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Friday, November 27, 2009 GENERAL • Mata Nui's story will be wrapped up by March 2010. Lego intends for the Bionicle story to continue at least through to the end of 2011. • The other Toa Nuva make it out of Teridax's body as well. • Takanuva appears white and grey in 2010 because he is using his power over light to assume a less visible coloration. • Lein died of natural causes long before the Core War. He was long dead by the time a battle during the Core War was fought at Lein's Drift. • Fero participated in the Battle of Roxtus for a short time.

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 Great Being's fortress at the Valley of the Maze, it would follow that that fortress is where the Ignika was forged. • On Tarduk's second trip up north made during the events of The Legend Reborn, he is already at the Valley of the Maze when Mata Nui meets him there. BOTA MAGNA • There is valley called Lein's Drift is on Bota Magna, at a drift (ford) in one of the rivers. Lein was a jungle Agori who first opened a trading post there. Lein is long dead and will not appear in story. • The Spherus Magna Field of Mist is located in northern Bota Magna. MATORAN UNIVERSE • The Great Beings used energized protodermis to stabilize the Matoran universe's preexisting power source; the energized protodermis did not replace it. This original power source is of the same type which the Element Lords seek in the Valley of the Maze. • Lewa Nuva is not in possession of all of Tren Krom's powers while trapped in his body, since Tren Krom's powers are mostly mental and not physical. • On Matoran healing capabilities: "They have no need to do so, for the most part, because their organic parts are shielded so well from outside forces. But just as the tissue spontaneously regenerates when you attach new parts, it can to a limited degree regenerate itself the same way ours can." • The Red Star also contains energized protodermis and a power source similar to what the Matoran universe contains. • When the Ignika devolves Tahu into his Toa Mata form, the effect is achieved over a long distance.

Saturday, November 14, 2009 BIONICLE 2010 • Takanuva changes weapons for 2010. • Nektann allies with Teridax because he respects power. • "[T]he Skrall are still active on Bara Magna, and when they spot Glatorian under attack by invaders, they join in because they hate Glatorian. They aren't working for Makuta, they are simply taking advantage of their enemies being vulnerable." BARA MAGNA • The Skrall did not hold any Zesk in captivity. • Zesk do not have their own pack leaders as the Vorox do. • On village relations before the Element Lords: "There were always arguments and clashes, just not wars. If everything had been peachy and there were no problems ever, then the GBs wouldn't have wanted surrogates to rule for them, because ruling would be a breeze." • On whether an Agori could disguise his armor as that of another tribe: "He could, yes. But remember, these are relatively small tribes. You're not talking millions of Agori. It's like coming into a mid-sized town. If you're a stranger, people know it. Agori do not come into being like Matoran do, where new ones just appear and everyone accepts it." • Tarduk left for Riddle of the Great Beings after talking to Gresh the night before, the day before the start of the Tournament. MATORAN UNIVERSE • The mask that Vultraz wears is called the Mask of Scavenging, "Vulture" being a nickname given to the mask as well.

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 consciousness died when he crashed into Aqua Magna. • After finding Tuyet in the Archives, Macku returned to the surface of Metru Nui, since the Rahkshi would have noticed her absence faster than the absence of Hafu or Kapura. • Mata Nui's mission did not involve reporting information back to the Great Beings. • On the Rahi Nui: "All it had to do was free its horns sometime between the 2002 story and the 2008 story, and it would be fine, so my guess is it is still alive." THE LEGEND REBORN • During The Legend Reborn, Gelu was helping to fortify Iconox and then particpated in the final battle in Roxtus. • After the events of The Legend Reborn, Stronius winds up leading the first organized band of Skrall warriors. • On whether the Glatorian's elemental powers will run out: "No, why would they? Toa power can run out, it's true, but then it regenerates itself, and it only runs out if you use ridiculous amounts at once. So same rules would apply here." • "For the most part, outside of Stronius's band, there are no real "leaders" active. Most of the Skrall are in groups of three or four scattered all over the desert and not really large enough to need leaders." • Very few are aware that the mega-city on Bara Magna is a giant robot. Some of those who do, like Raanu, are in denial about it. BIONICLE 2010 • Tahu will still be wearing his adaptive armor in his new form. • The original plan for 2010 story had been to expand greatly on Mata Nui's quest and the Valley of the Maze. • The current plan is for the story of what Mata Nui finds up north to be told in another graphic novel by Papercutz. • Having blue armor, Nektann's elemental power is water. SPHERUS MAGNA • As seen in Bionicle Legends#5: Inferno and again in Brothers in Arms, the Great Beings can make themselves become unseen by their creations at will. • Angonce was one of the Great Beings who spoke to Mazeka in the alternate dimension he visited. • Atakus's blades are technilogy alien not only to the Bara Magna region, but to the entire planet of Spherus Magna.

