Lielac

I have a "sort of" answer, and a theory that this "sort of" might have been intended to happen based on a couple things. 1. The Red Star's revival function exists. 2. The Chamber of Death on the path to the Ignika is A, a bit of a trial run for "be willing to sacrifice yourself in a permanent death", and B, lit entirely by red lightstones. My theory is that the Chamber of Death is intended to create a backup or copy of the user of the Ignika, who would be returned to the Matoran Universe after their original was consumed reviving Mata Nui. This would conserve limited resources, and the Ignika user would only have lost hours or days of memories if all went well. However, the Red Star had already malfunctioned by the time anyone needed to revive Mata Nui, and so the copies of the Ignika users would be stuck up there. Thus, my theory is that (a copy of) Matoro Inika could be on the Red Star, alongside the member of Jovan's team who used the Ignika. Matoro lives! ... kind of.

Pfffff, please. People are always critical. It's what some fans do, day in and day out, to show that they care. (I'm part of that group. Sometimes we get overenthusiastic.) 'Sides, we're allowed to be disappointed if we are. We're also allowed to be, and sometimes/often are, wrong. Alllllllll kinds of wrong. And liable to fall prey to the Marmite Effect.

Yeah Lego never really discloses that kind of information for some reason and I really wish they did. Maybe someone can ask Greg one day, too bad he can't be on this site. -NotS He's contactable on the Lego Message Boards, I believe. I'm putting my money on fan interest though. Huh, shame. I wasn't around when the rule was created that Greg couldn't be on this site anymore. Why was that? -NotS If I recall correctly from my pre-account lurking days, it was something to do with him not being allowed to talk to people under the age of 13 for... I think COPPA reasons? Legal isssues, anyway. And BZPower has preteens and under on it who aren't even lying about their age.

... Suuuuure, let's go with that! Goddess Kotu, y/y?

ehehehe that water's even worse than the one I drew for the first version. I may have spent less than a minute on it, and that maaaaay have been a giant mistake. As for the mask, yyyeah. Very Nokama. As for silver armor, well, Takanuva aped the Nuva-style armor and he was shiny gold, so I'm kinda going off of that sort of thing. Thanks for posting!

That's a waste of marketing time, effort and potential. No sane person who has any qualifications for marketing would decide it was a good idea to build up suspense for an announcement of an announcement that everyone would have to wait 4 days + 1 month for. I have no experience with these things, so I'll bow to your likely greater knowledge. It does feel like it'd be fanning the flames of anticipation, though, making sure people don't get bored. Although, if it ends up falling flat at the end... it's a risk either way, probably.

Oh, now they're just doing it on purpose. Excuse me, I need to go outside and screech at the top of my lungs because HYPE TRAIN

I'm thinking that if the NYCC panel was always going to be Bionicle, then this reveal on Friday will be saying "Yes, yes, it is coming back, you're all very clever cybersleuths, have some teaser images and we'll go into detail at our NYCC panel."

That's what I've been thinking. Tell us that yes, yes Bionicle is coming back, give us a couple more official images to make wild guesses about, and then at NYCC they'd go into greater detail about, y'know, everything else. Like whether it's a reboot or a continuation, maybe a basic sketch of what the initial story will be like, telling us if any of our favorite characters will return.

Aw, man, no, you've got it all wrong. If Gali was still the heart of the team, wouldn't she be in the center instead of Pohatu? No, Pohatu's the real team center now. I think Gali's over there because she and Lewa are trying to convince Tahu that nobody thinks any less of him! Of course, Lewa keeps making "The Toa Nuva -- and Tahu" cracks, so I can see why he's not buying it, but it's the thought that counts. (oh mata nui now I need art. I can see it now; Tahu huffily glowering at not those jerks, while Lewa's invading Tahu's personal space with an arm flung over Tahu's shoulders, and Gali's facepalming but also trying to explain to Tahu that no, really, Lewa's just a giant incompetent dork who makes bad jokes, we really do still love you! And Pohatu is torn between trying to get those three to focus, keeping Kopaka from getting sick of all this nonsense and freezing Tahu until his head gets back on straight, and keeping the ol' future-versus-past Ko-Onu rivalry from flaring up between Onua and Kopaka when those two decide they might as well debate what they're going to do about the spiders. ... this might need to become a comic hELP I CAN'T DRAW WELL ENOUGH FOR THAT)

Heh. I noticed that a few days ago and thought it was an amusing coincidence.

