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Thursday, June 4, 2009 Whoa dood.

Friday, May 29, 2009 BARA MAGNA • Greg: "The Agori are the native species of Bara Magna. They were not created by the Great Beings, like Matoran were, and they don't even know what a Great Spirit is. The robot pieces visible in the desert are from a Great Being project that never functioned." • Spherus Magna didn't shatter slowly; it shattered quickly. The Great Beings were the first ones to realize it might happen. • Greg: "Well, we know the planet Spherus Magna shattered into three pieces, one of which is Bara Magna. We haven't said anything about the two moons being the two other pieces yet, for all that has been revealed, Spherus Magna may have had two moons and those are them." • Agori were the ones who first spotted the energized protodermis on Spherus Magna. • The thought to construct a giant robot was conceived before Spherus Magna began shattering. The prototype robot was constructed long beforehand. • Greg, when asked if Kiina in Reign of Shadows #5 was pushy because she wanted to leave Bara Magna like in the main universe, responded that she was not since she was simply building a shelter, whereas in the main universe "they're building a method of escape." • A Glatorian who accidentally kills an opponent, if it is proven it was an accident, would most likely be suspended rather than exiled. • Before his exile Malum's actual weapon of choice was a sword. • The Skopio creature, which inspired the Skopio XV-1 vehicle, shows up in the movie. • How Stronius defeated one of the baterra is revealed in the Papercutz graphic novel. • The Great Beings intended to apply the baterra's compact physical shape to the Bohrok design. • Being an elite warrior, Stronius earned his name during the Core War. • The divergence between the main universe and the alternate one featured in Reign of Shadows #5 occurred when the Makuta first planned his rebellion, after the defeat of the Barraki. MATORAN UNIVERSE • Mata Nui does not relinquish his energy to the Maze and die in order to achieve his mission. • Mata Nui was aware of the two Glatorian in his head. • Greg: "The Exo-Toa were created as a means to shut down the Bahrag if the Bohrok ever got out at the wrong time so they were designed for use by Toa." • The inhabitants of the Red Star are not thwarted by a perpetual red glow. Greg: "You are assuming the light comes from the star, as opposed to just being reflected sunlight." The Red Star's outside color is red.

Refers to the two bodies the Toa Hagah found deep beneath Metru Nui in "Dwellers in Darkness."

After Malum defeated it, since Malum did not kill it.

Friday, May 22, 2009 BARA MAGNA • The Great Beings once held a position of power on Spherus Magna, up to the Core War and during it. • Greg hints that it is possible that the Great Beings would not refer to each other as "Great Beings" or their giant robot as the "Great Spirit." • Prior to the Shattering, many Agori and Glatorian had been outside of Bara Magna. Most are not native to Bara Magna. • Greg, on the Vorox's anomalous tails: "Ah, but who is to say they aren't the same species as Glatorian, genetically tinkered with by the Great Beings?" • There is water up near the headwaters of the Skrall River in the north, then it turns to sand as it goes further south. The water comes from melting snows in the Black Spikes. • Scarabax beetles can fly. • Special forces Skrall are more agile and stronger and quicker thinkers than the warrior class. • Greg believes it is Stronius who killed one of the baterra for the Skrall to study. • The Great Beings created the Element Lords to help them govern the Agori. • Greg's hunch is that the Element Lords are of mixed gender. • All of the tribes on Bara Magna had an Element Lord, but some of these tribes did not have villages in Bara Magna prior to the Shattering. • The tribes' affiliation with certain elements existed prior to the notion of Element Lords. • In the past, Strakk has defeated Vastus and Ackar. • The alpha Vorox that Malum defeated wandered off on its own away from the pack. • There are more Vorox than Skrall. • The origin of the giant robot limbs scattered throughout Bara Magna is revealed in the movie. • Strakk and Tarix have roles in the movie. • Gelu plays a large role in the first novel. • Stronius appears in comics and in the upcoming Papercutz graphic novel. • Kyry appears in the first novel. MATORAN UNIVERSE • Mata Nui had not come close to completing his mission before the Great Cataclysm. • Teridax is aware that Bara Magna exists. • Greg says that the inhabitants of the Red Star are probably not aware of what they are living inside of. • The Red Star would attach to Mata Nui's upper back, large enough to cover most of it. • Greg, on Mata Nui's camouflage mechanism: "We know that the state of Mata Nui in our story was caused by an energized protodermis LEAK .. we never said EP played a role at all in the other times MN was disguised. How do you know the leak did not transform what was used to create the plant life, thus accelerating the process?" • Greg, on the function of the EP pipes near Mata Nui's face: "We haven't revealed that yet, but my personal belief is this -- we know there are what look like spare Mata Nui-ish parts on Bara Magna. To me, it's reasonable to assume that was an experiment that failed. So why, then, did Mata Nui as a project succeed? I think the difference was the use of protodermis and the use of EP. Think about it -- EP is capable of transformation or destruction of ANYTHING -- consider what an energy source that would be if you could harness it." • The two beings found dead near Mata Nui's consciousness were of the Glatorian's species, being from the Fire Tribe and the Jungle Tribe. Their presence there was intended. • Greg: "Brutaka is not dependent on his mask the way a Toa or a Matoran is. Different species." • Only creatures of the Matoran universe can produce Rhotuka. • Lava Eels inhabit Mount Valmai.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Piecing together those hi-res images from Amazon's zoom feature can be a pain. So it's a good thing I already did it for you! Sets Kaxium V3 Baranus V7 Thornatus V9 Skopio XV-1 Boxes Cendox V1 Kaxium V3 Baranus V7 Thornatus V9 Skopio XV-1

