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So disks imbued with one of each of the six main elements can, and have been, produced; someone must have made them and put them in the Great Temple before 1,000 BGC. Though there isn't any proof that the other MU elements could be built into disks and therefore masks by MU workers, a great being could do it for sure; if they were able to implant the ability to use an elemental power in preexisting, living creatures, as well as in original, bio-mechanical creations, then who's to say that they couldn't put it in a mask?

How could I have forgotten to mention Mesonak and The Three Virtues? He's definitely one of the best known ambassadors for Bionicle on YouTube. During the time when Bionicle: Next Generation was active and growing in popularity, Lewa Krom was a very prominent member of the entire fandom.

While the Skrall certainly seem to be closer to the Great Beings than the tribes of Spherus Magna, the Great Beings seem far too advanced to simply be a cabal of scientific, peaceful Skrall. Technology like that takes time. And it seems unlikely that such an experiment could survive long enough or maintain enough resources to achieve the Great Being's level of abilities.It is also worth noting that according to the Farshtey Feed the Skrall were not an invasive tribe as of 265,000 years ago. Mind you, I don't think we know how long the Great Beings have been around, but given the long life spans of Spherus Magna inhabitants and what is presumably a correspondingly slow rate of societal progress, I find it unlikely that the Great Beings have existed as such for less than 265,000 years. I wouldn't be so certain about the Skrall; it's shown in the comic Fall and Rise of the Skrall that their fortress north of the Black Spike Mountains was extremely large, well-defended, and futuristic-looking, and it was constructed entirely after the Shattering occurred and their former empire fell apart. Furthermore, there isn't any reason why the long lifespans of the Glatorian, Agori, and Skrall species would limit or reduce their rate of sociological and scientific advancement. Also, the mental and physical sharpness of characters who are relatively elderly to the Glatorian and Agori, such as Ackar, indicates that they age at a rate similar to how a human would with the same lifespan. There's no reason why each Glatorian, Agori, or Skrall couldn't remain productive members of their respective societies for tens of thousands of years, and if an individual or a group of individuals were able to continue with a project, uninterrupted, for that long, then it's likely that their rate of advancement would be much faster than ours.

Bonesiii comes to mind as a staff member who remains active in the S&T forums, answering questions and suggesting theories. He also did a lot to make the reference section of this site one of the best, back when that was an integral part of BZPower. EDIT: Katuko and his Bionicle Fighter game are definitely among the best known people/games of the community. In the comics department, Gavla and his long-running series of the same name comes to mind.

Or use it to win the lottery. The mask of probability would be really useful in many different situations.

Yes, for the most part the Agori and Glatorian wear helmets, which typically don't come below one's forehead in the front. In Bones's The Destiny of Bionicle, several Agori are shocked by a Matoran, a species which they have never seen before, whos "entire face is armored". Masks are a strange idea to them. There's the possibility that masks are slightly larger than they need to be to fit the user's face, and that the extra size of the eyeholes along with the rest of the mask minimizes any issues with a reduced range of sight. We know that masks are held to the user's face by magnetic force, so they don't necessarily need to fit snugly.

Again, no he isn't. Greg stated explicitly that he's just as evil as the rest of them. See my first reply in this topic, or Jag's post with the actual quote. And how could he not be? His inner light is drained as much as the others. He has no choice now; he has to be fully evil. That's how it works. But as I mentioned, it's possible that before the light draining, he might have been a little more good. I see him as someone that, if you could cure just one Makuta of the Shadow mind effect, he'd be the top candidate, and hope he might actually have a chance to become a good guy. But in the 2008 plot, he wasn't. Other posts here explain why didn't just kill a Toa Nuva. Basically he knew he couldn't get away with it. As for whether it took courage, I'll let yall decide that, but consider -- it could easily take less courage given that he thinks there's a higher risk of dying by going along with the plan. You could argue that Gorast was more courageous for risking letting Mata Nui take over and wipe them all out easily. (Courageous in an evil sense though.) I don't think that i was aware that by draining one's inner light, one actually removes even the possibility of not being evil. As in, the choice to be good is removed. And yet, regardless of that, if the Toa Nuva had followed Krika's suggestion and left Karda Nui, then things would have gone a lot better for the forces of good. No one would have woken up Mata Nui right away, so Teridax would have been forced to withdraw his essence from the robot, and somehow force them to wake him up with his spirit inside. And then his plan would have stood a much greater chance of being revealed, and it would all begin to fall apart.

