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It got me interested in fictional world-building, and BZPower was my first real taste of internet culture and online communities. Also, my first ever fandom OC was a Bionicle OC. So it almost singlehandedly kickstarted a lot of my nerdy fandom side.

I like this. It adds world building, and I like when legends in fictional worlds aren't actually literal. It never got used! This was basically the preliminary version of the finalized lore and concept they had in mind, before they decided to scrap some of it at the very last stages. That's why there's stuff like Lewa being referred as a younger Toa, while when BIONICLE launched it was practically never used and they were all the same age. Same goes for the approach to the Toa as gods both revered and feared by the villagers, while there was certainly a very faint leftover of this in the final stuff (MNOG, for instance). I'm not gonna lie, I completely forgot that I discovered this. Maybe I misunderstood the point of the thread when I initially came across this. I do wonder overall what direction Bionicle would've gone in had the Toa been gods/godlike figures, and most if not all of this stuff still existed.

I think of a fantasy elf or something.

The Last Jedi. It was a fun ride. Here be minor spoilers. Pros: Very cool fight scenes, as few of them as there were.Solid space battles.Poe was a fun character. (I like snarky Whedon-type characters) I like the tension he has with his commanding officers.I like seeing Leia as a general as opposed to a princess.I like the concept of Rey and Kylo's connection.The actors all did solidly.Old, cynical snarky Luke was my favorite thing about the movie, period. I know he's not the Luke Skywalker of our childhoods (I'm sure my younger self would've hated seeing my personal hero as this grumpy old guy), but he was fun to watch with his cynical humor, and I like that the movie shows that legendary heroes aren't always gonna be the heroes that people make them out to be.Cons: A lot of the comedic moments and shots felt way too forced (no pun intended).Not a fan of Holdo.I didn't care for Rose as much as the movie wanted me to. I don't hate her like the rest of the fandom does, let alone think of her as the next Jar Jar (and I certainly don't have any ill will towards Kelly Marie Tran), but I just simply did not care much for her. I'm indifferent at best.Finn was more annoying in this movie. (It's a shame, he was my favorite new character in TFA)Speaking of Finn and Rose, I thought that a good chunk of their scenes felt contrived.While I love the concept of Rey and Kylo's connection, the way they portrayed it made me feel like I was just watching two people call each other on the phone. Not really a con, but it killed some of the seriousness of it for me.Overall rating: 7/10. Fun ride with room for improvement.

Okay, as much as I think the Piraka Rap is the cheesiest thing ever to exist since mac and cheese, this one got me. Bravo. Anyway, to stay on topic, what do you call a Bohrok from Krypton? A Bohrok Kal-El.

The Toa Hordika as Beast Wars-style Transformers? Not bad. The only Hordika I had as a kid was Vakama, and IIRC the movie implies that his beast half is based on a Muaka. I'm seriously tempted to dig up my box o' parts and make a Vakama Hordika figure in the style of Cheetor or Tigatron. So Good Guy is Primus? Does that mean the Skakdi-head Bad Guy is Unicron?

If it makes him feel better, he's my favorite member of the Chronicler's Company, and always has been since I first beat MNOLG back in '02. You keep being a big dreamer and wearing that cute big dreamer-like mask, Taipu!

"[Matau] can also fly, preferring to weave swiftly through the underbrush, just feet above the jungle floor." I don't remember this at all. When was this ever used?

As a kid I was also disappointed in how limited the McToran sets were (didn't help that I missed out on the Happy Meals. Only one I ever owned was Nuparu). Having a yellow McToran upper body would be pretty cool, but as someone whose personal Bionicle canon takes MNOG and the Bohrok Flash cartoons as undisputed fact, I'll always think of Takua as Jala with a light blue Pakari.

I'm the exact same way. When it comes to canon characters in anything, I use official canon depictions over all else, only using headcanon to fill in blanks rather than substitute existing character traits. But MNOG1 and the Bohrok cartoons resonated with me way more than *any* other Bionicle media, period. As far as I was concerned, those were the official depictions of Bionicle lore, so to me, Taipu will always have a Ruru and Hafu will always have a Pakari. In fact, when I got a Hafu figure in 2003, I switched out his Ruru for a Pakari just so I could "properly" have Hafu. Also, I think that the designs of the masks fit the characters more. The Ruru is a cuter and more childlike looking mask, which I think fits with Taipu's "big idealistic dreamer" personality that he shows when he's about to go to Le-Koro for the first time. The Pakari has a bigger presence than the Ruru does, and it fits well with Hafu's pride in his originals. I wasn't even aware that Hafu was supposed to have a Pakari until the 2003 Kolhii Matoran sets came out (I had never seen a Power Pack before at that point, I simply knew it existed). I remember as a kid seeing pictures of the Hafu set in a catalog and thinking "yeah no...no, that's Taipu."

