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It's nearly always nice to be positive, but saying that all Matoran are the same race is difficult to prove. A "racist" or biased matoran could make the same argument that a human racist may make about racial differences and justifications for discrimination: "All matoran are of the same species; we are all matoran. But each elemental affiliate is made up of members of a different race then the others, and for that reason, they are fundamentally different from the others." OR "All humans are of the same species; we are all human. But each group with -differently colored skin, citizenship in a certain nation, certain customs that appear 'foreign', etc.- is made up of members of a different race than the others, and for that reason, they are fundamentally different from the others.

I didn't know for certain that linking to Youtube was allowed now, and I remember when it wasn't allowed, back when I first discovered this site in 2008. However, since BZPower has it's own YouTube channel now, it would be a bit strange to prevent members from linking to Youtube.

Everyone here is correct; each of the serials and podcasts which were originally aired on BionicleStory.com can be found on The BioMedia Project, under the "serials" tab, on BZPower in the Bionicle Reference Forum, and on BS01 individually, under each one's respective name. And, just so you know, his name is spelled Farshtey, though it's sometimes hard to tell if you've never seen his name in print.

Not exactly, though I've heard similar opinions. The "ugly robots" argument is well overused, for sure. Did it air in 2009?

Funny, then; Nocturn was always that ugly. Because a large amount of emphasis is put on how Pridak was extremely good-looking before his mutation, with even the narrator mentioning, from an objective point of view, that he was handsome, it's unlikely that Pridak had his mandibles prior to his mutation.

Actually, the other Mata were only drawn in the Stars style for that image in order to promote the Stars sets, which were being released contemporary to the Mata Nui Saga on Bionicle.com. I'm pretty certain that you're referring to an image that originally appeared as part of the Mata Nui Saga. That said, the Toa Nuva versions were my favorites, though I liked Lewa in his Mata incarnation more than his Nuva form.

You might be forgetting that Lego also made money off of the books, movies, and video games as well as the sets.

I was wondering if any other members here were planning on attending the Emerald City Comic-Con. For those who aren't familiar with it, the Emerald City Comic-Con (often abbreviated as ECCC) is the "largest comic book and pop culture fan convention in the Pacific Northwest". It is essentially a Seattle version of the San Diego comic-con, in that many private dealers sell comic books, many professional artists come to promote and sell their art as well as meet fans, many people cosplay their favorite characters from popular books, films, and tv shows, and many celebrities come to meet their fans. I myself will primarily be attending in order to buy comic books to add to my collection, but I will also be attending in order to meet Carlos D'anda, who will be one of the celebrity guests. Yes, it's the same Carlos D'anda who illustrated the first nine Bionicle comic books; it's confirmed to be him on the website. According to his personal website, Stuart Sayger will also be attending, though he isn't listed as a guest on the ECCC website, so we can't be entirely certain that he'll be there. The Comic-Con itself runs form March 28-30 of this year, and again it is in Seattle. You can find out more about it on it's website, here: http://emeraldcitycomicon.com/ Stuart Sayger's website is here: http://www.stuartsayger.com/ So is anyone else attending, or planning to attend?

On this page on the general, non-Bionicle, Wikipedia, there's a mention of the Great Beings and their level of technological development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale Scroll down to "Examples in Science Fiction" and then "Type IV" to find it.

I agree that the century wouldn't seem like a week after it had passed, though I do think that it would seem like a week while it was going on. What I was really talking about was the perception of time while waiting for something, in that the number of distinct memories that a Matoran will hold on to after a century is probably comparable to the number which a person would hold on to in a week. Within a year, however, they'd probably remember enough memories for a few months of human memory, and the memories would all blur together as the years added up.

