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It's probably really easy to come up with fake Word Of Greg, like all you need to do is get an aspect of Bionicle lore, come up with a reasonable explanation for it, and then discard that explanation and replace it with one that is completely unrelated and that either makes no sense or does make sense, but carries a lot of strange implications.

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YOUR REMINDER THAT Bionicle: Mask of Light IS FREE TO WATCH ON YOUTUBE HAS ARRIVED

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“Vulcanus” would have been a perfectly ok name if it was pronounced “VUL-ken-us.”

But it’s NOT.

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Bionicle in 2001 was a metroidvania

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The Toa of Iron (self moc)

Orange Hau made by forest_demon

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Does BIONICLE have an equivalent to coffee @expended-metaphor wants to know

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I can’t believe it took me 10 years to realise that the word “Piraka” is almost certainly derived from “piranha”.

They have giant pointy teeth, a savage temprament and ended up getting turned into fish.

I’m kicking myself.

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Isn't hydraxon basically bionicle's Shazam, and the one in 2007 was a matoran before?

never thought i'd see the phrase "bionicle's Shazam" but here we are.

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I did not set out to draw Kopaka but partway through sketching something to give super sentai vibes it started to look like him so...

Super Bionic Build Fighters: sub zero hero Kopaka.

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I've been re-reading the Hordika arc and something just occurred to me.

Do we really never get a scene where the Rahaga find out that Ketongu can't cure their mutation?

Like, that's a really big thing for their story, and yet it seems to go from them seeking Ketongu for that purpose, finding him and then just skipping ahead to a scene of Norik saying to Vakama he has accepted that he can't become a Toa again.

Did I miss something??

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A funny thing about Bionicle is that, because of the nature of the 2004-2005 arc and the fact that a lot of the backstory wasn't revealed until 2009, there is no way to talk about the storyline in both in- and out-of-universe chronological order.

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Nokama: Going to Plan B?

Vakama: Technically, that would be Plan G.

Nokama: How many plans do you even have? Is there like, a Plan M?

Whenua: Yeah, but Matau dies in Plan M.

Nuju: I like Plan M.

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^needs to take a long soak in hot lava

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BIONICLE: Ta-Wahi Travel Poster - [PROTOTYPE]

In a graphic design course dedicated to Adobe Illustrator, we were tasked to make vacation spot posters in the style of the ones from the 1950's. Our professor said it could be fictional, or even a real place we're fond of. Part of the assignment was to use the Symbol Sprayer, repetition of shapes, and the Warp Tool.

First thing that came to mind for me was a location in Bionicle, such as Ta-Wahi Beach, the first place you wake up to as Takua in Mata-Nui Online Game.

I wouldn't be surprised if the assets of MNOG were made in Illustrator and/or Flash (which I think the latter once belonged to MacroMedia at the time if we really wanna talk about feeling old).

Will I make other posters for the other Koro's/Wahi's? Um... it sounds like having them all together would be really cool, but if I do, I kinda wanna revise this current one and learn to have an easier time making them and/or possibly make them a little more straightforward and easy to make out. Definitely should go for the classic TradeMarker font if I do (since this isn't an assignment anymore, let alone one being monitored/graded by a professor who also teaches typography :p)

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Therapist: "Skinny Keetongu doesn't exist he can't hurt you"

Skinny Keetongu:

This was before he got buff

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