Toa Zaz

How on earth do you store that many Bionicles?

As far as what purpose did their presence in the Bohrok nest serve, as they were inanimate armor designed for use my Toa, until they inexpicably came alive to defend the nest against the Kal? No idea. Reasoning didn't matter as much at the time, I suppose. As far as why give the Toa exo-suits in the first place if they ended up being useless? Lazy writing and plot convenience.

In the web serials, Tobduk took over for Helryx.

The Bohrok, because of their massive numbers, their elemental abilities, and their unnecessary Krana powers. And, of course, the Makuta's abilities were ridiculous. I would say the Rahkshi were by far the most underpowered. They were supposed to be this terrible threat that even Makuta hesitated to unleash, but there were only a few of them and they could barely do anything. Lerahk couldn't even poison anything unless he touched it directly. Actually, he did. In Dwellers in Darkness he hypnotized Jaller, Hahli, and Nuparu.

1. Bad, generic, boring basic story. Some guy comes to a place where some people are trying to take over some other people for no adequately explained reason, and he stops the bad guys. Not a whole ton of interesting stuff going on. 2. Boring, lifeless, overly toyetic character designs. Complete with annoying inconsistently spinning pins, giant screws that make them look comparatively tiny, and red pins like in the sets. 3. Slow, boring, thoroughly uninteresting fight scenes. 4. Really boring cinematography. There's very much a minimalist effort approach to it. Few of the shots are composed in a very interesting way. For instance, the Mata Nui robot scene at the beginning should have looked incredible like in the Ghost animation, but it looked like just another toy.This is likely indicative of Mark Baldo's relative inexperience as a director. 5. Terrible boring thoroughly underwhelming sound editing. Giant boulders crashing sound like pebbles. This contributes to the dull and toyetic feel of the whole movie. 6. Awful score. There's the forgettable and somewhat annoying main theme, some pseudo surf music, the music they play when they go to Tesara (best music in the movie), the music in the credits, and some Mickey Mouse esque cartoon music throughout. Aside from that, not a whole lot. The overly uplifting but sweeping and epic scores of the first three movies were better than this. 7. Cartoon sound effects throughout. Godzilla roar, crickets chirping, etc. It's stupid and annoying. 8. Voice acting. Jim Cummings gave a serviceable performance as Ackar. The rest were either terrible deadpan schlock or stupid cartoon characters lazily intended to appeal to small children. I don't blame any of the main character actors, however; the script was terrible and they did an okay job with what they had to work with. Then there was the background Agori. The voice acting there was inexcusably horrendous. 9. The story was bad enough as is, but then the execution of said story was even worse. Nothing is adequately developed. Mata Nui's initial circumstances and his exile are barely featured. It is never explained what a Toa is, even though they throw the word around a lot. There is no adequate reason for why life on Bara Magna is so harsh, and we don't really see enough for it to appear so. A total example of telling without showing. The tribes on Bara Magna are never developed; as far as the movie is concerned all they do is watch Glatorian matches all day to settle "disputes," which are never explained either. Metus is given no real reason to betray them. The villains aren't portrayed as anything but essentially chicken-sounding imbeciles. They have no motivation to take over. They make a big deal about Skrall and Bone Hunters being rivals or whatever, but the layman probably wouldn't be able to tell them apart. The Ignika and its powers are never adequately explained. The Great beings and their laboratory is never adequately explained. The whole premise of the villages actually being a giant robot is bizarre and preposterous and illogical and stupid. This whole story reeks of lazy, terrible writing. 10. Too much boring and oftentimes vestigial expository dialogue. Bone Hunters and Skrall are rival tribes, Gresh is just a rookie, Ackar isn't as skilled as he used to be, etc. Much of it goes nowhere. The whole thing comes off as a rough draft. 11. There was way too much effort to pander towards lazy studios' inaccurate perception of the little kid audience. Anybody who thinks kids like slapstick humor and uncool heroes and villains doesn't understand how imagination works. Kids want to project themselves onto cool heroes and like to be a little over their head in movies content-wise; it makes them feel mature. So, basically, all the stupid humor and non-threatening villains, etc. was not entertaining and both distracted and detracted from the overall film. The plot had to slow down every time Kiina and Berix got in some stupid argument, and having villains like Tuma who weren't scary or intimidating at all made the film lack suspense. Once again, it was boring. I could go on and on, but I'll summarize it right here: the movie was BORING!!! The animation, voice acting, dialogue, music, cinematography, sound editing, characterization, and story were all mind-numbingly dull. At least the other films, regardless of their execution, felt like some degree of passion and creativity went into the production. This feels like a cynical, cheap, lazy, unenthusiastic half-effort to make a few bucks. So, there you have it.

