1. I read somewhere that there are only about 1,000 Matoran on the island of Metru nui around the time of the great cataclysm, is this true? That seems like a small population for an island city that is about 40.51 miles long and 20.43 miles wide.
1.2 If the former is true then I also read that there are 5,000 vahki on Metru nui, why have a robot police force that outnumbers the population 5-1? They could literaly afford to assign an entire squad to keep Takua from wandering off so often.
1.3 If the population is only 1,000 then should'nt every Matoran on Metru nui know each other on a first name basis by now? 100,000 years is a long time to get to know each other.
2. What is the logic of creating an army of robots (Vahki) whose primary function is to force the population to work forever? It seems to me that would be the second of "Nuparu's follies".
3. How exactly do the Matoran working in Metru nui keep the Mata nui robot's brain funtioning? Do they work directly on his brain or is it something else?
4. Instead of doing the same old job for tens of thousands of years why not just make the Vahki or other robots do all the work and just chill and have fun all day?
4.2 Do the Matoran of Metru nui really do nothing but work all day every day for millenia? You'd think they would go nuts eventually.
5. Do the Matoran of Metru nui just do what their respective Metru's primary jobs are? To clarify, do most Ga-Matoran just teach, do Ta-Matoran mostly just make masks?
6. Ta-Metru's primary industry is forging masks. For who? Everyone in the Mata nui robot or just the beings on Metru nui?
6.2 If the population really is just 1,000 and if they don't make masks for outsiders then what do they do with all the masks they make? Store them for future use just in case? It seems odd to have 1/6 the population of Metru nui dedicated to just making piles of masks when masks rarely break and need to be replaced.
Sorry it's so lengthy, I've been thinking about this for a long time.
alaskamark wrote:1. I read somewhere that there are only about 1,000 Matoran on the island of Metru nui around the time of the great cataclysm, is this true? That seems like a small population for an island city that is about 40.51 miles long and 20.43 miles wide.
1.2 If the former is true then I also read that there are 5,000 vahki on Metru nui, why have a robot police force that outnumbers the population 5-1? They could literaly afford to assign an entire squad to keep Takua from wandering off so often.
1.3 If the population is only 1,000 then should'nt every Matoran on Metru nui know each other on a first name basis by now? 100,000 years is a long time to get to know each other.
2. What is the logic of creating an army of robots (Vahki) whose primary function is to force the population to work forever? It seems to me that would be the second of "Nuparu's follies".
1) Yes, that is the number we assigned because the alternative would be having tens of thousands of Matoran running around on a tropical island and that would make the population too dense for what we wanted to do.
1.2) I don't recall how many Vahki we said there were, but remember that they also had to help defend the city against threats.
1.3) Remember that they live in different districts and many of them do not travel much because of their jobs.
2) The logic is that if they don't work, their universe will die. Their reason for existence is to work.
alaskamark wrote:
3. How exactly do the Matoran working in Metru nui keep the Mata nui robot's brain funtioning? Do they work directly on his brain or is it something else?
4. Instead of doing the same old job for tens of thousands of years why not just make the Vahki or other robots do all the work and just chill and have fun all day?
4.2 Do the Matoran of Metru nui really do nothing but work all day every day for millenia? You'd think they would go nuts eventually.
5. Do the Matoran of Metru nui just do what their respective Metru's primary jobs are? To clarify, do most Ga-Matoran just teach, do Ta-Matoran mostly just make masks?
6. Ta-Metru's primary industry is forging masks. For who? Everyone in the Mata nui robot or just the beings on Metru nui?
6.2 If the population really is just 1,000 and if they don't make masks for outsiders then what do they do with all the masks they make? Store them for future use just in case? It seems odd to have 1/6 the population of Metru nui dedicated to just making piles of masks when masks rarely break and need to be replaced.
Sorry it's so lengthy, I've been thinking about this for a long time.
3) Metru Nui is his brain. They are the equivalent of the neurons and cells in our brains.
4) Because that is not what they were created to do, and they are not by nature lazy.
4.2) Why? The cells in your body work all day and all night every day, and don't go nuts. Ants work all day, every day, and don't go nuts.
5) Yes
6) They also make tools and and equipment anything else that needs to be forged, plus they do repairs.
7) How do you know masks rarely break? In 2004, we showed an entire conveyor belt of broken masks heading off to be melted down and repurposed in one of the novels.
AwesomelyB wrote:
ScribeGT6817 wrote:
AwesomelyB wrote:So many questions
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Who and how were the names of the Toa Mata made?
What's your favorite color?
Do you like salads or soups better?
Did Kopaka slip?
Is Lewa the creative type?
Why doesn't Onua use dynamite instead of claws?
Do you favor some Toa over others?
Are you best friends with Makuta?
1) No idea.I was not working on BIONICLE at the time the original Mata names were conceived.
2) Blue
3) Soup
4) No idea what you are referring to
5) He wasn't particularly in original BIONICLE, I do not know about now.
6) Because his set is built with claws and having to carry dynamite and matches around all the time would be a pain.
7) Only to the extent that some are easier to write for than others.
8) There are days I wish I was
4) Oh, well in one of the videos for the new Bionicle sets, it says the Toa are going on a quest through a lot of dangerous stuff, and it shows Kopaka crossing an icy mountain, and he appeared to slip, but claims he didn't. It became really popular among the Bionicle Message Boards. Most people believe Kopaka, but the rebels among us claim that he did slip.
