Error Edits: It's super cool how dedicated the Bionicle fanbase is! Thanks for pointing that I made several errors in this video. In the interest of having correct information, here's a list of the errors made. Please feel free to comment anything else I got wrong. I mispronounce and misstate several words: 1. I totally butchered the pronunciation of Māori. Also Māori refers to a group of people, not a singular tribe. 2. Kopaka as Kapooka 3. Tohunga as Toraga. The Toraga were the village elders, but The Tohunga were the generic villagers. The Tohunga were renamed the Matoran. My reference to the Matoran as "little guys" isn't for the purpose of avoiding the word tohunga. I just like calling them little guys. Aside from the part about the Māori, the purpose of this video is meant to be more of a nostalgic look back on Bionicle, rather than super informative. I also got some things wrong about Bionicle itself. 1. I referred to the rakshii as Rahi, 2. The plural of Bionicle is Bionicle. 3. I stated the Bionicle got their powers from their masks, this is only partially true. (i'm finding conflicting information) There were also some misunderstandings, which were less of a factual error on my part, and more of a failure to clearly communicate what I was saying. 1. I know Mega Blocks aren't made by Lego, lmao. This was a joke 2. When I say Bionicle was the beginning of LEGO creating their own sets, I meant to say "story based sets." I know LEGO had their own sets before this. I even show a commercial for some at the beginning of the video. Lesson: If you're going to make a video featuring a words and a language you're not familiar with, look up the pronunciation. If you're spelling words in a word processor, double check to make sure you wrote them correctly, so you don't pronounce the misspelled words.
Eh, don’t feel so bad. I used to mispronounce a lot of the words from Bionicle too, including some of the names. I used to pronounce the green Piraka’s name Zack Uh Tan when it’s actually just Zack-tan. And his name is spelled Zaktann. Like I said before though, definitely give the rest of Bionicle a look through. It’s such an amazingly crafted story, full of amazing characters and beautiful landscapes. Is it lore heavy? Yeah, but you’ll definitely enjoy it. Like I said, it gets surprisingly dark for a brand marketed towards kids. And I’m not just talking about the movies.
"I care more about the toys than the story" *proceeds to tell the whole lore while completely ignoring the fact that there were some massive bomb ass sets.*
My brother was a loner and awkward but Bionicles made him so happy. I was grateful there was something to fill up his time and give him a sense of escapism.
the chronicle was ended storywise genuinely wrapped up, the next adventure we're going to have with Faber is Rebel Nature and it looks exceedingly promising, Cryoshell even has a few musical scores they put out specifically for Rebel nature and Christian Faber himself is still currently working on a live action medium for it as well as art games more music and is looking to develop a few games for it, no word on any toy lines for rebel nature yet but we'll get to that bridge when we get there. for what rebel nature is it already has enough content out to pull you in and get you invested to learn more it's deep and engaging with a strong more serious storyline to it in regards to how nature itself has advanced after humanity more or less grows closer to becoming extinct.
Well, you got just about every lore detail and character name wrong, but the most important Bionicle fact of all was the one thing that you got right: as a 7-year-old, these toys were kick-ass.
Nick Shermer I’ve always been more of a Metru guy myself. Both because that set was the first one where I really had a big boy allowance to get them all, and because the storyline was really interesting.
I remember watching the 'Mask of Light' movie multiple times and being convinced it was the greatest thing ever. I refuse to watch it as a grown up. It would destroy my childhood.
I'm surprised you didn't bring up the fact the premise of nature-wielding magical robots is weird in and of itself, generally the idea of sci-fi and robotics is like the opposite of nature and fantasy. It was weird but I thought it was really cool at the same time, the aesthetic and setting was very unique and I can't think of another franchise like this.
@@neptuneplaneptune3367 Not only did the toys look like robots, the commercials, movies and comics also depicted them as robots. Robots with some bio-engineered parts sure, but still robots.
@@Shagamaw-100 They're machines with biological components, with a couple of exceptions. The Toa Mata were pretty much entirely robotic at the start of the story due to their organic parts deteriorating during their time in the canisters (incidentally, this is also why they were shown assembling themselves in early cinematics), while the characters introduced in 2009 were organic with an unspecified level of cybernetic augmentation.
Actually, the guy who voiced Jaller(the yellow and red guy) was supposed to voice Takua(the blue and red guy) but the actors got the lines mixed up and it just seemed to work.
Bionicle was my jam as a kid. I was obsessed with Tahu. Weirdly enough, I was introduced to it through the comic. I read that thing so much the pages fell out. I didn't even realize they were a part of LEGO until years later, despite the fact that I collected Lego at the same time.
Onua was my first ever Bionicle when I was really young and I've loved him ever since, and still have the bohrok/rahkshi/nuva/toa nuva (forgive me if I spelt anything wrong, I know the pronunciation down pat is all)
Bionicle was the real shit back in the days. And also you guys not really into the series have NO IDEA how freakin huge the lore is. Even though the latest sets kinda sucked, I really miss all these guys :(
JM I thought the New like of sets were good as far as toys go, but scrapping all the lore and changing the aesthetic of the entire franchise to resemble Hero Factory was a mistake. I would’ve loved to see them release more Bionicle sets in the Mistika or the Glatorian style with more up-to-date, higher quality pieces, but keeping to the same aesthetic.
I am only as old as the theme. The first set I got was the blue Visorak but I didn't catch onto things until the Glatorians. When the G2 sets showed up I made sure to snag all 6 toa which are still proudly displayed in my room.
Jesus christ that commercial with the all american regects song hit me in the face with so much nostalgia that I was unprepared for that I almost broke my neck
I remember my shoes breaking when walking in to Legoland in Denmark, my parents bought me a pair of Bionicle sneakers with red masks on them and I was so happy!
I remember my parents buying me a copy of Mask of Light in a grocery store in 2004 and I was engrossed in the lore. I remember they made a sequel on a new continent that I think was a prequel. It was nuts that they created this
God damn, I used to watch Bionicle Web of Shadows endlessly. And the amount of custom made bionicles I made was insane. Those were the good days. I still have a box full of bionicle pieces, weapons, and armour in my attic.
Bionicle is the best, for more than the unique sets and cool aesthetics, but because I could join in the fun without having to buy all of them; the story was super weird and intense and angsty enough for a young preteen me to get overly attached too to this day.
@@notgray88 yeah, they're here on UA-cam. They've been kind of slow to do things over the years, because they have lives too, but they're definitely back.
That'd be 48 of the common Bohrok, I plan to have an equal number of Bohrok Va, as well as a complete set of Bohrok Kal. If you group all of those as well as the queens under the title "Bohrok" then I suppose I currently have 48 of an intended 104. The intent is to have one for each Krana, excluding the Krana-Kal because there are canonically only 6 Bohrok Kal.
I was that kid with a lot of Lego. Because my mother was a founding member of Denmark's biggest and first real Lego fan Club. I went to conventions, competions, and a lot like that. Met people from all over the world, who all loved Lego. All coming to little Denmark to show off what they have been building. And I was there too, a little 11 year old, side by side with people traveling from, Japan, US, Canada, Brazil. And it is first now as an adult, that I appreciate that time, more than "Fun and free Cola"
I can't remember the name, but the book where the Toa Metru are transporting the comatose Matoran to Mata Nui actually scared me as a kid. Those books had some creepy shit.
Yep. Turns out the "great spirit" Mata Nui was actually a continent-sized giant robot whose face was under the Island "Mata Nui"... I did not see that coming...
Toa Tahu yeah, then there was Nidhiki who used to be a Toa, but became a bad guy, Makuta's name is actually Teridax and he's from a race called Makuta, then there's a Teridax from another universe who's a good guy...
