Fyndegil

People upload to Lego Ideas with the understanding that their creations might not reach 10,000 votes, but they still do it anyway. There's nothing "wasteful" about it.

I was using tragic in a more classical sense: a hero falls due to a tragic flaw. I think what's going on with the Roodaka-Vakama arc is that it was simply lifted from the Edmund-White Witch arc in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which was probably Lewis's attempt at de-eroticizing the archetype, or something (although I wouldn't put it past the Freudians to come up with a wild alternative reading). (edit: got a Jordan Peterson ad after posting this. Google is clearly spying on me.)

and that are literally other realms in the universe

(Note: I've only seen The Lego Movie 1, so if I say anything that's contradicted by 2, don't take me seriously.) Well, there are crossover characters in The Lego Movie with some pretty significant roles. I don't know about you, but I think it's pretty wild that Batman and Gandalf can be characters in the same movie. The thing is, it works in The Lego Movie, because the movie is essentially framed as one kid's headcanon. Characters from wildly different franchises can be thrown together along with OCs because fans can do that whenever they want. As for the DC cinematic universe, it's just a traditional cinematic universe presented directly (without the mediation of a framing story) by a company. Companies tend to be more conservative than kids. They're not just going to throw together franchises that don't make sense together. So, Bionicle is probably never going to cross over with any other DC franchise. Which brings us back to The Lego Group. They seemed to have always intended for Bionicle to be a self-contained story, as evidenced by their resistance to crossing over the Bionicle realm with the real world in the first movie. Therefore, while Bionicle is technically part of the "Lego Movie Cinematic Universe," it will most likely never play a role within the universe's media.

So you're saying from a Scandinavian perspective, it's better to follow trends rather than set them? Makes sense. I guess plastic blocks and assembly required furniture (Sweden's Ikea) were more intended to be one company's signature product, rather than a trend that other companies would try to imitate. Lego and Ikea could probably never have predicted Mega Blox, Playmobil, and random Malaysian companies that sell furniture as its constituent parts.

Interesting. It makes sense that the first video is the intended speed, considering that the game is from the early 2000's. In my opinion, the Matoran's movements are more natural on the slower version, and aside from a little bit when the screen pans, I wouldn't really call it "laggy." P.S. best of luck with your information security!

The Alliance Francaise de Darwin looks like it has a pretty good article on Hauts-de-France. https://www.afdarwin.org/2020/02/11/les-hauts-de-france/

I think Lenny did have a point about the cliffhanger, although there's no good solution to the problem because they can't just resume the story now after 10 years like nothing happened.

I think I understand what you mean. I don't think Ninjago is in the same market segment as Bionicle, because it seems to me like the target audience probably skews a bit younger. Maybe some of Lego's licensed lines could be thought of as successors to Bionicle. Another thought I had is that Lego might have actually given up on trying to develop properties for that age range, and instead decided to create sets aimed at adults in lieu of like 7-13 year olds.

I think you're going to have to accept that you can't make people remain interested in Bionicle. Also, your logic here doesn't sound too convincing. It's pretty clear that what you're trying to do is motivate fans who are losing interest to support that Ideas project. Then if you're successful, you've ended up mobilizing a bunch of weak fans to one petition. Wouldn't that amount to sending Lego a false signal that Bionicle is a fan favorite when it in fact it may not be such a fan favorite anymore?

This isn't just a Bionicle community, it's also a Ninjago, Hero Factory, and other Lego themes community. Just as we grew up and expanded our interests, so has the site.

I added my name to the supporters, although I recognize it's a long shot.

I mispelled a minor character from a book

I can see where you're coming from with that. I made the comparison I did because I tend to think more literally: what Roodaka explicitly promised Vakama was power, and it wasn't so much of a tragic love story as Samson and Delilah was.

Are they just using unrelated pieces for the masks?

Lishogi

I think you answered your own question I'm not so sure about that. Balance would be an important skill in a sport where you can try out unconventional moves. Or maybe that posture is used in conventional Kohlii tactics, à la Karate Kid (I think balancing on a pole even ended up being the most pivotal skill in that movie).

I'm not a professional linguist, but I think any writing system would work with any language as long as it has almost all of its sounds. I found some documentation on Matoran, and its syllable structure reminded me of Japanese, so I compared Matoran's consonant inventory to Katakana, and unfortunately, it doesn't have characters for all the sounds Matoran has, so I don't think it would actually work very well. It looks like it might actually be pretty hard to find other real world scripts that could be used for Matoran, since it looks like it overlaps a lot with English's phonemic inventory: English has some fairly unique sounds like w and j, and other scripts might lack some unexpected sounds (for example, Arabic lacks p).

Zanzibar by Billy Joel I saw a thread about Billy Joel and it reminded me of Zanzibar

We Didn't Start the Fire Whichever one We Didn't Start the Fire is on He wrote We Didn't Start the Fire He's the piano man

I know, right? In Bionicle, it seems like travel is such a big deal, with each year basically taking place in only one location and going to a new location between years isn't undertaken lightly, whereas in Star Wars people just casually travel between planets like it's nothing. Like Episode I feels like it could all take place in like, Morocco, with a couple trips to New York City.

"A Balrog of Morgoth" -Legolas

""Weird Bed"" by Elise Trouw

maybe the flag of a micronation

Here are some more analogies: Mata Nui and Makuta Teridax (per Mask of Light) are analogous to Ahura Mazda and Ahriman. The Toa Kaita are analogous to the Trinity. Being controlled by a krana is like being possessed by a demon, which is something that traditional belief systems and several religions believe can happen. The Toa Mata transforming into the Toa Nuva is similar to the Transfiguration. Naming Day is like receiving a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one receiving it, except in Bionicle everybody knows about the new name. Takanuva is like a mashiach or the Messiah. The Matoran losing their memories and waking up on Mata Nui is kind of like reincarnation and is similar to Native American legends about people coming out of the Earth. Vakama being tempted by Roodaka is similar to Jesus being tempted by Satan (except Vakama actually did give in). (edited for spelling) Keetongu is like a guru. I know these aren't perfect analogies, but no analogies are perfect, and I had a few more ideas that I left out because I thought they were too much of a stretch. My list ended up being a little heavier on Christianity than I expected, which might be interesting.