Danielhll23 wrote:
Danielhll23 wrote:Hey Greg, some questions I've had for a while.
1. Where did the name "Nuva" and "Takanuva" come from? Did Tahu/Takua just make them up?
2. What caused the Red star to shoot toa-transforming lightning at Jaller and co.?
3. Why did Zaktann enter the EP pool with the other beings to make the golden being? Seems like he willingly floated in.
4. The only refrence I could find to Nocturn's death is the book Makuta's guide to the Universe. Was that a cut event from another book that remained canon, like the Inika's trip down the cord?
Buried a while ago.
1) We never came up with a story reason for this, but I always assumed nuva was Matoran for "new"
2) Probably another failsafe mechanism built into the system
3) He did. He was badly injured at that point and probably figured whatever was going to happen there was no worse than what he was currently going through.
4) No, it wasn't something I was going to put into a novel, because it just wasn't that important to the overall story.
1) Kanoka could certainly have been brought to Mata Nui
2) Not to my knowledge
3) No, we never gave them names
4) Keep in mind the RS was not designed to hold a population. The risen were supposed to be sent back immediately. So there is no system for them to be employed, etc.
1) K. But how would they make the masks? Did they have forges?
4) So what goes on there? Do they just sit around until they just kinda... lose it?
5) Where did the organic material come from when the Turaga upgraded the Matoran, and the metal for that matter.
6) Are Matoran names just arbitrary, without any derivatives from the matoran language, or are they words?
7) Could more than one Av-Matoran become a Toa of Light, or is Takanuva the only Av-Toa ever going to exist?
8) Who created the Agori/Glatorian?
Thanks!
1) I can't say they made masks on Mata Nui, because they might not have remembered how or that they were made from Kanoka.
4) Most of them are intellectually pretty scattered, so I am not sure they are all aware of being bored.
5) It came from author's license, as most things do.
6) We never established them as being words. I always assumed they were names like ours are, which are not words used in conversation but just proper names.
7) We had no plans to make a second one. Doesn't mean it was IMPOSSIBLE for there to be another Av-Matoran destined to become one, simply that we had no intent of introducing more.
8) Since they aren't artificial beings, any answer to this would probably wind up provoking some kind of a religious debate, so I am not going there.
Akuumo wrote:Hi, Greg. I wonder if Botar and his species could teleport themselves from Matoran Universe into the Red Star?
Since Botar has not teleported himself back to the MU after his death, I would have to guess no.
Hey Greg, a couple of questions.
1. I know you had nothing to do with the first 3 movies, but I have to ask: Do you have any idea what happened to Takua's Pakari when he puts on the Avohkii? Or at least some theory? He puts the Avohkii on over his Pakari, so did the Pakari just disintegrate, or fuse with him or something?
2. Of the same nature, any idea how Takanuva was revived from just his mask?
3. You once mentioned that Toa would normally find the Tryna immoral, as they would a Makuta mask. Could the Tryna actually BE a Makuta mask?
4. What would the Bahrag be doing on Spherus Magna? It seems that they really don't have a purpose anymore...
5. Did Takanuva ever get a Suva?
6. Related, were the Toa Nuva's Suva relocated to Spherus Magna (not counting Tahu's)?
7. I recall you saying that the Makuta were never biomechanical in the sense that Matoran are. Before their bodies reached a gaseous state, were they camparable to, say, insects, with soft tissue protected by armor?
8. Most of the time, villains just address Toa as "Toa." However, in Swamp of Secrets, Gorast addresses Gali by name. Unlike Teridax, she never had any personal dealings with the Toa Nuva. So, my question is, were the Toa Nuva well known among the Brotherhood?
Thank you.
- WHAT IS RED STAR?
- WHAT DOES BOTAR HAVE TO DO WITH RED STAR?
- WHAT IS LEWAS FLYING COMPANION NAME?
- WHY DOES POHATU GET A FLYING VEHICLE?
THANKS! ANSWER SOON!
Recently, it seems like debate continues to stew amongst older Bionicle fans in regards to several aspects of the original story. Granted, debate is good and all, but a lot of times it seems that people are very quick to scapegoat story elements that they dislike or disagree with. I have a very questions regarding the development process regarding the story of the original story.
1: What was your role in the story team?
1a: Did you have a strong say in things, possible leadership roles in certain areas?
2: How much of any given year was your idea?
3: Was there a story team leader?
4: How much did prototype artwork influence story decisions?
5: When it came to discussing ideas and concepts that would end up being used, did the team vote upon certain ideas or did things only happen when everyone agreed on them?
6: When the subject of love in the Bionicle universe was brought up, was that immediately deemed "non-canon" or was this a choice made after the online games and animations?
I know the answers to a lot of these myself, but a lot of folks don't realize some of it and I think it'd be nice to have recent answers to clear things up, if you choose to answer them of course. Thank you for your time, and have a good day!
