Dorek
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I think they're counting July as Water, since they released that Gali concept and also had some designer MoCs/scenery at some point. December and Ice seems logical, but still... I feel like this will be Ice just because reasons.
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There probably will be an episode tomorrow, but we have gotten gaps before, so possibly not. Soon, though, I'd hope they don't just hold onto it. They'll get to it, patience =P. Although the Month of Stone was pretty lame. What are we thinking for October, Earth? Jungle? Ice?
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Digging the art style. I guess they'll start out at the beginning, with them in their Master forms? Or it could just be concept.
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That's a mysterious Netflix title. Compilation of the episodes, or something new? Either way, fun find.
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So I URL guessed the next shop calendar for funzies. No golden skull mask :<
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We are getting an episode 18? What a twist! Good stuff, anyway. I'm wondering if there will be a teaser at the end of the ep18.
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I think that might be a little bit too... interpretive of a power to have =P. I just kind of figured there was a general irony in it; Makuta has a mask that's not related to his job at all, while Ekimu wears a mask that's specifically about what they do, and gets praised when he's magically better at it. As for where Makuta IS, it's still a bit of a mystery. Ekimu isn't super certain that Makuta is back in a physical form (hence why people think possession), but everyone is definitely sure that he's behind the things that are going on. Something to feed into next year, no doubt, and maybe even the year after.
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But then that's not really using it, that's just destroying it. I didn't get the impression that his plan was to steal said masks only to destroy them, based on the language used. It does hinder the opposition, obviously, but it also removes it from play for his own personal use, which I'd like to know more about what his plans were for.
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So he didn't have faith in Skull Grinder? =P. I'm probably overthinking it, but it just seems to run counter to his goal of wanting to collect the masks by destroying one. But maybe they'll address that in the future, who knows?
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But he's described as a "Hoarder", which is the opposite of wanting to destroy it. Quite possibly there's something in destroying it that would help him (as there was for the Golden Masks) but the back of the book also states that: "Craving power, the evil Makuta searches for the three mythical masks that will enable him to take over the world". Obviously there's a more nuanced reading of it, but the impression we've been given so far is that he wants to collect the masks for something. I'm just wondering what destroying it would accomplish.
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If we're going by the animations, it was Kulta himself who went out and got it (which is a bit odd in and of itself anyway), but it was way more than likely just to emphasize that they were supposed to be hard to obtain. A minor point among minor points. I'm more curious as to why Kulta would want to actually destroy it; destroying the Golden Masks powers himself up, but isn't Makuta supposed to a "mask hoarder"?
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You'd think a jungle would GROW over time as opposed to receding (especially since the books mention that the region was relatively untouched by the cataclysm), but it's really a minor detail anyway. Could just as easily have been for show (although I still wouldn't have described it as "lost" =P).
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Well, they did say "lost" and it seems a lot of people know where the ancient city was =P. But maybe it was a holdover from when the city was still supposed to be located in the jungle region, as opposed to just bordering it.
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Looked at em, and I think that's enough leaks for me.
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Well, Makuta wears the Mask of Control... so I don't think it's super important what form that takes since we don't quite know the extent of the powers of that mask, or of Makuta's apparent resurrection, which the book was deliberately vague on. It's a mystery; supposed to be unraveled over time. Probably won't even get answered fully next year =P.
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I dunno, sounds like you're guessing about an awful lot. Where's your proof?
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I can never tell if the obsession grows every year or if I'm just becoming more jaded and cynical. Maybe both. But yeah, I do think the rabid "must have pictures now" attitude is fairly annoying, especially when it precedes the release of sets we officially know about! It makes sense in a way; we often see summer sets early at Toyfair, so there's more of a wait in between the waves, but still, this is exactly why LEGO hates leaks; it undermines the positive impression they're trying to make with one wave when people are already looking toward the next.
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Which is a far cry from not including the final battle at all. Ekimu hasn't even reclaimed his Mask of Creation, which has been what the entire story leads up to. I'm really confused as to why, just based on a leaked compilation review of these episodes, that people think we won't be seeing an actual conclusion to the story. Leaving a story open-ended is not how they intend to sell sets, and as you've mentioned, they already completed the story elsewhere, so that's contradictory in the first place. I'm all for leaving cliffhangers, but you do that by following it up, not ignoring what is supposed to be there. Dum!Dum!'s official count is 19 episodes. So The Legend+winter season is 10, and then 9 for summer, so that would actually leave TWO more episodes. Unless they were counting the trailers, which I don't think they were. (Although they did miscount the character animations, so I'm willing to concede that they're just wrong in every direction =P). Of course, another possibility is that, like the winter finale, the summer finale is extended and this one just got cut off. I wasn't paying too close attention to the timestamps the first time around, but looking at it now, the "episode 16" is 90 seconds, usual, but the "episode 17" was 110 seconds. The previous finale was 130 seconds (with the credits taking up about 40), while the credits spliced in here are about 45 seconds. So there's an obvious time discrepancy, which I would guess is the missing content. True, which is another thing they wouldn't accomplish by leaving an episode out; I assume there's a vague teaser of the next wave in the episode.