While I totally agree, Catholicism has so many representations in media and has it's own large body of followers. The Māori are a small group, even less known in the early 2000s then now, so possible incorrect or ignorant portrayals of their people is going to cause many more misconceptions and disrespect to an already small minority.
I 2nd that. We also have a pro wrestler Elijah Burke that goes by the moniker The Pope, and that was way back in 2009 and no Catholics batted an eye and I should know (I'm one of them) lol.
Pretty interesting Bionicle/Lego company story; When I was in fifth grade, I wrote a letter to Lego (I think to the CEO, but I'm not positive) telling them that I loved Bionicle, and that Gali was my favorite (even including a crude drawing of it). But the rest of the letter was me asking them to send me a Gali mask in green instead of blue; I wasn't even polite about it, I just talked about how cheap they must be to make, so giving me one for free was no big deal. I was kinda being a dick. But sure enough, a couple weeks later I got an envelope from Lego; inside was a generic "thanks for being a fan" type of letter from the CEO (I'm sure they sent out thousands of them, but I didn't know that as a kid). But sure enough, inside some bubble wrap in the envelope was the exact mask that I asked them for. I thought it was a one-of-a-kind mask made just for me, and that it was worth huge sums of money. It's funny looking back on it now, but it was still really awesome of Lego to send me that mask for free, even though I was kind of shitty the way I asked for it. Still, ever since then I've really loved Lego as a company; they didn't have to send free shit to some dumb kid, but they still went out of their way to do so, and that was so cool of them. (My green-masked Gali was the shit.)
Dominus Empyreus - No, but I'm sure there are pictures of other ones out there. I don't know if they still sell them, but when I was a kid you could buy Bionicle blind bags that had 2 or 3 masks in them; they were just the regular masks, only in different colors. I'm pretty sure that's where the mask came from; it was just a normal Gali mask, except instead of transparent blue, it was transparent green. Back then you probably could've found the same one in those blind bags (though you'd probably have to search through a lot of those bags to find it.) I sure hope it wasn't anything actually rare, because I donated all my lego stuff years ago. I don't think it was worth anything though. Just a cool chunk o' plastic that made a kid happy.
Grant M - Wow, that's great of them to do. I'm glad they also do nice things for kids who deserve it, not just kids like me, being brats and asking for free stuff. They really seem like a great company.
Calvin Lee great story. I love that. These were the days.... when you could write a letter to your favorite company and they would just respond and possibly fulfill your wish.... great stuff.
Man I love Bionicle. I followed it to the end when I got into the lore around the Toa Inika wave and after that I circled back in time to the Toa Nuva and continued from there while I waited for the next comic to come out. By the way I got the comics for free in my LEGO magazine subscriptions. I was always excited about the next issue!
Title correction: Bionicle Was Awesome Also, I was part of the Lego Club during this time period and even entered into the sweepstakes to win a solid gold Mask of Light. Didn't win unfortunately. They gave out the most recent comic edition every month and I kept up my subscription for years, so I was kept up with the lore fairly well...
Bionicle was iconic and one of the coolest looking kids toys EVER. The mix of exotic nature tribes,insects and robots was totally unique and worked so well in my opinion.
It's always a pleasant surprise whenever someone outside of the little fandom makes a video about the toyline. Dusting off the old plastic for a nostalgic review never gets old.
I absolutely adored Bionicle Heroes. I loved how after beating the boss fights, they'd end up in the little zoo area where you'd buy different items for them to interact with.
The Maori weren't upset over the word Turaga, it was the word Tohunga. The Problem wasn't just the fact that they used the word, it was because the used it to refer to bionicle's generic villager characters.
I had some Bionicles and gave them to a daycare in my town. Now some toddlers will know the greatness of them Edit: In my town there are two daycares one of them is for toddlers the other one is for 9-13+ year old kids and I gave the Bionicles to the daycare with the 9-13+ kids
I respect that. Why hold on to our childhoods, puting them on shelves and never using them when we can pass on the good times to younger generations? (Which I realise now is the plot of toy story 3. Whoops.)
"Masks that gives them elemental powers" WRONG! the masks in G1 did not have elemental powers. that was actually a "built in feature" of the characters in the Bionicle Universe. The masks instead had different powers, from being able to breath underwater, project a shield around one self, increased strength, super speed, being able to fly and more. Its in the short lived Bionicle G2, however, that the masks grants elemental powers.
That's not entirely wrong. There was a Mask of Elemental ENERGY in the games (which is an aspect of those games that is considered canon), but rather than give them their powers it just restores them like a battery charger. So not completely inaccurate, but perhaps the wording could be better.
also technically they have masks that have the powers of all common elements, though I think they are more limited in scope. like the masks of light and shadow only affect the spiritual/mental aspects of good and evil respectfully and the mask of gravity just let you affect your own personal gravitational field instead of letting you affect your entire environment like toa tend to.
Hey, when someone is getting some stuff wrong, it's good to inform them what they got wrong. Also, the large monsters armed with staffs in the Mask of Light movie, are called Rahkshi not Rahi. Rahi is the Matoran language for Wildlife in G1.
6:19 Fun fact: some Matoran (the little guys) actually become Toa (the big kids). (Also, never underestimate them, some of them are very crucial to the story, like Matoro)
Bill Davis I'm 36 and I still have and love all of my old Bionicle toys - I even have them proudly on display in my house. The reboot left a bad taste in my mouth, but the old school ones are still near and dear to my heart and always will be. From what I've seen and heard around the fandom, the only people who fell out of love with Bionicle are the people who were too young to understand the scope and complexity of the lore at the time, but older fans are still invested in it and hold it up as a modern mythology on par with the stories of Camelot, Robin Hood and Narnia.
I'm 15 and have a lode of them desplayed in my house, the Mata I have being older than I. I started collecting in 2009 (The last true year of bionicle) and from there had to buy from Ebay which can be quite pricy for good condition sets, but I am proud to be part of the comunity, even if I joined a bit late.
mr pigron Don't use ebay for old Bionicle sets, check sites like bricklink; even if the set is missing the box/canister or instructions, it's not hard to find all the components for a complete set on there for far cheaper than ebay. If you have the money, I would also suggest looking into per-pound lot sales of assorted pieces and using sites like rebrickable and brickinstructions.com to sort the pieces and figure out which sets you have the pieces to put together and which parts are missing that can be replaced through bricklink.
In my opinion, 2007 was the best year, and if not its definitely my favorite. The barraki were really unique and looked as natural as the building style for bionicle could get. All the villains before 2007 were just copy and pasted versions of each other in different colors. Once you have one, you basically have them all. Heck, the fact that each barraki is so unique is the reason why they're the only wave of villains I collected. The designs for the Toa Mahri did look strange at first, but they have grown on me after a while. Not to mention they were the last year to have the normal system brick sets, which were the only bad thing. also i'm just a sucker for underwater themes.
FUN FACT: Mandela regularly used car bombs on civilians and his wife brought about the torture of putting a tire around someone's neck and setting it on fire.
Random Panda Mandele was a racist piece of shit he made the foundation of the horros white people have to go through in south afrika but what has this to do with anything?
My favorite part of the whole Bionicle thing as a kid aside from the toys were the two excellent online flash games. Truly shaped my outlook as a writer even through today.
When I was in College I came across a download for the original Mata Nui Online Game. Over a decade later it’s still one of the shortcuts on my desktop. That first flash game was the pinnacle of my middle school computer club days
I scrolled for too long before I found this. I remember playing a point-and-click adventure game online that I absolutely loved. I wonder if it's still out there somewhere...