Well, the one acquired by collectors was the prototype model, so I think people are going to want that authentic version, not some recreation. In that case, I think Aanchir is right; Lego probably won't mass-produce a set with an outdated building system, and for a niche group of consumers. Out of interest, does anybody know who ended up with the Sand Tarakavas? Anyone on here, by any chance?

MOCing is more impressive when done solely with existing pieces. If they're all custom then it seems too easy. Anybody could make anything, regardless of talent.

If nothing else, the art from the Sayger comics was dramatic. Check this out. As opposed to the old Randy Elliott art, which was more like this. Even if the level of detail declined, the newer art was partially superior in that it was more dynamic and lively.

More BZPower hypocrisy by having Youtube links in news articles...

Well... Pros: -The fake stop-motion animation is absolutely gorgeous. It looks like a photograph. The characters move like real Lego bricks and have all these details like wear and dust, or impurities in the molds that suggests manufacturing, etc. -This movie doesn't seem to be taking itself seriously at all, and thank god for that. Unlike, say, Chima, which appears to be deluded that it's some epic masterpiece when it's, in fact, terrible, this movie knows it's bad and is having fun with it. -I anticipated the humor to be far worse. -Talented cast Cons: -Pop culture references. It was already one huge commercial before, so all these stupid references to things outside of Lego make it even more annoying. Not only that, but this movie seems to be relying way too heavily on the references to carry the movie. Morgan Freeman's whole speech was essentially one big string of random, pointless references to various properties. There doesn't seem to be a whole ton of substance to the movie... -...because the jokes are no good, either. They're not cringe-inducing, ala some of the humor attempts in the Bionicle movies, but they're really just not funny, at all. Not only that, but you'd assume they'd save their best material for the trailers, so I can only imagine how unfunny the rest of the movie will be. Unless they do the unexpected and go for something poignant... probably not, based on the tone they've set. -Too much emphasis on minifigures. This is just based on the trailer, so maybe things will be different in the actual movie, but there are too many minifigures taking the spotlight and not enough of the actual Lego bricks, the medium for everything. Having a movie about Legos be about human-like characters seems kind of too easy, almost like it could have been done without the Lego aspect. -The cast still seems woefully out of place in a movie about Legos, with the roles that they're playing. Maybe I'll be surprised. -The music is kind of bad. It's fine, I guess, but hopefully it's not indicative of the entire score. Also, there's an international trailer out as well, with some different footage.

Huh. Perhaps a demonstraton of a more jaded, cynical world post-9/11. Another interesting article: http://gizmodo.com/5633208/hollywoods-racism-exposed-by-lego

It seems pretty fair, honestly. Cheating is bad and if you're not a cheater you have nothing to worry about anyway. They cheated because they wanted to win the contest. They get caught, they don't win the contest. Problem solved.

The problem with Sayger is that he can draw stylized, dramatic art, but oftentimes he became really lazy and stops bothering with good lighting, coloring, proportions, detail, etc. In my opinion his first Bionicle comic had much better lighting and looked a lot better than the ones after. This and this and this sure looked a whole lot better than this or this. Interestingly, from what I've seen of his non-Bionicle art the simplicity doesn't seem to be an issue. Maybe he just decided to concentrate more effort in those areas than the ones about Lego robots.

The punishment for cheating seems really unnecessarily harsh. Wouldn't disqualification from the one contest be sufficient? They don't win, so it doesn't matter after that. Also, that section of the post seems really overemphasized in relation to everything else. It makes it appear as if you guys care more about punishing people than the actual contest.

