Pohatu: Uniter of Stone

I'd give you $5 for the brown kakama and kakama nuva. But how would I pay you?

I am interested in Pohatu, but how would I pay you?

I was watching the Brain Attack episode on the Hero Factory site the other day, and I noticed that at one point where the Brains have Alpha Team stuck at a three-way intersection, a poster for a movie can be seen. It is an obvious parody of the famous movie "Jaws," and is instead named "Jawblade," complete with matching font, background and a picture of Jawblade approaching a female robot in the same manner as the shark from "Jaws." I was wondering if anyone else has noticed little tidbits like this in Lego media, especially Bionicle/Hero Factory. Feel free to post anything like that, and have a good time!

When I download the zip, it unzips into a new zip file which then unzips into the original zip file, and so on and so forth. Is it because I am using a mac?

I want to say kakama, but I must remember that it doesn't eliminate friction burn and I am not covered in full body armor. So I might want to have Inika Hewkii's mask- the Mask of accuracy. The most useful in everday life would be the mask of telekinesis. I forget the names... Kinda lost track after the metru, minus the special masks like the Olmax, Rode, Ignika, etc.

My story starts with a comercial for the Toa Hordika. I was pretty young at the time, and my parents hated anything that involved any sort of violence- I could not play Nerf gun wars with my friends, I could not buy Lego sets with guns, etc. But this comercial appealed to me more than other Lego comercials- I loved the action, animations and the Rhotuka spinners. Slowly, I began to ease myself and my parents toward the inevetible purchase of a Bionicle. I subscribed to Lego magazine and saved all of the Bionicle comics that came with them. Although I no longer have them, they meant a lot to me and my parents knew that. Eventually, in 2008, I mustered up the courage to ask my mom for a Bionicle. The Phantoka seemed cool, and the launchers seemed cool, too. I showed her the Bionicle page in the Lego catalog and asked her if I could buy one. Her answer was the dreaded "Maybe." A few months later, I was at Hershey Park with my dad. I spyed Pohatu in the gift store as we were walking in and remembered him as the one I wanted before. When it was time to go, I was given $15 to pick out a souvenier. I went straight for Pohatu and purchased him. My dad questioned my choice, and told me I should get something I would remember for years to come. I still bug him about that. I built Pohatu fairly quickly and flew him around the backseat of the car for nearly the whole ride home. My mom approved of the propellers (even if they had the potential to be drills) and supported my love of Bionicle. Now I have over fifteen sets- that's when I lost count- including some of the sets that first drew me to Bionicle. Pohatu will always be my favorite Toa.

All of the Mixels look awesome to me- but I am the most hyped about the orange undersea Mixels! All of the Mixels have good parts- they're great for MOCing and the unique way they are used add personality to the set. I am seeing many pieces used in ways I have never seen in a Lego set. Simply put, I can't wait for the rest to come out. (And at $4.99 USD and roughly $5.99 in Canada, they're pretty darn affordable!)

Put my vote in for number two- I love the useage of Kanohi, backwards minifigure arms as Link's fingers, and all of Link's weapons. Of course, Ganondorf looks absolutley smashing!

I always imagined Toa and Matoran wearing removable armor like clothes over their natural, metallic skin.

Would I be allowed to enter two Pokemon I made?

I am hyped about the pieces- flames, electricity, stone pieces, small ball joints, googly eyes... and later this year, more awesome pieces!

I would like to join. My character is as follows: "Name": 88 (It's shorter than Rahkshi-Toa #88) Physical description: A toa-hight yellow/silver armored Rahkshi like creature. Only three spikes line his back, the first two have a jagged pattern, but not like lightning. He has red eyes and an actual head instead of a kraata. He also has a mouth which would move beneath his yellow rahkshi helmet. He has clawed feet and hands. Weapons: Two silver swords (Two Phantoka Lewa's air sabers with Surge's electricity swords on the back) Abilities: control over electricity, can turn into a lighting bolt to fly, but this is nearly uncontrolable due to the speed. He is a pro with his blades and can fire electricity out of them or use an electricity-laced slash. Is that all? Tell me if I need to do anything else to join. Edit: (I know about the white text, now I have to select all of the font and switch it to yellow/orange. I must have forgotten for this one. Sorry!)

I always imagined them as mystical beings, kind of like Jedi, LOTR elves and greek gods all rolled into one being. But I always wondered: do the Great Beings ever relax and goof off? if so, what do they do?

I am think if it broke, everyone's creative energies would go out of whack and beings would feel super creative one moment and not creative at all the next. But who would want to break the Mask of Creation? also, what is its name? Mask of Time: Vahi, Mask of Life: Ignika. What's the Mask of Creation's name?