Saturday, October 31, 2009 Halloween "Forgive the delay, Turaga." So yeah, I don't have a Halloween costume, and I have lots of cereal in my dorm room. Looks like I'm gonna be a cereal killer this year. Yup. BIONICLE 2010 • Teridax will be arriving on Bara Magna in order to kill Mata Nui. • In the Stars lineup, Tahu, Takanuva, and Gresh are the good characters, and the Rahkshi, Skakdi, and Skrall are the bad characters. • Tahu is reverted to Toa Mata form by the Ignika. • The Great Beings are related to Tahu's golden armor set. • The Stars Skrall character does not have a name. • The Stars Piraka is Nektann (he survived the battle with the Rahkshi). • Q: Is Bota Magna going to appear in the story at all? A: "Well, the answer is maybe. We originally planned with Bota Magna to be that the residents had decided that technology and machines had destroyed Spherus Magna, so they had abandoned and destroyed every piece of technology and machinery on the planet, so they had went from being part organic, part biomechanical, to part organic, part biomechanical, and part plant." • Greg: "I asked to show a Great Being in one of the graphic novels and got told no, Denmark does not want them revealed yet. So that is still a bit of a taboo subject, at least for now." THE LEGEND REBORN • Q: All the BIONICLE names so far have been Maori or Latin. So why is Click so named? A: "Well, I actually didn't name him. What the original script had was Mata Nui arrives on Bara Magna, and gets attacked by a monster with a scorpion tail (Not a Vorox). What was supposed to happen was, well, the stinger tail breaking off still happened, but a group of the Scarabax were to come along and devour the monster. The director came to me and said: 'If we're going to animate these things, then they've gotta appear more.' And that's how Click came around." • Q: Did the script for The Legend Reborn call for Metus to be turned into a snake? A: "No. We went through all sorts of ideas. Him getting killed, banished, imprisoned, etc. So finally the director came up with the idea for him turning into a snake." • Q: How did you decide on the traitor? A: "Well, we figured that whoever the traitor was, he or she had to travel around Bara Magna quite a bit, so much that no one really cared what he was doing, because he travelled a lot. So that's how we decided on Metus." • Mata Nui was not able to read the writing on the walls of the secret lab near Tajun because it was a dialect of Matoran he did not know. • Metus is not venomous. • Stronius is alive and now leading some contingent of the Rock tribe. • Tarduk goes on two journeys north; the second is during the Legend Reborn. • Mata Nui leaves the desert immediately after the events of the movie. BARA MAGNA • While their homeland was on Bota Magna, the Skrall had outposts in other places, such as the Black Spikes. It was these outposts that were destroyed by the baterra, which led the surviving Skrall on Bara Magna to go to Roxtus. • Gelu's encounter with the Skrall in Comic #3 takes place in the Dunes of Treason. • The name of the bird with the five-foot wingspan and claws that can penetrate armor mentioned in "The Crossing" is Striker. MATORAN UNIVERSE • It would seem very likely that the Great Cataclysm caused the deaths of the two Glatorian species members found near Mata Nui's consciousness. • Trinuma can shoot kinetic blasts from the same weapons that enable him to fly while in combat. • The Makuta of Stelt is the same one whom Conjurer tried to absorb the powers of and the one whose armor was breached during the Great Cataclysm. • Sidorak met with the Makuta of Stelt in order to arrange for the Brotherhood to select Voporak for experimentation. The Makuta of Stelt conducted them himself on Stelt before lending him to the Dark Hunters. • Q: What kind of energy did the Coliseum in Metru Nui produce? Was it straight-up electricity or something more exotic? A: "I prefer to think it was something more exotic." • Gali Nuva was required to note the position of the Red Star because Mata Nui needs the Red Star to leave the planet, and it is important to make sure its orbit has not decayed. • Miserix's essential motives prior to his deposition was to accumulate power in a way that would not attract Mata Nui's attention. • There were more Order of Mata Nui members than Brotherhood of Makuta members at the time of Miserix's reign. • The Pit mutagen does not necessarily mutate all members of a species in similar ways. REIGN OF SHADOWS • The fact that the Order of Mata Nui was unable to discern anything from its studies of the Nui Stone is because their research had been unsuccessful, not that they were unable to remove the shards embedded in Tuyet's armor in the first place. • The crystal that Tuyet produced in the Archives was the Nui Stone the Order of Mata Nui had reconstructed form the shards in her armor. • Keetongu is an ally of the Order of Mata Nui and not an official member. • Tren Krom was utilizing communications gear to send a transmission to the Ignika. • Axonn and Brutaka returned to the chamber near Mata Nui's consciousness by Brutaka's Makuta power of teleportation.