Friday, May 15, 2009 GLATORIAN • Greg: "Strakk's attitude is a lot closer to the typical Glatorian than, say, Gresh's is. Some Glatorian, like Vastus, are motivated by the need to make up for their past, some, like Tarix, by love of their village, but most in general are in it for the shelter, the food, the equipment -- those are things you can't do without in a desert, and at some point, you will be too old to make a living as a Glatorian, so you have to get it while you can." • Vastus's regrettable past involves his participation in the Core War. Greg: "Well, some war veterans in our world get along with their life post-war just fine, and some are tortured by guilt. Everyone is different in how they react to things, right?" • When Metus wants to recruit new Glatorian, he travels to different villages and looks for recruits in the wastelands who may have chosen not to be Glatorian up to now. BARA MAGNA • Apparently, "Tajun" is pronounced like "TAY-zun." • The traitor against Tajun is a 2009 set. • Many of the weapons carried by the people of Bara Magna were once powered, and their power has long run out, explaining why Berix's sword has a tube. • Greg, on the large population of Vorox and Skrall: "My feeling is this -- the Vorox are native to the desert, because they were a sand tribe to start with, so they were probably on Bara Magna for long before the Shattering. The Skrall's main fortresses were north of the Black Spikes and in the Black Spikes, so they had large numbers already in the area when the Shattering happened. The other tribes did not have large armies in this part of the world at the time, so their numbers to start with were not as high." • Greg, on survivors of the Shattering: "[W]hether or not anyone survives elsewhere [from Bara Magna] is not something story team has discussed, since we aren't telling stories at this point about anyplace else but here." • There is a particular reason male Skrall avoid female ones. • All Bone Hunters are black, and all Rock Steeds are red. • Not all Vorox carry Thornax launchers, but many do. • While Bone Hunters can ride on Sand Stalkers, it is very rare that they do. • The transition of Bara Magna's jungle to desert, as referenced in "The Crossing," had already begun before the Shattering ever took place. Most deserts on our world were once lush and green and transitioned over time. In the case of BM, the Shattering accelerated that process. ELEMENT LORDS • The Vorox fought in the Core War under the Element Lord of Sand. • Vastus fought for the Element Lord of Jungle, who controlled plant life. • Greg, on the Element Lords: "I do consider them the same species, the same way that Toa are the same species but one might be controlling fire and another ice. The ELs were all made the same way, just with control of different elements." • Greg: "I haven't said anything about how many [Element Lords] were created. We have met two, and can assume there were at least four others, but nothing has been said about whether others may have existed." • There is only one Element Lord for each element. • The Element Lord of Water ruled Spherus Magna's Great Sea, and the Element Lord of Ice ruled the Northern Frost. MATORAN UNIVERSE • Mata Nui's original body is much bigger than the red star is. • Pouks's Kanohi cannot copy weapon or mask powers. • Greg assumes the circular Matoran letters preceded the hexagonal style, since the circular one is used in Metru Nui, which was built early on. • Greg, on the Olmak's rarity: "For one thing, do we know it is necessarily considered "rare"? For example, have we ever seen another example of Axonn's mask? It's possible there are a lot of masks of which only a couple exist at present. There may have been more in the past which were destroyed, or not." • Greg thinks the Matoran universe will be shown in a future comic.

