Grima
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Yes, but it's also weird for an acronym. It's like MNOLG vs. MNOG; Online is one word, so it should really be MNOG.
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I'm actually kinda hoping it's a feature to make the MoC slip over other masks. I realize this gives the mask somewhat backwards compatibility with Glatorian and BA heads, but none of the new heads are truly compatible with old masks; Metru Era masks onward don't really work with the BA heads. Sure, they fit, but it both leaves a protruding chin underneath and doesn't fill up the eyeholes on most masks. I also don't see how this connection would be more versatile than the previous axle connection, considering it has a far decreased number of pieces it can now attach to.
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I'm pretty sure this year's delayed street dates was because of the Lego Movie; I think they wanted to prevent sales from the Lego Movie sets cannibalizing sales of other lines, so they delayed some releases.
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I hadn't considered that; it would explain why masks like the Akaku and Kakama have flat areas on their sides. On the one hand, that would mean other masks could still be backwards compatible, but on the other hand it would limit the usability of the MoC.
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Something tells me if Lego released a Toa that looked like that, the Maori lawsuit would pale in comparison to the result :P
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too late the canon Toa of Magic now wields one of those terrible children's wands made in china with a glittery star on the end and there's nothing you can do about it
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Ignoring that, in a reboot, they can tweak mask powers as they need, according to the MoC's BS01 page: I think the former combined with the latter is a pretty substantial power.
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Both masks and elemental powers took liberal use of magic to understand in early years, and in the end we STILL never got a clear technological answer for either, we were just TOLD it was tech, when for all intents and purposes it may has well have been magic all along.
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...are you complaining that new Bionicle will have magical masks, like it always did? (except it was eventually explained to be the whole sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic thing but whatever. in 2001, masks were magic.)
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can i just blacklist the words "hype train" from my entire life
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Are you sure that's not some sort of electricity noise?
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I'm honestly still betting on reboot, considering they're also still questing for golden masks of power, and they are also Mata again.
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Well, I'll be darned. The mask has earmuff-like attachment points like a visor. I think DV may have been right, darn it also i much prefer this design to whatever cluttered mosaic Greg had in mind.
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That's the point I was making, though. Star Wars has that presence that allows it to get away with a large number of made up terms that doesn't affect its accessibility. Bionicle, on the other hand, not being as widely known, has its accessibility hurt the more made-up (well, I guess fictional is a better term, considering they didn't make up the word) words it has. It makes more sense to use a word people understand.
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Perhaps, but Star Wars has been such a pervasive part of pop culture that everyone knows what a Jedi is; it's no longer an accessibility issue. I guarantee if you pick random people off the street, 99% will know what a Jedi is. Maybe 2% will know what a Toa is.
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If that were it, though, they would have abandoned the term "Toa" in the first place, I would think. If I remember correctly, the most objectionable words were those like "Tohunga", which means priest, I believe, which one can understand why they wouldn't want a company copyrighting that word. I suppose it's a possibility, but a more likely theory is accessibility, as somewhat explained by this xkcd comic.
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I'm surprised you even need to consider the possibility I wouldn't be.
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I hope they make it the same web 0.3333333 look of the original for nostalgia's sake edit: i know I'm exaggerating how outdated it was. i don't need to be corrected.
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Doctor Who actually has a wide audience that ranges from young children to old people, though Moffat has taken it in less child-friendly directions as of late, but that's neither here nor there. The announcement still won't be Doctor Who, but don't assume that they wouldn't make Doctor Who sets. After all, Back to the Future is hardly a children's movie, either.
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Ah, yes, a prosthetic entire lower body. I've heard of those.
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The existence of death =/= dark, unless you want to say every children's show that ever covered the loss of a loved one is dark and gritty.
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As I said, that many shells as placeholder colors? very unlikely.
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No, he's just really, really not brown. of his shells/extremities/mask, 6/18 are brown, or 33%. Comparatively, Lewa is 35% green (though he's still not as metallic, also being 24% keetorange), Gali is 47% trans blue and azure, Kopaka is maybe 63% (his posing makes shell counting hard) white, Tahu is 50% red and orange, and Onua is 66% black and purple. Pohatu is the least colorful of the Toa (meaning colored with their thematic colors, hence Kopaka and Onua integrating otherwise neutral colors into their count.) Even if you included the colored bones (not counting black bones for Onua) he would only maybe edge out past Lewa, and that's still debatable. I suppose you could argue silver is one of his theme colors, but then he sets himself out from the other Toa by not having an armor color. Really, his color scheme is a real shame. EDIT: also, if he also gets chest printing, then his brownness will only decrease.
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I guess I was rash in saying these were completely final, but I do think it's expecting too much to think we'll see some HUGE changes, like changing all of Pohatu's silver. He simply has too much silver for me to believe it's simply a placeholder color. I mean, I'm disappointed too; it's like being back in 2008 with the dull, monochrome Nuva then. I'm just being realistic and saying chances are, this is what we're getting. Good thing it's not white, then; as I've said before, that's silver, without a doubt. It even looks silver on the blurry display stand picture. If it's white, I'll eat my hat.
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But do you really think Pohatu's entire secondary color would be a placeholder?