-Eljay
ScribeGT6817 wrote:
Akuumo wrote:Hi, Greg. I wonder if Botar and his species could teleport themselves from Matoran Universe into the Red Star?
Since Botar has not teleported himself back to the MU after his death, I would have to guess no.
Wouldn't it make sense that Botar would've not WANTED to, or perhaps their was a force that prevented such? Or maybe Mata Nui intervened, or maybe Botar thought Mata Nui wanted him to stay at the Red Star.
ScribeGT6817 wrote:
7) Could more than one Av-Matoran become a Toa of Light, or is Takanuva the only Av-Toa ever going to exist?
7) We had no plans to make a second one. Doesn't mean it was IMPOSSIBLE for there to be another Av-Matoran destined to become one, simply that we had no intent of introducing more.
The Makuta said the Av-Matoran are more likely to become Toa than other Matoran, so there had to be some statistics or evidence to back that up.
CalebLouis20 wrote:
- WHAT IS RED STAR?
- WHAT DOES BOTAR HAVE TO DO WITH RED STAR?
- WHAT IS LEWAS FLYING COMPANION NAME?
- WHY DOES POHATU GET A FLYING VEHICLE?
THANKS! ANSWER SOON!
I could help with this.
1. A space station that aided the Great Spirit robot in breaking free of a planets gravity field. It also served as a place where artificial beings who died inside the Great Spirit would be transported too and be rebuilt/revived.
2. Botar is one such being who died, and was presumably transported to the Red Star. Since his species could teleport, people speculate that he might have either been able to teleport back to the Great Spirit Robot, or something was keeping him from coming back.
3. I'm assuming you may be refering to Tanma. The Matoran who attached to his back in the 2008 release.
4. Why do dogs have wet noses?
lordbio123 wrote:
ScribeGT6817 wrote:
Akuumo wrote:Hi, Greg. I wonder if Botar and his species could teleport themselves from Matoran Universe into the Red Star?
Since Botar has not teleported himself back to the MU after his death, I would have to guess no.
Wouldn't it make sense that Botar would've not WANTED to, or perhaps their was a force that prevented such? Or maybe Mata Nui intervened, or maybe Botar thought Mata Nui wanted him to stay at the Red Star.
I think there being some sort of screen that prevents teleportation to and from other than with the machinery does make sense. Mata Nui was in no shape to intervene at that point.
ToaEljay wrote:
Hello Mr. Farshtey! I hope all is well with you and yours.
1: What was your role in the story team?
1a: Did you have a strong say in things, possible leadership roles in certain areas?
2: How much of any given year was your idea?
3: Was there a story team leader?
I know the answers to a lot of these myself, but a lot of folks don't realize some of it and I think it'd be nice to have recent answers to clear things up, if you choose to answer them of course. Thank you for your time, and have a good day!
-Eljay
1) It varied. Early on, I had next to no role beyond writing the comics. I was just doing execution, I was not involved in plotting at that point. It wasn't until Bob Thompson left that the story team really started plotting stories as a team.
1a) I was never the leader of the story team. The leader of the story team was the marketing lead for the franchise. I had a say, but so did a lot of other people. Where I had a lot of freedom was with the books, since they had to tell story in addition to main story and I had a lot of leeway to create that.
2) The way we worked on main story was someone would come up with an idea, someone else would build on it, someone else would build on that. There were things I thought up, and things other people thought up. I wrote the books on my own, but I never claimed to create the entire story on my own.
3) Yes, as I said, the marketing lead for the line was the person who called meetings and chaired meetings.
ToaEljay wrote:
Hello Mr. Farshtey! I hope all is well with you and yours.
4: How much did prototype artwork influence story decisions?
5: When it came to discussing ideas and concepts that would end up being used, did the team vote upon certain ideas or did things only happen when everyone agreed on them?
6: When the subject of love in the Bionicle universe was brought up, was that immediately deemed "non-canon" or was this a choice made after the online games and animations?
I know the answers to a lot of these myself, but a lot of folks don't realize some of it and I think it'd be nice to have recent answers to clear things up, if you choose to answer them of course. Thank you for your time, and have a good day!
-Eljay
4) Varied. There was generally a story direction before set work was done -- for example, we're going underwater -- and set prototypes could certainly inspire a lot of discussion.
5) If a majority of the team liked something, and the marketing lead liked it, then it usually happened. It did not have to be a unanimous situation. But you had to be able to make a case for what you wanted to do.
6) It was never brought up. The web producer did some stuff online at a point when there weren't a lot of rules yet for the universe and no one knew BIONICLE would last more than a year. Once it was underway, we had to deal with the fact that the majority of our set-buying audience were still reacting to romance with "yuck!" and it really didn't make sense within the context of the story universe. To my knowledge, there was never at any point a directive from up above that we should add, include or emphasize romance in this story.
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Hi Greg