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As part of my project to MoC up a line of pseudo-sets for 2017, I find myself needing to commit the ultimate heresy... PARTS MODIFICATION. AIEEEEEEEEEEEE. Simply put, I'm going to be painting several parts, both official and from Shapeways, and I need help finding the closest matches possible for the following colors from Lego's palette: Bright Red, Bright Green, Dark Azure, Black, White, Sand Yellow/Dark Tan, Silver Metallic/Flat Silver, and Warm Gold/Pearl Gold. (Yes, finding perfect matches for Lego's exact black and white is relatively low priority, but I want everything to be as close to official as possible.) I'll be using something along the lines of enamels or hobbyist's model paint, so I'd appreciate it if any recommendations could stay along those lines. I'll also be looking for a finish or sealant that matches the gloss of the official parts. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Browsing Bricklink's catalog looking at different masks, I noticed some masks have colors listed that shouldn't exist. I'm going to list them here to see if anyone can prove they do. I've been off the BIONICLE scene for years, so I don't know if anything new has been discovered. Orange Hau Medium Blue Kakama Copper Pakari (an obvious edit of this) Red Huna Blue Rau I think these are all fakes, either photographed/scanned in poor lighting or digitally manipulated with a color filter.
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A few questions on appearance, and Elemental Kanohi in the MU. 1. I was thinking about the few Elemental Kanohi, the Garai, Kraahkan and Avohkii. I just wondered, surely it's possibly (and in my opinion probable) that there are Kanohi of every Elemental Power? I don't see why not, what do you guys think? I guess certain ones like the Mask of Light and Mask of Shadows have to be special (I know they're unique), but as for Fire, Ice, Stone, Plasma, Plant-Life etc., why not? Do these Elemental powers use different reserves (EE and Kanohi Energy)? So if you're Hewkii Mahri, and you exhaust your EE reserves, could you switch to Gravity powers (although I gotta agree with Bonesiii that the Garai is closer to weight control than Gravity control but CLOSE ENOUGH ), or would you not be able to use the other power? And how awesome would it be to have a Team of 6 Toa with 12 Elemental Powers?! XD IMAGINE THIS PLUS SUVAS O_O GOD-MODE ACTIVATED 2. Related to this: - Elemental Kanohi don't come with Toa exclusives like Nova Blasts and Proto-caging, correct? - An Elemental Kanohi will give you powers equal to a Toa (aside from Toa exclusives), no more, no less, correct? With Psionics, we basically have two powers, but ones that are, in the Bionicle Universe, two sides of the same coin, like Electricity and Magnetism. These powers are Telekinesis and Telepathy. Incidentally, we have two separate Kanohi for these powers. So, I was wondering if they are individually more powerful than the Toa Elemental version. So, if a Toa of Psionics had a Telepath battle with a Toa using a Suletu, the Suletu wearer would win (not counting experience just potential of power reserves/limits, since a Psionics user is likely to be much more experienced), right? Would this be the same for a Telekinetic battle between a Ce-Toa and a Matatu wearer? 3. We have seen that Kanohi tend to be certain shapes, but characters like Norik (maybe Krakua) show that they have the shapes of other Kanohi. I was just thinking that surely this could be used to a tactical advantage. Say you're in a fight, and you have a Mask of Strength shaped like something like a Mask of Water Breathing. Your opponent might think "I don't know for sure what their mask power is but it's almost certainly a Mask of Water breathing because no one ever really bothers with different shaped masks." So they go in for some boxing type fighting, thinking they might have an advantage, at their great, pummeled expense and your victory when you super smash them. So in that kind of way, could shape variations be used to add tactical confusion to combat? I know I used to do this with my MoCs, since i would just use whichever mask looked right and then have whatever power I wanted with the character because I knew it wasn't limited like that. 4. Toa and such could surely paint themselves different colours if they wanted (obviously the Av-Matoran light frequency shifting trick is much more convenient), so in the expanded fiction, couldn't this also be used to tactical advantage: i.e,, disguising yourself as a being of another element, or painting your armour with camouflage patterns if you don't have a Huna handy/want to use a different mask, just to help you a bit if you want to be discrete. I can see the last two questions.points being real points of trolling/confusion in canon, but surely it makes sense and is very possible? I'm ignoring things like "the have to be the right colour so kids buying he sets don't confuse them", I'm just thinking about what's possibru *EDIT (Little side question: Couldn't Artahka, or anyone skilled/powerful enough, make lots of Masks of Shadows and Light?) Tell me whatcha think guys! Cheers ^^ -
