I was just getting into Bionicle when it got canceled, so I definitely saw Hero Factory as the lesser Bionicle replacement. But since I was basically the perfect age for it at the time I was eventually won over by later Hero Factory sets. But then they started just making them mechs and then the whole theme just fell apart
I still have some Bionicle Ocs (Not for sale) that aren't the best, but I used what Bionicle pieces I could find. I'm sure I still have more Bionicle pieces, somewhere. Ready to find. I also like to make my Bionicle's do these little battles since mine aren't very detailed I don't have problems with them coming apart. (Mostly because I can just pop them together again) Its always fun doing that. I have always wanted to get some technic pieces so I can upgrade my Bionicle's.
@coyoteprime3239 It's never too late friend. The bionicle community is alive and thriving and we'd be glad to have you. Some sets can be found at a reasonable price secondhand. With 3D printing, we'll soon have replacement parts as well as new ones. The biomedia project has everything documented too. I think it's safe to say that bionicle isn't going anywhere for a long time.
Now I never had the privilege to grow up with Bionicle like a lot of others. Hero Factory was my "Bionicle" and I cherish each and every moment I had with it's relevance. But I can relate to the pain people felt when they found out that their childhood had been replaced. And I respect every individual person who still imagines what could've been instead of what was. This war between Bionicle and Hero Factory shouldn't have been a reality. Both worlds could've co existed with each other. Maybe not in the same universe but as TV shows and products. Maybe some day, somehow both Bionicle and Hero Factory will return. But until then let's just smile at the memories we made. And the memories we'll cherish forever.
Mad respect for such a graceful and mature point. Nothing lasts forever, but we can live and move forward towards a better future. Indeed, let's be thankful for the guidance and memories.
Goddammit. As someone whose first buildable toys were Bionicles, this hit me right in the nostalgia feels. Bionicles may be gone, but they will never be forgotten, for they live on in my heart.
Ugh man. I grew up on G1 Bionicle. Now I’m 25 with a house. Still have those Bionicles… still have heartstrings that tug at me. Those were my heroes and friends as a kid. They feel so abandoned. I love the Bionicle franchise. Wish it kept going for new generations
I'm more impressed your 25 with a house. But I get it, I grew up playing bioncle too, had the original Tahu as my first kit, and got the first ps2 game as well. Read a few of the books as well.
I just turned 31, my collection is still crammed into a bunch of plastic tubs in the basement of my parents' place. An incredibly thorough collection up to the Metru Nui saga, and a lot of memories of it from years long gone. "It had to have been real -- someone _please_ tell me this wasn't all a dream." I really felt that. I know Lego is just a company and we can't rely on companies to validate our childhoods, great as that company may have been many years ago, to have given us such a story-rich world that held our imaginations like no other. But it'd nice to have more people for us grown men to want to share our old memories with.
We are the remenants of an old by gone era. And it is our time to keep the legend of the bionicle alive. Bionicle was more than a toy line. It was a connection for many of us.
My bionicle journey started at the mask of light and ended with the Geat Spirit's farewell. May you live life with unity, duty, and destiny. For that is the way of the bionicle.
Hero Factory always felt like just another Lego line but Bionicle was *far* more than that, it was really something special. Nothing could ever hope to fill the gap it left in our hearts.
Para los de habla inglesa debió ser genial no tener qué buscar cada cosa de la cual tuvieras dudas y "tratar" de traducirlo para entender la historia. No me avergüenza decir qué conocí está franquicia por los productos pirata qué llegaban a mi país, las películas los jueguetes todo era fascinante, incluso Legó y su arriesgado movimiento de marquetin al contar una historia la cual deberías de seguir año tras año para entenderla. Bionicle, una leyenda qué aún perdura.
Bruh i still have mine all set up 2 feet to my right, even as an adult in the Army now. I still have the books, the makuta diary, and most of my old catalogs just so I can remember what was without question a franchise that shaped me to be the person I am today.
The start of the downfall for me was when the glatorians were given hands. Made it feel like they were trying to get them more like other product lines
This… hurts. I got my first Bionicle, the original Toa Tahu, when I was 5. I grew up with them, watched the legends and stories, collected all that I could…… and now they ended. Now I am an adult i want to recollect them all, to have them all together as they should be. If only to share with future generations. Gathered friends we shall all remember Unity Duty Destiny
Bionicle was so goated. I had a couple sets and I played with those things for hours as a child, even using my other Lego sets to build them new guns and swords and even vehicles.
I wasn’t mad that bionicle ended. I wasn’t a hardcore fan and the language barrier at the time prevented me from going far into the lore. I started to learn more about bionicle’s lore after hero factory got out because i finally learned english. So i can’t relate a whole lot to the "betrayal" some people felt. However… hero factory was robbed of its potential by the bionicle remake (imo). And that just makes me sad. They had a perfect villain set up and it just quietly ended offscreen.
