As a member of gen Z, who was born too late to appreciate it as it came out, it is so cool to see youtubers continue the Bionicle legacy and breakdown the extremely complex story
As someone who *did* grow up with them... I wish we could've had another generation to share with you. The loss of the franchise to poor design decisions for cost-cutting measures was a genuine tragedy.
One of the things I love about Bionicle is how the story works basically as a lego set. It's not told directly to you in a series, instead, it is a collection of stories across different media that you have to assemble carefully to build a coherent narrative. Moreover, from those pieces of lore you can build any story you want, explore all the islands, their past, imagine the close and distant future of the universe, the political intricacies of Glatorians and Matoran sharing a world, imagination is the limit.
My most expansive lore project I've ever created started as me playing with Bionicles... Now it's filled with immortal beings, warriors that are near immortal, a time traveler who empowers these people to direct the future, histories of nations formed from the colonization of planets foreign to Earth, regions where the ground is so unstable, the land is constantly shifting, creating new caves, ravines and mountains in a matter of days. And of course, many elements taken directly from the Bionicle lore and modified to fit in my own work. But it all started with Tahu Nuva.
I’m currently writing a book in the bionicle universe set 9000 years after the canon end. There will be an element of dimensional fracture as the Toa find out they are in what is supposed to be the prime timeline but all their history indicates that they are in a different timeline. I’m honestly not sure where it will go, but I am excited.
@@SomeRandomKydd That sounds awesome! The grappling with reality and purpose would be really cool. Some could even realize that an Invasion of the Body Snatchers event has happened and several iterations of the characters are from different dimensions. But that's just a personal thought
@@petermurraystudios I’m not planning on having any canon characters appear, though probably all will be mentioned since I want one of the books to be the Toa Team going through the entire mythology while trying to figure out where the Kanohi masks could possibly be since a good number are fundamentally eternal.
14:05 Officially, Roodaka is a member of the Brotherhood of Makuta (more specifically Viceroy of the Visorak Horde) who obtained some combat training from the Dark Hunters, but she was secretly a double agent selling info to both sides.
I am slightly too young to have really remembered the original run of Bionicle when it came out. My older cousins gifted me a few hand-me-down sets from 2001-2006. A lot of parts are missing, but I’ve since purchased about 1/3rd of the missing stuff. Here’s what I’ve got for G1 bionicle: Complete or missing 1-2 pieces: -Lewa -Pohatu Nuva -Kopaka -Nuhvok -Levok -Kohrok -Pharok -One of the McDonald’s Matoran -Hakann -Onua Nuva -Gali Nuva -Onewa -Nuju -2 Visorak -1 Vakhi (white) -Pohatu Recognizable: (missing a dozen or so parts) -Boxor -Orange Nui Rama -Vakhi (blue) -A few duplicate Bohrok that are unfinished -One if the special Toa from 2005. The bronze and green one. I know where the parts are from (half the parts or less) -Nui Rama (green” -Nokama -Vakama -Lewa Nuva Got like 3 parts or less: -Kopaka Nuva -Tahu -Brutaka (This one hurts the most) And through used book stores I’ve acquired over half of the books. This is the coolest franchise of all time.
I came to this video, and I loved it. The intro was cool, and the content was great. Then I went to like it, and there was almost nobody. You deserve to be seen more.
