Hapori Tohu Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Over at the Faber Files a new entry to the Turaga Files has been posted. Unboxing the Legend - Exhibit 021 shows off a video created by Ghost showing the scale of the Mata Nui robot based on the height of a Toa being 2.3 meters tall. With that in mind, you can see just how tall the robot is and how quickly it could run around the surface of the Earth. It's a pretty silly video, but it definitely gets its point across! View the full article Quote News Forums Q&A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vrokorta Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I was wondering how big it was. Quote If you use correct grammar in your posts (or try hard to), place this in your signature. Join Myst's campaign for correct grammar usage on BZPower! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doodleloot Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 That's pretty neat. I'm also really interested in the music Faber used, sounds a lot like Cryoshell to me. 1 Quote Hail Denmark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toa Chuck Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Am I the only one wondering whats up with the foot spikes? 2 Quote The Chirox Codex Chuck's Very Dead Comic Series This is my signature. Exciting, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zidonaro Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Hahaha, so fun, loved it ! The best thing is that now we can approximately know the size of the Island of Mata Nui compared to the continents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonesiii Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 FYI, folks, the size there isn't official and this is a concept piece. We already know the official size; see the BS01 page. (Saying this here since at least one person got confused by that in another topic, and to try to stop false rumors before they start. ) 3 Quote The Destiny of Bionicle (chronological retelling of Bionicle original series, 9 PDFs of 10 chapters each on Google Drive): Part 1 - Warring with Fate | Part 2 - Year of Change | Part 3 - The Exploration Trap | Part 4 - Rise of the Warlords | Part 5 - A Busy Matoran | Part 6 - The Dark Time | Part 7 - Proving Grounds | Part 8 - A Rude Awakening | Part 9 - The Battle of Giants My Bionicle Fanfiction (Google Drive folder, eventually planned to have PDFs of all of it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMSOG Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 why does this make me so uneasy...? XD anyway...I'd give people a day to use this to calculate the ACTUAL height. I wonder if this can be referenced for canonical purposes...? 1 Quote Hi. If you remember me from when I was most active on BZP, from 2009-2011... I know I was cringy. But please keep in mind I was literally 12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Rahkmaninoff Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Probably not - like bonesiii just pointed out, it's just concept art. Though honestly I wouldn't really mind if it did depict the actual size, I don't really mind if it doesn't either. Either way it's mind-numbingly large. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J46 Nui Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 That's cool. I wonder how the height compares to the official height. He seems to be half to one third the height he has in canon from what I can eyeball. Quote PSN ID: darthlegoGamertag: SPARTAN J46Steam name: jumpy46 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
believe victims Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 It's too bad this is going to be considered unofficial concept art, considering this seems to me like a much more reasonable scale than the final size given. (After all, this makes the robot slightly more suited for landing on planets than being the size of one would be.) It also never occurred to me just how massive the robot's feet are. Huge feet and a tiny head. So weird. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDPsi HAN Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 For anyone interested in the MN Robots actual size in real life terms, 40 million feet in height (from BS01) translates to ~7575 miles. That's about the distance from Seattle to Nigeria. Multiplying 40,000,000 feet by .415 to find average stride length, that is about 16,600,000 feet or 3143 miles. If the GSR starts in the upper left corner of Washington state and takes one step, it will end up just past Newfoundland by about 40 miles. Quote AΨ 94 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
believe victims Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 For anyone interested in the MN Robots actual size in real life terms, 40 million feet in height (from BS01) translates to ~7575 miles. That's about the distance from Seattle to Nigeria. Multiplying 40,000,000 feet by .415 to find average stride length, that is about 16,600,000 feet or 3143 miles. If the GSR starts in the upper left corner of Washington state and takes one step, it will end up just past Newfoundland by about 40 miles. It also cannot possibly be the height of the robot in this video, as 7575 miles is only slightly below the diameter of the Earth. Clearly, at some point, the scale of the Bionicle universe was cranked up to a ridiculous size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster Nui Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Is a Toa being 2.3 metres in height official? I always thought of them being around that, but I never heard anything about it until I read the description for this Faber File. