User blog:Echo 1/Legacy of the Toa Redux

So, this is a blog regarding the story choices of one neglected storyline of mine. Frankly, I've been thinking about this one a lot as of late, mainly due to some poor story choices with it.

Frankly, there's a lot of problems with the story that I'd like to fix. The characters were introduced a little too quickly, we don't get to see much of them interacting and what we do is rushed and uninteresting. Another problem is that I think the story got too complex too fast, something I didn't want to do. Legacy of the Toa was meant to be a soft reboot of Bionicle, continuing the old series but ultimately being an entirely new one as well. The antithesis of the current line. But I think there were too many connections to the old series and too few new ideas getting through.

So, I've been mulling over some ideas and I think I might start redoing this little storyline with some improvements and streamlining done to make it a little simpler while still maintaining a good atmosphere.

Idea Bucket: What's Staying and What's Changing
Basically, here's some of the stuff I've got planned.
 * Holding over locations from the original write-up. After all, the locations aren't really at any fault, and altering Spherus Magna would probably just put me a step further back than where I plan on restarting from.
 * Keia's character. She's going to stay in the story, but in name and origin only. Her element, personality, and role are going to change.
 * The overarching storyline. There was a plan for a story to bring everything together. I will not reveal what that is, but it will be staying.
 * The idea that there's been some sort of merger between the biologies of the Matoran Univese and Spherus Magna's natives will remain, and in fact become more of a plot-point. Because of Mata Nui's reformation, new-generation Agori and Glatorian take on increasingly more Matoran-like traits, and some Glatorian are even born Toa.
 * The Order of Mata Nui's role in the story. I think, instead of being a monastic organization, the Order's going to be changed to be the governing organization of Spherus Magna, almost taking on a Galactic Empire-like tone of bureaucracy and harsh governing, using non-Toa troops as enforcers with Toa Agents acting as much more powerful and assertive figures. Speaking of which...
 * Jadal's character. He will be an Order of Mata Nui Agent, but that is all I'll say there.
 * Doing away with the arc number of "six." As much as I know Lego likes using a certain number of sets (usually six heroes, six villains), I think the "collect-them-all" tone of Bionicle could be helped by relaxing that limit. Villains and heroes will have different numbers of sets in release "blocks," rather than waves of twelve.
 * Villains. Iblis may make a return, but as of now I'm still working on who the "lesser villains" will be leading up to the finale.

More updates may occur as I continue developing.

Help from Users
So that's it for the ideas I've got put down right now. But I could also use some help, and I'd love feedback or suggestions related to this project. Let's hope this turns into a fairly organic soft-reboot once it's all said and done!

Anyway, I'll leave you with this poll.

Which G1 villain should return for Legacy of the Toa's rewrite? Zaktan The Shadowed One Pridak I have another one and I will leave them in the comments

Thanks for reading! See you 'round!

-- Echo 1:  High Resolution,   Poor Quality  17:39, May 11, 2015 (UTC)