Bionicle was that cult like story that you would trip into every now and again as a kid. Then one day you want to dive deep into it and discover it never came fully together.
And thus the chronicle was forgotten. Buried deep under the sands of time, and washed away by tides of the oblivion. Yet Unity, Duty, and Destiny remain. For the three virtues are older than the time before time itself. And one day footprints again will carve unknown shores of distant worlds. Each set sold separately
Bionicle will never die so long as the legends lives on within each and every one of us who grew up with these heroes, we will pass these tales on to our descendants and they will dream it!
I wonder if you could pull any of mini-cd lines through Wedgewood ai? Or perhaps create ai of other commercial/mini-cd voice overs associated with Bionicle?
I did watch bionicle and get like 2 sets from my older cousin but I was really too young to comprehend how cool it was and grew up with hero factory instead
I wish I could’ve gotten bionicle sets but I wasn’t an alive person to experience it im sure it was fun I just generally wish I experienced the 2000s Lego seemed best back then with bionicle, agents, space police 3, power miners, and many more amazing looking themes that are expensive to experience today
To be fair hero factory was really a good thing it wasn't Bionicle. It showed what Bionicle was eventually heading towards before it was discontinued which was dumbing down the sets so much that it only took like 5 pieces to make a set which I hated. I'm just glad Bionicle didn't end with that
Hero factory joints were more flexible than Bionicle. The arms and legs bended in a way so they were easier to build and play with. As someone who experienced the end of Bionicle and the rise of Hero Factory and bought sets from both, I preferred Hero Factory over Bionicle. Wasn't even close.
Im finna cry i still have mine in storage and now I'll definitely never throw them away. This video really made me feel like a kid again and brought back the exact thoughts i had seeing "hero factory". I still have the old comics that came with the lego magazine back in the day to from 08-10. Yall remember the Bionicle page where it was like Facebook or myspace? And played the computer game 🎯. Fuck man someone hug me rn
I had that moment when I graduated highschool, I still had bins of dissassembled bionacle parts in my closet so I figured I might try to get back into it, thinking that such a great series surely had a billion reboots. I entered the lego store and they only had the shitty new star wars rey ones, so I looked it up online later that day and learned about hero factory and the reboot towards the end of my junior year. I am so sad, which is why im paying out my ass for some of the old ones in the boxes lol.
@@thebean3995 I know that pain, just about broke my bank account getting axon, brutaka, Vezon/Fenraak, and that big gold dude. Those four sets cost about $2500 Australian.
LEGO: say your line. Hero factory: hero factory, we build heroes! Bionicle: I WILL NOT BE REPLACED!!!! LEGO: shut up Bionicle Series, you’ve been replaced! (Hog & Scorched Reference)
In the alternative universe, Bionicle will never be cancelled in 2010, six different Toa are born in the Meta Assembly Tower. The original universe Bionicle was cancelled and replaced by hero factory.
I grew up with Lego hero factory instead of bionicle, so I understand the feelings that every bionicle fan had. Though personally I would enjoy it if both franchises were they’re own thing, with some crossovers from time to time.
The ending is what makes it a legend, it’s how we know the time is true, the the ending and love we felt was ours, was theirs was something to be remembered
Bro I'm a 28 year old man standing in my kitchen after work thinking "oh wow a Bionicle meme" and now I'm crying remembering that things from my childhood simply don't exist anymore. It felt like it would never end. There were so many sets. Why did Lego have to do this.
@@essengerbionicleit paid off because this is genuinely the best AI voice i've ever heard, i thought to myself "is the Bionicle narrator doing Cameo videos?"
@@essengerbionicle So what you are saying is you torture an AI into sounding desperate and distraught? I hope I dont live next to you when the robots take over, I dont want to get blown up when they fire nukes at your house. haha
Holy shit dude, I was _not_ prepared for this emotional sledgehammer today. Absolutely bloody killed it with the "Each set sold separately..." at the end, too. Magnificent.
@@axell15thewispmaster79 To me it hits hard because thephrase is said at the end of every commercial lego did abt the bionicles. And then in this context it means to me that every memory was created separately, from set to set, and person to person. To me it adhered to my personal memories. ..of bionicle.
@@paulglandorf4858 I see. I didn't have much of an impact with the Bionicle series, so I can't fully grasp what your pain is. But I can understand some similarities with loss, and I have also felt that kind of pain. Better thing to do is still have the loving memories in your heart, but still move on. You can't just stay at the same place all the time
@@axell15thewispmaster79 Of course you are right, but all this reminiscing just made me sentimental yk? It's not as if i am still thinking abt it twice every five minutes, but this vid brought up the good old times again :)
“each set sold separately” damn I never thought I would hear those words ever again from a Bionicle product. It’s been decades since I’ve heard that I miss collecting the original Bionicle’s. That was definitely a piece of my childhood thank you for reminding me of the good times.😢
In order for A.I. to produce a voice with such conviction, it needs a voice to overlay- in other words, more often than not, someone is still speaking underneath the programmed voice when it sounds this authentic- kind of like how motion capture is used in movies and video games and a character model is placed on it.
