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  1. This is a neat idea - having sort of a cliff-notes version of the story and characters. Definitely seems like a way to get people interested in Bionicle. If I could make a couple points of feedback: 1. The text could be cleaned up a bit. While there aren't many misspellings, almost everything is lowercase. Proper capitalization, while it may seem minor, would really make these look a lot more professional, and also make the writing clearer (especially to the uninitiated). 2. I'm not sure if you're aware, but you've used unofficial fan MOCs/designs for several characters/masks that don't have official appearances. That may have been intentional on your part just so you could have a visual for them, but I thought I'd point it out just in case. I haven't looked through all of these yet, but I'll let you know if I notice anything else once I've gone over the rest. I do think this is an interesting project with a lot of potential, and you're off to a great start. By the way, in case you aren't aware: for those friends that might have the time to read some of the Bionicle story, but not to put in the effort of figuring out/understanding what to read and in what order, Biological Chronicle is a compilation of the entire story in reading order - perfect for new readers. You can find it at https://crosswiredgeeks.com/biologicalchronicle/. Might be a good recommendation for those that get interested after seeing your slides!
  2. Uh, hey, nice name you got there. Addressing the question: I don't believe it's ever been specified, in-story or by Greg.
  3. If we're just discussing why he needed more time, that's easy - he needed to delay long enough for Mata Nui to actually die. If the Toa got their hands on the mask before Mata Nui was dead, the Plan would fail.
  4. As explained in Makuta's Diary from Makuta's Guide to the Universe, he did not believe the Piraka would actually be able to defeat the Toa Nuva and obtain the mask - just that they would slow the Toa down:
  5. No, those are in the standard release. The extra pages were the ones featuring the fight between Mata Nui and a Vorox in the desert. You can see them in the version archived on BMP: http://biomediaproject.com/bmp/files/gfx/Comics/Bara Magna Saga/Comic04/Bara Magna Saga 04.pdf
  6. I was confused about this for a while as well. Evidently the "normal" version of the issue still said "Special Movie Edition" on the outside. Are you certain the ones you've seen actually have the extra pages, or are they just labeled "Special Movie Edition"?
  7. The various sapient species of the Matoran Universe (e.g. Toa, Matoran) do not have digestive systems, so they don't eat like we do. They get energy by absorbing it from things like plants, either through their hands or mouth.
  8. Hey everyone, sorry it's been forever and a half since I posted here! Hope I can make it up to you with this: I've just posted an update to the PDF versions of Biological Chronicle with 180+ fixes, spanning all Books! For full details on these fixes, check out the new changelog, which I'll be keeping up-to-date with issues that are found/fixed from now on. Tables of Contents and "previous chapter" links are definitely something that I'd like to implement at some point. Thanks for the suggestion! And yes, I'm looking into movie and MNOG II clips as well, after you messaged me. It does make sense, I just need to sit down and do the work. Excellent feedback, thanks! Let's go in order here: The Manas towers: While yes, the destruction of the towers is canon, the way in which their destruction is written in the MNOG walkthrough doesn't allow the description of them being destroyed to be cleanly removed and placed into the version of the fight from the Style Guide. I'd rather keep this to just original writing as much as possible, so I don't see a way to include the towers. Let me know if you think you see a way to make it work, though! Maku's line: I'm going to need to think on this one. While the line is in MNOG and is excluded in the walkthrough, this (in my eyes) is a similar situation to the ordering of Takua visiting Ta-Koro and Ga-Koro in the original game vs. the walkthrough - it's presented differently in the walkthrough than the game, but I went with the way the walkthrough was "officially" released. Since this seems like an easier thing to add in, though, I might do it. I'll make a note of it and post an update here later. The Makoki stones: This is similar to the situation with the towers - I wasn't able to find a clean way to put a line about them from the MNOG walkthrough into the text without it seeming out-of-place - there's not really any description in the walkthrough of the Toa finding them, just them pulling out the stones before entering Mangaia, which is confusing without context. I can take another look and see if that line might fit okay in the Complete version of Book 1, but for new readers I think it's more confusing than it is helpful. I hope that covers everything! Thanks again for your feedback!
  9. I don't think it was ever specified, but clearly Toa canisters can be fired from within the robot to outside it, as that's what happened with the Toa Mata's original canisters. I assumed that there are ports on the outside of the robot that canisters can be released from (in case Toa need to address an issue affecting the outside of the robot). Also, I believe the Inika canisters began their journey by boring their way through the ground - so it might not have been an entirely pre-made path.
  10. That was a fantastic read! You've done an excellent job compiling all of this. Side-note: was a bit of a surprise to see a link to one of my Google Drive folders in there! I guess my scans of the Bohrok TCG booklet are still the only ones out there. One little thing you might want to add: Greg recently stated that the fact that existing non-Toa characters used to be a Toa team was actually decided before deciding who they were (apparently they were considering having the Toa Metru have been some of the 01-03 Matoran before settling on it having been the Turaga). Just thought that might be worth adding here.