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotcom Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Is a Toa being 2.3 metres in height official? I always thought of them being around that, but I never heard anything about it until I read the description for this Faber File.More or less, I think I had always seen them described as being around 7 feet tall, which is just over 2 meters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crunchyn Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 That's pretty neat. I'm also really interested in the music Faber used, sounds a lot like Cryoshell to me. Very high possibility. I'm thinking given the early stage this video was created, the music could be an early version for Closer to the Truth. 1 Quote "I could have been a Protector but then I took a stud to the feet." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J46 Nui Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Is a Toa being 2.3 metres in height official? I always thought of them being around that, but I never heard anything about it until I read the description for this Faber File.I think that was established in the very early years when they were giving out conversions to the measurements of Kios and Bios. Quote PSN ID: darthlegoGamertag: SPARTAN J46Steam name: jumpy46 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDPsi HAN Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 For anyone interested in the MN Robots actual size in real life terms, 40 million feet in height (from BS01) translates to ~7575 miles. That's about the distance from Seattle to Nigeria. Multiplying 40,000,000 feet by .415 to find average stride length, that is about 16,600,000 feet or 3143 miles. If the GSR starts in the upper left corner of Washington state and takes one step, it will end up just past Newfoundland by about 40 miles. It also cannot possibly be the height of the robot in this video, as 7575 miles is only slightly below the diameter of the Earth. Clearly, at some point, the scale of the Bionicle universe was cranked up to a ridiculous size. bonesii said this is concept and not to scale, and I do agree that was cranked up. I'm okay with that though. Quote AΨ 94 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rahkshi Lalonde Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I too much prefer this robot size, makes more sense and fits on alien worlds much better PLUS makes more sense to have been built with the, idk, rush of oncoming apocalypse? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emily Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Where are we getting this 'officially official' height? Because this is a video produced with the input of the person who practically created BIONICLE, along with him saying 'this is a video made to demonstrate the scale of the Mata-Nui robot', with no mention of unnecessary and pedantic changes that ultimately make less sense than what is presented here. Quote believe victims. its actually not that hard, and youd look kind of bad if you were to, say, side with an abuser because theyre your friend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madu Cabolo Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Well guys, it turns out the island of Mata Nui was based off of Denmark. http://faberfiles.blogspot.com/2015/04/turaga-files-unboxing-legend-exhibit-022.html And the robot itself is well over twice the size of Europe... 1 Quote ~Madu- <}> <}> ~ RPG Profiles: Cresk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rahkshi Lalonde Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Faber put a lot more thought into this big robot thing than greg, so i'm gonna trust his measurements. o: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xan Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I have a head canon of him being this big. The official size is just absolutely stupid. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny7092 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 (edited) Wow! Who knew that Mata Nui could be so big! That is very surprising. I had hard time comparing his size to the Planet Earth when he is 40,000,000 feet tall. Plus, I thought Toa are about 7 feet tall, the size of basketball players. Well, I don't know or understand how to compare feet and meters very well, but that is a good video. I liked the music. It's good. Edited April 20, 2015 by Lenny7092 Quote I like Lego, Bionicle, and Hero Factory! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterchirox580 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I had no idea Mata nui could walk on water. 1 Quote It's time to move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rahkshi Lalonde Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I had no idea Mata nui could walk on water. He is the great spirit, after all. :b 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toa Smoke Monster Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I have only one thing to say about this: RUN MATA NUI! RUN! Quote Everyone is one choice away from being the bad guy in another person's story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailorQuaoar Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Faber put a lot more thought into this big robot thing than greg, so i'm gonna trust his measurements. o:Yeah I'm gonna agree with this. This scale makes much more sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nidhiki of the Shadows Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 I love this. It's silly but at the same time gives us a sense of scale of the Great Spirit Robot (initially, but I have to agree that I like this scale better than the canon one). It's also nice to see another CGI depiction of the robot, as rough as it is. The music is awesome too. Definitely sounds like a Cryoshell demo. But yeah, this one in particular put a big smile on my face. -NotS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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