This . . . Hits home hard. When i first found out about Hero Factory i reacted like this. But now, i accept both. And love both, of course Bionicle more but, still. Legends are legends because they end. Not because they live forever. Good bye Mata Nui, and fare well to the Legend. Of the Bionicle.
This is absolutely mind-blowing. Like.. damn near shed a tear at this one but, _holy shit._ It's just perfect. Like, you ever make an art project and just admire it for how perfect it is? I hope that's how you feel about this one 'cause you f•cking nailed it.
I actually really felt like I rushed this once and if i'd anticipating getting this kind of reaction i would have spent more time on the editing and flashbacks
@@essengerbionicle As someone who edits.. literally down to the frame when I have the time, I can empathize with that. You'd know your creative process more than any one of us could, but, as someone with absolutely _zero_ insight as to what those alternate possibilities might've looked like- I'd say you did a damn fine job. You've definitely done it justice and not a single bit stood out to me as something I would've thought to change. Keep up the good work-! With, whatever wacky, crazy stuff you think of next. (with shredded cheese and swingline staples and cassowary eggs and spiral notebook wires and radium and Barry B. Benson and The Fappening and a single DVD copy of 'Chef' and a big fat f•cking kiss on the lips and pickles and-)
If you want the full story, I suggest googling the Wall of History. It has the entire story, even the more obscure things like the Hordika animations and the short mini comics. I've been re-experiencing the story from the beginning and am currently halfway through the Mahri story (2007).
@@HunhowsShadowStalker Thanks, I'll give it a look! I've been trying to read most of the Bara-Magna stuff before diving into the rest, since that was the year I started, but I'll get there.
We are united by our love for this series, to preserve the legend is our duty, and as we tell these stories our destiny may bring a bright future for new generations and new legends to come. For that is the way, of the Bionicle.
I recently went to Legoland Germany for a day out and when I went in I noticed signs leading to some sort of Bionicle ride. Obviously I was thrilled and went there immediately, and although it was there, something was wrong. All the branding had been stripped off the outside. All that was left was a sign with a picture of one of the Gen-2 masks and next to it the words "ride inside" in a big red font. Sure, the insides were still there, but it had clearly just been left to time. Just felt really sad to see that they clearly think no one would care to such a point that they'll literally remove the name from the outside of the ride in case people unfamiliar with it don't want to go in. Hell of a way to treat the franchise that saved them from bankruptcy really. Absolutely the best ride in the park though. Just picks you up with a robot arm and flings the shit out of you, it's great.
I was there too, last year. The footprints of a Toa Metru are still there, looking like the fossilized remains of something long gone. And if you look up above the viewing platform, there's still a life sized figure of Toa Whenua that once used to move. Now he's cover in a thick layer of dust, watching over the last bit of Bionicle in all of Legoland. Very fitting for the archiver but also very sad
I want to somehow arrange a trip there. Some kind of fuckin voyage, a mass gathering to Legoland JUST to go to that ride, over and over, see if someone somewhere gets the point
I met a traveler from an antique land, Who said “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert… Near them, on the sand, half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, tell that it’s sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Mata Nui, King of Kings; Look on my works, ye mighty and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away.”
As someone who got into Bionicle because of Hero Factory, I can’t fully relate, but I do understand the pain. Bionicle, HF, and Bionicle G2 were great sets, stories, and flavour, but far and away Bionicle G1 was king. It’s so sad to see all three of them go away without a true resolution, with dangling plot threads, and unfinished character arcs. I really appreciate and resonate with the message of the video, that we should cherish the memories, remember the good, and forgive the bad, because at the end, it is gone, and even if it comes back (AGAIN) it probably won’t be what any of us old-ish fans want. It’s best to think of it as it was, a legend, in every sense of the word.
I'd love to hear more about your perspective on the overall universe and if you feel they connect in anyway. It's like modern day civilizations learning about the ancient Greeks and the stories of old
As someone who got into g1 Bionicle, I was sad to see it go, but hero factory was definitely great in its own way, and all I could think with Bionicle g2's background lore was "look how they massacred my boy and token girl who was secretly my favorite"
Not gonna lie. The emotions in the narrators voice genuinely made it sound like he could have been a character in Bionicle or a god, like Mata Nui, recounting the memories of watching the lives of the toa unfold.
I expected him to start swearing and saying wild things like the other memes but this just hit me in the emotional gut. Never thought of the Narrator as a character in Bionicle, but I guess he was. Here's to you old friend.
He was with us the whole time, telling the story we watched unfold; our guide to this amazing world. He loved telling it as much as we loved hearing it.
no shade if you liked Hero Factory but got damn some of us felt the pain lol
Cope [this post was made by hero factory gang]
I kinda loved both, even if everyone hated hero factory.
