tuvok9597 wrote:Hey Greg, I have another question:
Is it posible for their to be more than one "Judgment Cannon" in the MU?
In this case, I would have to defer to the fan who created the JC. Based on the history they supplied, it does not sound like something there would be more than one of.
gizer13 wrote:Hey Greg! I have a question for a fan story Im writing.
I know that Bio-Mechanics call the group of Glatorian who derived in making them, Great Beings. But what would other Glatorians call the Great Beings? The "Robed Ones"?
The residents of Spherus Magna called them the Great Beings too. That is where the name originally came from.
Crusader5834 wrote:Hello Mr. Greg Farshtey, I had a question regarding the ttv message boards. Will you ever make an account to speak with fans there and discuss canon. There is alot of new and old fans waiting to "meet" you and I'm sure with a community of at least 10,000 you will have a great time answering question. (If you are wondering, we have a team of moderaters that check posts and rules to keep things civil.)
Hi Crusader -- I probably wouldn't be allowed to. LEGO's social media policy forbids employees from posting on any board where there might be people under 13 present. So unless TTV has an age verification system in place (which most places do not), I wouldn't be able to. That is the same reason I had to leave BZPower way back when.
JHUYSER wrote:Recently I heard that in 2005 Bionicle wasn suposed to have returned to the present at the time of the Bionicle universe and am wondering what the story would have been?
The decision to set 2005 in Metru Nui was kind of made at the last minute -- the idea was that so much work and care had been put into creating and designing the city that it seemed a shame to use it for only one year. Had we not done that, I don't know, maybe the Piraka storyline would have started a year earlier.
EddyGould wrote:Thank you for answering my questions, Mr. Farshtey.
1) What are the origins of Mata Nui locations names? Like Motara Desert, Fau Swamp and Kumu Islets. I know many of these names were taken from Maori language, but what is the storyline explanation? Are they the names of various beings(like Mount Ihu, Naho Bay and Tren Krom Break) or just Matoran words meaning the same("Fau" means "Swamp", "Motara" means "Desert", etc.)?
2) What happened to mutated Muaka and mutated Kikanalo after all? Were they healed by Rahaga?
3) Is the Bionicle multiverse connected to the main LEGO multiverse?
1) Both. As with humans, Matoran turn to a lot of different inspiration for naming things.
2) Not that I know of
3) Not to my knowledge. While I believe a BIONICLE figure showed up in LEGO Movie someplace, general LEGO Company policy is that buildable action figures cannot interact with minifigures. Given that, it makes no sense for us to connect the universes if they cannot cross paths.
ScribeGT6817 wrote:
tuvok9597 wrote:Hey Greg, I have another question:
Is it posible for their to be more than one "Judgment Cannon" in the MU?
In this case, I would have to defer to the fan who created the JC. Based on the history they supplied, it does not sound like something there would be more than one of.
Ahh.
I have another question:
One of my freinds wants to know why you are not involved with the the second Bionicle genaration.
I have a few questions mostly relating to Energized Protodermis and/or Destiny. I'm not sure if they've been answered before, but I've seen no mention of them anywhere I could think to look.
1. Does the Energized Protodermis Entity predate the Great Beings, or just their arrival on Spherus Magna?
2. Does it predate Annona?
3. The EPE spoke of Destiny in Maze of Shadows. Where did it get this concept from? Did the Great Beings borrow it from it, or did it borrow it from them, or did they each come up with it independently?
4a. Some suggest that Destiny within the Matoran Universe acts as a sort of algorithm within Mata Nui's functions that determines which Matoran will become Toa. Is that more or less how it works?
4b. If so, is the function of Turaga to select Matoran for Toa-hood? This is given the fact that 4 of them had future Inika as right-hands, one had him as a left-hand, and one selected her for a Kolhii tournament.
4c. Coming off that, could Kolhii be related to the process as well? I ask because every single Matoran to eventually become a Toa on Mata Nui was a part of the MNOLG2 tournament.
5a. If Energized Protodermis is so random, how come all the Toa Nuva had similar transformations, to say nothing of the Protocairns?
5b. What was the Energized protodermis in the Bahrag's nest for? Was it a trap for anybody who might fight the Bahrag? Was it what the Bahrag used to create Bohrok Kal?
6. It seems pretty clear to me that Destiny's hand is guiding things, at least a little, but that brings up the question of alternate universes. Was destiny simply different there, or was there an error? Is there a universe in which not all of the Toa Nuva were transformed? What are the limits to Destiny, exactly?
Dear Mr. farshrtey
First thank you for doing this the canon has been exspanded greatly because of this forum.
1: since the Baterra are robots could a toa of lighhtning deactivate them by removeing the electicity in them?
2: could a toa with the mask of biomechanics control them since Baterra are not sentient and could not interfere?
3: if a glatorian was to add "enhancements" to his head could he or she potentially be able to use kanohi?
4: before you stoped writing the seirals did you have any new charecters in you pipeline?
5: if so, what would they have been like?
6: okay. so we know that the mask of time is canon in gen2 then the other day i whent to BS01 the other day and it said the anchient name for it was "vahi" do you think it is a came or intetional?
Thank you for your time.
Hi Mr Greg
1. There is an alternate dimension where the Great Beings have named the Great Spirit Robot: Makuta instead of Mata Nui. I wonder if this alternative version of GSR was created for the same reasons as the original GSR or it was created to destroy worlds instead explore worlds.
