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Thanks for the tip, KittehWubbins; I'm bidding on the lot which you mentioned above, and the bidding is already up to $31.00 + $11.25 for shipping.

Not to be intrusive, but has he been emailed recently to remind him of the request? Have you specifically heard that he was busy, or otherwise occupied with other request/series at this time?

I wasn't saying that the disapointments topic is inherently a bad idea. But focusing on the negative does invariably have some negative effects, even if it may have positive ones as well. This topic is mainly a response to my impression that BZPower tends to focus more on the negative than the positive, which is something that disappoints me. This topic is intended to help alleviate that perceived tendency on my part. I get it now. Apologies for having missed your point.

I'd be hard pressed to think of a single mask power that wouldn't be a super power here.

I don't think that there's anything wrong with discussing the segments of Bionicle which disappointed us, as it is a topic which draws in many fans and helps us to decide what we would like Lego to focus on improving upon in the future. As a means of examining the other side of the discussion, however, this topic is a very good one. I was very pleasantly surprised with the amount of backstory which we received for the Barrack in 2007.

We weren't ever discussing how he could potentially be killed. Also, the Ignika isn't on Spherus Magna and Tahu could never use it. Um, the Ignika is on SM... ...but Tahu could probably never use it, unless Mata Nui was kicked out of the Ignika somehow. Oh, you're right; though Mata Nui's spirit is still dormant in the Ignika, right? Would the Ignika still be able to use it's powers?

We weren't ever discussing how he could potentially be killed. Also, the Ignika isn't on Spherus Magna and Tahu could never use it.

Well, I feel really dumb now for opening the formerly sealed Toa Tahu Mata from 2001 which I purchased recently. I've bought several Bionicle sets off of ebay recently, and while many, particularly the ones from the first five years of the line, are no longer possible to find unopened for their original retail price, I've never noticed a lack of available sets. There always seems to be at least three or four copies of a set available for purchase at any given time. Even relatively rare McDonald's promotions, such as the original six tohunga, are relatively common on ebay in their original packaging, falling under the rule that I mentioned above. Sometimes, there are even five or six different copies of one tohunga available at any point in time, and one would think that those would be among the rarest of all Bionicle sets.

In theory, Velika could, fairly simply, destine any Matoran to be a Toa, even after the launch of the GSR. Correct?

Unfortunately, you may need to risk being seen as a bit *cough* evil by others, particularly by the police and those who you drain energy from.

Solely because there has been so much hype around the box and it's contents, I hope that the spinnies are evidence that this year's April Fool's prank has already been carried out entirely, and that the box contains something which isn't related to a prank. Of course, it's very possible that the prank is an elaborate multi part trick.

I love that quote also, but I'm pretty certain that it was first said by Garan, leader of the Voya Nui Resistance Team, in Bionicle Legends #2.

I think that we can be pretty sure that it's not just an April Fool's joke, as that would be a bit cheap; knowing the staff here, however, it probably isn't anything in bad taste. I'm putting my vote on it being a giant glass statue of Hapori Tohu's head. If not, then it's a Lego set. Hopefully, whatever it is will help to interest potential members in the site, and get them to lean towards joining.

It's definitely possible: Greg isn't considering that it could have been the wrong dimension, though it's kind of ridiculous to be certain about that. However, the possibility that it were the wrong Takanuva who arrived in the core dimension, and that the original Takanuva is still desperately traveling between dimensions, trying to return to a home that doesn't exist anymore, is frightening.

There isn't only an infinite number of alternate Takanuvas,there's an infinite number of alternate versions of any character or thing, because the number of alternate universes is itself infinite.

Legomation Studio did end up putting together a documentary of the direction of the storyline and it's individual cancellation, here: They've certainly given the Bionicle community a lot of publicity recently, and I know Zach Kaplan, one of the producers, personally. From my knowledge, he was planning something more extensive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1gKlNtGcUc Also, there's trailers and stuff still out there: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=legomationstudio%20bionicle%20documentary%20&sm=1 - clearly trailers for stuff that never came. It's unfortunate that it was never finished, but according to that update video, he had already finished 51 minutes of the planned two to two and a half hours; almost half of his planned total. He seems to have put a massive amount of effort into it, at least, and for all we know he could have simply put progress on the documentary on hiatus, because he appears to have had finished a lot of it to abandon the task completely. Now that I know about this, I might contact him to ask if he'd ever release what he had finished.

Same with me, unfortunately, I didn't get into Bionicle until 2004.