I had the big bin of Lego toys growing up. I built so many towns with so many characters. However, there would inevitably be some misunderstanding, resulting in a great war, and everybody except one guy would end up dying. After that, I would feel very sad, a little depressed, as I looked on the wreckage across the universe. I usually wouldn't play with Legos for awhile after that.
It's a shame you didn't engage much with the lore in 2001-2002 because it was by far the coolest part for me. Bionicle got kinda silly in the later years, but in 2001 the depth of the worldbuilding was something special. It truly had a mythic quality. Stories of gods told with rocks, a faceless "infection" that was believed to be the work of a dark god, and the Toa themselves were mysterious otherworldly beings. The reason so many of the early games focused on the villagers was because they'd have these scenes where the Toa would show up and save your ass. It made them feel larger-than-life. MNOLG was a super fun point-and-click adventure that really made the world feel alive, and directly tied into the Bohrok story in 2002. Bionicle was really like nothing else at the time, this was hot off the 90s insanity that was children's toys and TV shows. So here we have this strange, robotic world that's shrouded in mystery and told from the perspective of a helpless tribe of weird robot people. It was strangely understated at times, and really just throbbed with atmosphere. As a kid I was completely entranced by it. I didn't even play with the toys that much (although the Rahi are by far my favorite Bionicle enemies in the franchise, seriously the builds are so cool). It was the games, the music, the cool free mini-CDs that came in the canisters, the posters, the comics, .etc. I think once we left the island of Mata-Nui the universe got a little too big for it's own good, and it lost a lot of it's luster for me. I liked 2004, mostly because the designs themselves were my absolute favorites, but the rich atmosphere was mostly gone by that point and it never came back really. Bionicle in 2001 was fucking awesome.
i remeber MNOLG! I remember playing it loads as a kid on the good old days of dial up where i would have to come off it if someone needed to use the phone!
When I was 21 as a kind of bored university student I bought all the remaining books on Amazon each for one cent (basically free just paying for shipping). Burned through them all and while it's disappointing the ending had to be so sudden and rushed I really appreciate the thought Farshtey put into what was just a backstory for toys.
LordGlazedDonut Yeah I think the website is down at this point, although I was such a geek about Bionicle that I printed everything out from it and compiled it into one huge binder, so now I have that as a keepsake.
The original sties are down I think but I believe all the stuff has been mirrored elsewhere. The last book wasn't even published, I read it online, so it's out there for sure. This was somewhere between 2-3 years ago.
my parents are divorced at my dads, he would play this movie on repeat every night. i litterally pushed that outta my head until this video, THANKS BILLIAM
bruh bionicles were the shit i remember being like 5 or 6 years old and every month or so if i was a good child grandma took me to get a new bionicle, and ill tell you the amount of excitement and joy that boy felt when he got a new bionicle was amazing
It’s lingered for me. When I was taking trigonometry I made an OC Toa as a memory trick. Toa Soka. Toa Soh Cah. T=o/a, S=o/h, C=a/h. Cosign = adjacent side divided by hypotenuse.
Anybody else remember that web browser game that was a kinda, Myst-esque point and click adventure with a few minigame moments? The guy you play as in that was the chronicler, AKA the main character in the Mask Of Light movie. When you finished the game, it had some of the first hints of the bohrok coming, before that line was released. Seriously when I first heard about the Mask Of Light movie, _that_ was the part that excited me; that the main character was the same person from that game. Not sure why that was the most important bit to me at the time, but it was.
When he said Kapooka, i was like "have i been saying it that wrong all these years?" Saw you're comment "i knew i wasn't crazy!". Lewa was my favourite too :3 Tahu was waaay too mainstream, everyone went for him cuz fire and surfing on magma soooooo cool. The black and brown who's names i never remember xD brown was meh, the black one terrified me as a kid. Galli was badass and i read/hear that Galli was a woman? Can anyone confirm? And then of course Kopaka the ice badass, avalanche surfer and finally lewa, the guy who did the whole tarzan vine swing thing with a huge freakin axe.
Mediocrities Pohatu and Onua were the shit! Pohatu had super speed and I always liked the idea of giant claw weapons. All Water based Bionicle up to the Glatorians were female. I actually though Tahu was the coolest fire toa because he wasn't really the stereotypical leader type and was hot headed. Lewa was fun because of his tree-speak. Easily the coolest toys you can get a kid
The lore is very complicated and pretty fucking intense for what was originally intended as a kids series. The Barraki and Toa Mahri was the best era as far as I'm concerned. Really good sets(Probably the best villain sets) and a good story. Bionicle is a phenomena, and it's cult following is probably the largest Lego will ever have for any of their series
I went through a Bionicle renaissance in my early 20's and got a bunch of used ones off eBay to make animations with. The ball joints were perfect for animating with!
SpaceMissile I still remember playing that game. Now that I’m older I know it would be easier, but I had trouble playing it when I was younger. All that clicking. 😂😂😂
SpaceMissile Voya Nui online was my shit. Sadly I got really far with Matoro and the game bugged, so I couldn’t continue. My brother beat it with Nuparu though, and after you beat Vezon & Fenrakk (I don’t remember spelling) you still fight Zaktan in the room after and then you win. (If that game type interests you I’d really encourage Divinity Original Sin 2, but that’s a separate thing;)
So, as a person who has grown up in New Zealand, a couple of things about Maori: 1. It's pronounced Mó-ri (Think 'Mouldy' in terms of the pronounciation of the Mao part of Maori) 2. Maori aren't a tribe but a people split over many tribes (iwi) and subtribes (hapu). Different tribes with a common language and many common traditions, but still, not one tribe, nor have they ever been one tribe.
My brother was totally into this stuff, even the movies. Wish Bionicle was back, I hope a Bionicle movie happens in the style of The Lego Movie which I loved. There were a lot of weird things growing up indeed.
Error Edits:
It's super cool how dedicated the Bionicle fanbase is! Thanks for pointing that I made several errors in this video. In the interest of having correct information, here's a list of the errors made. Please feel free to comment anything else I got wrong.
I mispronounce and misstate several words:
1. I totally butchered the pronunciation of Māori. Also Māori refers to a group of people, not a singular tribe.
2. Kopaka as Kapooka
3. Tohunga as Toraga. The Toraga were the village elders, but The Tohunga were the generic villagers. The Tohunga were renamed the Matoran. My reference to the Matoran as "little guys" isn't for the purpose of avoiding the word tohunga. I just like calling them little guys.
Aside from the part about the Māori, the purpose of this video is meant to be more of a nostalgic look back on Bionicle, rather than super informative.
I also got some things wrong about Bionicle itself.
1. I referred to the rakshii as Rahi,
2. The plural of Bionicle is Bionicle.
3. I stated the Bionicle got their powers from their masks, this is only partially true. (i'm finding conflicting information)
There were also some misunderstandings, which were less of a factual error on my part, and more of a failure to clearly communicate what I was saying.
1. I know Mega Blocks aren't made by Lego, lmao. This was a joke
2. When I say Bionicle was the beginning of LEGO creating their own sets, I meant to say "story based sets." I know LEGO had their own sets before this. I even show a commercial for some at the beginning of the video.
Lesson: If you're going to make a video featuring a words and a language you're not familiar with, look up the pronunciation. If you're spelling words in a word processor, double check to make sure you wrote them correctly, so you don't pronounce the misspelled words.
Can you pin this? (Also thanks for mentioning Ninjago!)
Eh, don’t feel so bad. I used to mispronounce a lot of the words from Bionicle too, including some of the names. I used to pronounce the green Piraka’s name Zack Uh Tan when it’s actually just Zack-tan. And his name is spelled Zaktann.
