A few small Bionicle questions

[Eilrach]

@Voxovan

just fanart,

Wait does that mean the middle one is canon?

[Toa-of-Snow]

It’s concept art - so the canonicity is debatable. It’s more of like “what the designers were intending” rather than a strictly “canon” image.

[Pakari]

@Voxovan

2 of the pictures you posted are just fanart, I don’t know why you’re acting like what they’re depicting is how the islands were placed inside the robot in the canon. It’s just fanart.

Woah there, calm down! I’m not taking any of this seriously. Hence why I said:

@Pakari

Why does nothing in my fantasy robot story make sense???

All I’m pointing out is that there’s a lot of unexplained things involving the GSR, most of which are kinda silly or convoluted (a lot of Bionicle’s deep lore is).

And I’m aware those images are fan art, but I used them as illustrations of possible layouts of the inside of the GSR since we don’t have an official source. Not to mention, regardless of what it looks like, the Southern Continent is canonically in Mata-Nui’s lower torso region, and I agree with this statement:

@Toa-of-Snow

There’s no reason that the robot’s “heart” has to be where ours would be, although deliberately changing it without reason rind of messes with the otherwise consistent Biology metaphor that the whole franchise is kind of built around, so I agree it’s kind of a misstep.

I’m a storyteller, a visual one especially, so it does still massively urk me that the place named after the heart, that is called “the heart of the universe,” and serves the exact same function as a human heart is not located where it should be, thematically.

Also for some reason for me it really spoils the whole epic feel of 08/09 knowing that the Toa and Makuta are effectively fighting for the fate of the world in Mata-Nui’s bowels and not his chest.

@Voxovan

There was actually a Giant Waterfall, it even has its own page on BS01 and you can see it in some comics and Mata Nui Saga.

@Toa-of-Snow

Some helpfully detailed concept art from Faber shows that the original plan was to show that there was , in fact, a giant waterfall falling into Karda Nui (it’s actually the one that Matoro fell through).

Also, yes, I am well aware of the Karda-Nui waterfall, and that Matoro fell through it. I just think it’s very funny that there’s a Voya-Nui-shaped hole through the middle of the continent raining water from the sky.

That being said, in another world, that would have been such a cool way to hint at the MU being inside something from the very beginning. It’s another little nod like the Three Finger Islands.

[Jathru_Cranli]

@Pakari

Also for some reason for me it really spoils the whole epic feel of 08/09 knowing that the Toa and Makuta are effectively fighting for the fate of the world in Mata-Nui’s bowels and not his chest.

Would that essentially make the Makuta an allegory to Taco Bell?

[Pakari]

@Jathru_Cranli

Would that essentially make the Makuta an allegory to Taco Bell?

Indeed, the darkest of evils.