Friday, October 23, 2009 BIONICLE STARS • The Bionicle Stars will be a part of the storyline, although their smaller size is non-canon, as Toa Mata Nui's larger scale was. • Teridax will be coming to Bara Magna, which is how the Bionicle Stars characters will factor in to the story. • On the Bionicle Stars: "Well, two are Toa, one is a Rahkshi, one is a Skakdi, one is a Glatorian, and one is a Skrall." • The Bionicle Stars are named such because they represent some of the most popular characters from the series. • The blue Skakdi is labeled as a Piraka because of its familiarity as a brand name. • The yellow Rahkshi possesses the heat vision power. • Takanuva will not be treated in story as if he is still in twilight form. • While Tahu appears in Toa Mata for as part of the Stars line, the other Toa will appear in story as well, though they will not be featured in the same way and will not be reverted back into Toa Mata form. • Tahu's gold-armored form will be canon. He is not wearing one of the gold Kanohi from 2001 story. His mask only has the power of shielding, but it is part of a larger power tied to the full set of armor. He no longer has his abilities as a Toa Nuva. • The green Skrall in the Stars lineup is of the warrior class. THE LEGEND REBORN • A combination of gravity wells and impacts redirected the Ignika back toward Bara Magna on its escape path from Aqua Magna. • The elemental powers bestowed on the Glatorian were not already dormant inside of them; rather, they were generated by the Mask of Life. Their abilities are roughly equivalent to those of Toa, although they do not possess the same level of control. • The fight between Tarix and Vastus in the Legend Reborn was for rights over the Hot Springs as a water source in light of the attacks on Tajun's caravans. • The prototype robot was never controlled by an artificial intelligence like Mata Nui. • The prototype robot is about two-thirds the size of the Mata Nui robot. • All captured Agori and Vorox were freed when Roxtus was abandoned. • The Glatorian now serve as a defense force for the united village. Ackar has become the leader of the united village's defense force, and Raanu acts as leader of the mega-city. • Strakk has been banished. • "Strakk does not get banished until after the events of the movie. Think about what happened after the fight with Ackar -- the attack on Tajun, and Tesara, the whole world is at war, Iconox did not have time to worry about disciplining Glatorian when the village was in danger of being overrun. Strakk got banished after the defeat of the Skrall." • Mata Nui has no involvement in the mega-city now; he is busy with a quest of his own and is not hanging around. • By the end of the Legend Reborn, Mata Nui is able to control the Ignika consciously. SKRALL • The Element Lord of Rock is a leader class Skrall. • All leader class Skrall automatically rank a name. BARA MAGNA • The Shattering was caused by the Element Lords' attempts to use the EP Spring, which lead to the explosion of the planet's core. • "Dormus" is the Agori word for "peaceful." • The Element Lords have better control over their elements than the Toa Nuva do. MATORAN UNIVERSE • Mata Nui's mission was to traverse the universe, observing societies so that a massive war such as the Core War would not break out again, and then to pull Spherus Magna back together. • Teridax's destiny may or may not have been to take over Mata Nui's body; Greg states that the real question is whether or not one robot alone would be able to pull three planets together. • Legends of the Toa Mata had existed on Metru Nui prior to the Matoran's migration to Mata Nui, though there had not been particular reason to talk about it much. • On the original process to reawaken Mata Nui: "Basically, it's a long process that involves each Toa giving a small part of their energy in sequence to do slowly what the Ignika did all at once. Could easily take 12 hours or more to finish."

