Fyndegil

People are entitled to their opinions and should they choose to, to discuss them with other individuals who may have additional things to say on the topic, as another user did weeks before!

It's #relatable

You just asked for parallels that could be drawn, not undeniable proofs or anything.

Teridax was the only Makuta we knew about in 2001.

Chuckschwa drew some parallels between Kopaka and Kanaloa a few months ago.

I wanted to say that they just put gender in Bionicle because it's a meaningful concept to the audience, not necessarily that it has any significance to the characters themselves. As far as I know, it certainly doesn't have any, erm, biological significance. Then I realized that if, in-universe, gender was only a social concept it would actually be consistent with the literal definition of gender, according to the sex/gender distinction. I think you're definitely on to something there. Did Lego have any idea that anyone would still be debating it 20 years later? Ok but I wasn't talking about the actual gender distributions in Bionicle so forgive me for misunderstanding.

Maybe after Lego acknowledged one fan game they decided that they didn't want to acknowledge all the fan games that might come out.

Why would Lego acknowledge fan games? I don't know what "rules and policies provided by The LEGO Group" refers to, but if Lego gave them some sort of permission to make this game, they're lucky to have even that.

I was thinking more along the lines of a kind of soft power. Like in a way that's not conspicuous, so "being superior" would be a bad way to describe it. It might make more sense if you take "overcomes" to mean "to surmount," "to spread over," "to resist," or "to overflow," although this is a pretty metaphorical discussion so you probably don't want to get too retentive with definitions. And "crushing" just wouldn't make sense for what something soft does to something hard. I wasn't, I'm just discussing the gender-element correspondences that Chronicler06 proposed. And you're claiming that elements can be gendered, which sounds like it would be questionable, by your own standards.

I'd say the comic book series was the one constant throughout G1.

Not exactly what I meant in my post

Old thread, but some of the comments here remind me of that guy from the Pokemon company who said something like, "If we made a game that had ALL the features the fans wanted we'd have to make a game with all the regions but only the Kanto Pokemon but all the legendaries and it'd be an unplayable trainwreck." In conclusion, sometimes less is more and the Bionicle cameo was enough, in my opinion.

Why not?

Wouldn't that be kind of feminist, though, since Chinese philosophy says that the soft overcomes the hard?

I think I saw that in a Lego catalog once.

This thread reminds me of a particular long cat that is longer than regular

Most of these could be easily explained by the theory that Lego's marketing research predicted brown sets to sell less well so they decided to make them more unique to increase demand but they still didn't sell as well as they wanted, so they moved away from brown in later years.

Maybe BZP should update its rank name to Matoran.

My first was a tie between Gali and the scorpion Rahi.

Kept mine. I used one of them for keeping masks in and found other stuff to keep in the others. I kept coins in a couple of them, and I think I used one to store Halloween/seasonal candy for a couple of years. Having a hard time remembering what I kept in the rest of them (but there was nothing sus, I promise!).

I appreciate the effort, but that's an actual Bionicle song.

Bone Heads would have been funny. For a couple of months, I guess.

Huna is apparently a New Age belief system that claims to be based off of Hawaiian beliefs, so "Huna" in the New Age-y context would be taken from Hawaiian, but the origin of Kanohi "Huna" would still be up for debate. I also think it's interesting how the symbol looks like the eight-spoked Buddhist wheel symbol. If there's any connection at all, my theory would be: The guy who came up with the Eye of Kanaloa symbol took some influence from the Buddhist wheel (perhaps without being completely transparent about it). Lego developed the part as a satellite dish, without intending any spiritual meaning. Someone doing research for Bionicle decided to base Kopaka after Kanaloa, and then came across the Eye of Kanaloa symbol. The researcher noticed a similarity between the Eye of Kanaloa and the satellite dish piece, so it was decided to use it for Kopaka.

It sounds crazy that Lego would base Toa off of Hawaiian gods, but there are so many coincidences! You just might be onto something.

Ozone sounds like something you should not try if you don't know what you're doing.