Sir Kohran
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Was the soundtrack ever released fully?
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I can hardly keep up with this many images coming so often.
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The problem with Jaller's MOL voice is the lack of anything authoritative to his tone or word choice that suggests he's spent a long time leading a military unit and organising defence efforts. He just uses the same informal teenage American drawl that Takua does, because that's what the filmmakers assumed the target audience would find easier to relate to, the only difference to Takua being that he isn't as bumbling or selfish. The one thing that is consistent with his previous characterisation are the references to him as 'captain of the Guard', but they largely fall flat because his current characterisation never depicts him in that role or recalls any specific element of it. I understand they wanted to make him 'relatable', but that undeniably came at the cost of abandoning his previous characterisation.
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Well, Greg's comments seem to suggest he felt Bionicle's decline in 2003 was due to decisions made specifically relating to the line's products. I'm pretty sure he was only talking about Bionicle, though the failure of what was almost their only very successful theme at that point might have brought the company overall down with it. Yes, the poor sales of the Kal is largely what he pinned the blame on, and the Rahkshi were the saving grace. The Matoran sets didn't do much harm, but not much good either, it seems. He also blamed it on the lack of six major hero sets, which connects with what I remember him saying elsewhere about heroes generally selling better than villains. It's difficult to see how they could've introduced six new heroes with the Nuva transformation having happened so recently, short of killing them off and replacing them (as arguably happened to an extent in 2006).
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Didn't the annual report say "sales fell by up to 20%"? Still the most profitable theme, yes, but a clear dip as well. I clearly remember several comments from Greg himself about the possibility of Bionicle being cancelled in 2003, stuff like "If it wasn't for Rahkshi sales, there might not have been a 2004". Unless he was gravely mistaken about the line he was working on, I don't think it was 'completely false' that that could've happened.
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They tried that in 2003 with the MOLtoran and Rahkshi, and sales that year fell to the point where cancellation was possible, so I don't see it happening again.
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I'm amazed such an intense debate was sparked by some fairly vague information in one paragraph (that seems to have been translated from another language). Surely we shouldn't decide whether the storyline's good or not until something official comes along.
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Officially it'll be January.
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The text in the box says the sets will launch in January.
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Well, we've had set images, line confirmation, mask information and now concept art all inside three months. I don't think a bit of patience from us now is too much for Lego to expect.
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Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. They seem to be the only cases of the same character being released twice in one year, unless you count Takua and Takanuva.
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Would anyone like to expand on this?
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What were Pohatu and Lewa's fourth incarnations?
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There's some sense in that view, but (as I said earlier in this topic) it still seems dumb to drop one of the few fictional words that was used almost continuously across the franchise and so is at least vaguely/nearly recognisable. And I think you'll find the accessibility issue was largely due to too many characters and plots, and a media/storytelling approach that didn't make it easy enough to learn established story.
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It could just as easily be the case that 99% would know what Star Wars is and maybe 2% would know what Bionicle is. What people on the street know or don't know hardly matters. The point I'm making is that 'Toa' is an important and recognisable word in the franchise, not something to be dropped lightly. And even if the actual word does go, what it refers to is clearly staying, so a unique name for it might as well exist.
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Bionicle dropping 'Toa' would be like Star Wars dropping 'Jedi'.
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I think that's being far too cynical. Most people seem pleased with the sets so far, and what criticism there is has been fairly reasonable.
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Well, that too then. Was I expected to know it?
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I'd also point out that exposed balljoints are extremely rare in official sets; the Electro slizer and Nui-Jaga are the only examples I can think of.
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Does anyone else actually like this? It gives them a unifying and recognisable feature.
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I loved the first four years of Bionicle. Sure, a few things disappointed (the Kal, the second MNOLG) but for the most part it went brilliantly. Then 2005 was a letdown due to its pointless story and mostly uninspired sets. I thought that wouldn't matter because the next year would return to the characters I knew. But the Nuva failed to return in 2006, and the Piraka Rap and Free the Band garbage appeared. Bionicle went into a seemingly total decline from then onwards. The movies and canon games vanished, and nearly all the story was packed off to the books that were never available to those of us outside North America. This made Bionicle nearly impossible to follow in any enjoyable manner, and what storyline I could learn about online became ludicrously complex with characters and factions and parallel universes all over the place. I couldn't and can't understand why Bionicle changed so much for the worse. I'm also fairly certain that if Lego had stuck closer to how they did things in the first four years, the line's sales wouldn't have faltered and it wouldn't have met its demise in 2009. Fortunately, next year offers a chance to put things right.
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Is anyone else having a hard time figuring out how Pohatu's white or silver and what looks to be red relates to the element of stone?
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The golden armour works very well with Tahu's red, but I'm not sure how well it works with Kopaka and it definitely looks very at odds with Onua's black.
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There appear to be two, one taller (or just nearer) on the left side and one smaller on the right.
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Just to address two points about Toa: Given that this primarily comes down to which mask was chosen for the Kaita, I think bright green stands out a little more than white or blue. Plus the Miru looks more similar to Akamai's Hau than the other two masks, so the two Kaita look more consistent with each other. It doesn't make much sense from a storyline perspective though, as Wairuha represents wisdom and that isn't something Lewa or Air types in general are particularly associated with. Kopaka may lack enthusiasm for teamwork, but he does generally seem more calculating and in control than Lewa. Kopaka incapacitated a Muaka and even three Rahkshi by himself, whereas Lewa was taken control of by an infected mask and then a Krana. Whilst neither are ideal leaders, I think Kopaka would do a slightly better job.