#Po Koro

[licencetocolt]

Old Bonk Photo #14

A face you can trust.

[tiredspacedragon]

Ah, Bionicle. A series where we can say with absolute confidence that these two are the same character:

But it's entirely unclear if these two are the same character:

[kittyplushiezz]

WAAHOHOOHOO ship art trade with @cynameru !!!! I drew them miirena from higurashi :33

[jlalt]

AAAAAAAAAAAA I ACTUALLY FINISHED ALL THE HIGURASHI VOCALOID STUFF!!!!!!!!! IM SO SO SO GLAD WITH HOW ALL OF THEM TURNED OUT, ESPECIALLY THIS ONE!!!!! i need to draw hanyuu more shes so much fun to draw!! (plus i just love her regardless<3) honestly, this might be my favorite out of all my vocaloid higurashi redraws, but that might just have to do with dreamin' chuchu having such a great album cover

[jichanxo]

matriarch

[enigmaactual]

I'll be real, I totally get how 196 works on Reddit, but can't quite grok how it would work on Tumblr. Do I post whenever I enjoy a 196? Whenever I filter by 196 and browse? I'm sure I'm thinking too hard, and none of this is enforceable, but it's the thought that counts.

[byz-was-here]

Hewkii and macku are married in the sea Agori AU. I don't make the rules.

[kakusu-shipping]

I need everyone to see I finally, FINALLY made a decent looking cake, and then proceeded to throw it on the damn floor before anyone got to taste it.

[dontfindme445]

My bionicle oc’s moving to somewhere

(They are maize, not gold.)

Doka and his roommates before they moved from Po-Koro to a Little Sister Island.

[risingshards]

I really wanna do a comparison post between TOTK and Bionicle because at least one of the quest arcs is very Mata Nui Online Game

[makutaservaela]

A Remake of a comic I made a long time ago.

For context, in the Mata Nui Online Game 2, you can buy Kolhii balls from the Po-Koro Shop for 1 widget each, and sell them to the Ta-Koro Shop for 2 widgets. It becomes a pretty quick Widget hack.

Vohon hates every one of you who did this to him.

[matau-the-228th]

The red figure seen watching the Matoran from atop the hills and mountains of Mata Nui has been present since we first set foot on the island.

I have often seen him on the cliff above the Hall of Records in Po-Koro. I swear his armor looks shinier each time I see him, like it's slowly getting newer, somehow.

At first, some of us thought him to be one of the strange new types of Rahi that we have encountered here. Others thought that he was One of the Six Spirit Toa from the stories the Rahaga tell around the meeting-fire.

Rahaga Nokama has assured us that we would know when the Six Toa destined for our Island would arrive, and that this being was not one of them.

The Kai-Wahi Guard were never able to catch up to him. It was Kapura, of all people, who got the closest to him, but the red being still got away from him. Vakama just said Kapura had to practice more, whatever that means.

Whoever he is, he has not reappeared recently, ever since our newest Matoran, Takua, had been named my assistant and the new Chronicler.

Still, I feel as if he is here, watching us. Watching me.

...Even though I know he is not.

[coldgoldlazarus]

Yanno, there's something really interesting about the culture difference between Po-Metru and Po-Koro.

[thekingofwinterblog]

Continuing on with awesome concept art, that is better than what we got, here are the original concept art for Mata Nui's 6 villages/cities.

I love the Villages we get in the actual product, but looking over these concept pieces, you get the sense that what they were originally going for, is the idea that all of the 6 villages used be something greater, which now(Other than Onu-Koro) has fallen drastically as civilizations, thanks to makta.

Gali's mask plastered on the mountain over Ga-Koro is one of the most iconic things from Mata Nui Online, but there is something haunting looking at it as it's in the middle of what was once a bustling city in the mountain side, now completely abandoned, with it's railing almost all rusted away and nature having retaken it.

Meanwhile, as for Ga-Koro itself, you get the sense that it's old, and weathered... But not dead just yet. It still clings to life around a center, a decaying city that once no doubt used to be much bigger.

I'll addmit, the Ta-Koro we actually got was better than this concept piece, but the ideq of the Fire Matorans literarily carving out their city out of a small, active volcano pretty much sums up their entire culture in one picture, just as much as them building it in the middle of a lake of Lava does.

Ko-Koro in canon was easily the blandest, and this one isnt all that better... But i do like how the entire city is basically carved out of the rock so it lies protected by tge overhead of stone.

It adds to the theme of this place being a safe haven, shielded from the elements on this 23 kilometer tall mountain.

Le-Koro is just completely different, taking the idea of a jungle city, and just flipping it from the usual kind of cities in the trees we got in canon, and instead a city of coccons made from vines that form a city hanging from the mountain side.

Its great, and i love it, and then i remember that this city would have ended up destroyed by tge Bohrok swarms if it had made it to the final product... Though to be fair, all of these would have been destroyed eventually down the line.

Now Onu-Koro is interesting in that it's clear that the city itseld isn't all that important here.

No, just like canon, what matters is all those tunnels, which connects to a much greater cave networks that is this states lifeblood.

The city itself is just the apot where they converge, and even then, to access the upper levels where people actually love, you have to do so through the caves.

And finally, Po-Koro... It's basically the same, just alightly different layout, and a couple if mesas with a huge boulder between.

Not bad at all, and you can see it's easily the one that was changed the least between concept and final product.

You know something that really grinds my gears about the Bionicle Movies?

The designs.

Much and more has been said about the Bionicle movie designs, and how they look way too organic, they move clunkily, and there are way too many liberties with them compared to the source material.

This isn't exactly anything new, people have complained about the Movie designs for as long as we have had bionicle movies.

But you know the thing that just kills me about these designs?

The concept artists fucking nailed it.

