Dass Mata Nui ein 12.000 Kilometer großer Roboter aka das Matoranische Universum ist, haben *wir* erst 2008 erfahren. Dank Greg wissen wir aber, dass das davor bereits über 8 Jahre lang feststand und uns nur verheimlicht wurde.
Die Sache mit Fabers Hirntumor habe ich hier jetzt zum ersten Mal gelesen, aber sie scheint der Wahrheit zu entsprechen. Per Google bin ich auf
diesen interessanten Beitrag auf BZPower gestoßen, der sich wiederum auf das Buch "
Brick by Brick" beruft:
According to "Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry", back in the earliest stages (when it was still going by "Voodoo Heads" and similar names) the idea of the characters living inside a giant robot was not established. The giant robot as the "big story engine" was not adopted until summer of 1999 when ADVANCE joined the project. As an art director, Christian Faber introduced the concept of the Mata Nui robot based on his recent diagnosis with a benign brain tumor, and the medication he was taking to keep it from spreading. It was around this same time that the theme finally acquired the name BIONICLE (for "biological chronicle").
"Faber imagined the toy canisters as vials of medicine drifting toward the head of a giant, comatose robot that was infected with a virus. The medicine's active ingredient was an army of nano-size creatures that arrived in pill-shaped capsules, entered the titan's body, and fought to liberate it from the virus." (Page 154)
Ist auf jeden Fall ein sehr interessantes Detail.