Only some? Fuck, dude
But i felt the pain after bionicle ending in 2010, so i thought “lemme give this hero factory a try”.
I was just getting into Bionicle when it got canceled, so I definitely saw Hero Factory as the lesser Bionicle replacement. But since I was basically the perfect age for it at the time I was eventually won over by later Hero Factory sets. But then they started just making them mechs and then the whole theme just fell apart
I absolutely love to hear the iconic phrase in the ending ''each set sold separetely''
Bionicle: The Legend Continues ❌
Bionicle: Each Set Sold Separately ✅
@@teddys1359 Bionicke: Not Sold Anymore
Bionicle™️: Each Set Sold Separately©️
That made me cry
me when base plates and background models not included
okay, massive points for however you managed to make an AI sound like it's having a complete nervous breakdown and falling into despair
Never thought I'd return so many times to the same video to share an existential crisis with an AI narrator.
Rest in peace Bionicle.
I knew this is AI! 😮😂
has it always mean AI, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo my life is ruined
Bro this is 3real5me, things you only ever get to know when you experienced it
Same ❤
tbh sounds like the narrator from The Stanley Parable
Born too late to explore the world.
Born too soon to explore the stars.
Born just in time to experience Bionicle
I was sadly born too late
Me too, I got a hero factory motorcycle tho
I still have some Bionicle Ocs (Not for sale) that aren't the best, but I used what Bionicle pieces I could find. I'm sure I still have more Bionicle pieces, somewhere. Ready to find. I also like to make my Bionicle's do these little battles since mine aren't very detailed I don't have problems with them coming apart. (Mostly because I can just pop them together again) Its always fun doing that. I have always wanted to get some technic pieces so I can upgrade my Bionicle's.
@coyoteprime3239 It's never too late friend. The bionicle community is alive and thriving and we'd be glad to have you. Some sets can be found at a reasonable price secondhand. With 3D printing, we'll soon have replacement parts as well as new ones. The biomedia project has everything documented too. I think it's safe to say that bionicle isn't going anywhere for a long time.
@@kayb2930I h a v e s o m e s h o p p i n g t o d o
Hero Factory: You are made a hero
Bionicle: You make yourself a hero
Just remember, heros get remembered. But legends never die!
halo reach xbox 360 ?🧙🏼♂️
But the heroes themselves forget... So those legends are truly dead.
@@cathleenmoyle1476 cathleen needs to crawl back in her hole and leave my awesome comment alone
Legends get sent to the Red Star to be revived and repaired before being sent back to the surface 😉
Now I never had the privilege to grow up with Bionicle like a lot of others. Hero Factory was my "Bionicle" and I cherish each and every moment I had with it's relevance. But I can relate to the pain people felt when they found out that their childhood had been replaced. And I respect every individual person who still imagines what could've been instead of what was. This war between Bionicle and Hero Factory shouldn't have been a reality. Both worlds could've co existed with each other. Maybe not in the same universe but as TV shows and products.
Maybe some day, somehow both Bionicle and Hero Factory will return.
But until then let's just smile at the memories we made. And the memories we'll cherish forever.
Mad respect for such a graceful and mature point. Nothing lasts forever, but we can live and move forward towards a better future.
Indeed, let's be thankful for the guidance and memories.
Goddammit. As someone whose first buildable toys were Bionicles, this hit me right in the nostalgia feels. Bionicles may be gone, but they will never be forgotten, for they live on in my heart.
Each set sold separately
Ugh man. I grew up on G1 Bionicle. Now I’m 25 with a house. Still have those Bionicles… still have heartstrings that tug at me. Those were my heroes and friends as a kid. They feel so abandoned. I love the Bionicle franchise. Wish it kept going for new generations
I'm more impressed your 25 with a house.
But I get it, I grew up playing bioncle too, had the original Tahu as my first kit, and got the first ps2 game as well. Read a few of the books as well.
Thats cool , I wish they kept going too I gave mine to my nephews...
@@noneedtoknow07 thankfully my Fiancée and I were pretty goal oriented. Got a good deal on a house with 5% down
I just turned 31, my collection is still crammed into a bunch of plastic tubs in the basement of my parents' place. An incredibly thorough collection up to the Metru Nui saga, and a lot of memories of it from years long gone.
"It had to have been real -- someone _please_ tell me this wasn't all a dream." I really felt that. I know Lego is just a company and we can't rely on companies to validate our childhoods, great as that company may have been many years ago, to have given us such a story-rich world that held our imaginations like no other. But it'd nice to have more people for us grown men to want to share our old memories with.
We are the remenants of an old by gone era. And it is our time to keep the legend of the bionicle alive. Bionicle was more than a toy line. It was a connection for many of us.