This. But right now Lego is fat, complacent, and happy. I'm not going to wish for Lego's doom here, but as long as they can make money on less-original stories like Ninjago and Chima, they won't reach for the stars. But here's the question. Is a story as original as BIONICLE's really all that desirable in the grand scheme of things? I think the idea that BIONICLE was our generation's "great story" is a little bit preposterous. BIONICLE didn't reach nearly as many people as Star Wars and the Lord of the Rings. And of the people it DID reach, only a tiny fraction went on to become lifelong fans. Saying BIONICLE is our generation's "great story" is ignoring several epic stories from the same time period, including Harry Potter, compared to which BIONICLE was merely a drop in the pond. BIONICLE was definitely very new and different. And there will always be a certain number of people who embrace things that are new and different. But there are other less flattering words that you could use to describe BIONICLE. It was weird. It was bizarre. It was alien. It was the sort of thing that a lot of adults could never really understand, and that many weren't even willing to TRY to understand. If you read reviews of BIONICLE comics and movies by non-fans, you generally don't see a lot of people proclaiming what an amazing story it is. Rather, for people who weren't willing to devote themselves to absorbing all the little bits of storyline spread across many different types of story media, it was confusing-as-Karzahni gibberish, and the parts of the story that were remotely decipherable to a non-fan seemed downright generic. Even some of my real-life peers who were around my age and collected BIONICLE sets barely had a clue what the storyline was about. They saw cool robot action figures with interchangeable plastic masks or rubber brains and thought they were cool, but they couldn't remember most of their foreign-sounding names or what the figures were supposed to represent. Whenever I did try to explain BIONICLE to them, they could barely digest the amount of ridiculous factoids that were necessary to properly understand the story. And do you know what happened to these fellow BIONICLE fans? They "grew out of it". BIONICLE never managed to appeal to them on nearly as deep a level as it appeals to lifelong fans like us. To them, it was never much more than a toy, and the impenetrable depth of the story made actually understanding or following it on a deeper level than that not worth their while. Even many existing, dedicated fans were driven off when the big reveal of Mata Nui's true nature took place. For them, it didn't matter whether it had been planned from the beginning or not. It was too unfamiliar, too different, too difficult to place in their cozy little definitions of BIONICLE's genre. Many of them preferred BIONICLE when it was nothing more than "primitive robots on a tropical island". That's pretty tame science-fantasy fare, all things considered. It's a Pacific island veneer over a science-fiction veneer over plain old swords-and-sorcery. Throw in that the island is itself camouflage for a giant robot that houses the entire universe the regular-size robots came from and that neat and tidy definition is no longer so neat and tidy. And a lot of people struggle to understand or appreciate things they can't define. Really, there are plenty of stories that have a similar, almost alien level of complexity and foreignness to them. But many of these fail miserably at generating interest because they're just too bizarre for a lot of people to understand their appeal. Take, for instance, Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal", which similarly created its own magical fantasy races without any direct analogues in real life or folklore. It was a good movie, but compared to it, BIONICLE's lasting success seems like a miracle of some kind. A lot of people are most comfortable investing themselves not in some strange and esoteric mythos but rather in the familiar, and it's important to remember that there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, that's the reason genres as we understand them even exist — writers and readers alike often want to take part in a large and firmly-established tradition like the medieval fantasy, or the space opera, or the western, or the murder mystery. There's nothing shameful about that. With toys and media alike, it does nobody any good if the same qualities that get a small number of fans deeply invested in your story play an active role in driving away a lot of your other potential fans. And when there are so many people who will cling to anything familiar, what do you honestly have to lose by framing your story in a familiar genre? That's another reason it's silly to compare BIONICLE to Star Wars or the Lord of the Rings but exclude Ninjago because it is not "completely original". The Lord of the Rings did not invent medieval fantasy, or elves, or dwarves, or wizards. Star Wars did not invent space opera, or space travel, or aliens, or laser guns. Like Ninjago, they were just taking part in traditions that had already been established. The reason they are remembered so fondly is that they revitalized and redefined those genres. They had that "hook", that little taste of something familiar... and that was all it took for them to draw in an audience that would have otherwise struggled to place those stories in any existing frame of reference. I don't mean to say Ninjago is a great story on the level of Star Wars or the Lord of the Rings. That'd be silly and pretentious. I'm not going to say it defined a generation either, though I'm sure in ten to fifteen years there will be blogs and Facebook groups about nostalgia for the current decade that consider Ninjago a major childhood experience for this time period, just like Pokémon was for my generation. But elevating BIONICLE to that level is just as ridiculous. It was a good story, and it was a story that a lot of people enjoyed, and it was a story many years in the telling. But it is not cherished and remembered by NEARLY as many as either of those franchises. It has not had as many imitators, certainly not as many successful ones. Pretty much any swords-and-sorcery role-playing game or video game franchise owes a great deal to Tolkien, and there are hundreds of sci-fi franchises that have drawn inspiration from Star Wars. It has not even been long enough to see if BIONICLE will have a similar legacy. So let's not go elevating it on some lofty pedestal until it has actually had a proven impact beyond just fansites and fanfiction. P.S.: A Google search for BIONICLE Fanfiction with no quotes brings up about 88,600 results. A Google search for "My Little Pony Friendship is Magic" fanfiction, with quotes around the franchise name, brings up about 11,400,000 results — over 128 times as many. BIONICLE began over thirteen years ago. "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" began about three years ago. Might be a sobering thought. This just in- type Bionicle fanfiction into google and you get about 142,000 results now. Do the same with MLP and you get a staggering 4,200,000 results. I find that completely odd.

Amazing story, even with all the grammatical errors, they don't get in the way of the epicness

more! more! more! this is amazing!

I don't have much, just a bunch of rhotuka including a red one from Keetongu, several assorted Krana/one Krana-Kal, lots of 2008 kanohi, and the gray Hau from the Ussanui