Boidoh wrote:ScribeGT6817 wrote:Wilmerkardell wrote:1So, I watched TTV 122, so, what do you think about the polls recently, do they bother you?
2I've pretty much said what I had to say on the canonization debate, so no, the polls don't bother me. I do agree that "I don't want to know" should be an option, because there could be things the community just does not care about. But at the end of the day, BIONICLE belongs to LEGO Company, so that's who decides when we stop canonizing stuff for Gen1. It could be tomorrow, for all I know, or next year, or never. Until I am told to stop, I will continue to consider requests that are made to me.
3There are a bunch of fallacies running around now that I am pestering you and bugging you to canonize a bunch of stuff. This is false because for starters, you were the one that suggested that we should decide the final element of the Toa Mangai. People seem to don't know all the facts about this and seem to be spreading around incorrect information. Could you please give a statement on this?
4I'd like to say that as much as Greg was the one who suggested that, it was in the face of being asked a question every day of the week by you for details. Finally, he suggested that you decide the information yourselves rather than come to him.
keplers wrote:Boidoh wrote:ScribeGT6817 wrote:Wilmerkardell wrote:1So, I watched TTV 122, so, what do you think about the polls recently, do they bother you?
2I've pretty much said what I had to say on the canonization debate, so no, the polls don't bother me. I do agree that "I don't want to know" should be an option, because there could be things the community just does not care about. But at the end of the day, BIONICLE belongs to LEGO Company, so that's who decides when we stop canonizing stuff for Gen1. It could be tomorrow, for all I know, or next year, or never. Until I am told to stop, I will continue to consider requests that are made to me.
3There are a bunch of fallacies running around now that I am pestering you and bugging you to canonize a bunch of stuff. This is false because for starters, you were the one that suggested that we should decide the final element of the Toa Mangai. People seem to don't know all the facts about this and seem to be spreading around incorrect information. Could you please give a statement on this?
4I'd like to say that as much as Greg was the one who suggested that, it was in the face of being asked a question every day of the week by you for details. Finally, he suggested that you decide the information yourselves rather than come to him.
5Ooh yeah, I remeber that! He did say it, it was even written in the first poll.
diglett809 wrote:ScribeGT6817 wrote:
1A couple of people have asked me what I am writing now, since I am not doing BIONICLE. I just finished some short LEGO City stories for AMEET in Poland, which are now out with LEGO licensing for approval. I am about to start work on some Ninjago short stories for second half year 2015, also for AMEET.
2Where can we find these stories
? I have never heard of AMEET.
3Hey Diggs! 
4AMEET is a Polish publisher - they did some of the late 2009-2010 Bionicle publishing. I think LEGO is using them a good bit these days.
ScribeGT6817 wrote:
1Some people are theorizing that BIONICLE's return was planned from pretty much the moment of cancellation, and that HF was essentially filler until BIONICLE came back.
21) When the cancellation was announced to the story team in 2008, nothing was said about, "And then we'll bring it back in a few years!" While the door was always open to that, since LEGO Company still owned BIONICLE, it was not a sham cancellation. It was over.
32) LEGO Company's commitment to Hero Factory was real. It was never considered a line in place just to mark time. People worked hard to design the sets, to market them, to work on TV episodes, and it is kind of insulting to them to suggest that they were never intended to be too successful because BIONICLE had to come back.
43) Before plans for Gen2 BIONICLE were made, it was focus tested against other new concepts. I do not know what those concepts were, but it is reasonable to assume that if one of them had soundly trashed BIONICLE in the focus groups, BIONICLE probably would not be coming back next year. That is the purpose of focus groups. And I have never known anyone at LEGO Company to ignore focus group results because they really wanted to do something else.
5BIONICLE has some built-in advantages - prior success, for one -- but it still has to reintroduce itself to a large group of kids who probably are not very familiar with its previous incarnation, at all. That is why so many changes were made, to make it easier for kids to get on board, and why resuming old story would not have made sense.
6This makes good sense - it's pretty much the way that I thought it was, but I was never sure. Thanks for telling us, Mr. Farshtey. 
7I do really appreciate the work that LEGO went through to do Hero Factory, and I'm glad to know that it was never intended to be a "filler". That would have been disappointing, as I did enjoy HF (and bought several sets).