My bionicle journey started at the mask of light and ended with the Geat Spirit's farewell. May you live life with unity, duty, and destiny. For that is the way of the bionicle.
Hero Factory always felt like just another Lego line but Bionicle was *far* more than that, it was really something special. Nothing could ever hope to fill the gap it left in our hearts.
Once more together brothers
“Gather around and hear once again the legend of Mata Nui”
Para los de habla inglesa debió ser genial no tener qué buscar cada cosa de la cual tuvieras dudas y "tratar" de traducirlo para entender la historia.
No me avergüenza decir qué conocí está franquicia por los productos pirata qué llegaban a mi país, las películas los jueguetes todo era fascinante, incluso Legó y su arriesgado movimiento de marquetin al contar una historia la cual deberías de seguir año tras año para entenderla.
Bionicle, una leyenda qué aún perdura.
Now this is the legend of the bionicle
Bruh i still have mine all set up 2 feet to my right, even as an adult in the Army now.
I still have the books, the makuta diary, and most of my old catalogs just so I can remember what was without question a franchise that shaped me to be the person I am today.
0:26 Where is this Makuta cinematic from? I've only ever seen the 2d one.... 🤯
I think that was from the Quest for Mata Nui fan game trailer
Finally....somone uses the narrator to voice our pain.
The start of the downfall for me was when the glatorians were given hands. Made it feel like they were trying to get them more like other product lines
Bionicle will always be An Awesome Lego Sets. And they also part of my Childhood as well
This video makes me emotional. To hear our beloved Narrator go through the turmoil we all went through hits right in my soul
This… hurts. I got my first Bionicle, the original Toa Tahu, when I was 5. I grew up with them, watched the legends and stories, collected all that I could…… and now they ended.
Now I am an adult i want to recollect them all, to have them all together as they should be. If only to share with future generations.
Gathered friends we shall all remember
Unity
Duty
Destiny
It was real. It was so beautiful. The life we gave the Matoran universe exists in our hearts and minds. And that is indestructible.
Bionicle was so goated. I had a couple sets and I played with those things for hours as a child, even using my other Lego sets to build them new guns and swords and even vehicles.
Ничто не заканчивается навсегда. То что нам так важно, остается у нас в душе.
Единство, долг, судьба.
I wasn’t mad that bionicle ended. I wasn’t a hardcore fan and the language barrier at the time prevented me from going far into the lore. I started to learn more about bionicle’s lore after hero factory got out because i finally learned english.
So i can’t relate a whole lot to the "betrayal" some people felt.
However… hero factory was robbed of its potential by the bionicle remake (imo). And that just makes me sad. They had a perfect villain set up and it just quietly ended offscreen.
That unity, duty, destiny rung in my soul. Fare well gathered friends...
Legends may end, but the story and history they told will always live on till the end of time
if LEGO tried bringing back old sets they'd make a fortune
I never thought my beloved Bionicle could take me to the edge of tears thanks man awesome job 👏👏👏👏👏
*"Each sold separately"*
Truth cuts you like a sword.
Honestly this should air on tv as a tribute to Bionicle.
Bionicles werent just toys. They were Heroes
_I don't understand, but I get the feeling I missed out on something incredible, like that trend with the Beyblades or the Bakugans._
"All legends have an ending" hits kinda hard
Bionicle was that cult like story that you would trip into every now and again as a kid. Then one day you want to dive deep into it and discover it never came fully together.
United we stand, sold separately we fall
That hit like a wave of protodermis. I also miss Bionicle. Man, those were the days.
I still remember the names
Tahu:Fire
Gali:Water
Onua:Earth
Pohatu:Stone
Lewa:Jungle
Kopaka:Ice
And thus the chronicle was forgotten. Buried deep under the sands of time, and washed away by tides of the oblivion.
Yet Unity, Duty, and Destiny remain. For the three virtues are older than the time before time itself. And one day footprints again will carve unknown shores of distant worlds.
Each set sold separately
If the chronicle was forgotten... then unity duty and destiny wouldn't remain. New virtues would come.
Bionicle will never die so long as the legends lives on within each and every one of us who grew up with these heroes, we will pass these tales on to our descendants and they will dream it!
Why did it just get replaced suddenly, the deep growing lore is what kept it alive
I grew up on bionicles, but i did truly dastardly things like not separate bionicle from hero factory
I wonder if you could pull any of mini-cd lines through Wedgewood ai? Or perhaps create ai of other commercial/mini-cd voice overs associated with Bionicle?
I did watch bionicle and get like 2 sets from my older cousin but I was really too young to comprehend how cool it was and grew up with hero factory instead
I wish I could’ve gotten bionicle sets but I wasn’t an alive person to experience it im sure it was fun I just generally wish I experienced the 2000s Lego seemed best back then with bionicle, agents, space police 3, power miners, and many more amazing looking themes that are expensive to experience today
I'm guessing this has taken since 2010 and thousands of hours to get the AI voice generator to produce the desired emotion?(!) xP
I liked hero factory... the new generation of bionicle pieces, but it is a shame that nothing like bionicle or hero factory is nowadays.
that hit hard. i grew up watching bionicle
when Lego is short of bankrupt, they will rise again
This is scary good, I can't even tell if it is AI or not. You could have told me you commissioned the old voice actor and I would have believed you.
