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The pilots are awful, and currently on Lego.com. You only really need them for the plot setup. The rest of the series improves with the actual series, which are Rise of the Snakes (Season 2) and something else which I can't remember (Season 3). It doesn't pass the Bechdel Test, but it's witty, the female characters are stronger than some of the male ones, and they don't dumb it down. There's a really awesome plot twist that everyone knows now because it's all over the fandom, and then there's another smaller twist that made me really happy even though it was obvious. If you need convincing to watch it, read synopsises of the first six episodes of Rise of the Snakes and skip to Episode 7, which is Tick Tock.I'll have to take that into consideration.I would actually agree with Bonesiii; start with the pilot. I don't know what Neelh's problem with it is (I liked it). In any case, it's not as unwatchable as the Chima pilot. The music is excellent, the characters are fun, and the plot, while perhaps a bit cliche, still holds together well. Moreover, I feel that it would be harder to get invested in the characters if you don't see where they come from and what they're each like, and the pilot is the best introduction in that respect.I do agree, however, that Tick Tock rises above everything that comes before it.If you need to watch Ninjago online, here's a handy trick: the British Ninjago site (http://ninjago.lego.com/en-gb/default.aspx) has all the episodes up to halfway through season 2. Those aren't available on the American site. They appear to have taken the pilot down, but you can find that by googling "Ninjago Pilot" if all else fails.Oh, the music! I can never resist the theme of the Falcon, which I always referred to as Falcon's Flight. It's so Celtic and wonderful.

Preach, Tahu.

Yeah, I was kind of thinking that a lot of different languages would have to exist for Nokama's mask to be useful. So, I guess lots of rahi languages as well.

Okay, first, Bionicle's return was never officially on BZP, from what I can tell, and so it isn't really official news. However, it was and still is rampant across the Internet. Second, what most people hoped. This is mostly referring to a proper ending, and not the one we got. Maybe a definite ending for the Toa Mahri. (I don't really know how popular of a topic that is, but still). Third, Bionicle was originally made for the same age group, but you can tell that it eventually gets darker and more complicated, and so not totally appropriate for the current audience of Hero Factory. Maybe Hero Factory will become the same way, but as of yet, nothing f the like has happened. Fourth, obviously there is no way to know, that would be creepy if I or someone else besides the designers, writers, etc. knew about that. Fifth, really nothing to add.Sixth, yes. That is what I meant. The literal size doesn't matter, and I don't think it ever will, but the storyline would be very hard to understand, I think, for someone who didn't grow up with it. But yeah, new species and little character updates do seem a little unnecessary at the moment.Seventh, yes, that was an unfortunate choice of words, wasn't it? I meant to say the large collection of Alternate Universes, like the Kingdom, Melding Alternate Universe, etc. Hopefully that cleared up any small mistakes I made in the original post. Thanks, Bones, for pointing out my errors. I really appreciate when people do that. (I swear I'm not trying to sound sarcastic. I really do mean it!)Sorry if this is really confusing to read. This website's format and functionality change quite a bit from computer to iOS. I don't have a reliable quote button.

Sorry if this isn't in the right place, but it seems the most appropriate.I have been researching this lately, about Bionicle's revival. Older posts say it will return in summer 2013. It looks like that isn't going to happen. I've also seen stuff about 2015. I mean, who knows? But still, unlikely. All of this begged the question for me: would Bionicle's revival be what we hoped? I can't say it will because of the following reasons:1. It wouldn't be meant for the same audience. Hero Factory was obviously aimed for younger kids. The older fans would be incredibly disappointed, I would think. There would be more simple good vs evil and good always triumphs, stuff like that. Also probably less death.2. We don't know what it would be like. The story could derive completely from the original story. Even if that's a good thing, then how will the original story be incorporated? It would be pretty difficult to completely ignore the huge war of Light and Shadow. 3. The Universe is too big. Assuming #2 is null and void, then anybody that didn't grow up with Bionicle wouldn't be able to absorb it all. Heck, I can barely deal with everything like alternate universes and crazy things that weren't part of the main storyline. Things done "off camera" if you will. Since #1 will probably be true, the expanded multiverse (insert overly complicated and gigantic photo of multiverse here) will blow up the heads (figuratively) of children. It's simply too much to comprehend.Whelp, that's all I got. Thoughts? Feelings? And please keep the cultism to a minimum, if you please.

KRIKA! Krika! Krika. He deserves it the most. He turned good, for the most part, and tried to save the Universe. But of course, nobody believed him. What a shame.

Oh my. How did I miss that? Yeesh.

So, I recently read the final comic that Bionicle published, and I noticed something. Why did Teridax just beat Mata Nui around when he could have hit him with a giant bolt of Chain Lightning? Why couldn't he have used laser beams the size of mountains coming out of his eyes to vaporize MN's head? (Ys, I am aware that Teridax did use gravity to bring the other pieces of SM back, but why did he stop there?)