TLG is not remaking any Bionicle films. Not TLG I notice people don't agree. Well. That's okay, people have opinions. But according to me trying to look into this and figuring how it will come out. I think rather well. The complaint is suits and CGI? Rediculous. Well. Most movies use actors in suits, models, animotronics, and CGI together. Here's a list:Transformers (some scenes, not many)The thingGodzilla (1998)AVPJurassic parkWar of the worlds (tom Crusie) These are all award winning films. It should work out fine in the end. From what I understood. Michael Bay was going to do it, but he found out they wanted Shiah LeBough as Toa Nokahma (or at least voicing him) and decided to stay away from it... yeah... the truth. But Daniel Craig is considering being toa Likahn! AWESOME!"Award-winning films" is pretty optimistic. Some of those films, namely Transformers and Godzilla, are generally reviled by audiences.

But Gali knew about the mind link somehow, and Takua didn't, so it probably has nothing to do with it.

In that case, then I'd assume it was the Order of Mata Nui. Basically as a safeguard in the event the Makuta rebelled, just like the Golden Armor (though they didn't create that). That still leaves the question of Takanuva's secondary ability, though...

Two? So, Nya and... ?

1. It would be ridiculously expensive, in part because of price inflation of Lego bricks, but also because of much more complex designs of Hero Factory faces. 2. There's no storyline significance, so people would be less inclined to buy them. 3. Bionicle already did it. The gimmick's worn off. It would feel less like a smart creative decision and more like a cynical or even desperate attempt to hop back on the bandwagon of what they did before in order to make a few more bucks.People might not care at that point. 4. In my opinion, the Hero factory faces lack the simplicity and originality of the early Bionicle mask designs, and are kind of boring and ugly. The repetition they've got into with the sets, where we have three different Evo heads and they all look almost exactly the same, doesn't help either.

I think the Toa look fine (not great, or really any good, but all right) from Legends of Metru Nui onwards, but in Mask of Light I think they looked horrible. Part of it was the metallic texturing, or lack thereof, in that movie which was far inferior there than in the later films (where they actually kind of look like robots). In the first film it almost looks like they're organic, or plastic, or something. Also, they kind of try to make the Kanohi cover the whole head, and they sort of ended up being awkwardly stretched, with the eyes sort of moved more towards the side of the face, which looked really ugly and weird. They kind of looked like the Inika masks (in fact, the back of Tahu's Hau bears a remarkable resemblance to the back of the Suletu). Also, they tried to remain more set-like with the masks while adding mouths, and some of the Toa's Kanohi, like Pohatu's, really don't translate into mouths very well. With some of the later faces, they changed them from the set to make mouth movements seems more natural (one good example is Matau from Web of Shadows. The set version didn't really have a lower jaw at all, so they added one for the movie). Really, I think they shouldn't have added mouths or eyebrows to them at all (or else do the Optimus Prime thing like in The Legend Reborn, I guess).

Well, obviously the real explanation is that the story team hadn't come up with the idea until 2008 (and maybe in-story he didn't realize he had the ability due to the mind wipe), but he really should have discovered and utilized it in Karda Nui.

So, according to Bioniclesector01, the designs for the Ussanui were locked in Takua's mind when he was a Matoran, and were unlocked when he became a Toa. It doesn't explain why, so I'm wondering if 1. This is some kind of manifestation of Takanuva's special light-based ability (that all the Av-Matoran have), and if so, if Toa of Light have access to their abilities without needing to maintain physical contact with a Toa or Makuta. Speaking of which, if that isn't the case, then what is Takanuva's ability? 2. The designs were put it place by the Order of Mata Nui when they mind-wiped and relocated him. If that's the case, then for what purpose? They couldn't have know that he would ever end up in a situation in which he could create and use it, could they? If anyone has any explanations or can confirm my theories, please reply.

In The Dweller Report (which I assume is totally canon, maybe I'm wrong), Norik has a dream, so, yeah, they can and do.

Honest to God, it kind of lacks both the appeal of regular Lego Bricks and Video Games. I guess the plus side to this is that now Lego might finally branch out from their now-exhausted video game formula...

This would be a great time, legality permitting, to post the full Journey's End on Bioniclesector01...