Dorek
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I know that one, there was like a prototype name or something floating out there at one point that never made it to canon (think the Kanohi Naynu, Umbra's alleged mask).
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I'm sure we'll see story-based combiners at some point, likely in the magazine; even Hero Factory dabbled in it from time to time, and combiners never received more focus than in the years BIONICLE G2 is trying to emulate, so it's certainly not impossible. Whether or not they're the Kaita (as we knew them) is up the set designers. (unrelated, but does anybody remember the prototype name for the Kanohi Ignika? Referenced in the VNOG or something, I think, I can't remember for the life of me. Thanks!)
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Most modding I do is swapping out hinged elbow joints for ball jointed ones for free arm movement (thank you for doing this with Pohatu's trans joints, LEGO!) but I'm not above making some heavier tweaks. It's a pretty subjective art, but I generally like keeping my sets mostly as is.
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You mean because it's the name of the Tahu/Pohatu/Onua Toa Kaita? =P. Apparently the company Akamai (which does data storage and stuff, and is featured in a lot of places, but in an amusing coincidence also is used by LEGO) named itself after the Hawaiian word for "intelligence" or "wit" (or its adjectives), and it possibly means something in Maori as well (if not, the two languages are at least obviously related, so there's that). Wairuha bears the Kanohi of Wisdom, but I think it's all a big coincidence at that point. Still fun to know. As for the continued use of these words, who knows. Masters could refer to their region and they could ALSO be Toa of a given element, or any other of assorted possibilities. I don't think the use of "Master" is specifically to avoid excess terminology, but it depends on the role of the Defenders, and why they're called that.
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They've always been like that =P. More to the point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies
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A lot of that comes down to price point and sacrificing pieces to make particular count. I actually liked the Combat Machine because it did a great job of drawing attention away from the more exposed areas (although it's uncombined that you see where it's messy), and it's more flexible with the torso than I was expecting. I think it comes down to style in the end. People always give a bad rep to the "but it is a fictional creature" argument, but ultimately that's what it is. You are not seeing humans, you are not seeing real animals, you are seeing magical (or advanced technological, if you prefer) entities who are shaped in such a way to trigger the general association of said categories. If you see Tahu and say "yes that is humanoid" or Dragon Bolt and say "yes that is a dragon" then it has done what it set out to do. I'm not saying we won't see totally innovative ways of expressing certain ideas, creatures or humanoid, with the CCBS in the future, just that what it has accomplished has kept the style continually interesting. For everything else, there's MoCing.
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You've seen a real DRAGON? Dude, where?? I get not wanting to use the torso piece (although the IfB wave has shown how varied you can even make that), but it's convenient and encourages an entry level MoCing initiative, which I've always admired.
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Honestly, CCBS has provided waaay more variation in a shorter span of time than BIONICLE did. Not with larger sets, I grant you; this is where BIONICLE truly excelled, even if they never sold as much. But with smaller sets, the kinds of things they can do among things in a single wave is just fantastic, and I'm glad to be seeing that with BIONICLE 2.0. (but yes, torso articulation please)
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The building system, known as CCBS, is going to be here for a while. It was designed to replace the old system because it provides more versatility and is much cheaper to produce because there are less specialized pieces, while at the same time being able to provide varied looks. If the system is not for you, that's cool - doesn't have to be. But it certainly isn't going anywhere. The masks look fine to me, too (they look way more like late-era BIONICLE than anything Hero Factory ever did) but that's also subjective. If it truly isn't for you, there's no hard feelings. But I'd still recommend giving it a try; especially with gear functions apparently back, you might be surprised at how BIONICLE-esque they actually are.
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(still not sure what to think about the documents, but regardless) I'm sure they're hoping for it to lead there, but it would likely depend on first year sales. We'll see if a TV series realizes itself.
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So I was perusing some old GregF blog entries on BZP (didn't find what I was looking for, but that's k), and I stumbled upon a relevant little note on the use of "reboot". Entry is here, but for posterity: It's interesting to see that Greg initially disavowed the use of the word "reboot" even though "soft reboot" later came into circulation. Reboot means a lot of different things to different people, at this point, even though it it should be pretty simple. I just thought the entry made a nice counterpoint to the discussions here, when we are very incredibly likely going into what can only be described as a reboot, even if people have other ways of viewing it =P. (man we found out stuff early back then)
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Technically still canon! But the point is that all of the bad stuff happens to Lewa. I'd love a fakeout, where someone saves Lewa from being controlled at their expense. That would make me laugh more than Lewa getting controlled again.
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Eh, it's likely because that was definitely a big part of the first three years of BIONICLE, which this seems to be emulating. Personally, I really like the idea. Mask swapping is always fun, and since the spiders will attach, that gives you three different masks in one set. That's pretty neat, in my book.
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Aanch made some great points about this before, but what you have seen is the faintest slice of what BIONICLE could be. Not to mention the Mask of Creation, which is pointedly a post-Metru Nui invention. You're very determined to think that LEGO trying to create a thoughtful homage to the BIONICLE line is deliberately excluding you from enjoying it. Even if this was the only wave we get, it has all the hallmarks of the line we knew, and seems like a damned good attempt at making it fresh.
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If you mean original story... Everything in the MU is made out of protodermis, so yes, this one was too. Artakha is not a Great Being (though mistaken for one often!), but is the only one known to use the mask. A disc combination doesn't have to be possible, either (ignoring some recent canonizations...) as the Ignika certainly was not made from disks, but is still made from protodermis. But since this is probably a reboot, none of that matters. MoCr will do what it does.
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See, I usually find that it's actually the other way around. "Advanced technology" gets a pass because delving into the scientific complexities is going to turn your book into a different genre than intended (i.e. Ender's Game), while magic always has a very clearly defined set of rules of what it can and cannot do.
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Depends on the gearbox how many connection points it has, I guess. I'm hoping it's not TOO specialized, although it's obviously nice to see anything like that at all.
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So who else is modding Pohatu so that the gear function is his legs? :U
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Honestly, seeing a Japanese-influenced BIONICLE sounds like an awesome way to do things. The Cordak Blasters were okay, but only really worked on titan sets (and the Hahna crab because how was that not hilarious). I'm looking forward to these stud shooters.
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Okkoto, technically, but I'm glad somebody else noticed that.
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But if the same themes and ideas are present, what makes this any different than in 2001, aside from the fact that we're all older and LEGO isn't in dire financial straits?
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If there is a summer wave, yeah, this is what I'm hoping for. While I think the hero/villain divide started in 2008 worked really well (and ignoring 2009 which in which characters were mostly amoral), Hero Factory sort of went overboard with "this bad guy goes to this good guy", although it evened out eventually. It would be fun to see a wave of all villains, and then some large hero sets (like Takanuva!).
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But a remake implies that we'll be doing the same things over again (which is unlikely), a continuation is a completely different thing (and, y'know, the opposite), and an alternate timeline would be something else entirely, but connected to a continuation, since it's not as specific and could mean multiple things. A reboot implies a sense of attempting to draw a new audience by featuring the same elements that they think they want to see, but not in the way it has been done before. Blame LEGO for using the term "soft reboot" for 2009, since they needed a way to distinguish it from a regular "reboot", which we now have to call "hard reboot".
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Assuming that their titles are referring to elemental control, and not just "ruler of X". Given the Defenders, I think this is much more likely (not to say they won't have elemental powers, but it's more likely to be unrelated to this title they have).
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B'awww, that's too cute! (assuming true). A solid nod to the original. (also the catalog has Onua's Skull Spider as the same color as Tahu's, which is kind of a bummer).