There is a trope called "Becoming The Mask". It refers to when a character goes undercover as a Good Guy, but after a long time of acting out the role it starts coming naturally to them, to the point where they realize that they no longer want to be the villain they originally set out to be. In real life, this is possible too, as after a while you get used to a certain way of life, and if it's comfortable you will naturally be resistant to change. Still, it depends very much on the person. For example, someone with little empathy and a sadistic streak could very well just enjoy saying "haha, I'm not actually your friend!" as they stab you in the back, while another person in the same role would confess and abort the mission, or just quietly ignore the opportunity to backstab you. Yet another person may decide to get away, to take what they came for and slip away unnoticed, so they never have to confront you about it at all. People's emotions, tendencies, and willingness/ability to change are vastly different from each other, so we can't really predict anything. But that is also the reason why some get annoyed with both heroes and villains being copy-paste versions of each other. After all, 4 people saying "We need to stop the bad guys!" is not as interesting as one being there to save the world due to his ideals, one being a pacifist who wish to broker peace without bloodshed, one being thirsty for glory in battle, and the last one tagging along mostly because they have been forced to. The latter group will likely have more interesting dialogue; though as BIONICLE itself shows us with the Toa, you can have several heroes with the same motivation also have distinct personalities. It's just that villains usually are more of a "these guys fight the heroes or something" kind of deal, as opposed to the "the story revolves around these unique characters" treatment that heroes usually get. There definitely isn't much variety in the motives of the individual Makuta. There was never a single one who regretted joining Teridax and assembled enough courage to defy him for the forces of good, however, that probably stems from the amount of fear which they hold in Teridax. It's just as boring to have an entire organization of irredeemably evil villains as it is to have an entire group of perfectly selfless and confident heroes; the difference is, it's harder for villains to become heroic than it is for heroes to become evil, and thus it takes more courage and good-nature for villains to rebel than for heroes to do so. In literature, the villains are often simply not allowed as much freedom to doubt their cause as their heroic counterparts are. If a Makuta wavered in his devotion to the plan, then Teridax would attempt to have him killed; if a Toa wavered in being devoted to the cause of defeating Teridax, then his teammates would likely be more merciful. Icarax didn't attempt a different goal than Teridax, so he never strayed from the path of evil in his complete disregard for intelligent life. But Krika did attempt to save the Toa Nuva, even if it was partially for selfish reasons, and that took a massive amount of courage from him. Of course, he had to circumvent his selfish nature also. He's at least a little bit more good than the other Makuta.

I'll admit that I'm having trouble understanding what exactly the theory here is (stupid short attention span), but it seems that bonesiii is suggesting that the Great Beings are the survivors of the Iron Tribe Disaster. What exactly would that have to do with whether or not there was another metal tribe? Whose existence we've never heard of before. Unless you mean, that it was only a few of the Iron Tribers who were turned GB by Annona long before the Iron Tribe Disaster. Sorry; I was saying that there very easily could have been another tribe which was associated with another type of metal, the members of which were targeted by Annona and went on to become the great beings. We wouldn't have heard much from them, either, and perhaps they would have evolved over millions of years into a higher form of being. I'd think that the tribe which became the great beings wouldn't leave behind any remaining members, such as Sahmad and Telluris, who weren't considered great beings.

It's possible that Annona hadn't reached her full strength until approximately 103,000 years ago, or that she waited to harm the Iron Tribe until she saw fit, for one reason or another. There are a lot of unknown events which are challenging to completely disregard or endorse until we know more about the early history of Spherus Magna, i.e. pre-100,000 years ago, or before the Core War. There is also the possibility that the great beings are survivors of an earlier tribe which was wiped out by Annona, or by an asteroid, earthquake, or flood, many thousands of years before the Iron Tribe was decimated. It could have been so long before the iron tribe disaster that the survivors had begun to evolve to a form of being in which they could not be targeted by Annona. Maybe they were members of a silicon tribe, or a copper tribe. If their race had become outcasts from the other tribes, and slowly evolved into their own god-like species well before the plague on the iron tribe, it would explain why we didn’t see a single refugee from the tribe out and about on Bara Magna, i.e. Sahmad, Telluris, as we did with the iron tribe which lacked the time to evolve. It would also shed some new light on this piece of Spherus Magnan folklore, which may or may not be entirely true at face value: “However, Annona found their minds too strange to alter, and the great beings instead used the energy to achieve new heights of their creating” –BS01 What if the silicon or copper tribe had been attacked by Annona many time over several hundred millennia, and the final time, possibly millions of years later, Annona had been shocked by the degree to which they had evolved to withstand her attacks? Their brains were now so malleable, physically and mentally, that they were able to shield their minds form hers and reach inside her mind at the same time. Maybe the great beings wear special cloaks to contain their essence, much like an antidermis-based Makuta would?

Thanks Iron_Man5. I can't believe that I didn't catch that mistake; it was quite a big one. The post was composed in Word, and in copying and pasting the text I must have accidentally repeated the same lines. I've edited my original post to make it less repetitive and easier to read. They reproduce the same as humans? Regardless of whether or not that fact is canon by Greg Farshtey, it seems extremely unrealistic. They are aliens, after all, with no known genetic relation to humans.

I’ve wondered about the answer to this question several time before, simply as a matter of curiosity. One would think that the Red Star, if it were functioning properly, would be able to keep the number of Matoran in the MU close to the same value, thus making reproduction unnecessary. However, there is a hint in the guide book Bionicle: World, published in 2007, that new Matoran would be able to "come into being" on Metru Nui, now that it's Matoran had returned there, within the MU, from Mata Nui, outside of the MU. I know for certain that all of the content of Bionicle: World is canon. The most reasonable theory which I could come up with was that new Matoran were made at a specialized facility, similar to a factory manufacturing robots, and that they were shipped, dormant to a home where they were then activated and raised by a Matoran who was employed to raise the young ones. We never see or hear any mention of Matoran being raised individually or in small groups in the homes of a considerable number of mature or "adult" Matoran, so I'd think it reasonable to assume that each is raised in nurseries in each settlement or on each island that take all of the newly-manufactured Matoran. We definitely haven't been provided with any information on how Agori reproduce, likely because it could be too similar to human reproduction for Lego. Obviously, they're not talking about that.

