BIONICLE G1 Canon Contests Discussion & Questions

[Senit]

@FuzzMuffins

purple was never used at all outside of minor accents to earth

Coughcoughgravitycoughcough
ok it was never used in sets if thats what you meant

[Sharnak]

Earlier, I did plan to joke that we should do Nidhiki next so we can finally stop talking about what specific color of green was he exactly.

Then I realized we will never be free from the color discourse. No matter the character, it will go on till the end of time.

[FuzzMuffins]

@Senit

Coughcoughgravitycoughcough
ok it was never used in sets if thats what you meant

I’d forgotten about gravity haha - although we don’t even have a gravity toa option for canonization (that I know of)

@TheJerminator

If Marendar ends up being blue, then over half of these contests characters will be blue.

glances nervously at half-finished blue marendar MOC

[TTheLus]

@Willess12

Toa of Psionics should be strict blue/gold

Imo actually it’d better to allow any yellow/orange colors, or at least copper to addition to gold

[CMO]

@CMO

Can’t remember precisely what he said (I’ll try to find the quote after this)

Found it! Nothing groundbreaking though:
We haven’t discussed the merits yet, so keep discussing, but the way I’m leaning right now is
Staff of Artakha = No. Wasn’t his tool, it’s just another thing he made.
Nui Stone = Optional. It’s a large part of Tuyet’s role in the story, but it’s not something we’ve discussed before, as I said. I can see us allowing it, but not mandating it. I can also see us allowing it, with the understanding that it’d be semi-canon. And finally, I can also see us asking Greg if it’s alright as well. We have a lot of options.

@FuzzMuffins

I’ve always been a bit disappointed that psionics wasn’t purple and gold rather than blue and gold. Blue already has extra representation given it’s also part of lightning (and lighter shades occasionally as an accent to ice) and purple was never used at all outside of minor accents to earth.

(Also I just like purple and gold together and want more excuses to use it )

Honestly I just want the secondary elements to have more diverse colors to pull from like the primary elements do. If it were up me:
-Sonics: Actually I’m fine with them being grey. Just make the next Toa of Sonics primarily gray, as opposed to Krakua being primarily black, to make them stand out from Toa of Earth.
-Gravity: Purple’s good, so long as it’s primarily that and not another Krakua situation of being mostly black.
-Plasma: Add some blue in there! Pairs well with orange.
-Magnestism: Honestly don’t have any ideas for this one. People seem to forget that Jovan is, like, outwardly 97% gunmetal, so is pretty different from a Toa of Earth. But, I don’t like the idea of metallics being an element’s primary color. So… iunno
-Green/Jungle: idk, brown I guess? That’s plant-y.
-Lightning: Yellow! Looks nice with blue, and goes with lightning too (which is kinda yellow-y).
-Iron: Eh, they’ve got plenty of stuff.
-Psionics: Pink! Differentiates them from Toa of Water further, and pink is brain color, which is their whole deal.
(Some of these I’ve thought of more than others )

[Atobe_Brick]

@TheJerminator

I’d say the best option is a 2/2/2 split; silver Gaaki, gold Bomonga, and gunmetal Pouks and Kualus.

Or Pouks/Kualus could have metallic blue.

[vootcaboot]

@TheJerminator

As I said before, all blue, all the time.

I like the physical construction of your Tuyet, but she desperately needs a second color to break her up, as that’d help a lot with making her limbs more legible. Also please stop rendering with Pearl colors in Studio I beg you

[TTheLus]

@TheJerminator

Lego’s made a lot of blues. Even if we only limit ourselves to the shades in which Bionicle parts have been made, there’s still plenty of options:

Lego had 4 gold colors used for bionicle by the way, not one. So multiply by 4

[Senit]

No there are already 2 different golds and 2x4 =/= 4. So multiply by 2.
(and in stud.io there is antiqe brass which is kinda gold. There are: Flat dark gold, pearl gold, chrome gold, reddish gold, metallic gold, that weird gold that the mata masks had and (possibly) antique brass
overall: 6 golds (atleast, I might have forgotten some)

@TTheLus

used for bionicle

I’m blind. I didnt see that. But still its already two golds.

[GoodGuy2006]

@Ghid

How many people here would only want to see a Tuyet with some amount of silver?

si senorita

[Minirigby]

@Willess12

Unlike Emerald and Ebony, Azure is generally used to refer to a specific Lego color. Also so far, we’ve not had a case of a character described as one color with a wildly different color. Correct me if I’m wrong, we’ve never had a character described as Emerald who was actually lime green, or Ebony who was actually grey.