Me and a group of my friends had a Bionicle TTRPG going a few years ago. It took place in a version of the universe where the Toa Mata's canisters never malfunctioned, so they arrived at the Island of Mata Nui early with their full memories and understanding of their mission, overwhelmed Teridax before he was ready, and saved Mata Nui, so Mata Nui was easily able to restore Spherus Magna and integrate the Matoran onto the restored planet and remains in orbit around the world. After getting rid of the remaining old brotherhood of Makuta, Mata Nui tried to start over with a new batch taking greater care that these new Makuta would not follow in the footsteps of the originals but the world was not ready to accept Makutas after Teridax's Coup d'etat, so several members of these new Makuta were killed based on prejudice and split between members who wanted revenge against, and ones who just wanted to be mostly left alone. Our Toa characters where the protectors of the New-Metru Nui. (My character) Whakatau the Toa of Plant-life: he used to be a Matoran ranger/emergency medic who lived out in the wilderness helping Matoran who get lost and injured out in the forest cause a Toa might not always be around. He had a chance encounter on a Dark Hunter operation gone wrong, which got two of his friend's killed and left a burn scar on half of his mask from a warehouse explosion! He made a vow that he would never let anyone die under his watch and would get justice against the Dark Hunters. He almost goes full dark Toa but comes back from it thanks to a good talking too. Playing a Toa of Plant-life was so much fun, he was a walking utility belt. He could collect plant samples along his adventure, breed them to emphasize certain traits and ended up having a plant for every situation but the Meme of the group was what I called "The Makuta's Piss Pepper" I heard somebody once describe being pepper sprayed like getting pissed on by the Devil, so I created a Super Hot Pepper that does Chemical Fire Damage! Vaphi the Toa of Sonics: He was our team's engineer and tinkerer. He was the fun toa of the group, he would make jokes, get involved in Whaka's plant experiments, built a lot of the team's equipment, and had this on-going mech suit project Vojakua Toa of Plasma: He pretended not to be a Toa of Plasma and claimed he was a Toa of Fire cause as a Matoran he saw a Toa of Plasma go rogue and became ashamed to share his element. He was usually quiet but he helped make weapons for the team and was a really good Sword Fighter Parkur the Toa of Iron: He was a Titan of a Toa who was really good at just doing a ton of damage but was very simple minded. He had trauma because of the Makuta wiping out most of the Iron Matoran and wanted to take revenge on the New Makuta, but after meeting one of them and learning they were persecuted for their predecessors faults he came to forgive him. Ingram the Toa of Air: The group Pilot, he owned a transport from his days as a Matoran merchant and outfited the vehicle with weapons but he had a complex where he felt like wasn't entirely cut out to be a Toa. And Glacius the Toa of Ice and Fire: Glacius was a Karzahnian Matoran. Karzahni saw that he and a Ta-matoran were close and decided to make them even closer by taking them apart putting them together as a horrible fused Matoran. Glacius was liberated from the island of Karzahni and after being released onto the world proceeded to kick a lot of ass! Instead of having normal weapons he carries two large shields acting as a defensive tank and then beating enemies over the head with a shield! He also has an amped up disk launcher which he saves as a Last Resort because it's basically the nuclear option!
I love this alternate history and how each character has such a different backstory. I always loved the Toa of Iron and was disappointed that so many of the fun variations never go mainstream promotion.
@petermurraystudios I also started writing a follow-up story to our RPG with the approval and input from my friends where Vezon shows up with his crazy dimension jumping shenanigans and sends our toa team to a world similar to the beginning of the main Canon contradicting our characters history where the Toa Mata's cannisters malfunctioned and they were lost at sea for some thousand years. So our Toa who were trained by the Turaga Mata show up right before them and have to mentor the difficult and confused Toa Mata while Teridax is trying to probe information from us and adjust his plans accordingly. I wonder just how far our toa will go...will they take the first chance to return to their own world or will they stick around to see how new history plays out.
I only got into Bionicle in the Glatorian era, so I missed a lot of the promotional stuff from the earlier waves, but I managed to find a lot of the books and comics as well as get sets from every wave. I wish Lego had kept the theme going. Ninjago is good but doesn't fill the same role in my opinion.
@@purplehaze2358 Yeah it was a bit rough trying to get the words the synergize. Something I'll probably never use again since I'm more confident in my own voice now.
The charecters are fun and fleshed out. Many charecters dreams hopes are there without making them simple stereo types. Also their were stakes as well as exploration of things that stradled boundries. Such a toa Matoro not telling his team about terridax possessing a robot and walking among them.
Bionicle is so beloved, that fan-made video games about it are currently in development such as Quest for Mata Nui and Masks of Power. In fact, the latter game has one of it's trailers having Cryoshell sing a new song for it, As Above So Below.
When I was developing the model, certain words were a greater challenge to work out like "Piraka, Toa, and Matoran." If I reuse the model I'll try to make the pronunciation better.
Kanohi powers are not the same as elemental powers. There is no "kanohi of fire" or "kanohi of sonics". Elemental powers are inherent to the beings and races associated with them, while masks give powers that are individual and that no other source can provide.