Very cool, thanks.

Friday, October 16, 2009 GENERAL • "[Raanu] doesn't really want [Glatorian] around when it's not necessary. It's kinda like having a house filled with pit bulls. You feel safe, but you know that you can get hurt really bad if you tick 'em off." • The Bionicle Stars characters are canon, and the blue Skakdi is not Vezok. • The maze map seen at the end of The Legend Reborn plays a part in the transition story between 2009 and 2010. Teridax appears in the November comic. • The Mata Nui prototype self-destructed.

Friday, October 9, 2009 Tch, what happened this week? GENERAL • Element Lords will be illustrated in Legends of Bara Magna. • Kiina regards Gresh like a little brother. • Tuma and Metus used each other. Tuma was getting information and a go-between with the bone hunters, and Metus was getting a chance to survive the coming war. • The Agori of the united villages dragged the robotic head from Roxtus because the Rock Agori had fled the village at that point.

Friday, October 2, 2009 BARA MAGNA • The Element Lord of Water has the ability to project his consciousness into any body of water. • On the Element Lords: "I don't see them as insane, as that would mean they could not tell the difference between right and wrong. And I don't really see them as evil ... for all we know, the one who won the war might have made life wonderful for all the Agori. I think they are ambitious, power-hungry, often callous and reckless, but those don't add up to evil. I know a lot of people like that, they're not villains, just not people you would want to rely on." • The majority of the Glatorian population on Bara Magna are in service to the villages. • The Agori and Matoran languages have some similar terms, the same way that programming language in our world has some similar words with spoken language. THE LEGEND REBORN • The general personality traits of each of the Matoran tribes are part of their initial programming. • "Mata Nui let the Glatorian think he was just charging up their weapons to what they once were. In truth, he was giving the Glatorian themselves elemental powers and the weapons were just the focus." • Tuma was not killed by Mata Nui. • The Skrall believed the giant formed by Scarabax to be a baterra invasion, which especially unnerved them. • The act of forming a pseudo-giant is a natural defense mechanism of the Scarabax. • Tuma is likely wandering away with the rest of the Skrall, who have mostly scattered into the mountains. • Mata Nui's facility to grant elemental powers is both a particular trait of his spirit and of his mastery over the Ignika. • "Well, Tuma might as well be dead, since no one is going to follow him now. And the tribe has fragmented, with some operating on their own, some following Stronius, and no doubt some following other elite Skrall." • A Kiina-Mata Nui romantic interest will be implied in the 2010 novel. Kiina, however, barely appears in 2010.

I would buy it for sure, though what would really be awesome would be something in a digital format. Maybe the book comes with a CD with lots of images and videos and stuff?

