TuragaNuva

Assuming you're just asking for more detail on recent and future changes, and not a comprehensive list of all the changes I've made since the beginning, then it's no trouble at all. I'm happy to provide more details on the small fixes, I just figured people wouldn't be interested. The first recent fix (from June 18) was adding indentations on the lines "As I stare at the sundial[...]" and "'I'm a prospector for the Mining Guild,'".The change from yesterday was adding an opening quotation mark to the line "'Matau stolen, Lewa gone! Le-Koronans prepare for battleflight!'".I'll be sure to go into specifics on any more changes I make!

Actually I almost feel like it should go before Comic 13. That’s the one where it shows the Turaga’s secret “Kraata vault,” which is sort of hinted at in this passage. Unless, of course, you feel like it should come after, since the kraata vault was a surprise and this would work better as an explanatory footnote to that. The latter was basically my thought process. I think the Kraata vault is better learned about through the comic (where it's treated as a shocking surprise) than through Beware the Infected Kanohi (where it's just casually mentioned). I'd like to have it as close to when Takua theoretically wrote it as possible, which is why I was thinking immediately after Comic 14: there's a timeskip there between the Nuva fighting the Rahkshi in the comics, and Onua and Pohatu being in Onu-Koro in the next chapter: during this, Takua could have learned of the Turaga collecting the Kraata (plus he's likely been lonely without Jaller, so he might have spent more time writing).

This is a nice idea. I know I often don't take enough time to stop and think about the good things going on in my life. I'm going on a week-long trip to Virginia Beach with family next week, which I'm really looking forward to (could really use the time off work). Also, small thing, but I found some cool Transformers and Lego stuff at a Toys and Collectibles expo last weekend (most exciting find was a complete, basically unopened Vezon and Fenrakk).

Thanks so much for these! I also had no idea about the Toa being able to cleanse infected masks. I'm working on where to put this in Book 3, though I'm thinking it will only go in the Complete version, since it doesn't really work well as part of '03's narrative, and feels like it's teasing something to come that never happens (similar to Protection). My best idea right now is to put it right after Comic 14, since it should come after the comics, and in that spot it provides a nice pause before we see Onua and Pohatu in an entirely different location. I'm not quite decided yet, though (and, as always, am open to suggestions). Also, to everybody: I just made another minor update to Book 1 (this time it had to be fixed in the PDFs containing all 10 Books as well). Just a missing quotation mark. You might want to wait a little longer before downloading the new versions, though, since I might find more minor issues within the next few days or so (my wife and I are slowly working our way through Book 1 together, which is how I've found the few small issues I've fixed recently, and we should finish it soon).

Takanuva Vs. Makuta is neat, but just feels to me like DeeVee's Ekimu from the Legend Continues contest in new colors. I'm extremely torn between The Big Catch and Involuntary Symbiosis (the fisherman and the parasite being my favorite individual MOCs in this poll), but I think I have to give it to Involuntary Symbiosis for the physical interaction of the MOCs. I honestly expected to see more combining MOCs in the contest.

I'm not familiar with it (I've never picked up the Collector's Sticker Book). Are there scans or photos of the passage anywhere? If not, I can look into ordering a copy. I have it. I can scan it or take a picture. Either would be great! I didn't realize the sticker book even had any story material in it.

I'm not familiar with it (I've never picked up the Collector's Sticker Book). Are there scans or photos of the passage anywhere? If not, I can look into ordering a copy.

Hey guys, just wanted to chime in to say that I'm still deciding how to re-organize Book 8. Sorry that it's taking so long; I've been pretty busy lately. I did just make some very minor fixes to all versions of Book 1 (oddly, the issues I fixed weren't present in the PDFs containing every Book, just the individual Book 1 PDFs). Just some small alignment issues, but I thought I'd mention it here. I'll try to get Book 8 figured out as soon as I can. Thanks to everyone for your patience!

BioMediaProject has all 3 Glatorian Arena games available to download here (in case the links from Infrared don't work).

I really want to enter, but I also want to enter BS01's current contest, plus I'll be out of town the last week of June... We'll see. If nothing else, I look forward to seeing everyone's entries!

??? It's a black design on transparent background. Are there some things that just… use a black background for transparent images for some reason? Chrome puts transparencies on a dark gray background, though it seems to be a different shade on different platforms: on desktop the gray is light enough that I can still see your design just fine, but I just checked on mobile and the gray is so dark you can barely see the image :/

Hey everybody, bit of an update: we realized there weren't nearly enough pictures of the combined form, so we've added a bunch. The gallery has also been updated (and is now on Flickr)! We'd really appreciate it if you'd take a minute to check out some of the new photos. Thanks!

Alright, the deck with the LomMN booklet got delayed, but here are the scans of the Bohrok one. I've actually only skimmed it so far, but it looks like the contents of this one aren't quite as interesting. Still some neat bits, though.

Just ordered one of the original decks with the Legend of Mata Nui booklet, as well as one of the 2002 decks with the Bohrok story booklet. I'll scan everything once they arrive.

You can thank Bionicle World for that one (unsurprising, really, since this is the same book that showed Metru Nui upside-down, among other strange art decisions). As for why it's been accepted as canon, I don't really know. It's possible someone asked Greg at some point and got an answer along the lines of "if it's in the book, it's official."

