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Re: The Great Eagle of Mata Nui and why we are trying to care
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lugnet.technic.bionicle
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Sun, 17 Feb 2002 01:57:20 GMT
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Elijah Meeker writes:
> Before I get started, here is a link to my Bionicle creations,
> including the newest, The Great Eagle of Mata Nui • <snip>
> He immediately declared that the Bohroks were /not/ mean and we struggled to
> find a plausible alternative story. We are currently trying out that there
> is a huge asteroid moving towards Mata Nui and the Bohroks are skilled at
> destroying them before they hit the ground. All the Bohroks will need to
> work together as the current asteroid are only precursors to the big one.
> It's okay sort of a "Dragon Riders of Pern" thing, but not as compelling as
> it might be.
>
> We will continue our own, relatively peaceful, back story-rich Mata Nui
> story here. The Great Eagle of Mata Nui now carries Tohunga on adventures,
> but there is no question that our experience has been soured by the violence
> and destruction pablum that Lego settled into with the coming of the
> Bohroks. Less damage would have been done to the story had they simply
> ignored it.
>
> We bought Bohroks, and will buy Bohrok Va, but I will draw the line at
> firepower increasing exoskeletons (besides, I had already made him
> exoskeletons for Tohunga, who clearly need them more than Toa :o)
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> It's just sad.
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> Elijah
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> P.S. I don't have pics, but you can build a great
> Makuta/Tohunga/tentacle-thingy with the Alpha Team squid (4796) x2, Onepu,
> and some spare parts.
I agree that the canonical Bohrok tale is not too inspires. And my response
is similar to yours: the Bohrok have their own agenda which is different
from the Toas and that has put them in conflict. What the Toas call
destruction, the Bohroks call necessity. I have no idea what the details
are, though.
Ogel's squid and a few Tohunga bits make for a very convincing Makuta in his
John-Carpenter's-The-Thing mode:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=9286
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