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    For those of you saying the ninja's robes in that scene are for the NINJAGO movie, just remember TLM and the NINJAGO TV show are in separate universes.
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    No; the Tournament of Elements battle between Jay and Cole only showed that they were no longer going to fight over Nya. IIRC Jay noted that he had "lost" Nya, but that he was more upset over "losing" Cole as a friend. Nya still hasn't fully chosen between the two of them (I may be wrong on this as I'm not as familiar with Possession's episodes as the other seasons), but for all intensive purposes she's with Cole at the moment.
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    Temple of Time, Ancient City, the "Greatest Volcano" and a bunch of generic shrines. If you're looking for particular places, there's the Forge, the crater where Ekimu and Makuta fought and uh... yeah that's basically it.
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    Technically speaking, that actually was a crossover.
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    Chima. CROSSOVER? NO. Edit: Best to make this more than a rant post. So:
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    The "TOO MANY NAMES" argument isn't the greatest when we literally only have ten unique names total in the entirety of G2, only three of which are actually new. Especially when there aren't even unique names for any Okotoan locations, objects or creatures. All we know of really are "Fire Village", "Okoto's Greatest Volcano" and "The Ancient City". Unique names add diversity and personality to a story. Lord of the Rings' world has a very deep complexity where almost everything is interconnected in some way and features unique naming schemes for nearly every location and character. While this can both scare off or welcome newcomers (usually the latter, seeing as they don't bring up that time Morgoth stole the Silmarils every moment someone says "Sauron"), complexity and diversity are virtues of a story that give it personality. Imagine if the forest of Lothlorien was simply called "Elven Forest" or if Rohan was named "Land of the Horse-lords". Sure, the new names are all fine and dandy but they detract from the overall quality of the story. In the case of BIONICLE, having unique names placed few and far between amongst an ocean of overly-simplistic names such as "Fire Villager" really detracts from the story, most certainly when said character/s have a main focus in the story. We don't need everything given a special name for it or some crazy backstory involving Artahka and the time Tahu thought he was a uniquely-named bio-mechanical chicken, but anything better than using "The Ancient City" to refer to a significant location would be good.
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    Ga-Koro comes to mind, they've done it before (albeit never in set form). If this is true, then why did LEGO choose to make half of the Toa the price of what would be a Titan-class set back in Gen 1?
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    So... does this mean the Assassins are actually super-agile zombies and that the Templars are actually good guys with awesome powers? Gaming jokes aside, I'm a bit disappointed by the weapon choices they gave the skull villains. "Rip off their masks" they say, but wouldn't it be easier to just smack the back of their heads?
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    Troy Baker is a great impressionist, that's probably why I got them mixed up. He did a fantastic job portraying Mark Hamill's Joker in Arkham Origins.
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    Eugh, I just heard what the voice actor they're using for Kai from NINJAGO sounds like. They can get Will Arnett to play Batman but they can't get Vincent Tong to play Kai?
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    So did the Holy Grail, according to Borg.
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    The reason why people still post story stuff in the set thread is because of how media-focused NINJAGO is on a whole, people will be talking about the sets alongside the story frequently. Another part of that is that it's annoying for a lot of people to discuss something in two different threads, one of which is located in a part of Eurobricks that not everyone visits (meaning, some people aren't even aware that the TV show thread exists). Most people are probably going to disagree with me on this, but it's just easier to have a single area for discussing Bionicle 2015 (or 2016, when that time comes) than to split it into two different forums. I doubt LEGO is going to begin producing lore books and whatnot on the scale of G1 though.
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    Scars can fade away. It would be much more consistent on a whole to have it match up with the TV show variant, Kai's face is normally covered the most part hiding his grimace and scar but with the Techno gi the scar is far too noticeable. But as for which one I'd rather see removed...
