Very few fans will argue with the fact that 2007 was a great Bionicle year. That doesn’t mean it’s without some shortcomings, one in particular being Hewkii Mahri’s set design with his missing hand being the biggest eyesore.
This has been a large criticism since he was first released but I’d like to propose a theory that might explain It’s not that he doesn’t have a hand, it’s that we can’t see his hand. I’m thinking it’s something similar to something like when Iron Man has an arm cannon.
He doesn’t have to cut off his hand to use it, his hand is just covered by it. In the same way, Hewkii might just have some sort of sleeve-type thing over his entire arm that the Cordak blaster is attached to. This might also explain why that arm is a different shape and color.
It was definitely something that upset many fans. But I would say the overall lanky, misshapen, asymmetrical arms along with the chains and underwhelming staff were the main gripes with this fella, but it definitely makes sense for this to be a blaster arm, the only thing that would confuse me is how would you explain the missing hand while they were aboard the transport.
Honestly, I like this set quite a bit, but I tend not to be very critical about oddities like this. Your explanation makes sense, especially since Hewkii is never mentioned to be short a hand. Doesn’t seem like he was actually supposed to be missing a hand, the set just doesn’t include it, for… some reason.
The best way to solve this is to ask greg.
Anyways I usually just stick a hand piece at the end of the arm and I never ask myself why the set didn’t come with one
I had to admit, I was expecting something much more radical when I saw the topic title.
hewkii lost his hand in that one cancelled book between 06 and 07 guys, that’s why it never got mentioned the timeline matches up and everything
But seriously, I actually like the explanation you gave. I’m in the camp of “This has never bothered me” though, aside from it being a somewhat amusing bit of trivia.
I just go with the way he was depicted in that one chapter of the Mata Nui saga. He has two identical arms there and I consider that canon for my Hewkii set.