Thursday, May 14, 2009 Mata Nui. Skrall. Ackar. Bonehunter, although this is really Atakus's model. Hopefully the producers won't make this switch in the movie. Berix. Metus. Gresh. Vorox. Kiina. Tuma. The scarabax beetle Click witnesses the landing of the Ignika. A huge foot is seen in the distance. Bara Magna's two moons (one blue, one green) are seen in the night sky. A huge bolt of energy gathers. Some sort of ancient transit system. The viewer seems to be coming from the portal to Iconox or Tajun. The arena crest is carved around the portals. A structure similar in style to the Arena Magna, a design of the Great Beings, serves as a hub. Similar portals were shown in concept artwork of the villages of Bara Magna in the Agori advertisement in the January comic. A figure (Mata Nui?) stares up at a rudimentary blueprint of the Matoran universe robot. The runes on the walls don't spell anything in particular, and some letters don't exist. A gorge with some volcanic activity. Tesara. Two gigantic trees seem to have been cleaved near the trunk. Bara Magna's two moons are seen in the night sky. An eerie evening sight. A figure walks through a canyon. A humanoid land formation. A test render of Berix and a Skrall.

I'm guessing the new sites are some sort of AFOL or independent builders function.

I don't know why that quote sticks with me. But it does.

Never took AP Chem, I'm just done. I had: Calc BC Lit/Comp Music Theory

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 "It is...over."

Friday, May 8, 2009 BARA MAGNA • No one living on Bara Magna would refer to it as "planet Bara Magna," analogous to the fact that no one living in California would refer to it as "planet California" were it to break off into space. • Bone Hunters are physically stronger than Agori. • Greg, on the relationship between the Skrall and Glatorian species: "All part of overall the same species, in the same way humans and other animals are primates." • Thornax do not grow outside of the Bara Magna desert. THE CORE WAR • The Great Beings did not intend for the Element Lords to go to war with each other. • The Glatorian who fought in the Core War fought against each other on behalf of their respective Element Lords. • The EP war was, of course, related to the Shattering. • Greg would say the Shattering is indirectly the fault of the Great Beings. • It is possible that regular protodermis had been created before the discovery of energized protodermis and simply not have been in use. • The Bone Hunters existed as Bone Hunters even before the Shattering; they were simply not as prevalent or active. • Greg, on the function of Tarix's tube: "No, haven't worried about it because I don't need to for story. BUT -- my feeling is a lot of what you are seeing on armor and weapons is stuff that dates back to the Core War and had a function THEN -- which may not still operate NOW." GLATORIAN • In the case of a three-way dispute between villages, two Glatorian fight in a match, and a third then fights the winner. • Vastus has won the Great Tournament more than once. • Strakk has never thrown a fight. • Win-loss statistics of Glatorian are not published, though their villages are certainly aware of their records. • Certavus was older than Ackar. • Besides the Skrall, Tarix is probably the Glatorian currently with the best record. • Ackar once had his prime, but he is not in his prime anymore. He thinks it is because his age is catching up with him, but Greg considers it more to be a lack of confidence. • Kiina is not the only female Glatorian; she is simply the most successful of the current females. MATORAN UNIVERSE • Mata Nui's mission is intended to remedy a problem, not simply to avoid one. • The Red Star comes down, attaches to Mata Nui, and then lifts him off a planet when he needs to leave. • The Red Star is made of protodermis. • The Toa Nuva's Suva are currently on Metru Nui. • Nuparu has contacted Takanuva. • Greg, on what Karzahni's Matoran worked on making: "Now and then weapons for Karzahni to use to defend his realm, but more often, totally useless items which he then destroyed and made them make over again." GENERAL • Greg: "His [Gresh's] mood is lighter in the movie. Gresh, because he is young and relatively inexperienced, tends to try and act very grim and serious all the time, and Kiina has been after him to lighten up, which he does (somewhat) in the film." • Greg is saving the introduction of Skrall females until later this year. • Kiina is obliquely named after Greg's wife, Jackina. • Illustrations of baterra are planned sometime for the future.

The OGD is a blessing and a curse.

Woooo I have Calc BC, Lit/Comp, Music Theory. If they had Greek I'd own it. Calc is gonna be fun...