MU inhabitants are bio-mechanical, we all know that. But what do the organic components of MU inhabitants look like, particularly in terms of colour? I've basically started this post to ask for any canon info that I may be ignorant of. In the original trilogy, organic components could be seen in characters (even the Vahki I think lol). I noted three distinct textures and three colour styles: - "Brain" texture (like in Pohatu's chest armour gap: http://biosector01.com/wiki/images/9/96/MoL_Pohatu_Nuva.PNG) - Muscle texture: (Note Vakama's shoulders and knees: http://biosector01.com/wiki/index.php/File:Matoran_Vakama.PNG) - Wiry/Sinewy texture (alludes more to wires and hence a bio-mechanical feel. Note Vakama's joints, like his shoulder joint: http://biosector01.com/wiki/index.php/File:LoMN_Toa_Metru_Vakama_With_Great_Disks.PNG) There may be more but I've missed it/don't class variation significant enough. In terms of colour, flesh seemed to be: - A (sometimes lighter) version of their primary colour (Note Tahu's muscle/brainy thingy in his torso: http://biosector01.com/wiki/images/d/d5/MoL_Tahu_Nuva_with_Poisoned_Hau_Nuva.png) - Purple (Note Pohatu: http://biosector01.com/wiki/images/e/e4/Movie_Toa_Nuva_Pohatu_Gali_Tahu.png) - Grey (with the wiry muslces, look back to Toa Vakama) Normally I imagine their flesh to be the primary colour of their armour, but the variations get me thinking. As far as I'm aware the movies are the only sources for this kind of info, but I'd love to be proven wrong
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Firstly, I'd like to apologise if this point has already been addressed or covered -- it's something that has been nagging my mind for a while now, and which I wish to find the answer to. I scoured the old forums including the bygone Official Kanohi Guide in search of answers but I got mixed and mostly inconclusive results. I looked on BS01 but the Kanohi guide didn't do much to explain aspects of the masks apart from known types and the process of mask forging. I also looked on BS01 for Suva functions but since the page is null currently, I didn't get any results.My question is this: how exactly are Toa able to "switch" what Kanohi they are wearing on their face? I was always under the impression that they needed to be linked (in spirit?) to a designated Suva where other Kanohi were stored and they could swap -- send the Kanohi on their face back into the Suva over distance in favour of another one in storage. To me, for the longest time, this seemed like a fairly solid theory.But I've been out of touch with the in-depth BIONICLE media for a while now, it's been ages since I've picked up a book and the deeper intricacies of its universe are beginning to elude me. Leafing through my older comics, though, I noticed something. In the very first Mata Nui set comic, when Kopaka is depicted as arriving from his Toa canister, he sets off on a quest to the "place of far seeing" on Mount Ihu to find one of the Kanohi. He finds a Hau, and he puts it on directly over his Akaku, which seems to morph away, and he says something along the lines of, "I can feel the Mask of Shielding protecting me, but the powers of the Mask of Vision are still mine to command." So he was successfully accessing two Kanohi, both on his face, with only one physically apparent, without any help from a Suva. :???:This is continued in the subsequent Mata Nui comics, such as when Gali makes a speedy grab of the Kanohi Miru and saves herself from a deadly fall by immediately snapping it on over her Kaukau and hovering, or when Lewa does the same with a Kakama and speed-kicks his way out from underwater.So are Toa able to wear more than one Kanohi at a time without help from a Suva? Do they even need a Suva in the first place? And if they don't, how many Kanohi are they able to wear on their face at one time without the magic backpack that swallows up all of them but one becoming full?Again, I apologise if this question has already been addressed.P.S. On an unrelated note, I also have a really quick question about Kanohi colour -- do they retain colour after being removed from a Toa/Matoran/Turaga/etc face, or do they become grey?Thank you for reading!