Friday, September 25, 2009 GENERAL • Exactly what Mata Nui's original mission is gets revealed next year. • The Kanohi Dragon was created by a Makuta. Miserix did not create it. • On the Matoran universe: "You have to keep in mind that the beings who consider it a universe are the ones who live in it. Basically, Mata Nui is giant robot with millions of nanotech beings inside of him and various mechanical "organs." So in that sense, you could even argue he is more like a synthezoid, a living being whose parts are all mechanical. So he has a universe inside him the same way you have one inside of you. You have living bacteria in your body, a waterway (your bloodstream) that travels the length of your body, and various places for the bacteria to live. Something in your liver that wants to travel to your brain would sail on your bloodstream, the same way someone who wanted to get to Metru Nui would sail on liquid protodermis to do it." • Greg: "The bone hunters and the Skrall were already in an alliance at the time of ROV. But Tuma wanted to a) make sure the bone hunters were strong enough to be worthy of being allies and b)see them bloodied enough by the Glatorian so they wouldn't be TOO strong a threat to turn on the Skrall." • The Element Lords are considered mutant versions of their original Glatorian species. • The Element Lord of Sand does not have a stinger tail, since the Vorox had not yet been modified by the Great Beings by the time of his selection.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Hey guys, just filling you in on my life on this random Tuesday. Yeah, college has begun to get really busy... It's been a month since I've been home. I haven't had time to do things like watching BONICLE: The Legend Reborn. It's sad, I know, but otherwise I'm really enjoying myself. I tell you, freshman year of college is a heck of a lot better than freshman year of highschool, socially, and maybe even academically. And the work I do pays off; I'm getting some good grades in some formidable classes. Aaand that's pretty much the story of my life for the past four-five weeks. My roommates are, of course, total BUMS who play video games while I try to finish the same homework they have to deal with later in the week. Lol, I still gotta love em.

That gave me chuckle.

Friday, September 18, 2009 BARA MAGNA • The Sand Tribe's regression took place over the span of generations. • The Bone Hunters are all a part of one single tribe; there are no other contingents elsewhere in the desert. • On Click's condition: "It's not a curse, no, because Click controls when he transforms. If it was a curse, he would have no control over it. The mask transformed him the same way it transformed Dekar into Hydraxon, to assist in the defense of itself. Without a shield, Mata Nui would have died in battle, and the mask would likely have been destroyed." • The Glatorian species always spoke Agori and never had their own separate language. • "Aqua" means "water." • Stronius had his name before he defeated one of the baterra. • There may still be some Skrall on Bota Magna, although odds are they have mostly been killed by baterra. • Fero is part of the Bone Hunter army which serves the Skrall in the movie plot. • The Great Beings did not create the Iron Wolves from scratch; they modified existing creatures. • On the Great Beings' construction of the Mata Nui prototype: "There was no overall intent. It was an experiment they were doing for the sake of seeing if it could be done." • Prior to the Shattering, there were few signs of the impending disaster other than some quakes; the actual event happened quite abruptly. • The story bible states that Mata Nui ends up empowering the Glatorian with Toa-like elemental powers, not merely charging their weapons with elemental power. MATORAN UNIVERSE • Greg believes Keetongu's judgment vision is based off of the proportion of light to shadow in a being. • Although the Visorak hordes were exterminated at Artidax, Teridax has since recreated the species. • Miserix, like all Makuta, once created Rahi of his own, specializing in reptilian Rahi, as referenced by his affinity for shapeshifting into reptilian forms. He created the Tahtorak. • Kojol created the Proto Drake. • Chirox created the Catapult Scorpion. • On Tren Krom's motivations: "He is not out to run the universe, he knows he's not capable of that. But he doesn't want what he once looked after to be ruined by Makuta."

Saturday, September 12, 2009 Farshtey Feed 1-year Anniversary! It was one year ago today, on September 12, 2008, when I posted the very first entry of the Farshtey Feed. What a great response I've gotten over the past year! Here's a great big thanks to you guys for making the Farshtey Feed a pleasure to run.

See this entry. It's an illustration from Bionicle World.