THIS is how the toa should have looked, like someone took the original designs, allright lets try not change anything we don't have to, and the parts we change is generally the more abstract parts like the gears manouvering the arms.

Like its not perfect(Pohatu lacks his unique body build) but man this design is how the Bionicle films SHOULD have looked.

The worst part is, the actual movies took these designs, and edited them juuuust enough to make them look absolutely terrible, and missing the point of so painstakingly trying to recreate the sets into actual functioning designs withouth trying to just remaking them to fit into the movie rather than fit the movie world around them.

[weeb-polls-with-pip]

Autistic Anime Boys Prelims - Propaganda Division - Group 1

Propaganda:

Rintarou -

"Has a special interest in science and will do anything to indulge in it. Has many strange mannerisms and will only drink his favorite drink."

Baki -

"Special interest in fighting and doesn't give a fuck about anything else except for his friends. Kidnaps fucking George Bush and asks him if he can put him in the biggest prison in America because he wants to fight people there. Literally goes to jail for his special interest. Autism."

Yoshi -

"look at him. he is Autism: The Character. The game deals with how he was ostracized for "weird" behavior and it got down his self esteem so bad that he calls himself trash and if you look at how he struggles to interact with others i.e. low social stamina (game's hit points are literally his psyche), struggle to control his emotions intense passion about subjects of interest etc etc he reads as immensely autistic and his arc of learning to love himself and find people who love him for who he is is so. very important to me <3 my dear favorite autistic scrimblo.

also look at him. his design is the trans flag colors. what's not to love here!! he likes bunnies!! he made those bunny ears himself, even. in 1BeatHeart, he made cat ears for his friend. i love his 1BeatHeart design also because in that game he's an Adult and STILL unabashedly himself, showing that he took those lessons from his childhood to heart! an autistic adult having some degree of pride in himself, being renowned even if he's still seen as odd, and being content and having friends. aurgh."

Steve -

"Uses his autism for evil! Is obsessed with vampires and wanting to become one but has so many compiling issues that he eventually becomes a key player in a supernatural war. Took it as a personal betrayal when his best friend had to become a vampire to save his life."

Yuuto -

"source: trust me bro."

Hatchi -

"Has a special interest in food and often lets it cloud his judgement. Is very bored of life at the beginning of the story but doesn't understand why. Does things others see as strange or reckless because he thinks it would be fun."

Keiichi -

"He is surrounded by people who speak in codes and euphemisms that he cannot understand based on social rules that he is not privy to."

Ayato -

"evil autism (/pos)"

Yuzuru -

"he is best boy!!!"

Amuro -

"Being a Newtype is just space autism to me. But also he sucks at falling in line in a structured environment, would rather work with machines than talk to people, and is only allowed as a child soldier because he's the bestest at big robots."

[boxturret]

George's 1/10th scale Mata Nui Tour

This is a follow up to my previous post about a piece of concept art that depicts the island of Mata Nui as being 1/10th size it is officially listed as in most later maps.

I must first say that I was blown away with the positive reception that post received! I did see some concern that it was now too small, but I believe that's mainly down to how absolutely MASSIVE the final size is. A 90% reduction in size by no means makes Mata Nui small.

But I know not everyone has spent as much time obsessing over the size of Mata Nui as I have, so I decided to enlist everyone's favourite Ta-Koronan George to help illustrate how large this "small" Mata Nui really is.

I scaled the image of Mata Nui so that it matches the measurements on the side, so it is roughly 35km long and 17km wide. I also made a simple height map to get the Mangai volcano the appropriate 2km high.

I started out with just some simple pegs at the locations of the villages to first illustrate the basic distances.

George here starts out at the location of the iconic beach from MNOG and the end of QFTT

The beach is actually shockingly equidistant from most of the villages, Ta-Koro is closest at 2km, Ga-Koro is second closest at 6km, but the other 4 are all between 11 and 13km from the beach!

Here's a little animation to show the size of the pins, they're by no means small.

They had to be this big to be visible at all, which just goes to show how large the island still is even at 1/10th scale.

I did several shots of George standing on the edge of the Mangai's caldera. I extracted the villages from Bionicle the Legend of Mata Nui and scaled them accordingly, placing each of them where the village should be. See if you can spot them!

From the top of Mangai its 20km to the tiny islands at the very tip of Po-Wahi.

And 13km to the end of the chain of islands in southern Le-Wahi

The view of the Mangai volcano is quite impressive from the villages too. Even at this 2km height its still around 2/3rds the height of Mt Fuji or half the height of Mt Kilimanjaro.

My heightmap could use more work, the Ihu mountain range isn't really apparent, I was mainly focused on getting the Mangai at the right height.

Here's what it would look like if Onu-Koro wasn't underground.

I hope these visuals helped to show the size of the 1/10th scale Mata Nui. I really do feel it is more in line with what we see from most media and fits well with the story.

Even with this size there's one thing to remember: Raw size isn't everything. Terrain matters a lot. Its easy enough for someone now to walk a kilometre or two over straight paved roads, but considering that Mata Nui is a lush volcanic island, half the place is covered in a jungle full of massive trees and swamps, much of it is very hilly and steep, this isn't an easy place to get around in.

I'll leave you with two things: first is an old animation I made of a zoom out from Tahu on top of the full final scale Mata Nui:

This is the most I can really do with an island that scale, blender doesn't appreciate having a view distance in the hundreds of kilometres while also rendering something human scaled.

Second is a comparison between the island I've just shown you overlaid on top of the full scale.

The whole island itself has a footprint roughly the same as the full scale Mangai volcano!

Hope you all enjoyed George's vacation photos. Good night and/or happy May :^)

Slight addendum: A while ago I made this little sketch of what a view from the top of Ihu might look like, looking at all the regions. Just wanted to include it. good night