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Franz Joseph Haydn

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  1. Could an experienced Toa of whatever beat a Makuta anyway? With fire, you could attempt to melt the armour and burn the antidermis. With a wind strong enough you could probably dent the armour and tear apart the antidermis. With high water pressure... with small ice crystals between the armour... 

     

    Imagine having sand seep into the openings in the armor and tearing it apart form the inside, or ripping the armor to shreds with diamond shards/Crystal Shards. Or even having small diamond fragments seep into the armor and tear it apart.

     

    I'm obviously being more creative than Lego would, but you see my point.

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  2. And perhaps it is, I was explaining what I thought they were thinking.

     

    Need 6 elements, split the two up.

     

    Wham bam thank you ma'am, six elements.

     

    It also seems to me like giving someone the power over sand and Stone at the same time would make them, if clever, a lot more...let's avoid the term powerful and use something else...It'd make them a lot more effective at their job. If they had both powers they could probably defeat Makuta themselves if they put some thought into it.

     

    Throw sand in his face, encase him in Diamond or something stronger we don't know exists perhaps, and the story's done right there.

     

    I just think a Toa of Earth with both control over sand, dirt and solids would be twice as dangerous.

     

    I think from a writing perspective, it would have been too efficient and they would have had to nerf it down to elongate the story. I know I've had to do it to characters to make sure the story progressed at the pace I wanted it to.

     

    Just because it's for kids doesn't mean it doesn't deserve the tending to story, writing style and pace that a full novel the likes of Upton Sinclair or Ernest Hemmingway gets.

  3. If I remember correctly, each has unique setbacks. Such as Earth not being able to control anything other than dirt, sand, clay, etc. And Stone only being able to control solids like crystal, stone, etc.

     

    Combining them together without nerfing each to make them less powerful would essentially be making a super-soldier. 

  4. I'm very proud of you for making this and I'm also behind you 100%. You've always been an inspiration to me and I always read your blog. You could say I'm a fan but we've talked before and you've helped me with some stuff that I probably couldn't have told anyone else. So I'm very grateful for that.

     

    I'm glad you had the courage to post this, and I just want you to know that I support you 100%

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  5. Hey, I know the feeling.

     

    1996 Chevy Blazer got rear-ended by a stupid teenaged girl looking at her phone. She was nice and sincerely sorry for hitting her, but I was more worried about make sure she was ok.

     

    Totalled. And now my Parents have a 1999 Black Durango with a freaking Magnum V8 that goes like a bat outta heck if you so much as feather the accelerator. It is an amazing car.

  6. I understand the point of view you hold, and I know that the site's roots were founded in Bionicle, but perhaps moving away from being a site about the view of "This is a Kids site" is what would expand BZP. I feel that since the site is still mainly geard towards Bionicle, it's losing a lot of it's steam and a lot of it's potential is being wasted.

     

    I think if you were more open to these concepts and perhaps made the forums a bit more mature, for those of us willing to participate in logical, civil discussions about this stuff, then maybe you'd be better off.

     

    I think through that, BZP can expand quite a bit. We must remember that it's been 3 years since Bionicle bit the bullet, and the site has only been getting slower since. If we don't expand to concepts other than just Lego, or seriously redefine our image in that field, we won't last more than 5-7 years at most.

     

    I understand your want to keep the rules as they are, I understnad why they were put into place, but as one famous man put it: "The times they are a changin'" and I feel that some of the rules may need revision. A looking over, sprucing up.

     

    Maybe even removing some, as I said above, and expanding the site's horizons, making it accessable to every age range. The young and the old, those with and without experience. I hope this message gets through, even thought I doubt you'll allow it to be posted.

     

    - Jerzy

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