Adventurer

Bionicle sparked my creativity and ability to think outside of the box I think - the somewhat abstract lore and universe of Bionicle which I completely immersed myself in makes a lot of things others would consider strange to be tame. In addition to that, my time on this site discussing and expanding the mythology and theory-crafting probably nurtured/sparked my love of that process and style of thinking which has led me to my current university degree and probable career path. I honestly feel I would have done worse at school if I hadn't become somewhat addicted to theory making and thinking how things worked and predicting the storyline, which I think helped train me to think in that way. Also it has had a large influence on some of the things I like, such as colours, locations (sometimes when I travel I compare places in my mind to various locations in the Bionicle universe), personalities (...to this day I still think of people I meet as different types of Bionicle characters sometimes ) and how I connect them to one another (if that makes sense).

I got Onua and Gali Mata first - I guess you could count Gali first since she was the first I opened/built (I remember thinking ladies first ), but on the other hand I remember Onua was my favourite/one I was most excited about getting and he was also the one I chose first, so hard to say which I'd say was the absolute first.

I have a friend who's studying plant science, sociology and music - those types of combinations can be pretty crazy but I imagine it'd be nice and diverse and fun. I guess an easy way to sum, it up would be saying in situations in which quantum mechanics are significant, they've managed to "separate" a property of a system from the system. I heard someone describing it as having a green tree, but having the green not where the tree was. So it'd be like detecting the tree was to your left, but seeing the green to your right. (A horrible explanation sorry, but hopefully helps? )

Collecting your thoughts and expressing them well. Being honest I still have trouble doing that here - but believe me it's a lot better than the irl version of me (people always misunderstand what I'm trying to express ).

I always remember the older fans being slightly more cynical of the later Bionicle sets and stories and what not, but they were the minority. With a return I feel that will be the case again, however that particular demographic will be a bit larger (how large will depend on the success of the new line I suspect). For the most part though assuming some other successful fan site doesn't appear and steal our thunder I think the majority of activity will increase and be fairly positive - maybe a few more old grumps than before though.

Half-Life. It'll never happen I know (even less likely to occur in my lifetime than Half-Life 3 ) but I can dream...

Well, since that's just Bionicle I'd take that as a pretty strong sign. Definitely choo-choo time!

Is what I study at the moment - anyone else having fun in these fields? For a bit of fun what does everyone think about these two papers?

Does anyone check if that search produced a different result in the past? If so how long ago was the result different?

Hi, I'm Adventurer(ess/ella) and am here - have been lurking for past few years with very sporadic activity. Don't know how many people would remember me - I used to post annoyingly in S&T a lot. Also this thread's title reminds me of this gif.

Mohtrek because it's one of the cooler more creative powers I think. Other contenders depending on my mood would include the Calix, Rode and Olmak. If I were allowed to choose legendary Kanohi I'd take the mask of creation.

Fresh start (reboot) with links to the old stuff - I took that as the first option. However, thematically and canon wise I'd definitely want it to remain consistent with the original series.

Stuff not boarding the hype train! I'm jumping on maximum acceleration!

There's enough original content being produced here alone to fuel the community for quite a few years to come at least and that's ignoring external factors such as newer members and the discussion of other Lego lines and the what not. The site is doing amazingly well I'd say. (Based on my judgement anyway.)

Well if it was only one area of the site probably S&T or GD - but whenever I actually comeback I check these forums, the Bionicle/Lego set forums, briefly check blog and profile and the what not. Eventually I end up browsing everywhere depending on time allowance.