This unironically goes really hard.
i cannot believe it hit me so hard on the end, man all began just as a joke
To be fair hero factory was really a good thing it wasn't Bionicle. It showed what Bionicle was eventually heading towards before it was discontinued which was dumbing down the sets so much that it only took like 5 pieces to make a set which I hated. I'm just glad Bionicle didn't end with that
Hero factory joints were more flexible than Bionicle. The arms and legs bended in a way so they were easier to build and play with. As someone who experienced the end of Bionicle and the rise of Hero Factory and bought sets from both, I preferred Hero Factory over Bionicle. Wasn't even close.
Even though bionicle will always be special to me, hero factory has some cool stuff too.
Best ending to a legend
Bionicle is unfortunately in the past now. If you asked a kid today what Bionicle is, they wouldn't know that Lego made theses incredible toys
que bonito, bionicle es un de los recuerdos mas felices de mi infancia
If the internet was entirely destroyed and there was only 1 thing left of it centuries later it should probably be this video.
I remember having this exact coonversation with my mom approximately 13 years ago.
Hero factory was cool but the end of Bionicle was just too painful.
don't make me relieve this pain again.
please...
Let it pass... Or hope someone in the far future will continue the Legend.
Hit right in the feels
This brings back so many memories :)
Bro facts! Bring back bionicle! 🔥😭
Matoran into Toa.
Toa into Turaga.
And Turaga into Legend.
Im finna cry i still have mine in storage and now I'll definitely never throw them away. This video really made me feel like a kid again and brought back the exact thoughts i had seeing "hero factory". I still have the old comics that came with the lego magazine back in the day to from 08-10. Yall remember the Bionicle page where it was like Facebook or myspace? And played the computer game 🎯. Fuck man someone hug me rn
That was, without a doubt, the loudest tears 🥲
This went from being a random meme to a meaningful message.
Beautiful.
yeah and god praise Lego sees this
Dangerously right wing and must be banned.
Each set sold separately 😢
No... it isn't beautiful.
"Wait a minute, what happened to bionicle?!" We all felt that kinda pain once
That was what I said when I saw the reboot version they released a few years ago.
I had that moment when I graduated highschool, I still had bins of dissassembled bionacle parts in my closet so I figured I might try to get back into it, thinking that such a great series surely had a billion reboots. I entered the lego store and they only had the shitty new star wars rey ones, so I looked it up online later that day and learned about hero factory and the reboot towards the end of my junior year. I am so sad, which is why im paying out my ass for some of the old ones in the boxes lol.
Yes we did
@@thebean3995 I know that pain, just about broke my bank account getting axon, brutaka, Vezon/Fenraak, and that big gold dude. Those four sets cost about $2500 Australian.
The part at the end "They were more than just plastic toys...they were *bionicle* " really hit me
Same ❤
Each set… sold separately
LEGO: say your line.
Hero factory: hero factory, we build heroes!
Bionicle: I WILL NOT BE REPLACED!!!!
LEGO: shut up Bionicle Series, you’ve been replaced!
(Hog & Scorched Reference)
The tragically ironic thing is, Lego just nonchalantly canceled Hero Factory just as they had Bionicle before it.
In the alternative universe, Bionicle will never be cancelled in 2010, six different Toa are born in the Meta Assembly Tower. The original universe Bionicle was cancelled and replaced by hero factory.
I grew up with Lego hero factory instead of bionicle, so I understand the feelings that every bionicle fan had. Though personally I would enjoy it if both franchises were they’re own thing, with some crossovers from time to time.
@@zen4ever3 x2
@@scrappertf02clon87 nice seeing another Hero factory fan!
All legends have an ending. But nothing ends as long as it lives on in our minds.
Alexa, stop playing "Everywhere at the End of Time."
_. . . Alexa?_
Heroes never die, they live in our memories! (Prob from Naruto)
And in our hearts
@@normanclatcher 😢
The ending is what makes it a legend, it’s how we know the time is true, the the ending and love we felt was ours, was theirs was something to be remembered
"Each set sold separately!"
This hit HARD, enough to make a grow man cry!
That made me cry like Capcom's best dads.
And that’s ok
Bro I'm a 28 year old man standing in my kitchen after work thinking "oh wow a Bionicle meme" and now I'm crying remembering that things from my childhood simply don't exist anymore. It felt like it would never end. There were so many sets. Why did Lego have to do this.
@@R0FLC4T5 The fact that your name is R0FLC4T5 made me cry even harder... you were da shit 15yrs ago, i can tell without even knowing you
that's because we are all grown men now xD
How did you manage to make the AI voice sound so desperate and distraught?
