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Re: Why were Ax and Tobias' books spaced farther apart from the others?
« Reply #15 on: June 23, 2008, 12:02:16 AM »
maybe KA was just lazy to think of plots for those 2 cuz yes, it musta been harder but still, im sure she coulda thought of good plots had she tried :-\
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dude, obviously she thought of plots for them, once in a while. BUT the point of this thread is they had less books, and im saying she could only sumx think of a plot, unlike for the others where she could always think of a plot in a timely schedule of some sort. which is proly why ax and tobias had less boox. duh ::)
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Re: Why were Ax and Tobias' books spaced farther apart from the others?
« Reply #16 on: June 23, 2008, 12:07:41 AM »
maybe they just didnt think people would respond as much to ax and tobias at first and then once they were like hey people like them the whole structure was kinda locked in so why rock the boat lol

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Re: Why were Ax and Tobias' books spaced farther apart from the others?
« Reply #17 on: June 23, 2008, 01:06:29 AM »
nah, if she really wanted to she coulda fit it in. she just didn't. lazy it is
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Re: Why were Ax and Tobias' books spaced farther apart from the others?
« Reply #18 on: June 23, 2008, 06:15:30 AM »
maybe she found it hard to think of other plotlines... lazy or not, I think Tobias and Ax had the least of issues to deal with.
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Re: Why were Ax and Tobias' books spaced farther apart from the others?
« Reply #19 on: June 23, 2008, 09:35:45 AM »
Yeah, how many times can you have Tobias out looking for food and Ax tinkering with something in his scoop?
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Re: Why were Ax and Tobias' books spaced farther apart from the others?
« Reply #20 on: June 23, 2008, 03:36:04 PM »
maybe she found it hard to think of other plotlines... lazy or not, I think Tobias and Ax had the least of issues to deal with.

i dont know bout that. id say they had the most issues to deal with. ax has to stay outta site, tobias is one cofused little birdie, she coulda made it wrk. its not like EVERY book woulda been about them. just every other book
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Re: Why were Ax and Tobias' books spaced farther apart from the others?
« Reply #21 on: June 23, 2008, 07:04:13 PM »
I think that Ax probably had the MOST problems.
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Re: Why were Ax and Tobias' books spaced farther apart from the others?
« Reply #22 on: June 23, 2008, 11:34:37 PM »
well yes, ax has alota issues, which is y he shoulda had more books so they coulod talk about them
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Re: Why were Ax and Tobias' books spaced farther apart from the others?
« Reply #23 on: July 05, 2015, 09:30:32 AM »
well even if this wasn't the answer, it would cause problems for the cover morphs. Tobias doesn't regain his morphing power until #13. they already did hawk to tobias for #3. what are they gonna do for #8 if it was a tobias book. they could have tobias regain his power in #8, but I don't know. it gets confusing then...

So KA didn't want the cover artist to have to draw just a boring red-tailed hawk that can't morph a thing, so she postponed the next Tobias book until she could arrange for him to get his morphing powers back?

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Re: Why were Ax and Tobias' books spaced farther apart from the others?
« Reply #24 on: July 05, 2015, 10:59:30 AM »
So KA didn't want the cover artist to have to draw just a boring red-tailed hawk that can't morph a thing, so she postponed the next Tobias book until she could arrange for him to get his morphing powers back?
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Re: Why were Ax and Tobias' books spaced farther apart from the others?
« Reply #25 on: July 05, 2015, 11:04:07 AM »
Spacing them out did keep them from being overdone, which probably helped their popularity.


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Re: Why were Ax and Tobias' books spaced farther apart from the others?
« Reply #26 on: July 06, 2015, 06:33:46 PM »
Spacing them out did keep them from being overdone, which probably helped their popularity.

Tobias' 1st book was #3.  The cover showed him morphing from human to hawk, even though he was frozen in hawk form at the time.  That could be excused, since it WAS Tobias' first narration.

However, if any more Tobias books had been written during the time he was unable to morph, what would the cover artists have drawn?  (Just a boring hawk that can't morph?  A series of hawk images that don't change?).

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Re: Why were Ax and Tobias' books spaced farther apart from the others?
« Reply #27 on: July 07, 2015, 02:07:04 AM »
He was able to morph and that''s all there is to it. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if K.A. introduced tobias's ability to morph just for the cover artists.
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