Perhaps he suffered a humiliating defeat against his former teammates and his mask was taken or he refuses to wear one by principle, gaining energy from the tubes built into his breathing apparatus instead. His head tubes have no stated function in the actual official lore, other than looking cool.

Sidorak also kinda gives the vibes of a disgraced ex-Toa. He's humanoid and his head is built around a Toa head piece. I can imagine him being a modified Toa who replaced limbs he had lost in battle with giant claws and a blade, and wears a life support system instead of a mask.

An outsider would look at Nidhiki and think "yeah, that's the spider king." Especially since before the Dark Hunters were retconned into being a separate organization, Nidhiki was at one point shown marching together with the Visorak spiders, serving the Makuta like Sidorak did.

This not a criticism of Bionicle, but it was always strange to me that the leader of the spider army was just some guy with zero spider design motifs because Lego had already used an arthropod-like villain design for an unrelated character a year earlier.

Since Vakama couldn't get the mask done on time, Makuta's plan was delayed and I guess the Matoran were allowed to go home. In the film's second half, Makuta orders the citizens to gather in the Coliseum again but this time there's no pretense of a sport match. They just have to, and they obey.

With the Great Contest being cut, it seems awkward that Makuta amassed almost the island's entire population into the arena when there's nothing to watch before the Toa show up. But the scene needed the Toa to be publicly humiliated, so the crowd had to be there for the plot.

The Akilini tournament scene was intended to establish that the Coliseum floor is made of rising pillars. This was inspired by head writer Bob Thompson's personal obsession with extreme sports and surfing. He was known to sneak away to go surfing instead of showing up to work.

Akilini is yet another example of the writers aiming too high with their ambitions. They wrote an entire rule set for the game that in the end was not visually depicted in any media. Not in the movie, not in any online games, not even a single panel in the comics.

This line receives no follow-up, we never find out what the Great Contest is or why Vakama had to finish the Mask of Time before it happened. The novelization provides a glimpse of what this game was like, but this brief scene didn't make it into the film.

Legends of Metru Nui has many lines that were solely written to set up later mysteries and world-building elements, but the single mention of the Great Contest is an example of the film referencing something that was meant to appear but got cut or altered during production.

WoS' first script draft, dated May 2004, already incorporated the notion of elemental powers into its plot, drawing a clear line of continuity from the revised ending of LoMN.

Despite elemental powers hardly factoring into LoMN's plot until the end, they become crucial to the plot in Web of Shadows, where Roodaka's entire scheme revolves around her wanting to sap the Toa's elements to free Makuta from the protodermis crystal the Toa trapped him in.

The originally scripted version of the Lohrak scene featured no elemental powers, with the Toa using their masks to defeat the beasts instead. We don't know which direction the film might have taken, since the fight against the Lohrak never made it into the movie.

Greg's film novelization sheds light on the rewriting process. In the novel, the Toa Metru do have elements. During the Lohrak scene, the book specifically acknowledges that their elements had been used up in previous stories, which ties the plot much better to the wider lore.

LoMN's 2003 script had the Toa defeat Makuta in a very different manner, weakening him with their mask powers and burying him under a pile of rocks. The combined elemental beam that forms crystalline protodermis around Makuta was not part of the plot at this time.

Toa in general defeating stronger enemies by uniting their elemental powers to create a protodermis crystal had been established at the climax of the 2002 Bohrok arc. So the ending of LoMN recycling this concept by having the Toa Metru do the same to Makuta makes sense within the lore.

Despite being a late addition, this finishing move does mostly work. The film's opening scene shows Lhikan projecting a beam from his hand to energize the Toa Stones with his own power, which at least foreshadows that the Toa Metru could also have such an ability.

The writers obviously changed their mind about this, but it was too late to adjust LoMN's script to show the Toa using elements for most of its plot. Only at the end do they suddenly gain elements to entrap Makuta with a united power beam. This seemingly comes out of nowhere.

The Nuva Cube, also from 2003, admittedly complicates matters, as it suggests that the Toa Nuva's elements were tied to the Nuva symbols that slotted into the cube, rather than to the Toa's own bodies. This goes against the 2001-02 premise, in which elemental powers came from the Toa themselves.

The non-canon 2003 video game introduced the Mask of Elemental Energy. Although it was accepted into the canonical lore, it has no bearing on the writers' intents, as this mask was never featured in any official story, merely in a fan-written canonized story contest entry from around 2010.

The specifics of how Toa used elemental powers changed over the years. The 2002 comics implied Gali needed moisture in the air to create more water. Later lore abandoned this idea in favor of Toa being able to create their elements out of nothing, using their own power reserves.

This would have been a giant divergence from the original 2001-03 saga, when the Toa Mata/Nuva's elemental powers were innate abilities. Even before their upgrade into Nuva, the Toa Mata's elemental control was part of their default powers, needing no outside power-booster.

The 2003 story treatment of the unproduced 2005 Lhikan and Nidhiki origin film makes this more explicit. In this story, Toa do not have elemental powers until they receive a power boost by the "Maka sphere", a special artifact given to Nidhiki by Makuta who wanted to corrupt him.

As shown by Gali recharging her water power in MoL, Toa can also replenish lost energy by absorbing them from their own elements. Yet the Toa Metru in LoMN never attempt this. They wait for their powers to slowly recharge automatically instead, which puts them at a disadvantage.

This doesn't line up with how power-depleted Toa are portrayed in Mask of Light, where they turn pale and faint. The Toa in LoMN never show such handicaps, they remain colorful and energetic. The explanation doesn't account for Lhikan's lack of elemental power either.

The explanation given by Greg is that the Toa had depleted their elemental powers during the fight with the Morbuzakh plant and the shape-shifting Krahka in-between the film's scenes. They had no elements left for most of the film, they were still recovering.

The Toa Metru don't use elements for most of the film. This leads to odd scenes like Onewa, the Toa of Stone, being dismayed that he's trapped in a cell rather than using his power over stone to escape within seconds. It's Nuju, Toa of Ice, who blasts a way out using telekinesis.

The Toa's lack of elemental powers in Legends of Metru Nui marks one of the biggest behind-the-scenes lore changes of Bionicle. It created such an obvious inconsistency that the filmmakers had to turn to Greg Farshtey, who then attempted to fix this plot hole in the books.

If this is legit, Minus Zero will be the second ever Japanese Godzilla film shown in Hungarian theaters, 38 years after Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla's theatrical release back in 1988. This could be monumental. godzilla.com/blogs/news/g...

The Legend Reborn also smartly used low-quality models to fill out armies and fleeing crowds. These are not errors because they're just meant to linger in the blurry background or quickly run past the camera, but they do look amusingly charming when freeze-framed.