Like I said before though, definitely give the rest of Bionicle a look through. It’s such an amazingly crafted story, full of amazing characters and beautiful landscapes. Is it lore heavy? Yeah, but you’ll definitely enjoy it. Like I said, it gets surprisingly dark for a brand marketed towards kids. And I’m not just talking about the movies.
Its also Rakshi not Rahi. Rahi was one of the original ones
You also pronounce "rahkshi" as "Rahi", which is something else entirely (they're like the animals in bionicle)
Billiam the threat of the r a h i
"I care more about the toys than the story"
*proceeds to tell the whole lore while completely ignoring the fact that there were some massive bomb ass sets.*
The Toa Mahri and Barraki for me, I had 5 out of the 6 Barraki and 4 out of the 6 Toa Mahri, I absolutely loved them
Yeah the barraki are damn cool
He did forget about the fact that the world of Bionicle takes place in a giant robot.
yeah that kind of killed me
Stepin in the club like:
Y O Y O P I R A K A
The fact that it took me this long to find this comment is unacceptable. Where my piraka bois at?
Do you have the p word pass?
@@KOT_AMV PirakA GvnG
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am I weird for telling you guys that my only memory of Piraka is that weird Mcdonald's toy tie-in that wasn't even compatible with the regular sets?
My brother was a loner and awkward but Bionicles made him so happy. I was grateful there was something to fill up his time and give him a sense of escapism.
Hope and pray he is doing better now .God will help him
I hope your bro is doing better now
Take care M'dude(s)
I respect this man.
Bionicle seriously needs another comeback , cause a concept so awesome shouldn't just be left in the dust .
the chronicle was ended storywise genuinely wrapped up, the next adventure we're going to have with Faber is Rebel Nature and it looks exceedingly promising, Cryoshell even has a few musical scores they put out specifically for Rebel nature and Christian Faber himself is still currently working on a live action medium for it as well as art games more music and is looking to develop a few games for it, no word on any toy lines for rebel nature yet but we'll get to that bridge when we get there. for what rebel nature is it already has enough content out to pull you in and get you invested to learn more it's deep and engaging with a strong more serious storyline to it in regards to how nature itself has advanced after humanity more or less grows closer to becoming extinct.
I found rip off old bionics that for some reason had hero factory parts but they where labeled as earth warriors at a dollar store
Their big comeback after Bionicle was Ninjago
Well they won the poll
@@JJ-sq1fv i didnt like ninjago nearly enough
when i was 11, I memorized the Bionicle alphabets. I still remember it to this day
I use it for writing secret stuff
*Writes meme quotes in matoran*
@@ancientdarkness3102 i used to use it to write in my diary
Same with me except with the Hylian language in Zelda Twilight Princess.
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Bionicles were lit af and the lore was amazing even disregarding the fact that they were children’s toys.
Yes, it was so complex, it had so big universe, different islands or even planets... Dayum, I wish this series lasted a bit longer
Francisco yesh
The lore was kinda dark tbh
Title should be "Bionicle was so cool." That was my experience
This story didn't just fly off the rails, it got trapped in the Mask of Life and shot out of the universe the rails are IN.
Well, you got just about every lore detail and character name wrong, but the most important Bionicle fact of all was the one thing that you got right: as a 7-year-old, these toys were kick-ass.
And yes, the first gen was the best by far.
Nick Shermer I’ve always been more of a Metru guy myself. Both because that set was the first one where I really had a big boy allowance to get them all, and because the storyline was really interesting.
As an 18 year old the toys are still kickass
Yes. I had a huge dark blue figue with a supposed sea theme, does anyone know his name?
Salad Fingers Gadunka?
I can't hear the word bionicle without saying "each sold separately" in my head
lmao
"Ask you parent's first."
Also "ask for your parents' permission to go online"
Bionicle was my thing
IT WAS MY SHIT!
I remember watching the 'Mask of Light' movie multiple times and being convinced it was the greatest thing ever. I refuse to watch it as a grown up. It would destroy my childhood.
dude the fucking rolly things were the shit, i loved how you could transform them into a little ball and roll them
Daddy when I was a kid I had the under water Bionicle and always wanted the Rakhshi and the Pirakha
I'd draw the Light Bionicle so many fucking times in the school....
Now I know why I can't remember shit.
Barack Obama was my favorite Bionicle
PaPaSea Bolrok Obama
PaPaSea same
Bohrok obama was the best thing since good guy.
Barraki Obama.
I've waited nearly ten years to make that pun.
No one has ever made that joke, I'm so glad this guy wrote such an original script.
I'm surprised you didn't bring up the fact the premise of nature-wielding magical robots is weird in and of itself, generally the idea of sci-fi and robotics is like the opposite of nature and fantasy. It was weird but I thought it was really cool at the same time, the aesthetic and setting was very unique and I can't think of another franchise like this.
They arent Robots. At all. The Toys just where not able to represent the Fact that they have Flash and Organs.
@@neptuneplaneptune3367 Not only did the toys look like robots, the commercials, movies and comics also depicted them as robots. Robots with some bio-engineered parts sure, but still robots.
@@thenerdbeast7375 More like cyborgs from what prophet has heard though both cyborgs and robots are rather sci-fi either way.
@@Shagamaw-100 They're machines with biological components, with a couple of exceptions.
The Toa Mata were pretty much entirely robotic at the start of the story due to their organic parts deteriorating during their time in the canisters (incidentally, this is also why they were shown assembling themselves in early cinematics), while the characters introduced in 2009 were organic with an unspecified level of cybernetic augmentation.
@@thegrouchization Okay Prophet just thought assumed they were cyborgs to some extent though prophet is no expert on bionicle.
Actually, the guy who voiced Jaller(the yellow and red guy) was supposed to voice Takua(the blue and red guy) but the actors got the lines mixed up and it just seemed to work.
He sounds like ice man from X-men evolution
Bruh I love how you named them by color lmao
Bionicle was my jam as a kid. I was obsessed with Tahu. Weirdly enough, I was introduced to it through the comic. I read that thing so much the pages fell out. I didn't even realize they were a part of LEGO until years later, despite the fact that I collected Lego at the same time.
Onua was my first ever Bionicle when I was really young and I've loved him ever since, and still have the bohrok/rahkshi/nuva/toa nuva (forgive me if I spelt anything wrong, I know the pronunciation down pat is all)
Michael King Pohatu, sir
lol same. I still have a stack of the comics I got through Lego magazine. Most of pages are just floating together.
I remember playing a sponsored Bionicle game on Roblox when I was a kid lol
That PS2 game was the best gaming experience ever, so emotional. It beat "The last of Us" by a landslide.
Bionicle was the real shit back in the days. And also you guys not really into the series have NO IDEA how freakin huge the lore is.
Even though the latest sets kinda sucked, I really miss all these guys :(
JM I thought the New like of sets were good as far as toys go, but scrapping all the lore and changing the aesthetic of the entire franchise to resemble Hero Factory was a mistake.
I would’ve loved to see them release more Bionicle sets in the Mistika or the Glatorian style with more up-to-date, higher quality pieces, but keeping to the same aesthetic.
Hero factory is better. TAKUAAAAAA
The last line of sets sucked so bad i completely forgot about them, i thought the last line was those with the flying gimicks
@@Da_Swifta I agree, the new kopaka set (the first new one, the second one sucked) looked amazing
I am only as old as the theme. The first set I got was the blue Visorak but I didn't catch onto things until the Glatorians. When the G2 sets showed up I made sure to snag all 6 toa which are still proudly displayed in my room.