Friday, May 1, 2009 BARA MAGNA • Bara Magna is viewable from the endless ocean planet with the use of a telescope. • Greg: "I think it is safe to say the MN telescope is not powerful enough to see out of the solar system…" meaning that Bara Magna and the endless ocean planet are in the same star system. • North of Bara Magna's desert are primarily mountains and valleys, and inhabitable terrain is concentrated to a small region. To the south, on the other hand, the desert stretches all the way down. There are no oceans on Bara Magna, but there were on the planet it was once a part of. • The housing of Bara Magna villages mostly consists of crude shelters. • The technology of the implants used by the inhabitants of Bara Magna originated from the Great Beings. • Although the set of Mata Nui is equipped only with a scarab shield and Thornax launcher, he also acquires a sword, which he finds and uses in the movie • Gresh plays a significant role in the movie. • There is a decent amount of age difference between Tarix, Strakk, Malum, etc. and Gresh. Gresh is also fairly new to being a #2 Glatorian. • The #2 Glatorian who once won the Great Tournament was the #2 Glatorian for Tesara prior to Gresh, who has since died. • As for the Glatorian species, some have been killed by baterra, prior to the Shattering; many more simply died in the war. • The Agori mainly acted as support staff during the EP war. • The Great Beings created the Element Lords, and they based the idea of the Toa's elemental powers off them. RED STAR • The Red Star is a propulsion system which enables Mata Nui to escape a planet's gravity, connecting onto him as he travels from planet to planet. • The Red Star remains in a geosynchronous orbit around whichever planet Mata Nui visits. • The beings in the Red Star are not in there against their will; rather they consider it their home same as the Matoran consider Mata Nui to be their home. They know of the Great Beings. • The Red Star was created before Mata Nui was. • The Red Star and its function have been planned since the beginning of the story. BATERRA • Greg: "[The Great Beings] regret releasing [the baterra] because they didn't get the job done in time. It was already too late by the time they made the decision to unleash them." The baterra had not been completed in time. • It is possible that baterra were scattered to other planets during the Shattering. • At least one baterra has been defeated by someone before. • Baterra do not know how to repair themselves. • The Bohrok were based on the baterra. MATORAN UNIVERSE • Botar used the second Olmak to travel between dimensions and retrieve an alternate Tuyet. • The Turaga of Metru Nui are imprisoned in the Coliseum. • The Hydraxon comic will be 10 pages long only. Pridak will be featured in it. • The name of the endless ocean planet and the identity of those who name(d) it relate to future story. It should be revealed this year. • Mata Nui does not have multiple missions. When he lands on a planet, he is not looking for something specific. He is gathering knowledge.

It's mentioned in BL9: Shadows in the Sky.

Midak is an Onu-Matoran.

