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    Yup. The hand drawn part is a dynamic sequence that I guess was too difficult to pull off with the standard puppet. It does leave a weird qualitative dissonance that kind of pulled me out of things, though.
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    So we can expect one Vahi per episode, then.
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    This is the source channel. Since 2004 it has been known that an anonymous fellow going by the name of DeepBrick, communicating through Red Quark/Mark from Mask of Destiny, has a development copy of the game. In like 2010 or so he generously provided the cutscenes he located in the game's files, as well as videos showing the menu system and the first level. Due to a glitch he has been unable to proceed past a certain point, so the other levels remain unseen.
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    'Makuta the Mask Hoarder.' Neat.
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    It would've been shown somewhere around 8:00 to 9:00 AM EST, and the day's events for the convention ended around 12. If we were going to see anything today, I would've expected it by now, but it isn't entirely out of the question. Maybe later today, maybe within the next few days, there's really no way to tell.
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    Until 2006, when it was revealed that the Toa were launched from beneath the surface, the implication was always that they came from the same heavenly location Mata Nui and Makuta hailed from.
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    In the comments he says he got it from the BIONICLE site this morning, it must've been switched out at some point before the update got into general awareness.
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    Wow wow wow. Gonna go refresh the page constantly until it comes up for me to.
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    Yeah, this is happening for me as well. Intermittent between it and the full page sans the characters, at that, so presumably there's something going on on LEGO's end. EDIT: Wait, updated as in fix-updated? or rolled-out-the-full-site updated? The site's still down for me.
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    Possibly even later - I remember many a year waiting for the new BIONICLE site to go live for quite some time after the new sets had gone into circulation. The 2004 site went live in February.
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    Gotta keep out the Skull Spiders somehow.
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    I certainly didn't mean to imply it was a contest. This is Polynesian robot LEGO toys were talking about, best not to take it too seriously. All I meant was that, initially, my thoughts tended the direction I had proposed, whilst after that post I felt more inclined to that perspective. I agree, it totally doesn't matter 'who is right.' Just sharing my thoughts.
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    Fair enough, you've got me convinced. With that in mind, I don't think it would be too unrealistic to suppose the Makuta set could be corrupted and wearing the Mask of Ultimate Power, but comes with the Mask of Control (in gold). The official press release implies Makuta desires the Control, Creation and Ultimate Power masks all, so including the Mask of Control would integrate a play opportunity for Makuta to hunt for it.
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    The shadowy face in the background here certainly supports the idea. It matches what we saw of the Mask of Control in the animation, and is clearly black in an image comprised of renders of official products. I really want the Makuta set to be gold and purple, but I don't find it particularly likely thanks to this. All things considered, LEGO very likely would be remiss to make a purple and gold main villain that isn't very clearly 'evil' in his appearance. Maybe the Makuta set will include both a black and gold Mask of Control, a la the current scheme with the Master sets. That way it would be possible to MOC a version of Makuta pre-corruption.
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    Screencap from an early Mask of Light animation test.
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    Only one of the masks is being given out in the Battle for the Gold Mask. It seems a safe bet that the other seven will be distributed in contests that challenge different abilities, as well as sweepstakes or giveaways.
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    Johnny being Australian goes back to the original US story synopses from 1998. Although we don't have access to the synopses themselves (they were used for partners creating promotional materials only), the LEGO Racers developers would have had access to them, and they clearly depicted Johnny as Australian through both his voice and the musical sting that plays in his intro video.
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    Excellent question! The confusion with 2001 canon that still flares up occasionally today has its basis in a few things. Most critically, it is important to keep in mind that the core story team didn't look at BIONICLE in a literalistic, "this is exactly what happened in detail and anything said otherwise is not storyline accurate," manner. That was all Greg, as it was his job to fill in the details of the story. The story team as a whole just worked in broad strokes. In 2001, the primary story engine was to be the PC game. It utilized the concepts developed by the story team and adapted them into a fleshed-out story, just as Greg would do through the books in later years. But then it was cancelled. So the BIONICLE team put their faith in Templar, who had already created the wildly successful online game, to integrate the details of the story's conclusion into their game's finale. Templar, who had from the beginning been very careful to adhere to the story as laid out in the story bible and expanded on in other story sources, especially the PC game, created an ending that was true to the game it was based on. So fans got to see the end of the story and all was well. Then 2003 happened. In the lead-up to the premiere of Mask of Light, LEGO would have wanted an easily accessible way for consumers to catch up on the story so far. Enter the BIONICLE Chronicles books, written by C. A. Hapka. But somebody goofed, and failed to give Hapka any of the primary resources from 2001 to work off of - the story we got from her seems to have been written solely off of Greg's comics and a truncated summary of what 2001 was about. The resulting book is full of contradictions with the original material. But the story team approved it - why not? It followed all of the broad strokes they had laid out back in 2001, as far as they remembered two years down the road on something that was not their passion, but their job. Greg didn't really help things. He wasn't there when the story was developed for 2001, so while he knew more about it than Hapka he knew less than he probably should have. He kind of kicked MNOG to the gutter on the basis of 'it wasn't approved by the story team,' despite the fact that it stayed much more true to the original 2001 core story, from the PC game, than Hapka's book. He also just would randomly say that stuff from it wasn't canon, presumably when he didn't like it for whatever reason. In the 2003 Style Guide story summary he changes Tahu's encounter with Jala in the charred forest, saying Tahu saw Jala (without anyone else), scared him, and then walked along to find Ta-Koro. He said that Puku wasn't a taxi crab, and that taxi crabs didn't exist, because apparently that's just absurd, why would the Onu-Koronans need efficient transportation between their city and the rest of the island? So basically, the original 2001 story was buried under a preoccupation with going back and defining what "really happened," in exact detail. Canon has always seemed silly to me. People are going to interpret a story in a different ways, according to how it speaks to them - why go through and say what is right and what is wrong? Worse yet, why go and change something that people liked in the first place, for no apparent reason other than to have the "offical" version of the whole story lined up neatly?
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    In the Mata Nui Online Game, Jala makes it very clear that many of his warriors have perished in the war - the idea that nobody ever died was a retcon by Greg.
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    I actually do have a vague memory of winning once. I received an email prompting me to choose a set from a list of options. Unfortunately, I had completed the survey in 2005 or so and my parents must've had me use a junk email account to register. When I actually saw the email, it was sometime in 2006 and the offer had expired.
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    LEGO was worried about losing their audience in a rapidly changing society and attempted to redefine themselves as a brand offering a larger 'experience' with lots of highly varied products covering everything from robotics to human clothing. I think that there was also some fear that children would loose interest in the core LEGO sets if they were to complicated to build. the Town line, in particular, got hit really badly, being retooled into a new theme called LEGO City Center with highly simplified models designed for the youngest customers in LEGO's target demographic, a la today's LEGO Juniors line. Of course, all of these efforts were unsuccessful and LEGO found themselves on the verge of bankruptcy in 2004. It was then that they turned back to their core values and reestablished the normalcy we are accustomed to.
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    It's a 2003 Matoran prototype, actually. Jaller specifically.
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    Thanks! I believe you did respond to the topic I posted on BZPower, there was some discussion about what shade of gold MetalBeard uses in the film. Here's a shot of the assembly of the cannon hand with the two big cannons removed. Hopefully it does the trick.
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    Ah, you're quite correct. Silly me.
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