maletoaofwater wrote:

1Are you allowed to have an "ask greg" tumblr? I've seen a few of these pop up recently...

2Tumblr isn't something I am familiar with, but I think LEGO wants me to stick to LEGO sites. Tumblr isn't moderated the way this site is, and I can't post on sites where there might be kids under 13.

 

 

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1THIS. YES. i've been thinking about this for a while, mostly in relation to matoran becoming toa, but was unsure of how to express it.

 

2I think the straight answer would be no.

 

3discussing that, destiny is something that was a huge part of bioncile, & the reasoning behind lots. but there's no way that the great beings(or MN...mostly, anyway) could have ensured that certain things would happen certain ways... i.e the toa inika. why them? what if macku and onepu had gone with jaller instead of hahli and nuparu? (those were the original 6 matoran sold as sets in 01... why the swap out with those 2, Mr. Farshtey?) Anyway, i think each matoran is created the same... like there aren't a pre-determined population that can become toa, while others will never be able to.

 

4let's look at takua... in the toa empire AU, he clearly wasn't destined to become a toa. and in the main one, what if the OoMN took someone else to metru nui? would they have not been able to become the toa of light? i think he/she would have the same potential, if they were adventurous enough.

 

5another way of saying all that is that your actions, and the resulting circumstances, determine your destiny, i think. as an example of this, let's revisit the toa inika: their decision to seek out the toa nuva determined their destiny to become toa. whoever had gone to voya nui would have become toa... if jaller stayed behind and kapura went instead, i don't think kapura would have not been able to become a toa.

6And yet it has been stated multiple times that only certain Matoran are destined to be Toa. If, for example, the Inika were only destined to be Toa because they chose to seek out the Toa Nuva, then at no point prior to that decision being made could they have been destined to be Toa. And that does not seem to jibe with how it has been presented in story, that certain Matoran are destined from the start to be Toa.

maletoaofwater wrote:

1what was one the inside? circuitry and machinery, or just solid protosteel all the way through?

2Since the armor did not, to my knowledge, have power of its own -- the power was Makuta's -- it would most likely have been solid protosteel

maletoaofwater wrote:

ScribeGT6817 wrote:

maletoaofwater wrote:

1Is Varian still captive in stasis on Odina, or was she broken out somehow during either the great catacylsm or makuta's death?

2I would assume she would be found eventually by a salvage crew.

3for her BS01 page, could we say that she was found then, or should we say that she's still in stasis?

4You can say that salvage crews are close to stumbling on her location.

Macedonia wrote:1Another question that's been bugging me. I know that Mata Nui created the Makuta, Vortixx, Skakdi, and the Barraki, but just how many species in the GSR were created by the Great Beings and how many were made by Mata Nui?

2I don't have a statistical breakdown of this, but my guess is that beyond the Matoran, most of the other species would have come from Mata Nui (with Rahi coming from the Makuta). The reason for this is that there was a rush to  get Mata Nui launched, so the GBs created the species most necessary for that and then the rest were set to be created later

maletoaofwater wrote:

1Could we talk about the "element" of psionics? specifically its status as an elemental power... it doesn't seem like an element. water, fire, earth, air, light, plants, etc. make sense - those are all physical elements of the world. but "mental energy" doesn't really fit the definition of an "element". also, the abilities granted by this power are somewhat disconnected, and don't really fit the definition of what a toa can do with their elemental power, and how they do it. i've a little idea/theory that psionics is the result of a lack of elemental power... the matoran species (matoran, toa, turaga) was granted psionics abilities, but most of these are replaced with a given element, such as water or ice. when ce-matoran become toa, the lack of elemental power is just compensated by a plethura of other powers, including telekinesis, mindreading, invisibility, etc. This makes sense b/c control over "mental energy", as it's described, wouldn't give someone the ability to turn something invisible, which has been shown as a "psionics" ability. In toa who have an elemental power, you can see the vestigal remains of their psionics powers in their ability to form a mental link with another being... like gali did with takua on two different occasions. People (matoran, toa, etc) are either unaware of the true nature of psionic powers, or if they are, the still go by the status quo that simply calls them "toa of psionics".

2I don't agree with that theory. And I think if you look at a character like Professor X, psionics can work pretty well as an element.

maletoaofwater wrote:

ScribeGT6817 wrote:

maletoaofwater wrote:

1BS01 says that the toa of gravity killed by lariska was revived in the red star... which makes sense, but why was he killed in the first place if was just going to come back as if he never died?

2You could say that about anyone who died, though, right?

 

3Simple answer -- the red star was designed to replace "nanotech" that had broken in the robot. No one knew at the time it was made that the beings in the MU were going to become self-aware, have conflicts, have wars, break into good buys and bad guys, etc.

 

4Think of it this way -- you buy a smartphone and it comes with a special accessory that automatically replaces any component that breaks down or burns out. Are you sitting there thinking, "But what if the phone components have a civil war? What if one component tries to take over the phone?" No, you're not, and neither were the Great Beings.

5meant from the dark hunter's point of view... why would they keep doing that to people if they knew their targets would just come back as if they were never gone?

6Their target would come back having been murdered once. That experience is usually enough to get someone to behave the way you want them to.

natha9 wrote:

1natha9 wrote:

2will there be more ninjago series

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3I'm not allowed to discuss future plans.

 

4well then what is there to ask ?

5If you look through a few pages of the thread, no one is asking about future plans. They are mainly asking questions about things that have already happened. If you are looking for clues to what LEGO is doing in future, that sort of thing won't get announced here. It gets announced by LEGO Company in a much bigger venue.

mrcqm wrote:

1 Hello there Greg, I'd like to suggest something.

 

2The first LEGO theme ever that I have been following is Bionicle, I understand the theme is discontinued, and so is the website, but for the sake of the diehard fans of Bionicle, I have a suggestion that would leave both parties happy.

 

3 On LEGO.com, there could be a page labeled "Archives". When you click on it, it gives you a list of popular discontinued themes. Bionicle could be in that list of popular discontinued themes, and within the archive you can see a new mini-site for Bionicle (similar to Bioniclestory.com, but more for the purpose of nostalgia than explaining deep lore). All of the Bionicle videos including the very old ones, and even an archive of all the sets (including the obscure ones). While we're at it, could there also maybe be a complete list of all the Bionicle comics so people can read them? It used to be my only way of keeping up with the storyline, and I would love to see them.

 

4 The original lore of Bioniclestory.com (if it's no longer available) would be nice too. I can say that as an old Bionicle fan starting since 2006 to its unfortunate demise, I have sinse forgotten all the names and even lore of Bionicle. And would like to have a way, along with all my fellow fans, to revisit the website. Of course you can forget about games, but a list character bios, an overview, etc. Would be necesary. I'm not asking for Bionicle to come back as a theme in any way shape or form, but a way to remember all the lore would be great. I think I speak for every Bionicle fan when I say this needs to be implemented.

5I personally have no issue with this, but I also know very little about web design, or what other problems might be involved. I know in the magazine we are not supposed to show sets or minifigures that are no longer available for sale, because we get complaints to Customer Service from kids and parents.