Well, if a lived to be 100,000+ years old, I'd equate hearing that something would happen 100 years from now, as if I'd heard someone tell me that something would happen 25 years from now. Yeah, I agree you in hoping that those guys have google search installed. I have thought along the same lines as you have, but I've alway been a bit more interested in thinking about how much their personality's must have changed. I know that most human personalities are about (more or less ) the same from five or so until later in life, but of course people do change though life, whether it's taste in food or opinions and imagine how much someone could change in 100,000+ years! I'm not sure if even that figure for future events does the hypothetical Matoran experience of time complete justice.Based on how I'd perceive time if I lived to be 100,000 years old, hearing that something would happen in 100 years would be like hearing that that something was going to happen in a week. Their timescale is very, very challenging for a human to imagine. It also puts the Matoran experience on Mata Nui in new perspective. One year of peace with Teridax would have been next to nothing, comparable to one hour of peace for humans. Vakama must have laughed out loud at that moment in Time Trap.

I've been looking forward to this for a long time, and the first chapter does a great job of establishing your character and his feelings about the situation that he or she has been placed in. (Or is it her feelings?) Telling it from the perspective of an amnesiac who has lived through all of the Biological Chronicle, and simply doesn't yet remember it, is a creative choice which also avoids any logistical issues about your character having to live through the entire story. The words which you use to describe your character's curiosity, awe, and appreciation of Spherus Magna are excellent, and appear to have been chosen carefully. I do wish that you had selected a picture of Spherus Magna which better showed the fantastical, heaven-like features of the land that you described in the text. The picture that you picked includes some trees and a flower, but the flower looks a bit withered, the two trees are pretty sparse, and the sky is relatively dark. Selecting a taller picture, if possible, which contained plants and possibly a sky that looked a little more like a paradise would fully bring the art up to par with your text. Also, you wrote that "plants and streams dotted the desert", though the area is, by definition, not a desert if there are plants and streams there.

I'm not entirely sure if this is the right place to post this; because there's no direct LEGO connection and there isn't going to be any official LEGO presence there, I'm posting this topic in Of Topic Culture. I'm not sure if it will need to be moved. However, at least one artist who has done a considerable amount of work for Bionicle will be there, and so this topic is at least slightly connected to Bionicle. For those who aren't familiar with it, the Emerald City Comic-Con (often abbreviated as ECCC) is the "largest comic book and pop culture fan convention in the Pacific Northwest". It is essentially a Seattle version of the San Diego comic-con, in that many private dealers sell comic books, many professional artists come to promote and sell their art as well as meet fans, many people cosplay their favorite characters from popular books, films, and tv shows, and many celebrities come to meet their fans. I myself will primarily be attending in order to buy comic books to add to my collection, but I will also be attending in order to meet Carlos D'anda, who will be one of the celebrity guests. Yes, it's the same Carlos D'anda who illustrated the first nine Bionicle comic books; it's confirmed to be him on the website. According to his personal website, Stuart Sayger will also be attending, though he isn't listed as a guest on the ECCC website, so we can't be entirely certain that he'll be there. The Comic-Con itself runs form March 28-30 of this year, and again it is in Seattle. You can find out more about it on it's website, here: http://emeraldcitycomicon.com/ Stuart Sayger's website is here: http://www.stuartsayger.com/ So is anyone else attending, or planning to attend?

I was just responding to a topic (posted by Mampt) opn how long a Matoran's lifespan is, and how, if at all, they perceive time differently than we do. With all of that discussion, it occurred to me that it's never explained in story how a being such as a Makuta "evolves". It's made clear that all members of the species "evolved" at one point in time to be composed of gaseous antidermis instead of a physical body, and that the change occurred at the same time, or at least at close to the same time, for all Makuta; Makuta like Miserix and Spiriah were no longer members of the Brotherhood at the time that the change occurred, and so they had to find their own ways to adapt, without the Nynrah Ghosts. There isn't any record of a Makuta who did not evolve. In humans, as well as all other species that we know to currently live or have previously lived on Earth, this is not how evolution is generally understood to work. A species evolves as a whole over a period of many generations, by random mutations in the DNA of individuals of said species and the "weeding out" process of natural selection. No species that we know of evolves all at once, with every single member of the species evolving in the exact same way. My question is whether anyone thinks that Greg was referring to something else when he used the term "evolve", or whether Matoran Universe species evolve differently than Earth species do, or any other ideas that you may have. All theories are welcome.

