Toa Of Virtues

I'm sure the Matoran knew how to make paint, but I agree that it wasn't the greatest priority to make the Boxors look stylish. If you are implying that they used the Krana to paint them, I highly doubt it.

What about them? You mean the flying ones in the Mistika line? Yeah, they would not work well in real life, since they have no wings or downward facing propellers. I suppose they could have a form of electromagnetic levitation, but it would only be able to work above metal.

Its sort of like making a suit of armor out of human bones... A bit ironic when you think about it.

I built a bionicle system set (the one with the golden visorak battering ram thing) in a resort halfway across the country. I still can't remember how we brought it back...

Perhaps they are unlocked once you get all the parts for a character?

In the settings for each toa, there is a button in the bottom left corner. That's what you push to make the alternate form, but I don't know what unlocks that button. I just discovered that I have it for Kopaka.

Tahu would just melt the whole arena.

The graphics look very good, but it takes up a bit of memory. The gameplay itself isn't anything groundbreaking, but it's amusing for a mobile app. I really like the environment of Okoto, it brings me back to Bionicle Heroes.

Remember, this topic is not meant to describe how events work in cannon, but merely how they might work in real life. If you told a bio-engineer to use "energy-power" to cause a mutation, they might give you a confused look. The only way we can theorize about it is to connect it to things we know about, even if it doesn't replicate the results entirely.

If Vincent Price was still alive, he would be the best Makuta no questions! For those of you who don't know who he is, he did the voice at the end of "Thriller."

Thank you! Even though the majority of things in Bionicle are impossible, thinking about it brings up many interesting ideas. And props to the people who have joined in this discussion with scientific backgrounds!

Intangibility really goes back to Pauli's exclusion principle, which states that no two fermions can occupy the same quantum state. Basically, particles like atoms can't overlap like light can. Even if you found a way to go around this, the atoms within the intangible object would fall apart, since they would be able to pass through themselves.

The more likely way the Mask of Life works is through viruses. While radiation can mutate living tissue, it's random and most of the time just kills the cell. Viruses, however, can cause very specific mutations. Viruses work by injecting their RNA inside a host cell, and tricking that cell into making another virus cell (or that is at least my understanding of it). If you were very clever at bioengineering, you could in theory insert a gene into a cell using a virus, causing a specific mutation, but I doubt it's that simple. I'm good at physics, not biology

Whether or not all the shadow Takanuvas are wearing their Avohkiis, do we agree that it would maintain it's powers over light but change shape and color when it is entirely drained of light? 2008 Takanuva had part of his light drained, but his mask stayed exactly the same except for its shape and color. I want some fan art for what it would look like entirely drained!

While the whole "out-of-phase" might be popular in sci-fy, it goes against Einstein's idea of space-time. The perception of time moving from one moment to the next is an illusion. The future and the past exist just as much as the current moment, so being offset in time won't really do much. Imagine it as a grid, one axis is space, and the other is time. If you have two lines cross through it, they will both pass through each moment of time together, no matter how much you offset them.

Perhaps it is a typo, and they meant Temple of Time? Either that, or there is something about the Temple of Time we do not yet know...

The Toys R Us in the Chicago area have all of them! My desk is very cluttered right now.

I am glad to announce that the Targets in the Chicago area have at least 6 of the new Bionicles! This is indeed a good day.

Apparently, you can check your local Targets for the new Bionicles! Here is the video with it. It says that my local Targets now have it in stock, but they are all closing now I'll have to wait for the day after Christmas.

The term "kohli head" would be a lot more well known, for one.

Benedict Cumberpatch as Makuta!

Discussing X-rays isn't off topic, as the spiders do have it, and we want to know how useful it is. Now that I think of it, X-ray vision can be used as a weapon, if you want to give your target cancer (jk of course). But either way, I think we will see the spiders look a little bit more threatening in the next video. Also, it seems like the weapons the Protectors have use elemental energy, which only they have (via their masks).

OK, who wants a quick physics lesson? Light can come in a variety of ways, and this is represented through wavelength. Even different colors have different wavelengths. For instance, blue has a shorter wavelength than red. However, there are wavelengths that our eyes can't see, like ultraviolet (which is too short) or radio waves (which is too long). "Infrared" and "X-ray" are other wavelengths on light on the spectrum. Infrared is emitted by all things with heat. The hotter something is, the more it glows in infrared. That is why infrared is used so much in heat vision and night vision. X-rays, on the other hand, must be emitted from a source and reflected back. X-rays carry so much energy, they pass through everything that isn't dense. Dense material is like a mirror for X-rays. However, since they carry so much energy, they can be harmful after a long time of exposure, and it takes a lot of energy to make them.

X rays are a part of the spectrum, actually. But what is really good for night vision is infrared. Whenever some sci fi thing says X ray, I mentally replace it with infrared.

I'm checking the stores in my area. I shall report my findings soon. EDIT no sign of it here in the Chicago area.