Also this reminds me of that one ending of The Stanley Parable
hundreds of re-generations and context injection, it actually took a long time lol
@@essengerbionicle well it turned out amazing, it sounds like the real guy with actual emotion in his voice
lol it totally does sound like that one The Stanley Parable ending.
@@essengerbionicleit paid off because this is genuinely the best AI voice i've ever heard, i thought to myself "is the Bionicle narrator doing Cameo videos?"
@@essengerbionicle So what you are saying is you torture an AI into sounding desperate and distraught? I hope I dont live next to you when the robots take over, I dont want to get blown up when they fire nukes at your house. haha
Holy shit dude, I was _not_ prepared for this emotional sledgehammer today.
Absolutely bloody killed it with the "Each set sold separately..." at the end, too. Magnificent.
I don't wanna sound rude, but why does that last line hit hard exactly?
@@axell15thewispmaster79 To me it hits hard because thephrase is said at the end of every commercial lego did abt the bionicles. And then in this context it means to me that every memory was created separately, from set to set, and person to person. To me it adhered to my personal memories. ..of bionicle.
@@paulglandorf4858 I see. I didn't have much of an impact with the Bionicle series, so I can't fully grasp what your pain is. But I can understand some similarities with loss, and I have also felt that kind of pain. Better thing to do is still have the loving memories in your heart, but still move on. You can't just stay at the same place all the time
@@axell15thewispmaster79 Of course you are right, but all this reminiscing just made me sentimental yk? It's not as if i am still thinking abt it twice every five minutes, but this vid brought up the good old times again :)
@@paulglandorf4858 I understand. Just remember to take care of yourself all right?
“each set sold separately” damn I never thought I would hear those words ever again from a Bionicle product. It’s been decades since I’ve heard that I miss collecting the original Bionicle’s. That was definitely a piece of my childhood thank you for reminding me of the good times.😢
Never thought those strings of words would have sentimental value.
Jesus, that “unity, duty, destiny…you will always be a part of me” line gave me actual chills with the delivery
You will always be apart.... of us
👊🏼 Unity
@@slytherinson8302 👊 Duty
@@grimwolf6858 👊🏽 destiny
@Drifter454 Forever a part of the hearts of we
was expecting shitposting and was instead hit with feels 😭🥹
It's called oldposting/goldposting, and it's based.
@@StarboyXL9 agreed
The sad and slow "Each set sold separetly" was great.
This is beautiful, it artfully summarizes how my son and I felt when the Bionicle Saga ended.
jesus the way the AI voice managed to express genuine pain and anguish through its voice better than some actors these days is baffling 🤣🤣
The AI was bummed it missed out on Bionicle.
Ngl I got choked up 😅
In order for A.I. to produce a voice with such conviction, it needs a voice to overlay- in other words, more often than not, someone is still speaking underneath the programmed voice when it sounds this authentic- kind of like how motion capture is used in movies and video games and a character model is placed on it.
No way this is an Ai?
@@JaycodaJryou think it's Rvc?
Bro went through more character development then most Hollywood movies.😢
A little tear rolled down my face when he said "Bionicle, each set sold seperatly"
I felt his pain when he said it.
This . . . Hits home hard. When i first found out about Hero Factory i reacted like this. But now, i accept both. And love both, of course Bionicle more but, still. Legends are legends because they end. Not because they live forever. Good bye Mata Nui, and fare well to the Legend. Of the Bionicle.
I still have some Hero Factory stuff and man their ball joints still hold up today, quite the sturdy stuff
@@Zcrub this is one of the reasons I prefer the CCBS building style more then the old constraction sets
Funny, I heard something similar, except that it went legends are legends because they make a huge splash and then f|_|cking die.
@@Zcrub but damn if the cracks in those new ones aren't so hidden they're insidious.
They do live forever.
In our hearts.
And their cannisters.
This is absolutely mind-blowing. Like.. damn near shed a tear at this one but, _holy shit._
It's just perfect. Like, you ever make an art project and just admire it for how perfect it is? I hope that's how you feel about this one 'cause you f•cking nailed it.
I actually really felt like I rushed this once and if i'd anticipating getting this kind of reaction i would have spent more time on the editing and flashbacks
@@essengerbionicle As someone who edits.. literally down to the frame when I have the time, I can empathize with that.
You'd know your creative process more than any one of us could, but, as someone with absolutely _zero_ insight as to what those alternate possibilities might've looked like-
I'd say you did a damn fine job. You've definitely done it justice and not a single bit stood out to me as something I would've thought to change.
Keep up the good work-! With, whatever wacky, crazy stuff you think of next.
(with shredded cheese and swingline staples and cassowary eggs and spiral notebook wires and radium and Barry B. Benson and The Fappening and a single DVD copy of 'Chef' and a big fat f•cking kiss on the lips and pickles and-)
@@essengerbionicle Do more then!