Bruh, Bionicle was my fucking childhood. I forgot how much of it. My old friend and I loved those things.
2007 - 2011 Memories
Jesus christ that commercial with the all american regects song hit me in the face with so much nostalgia that I was unprepared for that I almost broke my neck
90s kids unite!
Fun fact in the ninjago city docks set. In the map room, there is a map of the bionicle island
oooh, that's cool .
Rakshi's were awesome,
They were basically "if xenomorphs were robots with spears"
And i love it.
HELL SPOON so true
I still have all 6 of them and boy was it fun when at the end of the manual I saw how you could "fuse" 3 on 1 big creature.
I noticed one of the boss monsters in DOOM 2016 was styled very similar to Rakshis, with the possessing slug in a robotic exoskeleton.
Are those the ones that had spikes along their back?
@@devilgene3154 no those were pirakas
I remember my shoes breaking when walking in to Legoland in Denmark, my parents bought me a pair of Bionicle sneakers with red masks on them and I was so happy!
You lucker. I want one too
Neons I wish I had those shoes
That's amazing. If I have any kids who like Lego I'm taking them there. I never went to Billund legoland as a kid.
Hey, are they the ones that had removable Tahu Nuva masks? I had those shoes too!
You are so lucky
I remember my parents buying me a copy of Mask of Light in a grocery store in 2004 and I was engrossed in the lore. I remember they made a sequel on a new continent that I think was a prequel. It was nuts that they created this
I never had Bionicle but fuck I remember the movie as a kid
God damn, I used to watch Bionicle Web of Shadows endlessly. And the amount of custom made bionicles I made was insane. Those were the good days. I still have a box full of bionicle pieces, weapons, and armour in my attic.
Yeah, Web of Shadows is amazing! Of course, all of Bionicle movies were awesome.
Man i miss my toa hordika i used to have onewa
*Are* *You* *Selling?*
Web of shadows was the best lol
Mask of Life for the win.
The point-and-click adventure game on Lego's website was one of my favorite games of all time.
oh my god dawg it was fucking good, i agree wholeheartedly
Came looking in the comics to see if anyone else remembered it. So good. And the music was great.
I just can't describe how cool it was, I just loved it
omfg. i never saved my progress- i would always start over but damn it was fun
hell yes, that was a deep ass cut but so lit
Bionicle is the best, for more than the unique sets and cool aesthetics, but because I could join in the fun without having to buy all of them; the story was super weird and intense and angsty enough for a young preteen me to get overly attached too to this day.
I still remember the edgy Cryo soundtrack that played with the commercials and games during 2007-8
@@notgray88 That band has actually been making a comeback.
@@mmirlas2820 real shit? I'll have to go check them out. I miss 2008 bionicles.
@@notgray88 yeah, they're here on UA-cam. They've been kind of slow to do things over the years, because they have lives too, but they're definitely back.
Bioncle was one of the most coolest things that 7 year old me experienced
It's time for adult swim to make the Bionicle anime
Justin Y. shoo
Bro.... Oh shit you commented 12 hours ago that's the earliest I've ever randomly seen your comment watching random suggested stuff lol
No thanks, we don’t need a sexualized Gali.
Damn dude, I see you on a lot of things I like but Bionicle? that's surprising.
"sexualized Gali" lmao
pls no
Without bionicle
LEGO wouldn’t by this popular as now
They'd even go bankrupt if Bionicle wasn't a thing back then. It truly is the savior of them back in the day
@@ducpham1478 true even I loved this series as a kid, never cared for other Lego shit
Now I can never make other lego bionicle sets, destroy small bits that look good, and put them on my own horrific bionicle master builds
*owns 48 Bohrok*
*feels no shame*
we must awake the swarm! =3
*_Clean it._*
That'd be 48 of the common Bohrok, I plan to have an equal number of Bohrok Va, as well as a complete set of Bohrok Kal. If you group all of those as well as the queens under the title "Bohrok" then I suppose I currently have 48 of an intended 104.
The intent is to have one for each Krana, excluding the Krana-Kal because there are canonically only 6 Bohrok Kal.
I was that kid with a lot of Lego. Because my mother was a founding member of Denmark's biggest and first real Lego fan Club.
I went to conventions, competions, and a lot like that. Met people from all over the world, who all loved Lego. All coming to little Denmark to show off what they have been building. And I was there too, a little 11 year old, side by side with people traveling from, Japan, US, Canada, Brazil. And it is first now as an adult, that I appreciate that time, more than "Fun and free Cola"
I love this story
Dude when I was a kid I watched mask of light so many times
Maxwell Normandy Me too man
Me too bro
It's so odd finding other people with literally the exact same childhood as yours
Maxwell Normandy holy shit. Same
Same
The more and more I think about it the more I realize Bionicle was the first edgy Lego theme.
Remember web of shadows? That shit was edgy AF
I can't remember the name, but the book where the Toa Metru are transporting the comatose Matoran to Mata Nui actually scared me as a kid. Those books had some creepy shit.
@@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr Aw, gross, I think I remember what you're talking about and it creeps me out
@@ethiosalvatori what is it? I wanna read it
@@ryebread117_ im legit still sad.
Man... The lore this shit had was insane
Yep. Turns out the "great spirit" Mata Nui was actually a continent-sized giant robot whose face was under the Island "Mata Nui"... I did not see that coming...
Toa Tahu yeah, then there was Nidhiki who used to be a Toa, but became a bad guy, Makuta's name is actually Teridax and he's from a race called Makuta, then there's a Teridax from another universe who's a good guy...
Yep. And also Tren Krom, basically a Cthulu/brain flesh creature that was originally suppose to be the Mata Nui robot's brain...
Toa Tahu and Toa Tuyet, a Toa who was evil all along but tricked everyone else.
Takanuva, a literal deus ex machina.
What a hateboner I had for that guy...
Lol no one would bat an eye at LEGO naming a character "the pope"
While I totally agree, Catholicism has so many representations in media and has it's own large body of followers. The Māori are a small group, even less known in the early 2000s then now, so possible incorrect or ignorant portrayals of their people is going to cause many more misconceptions and disrespect to an already small minority.
@@Sailor_S they still overreacted lmao
@@tidepodpadthai2633 Aye their reaction solidified my hate for the culture at the time).And I loved all the smaller and native tribe themes.
I 2nd that. We also have a pro wrestler Elijah Burke that goes by the moniker The Pope, and that was way back in 2009 and no Catholics batted an eye and I should know (I'm one of them) lol.
Sir how dare you offend my religion
Someone give this man Jack J a Nobel peace prize. Billiam should be demonetized.
He did a good decent try
Jack J GODAMN HEATHNS AM I RIGHT.......
Are you nz too
I hope you realise that this is different from Muslims being offended over drawings of Mohammed.
The fish monster bionicles are the coolest shit
Yeah, they killed the inika too.
Nah man, those crazy spider bros with the skinny bits on top? That could fly?
the Vizorak
The Rahkshi are the best
I had the blue one with the weird teeth and shit
Pretty interesting Bionicle/Lego company story; When I was in fifth grade, I wrote a letter to Lego (I think to the CEO, but I'm not positive) telling them that I loved Bionicle, and that Gali was my favorite (even including a crude drawing of it). But the rest of the letter was me asking them to send me a Gali mask in green instead of blue; I wasn't even polite about it, I just talked about how cheap they must be to make, so giving me one for free was no big deal. I was kinda being a dick. But sure enough, a couple weeks later I got an envelope from Lego; inside was a generic "thanks for being a fan" type of letter from the CEO (I'm sure they sent out thousands of them, but I didn't know that as a kid). But sure enough, inside some bubble wrap in the envelope was the exact mask that I asked them for. I thought it was a one-of-a-kind mask made just for me, and that it was worth huge sums of money. It's funny looking back on it now, but it was still really awesome of Lego to send me that mask for free, even though I was kind of shitty the way I asked for it. Still, ever since then I've really loved Lego as a company; they didn't have to send free shit to some dumb kid, but they still went out of their way to do so, and that was so cool of them.
