Actually, fan-fiction breaks copyright, so it is technically illegal. However, most companies don’t take much legal action on it because it would cost them money in legal fees. Since Lego owns Bionicle, they can take any inspiration from fan-fiction they want to and use it themselves. They would just be taking back something someone stole.
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Wait a second. Huge flaw with that logic. Greg has said numerous times that he doesn’t read fanfiction so as not to get accused of copying someone else’s work. Yet he works for Lego.
Also, fan fiction only really breaks copyright if used by the author for a profit.
In other words, fan-fiction does not have a copyright, but the ideas in it are technically the “intellectual property” of the author.
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Sometimes…
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Wait a second. Huge flaw with that logic. Greg has said numerous times that he doesn’t read fanfiction so as not to get accused of copying someone else’s work. Yet he works for Lego.[/quote]
That is Greg, not the current story Bionicle story team.
True, but if a writer couldn’t use any concepts that a fan verbalizes before the writer can, then that would block the writer from being able to continue their story. In any legal case between the author of a franchise and a fan-fic writer, the author would win, simply because the fan-fic writer took the author’s “intellectual property” first.
Technically it already is, because if its a mask of time, it would have the ability to hop between time frames, and every dimension has a time frame.
I think far too many are just applying too many powers to the Vahi Simply because of its title. The Vahi can only give the user the ability to slow down or speed up perspective time. No more. You cannot use it for time travel, much less inter dimensional travel.
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to be fair, the canon powers of the Vahi are godawful, so I don’t blame people for trying ot give it better ones
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Indeed, the canon Vahi massively underwhelms, but people are still attributing it any power they see fit so long as it kinda relates to time.
The point of the fan theory section in Sherlock was to humorously show that people were being ridiculous and overthinking it. I’ve definitely seen much of the same in regards to the reboot argument.
Nah, not really. 
… no?
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Yes. The Gen 1 Vahi can only do that. This is Gen 2, a totally different universe. Things aren’t necessarily the same here.
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Oh
My god
No. Just no. I’m going to refrain from commenting on that anymore than:
No.
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It could also be an integrity thing like he doesn’t want to copy someone’s work by principle.
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Nah, it’s a legal thing.
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My theory for the mask of time is that there is an upper piece to it that controls space, as the Vahi looks like half a mask.
I think LEGO is leaving the Vahi’s powers as more open-ended subject, and perhaps different people can access different powers depending upon who they are.
And you always have to remember that Bionicle is suppose to be geared toward children, so I don’t think LEGO is overly concerned about being “Scientifically accurate.”
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So far, the only vahi power we know of in gen 2 is that it summoned the Toa.
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The vahi didn’t even do that, that was the protectors.
Both Vakama and Tahu only ever accessed the same power. There’s no real evidence towards that.
It doesn’t matter about scientific accuracy, if you have one power, you can’t suddenly have five hundred others. The ability to change the speed of relative time does not in any way mean that you can time travel.
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well, unless the story team decides to retcon something, I’m fine with the current plans
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Both Vakama and Tahu only ever accessed the same power. There’s no real evidence towards that.[/quote]Again… I guess it’s possible that things work differently in G2… but I’m inclined to agree with you, Bio.
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And you always have to remember that Bionicle is suppose to be geared toward children, so I don’t think LEGO is overly concerned about being “Scientifically accurate.”
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It doesn’t matter about scientific accuracy, if you have one power, you can’t suddenly have five hundred others.
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>makuta
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Makuta still had an established set of powers though. Sure, he had a lot, but they were still established. Nothing he ever did broke those rules.
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Yeah, I was joking.
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