Y'know… I joined Bionicle late in the game, and missed most of the storyline when I was a kid… But this still hits like a Zamor Sphere to the eye.
If you want the full story, I suggest googling the Wall of History. It has the entire story, even the more obscure things like the Hordika animations and the short mini comics. I've been re-experiencing the story from the beginning and am currently halfway through the Mahri story (2007).
@@HunhowsShadowStalker Thanks, I'll give it a look! I've been trying to read most of the Bara-Magna stuff before diving into the rest, since that was the year I started, but I'll get there.
We are united by our love for this series, to preserve the legend is our duty, and as we tell these stories our destiny may bring a bright future for new generations and new legends to come.
For that is the way, of the Bionicle.
Same.
I understand this analogy on a spiritual and physical level
My love for Bionicle will never die, and it will always live on in my heart.
I recently went to Legoland Germany for a day out and when I went in I noticed signs leading to some sort of Bionicle ride.
Obviously I was thrilled and went there immediately, and although it was there, something was wrong.
All the branding had been stripped off the outside. All that was left was a sign with a picture of one of the Gen-2 masks and next to it the words "ride inside" in a big red font.
Sure, the insides were still there, but it had clearly just been left to time.
Just felt really sad to see that they clearly think no one would care to such a point that they'll literally remove the name from the outside of the ride in case people unfamiliar with it don't want to go in.
Hell of a way to treat the franchise that saved them from bankruptcy really.
Absolutely the best ride in the park though. Just picks you up with a robot arm and flings the shit out of you, it's great.
I was there too, last year.
The footprints of a Toa Metru are still there, looking like the fossilized remains of something long gone. And if you look up above the viewing platform, there's still a life sized figure of Toa Whenua that once used to move. Now he's cover in a thick layer of dust, watching over the last bit of Bionicle in all of Legoland. Very fitting for the archiver but also very sad
I want to somehow arrange a trip there. Some kind of fuckin voyage, a mass gathering to Legoland JUST to go to that ride, over and over, see if someone somewhere gets the point
I met a traveler from an antique land, Who said “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert… Near them, on the sand, half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, tell that it’s sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Mata Nui, King of Kings; Look on my works, ye mighty and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Having just googled it, its even worse. It apparently got rebranded to Hero Factory.
As someone who got into Bionicle because of Hero Factory, I can’t fully relate, but I do understand the pain. Bionicle, HF, and Bionicle G2 were great sets, stories, and flavour, but far and away Bionicle G1 was king. It’s so sad to see all three of them go away without a true resolution, with dangling plot threads, and unfinished character arcs. I really appreciate and resonate with the message of the video, that we should cherish the memories, remember the good, and forgive the bad, because at the end, it is gone, and even if it comes back (AGAIN) it probably won’t be what any of us old-ish fans want. It’s best to think of it as it was, a legend, in every sense of the word.
I'd love to hear more about your perspective on the overall universe and if you feel they connect in anyway. It's like modern day civilizations learning about the ancient Greeks and the stories of old
@The RestingHornet the respect on you
we need that
I thought the Bionicle G1 lore did get an ending tho?
dude I got a hero factory breakout book from a school bookfair once. The book went lowkey hard considering it was a lego tie in novel
As someone who got into g1 Bionicle, I was sad to see it go, but hero factory was definitely great in its own way, and all I could think with Bionicle g2's background lore was "look how they massacred my boy and token girl who was secretly my favorite"
God this hits....these vids are fucking beautiful..
Facts
I actually cried when I saw this 😢 Bionicle will forever be one the best things that ever existed. Unity, Duty, Destiny. 😔✊🏻
I... was so hyped because I thought this meant Bionicle was making a comeback.
But damned if this wasn't such a marvelous tribute. Thank you.
Not gonna lie. The emotions in the narrators voice genuinely made it sound like he could have been a character in Bionicle or a god, like Mata Nui, recounting the memories of watching the lives of the toa unfold.
Holy shit that was the most heartfelt and genuine love letter to Bionicle i've heard in a while... may the Great Spirit guide you my friend...
I expected him to start swearing and saying wild things like the other memes but this just hit me in the emotional gut.
Never thought of the Narrator as a character in Bionicle, but I guess he was. Here's to you old friend.
He was with us the whole time, telling the story we watched unfold; our guide to this amazing world. He loved telling it as much as we loved hearing it.
he sounded so genuine before immediately shifting to the usual "Each set sold separately"
He was serious even saying that line. Listen to how dejected and sad he sounds.
It was perfect. Meme of the year with the twist while keeping that iconic advertising sentence to ground it
Wow, not gonna lie. Even the voice actor would be surprised for this powerful message
R.I.P bionicle
Gone, but never forgotten
It is always in our hearts, staying alive as a part of us
Replaced by Lego Hero factory