(My green-masked Gali was the shit.)
Do you have pictures?
Dominus Empyreus - No, but I'm sure there are pictures of other ones out there. I don't know if they still sell them, but when I was a kid you could buy Bionicle blind bags that had 2 or 3 masks in them; they were just the regular masks, only in different colors. I'm pretty sure that's where the mask came from; it was just a normal Gali mask, except instead of transparent blue, it was transparent green. Back then you probably could've found the same one in those blind bags (though you'd probably have to search through a lot of those bags to find it.)
I sure hope it wasn't anything actually rare, because I donated all my lego stuff years ago. I don't think it was worth anything though. Just a cool chunk o' plastic that made a kid happy.
Grant M - Wow, that's great of them to do. I'm glad they also do nice things for kids who deserve it, not just kids like me, being brats and asking for free stuff. They really seem like a great company.
Calvin Lee great story. I love that. These were the days.... when you could write a letter to your favorite company and they would just respond and possibly fulfill your wish.... great stuff.
I don't think that green Gali mask (with goggles?) exists officially
2:37 id love for him to be named The Pope
Man I love Bionicle. I followed it to the end when I got into the lore around the Toa Inika wave and after that I circled back in time to the Toa Nuva and continued from there while I waited for the next comic to come out. By the way I got the comics for free in my LEGO magazine subscriptions. I was always excited about the next issue!
Joseph Renna the free comics in the Lego magazine really got me into the bionicle lore, I loved those
I still have those 4 issues still in the unopened plastic, put away and no damaged
I remember those comics so well! I wonder what became of mine??? I think they're probably back at my parent's place. Time to go closet diving.
Bionicle Legends was so good when I was younger. They'd probably be easy reads now, since their in size 4 font, and about 80 pages per book
Timothy Lei I followed it to the end
After bionicle didnt they make a thing called hero factory i seem to remember that really well
Peter Brooke ye
yeah it wasnt nearly as good
same with Ninjago's successor, Legends of Chima
Hero factory was awesome too but bionicle was better
Hero Factory was good but it just couldn't really replace Bionicle
truuuu
Bionicle was weird but still they're every man's fetish
pls do not sexualize the bohrok
I wouldn't say "fetish" but yeah they were cool.
Damn right
men only want one thing and its fucking disgusting
Yikes
Title correction: Bionicle Was Awesome
Also, I was part of the Lego Club during this time period and even entered into the sweepstakes to win a solid gold Mask of Light. Didn't win unfortunately. They gave out the most recent comic edition every month and I kept up my subscription for years, so I was kept up with the lore fairly well...
Me talking about bionicle lore
Everyone else at the funeral
Everyone at Matoro's funeral
I'd be listening to you like you're a prophet
That one guy at the funeral: Then what happend
Who let this crack head in
Change the title. Don't you ever disrespect Bionicle like that ever again
It's not necessarily disrespectful. It's just the truth. Bionicle was weird. It was weird and wonderful.
brian spiekerman you shut up it’s amazing
@@toadgatter7512 It was weird and amazing?
It was weird though. that's the main reason I liked it.
@@bspiekerman I think it was a joke.
It's time to make the bionicle anime
Probs some guy in Japan who really want to make one
Heck, make it a Sentai!
If the put shonen level effort into a bionicle inspired story, I could finally close the door on my childhood in peace.
Or make a Bionicle RPG where you start as a lowly mataron but can slowly level up and choose the path of good (toa) or evil (makuta/dark hunters)
Bryson Contreras I would totally be a Makuta.
Bionicle was iconic and one of the coolest looking kids toys EVER. The mix of exotic nature tribes,insects and robots was totally unique and worked so well in my opinion.
It's always a pleasant surprise whenever someone outside of the little fandom makes a video about the toyline. Dusting off the old plastic for a nostalgic review never gets old.
Don't matter how old I am, Bionicles will always be dope
Rathanak Vlogs mood
Hell yeah
8:31 _bionicles fucking t posing_
_this is what reaching nirvana looks like_
The worst part was accidentally breaking the edge of a arm and it would barely be on or it would be broken forever.
Братуха Сука I feel this on a spiritual level.
Братуха Сука big mood
I fucking hated when that happened
Yeah, they weren't robust at all.
Ow.. My heart.. Why did you remind me of this. DX
I absolutely adored Bionicle Heroes.
I loved how after beating the boss fights, they'd end up in the little zoo area where you'd buy different items for them to interact with.
Hands down my favorite game ever.
The Maori weren't upset over the word Turaga, it was the word Tohunga. The Problem wasn't just the fact that they used the word, it was because the used it to refer to bionicle's generic villager characters.
In the Maori language, Tohunga is a term for a spiritual healer, and using the term to describe generic villagers was considered disrespectful.
Hence they renamed them “Matoran”
Dr. Bepis It actually has many meanings, including simply an expert craftsman or expert in any field.
Septiquad Doubleyou I always wondered why that change happened as a kid! Thanks for clearing that up for me, lifelong mystery solved
Tohunga means "worker", if I remember correctly...
But what else would you call robots that build stuff?
I’m a simple man. I see bionicle and hear all American rejects, I give a like
That commercial was the dopest shit to me as an 8 year old or whenever it came out. Still love it to this day for the nostalgia
I don't think I loved anything more than I loved Bionicle as a kid.
Noah McCoy what about actual lego?
Matt Bolt I was more into bionicles than I was for lego
same ! and strandberg too :p
I had some Bionicles and gave them to a daycare in my town. Now some toddlers will know the greatness of them
Edit: In my town there are two daycares one of them is for toddlers the other one is for 9-13+ year old kids and I gave the Bionicles to the daycare with the 9-13+ kids
I respect that. Why hold on to our childhoods, puting them on shelves and never using them when we can pass on the good times to younger generations? (Which I realise now is the plot of toy story 3. Whoops.)
They were given to a daycare though... I can imagine all the broken parts ;( but at least some may grow to love Bionicle as much as we did
Those poor, poor bionicle limbs...
Those were thrown away within a week.
or yknow, choke on the pieces cuz they're for 7 and up and daycares are 2 to 5 year olds
"Masks that gives them elemental powers"
WRONG!
the masks in G1 did not have elemental powers. that was actually a "built in feature" of the characters in the Bionicle Universe. The masks instead had different powers, from being able to breath underwater, project a shield around one self, increased strength, super speed, being able to fly and more.
Its in the short lived Bionicle G2, however, that the masks grants elemental powers.
That's not entirely wrong. There was a Mask of Elemental ENERGY in the games (which is an aspect of those games that is considered canon), but rather than give them their powers it just restores them like a battery charger. So not completely inaccurate, but perhaps the wording could be better.
also technically they have masks that have the powers of all common elements, though I think they are more limited in scope. like the masks of light and shadow only affect the spiritual/mental aspects of good and evil respectfully and the mask of gravity just let you affect your own personal gravitational field instead of letting you affect your entire environment like toa tend to.
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD!
Hey, when someone is getting some stuff wrong, it's good to inform them what they got wrong. Also, the large monsters armed with staffs in the Mask of Light movie, are called Rahkshi not Rahi. Rahi is the Matoran language for Wildlife in G1.
Thank you.