Important to remember lego’s azure variants didin’t exist at the time of Varian’s introduction. Also, if I’m not mistaken Zaktan’s been described as emerald and he’s metru green, sand green, and gold.

Also, Johmak’s armor was described as “ebon-colored”, not ebony, which is a seemingly small, but quite important difference, as Ebon is black, whereas Ebony is very dark brown.

edit: ignore anything already covered, i replied before making it to the bottom of the thread

[TTheLus]

Bionicle used those gold colors:

Metallic Sand Yellow (most of Flat Dark Gold on bricklink)
Reddish Gold (may be either Pearl Gold or Copper on bl, in bionicle used for krana only but was pretty common in KK, which is commonly used in Bionicle mocs)
Yellow Flip/Flop (idk what bl calls it, but it’s Mata masks gold color)
Warm Gold (the current gold, all “Pearl Gold” instances on bl starting from 2006)

And if we add up all Lego gold colors… Huh, that will be even longer list

[Senit]

@Senit

@TTheLus

used for bionicle

I’m blind. I didnt see that.

@TTheLus

Metallic Sand Yellow (most of Flat Dark Gold on bricklink)
Reddish Gold (may be either Pearl Gold or Copper on bl, in bionicle used for krana only but was pretty common in KK, which is commonly used in Bionicle mocs)
Yellow Flip/Flop (idk what bl calls it, but it’s Mata masks gold color)
Warm Gold (the current gold, all “Pearl Gold” instances on bl starting from 2006)

Yes I just learned Nothing new. I knew that already. I just didn’t see the

@TTheLus

used for bionicle

part.

[TTheLus]

Speaking of our ladies with faces covered by “no image” masks, I think that Naho will be pretty good Coral. And I agree on usage of Pink for Tuyet by the way

[RiderBD]

We need to be more tolerant of the character’s color.
tbh, toa’s colorset had changed every year

When toa of stone are came out with non-brown colorㅡgunmetal, keetonrange, and orangeㅡ we were obviously shocked.
(The reason why toa of stone’s color changed is because brown set showed the slowest sales except for Mata Pohatu.)

Look at Inika hahli. Blue and white.
This colorset is toa of lightning, but she’s definitely toa of water
(of course toa inika have lightning elemental power-)
Mahri Hahli, Blue-Green. Yes, she is Lariska.

Greg didn’t think much of color when he was writing, and his book included things that weren’t depicted in set.
Inika jaller with double swords, Mahri Nuparu with large swords, etc.

Set designers didn’t care about color setting, they just thought of a better-selling color.
so toa’s color changed every year.

Is there any reason why we can’t do it since Lego has already done it?

i think that although we ignore Greg’s words a little, we can use more colors that make our creations look better.

If it’s not too unnatural(like a pink-body toa of earth or blue toa of fire.) I think we can use more colors.(especially for second color-third-fourth etc…)
(Add as edit)
and alternative colors should be allowed, especially for parts that lack a variety.
For example, we can replace burnt orange with orange or keetonorange.

@Ghid

light blue/metallic gold Varian?

well, my orde is Light Blue and Flat Dark Gold, but I don’t think it’s impossible.

[KDNX]

@CMO

-Plasma: Add some blue in there! Pairs well with orange.

White and orange is plenty unique on its own. I don’t think plasma needs anything else.

@CMO

-Magnestism: Honestly don’t have any ideas for this one. People seem to forget that Jovan is, like, outwardly 97% gunmetal, so is pretty different from a Toa of Earth. But , I don’t like the idea of metallics being an element’s primary color. So… iunno

If it wasn’t for Jovan, I’d make Magnetism red, blue, and white.

[TTheLus]

@KDNX

red, blue, and white

Not really the best color choice. Especially when you’re building warrior, and not some fancy clowny stuff

[KDNX]

It’d totally work. Pick Metru red or Metru blue as the base color, do white accents. Simples.
Of course, this would mean we’d need a different color scheme for Lightning. I’d rather just axe the blue.

[RiderBD]

@TTheLus

Not really the best color choice. Especially when you’re building warrior, and not some fancy clowny stuff

It may be a little strange, but I think it makes sense, don’t we usually use red and blue when we express N and S poles of magnets?

[TTheLus]

Yes we do, but not everywhere and this is pretty much stupid straight-forward thing that also pretty much meaningless for GB to make this way

@KDNX I have better solution for you. Add as much red axles and blue pins as you can to your MOC

Edited for Double Post - BioKnight