“Hello (Greg’s TTV username)
We believe we have found an Unseen Winner of the Dark Hunter Contest from 15 years ago.
Below is a link to his original submission pictures and his original submission essay as well as a signed Dark Hunters book.
We believe there is some merit to this story, but unfortunately he cannot find his papers signed by you stating that he is one of the winners. So we were wondering: Do you remember this entry? If you do recall this, is this Phantom?
:Insert Dropbox Link to pictures, essay, signed book, etc:“
I quite like that. It might be best to show other contests that you’ve won, including letters, in order to show that Casey is legit.
Regardless, I think toaskello is the best person to ask Greg. He’s proven himself to be non-partisan throughout the whole thing. I’m still certain Greg will say something like “this is from over a decade ago I don’t remember lol,” so whatever.
I’m totally cool with that. You cool with that @toaskello ? I can put together a folder tonight and we can edit the text to include something about the Rahi contest too.
Oh, sure, if everyone else is alright with that I’d be honored, lol.
I don’t feel there’s any need to rush things since Greg isn’t currently answering questions, but I’d be happy to post the question as soon as everyone agrees on the wording.
Was reading through the ask Greg posts and found this on our very own forum, thought it might be pertinent to drop it here:
Of course, Phantom didn’t actually appear in the DH book, but was introduced later in the encyclopedia, so some degree of extra uncertainty is there. Still felt this was relevant, though.
Really though, can we get a TTV member to email Greg about this once we get our draft done? He hasn’t been active on the Ask Greg section for a while now, and I think “Long lost canon Bionicle character” is more then worth TTV involvement
The extremely optimistic side of me says it’s because he’s trying to distance himself from the Bionicle community while he’s developing Bionicle G3.
Though, the pessimistic side of me says it’s because he’s trying to distance himself from the Bionicle community.
Since Greg hasn’t visited the site since March, his absence it more likely due to the pandemic if anything. As for why covid prevents him from posting on a fansite, I don’t know, but the timing lines up.
I hope Phantom gets canonized, but keep in mind the Dark Hunter contest was a decade and a half ago. He may feel he is unable to officially confirm it.
Because they sorta got overlooked with the rest of the on going conversation, and also because the image file itself is bigger than the limit. Perhaps if cropped into for different images, it might work. I believe it’s being handled.
I agree. I really believe this is something that Greg needs to be reminded of on the “Ask Greg” topic. It’s a worthy question that needs to be answered. A blast from the past unearthed; even if it isn’t canonized. It’s worth trying so Casey can be at peace.
I really don’t think this is Phantom, but it is definitely an accidental exclusion from the book. If we look at Primal’s entry essay vs the entry in Dark Hunters, very little is changed. This MOC’s entry essay shares a single detail with the entry in BEU. That tells me that this isn’t Phantom.
The reason I think it’s so different is because of a 2 year gap. Even a one year gap, along with the photos and essays being destroyed means Greg and the team couldn’t reference the original to make sure it it matched up. However even if this isn’t Phantom I do agree that it’s probably one of the missing 2 entries.
Also I brought this up in the ask, perhaps it’s because of legal issues that they had to alter it enough to be legally distinct, since they never did use his essay and character in the book.