Friday, September 11, 2009 Remember CORE WAR • There is likely some structure which belonged to the Element Lord of Water that still exists beneath the sea on Aqua Magna, possibly having been discovered by escaped Pit inmates by now. • Greg would say an Element Lord is a good two times as powerful as a Toa. • Skopio were not employed in the Core War, since they cannot be tamed. SPHERUS MAGNA • Sahmad's tribe lived in the forested region of Bota Magna. • The Skrall's original homeland from which they were cut off was the forested mountains located in Bota Magna. • Greg thinks that the Sand Tribe consented to the Great Beings' mutations, not knowing what they were getting themselves into. • The villages of Atero, Roxtus, Tesara, Vulcanus, and Tajun all existed prior to the Shattering. • Greg: "There is reproduction on Bara Magna, but it's not something we bother to go into since we have no 'Bara Magna child' sets or any reason to include that in story." • The Skopio's treads were also bestowed by the Great Beings. • The snakes from which Vastus collects venom are common. MATORAN UNIVERSE • On the Bohrok's repurposing after the invasion on Mata Nui: "The Bohrok were reprogrammed, remember, so part of that reprogramming could have made them receptive to verbal commands." • Greg is sure that there are some other living Toa Hagah still out there. • Lewa Nuva still has his elemental power over Air, but it is unknown if Tren Krom's body supports the use of the power. • Like Makuta in other bodies, Tren Krom has access to powers while in Lewa Nuva's body that are mental in nature. -Kanohi • The Mask of Untranslation is now called the Mask of Incomprehension. • The Phantoka Makuta, preferring that their Shadow Matoran wear evil masks, forced Radiak, Kirop, and Gavla to replace their original masks with the noble Jutlin, Shelek, and Avsa they wear in the sets. • The eyes of the Matoran seen wearing the Mask of Undeath in Bionicle World are unlit because a black visor piece is placed beneath the mask. • The recently identified "Mask of Absorption" is the same kind of mask worn by Toa Pouks. • On the Mask of Incomprehension: "Make it that the mask power does not need focus to work over a span of time. So you use it on A, it will work for say 10 minutes or something, then you do it to B, C, and D in quick succession. So it can't be used on more than one target at once, but it CAN keep working on a target after the user has targeted someone else." • The Order of Mata Nui would have no qualms about using evil Kanohi. • None of the Toa Mahri's masks are really in their normal forms, since they have tubes sticking out of them.

Friday, September 4, 2009 BARA MAGNA • Skrall may be assigned to hard labor jobs that the Rock Agori are unable to fulfill. • Telluris is now mad because he saw his entire village basically wiped out and no one came to help. • Sahmad was always in possession of the Baranus V7 and Spikit. • Greg would not say that Ackar and Malum were close friends, just colleagues. • On the likelihood of Strakk's banishment: "It would make sense that he would be. The alternative is no one will accept Iconox's challenges and they would have no way to win the resources they needed." • The fight between Mata Nui and Tuma is not the final battle in the movie. • The Great Beings' fortress which we encounter this year is situated north of the Black Spikes. • The Great Beings tampered with the Skopio creatures, making them bio-mechanical, as one of their experiments, hence the Skopio having a Thornax. • The "Gatherers' Hideout" included on the Bara Magna map on bionicle.com references the Bone Hunters' originally proposed name for 2009, which the story team ultimately revised to "Bone Hunters." CORE WAR • Vastus was more like a battalion leader than a general during the Core War. • During the War, Tesara was merely a tiny outpost of the Jungle Tribe; Jungle held almost a quarter of Spherus Magna. • Element Lords themselves did not partake in battle, instead employing battalion leaders, squad leaders, etc. • A squad commander would be higher in rank than a squad leader. • The tribes of Spherus Magna referred to EP mostly as "the substance" or "the spring." • During the Core War, Malum was a soldier or, at best, a squad leader. SPHERUS MAGNA • Food was always hard to come by in the Northern Frost. • Mata Nui was launched from Spherus Magna quite discreetly; only a few Agori ever saw the robot. • The Vorox were called Vorox even before their regression. • The Great Beings probably would have called the baterra something like "Armed Combatant Pacification Drones." Being scientists, it would make since that the Great Beings gave technical names to their creations. The Great Beings still referred to Mata Nui by that name because they hoped he would carry the spirit of Spherus Magna with him as he traveled. • Baterra most likely communicate through subsonics. They do not have names for each other. • Aqua Magna was Spherus Magna's only major sea. • It's confirmed -- Aqua Magna and Bota Magna are the moons orbiting Bara Magna. • Greg would say that the site of Mata Nui's construction on Spherus Magna was not far from the Great Volcano but not on Bara Magna, essentially just across the border into Bota Magna. • Sahmad and Telluris's tribe mostly resided in Bota Magna. MATORAN UNIVERSE • All of the Makuta's Toa Hagah were picked from pre-existing groups. Not all teams necessarily had six members or members of the six cardinal elements. • Teridax knows full well where the Ignika has ended up, since he can track its power. • The Toa Hagah's illusion is about to be dispelled in the next chapter of "Reign of Shadows."