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    I'm not sure that I agree with you. The new exterior housing for the spring blaster has plenty of connection points, and it isn't hard to imagine a new "slimy" variant with an axle on the end to attach the Nuva hands (not sure how to refer to them?) to, which would easily allow for attachment to a villain's elbows/neck region. I do agree with you that we still need to take this with a grain of salt. edit: Any chance you can take some pictures?
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    Everything becomes irrelevant by the next season ever since the Stone Army. Nindroids? Poof. Anacondrai? Gone already. I'd include the Serpentine and the Skulkin, but the Skulkin made an awesome appearance in All of Nothing and the Serpentine still had relevance as villains in season 2 until that was retconned in season 3. Ghosts will probably follow the same route, especially seeing as the Aeroblades are already possessed (no pun intended) by the ninja and Nya being the fourth "Chosen One" character. I'll be surprised if we even get a second ghost wave. I miss the days when there was a clear advancement in overall plot. The Hageman brothers did a great job developing the world into a continuous story rather than mostly unconnected stories a la Chima. Seasons 3 and 4, while fantastic, didn't exactly leave any hinting behind that there was a larger force at work. Understandably LEGO's development of sets and the awkwardness of yet another "end of times" prophecy (which they actually did anyway) after the Ultimate Battle would make this difficult, but it's getting to the point that each season is connected only by a thread and mostly self-contained with no lasting effects.
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    So... a new exterior for a gun in a constraction line is somehow evidence against the idea that LEGO would create another exterior for a gun-like object? Rumors of a 2016 BIONICLE villain failing to predict that a 2015 Star Wars 7 villain would have a system-based launcher? People were already widely speculating the spring blaster would soon be used on constraction figures (no, really, I actually didn't know this was a thing)? The SW torso shell is designed for usage with Titan-sized torso bones, the rumor predicts that the new torso armor is an attachment to the current torso shell. Luke and Vader had already been revealed prior to the "leak". I'm having a hard time believing LEGO would let a guy that hadn't signed an NDA walk into a confidential focus testing group. Doesn't this belong in the 2016 thread anyway?
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    Jay's Mech (this isn't a spoiler, it was in the trailers) got into the Samurai X cave the same way the Destiny's Bounty did, and I'm pretty sure relocating an entire ship into a small cave is a much greater feat than a 10-minute journey across the ocean.
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    Odd. A few days ago PoJ disappeared from the Products page from the BIONICLE website, now he's back again.
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    Didn't you just do the exact same thing when you said the "characterization was on-point" that you "hardly notice"? And in the process were introduced to one major useless location that will serve as a plot hole even if it is ever referenced again, pointlessly reintroduced to four locations to find Obsidian Weapons that are of such importance we've never been shown them before and a sloppy introduction to Ronin where he does nothing of overall importance. The books aren't canon because they're never relied on for story progression or as you said, contain major contradictions with pre-existing canon. I've never seen the TV show rely on any of the original "Master of" books, and their place in the timeline doesn't fit very well either if both the skeletons and the ninja are racing to uncover the Golden Weapons. What of characters like the Phantom ninja? Or the Mayor of NNC? If an object can be fit into canon but is outweighed by the ridiculous contradictions. Even if either one, or both, are ostensibly shown to be canon by later story progresion there's still going to be the plot holes of both weighing it down. As for your Star Wars example, the entire EU was decanonized some time back now. Cursed Realm is a different place. Frankly, I don't think the place Garmadon went to was ever named.
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    The designers are, at the very least, given pieces of concept artwork to get a feel for the locations, vehicles or objects they are creating. I would assume they're also given story details so that the sets will have context relative to the film, because they usually do. If you were to apply your logic to, say, LEGO doing doing touch-ups to the Galactic Enforcer set and branding it as a Star Wars: Episode 7 set and saying "TLG knows what the audience wants - space knights and spaceships" I don't think you would agree with it. LEGO didn't do as well as they could have with this. They really didn't. They're coming close to the levels of Hasbro now (who mind you, attached cannons to the gyrospheres ) and I find that concerning.
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