LQ1998 wrote:ScribeGT6817 wrote:keplers wrote:1Hello again, Mr. Farshtey!
2I'm sorry I made two separate posts for my questions, but I forgot this question that I always wanted to ask:
3Did you come up with the storyline for BIONICLE before the sets were designed, or did you work with the sets are provide a plot for them?
4Usually what would happen would be this.There would be an agreement on a really broad storyline -- the Toa are going to be underwater, for example, and the villains will be this -- and then the set designers would go to work. When they were done, we would start deciding who all the characters were and what they could do and fleshing out the story more,
5If I'm correct during the Mahri you had a prototype of Nuparu who had a sword. That's why in the books he had the Aqua Blaster Blade, correct?
6That was six years ago, so I don't recall.
mj1343 wrote:1ok, ive seen so many minifigs in these 26 pages, but WHICH MINIFIG IS GREG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????
2ok, so your the dude who writes the ninjago papercutz stuff. ive hered that you did some bionicle stuff. *gets out ninjago comic book colection* i have all but 2 and 5!!
31: if you could write one comic series about another theme, what wold it be?
42: say your a minifig. what would you do?
53: do you like legos?
64: ......?
7ThAnK yOu!!!
81) Super Heroes
92) Huh?
103) If I didn't, would I work there?
Firox555 wrote:1I almost fell over in excitement when I heard this announcement.
2Anyways, Mr. Farshtey, I'd just like to thank you for taking the time to answer our questions!
3As for my questions: I might like to ask you some BIONICLE story questions, but for some reason, I feel that those would be more appropriate for BZPower and chatting with Erebus (I used to be a member of BZPower, and I still read the forums there).
4So my first question is this: Do you have a favorite BIONICLE set? Of any that was ever released? Do you have multiple favorites?
5As for my second question: Do you have a favorite Kraata power?
6Alright, maybe I'll ask one little story question that has been confusing me for a while: Is Sand an actual element? Does it exist in the Matoran Universe?
7Thanks again!
81) Not off the top of my head
92) I don't recall the kraata powers, that was too many years ago,
103) I don't think sand was ever made an official element, as I recall.
bestpilotinthegalaxy wrote:1Mr. Farshtey,
2Though I was never the biggest fan of Bionicle, I always enjoyed reading the comic books that came with the LEGO Club magazines. I am proud to say that I have kept every one of them since 2006.
3What I was wondering was:
41) Why did LEGO choose to end Bionicle? It was a good theme which had endured for about a decade, and never lacked fan support. It had potential to be expounded upon even more, thereby opening even more oppertunities for the LEGO company.
52) What was your reaction when you heard that LEGO was going to end Bionicle?
6Thanks for doing this topic for us!
71) Well, actually, if you look at both set and movie sales, both were declining at the time the line was cancelled. So that gave LEGO a choice - hope it bounced back and risk letting sales drop to a point where the line could never be brought back, or cancel it while there was still some degree of success to it in case they ever did want to do anything with it in the future.
82) That's personal.
ScribeGT6817 wrote:jaydog1616 wrote:1I have a Few questions for Greg:21. Is Ninjago & Bionicle all that you've written for LEGO?32. Do you plan to write for any other LEGO Themes?
51) No, I have also written novels for Hero Factory and as Editorial Director for the LEGO Club Magazine I have written about pretty much all the themes the last 13 years
62) Not really up to me, comes down to what I am asked to do.
7Thanks for Answering me!
8EEK! *Screams MJLaubacher Style
*9My Friends are going to be SOOOOO Jealous when they hear that i talked with Greg...Ffffaaarrss...*Gets Dizzy of Over-Excitement*.......*Passes out*
the_dark_0ne wrote:1Why did all the bionicles have long weird names?
2Because short, easy names usually were already trademarked by someone else. To get a name approved, you had to be able to Google it and not find many (or any) hits. Try it yourself. Make up some names, run them through Google, and see what you get. You wind up adding lots of k's and x's so that the name doesn't get hits on search engines.