I need a Golden Kraahkan. So much.

I don't really know if Krika's claws count as a weapon, since they're sort of connected to his hands, but I'd like to have those, given that they're just weapons, and not my new hands.

Isn't Adaptation technically the most powerful Makuta power? I always figured that it could adapt to any experience that the particular Makuta had, giving him more resistances/advantages against the enemy. Of course, I am kind of confused about how it's used. Do they have to keep focused to adapt, or what?

Well, if I was a Makuta, then I would somehow keep a spare suit of armor nearby. (I suppose this would be easier if there was either a Makuta base or a lab nearby, like Mutran's.) I suppose this isn't very practical, though, given the fact that Makuta can (could) be reassigned at almost any time. Wait, didn't Teridax use mind control or something of the like on the Piraka when they were in Mangaia? Or does that also not count as a power? I don't think it's a Kraata power...

I can't think of an actor, but I imagined Krika as having a hissy, yet crisp British accent. and quiet, of course.

Oh no, I've gone cross-eyed. Anyway, my theory is that it would just combine their experiences. Vezon and Vezon, that is. Vezon fusing with Vezok will probably be the Vezon equivalent of suicide. I guess?

I was kidding. :PExcept for the Bohrok thing.

I'm not sure whether to commend you on your three dimensional thinking or to tell you to get your mind out of the gutter. I don't believe they reproduce, and they are just created. However, something has bugged me for a while. What if the Av-Matoran transformation is a two-way thing? What if, after a longer time period, assumably, when the Bohrok go idle, that they slowly return to being Matoran, who could be of more use than idle Bohrok? Therefore, they are "created".

This is something that has irked me about many stories involving brain washing. I think that someone "completely wiping someone's memory" would take away their motor skills, speech, and also any memories including their name, job, and personality. But how could someone confidently design a device that more or less preserves all of those things, excluding maybe their job, and put it into action so quickly? At least, I assume Teridax didn't spend all of his time designing and building canisters for what seems, now, a trifle part in his Plan. I mean, when you could be possessing a giant robot that is also the Universe, why would you take much time designing Matoran canisters?

Perhaps a mask of Focus that takes all of your elemental powers, and now they are only accessible through the mask, but the elemental powers are magnified. I don't know about the name, maybe the Mask of Elemental Focus? Something like that?In practicality, this is basically a mask that prohibits all elemental power use that isn't through it. If a Toa that wore this mask at one point switched to another, or lost this mask completely, the powers are gone. In use, the wearer has to greatly focus to use any elemental power, but it is about 3 times as powerful as it normally would be. So, a Toa of fire using this would focus and shoot a fireball, but it is three times bigger than he/she originally meant it to be. Obviously this mask would take a great amount of focus, intelligence, and control to use. For you poke-fans, it is somewhat similar to a Life Orb or a Focus Sash.It must be used cautiously. If a Toa with this mask were able to pull off a Nova Blast, anything within a mile radius, if not more, would probably die, or succumb to the power of that Toa, depending on the element he/she controls. There's that, if anyone likes it.

Well, isn't shapeshifting technically a power? So, even if it would help, the Makuta couldn't use it.

Here I am almost a year later, and I just wanted to apologize from how stupid I sounded when I posted this, and the comments. I don't know if you guys mind or not, but I feel so ashamed looking on this a year later and knowing that I actually sounded like this. *Gives self headslap*

I think that mask shape is the biggest factor here. Even a mask maker would have to make the mask to truly know what it does, assuming he/she had a proper education on that topic.For example, the Nuva masks. They were the same for a while, including their adventures with the Rahkshi and the Piraka, but they eventually changed shape because of the adaptive armor. If I didn't know Gali personally, I wouldn't recognize her at all in her adaptive armor, let alone realize that she had a Mask of Water Breathing. Not only that, but I always thought her mask looked like a mask an assassin would have.

I always thought that the GBs made a fixed set of Bohrok and that the Av-Matoran were a fail safe or a precaution. What if the Bohrok originally carried out what they were supposed to, and one was crushed by a boulder or something? Bam, Av-Matoran. However, it might just be that Av-Matoran have a life span (I was never very educated on life spans and romance in the bionicle universe) and they simply populate the Bohrok army when they "die". I mean, if I were a Great Being, I would want to put a dead Matoran to some use besides filling up the ground. (I'm also not well educated on what they do with their dead. Burial, cremation, a mummification of some sort?) In a related scenario, however, this could be a concept where Mata Nui takes an "Uncle Sam" role and says "I want you". Like the Av-Matoran were "drafted" for their "army".Edit: Thanks to Bones for giving me a slight understanding of the Matoran life spans.

There might not be a canonical reason. The Turaga were made first, so they might not have planned on making those Turaga into Toa at the time. What I can't explain, however, is why they didn't keep the colors consistent when designing the Metru and Hordika.