@@vandkleiss140 The songs are done by Essenger who I've tagged him in the description, but I'll also link his channel below. The song names are Closer to the Truth and Creeping in my Soul Essenger Bionicle: youtube.com/@essengerbionicle?si=vWGQiCVViWU_UGFn
3 minutes in, how on Earth is your sub count and like ratio on this vid so low with this level of production quality? And six months ago, why less than 3k views?!
@@dukeynukey6725 Hahaha if it was a 1v1 for sure. I'd love to see the god-engine as an element of a larger force as part of the Imperium's crusade when they discover Spherus Magna. They could even view the Bionicles as an extension of the Necrons
@@petermurraystudios Who knows, I don't think the imperium would care where they came from, they'd just try to exterminautus them And then watch as one random toa forms an airbubble around the planet that goes "no u" or something lmao
A funny thing is the fact that bionicle is connected to lego space, and if you compare the physical figuree for a lego spaceman and a space marine they are about the same size. So if you add in bionicle figures into the mix the toa would be around imperial knight size
i just wish the bionicle lore wasn't so convoluted! at the begging of the story they said mata nui and makuta were bothers but later on they made a backstory for makuta that completely contradicted what they said earlier..and dont even get me started with characters like velika and tuyet..the latter wasn't even given an offcial design!!!!
As a member of gen Z, who was born too late to appreciate it as it came out, it is so cool to see youtubers continue the Bionicle legacy and breakdown the extremely complex story
They're not continuing the legacy... they're just giving it the love it deserves. But giving it love is more important.
Same here, I got into bionicle a few years back, and it remains one of my favourite franchises, along with halo and warframe
As someone who *did* grow up with them... I wish we could've had another generation to share with you. The loss of the franchise to poor design decisions for cost-cutting measures was a genuine tragedy.
Ah. That first minute of pure stopmotion just captured those early 2000s/2010s Bionicle stopmotion series perfectly.
i think bionicle is the best lego story. I'm happy its still alive even without new sets or story
The fans have really carried the torch and kept its memory alive and it's awesome to see
@@petermurraystudios And we will never stop.
Bionicle has such a groovy creative world.
100%
Yo yo piraka
One of the things I love about Bionicle is how the story works basically as a lego set. It's not told directly to you in a series, instead, it is a collection of stories across different media that you have to assemble carefully to build a coherent narrative. Moreover, from those pieces of lore you can build any story you want, explore all the islands, their past, imagine the close and distant future of the universe, the political intricacies of Glatorians and Matoran sharing a world, imagination is the limit.
My most expansive lore project I've ever created started as me playing with Bionicles... Now it's filled with immortal beings, warriors that are near immortal, a time traveler who empowers these people to direct the future, histories of nations formed from the colonization of planets foreign to Earth, regions where the ground is so unstable, the land is constantly shifting, creating new caves, ravines and mountains in a matter of days. And of course, many elements taken directly from the Bionicle lore and modified to fit in my own work. But it all started with Tahu Nuva.
@@scottjs5207 Sounds like an awesome project with a fantastic base!
I’m currently writing a book in the bionicle universe set 9000 years after the canon end. There will be an element of dimensional fracture as the Toa find out they are in what is supposed to be the prime timeline but all their history indicates that they are in a different timeline. I’m honestly not sure where it will go, but I am excited.
@@SomeRandomKydd That sounds awesome! The grappling with reality and purpose would be really cool. Some could even realize that an Invasion of the Body Snatchers event has happened and several iterations of the characters are from different dimensions. But that's just a personal thought
@@petermurraystudios I’m not planning on having any canon characters appear, though probably all will be mentioned since I want one of the books to be the Toa Team going through the entire mythology while trying to figure out where the Kanohi masks could possibly be since a good number are fundamentally eternal.
such a great vid! It’s amazing to see such high quality bionicle content in 2023!!
14:05 Officially, Roodaka is a member of the Brotherhood of Makuta (more specifically Viceroy of the Visorak Horde) who obtained some combat training from the Dark Hunters, but she was secretly a double agent selling info to both sides.
The fact that you used what sounds like the instrumentals for "Dark Matter" by Les Friction for the Dark Hunter section makes me _very_ happy.
@@purplehaze2358 💯 Love Les Friction
I am slightly too young to have really remembered the original run of Bionicle when it came out.
