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Yeah, sorry to say this but you're kind of barking up the wrong tree. The bionicle community mostly consists of people who were kids during its' original run between 2001-2011 (counting the extra story arcs). Most of us bond over that shared memory of the old days of bionicle back when it was on store shelves. Most people here will be coming from the perspective of a nostalgic rather than someone who has gained an interest long after the fact. You're more than free to continue reading up on this stuff and indulging in a love of an old franchise (I know I used to do that) but I would really suggest looking elsewhere for a sense of belonging.

Hello, it's nice popping back on one of my first online homes again. Hope all is well. I hope I'm posting in the right forum (admins/mods let me know if I goofed up). Over the past year or two I've come across a refreshing revision of the Matoran alphabet devised by Kaikue/the-big-kahooner which transforms it into a syllabary writing system, making each "circle" a combination of vowel and consonant. To differentiate between this new system and the classic Latin-based alphabet, I'll refer to the new script as "Matoric". Basic recap: And here are examples of diphthongs, with 6 additions to represent all possible combinations: Despite these being theoretically available, it's possible that some of the extra diphthongs are less practical than just writing the vowels separately ("Toa" for example to be written as "To-a") And now to the extras: 1. 4 additional vowels created by diagonally aligning the "vowel circles". These sounds can be found in several European languages among others: 2. "Reverse" Diphthongs, wherein the order is flipped and the second component vowel is blacked out to differentiate from the regular diphthongs: 3. Consonants created through depicting existing consonants as being "aspirated": (I am being rather flexible with this addition as I don't think it accurately depicts the actual linguistic relationship between the sounds. "Sh" for example is not an "aspirated S", and "Kh" could just be an aspirated "K" as in the example "Artakha", though both sounds could exists as belonging to different dialects of Matoric perhaps.) 4. Consonants created by combining existing coda consonants: 5. Punctuation symbols for Matoric: 6. 8 additional consonant[?] symbols created by half-lines, not unlike the long arm of a clock. I'm not sure what these could represent, numbers or even symbols for some of the sounds I've listed above?: With my additions come obvious issues with readability. For example, writing "dio" using the "io" diphthong would generate this: The vertical line of the "d" consonant is mostly hidden by the "i" vowel and could be missed. A possible solution to this would be to decrease the size of the "first vowel", in this case the "i": Here's an example which I took from from the 2021 Matoric booklet (by BZP's very own JRRT) to showcase a simple Matoric sentence: Monograms: Monograms to those unaware are symbols "made by overlapping or combining two or more letters or other graphemes to form one symbol". Matoric's structure makes it theoretically possible to create unique symbols for names or concepts, which I've done in 2 different ways. 1. Adding successive syllable circles within each other. For example, "John Cena" (The large black syllable is "Jon" and the two red ones inside are "Sina"): 2. Slapping every syllable circle together forming one single symbol (overlapping vowels can be resized to fit within each other such as the double "a" in the second example of "Makuta"): I personally find the 2nd method to be quicker as the 1st would require modifying the sizes of each syllable. However, there are instances in which consonants with similar appearances would disappear within each other, such as the name "Kazi": Combining "Ka" and "Zi" makes the monogram look like it says "Kai", as the "z" essentially disappears from view. This is where creativity helps add some individuality to one's symbol, such as simply moving the "z" around to symbolise that it's there: Ultimately, Monograms would probably serve best for signatures and artistic works, as I cannot see an instance in which they would be used in practical writing due to the ambiguity in their pronunciation (I don't think you can't expect most BIONICLE beings to make out your name from a monogram). There may be cases where they could represent universally-known concepts or beings, in which case they could be used in a manner similar to Kanji in Japanese. I hope I was more or less understandable and that you've found this an interesting read at the very least. Credits and MASSIVE thanks to Kaikue and JRRT for their creations and for inspiring me. They're the ones who should be thanked.

Oops, I forgot to update this lol. Things have been pretty busy here in Bambiland lately, so I haven't had a lot of free time these past few months. Some (good) things happened, most recently with the latest addition to the Bamb Dynasty: He's a three year old purebred German Shepherd 🙂 Very energetic, which is fine since there's a lot of room for him to run and play. But what should I name him? :0 Bambi 2.0 isn't going to cut it I'm open to suggestions! I know people always say this, but I really do want to try and post more stuff here. I've got a few ideas of what I might do, so we'll see. Happy Valentine's Day!

I feel excluded from the BIONICLE community, and I think that makes me very sad. I just wish I could connect with other people from Discord and Reddit, but turns out doing one think without knowing the rules sure got me into trouble on virtually EVERY BIONICLE Discord community and the r/bioniclelego subreddit.

As the cold curses the land She persists For every winter that comes There is a spring that follows No chill has taken her None will For she is evergreen More on Insta

This photo is not mine unfortunately 😥

There is one thing for sure. I saw it in a youtube video that back in 2003 lego were still not all ok with allowing violent toys except star wars. And yet Lego seemed to take a issue with Bionicle a main theme made by lego which was action themed and had violence and many supervisors and directors wanted to get rid of bionicle. The team that were responsible with bionicle designs had to defend their theme several times.

As the cold curses the land She persists For every winter that comes There is a spring that follows No chill has taken her None will For she is evergreen More on Insta

I hear you. Life is definitely tough sometimes.

Visorak definitely deserve to be at #1. They were created solely for destruction and murder.

This is probably going to replace the prior one as my self moc. (these aren't going to be daily I'm just finishing up some old stuff I got the parts to)

This was built for the Bionilug Horror Garden Collab.

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