#i crave takua and krakua being like. twins. light n sound duo my beloved.

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for the robot setting id still keep it mysterious but not too much. maybe the characters arent aware theyre in a robot, but each location, region or landmark is very clearly to the viewer based on/meant to be some mechanical equivalent to internal organs, nerves, glands, etc, with maybe the brain being at first blocked off from the rest. You could have each major organ act as a cave with its own weird tech flora, fauna, maybe even specific denizens like skakdi, vortixx, okotans... None are automatically evil but each region could have its own main species' minor villain. the main one instead could be a literal virus - both in a biological and computer sense - that got in from the outside and is incomprehensible to the robot's inhabitants, a bit like mnog's eldritch makuta.

the toa could be as rare as early g1 and g2 make them out to be, limited to a few mythical figures and one team, but add some by bringing in some secondary elements - im partial to iron, lightning, plantlife, sonics and light. maybe even psionics. each toa could start off alone in a region unable to solve the current crisis on their own, thus having to get out and meet the others to get help (i.e. the ga toa is needed to drain the lungs, the ta toa is the only one who can lessen the inflammation in the stomach, and nothing will get done in the intestines if the bo toa doesnt handle the flora there first). if you wanted you could keep the matoran-into-toa aspect too and have the matoran be their own mystery: little skittish figures scuttling about in capillary tunnels scattered all over the universe, said to be the messengers of the cosmos' very soul, and yet they havent been heard of since the world has seemingly started to collapse on itself...

(im heavily taking inspiration from this post)

I feel like I've made a post about this before but now I can't find it. But I think a Bionicle G3 should:

A: Not constrain itself to G1 (or G2, but G1 is the one everyone wants) lore and timeline, whether as a continuation or reboot.

B: Hold off on the Toa Mata/Nuva, focus on a different cast (My vote is for the Inika/Mahri) for the most part while building up the Mata through in-universe legends and stories, and then introduce them later.

C: Not just try to recreate the vibes of 01-03 over again like G2 attempted, but also not try to launch right away into the overly complex geopolitics or overambitious grimdark epic of the Ignition Trilogy; but try to capture a little bit of the strengths of each era in a way that doesn't self-conflict. (Mata-Nui aesthetic and sandbox setup, Metru Nui balanced plot/character/world focus and mystery structure, Ignition dramatic elemental locales and higher stakes, (plus a bit of the broader political world on the fringes of the focus area, but again kept within reason) Glatorian/G2 vibrancy and unconventional newness)

D: Find a good balance of mythical and technological. Aknowledge the GSR or equivalent concept early on in some way because it is kinda inextricably fundamental to Bionicle but no longer a secret, but also bring back a return to the more mystical/eldritch vibes of the early years in addition to that.