Beldums are cool.
I miss handing out Torchics to people...
The best part of save porting.
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Pidgeys are cool too.
There's just too many of them.
edited 19th Oct '14 12:51:48 PM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistSo? Not like I'm going to be buying any of this anyway.
Besides, the elemental abilities of the Toa work weird anyway. There's both a Toa of earth and a Toa of stone. Is there some line between earth and stone they just agree to keep out of each other's way? What if Pohaatu hits a rock so many times that it deteriorates into dirt? At what point does he lose his domination over it? Is it like a spectrum? Does Onua give him some wriggle room?
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I only noticed something about Bionicle the other year.
In the second film, at no point do the Toa actually use their elemental abilities. Vakama never throws a flame ball, Nuju never freezes anything.
It's obviously to put emphasis on discovering their mask powers (even though Vakama as an expert on masks would have known that from the beginning) but it kind of feels weird that at no point do they learn and master their elemental powers. They act like they're some sort of powerless failures for not finding their mask powers, yet they can harness the very forces of nature to their bidding.
The novelisations handled it better.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I remember there was an offhand line in the novelization that they burned through their elemental reserves to kill the Morbuzakh plant that they fought with the Great Disks, and they hadn't recharged yet when Dume!Makuta turned the entirety of Metru Nui on them.
Shame they didn't bring that up in the film.
Oh yeah, that's right.
Heck, even the Morbuzakh didn't get a mention in the movie, even though it was the entire reason they went out to get the disks. They kind of just... go after the disks anyway, risking their lives despite the fact that there's nothing to really be gained from the disks beyond a bit of street cred with Dume.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I just remembered something.
So anyone who watches or used to watch Yu Ghi Oh probably knows about the Heart of the Cards.
For those that don't know.
Its a bullshit shouen power that lets the current protagonist draw whatever card he needs at the moment be BELIEVING hard enough.
Well.
They made this into a game mechanic in recent YGO games.
But, it only applies to AI opponents thank god. But this also makes AI opponents INCREDIBLY hard to deal with.
PM box is Closed, Indefinitely Friend Code: 3368-4181-6850The Morbuzakh had a very small cameo, IIRC. There was one scene in that montage where Vakama was tangled up in a bunch of vines and awkwardly holding the Great Disk with his chin.
But, yeah, I liked the novelization a lot more, if only for the small details. In the novel, after Makuta absorbed Nidhiki and Krekka in order to bulk up and fight the Toa Metru, they mentioned that his battle armor contained bits and pieces of theirs, implying that he looked like that Ultimate Dume combiner.
But in the movie they just took his old Mask of Light character model and slapped wings onto it.
edited 19th Oct '14 2:15:03 PM by foxmccloud4387
My favourite novel was Time Trap.
It such a good story - unbound by any toys or films, it was able to explore the wider universe of Bionicle. You've got Vakama on his last mission as a toa, searching for the Mask of Time and going up against both Makuta and the Shadowed One to get it. He pulls off some of the cleverest use of his fire element I've seen, and basically shows that he's gone from zero to hero. Every major story in Metru Nui has been about him learning, and then ending with him giving up his powers. This story is about that little niche of time when he was at the top of his game. He spent so long feeling like the weak link or relying on others, and seeing him get a shot to have a solo adventure was great.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I never read Time Trap and only know the Sparknotes version. But I agree with you there - it's easily the best story that 2005 had to offer, and one of the best overall. (Really, all of that Hordika nonsense was basically filler, and aside from undoing Makuta's prison it really didn't contribute to an already-resolved arc.)
I mean, you know you're a badass when you can get the Physical God of a Big Bad to accept your demands by holding Time itself hostage.
edited 19th Oct '14 2:27:10 PM by foxmccloud4387

Probably will.
Because it's nice to not get pidgeys in wonder trade.
It was great.
edited 19th Oct '14 12:51:11 PM by ramuf