I can imagine... I do feel kinda bad for you whenever I post my massive lists of corrections here haha. Don't feel bad at all! I'm extremely thankful for your detailed lists of things to fix. Yeah, it means work I need to do, but it's work that needed to be done. I just want the compilation to be as good as it possibly can. YAY YAY YAY. Those were annoying. Are you likely to do many more major edits to Book 8? I may make a personalized version that compiles the serials together for my own use. Oh, and is anyone else having difficulty downloading Book 9? I've tried a few times but Google Drive keeps failing. If something's bugging you, speak up! I'm always looking for feedback, and I would've been glad to look into those redundant blog entries before now if they've been annoying you. (Apologies if it's something you did bring up previously and I lost track of it in my list of things to do). I'm going to look into changing the chapters in the way Toatapio described. I'll hopefully have either made that change, or decided not to, by the end of the week. And I don't know about others, but I tried downloading Book 9 in an Incognito window and it worked for me.

Yeah, I'll concede that Pax's head could be better (I'm still not great at custom heads). I was trying to go for a bearded look, but I'm not sure how well it comes across. As I mentioned in the original post, no disassembly is required for the combination, other than moving Pax's weapons to the combined form's hands. Part of the reason Pax is blocky is due to what he has to do for the combination: his lower body splits down the middle, allowing his legs to rotate and move up to attach to the arms, forming the combined mode arms (his toes become fingers for the hands).

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand why it wasn't possible to just say that Avak was only given his prison-creating power by the BoM, and already had the rest of his powers from Spiriah's experiments. Avak only says that they gave him the prison power. Because Avak joined the Dark Hunters after Spiriah’s experiment. The Skakdi weren’t violent before that. It’s really just a case of Greg forgetting Avak said that when the Spiriah thing was decided, and then coming up with a cheesy “lie” retcon. Sorry, maybe I should've phrased that differently. Why could Avak not have been sent to the BoM to be given further powers after joining the Dark Hunters, separate from what Spiriah did? So the order of events would be: - Spiriah experiments on the Skakdi as a whole, giving them all (including Avak) elemental and vision powers - Avak joins the Dark Hunters as a jailer, using normal prisons/cells. His only powers are his elemental stone powers and his X-ray/telescopic vision - The Shadowed One decides Avak isn't a good enough jailer, and sends Avak to the BoM for further experimentation to give him the prison power

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand why it wasn't possible to just say that Avak was only given his prison-creating power by the BoM, and already had the rest of his powers from Spiriah's experiments. Avak only says that they gave him the prison power.

Ha! Rest assured that it takes even longer for me to export all those PDFs from Word. I dread the changes that have to happen in every Book Thank you! I've been bothered by that for a long time as well; I was surprised when I went back to look at it and realized I could put it somewhere else by changing like 2 words. I'm still a bit confused about what exactly that sentence is trying to convey. If Tren Krom intends to say that he knows what's going on in the universe, why would he want to scan the minds of Brutaka's group to learn about what's going on in the universe? The phrasing Tren Krom uses can refer to requesting that the specified thing happen. Think of it as equivalent to him saying "I will know what has gone on", if that makes sense. It's not really used this way in common speech, but it is correct. This one also puzzles me. Isn't it clearly supposed to have "the" before Toa Nuva? Why does there need to be one? If he said "they brushed aside Matoran" or even "they brushed aside trees", it would work without "the" (and I think it sounds more like Teridax this way, personally). Likewise, this doesn't strike me as proper grammar. Am I missing something here? This is just a weird grammar thing. Basically, you could eliminate the "you" and it would mean the same thing. But it's still considered correct with the "you" there. Fair enough, that makes sense. I hadn't thought of it that way. I didn't mention this because I was writing down my notes pretty quickly, but I also left Life capitalized because it looks weirder lower-case (at least to me). This is fair, and I'll consider it. I prefer to keep the serial chapters bundled with other things into larger chapters, since they're relatively short (and to keep the overall chapter count from being crazy high (much higher and I'll have to start making more chapter number graphics )). But leaving the book chapters as their own chapters could work, at least for the most part. Fixed!

Okay, MAJOR update time! Read on for details. Thank you so much for all this feedback! It took me a few days, but I've fixed all of it (plus a few extra things, to boot). Some details: Book 8 now has Standard and Complete versions, with the differences being the redundant Takanuva's Blog posts and the line from Makuta's Diary referencing events from the cancelled chapter book.I decided to take your suggestion and remove the Entry headers from the Takanuva Blog posts, and I've extended this to the few entries in Book 9 as well.I moved the passage about Teridax entering the Core Processor to just after the first chapter of Shadows in the Sky, which itself is now right after the Mutran Chronicles. I made a small edit to the Teridax passage to make this work (now refers to the Toa battling the Makuta "soon" rather than "right now").I've split up most of the Book 8 chapters (the long ones are now roughly halved). Here are the things

Checking the product descriptions is an interesting idea, though I can't seem to track them down anywhere. Also, I checked: the terms "magma sword" and "air katana" are both used in 2006, again without capitalization. However, after doing some digging in the Greg Archives, I found this: He doesn't specifically say whether the cyclone spear should be capitalized, but his response that he usually doesn't capitalize Toa Tool names sounds to me like he's saying it should be lower-case. I've changed the spears accordingly. Also, bonus: I had decided a while back to make all instances of "krana" and "krana-kal" (other than names of specific types, like "Krana Xa") lower-case, so I'm glad to see that Greg confirmed that's correct.

(click for larger) And assuming it's okay for me to post this, here's a link to the inverted version (for a better idea of what it would look like printed in a lighter color on a darker shirt, which I think would look best).