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Thanks

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1) Multi-part answer --

a) I can't really say "yes" or "no" to this, because whether we did something like that again (with not only the story emphasis but things like the truck tour) would be a call that Marketing would make.

b) One thing to note is that, with most of our "big" lines these days, we seem to have a TV series. That mitigates the need to do a lot of story telling in other media.

c) The reason you saw so much investment and so many things with BIONICLE in 2001 is that it was essentially a whole new category for us -- a story-driven, buildable action figure line -- and the only way it would work would be to aggressively push it. The idea was, "Pretend this is a big movie that we are doing toys for and just get the line out there so it's everywhere you look."

 

 

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No idea if or even to whom, but if you could pass an idea to the marketing department to have a mata nui online game for the new bionicle, i'm sure that would attract a lot of attention for the new audience. they had that one game they made last year for android and ios, but an expanded game with montly updates to the play/app store similar to the original MNOG would be absolutely fantastic and a great way to expande the lore of okoto and grab the kids' interest.

in addition, with a few non-intrusive in-app advertisments, that game could also generate a little revenue.

just my $0.02.

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Nothing is impossible for any LEGO line, but I do know that MNOG cost a fortune to make.

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maletoaofwater wrote:

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ScribeGT6817 wrote:

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RocketRacer7235 wrote:

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RocketRacer7235 wrote:

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RocketRacer7235 wrote:

Hey Greg. I have some questions about Hordika... And toa in general...

1. Would a toa hordika always have a rhotuka according to their element, or would it vary as with most entities using rhotuka?

2. Do toa subjected to visorak venom truly lose their elemental powers,(Barring rhotuka) or do they simply lose the mental discipline to use them properly?

     2a. If toa hordika retain their powers, would a theoretical antidote which only reversed the mental effects of visorak venom let them use those powers in hordika form

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1) A Toa Hordika would, yes.

2) They actually lose the powers.

  

 

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out of universe explanation aside where you need enough story material to fill a whole story year, why didn't the toa hordika just use remove poison kanoka to undo the mutation? were there not any around that they could find, did nobody think of it, or...

 

while i'm mentioning story years, i figured the LEGO message boards would be the best place to ask where i could find the main story source for the new bionicle. for the 2015 year i know they had those videos on bionicle dotcom, but i've been unable to find anything for the new 2016 story. are there comics, books, videos...?

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1) I don't get the impression they were thinking all that clearly.

2) There are books starting to come out, as of last fall, as well as graphic novels. Plus there will be the Netflix limited series to tell 2016 story.

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maletoaofwater wrote:

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ScribeGT6817 wrote:

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RocketRacer7235 wrote:

A question just popped into my head.

     The Golden-skinned being grants wishes dreams, right? So what happens if two dreams oppose eachother? E.G. 'I want the Makuta to all die permanently right now' vs 'I want the Makuta to live on forever'?

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Would probably depend on the will of the dreamers. You can one person who dreams of being rich, and really, really wants it ... and someone who dreams of being famous, but only wants it ... so one dream will be much stronger than the other.

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Does the GSB have any control over that outcome? Or do you think the maddness we saw with annonna (hope i'm spelling that right) showed that he can't really control what dreams he brings to reality?

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I don't think he does, no.

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maletoaofwater wrote:

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swampdiver657 wrote:

1. Was the Muaka's taste for Rahkshi a deliberate design by whatever Makuta created the species?
2. Will Rahi populations be sustainable without Makuta creating more of them?
3. Are their any more species beyond Matoran/Toa/Turaga and the Skakdi that may have any one of the whole spectrum of elements?
4. Skakdi do have the full spectrum of elements, right? Like plasma and psionics?
5. Assuming question 11 is a yes, since the Makuta culled all the Toa of Iron and Magnetism, would they have made similar efforts among the Skakdi population? If question 10 is a yes, would the Makuta and culled those species' irons and magnetics too?

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I think this guy's ^ questions got buried (i haven't seen an answer yet and i'm reading it backwards haha) but these are definitely some good questions!

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1) No

2) No

3) Not that I am aware of

4) Unknown. Not something we had discussed

5) I don't think so, simply because Skakdi are easier to manipulate. Even if they absolutely hate you and want nothing to do with you, it is easy enough to provoke them to war with each other, thus neutralizing them as a threat.

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maletoaofwater wrote:

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2) Did BIONICLE characters look like exactly like the set we had been sold?

 

3) Where are the muscles of the inhabitants of the Matoran universe? Are they "incorporated" into the pieces we saw in the toys, or are they visible and therefore "beyond" what LEGO sold us?

 

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i think the best representation of how they "really" look would be the movies. there you can see how the organic tissue is integrated into their armor, especially in the second one. you can see how their armor is actually an exoskeleton of sorts to the soft tissues underneath. as far as the sets go, you can kinda see how those pieces relate to what you see in the movies: the LEGO pieces closely resemble the exoskeleton, and their organic tissue would be... well, inside the pieces.

 

as for whether certain body parts look like other body parts in different characters with similar set pieces, i'd say probably not. i'm going to point you toward the movies for this again. while you can't see every character in there, you can see the interpretation of each set piece based on the role it plays in that character's body. for example, gali nuva's arms and legs have the same set pieces, but they don't look exactly alike in the movie. also, kopaka nuva's left arm uses the same set piece as the vahki arms do, but in the movie, the vahkis' arms look totally different than kopaka's arm.

 

hope that helps!

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To add on to his answer -- the original conceit behind BIONICLE was "pretend this was a big-budget movie and we are doing toys based on it." So we were going for a Technic version of these characters.

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EddyGould wrote:

Do you want to finish uncompleted story of bionicle? Or when LEGO stopped pay, you had lost interest? What will happen if you'll publish new chapters on the other websites? Or LEGO will punish you for this? What if the fans will donate you for new chapters?

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1) I was never paid any extra for doing the BIONICLE web serials or the comic book -- that was stuff I did in my own time, on top of my regular work. I was paid by Scholastic to do the novels.

2) For me to do additional work on the old story, LEGO Company would have to give me permission. They own the story and the characters, not me. And since they are trying to promote a whole new story, it really wouldn't make any sense for them to be putting more old story out there. It would just confuse new fans.

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nekaTydaerlA wrote:

 So Greg, I know you're getting asked a million questions per day about Bionicle, Ninjago, and essentially anything LEGO. What have you been doing lately? Are you still working with LEGO, or do you have some other business you're working for?

 

 Wait - I know! You got fed up with LEGO cancelling Bionicle, so you've gone to work for... Mega Bloks! GASP!

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I am still at LEGO Company, as Editorial Director, working mostly on the print magazines. BIONICLE was always a sideline for me, it was never my actual job here.