8)
Oh my gosh! I can't believe it!
I have nothing to do with new BIONICLE, so I can't answer this. Questions about new BIONICLE need to be asked in the BIONICLE forum on LMB.
diglett809 wrote:
Does LEGO still have the rights to the name "Toa"? I am just wondering because now they use "Masters".
They use Masters on the packaging, for those people who do not know what Toa means. But we have used Toa in the LEGO Magazine, so yes,we do still have the rights to the term.
Hey Greg, how long has LEGO planned (in years) for the new story of BIONICLE?
I can guess LEGO have planned til 2017, with 2016 centered on the mask of control and 2017 centered on the mask of ultamite power.
ScribeGT6817 wrote:
diglett809 wrote:
Does LEGO still have the rights to the name "Toa"? I am just wondering because now they use "Masters".They use Masters on the packaging, for those people who do not know what Toa means. But we have used Toa in the LEGO Magazine, so yes,we do still have the rights to the term.
Okay, just wanted to make sure they were still called Toa since that's what I call them
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Thank you for answering my questions
1. Why do Skakdi have one long arm and one short arm?
2. After 75,000 years of constant civil war should'nt the Skakdi have wiped each other out by now?
3. About how many beings live in the Mata nui robot? Lets say around the time of the great cataclysm.
4. About how many Dark Hunters are there? Great cataclysm time period.
5. How much business do the Dark Hunters actually get? There can't be enough people who want other people to hurt or die to justify having a mecenary army with at least hundreds of members waiting on standby.
6. During the 1,000 years that there weren't any Matoran on Metru nui why didn't the Dark Hunters or the Brotherhood of Makuta take over the city? With only the Rahaga, Dume and Keetongu defending it, it would have been easy to just send an army to take it over, and it is the most important place in the Matoran universe.
6.2 If they didn't take over the city simply because there weren't any Matoran in it, then why not take over the city and leave a reserve army to wait for them to come back?
7. How did the various Piraka get off their home island of Zakaz when the Brotherhood of Makuta put a quarantine on the island?
8. The Matoran of Metru nui keep Mata nui's brain working, and Karda nui is his "heart" so what is the purpose of Zakaz and What were the Skakdi originally intended to do?
JamieW511 wrote:Hey Greg, how long has LEGO planned (in years) for the new story of BIONICLE?
I can guess LEGO have planned til 2017, with 2016 centered on the mask of control and 2017 centered on the mask of ultamite power.
Not on the story team, so no idea.
ScribeGT6817 wrote:
Toa-Nuva-von-Mata-Nui wrote:
ScribeGT6817 wrote:
been605 wrote:
been605 wrote:How was Takanuva at the end of Mask of Light
Sorry. Forgot a word. Ahem. How was Takanuva resurected at the end of Mask of Light.
I wish I could give you a great answer. But the simple fact is, the people behind the making of the movie never bothered to explain just what the heck they were doing in that scene and there was nothing in the script to explain it either.
Well, can't you/we just try to find a possible explanation for what happened, and go with that? It would be a shame if these old events would go unexplained forever.
Just throwing another question in: For any differences between the first movie and its novelization by Hapka, which one has precedence?
1) Marvel used to do something called a "no prize." Basically,if something was wrong or left out in a story, readers were invited to provide explanations for it.
2) Movie version takes precedence. Movie novelizations are based on scripts which may not be the final version of the script, which is why you see differences.
Okay, I've been discussing this with a few fellow fans, we came up with several theories and this is the one that seemed to make the most sense to us:
The Avohkii still had some Toa energy from Takua's transformation left, which was used to power a safeguard mechanism: The Avohkii can "absorb" its wearer's consciousness and body, and restore it later. This mechanism works only once, because it uses up the rest of the Toa energy. Artakha created this mechanism as a protection, because of how important the Toa of Light is. Or possibly even because he foresaw his fusion to Takutanuva and this was the safest/only way to restore the Toa of Light from his fused state.
What do you think about this theory?
Hi Greg!
1. If Toa look likee they think a Toa looks like, why did Takanuva look like a Toa Nuva, when he've seen the regular Toa (Mata)?
2. IF the chroniclers company ever would band together again, would Kopeke, being the chronicler, be their "leader"?
Wilmerkardell wrote:Hi Greg!
1. If Toa look likee they think a Toa looks like, why did Takanuva look like a Toa Nuva, when he've seen the regular Toa (Mata)?
2. IF the chroniclers company ever would band together again, would Kopeke, being the chronicler, be their "leader"?
1) Because they were Nuva now and they were his heroes. Why look like a Mata when he could look like a Nuva?
2) Don't know, offhand. We never discussed reuniting the company, and I doubt it would have happened in story if we continued.
In your opinion could a Toa of Air manipulate the oxygen in water to allow him (or others) to breath underwater?
Is there some way to restore Dekar's memories to Hydraxon?
Would you consider Dekar to be "dead"?
Can Hydraxon use Mask Powers?
Is the Pit on surface after the rejoining of the two moons to bara Magna?
What is the meaning of the word Mahri? (Because Mata means Spirit, Voya means Journey etc.)
Does the Faxon allow you to duplicate multiple Rahi abilities at once?
Gresh113 wrote:Does the Faxon allow you to duplicate multiple Rahi abilities at once?
No, they don't; I asked Greg about this previously.