Honestly, I don't think you can blame people for wanting to discuss the leaks, I mean, it's the first substantial content we've had in years. It's like putting a steak in front of a hungry dog, it might not go for it while you're looking (I.e BZP following Lego's policy) but it's going to bolt it down as soon as your back's turned (I.e other sites not following the policy) . Also I don't think Miras meant the Faulty Kanohi comparison to compare to the quality or accessibility of the story, I think he meant it more as an example of something you throw away without thinking about. I'm not blaming people, exactly, I'm just saying that they shouldn't base their excited flailing on something unfinished, and that, if they need to talk about it because it won't leave their heads until they do, they should limit that excited flailing to places that don't follow the leak policy. And whether that's what Miras meant or not, analogies/similes/metaphors are always inexact. If he meant something different from what I understood and subsequently disagreed with, he can tell me himself. In the mean time, I'd rather if people responded to the content of my points instead of dancing around them and arguing semantics.

I said "like a faulty Kanohi". In that context, "like" is a simile, not a metaphor. But whatever.Simile, metaphor. That's semantics. The turn of phrase is "the metaphorical [X]", not the... there isn't even a word that's like "metaphorical" but for "simile". You're ignoring my rebuttal in favor of picking apart my word choice.

-cackles- One good thing about my kvetching sprees over the past couple of days is that I've collated a pretty coherent set of rants on what I do and do not enjoy in Bionicle. A less plot-explainy and more my-reaction-explainy sentence from me might be "The first eight years were pretty coherent, but then we found out they all lived in a giant robot and plot holes opened up big enough to drive the sun through." I'm not even angry about the they-were-AI-all-along thing anymore! Mostly the giant robot, and the attempts at saying all these twists and turns and monumental screwups were actually part of an overarching Plan. I can buy Teridax having a Plan that worked, but the Great Beings weren't even there to do on-the-fly adjustments like Teridax could! Nooo, it was "all programmed in", they had failsafes for their failsafes for their failsafes, and most of the time the fans who try to patch all the plot holes only make things worse. I can't even tell how much of the plot holes are confirmed canon anymore, there are so many fan-attempted patches that amount to epicycles within epicycles, and all the lore and backstory and shocking twists revealed in the last year or two of Bionicle Olda just make me want to tear my hair out with frustration. ... if anyone thinks this is a sore subject for me, they'd be absolutely correct. Ehehe. I'm going now.

I am ignoring all potential leaks with an offended dignity worthy of a cat. Come on, people, if it says right on the image that it's "PRELIMINARY" and "CONFIDENTIAL", you'd do best to not discuss it anywhere that enforces LEGO's Leaked Content Policy. Or anywhere at all, because preliminary means things can and will change. And I'm still holding out for a reboot. Pitching ten years of storyline like a "faulty Kanohi" (ehe) might suck, but if that metaphorical Kanohi is faulty, which in this case it really is, then isn't it best to set that mask aside and recreate it without the flaws? I mean, all that work isn't wasted. You can look back, see what worked and what didn't -- in this case, what fans liked and what snapped their suspension of disbelief in two -- and then make a better, more enjoyable work of art that bears a family resemblance to its predecessor, but is stronger and still holds together when you try to pick it apart.

As a fanfic writer, I respectfully disagree. The details are very important! Otherwise, if a similar situation happens in a story I'm writing, I waste time trying to decide which version of events to follow.