Friday, April 24, 2009 BARA MAGNA • Greg believes the Vorox always had their stinger tails. • Malum did not kill the former pack leader of the Vorox. • Greg would say most if not all the known Agori were alive before the Shattering. • All of the known Glatorian were alive before the Shattering. Gresh is indeed a younger Glatorian, but he does remember the Shattering. He was simply too young to have fought in the war. • Greg: "Bone hunters generally don't use vehicles, because vehicles make noise. When you are doing midnight raids on villages, you don't want engine noises alerting everyone you are coming." • Greg, on why Surel does not live in a village: "Because there are no villages up there, and he felt he had been abandoned by his comrades, so why would he want to go live with them? He had a home, with the Iron Wolves." • Neither the baterra nor the Iron Wolves are made of protodermis. • The Iron Wolves were created prior to the EP war. • Usually, the #1 or #2 Glatorian helps train the trainee Glatorian. • Greg, on the system of two Glatorian per village: "t's not a rule. It's more a custom born from the fact that most villages cannot afford to pay more than two main Glatorian in the style to which Glatorian have become accustomed." • Gresh's shield is called the "jungle shield." • Greg is sure that Vastus has won the Great Tournament before. • Strakk has never won the Tournament. • Of living Glatorian, Tarix has ranked up the most Tournament wins. • Iconox has not yet hired a #2 replacement for Gelu, since his retirement just happened. • Gelu's new job -- escorting traders through deserts filled with bone hunters and Vorox -- is MORE dangerous than being a Glatorian. He retired because there is more profit to be made as an armed guard than as a Glatorian. • Despite having two heads, the Spikit shares one mind. • Naming does not mean that a Skrall is of higher rank, only that he did something heroic once. • Branar will appear in the story again. • Ackar teaches Mata Nui melee fighting skills, out of good will. • Mata Nui will need to eat and sleep. • The Ignika cannot be used to heal. • Mata Nui will not be fighting as a Glatorian. • There is a special reason why the sword that Mata Nui finds on Bara Magna is reserved for him which will be explained in the movie. BATERRA • The baterra are a doomsday weapon. The GBs knew the war was going to lead to cataclysm, and their "gentler" attempts to stop it had failed. So they went for a doomsday weapon, something that would wipe out the armies unless they laid down their weapons and stopped fighting. Unable to stop the war by any other means, the GBs unleashed them to kill any armed combatant. The baterra continue to follow their original programming, which is to destroy anyone taking part in the war - that is, anyone considered an armed combatant. They were an attempt to stop the war, not vengeance post-war. • Greg, on the GB's involvement with the baterra: "f you wanted to stop a war, and you wanted to do it by force, would you restrict yourself to only going after, say, the top 10% of combatants? Wouldn't that leave the other 90% still fighting?" • Baterra have a default, un-shapeshifted form. • Baterra are mechanical. • There is actually a very easy way to stop a baterra from attacking you, but no one other than their creators knows what it is. This is done by surrendering one's weapons and armor, although it is always too late to do so once a baterra has seen them. • The Great Beings have already tried to deactivate the baterra using a failsafe, which was unsuccessful. • Baterra are sophisticated strategic thinkers, which is core to how they operate. • Greg: "I would say the things Mata Nui created would have to have come from programming given him by the GBs. But the baterra, in terms of physical appearance, are actualy much closer to looking like Bohrok than looking like Makuta. And the Makuta shapeshifting didn't happen until they evolved into antidermis, which the GBs did not know would happen." SPHERUS MAGNA • The Great Beings were not a faction in the EP war. • Malum, Gelu, and Kiina fought in the EP war. MATORAN UNIVERSE • Midak befriended the Toa while on Mata Nui. • The Ignika shares the Mata Nui robot's energy signature, so the robot can sense it. Mata Nui would be able to sense and locate any portion of his form which still contained that energy. • Greg, on the Mata Nui robot's destructive power: "He could certainly do a lot of damage to [a planet], but he wasn't designed for attack. His weaponry was for defense." • Mata Nui is only about 100,001 years old. • Greg: "I think Lariska has a conscience, and not all DH do." • Nocturn is dead, presumably killed by Hydraxon in an escape attempt. THE RED STAR • The Red Star is involved in Mata Nui's transit. There is machinery inside the Red Star which facilitates this. • The Mata Nui robot could travel through space without the Red Star. • The Red Star has a solid hull. Greg doubts the Star is spherical. • The Great Beings put the inhabitants of the Red Star in it. • The energy which transformed the Matoran in to the Toa Inika originated from the Red Star itself, not its occupants. GENERAL • GN #7 will collect the 2008 comics. GN #8 will feature three stories set on Bara Magna, featuring the set characters, that will be all new. Then GN #9 will collect the 2009 comics. Hydraxon's story will be set after Matoro's death.

Friday, April 17, 2009 BARA MAGNA • Vastus is a little younger than Tarix, Kiina is quite a bit younger than Tarix, but older than Gresh. • The Book of Certavus is currently in Berix's possession. EMPIRE OF THE SKRALL • Greg, on the baterra's ability to vanish: "Works like this. You and a friend are walking through a forest. One of the trees is actually a shapeshifted baterra. It turns back into a baterra, attacks your friend. When you turn to see what's happening, it's a tree again, so it seems to have vanished." • The baterra did not exist before the EP war. EP was not involved in their creation, and they might not even be biological beings at all. There is a reason they are so hostile, and they do not necessarily target only Skrall. • Branar looks like a standard Skrall soldier. • Surel is younger than Tarix and Certavus. • Surel's biomechanical wolves are very old. • During the war Element Lords were commanders of Glatorian. • Element-based tribes existed prior to the Element Lords. • Most special forces Skrall have names, but not all. • The baterra's weapons shapeshift with them, as appendages of their body. GENERAL • The inhabitants of the Red Star have always resided there, and the Great Beings are aware of them. They are not baterra, Element Lords, or Great Beings. • Mata Nui's creation was indirectly related to the EP war. • The movie does not at all explore events prior to the Shattering.

The picture is from the ad in the March comic. There's concept art of all the villages, but its all monochromatic and very small.