We really shouldn't expect any similarities between the biologies of Glatorian and Glatorian as compared to ours. Spherus Magna, hasn't ever had contact with humans in the official canon, and neither has anything else in the Solis Magna system. Any genetic similarity at all would be the result of convergent evolution, and as such is extremely unlikely. Even the fact that they are humanoid is, from a logical perspective, nearly unbelievable. Agori such as Lein, who founded his trading post about 265,000 years before the present (Source is BS01), are still remembered and recorded. Even his original trading post still stands. Our species, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, didn't even exist 265,000 years ago.

Sorry Bones; I meant "fanon". We definitely can't make our own official canon here at BZPower, but it just seems like a shame to me that it's likely that no new canon is ever going to be produced if Lego remains the only source of canon. By the way, I like the acronym/new word, and I'd like to use it in my own fan fiction, if that's okay.

Let's see: I'd be an Onu-Koronan with a purple noble Mahiki. Like Onepu, but with a noble Mahiki instead of a great Pakari. I'm aware that there was never a purple noble mahiki made in set form, but it fits my personality best and so I'm going with it for this. Because of the lack of a purple noble Mahiki, my Tohunga alter ego is unfortunately impossible to build. It doesn't help that I don't have any McToran pieces, either.

Though I agree with you on the rest of your post, MLP is newer. Most people prefer something newer, which tends to spread quicker, based on my own experiences. I think that we can all agree that Bionicle's peak of popularity passed many years ago. MLP: Friendship is Magic is newer, but it also benefits from being a more accessible franchise to most potential fans who don't yet know anything about it. Unfortunately, Bionicle wasn't very good at drawing in new fans during it's last years as a set line, and it definitely isn't good at that now. The whole Bionicle story seems to me to be too good of a story to just die as it eventually will the way that things are going. If it could be made more accessible for new fans and engaging for "the masses", then it might have a chance at succeeding again.

Naming the mask Artakha would make it seem as though Artakha was always destined to have the mask, and we have a lot of predestination in the Matoran Universe as is. That said, my pick for canonization was Tiro, because it sounds so different from the name of any other mask which we've seen so far. A special mask deserves a special name which is easily recognizable.

In real life, it was almost certainly the other way around, as Fabulous Sunshine says. In universe, though, the rivalries between the Toa Metru could certainly have been influenced by the Matoran Civil War. We can be almost certain that Vakama, Whenua, Matua, Nuju, Nokama, and Whenua all fought in or at least participated in the war, unless one or more of them were traveling or living away from Metru Nui at the time. However, there's no mention anywhere in the canon that any of the soon-to-be Toa Metru ever lived away from Metru Nui as Matoran. It's also good to remember that arguing and disliking one another is by no means unique to the Toa Metru, as the Toa Mata/Toa Nuva were seen arguing amongst themselves constantly on Mata Nui. Vakama and Tahu had very different personalities (ditto for Onewa and Pohatu), but the arguing and taking sides remained and occasionally even the alliances seemed similar, yet none of the Toa Mata/Toa Nua had ever been Matoran, nor had any of them lived on Metru Nui before Takanuva rediscovered it. EDIT: I just remembered that new Matoran were able to come into being while in Metru Nui, which puts my argument that Vakama, Whenua, Matau, Nuju, Nokama, and Whenua were all in Metru Nui during the civil war period in serious jeopardy. It's possible that none of them were yet alive, or only some of them were. If they were, though, I'd be surprised if such a close similarity is a coincidence, especially considering how ould disagreements and rivalries tend to stick with humans for years, even decades in the context of entire nations. Eighty thousand years wouldn't seem as long for a Matoran as it would for us, because they live for so much longer.

I'm definitely going to be going on Saturday.

I don't see anything wrong with suggesting a new fan-made name to be established into canon. To be honest, at some point BZPower members and other fans are going to need to start deciding together new canon in place of Lego as they aren't any longer interested in continuing the line. It's helpful to remember that Matoran words such as "Toa" and phrases such as "Mata Nui" come straight from Maori, and it would be pretty challenging to tell the Bionicle story without mentioning Toa or Mata Nui. I don't necessarily believe that Lego should have taken those names in the first place, but now that they have and they're so deeply ingrained in Bionicle, taking new words from Maori shouldn't be an issue.