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Wouldn't that just be "Duty", though? I was kinda thinking 'duty to achieve your destiny'. Kind of cancels each other out though, you're right.

Hmm... I wonder if that was intended for Gali or Kopaka. The tubes seem to look like they could be for breathing underwater - and the shape is certainly similar to Gali's final design. But on the other hand it has one of those electronic eye things that Kopaka had in the end.

People paint over masks all the time.

It's not Harrison FordPrequels are almost always terribleDisney is ruining Star Wars by churning out a movie a yearIt's not Harrison FordNo one cares about Han Solo noodling around as a teenagerIt's like a Star Wars movie about Luke shooting womprats in his T-16.

Ugghhh No one wants a Han Solo spin-off

If they're able to dig up storyboards to those two films I'm sure they won't hesitate to sell them.

Wait, there's a confirmed destiny algorithm? I always chalked "Destiny" to ultimately mean "do the best you can to serve Mata Nui".

I stumbled upon a couple images of what look like Kanohi prototypes for the very first wave of BIONICLE sets in 2001. Can anyone enlighten me as to what the source was for these images?

And thus, another small piece of Bionicle history has been recovered.

True, but sadly a lot of threads it just didn't save properly. It saved the links in the thread index, but not the threads themselves. And if they did save a thread, it's usually hard to find an archive past the first page of one.

The user by the name of The Mad Great Being made an awesome fan continuation, for those curious in that type of thing. Also, no one mentioned Voporak having stolen the Mask of Time.

Looks like he got a lot of the music from doing the old "split to mono -> invert one channel" trick in Audacity. That works when the dialogue is perfectly centered, but you can still hear some stuff in the tracks he uploaded. Good try though. The best we can possibly get from the available material, including the 5.1 mix, is within the BioMedia Project's latest film music release, which I worked on extensively with Vahkiti.

Oh, he's asking if they would be on Spotify? Do people actually use that? I don't know who still "has access to the original music tracks for the BIONICLE trilogy", but I know of a few people who at one point had access. Furst composed about sixty-five minutes of music for Mask of Light. His friend Tim Borquez was credited as the sound supervisor for the film, meaning that he oversaw the mixing of everything, so he definitely got his hands on the score. Another big name in the sound department was Roy Braverman, the sound effects editor and a re-recording mixer (he has a website, it's pretty cool) along with Eric Freeman (re-recording mixers generally fold all the assorted narration, dialogue, music, and SFX down into 5.1 and stereo and make sure it all sounds good). All of these people had a reason to have a copy of the score. The actual score mixing was done by Scott Cochran. Despite sounding orchestral, everything in the score is synthesized through "samples". Furst might have recorded himself playing some instruments, like the piano, but just about anything beyond that was likely through samples. So it was Cochran's job to take the individual instruments and mix them into one big cue/song/whatever. If he wanted one instrument louder, he'd dial that up, or when he wanted something to be quiet, he'd dial it down, and just make sure everything had a chance to shine and make it sound the best it could. So of course he had to work quite extensively with the music. Here's the thing: for those of you who actually care about film music, you'll know that most of the time, if a film gets an OST, there are lots of great cues missing, both because of the limited capacity of CDs as well as the composer perhaps wanting to only showcase his best work to create the best possible-sounding program (balderdash to that, I say! If it was good enough for the film, it was good enough for release! ). So why can you, by searching the Internet, find all sorts of "complete scores" and "recording sessions"? Because what happened was that some sound editor/mixer/whoever for the film in question decided to do a little underground mischief, and eventually the music leaked to the public. I am not certain that that happened with these Bionicle films; given their low-budget nature, and with the music having not been created by a big-name composer, I would not be surprised if none of the people involved kept a copy of the score for themselves. So if Furst supposedly lost his copies, and none of the sound guys kept copies for themselves, what's left? Well, I mentioned earlier that a responsible movie studio will keep "splits" for their film, which divvy up the narration, dialogue, music, and SFX into their own sound files; when folded down into one, they would comprise the film's complete audio. I should hope that Miramax or Creative Capers has access to the splits. Sometimes the music and effects are kept in the same file, but hopefully since the film was made in the digital age the full splits were preserved... If anyone wants to contact Miramax and/or Creative Capers, be my guest. But there's really no reason to contact the individuals unless it's through an organized effort, because it'd be so rude for 30 Bionicle fans to email Roy Braverman or Tim Borquez for their work on films they completed over a decade ago.

... What about it?

No way, source? It was from the old Greg PM thread from the BZP archives.

Reincarnation in Bionicle has never really worked like that...

It looks great! I wonder if anyone will ever build a fully functional 2001-2 Bionicle site. This is a good start though!

Mr. Furst, based on some cryptic Facebook messages, seems to not have any copies of the scores in his personal library, aside from the odds and ends he uploaded to YouTube and elsewhere. There's no telling what the studios have. Maybe they have the full, untouched score, or I should hope they at least still have the "film splits" - dialogue, SFX, and music all in separate audio tracks. I guess no one has any contact info for someone who worked on the films and might have some knowledge to offer?

He's not allowed to discuss future plot points, in his own words. Is that a new rule of his or something? I've asked him about future plot points at least once and he gave pretty revealing and complete answers.

Haha, well, part of growing up is looking back and seeing what a dum-dum you were even just a few years ago, and appreciating how much less of a dum-dum you are today.

Let's all guess how old OP is based on his language and slang.

I still feel like it's such a shame that archive got deleted. The archive was a look into a better time for BZPower.

I'm so glad BZP started up before social media became a thing. Forums are so much better for fandoms than whatever they do these days. tumblr, I guess.

No MU being has ever died of old age.

"The Great Spirit Mata Nui is dead!" Also, when I first saw The Legend Reborn, I thought the big purple thing was a Great Being, and I thought it was awesome. Then it turned out to be a bunch of those stupid beetles. So that doesn't count, I guess.