Legomation Studio did end up putting together a documentary of the direction of the storyline and it's individual cancellation, here: They've certainly given the Bionicle community a lot of publicity recently, and I know Zach Kaplan, one of the producers, personally.

Voya Nui was definitely on the surface of Aqua Magna, along with Mata Nui; but you've raised a very good question here. Here's what I do know the answer to: the way that it got up there. It did originally burst through Mata Nui's belly during the Great Cataclysm, leaving a hole. (Why the entire southern continent didn't follow it, and only a crescent shaped section exploded out, is a complete mystery) The hole, along with the other damage to Mata Nui, was repaired to its original state when the Toa Nuva used the staff takha on the entire MU, during the events of the Toa Nuva Blog serial which you can find, in full, here: http://biosector01.com/wiki/index.php/Toa_Nuva_Blog. It seems a bit unrealistic to me, though, that a single staff could undo that damage, even given the other accomplishments of the great beings, but it's canon, so we have to deal with it for now. By the time that Mata Nui awoke and the full-height shots of him appeared, the hole had been fixed. The cord was severed by the Toa Mahri very, very, soon before the staff of Artakha was used, and so the hole was still open at that time. Yes, it did go through. The rest, I'm not entirely certain about.

Honestly, you seem to be misinformed about a lot of things, though your homophobic comment was the worst of the bunch. *Destroying the Mata Nui arc? Are you referring to the island itself or the robot? If you meant the island, then it absolutely had to be destroyed for the great spirit robot to wake up, because it was on top of its face. That was the point of the entire eight year story. If you meant the robot, it was possessed by Teridax at the time; what would you have preferred? * The next three are all valid; I happened to think that the Stars Tahu was goofy looking also. *I've already mentioned my thoughts on your point about the Brotherhood of Makuta, which you clearly knew nothing about. *The placement of the entire MU inside a robot had been planned and fully fleshed out since 2001, as concept designer Christian Faber recently revealed in his blog. Actually, it makes perfect sense according to physics, considering how large each island (Island of Mata Nui~361 miles) was relative to the robot, which was roughly 40 million feet tall, or the height of Earth. The gravity generated by the mass of that robot would have been plenty to keep those islands upright. Each was also in it's own containing dome, making any gravitational issues unlikely. Spherus Magna, and even Bara Magna, was incredibly massive, and clear size comparisons between the robot and the planet have been drawn. *There's a reason why the Red Star was equipped with it's "send back the deceased" function; it was because the resources to create new Matoran were limited, and it was ridiculously easy for the great beings to set up a system to teleport corpses to the Red Star, give them life again, and then send them back. They created technology like that all the time. And it's even less challenging because Matoran, as well as all other MU species, were created artificially. If a Matoran dies, he or she isn't necessarily dead forever, contrary to what you thought. They aren't organic people like us; their brains are constructed like computer hard drives, and it's as simple as just building a new, blank, hard drive and uploading all of the old data on to it. There isn't any reason why the persons on the Red Star couldn't be teleported to Spherus Magna, if the Kestora were avoided. What kind of existence is it? A hopeful one, now that Pohatu and Kopaka are there. Of course it's mechanical; how else could it possibly have received corpses teleported from the MU otherwise? It's stated very clearly that it was created by the great beings along with the great spirit robot, and it acted as a receiver of MU corpses and a place where fresh bodies and minds could be given to the deceased, as well as a sort of jet pack for the robot while it was traveling. But you appear to have missed that, along with everything else.

Why would this be necessary or desired? Bionicle doesn't at all have a negative reputation among the general public.

Dragon, there weren't 99 Makuta other than Teridax at the start of the Voya Nui arc; not even close. Several who were loyal to Miserix were killed by Teridax or his followers after his rebellion and takeover of the brotherhood, and the Makuta of Stelt and Spiriah were both killed by Miserix after he escaped from his prison during the Karda Nui arc. All of the remaining Makuta, save Teridax, were hunted down and killed after said Makuta's takeover of the MU. In fact, every single Makuta that we have a record of the death of has been killed by another Makuta, never a Toa or a member of another species.

I once read that they can, somewhat surprisingly. A Matoran, as well as a Toa or a Turaga, can die of old age, though they typically live many times the length of a human lifespan. Takua/Takanuva, who is over 100,000 years old, doesn't show any signs of old age such as physical infirmity or senility (Imagine if he did and the Turaga didn't... that would be hilarious) The point at which a Matoran is at risk of dying purely from old age is clearly above the 100,000 year mark.