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[slayerscake]

This whole scene was fucking awesome

they did a great job adapting this

[teridax467smocs]

Day 21: Rhinoceros

Do you recognize the insp?

[ohlookitsanartist]

"Passing the Torch"

Made in honor of the 20th anniversary of the second BIONICLE movie

[feyrien]

Episode 5 was perfect and absolutely a GREAT WAY to start my day. HOWEVER, I fear we will never see the moment where Nott uses “Bren” as her fake name and the sheer look of confusion and horror on Caleb’s face.

[robot-thighs]

hey quick question why did they squarsh Vakama on the novel cover for LoMN

movie cover:

book cover:

help him

[boxturret]

Flexile Tarakava Spine, made Flesh

This is a followup to my post about the apparent design revision to the Tarakava you can see in the cancelled game Bionicle, Legend of Mata Nui.

I mentioned wanting to get the parts to make it real, and thanks to them turning the post back on, I did!

Its....not great. Its much worse than I thought it would be.

If you flip the kickstand around you can get an okay roaring pose, but its very wobbly.

Since the Tarakava is so hunched forward the whole build is incredibly unstable.

Also click hinges just like...suck. Doing this reawakened a lot of traumatic memories of trying to use them back when I played with legoes, and they're just the worst. Too stiff to be used in smaller things without tearing the build apart, too weak to be used in larger builds.

I just knew right away that the hinges wouldn't hold up to the quite strong forces the Tarakava goes through in normal use, but I didn't really consider the whole...hinges+human skin thing until I actually messed around with it.

Ouch.

So in conclusion, I am firmly of the opinion that as a physical build, this sucks, but as it, or something similar, is used in LOMN, I think its a "cannon" option for people rigging the model digitally to try it to give it some more flexibility while not resorting to making the spine a noodle.

Its dark out.

[ctrl-alt-tahu]

She, Her, Hers... Nidhiki?

2003 was the pinnacle of my childhood Bionicle years (in part because my childhood was rapidly waning) and I didn’t really get into the lore of 2004 at the time. I saw the sets and the comics and, indeed, watched LOMN, but I wasn’t into ALL the lore.

The upshot of all this is that I somehow got the idea, and I think it was directly from watching the movie, that Nidhiki was female.

I never got the set and I got progressively less interested in Bionicle until about 2009, when I lost interest pretty much completely.

We are now in the Year 2021 and I'm in the midst of my Bionicle Renaissance and I'm watching LOMN on YouTube and memories of this come back. And if I mentally squint watching that movie, I still see it.

I know too much lore now to default to this, but it still kind of fascinates me a piece of memory (and, to tell the truth, once I was reminded of this, I began to have memories of insistent small children--my little brothers--telling me Nidhiki was a "he").

I think it was a triangulation of three things that made me see Nidhiki = female.

1. Spider. Spider isn't definitively female--even in the pop culture of the day, Aragog was only a few years old--but as a Tolkienist, big evil spiders mean Ungoliant and Shelob: female.

2. Green. You might think "green in Bionicle should mean Le, should mean make," but since Nidhiki wasn't part of a set of six, I didn't associate him with the Le-Matoran. Instead, green (particularly on a narrow head with sort of a medieval headdress/witch's hat crest behind it) made me think witch and witch magic. Blame the Wizard of Oz, I guess. And, honestly, I still like the idea of a green spider-witch.

3. Nidhiki doesn't really interact with anyone other than Krekka. I know, there's some exception to this, especially Lhikan at the beginning, but there isn't much mention of HIM, mostly just talking TO him. The main third-person reference that I can think of is Krekka saying "get Nidhiki." Overall, this third point probably says more about how much active attention I was paying to LOMN than about the movie itself. The main point is that Nidhiki isn't talked about in the movie enough to have the misconception beaten out of me.

So... having this misconception as an artefact of my younger Bionicle self, do I work it into my alt-canon?

Part of me WANTS to: the whole alt-canon idea is to shoehorn as much how-I-actually-played-with-Bionicles into a cohesive whole, and even besides that, a spider-witch fits exceptionally well into the leanims-fantasy-not-sci-fi vibe I'm going for, but...

While I'm willing to go nuts restructuring the history and the geography and the magical apparatus, I haven't (yet?) changed personalities yet. And while it might be fun to see if I could keep as much of the original Nidhiki's personality as possible in a totally changed context, that wouldn't fit with what I've done otherwise.

In particular, it would either blow up Nidhiki being a former Le-Toa or my emerging idea that the she/her/hers pronouns are used specifically of the Ga-tribes amongst the Matoran/Toa/Turaga. I'd either have to abandon this pronoun structure or change Nidhiki's backstory.

(Also possible: Nidhiki WAS a Le-Toa with standard pronouns, but his pronouns became her pronouns as a result of the mutations, since "he" was no longer recognisable as a Le-Toa, but as a new thing that... someone non-Matoran... Roodaka, maybe?... identified as "she?" Possible, but too ambitious for me, I think. And while interesting, it's definitely straying a long way from "keep the canon characterisation".)

So, it's probably a narrative dead end to explore this in the alt-canon, leaving it as an idea for the "What If..." files.

[toabastignika]

The same but the LoMN version I uploaded a video on my channel if you wanna build it :P