Hapori Tohu Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Christian Faber's blog FaberFiles has updated with a new entry titled "Name suggestions from the time before time". There's no new art in this entry, though — just the familiar "Vitruvian Robot" concept image captioned with two possible names for the Bionicle theme from the final round of brainstorming: "Bioknights" and "Afterman". Do you think either of these names could have taken off like "Bionicle" (Biological Chronicle) did? Feel free to share your thoughts in the Talkback topic! View the full article Quote News Forums Q&A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster Nui Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Those are definitely some weird names. Bioknights is epic but also a bit plain; Afterman on the other hand is unusual but interesting for a name. I don't think they would get the attention that the final name, Bionicle, did. They don't seem "out of this world" to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naota Takizawa Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Bionicle sounds cooler than those two names, I'm glad they weren't picked. 1 Quote If you like Pingu & want to support a good project, click here. Also, I've rejoined the BZPRPG & I have a new profile for a new game. Click here to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarn Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 "Afterman" implies quite a bit, when you think about it. Quote [BZPRPG] (shout out to max) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takatu Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 "Afterman" has some interesting implications about what the setting could have been like early on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J46 Nui Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Between "Afterman" and the English lettering on some of the Mata Nui concepts (I think it was along the lines of Unit 02 or something like that), I wonder if some of the early concepts of the Great Beings had them being human. Quote PSN ID: darthlegoGamertag: SPARTAN J46Steam name: jumpy46 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyclonatorZ Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Even if Lego doesn't ever use Afterman for the name of something, someone needs to eventually. It's just way too cool sounding for it to sit in the dustbin of history. Quote I have slept for so long. My dreams have been dark ones. But now I am awakened. Now the scattered elements of my being are rejoined. Now I am whole. And the Darkness can not stand before me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petewa Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Afterman is a pretty cool name. Bionicle fits the storyline better. Quote Mataru Nui, an Interactive Adventure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarn Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Even if Lego doesn't ever use Afterman for the name of something, someone needs to eventually. It's just way too cool sounding for it to sit in the dustbin of history. *cough* Coheed and Cambria did *cough* Quote [BZPRPG] (shout out to max) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aanchir Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Afterman is a cool name, but I can't help but think kids hearing it would think of it like Superman, Spider-Man, etc. and expect "Afterman" to be the name of a character. Also, doesn't entirely fit with the direction the story ended up going, a universe entirely separate from the one humans live in. "Bioknights" sounds cool, and would probably be less confusing to non-fans since it describes the characters instead of being just a poetic term for the story itself (if the theme were called Bioknights, you could probably identify the sets/characters as Bioknights and not be wrong), but I do prefer "Bionicle". Quote Latest MOC: PAIGE (Prototype Artificial Intelligence, Gynoid Expression) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterchirox580 Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Bioknights probably wouldn't have made much sense seeing as bionicle was never (at least to my knowledge) based in medieval mythology. And afterman sounds like bionicle was originally supposed to take place in some kind of post-apocalyptic future where everyone have become tribal robots. Seeing as bionicle wasn't that dark at the time it wouldn't have fit the theme. Although I think lego probably should trademark the term "afterman" and maybe make something out of that idea (maybe the successor to bionicle G2?). Quote It's time to move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toa Smoke Monster Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 The link to the entry isn't working for me. Here is the link in case anyone else is having issues with it too. Anyways, Bioknights sounds like a corny name to me, so I'm glad Lego didn't go with it for naming Bionicle. Afterman actually sounds kind of cool IMO, but again not a name that would go with the story of Bionicle. Both are better than Boneheads of Voodoo Island though. 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...
Nidhiki of the Shadows Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 What would have Afterman meant? I mean it sounds cool, but it doesn't really fit the story. Unless it talks about the creation of beings after a cataclysm... Interpretations? -NotS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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