Being that the denizens of the Bionicle multiverse are all bio-mechanical, they naturally have metal in them, so magnets would make the most sense.
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yee
or the G1 characters jam a pin into their mouths and just hold it
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A Kanohi, while metallic, is also somewhat linked on a more biological level to its wearer. It may connect magnetically, but a mask is like a second face, not a separate entity like a helmet. Thinking about how they connect is made a bit clearer if you realize that Toa, Makuta, and Matoran alike are not just physically connected to their masks, but spiritually connected.
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most likely magnets
It’s magnetically attached…
They’re helmets. They are form fitting.
…there’s an axle…that they suck on, that’s it.
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I believe it’s been confirmed that it’s facial magnets
Which would seem to be an anatomical feature with other uses as well, such as storing tools by sticking them to your face
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I have a suggestion. Get a pencil, suck on it, then try and talk. Notice that the pencil moves whenever you open your mouth. Just because the sets use an axle to attach the mask doesn’t mean that that is how they actually stay on in universe. Do you really think that the great beings would design the inhabitants of the matoran universe that badly?
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Seems legit.
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Everyone is wrong.
It is alien magic, from the future, created by the Illuminati, in collaboration with a god…
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Most MU species have passive magnetic powers. It’s not only how they wear kanohi but also how they can store weapons on their backs. Early on in the story, LEGO figured that if a set didn’t have fingers, neither would they in the story. They just had stubs that could hold onto things magnetically.
Obviously this was dropped after Miramax decided that was too silly and gave everyone fingers instead.
But yeah, Kanohi are worn via built-in magnets. Or in the Toa Inika’s case, they’re living creatures that cling to your head like a facehugger with eye holes. If you pick them up, they feel warm and start to wriggle.
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Set explanations:
2001-2003: They bite down on the circular inside part of the mask.
2004,2007,2008, 2010: They chuck in a large axel rod in their throat which is located in the inside part of the mask.
(Both of the above versions were hold on in a similar fashion to how babies hold their pacifiers, just include the extended mask part as well)
2005,2006: The Masks were their faces, you remove that and all you will see is brain matter. (sorta like in Samurai Jack when they fought Celtic Demons)
2009: Besides the axel rod being sunken into the upper part of the head to hold the mask/helmet thing. It worked similar to a Roman Legion and Gladiator helmets (big surprise I know, since the years line was called Glatorians). HF would also used this type of connection until its end.
http://www.thefancydressexperience.co.uk/ekmps/■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■-3743-p.jpg
2015-2017: Finally hold like a mask by side attachments like most Tribal mask are (no Mouth piece, no axel being shunned into the head, no mask being the head, we finally got into the 21st century with actual belivable masks and how they should be attached)
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eiA5ZlZohjk/maxresdefault.jpg
In Lore Explanation: Its Magitek (Magic and Technology/Science interwoven to explain something which OUR normal laws of physics wouldnt), plain and simple.
http://i.imgur.com/gBKH3cj.gif
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This has been Tesla Effect, and now you know.
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Probably something along the lines of electromagnetism.
So Kanohi can only be forged with magnetic alloys?
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Presumably all metal protodermis is ferromagnetic, which is why Toa of Magnetism are so powerful.
Of course, most writers assume that if something is metal, it can affected by magnets.
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Well, there are many substances in the Matoran universe that are not magnetic, hence the existence of Toa of Iron. Toa of Magnetism can actually magnetize non-magnetic objects, if I remember correctly.
they stuff it in their mouths.And talk magicaly useing their mind
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I think this confirms everything.
Now, how they speak with it on since in the movies the masks either had moveable mouths or a grill that flashes mimicking mouth movement, that is a question in itself. The sets did not have this feature.
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We are creative.
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