui. • A larger-scale version of the Mata Nui model will be r
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Greg Farshtey is on hiatus, so I no longer have anything in particular to blog about on Fridays. It's a small load off my back. I'm gone this Friday, anyway.
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, 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