I think that we've made that clear.

I had to leave while we were in the sanctum in Ko-Koro, after 90 or so minutes. It was a really fun event, which clearly had been thought out carefully by the staff. The entire event was able to be live on both sides due to the rate at which the staff members could see our comments, so even if we weren’t in the hangout it was almost entirely live for all of us. My thanks to the staff members, including Black Six, Makaru, Bfahome, Nukaya, and others who helped to make it a success. I did think that it was too bad that we didn’t get to talk with the chronicler’s company as much as would have been ideal. We were limited in the amount of time that we could spend on the game, and even in two hours and twenty minutes we might have been forced to leave a few things out. If any of us had the patience or time for a 3+ hour livestream, we might have been able to cover a bit more, but I think that 2:20 was as long as we could have gone for.

That's right; Legends of Mata Nui was planned to be the vehicle for the main 2001 storyline, since the comics didn't even come close to including the end of the year's storyline and the MNOG wasn't originally intended to continue through Kini-Nui and Teridax's defeat in Msngaia. Legends of Mata Nui was intended to be the only medium to show Kini-Nui and Mangaia, and when it was cancelled, Templar was left to pick up the slack.

Who am I to deny fame and glory, even if I do not live to see it? - Hafu, in a source which I don't have enough time to look up right now Where wisdom and valor fail, all that remains is faith. And it can overcome all. -Tahu, Kini-Nui chapter of MNOG ...The mask is part of me! - Vezon, Ignition Comic #5: In Final Battle

I'll be there as The MBernard99. EDIT: Sorry, as Maxwell Bernard. My mistake.

An Olmak would be nice if one could have absolute and complete control of the dimension that one is traveling to, always. Otherwise you could end up in an unfortunate location, such as an alternate universe where man-eating bears rule Earth, or something like that. Just saying.

Lego couldn't start Bionicle with an entirely new story, though, unless their entirely new storyline was reconnected to the original Bionicle storyline later. They're free to make as many original stories for new properties as they want to, but they wouldn't attach the name Bionicle to it if it were an entirely original story, would they?

A cool find; I've seen another image of that prototype before, with the camera above and behind the mask. It was featured in this BZPower news story from 2002, with the same image provided as the one which you linked to in your post above: http://www.bzpower.com/story.php?ID=106 The article also says that a few of the prototypes eventually ended up on ebay, so not all of them are still in the possession of Lego employees.

I would be in favor of changing the way in which Teridax is killed in the canon. I don't think that his death by a rapid-moving chunk of Aqua Magna really did justice to how impressive of a villain he was. I read at one point that the story team had considered killing Teridax by having Mata Nui rip open his chest; now that would be a fitting end for Makuta.

I believe that the gold-skinned being was actually made by Skakdi on Zakaz during Teridax's reign, and that the green cloud was confirmed to have been Zaktan, who interestingly is able to pass for a green cloud nearly as well as a Makuta can.

I don't see how it's "selfish" for Lego to not want to release the game, or what exists of it. By saying that Lego is selfish ion keeping it from the fans, you're implying that they have something to gain from keeping it to themselves, which they don't.

The idea that all of the other Makuta referred to Teridax as just "Makuta" has been part of my own head canon for a while now; I mentioned it a bit earlier in this thread. I can definitely imagine Teridax hunting down all of the others who knew his given name, and it would even give him an additional reason to put so much effort into harassing the Matoran and Turaga on Mata Nui for 1,000 years. The title "Makuta of Metru Nui" does at least sound more dramatic than Teridax, as some sort of ancient, alien, imperial title. (Though of course, that's exactly what it is) But what prestige would Teridax get out of being called "Makuta of Metru Nui" after the great catacylsym? During the 2001-2003 story, Metru Nui is a broken-down ruin covered in cobwebs, which Terry himself destroyed and sent Visorak to. It's inhabited by only seven individuals, none of whom are in very good graces with the brotherhood. And it's only one small part of his massive empire; basically the entire MU, since Mata Nui is asleep, Teridax did the deed, and there isn't much resistance. Why would he want to be known as "Makuta of Metru Nui" when he could be the Makuta of the entire MU, and just be called "Makuta" since he was the only one who mattered?

There isn't a mention of how or if the curse necessarily limits a Makuta. It easily could, and did, but Greg doesn't suggest or say that it would be impossible for a Makuta to avoid an evil lifestyle if they were able to avoid their natural pull toward pride and ambition. A human can minimize the effect that a certain tendency has on his or her actions, depending on the strength of the tendency. Sure, arrogance and ambition are a bit tough, but the Makuta can already fly, use heat vision, and read minds. Can changing ones tendencies be that hard?