6:19 Fun fact: some Matoran (the little guys) actually become Toa (the big kids).
(Also, never underestimate them, some of them are very crucial to the story, like Matoro)
i fkn love Bonkle
Eventually you wont
Bill Davis Not true. You may grow out of them but the nostalgia will bring you back!
Bill Davis
I'm 36 and I still have and love all of my old Bionicle toys - I even have them proudly on display in my house. The reboot left a bad taste in my mouth, but the old school ones are still near and dear to my heart and always will be. From what I've seen and heard around the fandom, the only people who fell out of love with Bionicle are the people who were too young to understand the scope and complexity of the lore at the time, but older fans are still invested in it and hold it up as a modern mythology on par with the stories of Camelot, Robin Hood and Narnia.
I'm 15 and have a lode of them desplayed in my house, the Mata I have being older than I. I started collecting in 2009 (The last true year of bionicle) and from there had to buy from Ebay which can be quite pricy for good condition sets, but I am proud to be part of the comunity, even if I joined a bit late.
mr pigron
Don't use ebay for old Bionicle sets, check sites like bricklink; even if the set is missing the box/canister or instructions, it's not hard to find all the components for a complete set on there for far cheaper than ebay.
If you have the money, I would also suggest looking into per-pound lot sales of assorted pieces and using sites like rebrickable and brickinstructions.com to sort the pieces and figure out which sets you have the pieces to put together and which parts are missing that can be replaced through bricklink.
In my opinion, 2007 was the best year, and if not its definitely my favorite.
The barraki were really unique and looked as natural as the building style for bionicle could get.
All the villains before 2007 were just copy and pasted versions of each other in different colors. Once you have one, you basically have them all. Heck, the fact that each barraki is so unique is the reason why they're the only wave of villains I collected. The designs for the Toa Mahri did look strange at first, but they have grown on me after a while. Not to mention they were the last year to have the normal system brick sets, which were the only bad thing.
also i'm just a sucker for underwater themes.
Plus there was *that* trailer, you know the one
Too bad those little crossbow things they had just didn't work.
Logan Benton They did for me. But not always.
Rahi.
Flyingpiggles10 yes 2007 has good stuff in it bionicle bakugan you know all the toys I loved at the time and I still love today
“How cloning Nelson Mandela could bring back Bionicle”
FUN FACT: roses are red Narnia's a chronical
FUN FACT: Mandela regularly used car bombs on civilians and his wife brought about the torture of putting a tire around someone's neck and setting it on fire.
Random Panda I'd like to see some citation on that one.
Random Panda Mandele was a racist piece of shit he made the foundation of the horros white people have to go through in south afrika but what has this to do with anything?
*see’s title*
Me: SAY SIKE RIGHT NOW!!
I never realized how much I miss Bionicle until seeing this video.
8:34 all 6 Toa Mata hitting that **T p o s e**
Shall I *T-POSE* ?
I still have all of them on my shelf next to my computer as I write this XD
I can imagine that memes of Bionicle sets doing the T-pose will soon flood Comment Awards...
*Breaths in*
*Holds breath for a few seconds*
*Breaths out*
Aahh the nostalgia
*4:43* Bitch almost made get a an asmtma attack from laughing so hard
as somebody who lives in NZ Bionicals were extremely popular and they were really fun to play with especially if your friends had some
Yes yes true true but I'm sorry how are not more New Zealanders commenting on Billiam's pronunciation of Maori as MAY-ori
^ This
I used to think _"How good of a story can a toy line have?"_
Then I read the books...
Time Trap, dude.
Kyle Frank
Inferno?
Snailiens
Why do you think MLP:FiM caught on?
Zorro9129
I have no idea what that is and I don't think I want to know.
The Bionicle lore is actually pretty fkin dark if you get deep into it.
Especially if you consider what happens on Voya Nui
Lesovikk's team :c
Remaining citizens of Karda Nui
Tren Krom died horribly. There’s a reason that there was no movie for the Stars line.
Mack Meikle, wasn't tren krom a fully organic being?
My favorite part of the whole Bionicle thing as a kid aside from the toys were the two excellent online flash games. Truly shaped my outlook as a writer even through today.
When I was in College I came across a download for the original Mata Nui Online Game. Over a decade later it’s still one of the shortcuts on my desktop. That first flash game was the pinnacle of my middle school computer club days
I scrolled for too long before I found this. I remember playing a point-and-click adventure game online that I absolutely loved. I wonder if it's still out there somewhere...
How cloning nelson mandela can bring back bioncle
Venny MASON? Are you fucking kidding me?
how is that a r/whoosh, even in the original meme it says nelson. Fucking dingus head
ok i'll edit it
Thanks dad
The hero we need
I had the big bin of Lego toys growing up. I built so many towns with so many characters.
However, there would inevitably be some misunderstanding, resulting in a great war, and everybody except one guy would end up dying.
After that, I would feel very sad, a little depressed, as I looked on the wreckage across the universe.
I usually wouldn't play with Legos for awhile after that.
Man what a deep story
@@satluszair7858 no u
7:03 you’re very darn close, in the story the Piraka actually pretend to be toa in order to take control of Voya Nui
9:02 And by simplified, it means copy and pasting Karzani and Artaka’s origins
It's a shame you didn't engage much with the lore in 2001-2002 because it was by far the coolest part for me. Bionicle got kinda silly in the later years, but in 2001 the depth of the worldbuilding was something special. It truly had a mythic quality. Stories of gods told with rocks, a faceless "infection" that was believed to be the work of a dark god, and the Toa themselves were mysterious otherworldly beings. The reason so many of the early games focused on the villagers was because they'd have these scenes where the Toa would show up and save your ass. It made them feel larger-than-life. MNOLG was a super fun point-and-click adventure that really made the world feel alive, and directly tied into the Bohrok story in 2002. Bionicle was really like nothing else at the time, this was hot off the 90s insanity that was children's toys and TV shows. So here we have this strange, robotic world that's shrouded in mystery and told from the perspective of a helpless tribe of weird robot people. It was strangely understated at times, and really just throbbed with atmosphere. As a kid I was completely entranced by it. I didn't even play with the toys that much (although the Rahi are by far my favorite Bionicle enemies in the franchise, seriously the builds are so cool). It was the games, the music, the cool free mini-CDs that came in the canisters, the posters, the comics, .etc. I think once we left the island of Mata-Nui the universe got a little too big for it's own good, and it lost a lot of it's luster for me. I liked 2004, mostly because the designs themselves were my absolute favorites, but the rich atmosphere was mostly gone by that point and it never came back really. Bionicle in 2001 was fucking awesome.
Yesss Thank you!! It was such a great story!!!
Garrett T. Beelow - Composer This was my childhood!
Same !!
i remeber MNOLG! I remember playing it loads as a kid on the good old days of dial up where i would have to come off it if someone needed to use the phone!
the early to mid 2000's were weird, we'd shaken off the 90's but hadn't quite made it fully into the new millennium culturally.
Broooo i still remember seeing the all American rejects bionicle commercial for the first time my tiny kid brain was like whaaaaaaaat this is so cool
NOT Captain Save A Hoe and even on the darkest days...
When I was 21 as a kind of bored university student I bought all the remaining books on Amazon each for one cent (basically free just paying for shipping). Burned through them all and while it's disappointing the ending had to be so sudden and rushed I really appreciate the thought Farshtey put into what was just a backstory for toys.
LordGlazedDonut Yeah I think the website is down at this point, although I was such a geek about Bionicle that I printed everything out from it and compiled it into one huge binder, so now I have that as a keepsake.
So now your around 40?