Wow. I wish I took a shot of that too.

Is it just me... or had I just earlier seen my profile in the user spotlight again before it turned 12:00AM back when it was considered Aug 29? Because this pic is from Aug 14...

Saurday, August 29, 2009 This happened on August 14, 2009, while the forums were still down. I always thought the odds were so great that I would never see this! Maybe some of you noticed, too.

Friday, August 28, 2009 "Forgive the delay, Turaga." Hey look, I'm here. The internet at my school was knocked out all day, which was a pain. THE LEGEND REBORN • On Strakk's banishment: "Right after Strakk's match are the rest of the events of the movie, during which time the Agori are a little too busy worrying about Skrall invasion to deal with administrative matters. They will have time to worry about Strakk's punishment if they survive the war." • The aftermath of the attack on Tajun is seen in the movie. SPHERUS MAGNA • The Sisters of the Skrall did not fight in the War. • The Sea of Liquid Sand does not represent where Aqua Magna originally existed. Its waters were never a part of the Bara Magna geography. • The Valley of the Maze will become important to current/future story. • Force blasters were invented before the Core War. • In order to supply Mata Nui with his considerable reserves of energized protodermis, the Great Beings sent Agori out to get them a sample of it during the Core War and then were able to put the EP into an environment where its volume would increase. • Before and just after the maze existed in the Valley of the Maze, it was one of the places where the Great Beings lived. • Like the other Great Beings, Angonce participated in the leadership of Spherus Magna and the construction of Mata Nui. He is not the Great Being who was cursed by the Ignika. • The third chunk of Spherus Magna is called Bota Magna. It was mostly covered by forest and was the realm of the Element Lord of Jungle. • The Element Lord of Rock was once a Skrall, likely one of the leader class. • Baterra armor in default mode is silver. • The current storyline is very unlikely to be taking place on Bota Magna anytime soon. • Bota Magna means "Great Jungle" or "Great Forest." • The Element Lord of Sand does not have a tail like the other Vorox. • Aqua Magna was southwest of Bara Magna. BARA MAGNA • Rock dragons, sun-rock dragons, and sand dragons are all related species. • Skopio, large as they are, are rarely seen living anywhere close to each other. • Sandray Canyon is named after a creature called a sandray. • Skopio and rock steeds are carnivorous, Spikit and Scarabax are omnivorous, and sand stalkers are herbivorous. GLATORIAN • Greg: "Telluris is a nutcase." • Perditus participated in the Core War. He was also present for the Fall of Atero. • It is possible that members of the same tribe could be set to fight to each other for the winning title at the Great Tournament. • A vehicle match is won by disabling the vehicle of one's opponent. • Greg believes Malum took his sword with him when he was exiled into the wastes. MATORAN UNIVERSE • Reef Raiders are native to the Matoran universe. • Particularly who the two Glatorian left near Mata Nui's consciousness are is not so important as the fact that they are there. KANOHI Greg, in cooperation with bonesiii and Swert, has approved the matching of the following Kanohi mask powers with these forms: • Mask of Rebound; makes projectiles bounce back to you, assuming they don't shatter or explode. • Mask of Absorption; temporarily absorb powers of those nearby. • Mask of Sensory Aptitude; improves all five senses, but not as much as an Akaku for example would improve vision. • Mask of Conjuring; uses the fact that Matoran language is programming language -- you can verbally command it what power to have by describing the power you want in detail. Temporary, and you must specify downsides or it ignores you. Greg: "Basically, if you get the slighest thing wrong in your description, you'll wind up with something terrible happening to you (the same way that if you screw up programming, you can crash a program/computer). For that reason, it's not a mask that most want to wear in a potential combat situation, because it's too easy to make mistakes when pressed and they don't want to fry their brains." • Mask of Fusion; basically staff of Fusion power, or Kaita-ization, but you can merge with an enemy for a time. Example use, force an enemy to merge with you as a Kaita, walk to a place where you have the upper hand due to surroundings, and split apart again. • Mask of Biomechanics; have limited control over mechanical robotics, if simple and near you. Examples include strengthening your own mechanical parts, or slowing down opponents' mechanical parts. Cannot control clockwork brains but does give a mechanical version of telepathy with robots. • Mask of Undeath; a taboo/evil power also considered unlucky to wear. Does nothing while you're alive, except siphon off a fraction of your energy (similar to the Nui Stone). If you're wearing it when you die, it animates your body for as long as it has energy charged up for, and makes your body carry out whatever you would have wanted to do if still alive. When undead your eyes and heartlight are black. • (Vultraz's mask) Mask of Vulture; another evil power, inspired by the Inheritance trilogy. When a being dies in your vicinity, you absorb all their escaping energy. • Mask of Age; evil power, basically Voporak's aging power, but not as powerful. • Mask of Untranslation; opposite of a Rau, it scrambles the target's speech or writing. Evil power; example use is to scramble the speech of a Toa Team's leader, so the others can't understand their orders. • Mask of Adaptation; basically the Rahkshi power that adapts your body to your surroundings, or like adaptive armor. • (Radiak's mask) Noble Jutlin. • (Kirop's mask) Noble Shelek. • (Gavla's mask) Noble Avsa. • (Photok's mask) Noble Kakama. • (Tanma's mask) Noble Miru. • (Solek's mask) Noble Akaku.