  11. I think a lot of people experienced what you describe, though (at least in the US) most people read the comics growing up (more than played MNOG, I would guess). The issue is primarily that the movies couldn't tell an entire year's worth of story, but they also couldn't be made more often than once a year. This left the story team (primarily Greg) to fill in the rest of the year with story that supplemented that year's movie story - but without making the movie an incomplete experience without reading everything else. I think movies 2 and 3 do a good job of showing the opposite ends of how this can go: With Legends of Metru Nui, the movie is relatively self-sufficient as a story - the extra stories at the beginning of the year with the Morbuzakh and the Krakha aren't bad, but they feel a bit like filler, since they don't strongly contribute to the main narrative of the year (the movie). With Web of Shadows, however, the main plot point of the movie - Vakama's betrayal - feels like it comes out of absolutely nowhere if you just watch the movie. In this case, Greg actually used the preceding "filler" stories to better build up to this moment, showing Vakama's obsession with living up to Lhikan, and how it drove him to make the wrong decisions in a misguided effort to protect the Matoran. These are really just the kind of issues you're almost definitely going to run into with the kind of multi-media story that Bionicle had - not all of the media can be synced up (nor should it be, if you want to take advantage of the multi-media format), so you end up with places where there's filler or discrepancies. That being said, though, sometimes the "filler" stories are some of my favorites - those were the ones where Greg had the most freedom to just write a story of his own invention without having to adhere to the plan laid out by the story team, and the results were often great (The Darkness Below and Time Trap come to mind).
  12. In the harsh wastes of the planet Krysto, Ice Planet 2002 use the Sleet Slicer to traverse the terrain and combat the forces of Blacktron II and Spyrius. Built for the 2020 BZP convention circuit theme "Ice Planet 2002." Gallery Blog post about the building process
  13. The only times Greg ever canonized fan works was for the winners of contests specifically held to create new canon stories/appearances. None of those are held anymore since Lego isn't interested in approving them, and Greg has stated he doesn't remember enough specifics about the official story to say whether a new story would fit into canon.
  14. It's also pretty fitting for a Dark Hunter - a lot of them had various modifications and/or mutations.
  15. I'm pretty sure they're meant to be his forearms, with the balljoints being his elbows - that's why both "weapons" are ones with claw-like ends. The art of him without them in comic #25 is likely a mistake on Randy Elliot's part.
  16. There were a number over the years, but my biggest/dumbest misconception was definitely that, back in 2001, I thought Mata Nui had actually been turned into the island. I thought that was why the name was the same. In retrospect, though, I guess I was closer to the truth than I realized...
  17. As others have said, I really have no idea what you mean regarding lightning and water. As for the general concept you're proposing - all Toa elements are generally considered totally separate and distinct, no matter how similar. A good example of this is a Toa Seal: a Toa Seal can only be created by 6 Toa of different elements - it won't work if any 2 are the same element. So if some elements were just variations of others, it wouldn't make much sense for them to be able to form a Toa Seal together (which they all can). As for Plasma: Biosector01 describes the element of Plasma as "superheated gas." It's mostly used in-story for melting things. That was Toa Vakama, when he fought an entity made entirely of fire in the tunnels between Mangaia and the Great Barrier: https://crosswiredgeeks.com/biologicalchronicle-book5chapter13/
  18. The mask was ejected right as the storms started up - at the same time that the Toa Nuva were flying out of Karda Nui. So it made it out just before it would've been destroyed by the storms. Original text: https://crosswiredgeeks.com/biologicalchronicle-book8chapter58/ I'm not aware of any evidence to support that.
  19. I wish I could've seen some of this stuff back in the day. If anyone has a recording of that Vakama/Hahli dialogue, I'd love to hear it.
  20. They don't when using other powers of their gold masks in the comics, though, which are considered the more canon depiction.
  21. The golden masks each had the power of all six of the Toa Mata's masks (Hau, Kakama, Pakari, Kaukau, Akaku, and Miru).
  22. He's still employed at Lego, yes. He mainly works on the magazine, though he's still sometimes brought in to work on story material for more story-based themes (he wrote for Ninjago, and worked on the early story details for G2 - though he wasn't involved with writing any of the G2 books or anything). He's not officially a Bionicle writer right now, but no one is, since Bionicle isn't currently being made.
  23. Greg has stated that Mata Nui's body was that of a Glatorian: http://board.ttvchannel.com/t/was-mata-nui-physically-a-glatorian-or-a-toa/49950/5 The Ignika's powers didn't need someone physically wearing the mask in order to activate, so I assume Mata Nui wouldn't physically need to be a Toa in order for the mask to work. The Ignika also often seemed to use its powers on its own while Mata Nui had it (rather than him using them with direct control). (also, do we know for certain that a Glatorian couldn't potentially use a Kanohi, since the only requirement seems to be focus and willpower?) I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say he could channel elemental powers.
  24. They're all official Lego pieces. They're from the old hockey sets.
  25. I think it was originally just Templar's idea - and as you said, may have just been a quick way of establishing a way for Takua (and thus the player) to see what was happening below in Mangaia. For a long time this mental link was never brought up officially again, but Greg did bring it up in Takanuva's Blog ('07 and '08 is when he really started referencing bits of MNOG in official story material): What I gather from this description is that Gali can, theoretically, forge a psychic bond with anyone she is close to - but why she is able to do this, or whether any of the other Toa Mata/Nuva can, is unclear. Knowing Greg, I imagine he'd say that it's due to her natural empathy or something similar.
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