@LegoDavid Setting it on earth is too on the nose. If this is meant to be a Bionicle successor, it should be tapping into the mystery of 2001 - 2003 IMO - before they went about explaining everything; that’s what I loved about early Bionicle - don’t get me wrong I enjoy all the lore behind the later years of Bionicle G1 but Lego themselves admitted it got out of hand and it limits the imagination of the audience. Having it set on earth and on a continent that exists severely limits the potential for that mystery.
I’m all for drawing parallels though; Antarctica-like island in a seemingly endless ocean under threat of climate change.
That is an interesting thought. Maybe on some planet farvaway, but with a cliche location, like alpha centauri. Albeit, I doubt ice could exist there. Seeing as it’s a system of 3 stars, and one known planet.
Why even a real location? They could just say “On the island of Arcta Nui, located in the Endless Ocean on the planet Spherus, in the Magna system.” Or something like that
True, that’s an option, but if Faber IS going through with a Climat Change message, it would make sense to make it a real place, Instead of somewhere fictional. If not, then it’s fair game at that point and anything can happen.
I get what you’re saying, but I doubt people are going to care about it more if it’s in some far away but real star system, or fictional place anyway. In fact, I feel like making it a fictional place could help the message go through undiluted. In my experience, when people feel like some piece of media they enjoy is directly preaching to them, regardless of if they agree on the issue, they get kinda annoyed. Subtlety is key.
Given that Bionicle usually takes place in “The Time before Time”, i can kinda imagine a scenario of Bionicle characters finding themselves on a planet that could be revealed to be a pre-historic earth, or some bionicle character who were put in some sort of cryo sleep or something a long time ago then wakes up on a planet that’s hinted at to be earth in the future.
… think a bit like the famous scene from the Planet of the Apes:
though, of course the bionicle characters wouldn’t have any way to know what the planet is called or who lived here. So it would almost be more like when humans in fiction finds some ancient alien structure that they have no clue what the structure’s original function was and can only speculate.
I feel like the use of Antarctica could be a red herring. It may just be a visual symbol connecting to themes of 3IONICLE or something like that; I think Faber knows better than to connect Bionicle to the real world in any way.
That’s my thought. I don’t think that’s what he’s trying to do, but I honestly feel all bets are off at this point. Whatever he’s doing, he needs to give a definite explanation at some point. Verbally or visually. There is always the possibility that he’s trolling us, but sincerely doubt it.
But seriously, if it is some kind of post-apocalyptic earth, there could be any variety of creatures here. Maybe zombie seals, or cyborg penguins. Or just fictional monsters, like ice dragons or something.
I’m definitely hoping it’ll be a different location with a parallel scenario, rather than straight-up being earth, even if it was past or future. Hard to say exactly what Faber may do at this point, especially since there’s also still the possibility he may fold it into his Rebel Nature project.
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