Or a pistol for the Mata nui robot Honestly that was one thing I never got, even as a kid. Why would the supreme commander of the Decepticon army just transform into a pistol for one of his lackeys to use? Would this Makuta be able to shrink down to Toa-size too when he transforms into a gun? Also, Megatron has been jets too, so a Jet Makuta would be pretty cool. (Been watching Prime recently, that is my favorite version of Megatron so far) Anyway, my favorite characters as a kid were Lewa and Kopaka. I could see him transforming into some kind of snowmobile with his skate-swords as the snowmobile...things. Lewa would definitely be a jet or a bird.

Favorite set was the Boxor. I wanted an Exo-Toa, but I never got one, but whatever. I got the Toa Nuva for Christmas of 2002, and it was one of the best Decemberweens of my childhood.

There exists a single real-life suit of Destiny armor. It's just way too small to ever fit you. I wish I could turn into any Transformer I wanted.

He was. I recall one of his instances of vote-stuffing for a contest explicitly mentions spreading it across Bionicle fansites. It makes me wonder if that ever reached BZPower. And I agree. A place like BZP is the absolute last place I'd expect to see a mention of Chris Chan. So I won't say any more.

Wait, that's not how it's pronounced!? Huh. Biosector says it's "KOH-peek". That's honestly really weird. I just thought of it as being the same as "Kopaka" with the A's switched out for E's.

I still say it like that to this day because that's how they said it in the movie. Before the movie came out, I called him "Leh-WAH". Then when the movie came out I heard how they said it, and I stuck with LEE-wuh because I figured it sounded less silly to my American Anglophone ears. For the most part I think I said everything correctly, though when Jala became Jaller I started calling him "JAHL-urr" (pronouncing the R). Then I saw the movie where they still pronounce it "Jala", so I stuck with that. I pretty much let the movies override any differing pronunciations I may have had. Especially helped with Onewa. I wasn't sure how to say his name because I figured it would sound too similar to Onua. Then the movies called him "ON-eh-wuh", and I was like "okay, that makes sense. Speaking of Onua, when I first got him at age 6 I called him "Onlia" because the U in the font that their names were printed in looked like an LI. Then I saw his name in a standard font.

A Kadin. I've got a pretty good sense of direction, so I don't think I'd have too many problems flying anywhere. If I'm allowed something a little more OP, an Olmak. I just want something that would help me travel.

I was a child of the Bohrok and Rahkshi eras, so I'm going Rahkshi all the way. Don't get me wrong, the Bohrok were cool and I love them! But I guess as a kid I eventually got sick of them, especially because the Kal were just Bohrok recolors. So when the Rahkshi came out, I just thought they were the coolest thing ever. I loved their staff weapons, I loved the evil techno-lizard look they had going, and as far as I remember they were the first sets to have articulated knees. I also love their backstory of being direct spawns of a Makuta.

Mainly because I admittedly only have the most basic Cliffnotes-level knowledge of everything after 2006, I'll go with our boy Teridax. Still one of my favorite fictional villains ever.

You do but no one actually sees them. I wish for a really nice pair of chopsticks.

Nope. Never have I ever slapped a classmate.

Even though I own no 2006 sets besides Zaktan, my disappointment with Umbra is pretty special to me. The set names for 2006's 2nd round was leaked from a foreign catalog, and people were translating Umbra's name as "Strobe Light". So when I first saw Umbra leaked, all I saw was "Strobe Light: The green and yellow roller skate man who wears a horribly unfitting mask that almost every Bionicle fan probably already owns!"

In the Dragon Ball Z Kai scene where they show the tokusatsu-style film of Hercule supposedly defeating Cell, the broadcast version and the DVD/Blu-Ray version are different. The broadcast version on Toonami just reuses the old Dragon Ball Z dub from the early 2000s, while the DVD/Blu-Ray version has Team Four Star of Dragon Ball Z Abridged fame dubbing that scene, with the TFS members dubbing their respective characters. The TFS-dubbed version of the scene is also filled with fandom jokes and references to the heavily censored 1990s Saban-produced dub. "Hercule" in this particular scene is dubbed by Takahata101, who simply uses his Nappa voice. "Sending someone to another dimension" was Saban/Ocean Group's euphemism for death in their Dragon Ball Z dub. "Another dimension" is a euphemism for the afterlife. Speaking of death euphemisms in censored anime, Yu-Gi-Oh's Shadow Realm is entirely a product of 4kids' English dub. Where the dub referenced the loser of a card duel being sent to the Shadow Realm, the original Japanese version simply had them die.

Oh it happens to me all the time. Never have I ever finished an entire TV show in just one day. Not even FLCL with its 6 episodes.

As a kid, I was a huge fan of Lhikan and the Kikanalo. At 9-10, I loved the Metru sets and how fresh they felt after 3 years of the original Mata/Nuva build. But Lhikan looked awesome, he was like a 2nd Takanuva with his gold armor, unique mask, and thing to ride on. Plus, red and gold make a nice combo. Also, the Kikanalo looked great. I got that it was supposed to be some kind of two-legged rhino, but it had this sort of dragon look I really liked, and it was a pretty stable build from what I could remember. Before that, the Rahkshi. We had never had articulated knees before that, and they just looked so cool and evil.