Takhamavahu

That "rule" only means that if he has forgotten the old answer, and gives you a new one, then if you find out they contradict, then he was wrong and keep the old one. He still has the power to change things if he wants. In the case that something has appeared in a part of the story like a book or a comic, then I can't imagine he'd want to change anything. That would create an inconsistency in the story. But if a tiny detail that was only ever talked about in out-of-universe conversations like his PMs or Ask Greg, then he could easily change his mind as long as he knows he is and wants to. So for something like the size of the robot, as much as we may want to change it, it's in the novels, it's in the comics, and it would be very difficult to retcon without creating different continuity errors. But for things like Velika's name, nobody in a story ever actually said anything about it, so he can change his mind easily and it's not a problem.

If you don't want nw canon things added, just ignore them. You don't have to take part. The story is finished, so nothing that could possibly be canonized will affect the existing story that is already finished and on paper. So why do you care? Canonizing a new thing isn't going to change the words in your book. It doesn't have any effect on the story that already happened and is finished. Nothing could possibly be canonized that will ruin a story that's already over. So why are you so bent on ruining the one little thing that might bring other fans joy? Why do you have to see that fans of G1 have one tiny thread of feeling like the original Bionicle is still ongoing and have to destroy it? Why do you have to go out of your way to spoil it for everyone else? You don't get to enforce a restriction on other people having fun and taking an interest in Bionicle just to be secure in the knowledge that nothing is going on while you're not looking.

It's not really about "reasonable". it's more that 40 million feet is the only thing that, although canon, contradicts every other relavent piece of previously established canon which agree with each other. It's inconsistent. It's a continuity error.

I would like that to be true but I've never heard that anywhere. Got a quote? When did he ever say that? Because I remember quite the opposite, that Takua made his mask blue (or picked one that was blue) because he liked it and everyone thought he was weird for that, or because there were no red masks available that day. so he picked a blue one and was like "that's fine" and everyone still thought he was weird for that.

The only time they are called Masters is in the set title "Master of" and in the video when Tahu refers to becoming the Master of Fire. Which means they aren't the Master of anything when they start their quest, and they are never ever collectively referred to as "The Masters" as if that's a team name. The Toa, however, is the collective term for them all that is used all the time.

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Those shoulders! Those are the same piece as Certavus' helmet, aren't they? Where do those come from??

I don't like to complain about new sets. These are still better than no sets at all. Mask Maker & Skull Grinder is the only one up to the quality of the winter sets. Skull Warrior and Skull Slicer both suffer from being the standard hero factory build, but with so little of the armour that would make it look good. The armour is very little and deliberately aymmetrical. The designers honestly thought it looked better that way. Both have unappealing colour schemes, (bright trans colour with mixed greys and silvers) and then trans orange on top of that. Both also have, on all of their knees an elbosw, they loose wrist ball joint insead of the guided one-direction ball joint that has been standard for knees since the Rakshi. New Pohatu has elbows like that and they're hard to pose in a way that looks good because elbows don't bend that way. Skull Basher is the best of the smaller sets solely on the merit that he is symmetrical. He also has the relatively least offensive colour scheme and the good elbows (but bad knees). There isn't a single set here that wouldn't look better with more armour instead of those bare bone parts. Or even old bionicle limbs which have some character to them rather than these plain, smoothe sticks. Skull scorpio has all the sins of the first two, and also a big, akward weapon and no articulation in his legs whasoever. Either Skul slicer or Scorpio has possibly the least appealing colour scheme of any Bionicle set ever before. Two clashing bright trans colours and mixed shades of grey and silver. I can't decide which green is poorer. Ekimu is perfect- he's exctly what was expected and he's great. The Big guy is the only villain which feels like he uses those armour-incompatible bone parts for the look of them rather than as an excuse not to have more arour pieces. Again, I'd rather have these than no sets at all. They all have cool masks and armour, but it's to bad that the best part about most of these sets is the parts I'm going to use to build something else.

putting one mask over another was just a movie thing. He must have taken it off and put it away somewhere. It was no longer important.

Nope. He was enlarged by the energy in the core.