I think I read somewhere that farshtey finished out the lore somewhere but I never found it, definitely worth another look thou
Giga Bowser You need to distribute that or something. Especially if bioniclestory.com is really down for good.
The original sties are down I think but I believe all the stuff has been mirrored elsewhere. The last book wasn't even published, I read it online, so it's out there for sure. This was somewhere between 2-3 years ago.
my parents are divorced at my dads, he would play this movie on repeat every night. i litterally pushed that outta my head until this video, THANKS BILLIAM
bruh bionicles were the shit
i remember being like 5 or 6 years old and every month or so if i was a good child grandma took me to get a new bionicle, and ill tell you the amount of excitement and joy that boy felt when he got a new bionicle was amazing
It’s lingered for me. When I was taking trigonometry I made an OC Toa as a memory trick. Toa Soka. Toa Soh Cah. T=o/a, S=o/h, C=a/h. Cosign = adjacent side divided by hypotenuse.
Or the Lego dinosaurs that come in the same packaging
Anybody else remember that web browser game that was a kinda, Myst-esque point and click adventure with a few minigame moments? The guy you play as in that was the chronicler, AKA the main character in the Mask Of Light movie. When you finished the game, it had some of the first hints of the bohrok coming, before that line was released.
Seriously when I first heard about the Mask Of Light movie, _that_ was the part that excited me; that the main character was the same person from that game. Not sure why that was the most important bit to me at the time, but it was.
Yeah!
The Mata Nui Online Game was what it was called. BioMedia (a fan-made preservation of games in the franchise) has it.
YES I loved that game and the sequel.
I remember playing it many times and trying to get faster at it before I lost my dial up internet privilege. I still think about it alot.
The fact you brought up Myst and the fact I was still too young and stupid to really play and understand Myst.
*sees title*
me: you take that back right now
Bionicles were weird but I was in LOVE with it.
And to think that now the bionical style is being used for the Star Wars license. Ironic
Squid Lasers ironic, they could save others from death but not themselves.
INB4 someone screen caps and posts to r/PrequelMemes for karma.
Nowc I'm salty asf,
A surprise to be sure, but is it a welcome one?
*B i o n i c a l*
At least you got to play with them. I got stuck with watching the TV ads, and getting told by my aunts those were "boy's toys".
Ooft.
mirrormimi muh Patriarchy
Rip
But they had a girl(TM) Bionicle too! D:
lolol you're right, my profile picture does look a little like her.
You call it "weird"
I call it "gifted"
As a new zealander this video hurt to hear 😅🤣😂 "mayoori" lol!
As an Australian I also felt the pain my man 🤣
Born too late for Bionicle, born just in time for Power Miners...
George UA-cam hell yeah!
Don't remember Power Miners, but I remember Rock Raiders was the shit
amen to that my dude
i had later released bionicle sets and power miners
George UA-cam power miners was the shit
The iniquities of bionicle lore are so hard to explain to my wife’s boyfriend.
Phil Ochs hi
Oh hey Jody, I didn’t know you were into Bionicle.
Be sure to tell my wife hi for me!
Give him a Nintendo Switch. Solves everything.
*Hol up*
Fascinating.
I remember that “move along” commercial so well. Good times :)
:,-)
Brings me back to the summer of 2006... good times.
8:22 huh, that voice sounds familiar
*googles*
HOLY SHIT, THAT’S VERT WHEELER
"Kapooka"
IT'S KOPAKA YOU MORO- Oh god I'm the problem here...
I had just about the same reaction when he also messed up Turaga 😂
I liked the green one lewa I think
derek I always felt Gali Mata had the coolest mask but Kopaka's Sword and Shield were rad as hell
When he said Kapooka, i was like "have i been saying it that wrong all these years?" Saw you're comment "i knew i wasn't crazy!". Lewa was my favourite too :3 Tahu was waaay too mainstream, everyone went for him cuz fire and surfing on magma soooooo cool. The black and brown who's names i never remember xD brown was meh, the black one terrified me as a kid. Galli was badass and i read/hear that Galli was a woman? Can anyone confirm? And then of course Kopaka the ice badass, avalanche surfer and finally lewa, the guy who did the whole tarzan vine swing thing with a huge freakin axe.
Mediocrities Pohatu and Onua were the shit! Pohatu had super speed and I always liked the idea of giant claw weapons. All Water based Bionicle up to the Glatorians were female. I actually though Tahu was the coolest fire toa because he wasn't really the stereotypical leader type and was hot headed. Lewa was fun because of his tree-speak. Easily the coolest toys you can get a kid
The lore is very complicated and pretty fucking intense for what was originally intended as a kids series. The Barraki and Toa Mahri was the best era as far as I'm concerned. Really good sets(Probably the best villain sets) and a good story. Bionicle is a phenomena, and it's cult following is probably the largest Lego will ever have for any of their series
This is why we need a Bionicle shonen manga
Get out
Justin Y. Oh yeah, i totally agree. The comics were amazing, seeing it expanded more in that medium would be great
lol read a comic book sometime ya fuckin weeb
Justin you have a whole subreddit dedicated to you
Hello again
I went through a Bionicle renaissance in my early 20's and got a bunch of used ones off eBay to make animations with. The ball joints were perfect for animating with!
I’ve got every bionicle comic ever printed! The art is indeed rad as all hell.
That's really cool! I remember that the capsules that Bionicles came in came with a short comic in them which was dope as hell.
I have the Takanuva issue that was autographed by Greg himself. Yeah, I'm a nerd like that.
5:47 - all of those games were garbage cash grabs.
The real game was the online adventure game lego had on their website. Oh, the story. Oh, the lore.
SpaceMissile I still remember playing that game. Now that I’m older I know it would be easier, but I had trouble playing it when I was younger. All that clicking. 😂😂😂
Don't forget the amazing soundtracks! I still have those old Cryo songs stuck in my head.
SpaceMissile Voya Nui online was my shit. Sadly I got really far with Matoro and the game bugged, so I couldn’t continue. My brother beat it with Nuparu though, and after you beat Vezon & Fenrakk (I don’t remember spelling) you still fight Zaktan in the room after and then you win.
(If that game type interests you I’d really encourage Divinity Original Sin 2, but that’s a separate thing;)
+SpaceMissile Oi, don't talk shit about Bionicle Heroes. It's the best RE4 rip-off I've ever seen.
You can still find Mata Nui Online
So, as a person who has grown up in New Zealand, a couple of things about Maori:
1. It's pronounced Mó-ri (Think 'Mouldy' in terms of the pronounciation of the Mao part of Maori)
2. Maori aren't a tribe but a people split over many tribes (iwi) and subtribes (hapu). Different tribes with a common language and many common traditions, but still, not one tribe, nor have they ever been one tribe.
Stanislav Pankrashin do you agree with them taking legal action against LEGO, and how LEGO followed through with their demands?
1. lol no its not
Me: **Sees title**
Also me: *SAY SIKE RIGHT NOW!!!*
My brother was totally into this stuff, even the movies. Wish Bionicle was back, I hope a Bionicle movie happens in the style of The Lego Movie which I loved. There were a lot of weird things growing up indeed.
I felt like the only girl in among my friends to have been obsessed with Bionicle.
Im sorry for your condition
My older sister was the same way. She couldn't get enough of the lore and I was just having a blast with the action figures.
I love u
you are officially cool and allowed in boys only pillow forts
When a girl tells you she likes bionicles : my amazement is inmensurable and my week is saved
7:45 I can't believe you missed the Mata Nui Online Game. That was the staple Bionicle video game for a while.
I work at a thrift store and the other day I saw a large bag of bionicle parts in the toy section.
Should of bought them bro