2. If the GSRM is evil, What is the appearance of the Great Spirit Robot Makuta? Because it was said that the Great Beings of the main universe didn't gave to the GSR a scary appearance so as not to terrify everyone who saw it. If Makuta was created to destroy/conquer worlds he must have undoubtedly a more intimidating appearance.
3. The Brotherhood of Makuta exist in the reality of the Great Spirit Robot Makuta? If so, they are with Makuta or they are against him like the brotherhood of the main universe? But this time, their leader is called Mata Nui instead of Teridax?
I have a question about The Awakening. According to BS01, none of the MUians were given full sapience until after the robot launched, and that even when the toa mata were defending the matoran in karda nui, they weren't fully sapient.
1. the actions of many characters in the story during that time period don't really make sense if they weren't fully sapient at the time - i.e. hydraxon's personality while training the mata, the toa's reactions to that training and personalities they had, helryx's motivations and actions, including the formation of the order of mata nui to replace hand of artakha, etc.
2. since the toa mata were in stasis for all those years, they wouldn't have been able to get the "update" if you will, granting them sapience.
3. given this, wouldn't it make more sense for the Awakening to have happened before the robot launched, and that characters such as the toa mata were given full sapience almost immediately after creation (if not during/before... perhaps upon the creation of the mata is when velika did it. we know that artakha needed materials from the great beings to make toa, so perhaps velika is the one who supplied him with those materials when making the mata, and then velika used that opportunity to make everyone sapient, starting with the toa mata.)
4. actually, as i'm writing this post, i think that last idea about the awakening starting with the creating of the toa mata makes the most sense of all, given what we know. it would be weird to have an entire chunk of story be about non-sapient characters, for one thing, and if they weren't sapient, then we're left with a plot hole in the mata, and them not being sapient, but somehow managing to gain sapience while in stasis.
5. furthermore, (wow, sorry this is getting so long) it would be pretty great to have the main characters of the entire line be the focal point for a rather important plot point in-universe.
maletoaofwater wrote:I have a question about The Awakening. According to BS01, none of the MUians were given full sapience until after the robot launched, and that even when the toa mata were defending the matoran in karda nui, they weren't fully sapient.
1. the actions of many characters in the story during that time period don't really make sense if they weren't fully sapient at the time - i.e. hydraxon's personality while training the mata, the toa's reactions to that training and personalities they had, helryx's motivations and actions, including the formation of the order of mata nui to replace hand of artakha, etc.
2. since the toa mata were in stasis for all those years, they wouldn't have been able to get the "update" if you will, granting them sapience.
Just a quick answer -- we talked about Matoran gaining sapience as a result of what Velika did ... not Toa. We never said the Toa did not have it from the beginning.
tuvok9597 wrote:
ScribeGT6817 wrote:
tuvok9597 wrote:Hey Greg, I have another question:
Is it posible for their to be more than one "Judgment Cannon" in the MU?
In this case, I would have to defer to the fan who created the JC. Based on the history they supplied, it does not sound like something there would be more than one of.
Ahh.
I have another question:
One of my freinds wants to know why you are not involved with the the second Bionicle genaration.
The BIONICLE team decided to go in a different direction and bring in a writer who was new to the franchise, since it was a reboot.
lightamongshadow911302 wrote:I have a few questions mostly relating to Energized Protodermis and/or Destiny. I'm not sure if they've been answered before, but I've seen no mention of them anywhere I could think to look.
1. Does the Energized Protodermis Entity predate the Great Beings, or just their arrival on Spherus Magna?
2. Does it predate Annona?
3. The EPE spoke of Destiny in Maze of Shadows. Where did it get this concept from? Did the Great Beings borrow it from it, or did it borrow it from them, or did they each come up with it independently?
4a. Some suggest that Destiny within the Matoran Universe acts as a sort of algorithm within Mata Nui's functions that determines which Matoran will become Toa. Is that more or less how it works?
4b. If so, is the function of Turaga to select Matoran for Toa-hood? This is given the fact that 4 of them had future Inika as right-hands, one had him as a left-hand, and one selected her for a Kolhii tournament.
4c. Coming off that, could Kolhii be related to the process as well? I ask because every single Matoran to eventually become a Toa on Mata Nui was a part of the MNOLG2 tournament.
1) The EP involved in the Shattering was part of the planet from its formation. Whether that EP was sapient is unknown.
2) See answer to #1
3) Destiny is a fairly universal concept
4) Not going to answer this .. not everything needs to be explained
4b) Turaga do not know which Matoran are destined to be Toa, in general. They can make educated guesses, but they are not privy to which Matoran have Toa power in them.
4c) Thatr's only because they were the known Matoran to fans. That's why we chose them.
5a. If Energized Protodermis is so random, how come all the Toa Nuva had similar transformations, to say nothing of the Protocairns?
5b. What was the Energized protodermis in the Bahrag's nest for? Was it a trap for anybody who might fight the Bahrag? Was it what the Bahrag used to create Bohrok Kal?
6. It seems pretty clear to me that Destiny's hand is guiding things, at least a little, but that brings up the question of alternate universes. Was destiny simply different there, or was there an error? Is there a universe in which not all of the Toa Nuva were transformed? What are the limits to Destiny, exactly?
5a) Because they shared similar destinies
5b) The assumption is it had something to do with Kal creation
6) According to some of our own modern physics theories, the possibility exists of billions of alternate universes. In the case of BIONICLE (and most comics), alternate universes are created whenever a decision is made -- a new reality comes into being in which the opposite decision was made.
Thank you for the answers, Mr. Farshtey, and also for not answering some. I'm glad you're keeping the mysteries!