Generall, the sets are pretty much to scale, except I'd moderate Toa around to roughly Toa Metru sized. The Piraka Should look pretty beefy next to the Toa Inika, who shouldn't tower over the Toa Nuva the way they do, but other than that, there's no reason to think the sets aren't to scale unless stated otherwise. Zivon and Tahtorak are giants, more to scale with the Playsets.

Are we not oging to talk about what looks an awful lot like an actual 2015 Mask Pack?

Yeah, I don't think it means anything. It just sounded beter that way and didn't matter because it means the same thing

I'd like to see that Bionicle G1 is the distant past of G2. The Toa are reincarnations or spiritual descendants of the Toa Nuva, who have yet to discover the destinies they have inherited. The protectors are an evolutionary descendant of Agori, or of an Agori/matoran hybrid. Even if the G1 characters affect the current story, I would rather that even the flashbacks be something that takes place after the end of G1 story. Like the New Toa find out they are the spiritual heirs of the ancient Toa from millions of years ago, but even as they unearth clues and piece together the story of the ancient Toas' lives, it's a story that takes place some time after the end of G1 story, and the original Toa Nuva were involved in a compltely unrelated adventure set years after the unfinished serials.

Other than the gear, I always got the impression they were approximately the same build as the Protector of Fire, which was interesting because on our old Bionicle sensibilities, we would assume they ould be titans, and it was neat to conisder that they are actually tiny. Now with the gear, unless anyone has a good idea to incorperate that into the Protector build, I'm guessing they're just a cartoon and not based on a real model, and how big they are is totally up in the air.

I don't remember that ever being said that it was smushed. When Icarax put it on, he probably shapeshifted once or twice while wearing it, and it was left with that tiny, minor change by the time he got to Karda Nui.

These are beautiful. If I could change one thing, I would make the feet of the two-coloured ones match the head and spine rather than the hand joints. On the original Rakshi sets, the feet, head and spine were a different textured plastic than the cup joints, even though they were the same colours. I would make all the softer plastic parts match each other for Rakshi with two colours.

If Greg is very sure that he previously said Rode was a special and rare mask, or is firm in deciding so now, then fine, But if he isn't sure (I sure don't remember him ever saying so; I think he is thinking of Olmak) then I'd really rather it not be made so now because Rode is not overpowered and it' awesome for MOCing with, so it would be a shame to lose that potential. If Greg decides once and for all the Rode is a rare mask, that still doesn't mean a Toa can't have it. It just means that one of the Toa of ice in an interesting character now. It opens up possibilities for storytelling now that one of the seven unnamed Toa Mangai has an interesting identifying charachteristic. Why would you want to avoid that? Why would you want to enforc boringness on a character when you know nothing else at all about him?

I remember the Mask of Dimensional Gates being ver limited, but I don't remember him ever saying so about the mask of Truth. I'm inclined to trust his judgment, but at the same time, that's too bad; I really liked MOCing toa with that mask. It looks good and it's a useful, but not overpowered ability.

It's on a ball joint, so just point him how you want, the same as you would with his arms or legs. They always lay out ball joints in a way that easy to build, so you have to pose it later.

Why can there not be one from every category? Why is it so ridiculous to have more than half accepted, let alone one from each when this may be the last addition to the old canon we ever get?

There was no explaination, but masks do weird things all the time when the sets demand it. Lhikan's weird Hau as a Toa was never explained, aside from that it was a great Hau in a different shape. The confirmation of the Gold Good Guy as Turaga Lhikan supports the theory that that was the noble shape all along. If Lhikan, like Norik was wearing his mask in a deliberately noble shape for some personal reason, then maybe it was done in a special way other than being reforged. Then when Jala received it, it reset to the original shape it had when Lhikan was a matoran.

I always flipped the forearms of the Toak Inika and others of that design so that he armoured side was on the top.

I like this theory based only on what we have, but I still think it's too early, at least for me, to be buying into theories when there is so little to go off and the story has only just begun. I bet what will happen i that they'll have these generic masks now, but if in the future new sets of villager characters with unique masks come out, they will act like it's nothing. Like how in MNOG, every ga-matoran seems to wear a kakama except those with names and major roles.