Actually, the past story set up a world where past history isn't needed -- there's these biomechanical characters and they live on a big green world. And bad stuff starts now. Here's the new bad guys. And here's our heroes and citizens. Besides, Bionicle started with past history. It might be best even to just not mention major past events too clearly so people could go back and find them out themselves; lots of stories do that. The only major trouble I can think of is they'll have to introduce more species at once. But they could get around that quite easily by for example, having a new name for all the tall ones (something like Toa meaning heroes as an honorary title again, or something new), and a name for all the shorter ones (maybe both being just English so there's not another fancy word to learn). Then trivia could mention the more specific details about the Toa/Matoran and Glatorian/Agori split. Other species could be left on the sidelines for main plot or in some cases incorporated into bad guy groups. Really, the past history would be more of a problem with a reboot since people could always be looking up spoilers online. Of course style and specifics of many things could be changed, but that opens up problems too -- all avoided with a "continuation" (brand new, unrelated story set in future Spherus Magna). I think our definitions of reboot and continuation are opposite to each others. "all avoided with a "continuation" (brand new, unrelated story set in future Spherus Magna)." For me I would consider that a reboot if you're basically disregarding the prior story/not referring to it in any significant way, whilst a continuation would imply building upon the past events and materials. Regardless of the words if they're going to use the Bionicle line they're definitely going to use the same themes and probably (or maybe possibly) locations - otherwise they wouldn't bother reusing the license I believe. The question for me is more do they use more than that? Do they pick up where things left off and have the "new" story of Spherus Magna with some old characters and species etc... in the background basically introduced as new - or do they start in a more rebooty way and not have these references beyond minor easter eggs? (This is why I said location possibly as even if the same location was used a more "reboot" style story could occur if its in the distant future or not really looking at the residents of Spherus Magna we do already know). I have a feeling in the spectrum between those two options we'd get something whereby the primary story and characters are almost entirely new (ie the plot isn't initiated by something particularly related to the previous story) with a few references and head nods here. Anything more I feel would either be reintroducing established content or having to have exposition of that contents history which -could- be difficult if not in small doses (eg easter eggs ). That being said if they started again with Tahu or someone as a primary character I could see that working equally well - though it might be odd having the characters mostly ignore their history more or less/not talk about past events. Would still work though with how iconic he (or whoever it is) is and what not, just may be more effort than it's worth. Also what did you mean by "Really, the past history would be more of a problem with a reboot since people could always be looking up spoilers online. "? To me a reboot would imply you couldn't gain significant information about the current series by looking at the old series as it's starting fresh?

Artakha is the correct answer to this question. (No I don't care if it "ruins" the mystery around him. )

(again ) Yeah I've seen haha, had a look through earlier. I'd be happy if we all assumed that story.

Hmmm off the top of my head I think I'd get on well with Pohatu, Onua, Nuparu, Axonn, Gali, Nokama, Lhikan, Keetongu? I could keep going, there's a lot I'd get on with and it's hard to say which I'd get on with best - judging from those which I've just thought of though it seems there's a trend in that they seem to be the more chill characters.

Today has been the first time in a while I've dug around on my account here - I've been visiting the site quite regularly but only checking the news and briefly the forums occasionally. Today however I checked through my profile and found comments which I didn't realised had been posted! I must have missed the notifications for these? I also updated a few things on my profile and found my old notes - which still have nearly 20 000 words worth of Greg F quotes and S&T content. Also if anyone actually reads this, hello.

I'd imagine the books are easier/less costly for Lego to produce than a TV series (though perhaps less effective from an advertising/marketing point of view?) - but don't the current lines tend to have games, books and TV series? I don't see why it would be different for Bionicle, particularly given its history.

I could interpret this question as either focusing on the character or plot focused aspect of the storyline. In a character sense, there is some overlap between each of them, for example Lewa and Pohatu are both on the more light hearted end whilst Gali and Onua both have that kind of wise type thing. Tahu and Kopaka's relationship is absolutely essential, as is Gali's presence between that. Beyond that I think you definitely need Lewa or Pohatu - Lewa probably being the more prolific choice in the existing story. That being said Pohatu and Onua are/have been my two favourites and so I can't advocate their removal in anyway. But from a kind of analytical point of view I think their removal would have the least impact. As for the plot relevance, You could probably do with just Tahu, Gali and Kopaka I'd say, but I wouldn't see a motivation to remove the others as there's no real redundancy I believe and having the large cast of main characters has often allowed more varied adventures occurring simultaneously which I like more than the single hero type story.

This is a really cool feature! I just had a quick play around with making one - will it be possible/allowed to make fun little "personality" type quizzes? Like as in "Which Metru-Nui district suits you most?" kind of quizzes? I can understand avoiding those but I have a soft spot for them. (Will be attempting the current quizzes after I've done my revision and have a spare 7.5 hours. )

TBH, I just want to see a lot of promotion for it, like we had back in 2001. That really made Bionicle feel special and unique to me - seeing all those teasers and posters that make things mysterious. That's a big part of it for me. For me the big thing was the promotions in the expanded universe sense - the comics, games, books, websites and all made it feel like something you could really immerse yourself into. Given how TLC has handled recent lines I think it's safe to say we'd be getting a lot of that with a returning Bionicle line. It'd be awesome to have some viral marketing leading up to it as well. I'd kill for another online adventure game or RPG.