looking like mass-produced toys of a certain complexity and price point was LEGO’s limitation, not ours, and not a part of canon.
The canon visual designs are a result of lego limitations. All of the Toa have gears on their backs in comic #1.
No reason why such an ancient / significant character couldn’t have acquired extra clothing / adornments like a hair-like headdress.
Some official characters like vezon do have capes. The clothing here is fine. Long hair on females in fiction is typically a sign of youth so the hair or thing representing hair doesn’t work here imo.
Worrying minutely about their appearance seems like the sort of thing a no-nonsense character wouldn’t do, unless it impacted their goals.
It’s not worried about minutely, the horns are very different in size. Helryx’s goal is to lead a secret group. Her goal as leader is to act and look professional so her followers can take her seriously and having one comically large horn doesn’t fit.
Or age. An old person with long hair (and a beard if it’s a guy) is a trope too.
I dunno, if I see someone with one horn broken off, I don’t think “that looks silly”, I think “they’ve really been through Karzahni”.
(Though it does raises the question of whether breaking off a horn counts as breaking the mask and would render it non-functional. Maybe it was made that way specifically?)
breaking off a horn counts as breaking the mask and would render it non-functional. Maybe it was made that way specifically?)
It wasn’t broken, the small horn still has a point on it. One of the horns was replaced or the creature that had the horns had them that way to begin with. Or the horns were just cast that way when the mask was forged. But whatever, the contests are over, Greg got laid off, it’s just a bad situation all around.
It’s commonly said by some that the set designs are “highest canon” (excluding Greg statements). So many people think characters look exactly like the toys in-universe.
But a more accurate wording would be “those elements of the sets that are not a result of toy limitations are canon”. For example The Great Archives summarise it as
The LEGO sets. Certain visual details about the LEGO sets (weapons, masks, colors, etc.), including the system play sets, take highest precedence, even over movies and written story [9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]. […]
A reasonable interpretation of this is that sets tell us that Tahu is a red robotic humanoid with a particular sword and mask, but he doesn’t necessarily look like he’s made of LEGO in-universe.
The rest of the canon tells us details like “Tahu is biomechanical”, “Toa armour is removable” etc. which conflict with non-canon aspects of the sets.
(As an amusing side-note, even the exact set colours often aren’t canon. It can be inferred that the Metru and Mata colour palettes look the same in-universe. Meanwhile the ceremonial gold on Iruini is a different colour in canon to the natural Ta gold on Lhikan according to Greg.)
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Fun - that’s the entire point of these.
There’s be some rules to prevent eight-foot rainbow parts collections with the name Tuyet slapped on, and I’d most likely adopt the majority of TTV’s custom mask policy, but overall I just want these to be as fun and as creative as possible - no torso mandates, no random scrutiny on the minute details, just people voting and building what they think is the coolest/most appropriate depiction of the character.
Plus, you get a WHOPPING TEN US DOLLARS in LEGO credit to fuel that [insert lego theme] addiction we all know you have. Yes, you, reader. I’ve seen your purchase history.
The details are still being finalized, but the short version is:
Free-for-all with MOCs and art all together
Only restrictions from published material (so not Greg quotes- people can vote based on those, but no disqualifications)
Post entry on any site, submit via Google doc
Voting via Strawpoll (ranked choice)
Initial planned characters/beings are Tuyet, Bota Magna Dinosaurs, Yesterday Questers, Rahi Nui, Varian, Marendar (over the course of the next year or two)
I’m excited! Hope to see some cool MOCs and art come out of this
Just a little thought process I my tired brain has at 1a.m.
Would there be interest/could it have potential to make a SCP-like thing with the Metru Archives? I mean, now that we derail from strict canon anyway this could be the place to just get creative. That could even come with the pro that there is no need for a competition, because the archives have room for all of them.
Such a project would need less strict moderation I think.
And if a joke category is included the meme potential would be endless.
Someone could host a community project for that. It doesn’t have to be a big thing; anyone can host that kind of collab (though one would have to have the master trust level in order to host it on this site)
I’m a fairly prolific author on the SCP Wiki. While I do think this could be a good idea, introducing it foremost by saying it would “need less strict moderation” leaves a real bad taste in my mouth. The SCP Wiki has a ton of moderation and review systems that keep the site from going south, both writing quality-wise and userbase-wise. Anything trying to replicate its formula would need a level of moderation to that effect in order to neatly function.
I think they’re talking more about subjectivity when canon descriptions are vague. I think that the Helryxs brought up are “disturbingly frail” enough, but there is a completely valid, though fairly subjective, argument that only Hoseryx was actually frail enough to be canon compliant.
@Ghid , I’d be down for Ghidonicle, though I’d recommend having it be free-for-all contests, rather than having an art portion, for the sake of brevity.
Also, general question: Greg, once he’s no longer employed at Lego, can’t canonize winners anymore. But, is there anything to stop anyone who does still work at Lego from doing what he did?