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Having just read the book, yeah, nowhere does it even explicitly say that the mask is "new". It literally states "a Golden Mask". So these could be new, or the same, but either way it doesn't indicate what will happen with the sets, since those could be wildly different anyway.
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But we haven't seen that in episode form, just book form. For people who only follow the animations (which is way more than people who bought the book), they'll be left extremely confused. "To be continued" doesn't mean "and now for something completely different". There needs to be a logical sequence of events, and if they were doing some sort of cross-platform promotion, they would mention that, and not be so stupid as to expect people to know exactly where to look to find the continuation of the story. Never said it would be released soon; whatever schedule LEGO wants to keep with their episodes is up to them. But the episode exists (as we've been told), and just because we don't see it in this weird leaked compilation doesn't mean that LEGO has no intention of airing it. When I said "moving ahead" I meant moving past. A "to be continued" can be put anywhere and mean different things depending on the context. If indeed it gets used here, I would expect more of a direct lead-in; they wouldn't put "to be continued" on episode 17, and then move immediately into 2016. That's ridiculous. Right... and then immediately moved into the summer wave (after a short break). I'm not debating the release schedule of the episode, but it exists and we'll get it. I just think it makes more sense to create two distinct seasons of 9 episodes (as was their plan) rather than shuffle it off as a lead-in to 2016. As for the music, well, foreign sites can apparently get access to these things; look at the Russian VK page and all of the concept art they got.
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Right, but since this whole thing is a compilation anyway, those credits were likely manually added to the end. We've seen the bits of the final episode that match up with the book, and Dum!Dum! has explicitly stated that there are more episodes, if you can understand their count. It makes no sense to leave the one remaining episode, which is the finale of this year, and use it at the start of next year. I'm not sure why anybody would take this edited (and leaked) compilation as gospel. How would that be logical? There's no conclusion, and the story is going to move ahead next year, so there's no actual place to put it.
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There will be another episode, I think; they wouldn't end it before the final battle, and we've already seen bits of it. Likely whoever compiled this just figured they'd add the end credits (which were made available as of episode 9). At the very least, there's supposed to have been one more episode developed (by Dum!Dum!'s count) and it would be pretty ridiculous to leave the story on a cliffhanger.
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On the contrary, I think a work of fiction is the best place for one to be picky about these kinds of things. Oftentimes it's not necessarily just a dislike (though it may evolve into that) but a difficulty in understanding a certain accent or dialect (whether you just don't have an ear for it, or the VA isn't enunciating). In terms of fiction, it's the voice actor's job to affect the accent, make it believable, but also make sure that the viewer still understands what is being said. Not an easy task, and for novice or lazy voice actors, it can get grating to have to listen to them try. That's not to mention the myriad of other reasons why a voice can be "annoying". Sometimes it's even deliberate! Berix, for instance, was SUPPOSED to be an annoying character, which made his "growth" over the course of the movie more sympathetic. Or characters, if given previous non-voiced appearances, can create an impression that doesn't necessarily carry over into a voiced appearance. Regardless, I didn't mind Ekimu's voice, but it doesn't make me wonder what it'll be if he does continue on as a character. Personally I would rather Ekimu stay an ancient mentor figure, but if set rumors are to be believed, then he'll be getting some sort of new form next year, which is a little meh to me.
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The website mentions that they appear in the graveyard too, so it's possible the plot will be less straightforward than we think. Though I haven't read the book =P
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Rediscoverd "Inspired by BIONICLE" Combiners
Dorek replied to Transparency for Effect's topic in LEGO Action Figures
Haha, I rediscovered that old gallery years ago when there was a huge canonization debate on whether or not to make the first Rahkshi combiner part of the canon. My argument was that since it came from this gallery (with assorted other things that obviously aren't canon in that regard) that it shouldn't be "official"; indeed there aren't any instructions, which is a bummer. But it's fun that it still exists in some form, and these combiners are certainly better than some of the canon models they put out.