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Re: Where did these names come from?
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Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:23:59 GMT
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OK, thanks for the references.

I'm all up to date now.

I would have seen all this Maori controversy if I had not actually been in
Polynesia at the time.

In my opinion they (the tribes claiming damages) are claiming far too much
specificity. This isn't even on a par with the recent Basmati  trademark
suit (a multinational company trademarked Basmati for basmati rice) because
the Bionicle character names are awfully generic.

Still, I wonder if there are not some inside jokes left to discover...



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  Re: Where did these names come from?
 
(...) Ah! I see you haven't been frequenting the .bionicle group, have you? For shame! If you hadn't *INSISTED* on going off, getting married, and having a honeymoon recently, you would have seen this: (URL) this: (URL) how 'bout a little of this: (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)

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