Friday, August 21, 2009 I thought I would give you one (possibly final?) Farshtey Feed... SPHERUS MAGNA • The Great Beings created the Iron Wolves, as they did most things, as an experiment, not specifically for use in the Core War. • The large northern forested region on Spherus Magna was located south of the Northern Frost. • There were only the six rival tribes we have already encountered who participated in the Core War. • The Kaxium model was used in the Core War. BARA MAGNA • Vorox eat small animals and whatever plant life they can find. • Telluris is somewhat known throughout Bara Magna. He lives as a nomad and occasionally raids trade caravans, although he generally does not bother the villages themselves. He is motivated by revenge against other tribes, who he feels abandoned his to its own fate. GLATORIAN • Surel is older than Certavus, although they are probably close in age. • On Raanu's reluctance to stand up to Glatorian: "Thing is, Raanu, like most Agori, lived through the war. He knows what Glatorian are capable of, and he knows Agori probably couldn't stop them if they decided to seize control of the villages. So he doesn't really trust them and treads very carefully around them." • On Strakk's blatant cheating: "…Iconox has no Second Glatorian since Gelu quit, meaning if they exile him they have no one to fight for them. So he figured they wouldn't punish him." • Greg does not see Malum as being evil, but rather having anger management issues. MATORAN UNIVERSE • On the two Glatorian species members near Mata Nui's mind: "I can tell you they were not forgotten about, they were where they were supposed to be and for a reason."

The "Out of Order" flag coming out of the can. I laughed very hard.