My older cousins gifted me a few hand-me-down sets from 2001-2006. A lot of parts are missing, but I’ve since purchased about 1/3rd of the missing stuff.
Here’s what I’ve got for G1 bionicle:
Complete or missing 1-2 pieces:
-Lewa
-Pohatu Nuva
-Kopaka
-Nuhvok
-Levok
-Kohrok
-Pharok
-One of the McDonald’s Matoran
-Hakann
-Onua Nuva
-Gali Nuva
-Onewa
-Nuju
-2 Visorak
-1 Vakhi (white)
-Pohatu
Recognizable: (missing a dozen or so parts)
-Boxor
-Orange Nui Rama
-Vakhi (blue)
-A few duplicate Bohrok that are unfinished
-One if the special Toa from 2005. The bronze and green one.
I know where the parts are from (half the parts or less)
-Nui Rama (green”
-Nokama
-Vakama
-Lewa Nuva
Got like 3 parts or less:
-Kopaka Nuva
-Tahu
-Brutaka (This one hurts the most)
And through used book stores I’ve acquired over half of the books. This is the coolest franchise of all time.
That intro goes so hard as someone who is very invested into the world; I had so many stories with similar through lines as a kid
I came to this video, and I loved it. The intro was cool, and the content was great. Then I went to like it, and there was almost nobody. You deserve to be seen more.
The voice sounds exactly like the guy who voices the audiobook version of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Me and a group of my friends had a Bionicle TTRPG going a few years ago. It took place in a version of the universe where the Toa Mata's canisters never malfunctioned, so they arrived at the Island of Mata Nui early with their full memories and understanding of their mission, overwhelmed Teridax before he was ready, and saved Mata Nui, so Mata Nui was easily able to restore Spherus Magna and integrate the Matoran onto the restored planet and remains in orbit around the world. After getting rid of the remaining old brotherhood of Makuta, Mata Nui tried to start over with a new batch taking greater care that these new Makuta would not follow in the footsteps of the originals but the world was not ready to accept Makutas after Teridax's Coup d'etat, so several members of these new Makuta were killed based on prejudice and split between members who wanted revenge against, and ones who just wanted to be mostly left alone.
Our Toa characters where the protectors of the New-Metru Nui.
(My character) Whakatau the Toa of Plant-life: he used to be a Matoran ranger/emergency medic who lived out in the wilderness helping Matoran who get lost and injured out in the forest cause a Toa might not always be around. He had a chance encounter on a Dark Hunter operation gone wrong, which got two of his friend's killed and left a burn scar on half of his mask from a warehouse explosion! He made a vow that he would never let anyone die under his watch and would get justice against the Dark Hunters. He almost goes full dark Toa but comes back from it thanks to a good talking too.
Playing a Toa of Plant-life was so much fun, he was a walking utility belt. He could collect plant samples along his adventure, breed them to emphasize certain traits and ended up having a plant for every situation but the Meme of the group was what I called "The Makuta's Piss Pepper" I heard somebody once describe being pepper sprayed like getting pissed on by the Devil, so I created a Super Hot Pepper that does Chemical Fire Damage!
Vaphi the Toa of Sonics: He was our team's engineer and tinkerer. He was the fun toa of the group, he would make jokes, get involved in Whaka's plant experiments, built a lot of the team's equipment, and had this on-going mech suit project
Vojakua Toa of Plasma: He pretended not to be a Toa of Plasma and claimed he was a Toa of Fire cause as a Matoran he saw a Toa of Plasma go rogue and became ashamed to share his element. He was usually quiet but he helped make weapons for the team and was a really good Sword Fighter
Parkur the Toa of Iron: He was a Titan of a Toa who was really good at just doing a ton of damage but was very simple minded. He had trauma because of the Makuta wiping out most of the Iron Matoran and wanted to take revenge on the New Makuta, but after meeting one of them and learning they were persecuted for their predecessors faults he came to forgive him.
Ingram the Toa of Air: The group Pilot, he owned a transport from his days as a Matoran merchant and outfited the vehicle with weapons but he had a complex where he felt like wasn't entirely cut out to be a Toa.
And Glacius the Toa of Ice and Fire: Glacius was a Karzahnian Matoran. Karzahni saw that he and a Ta-matoran were close and decided to make them even closer by taking them apart putting them together as a horrible fused Matoran. Glacius was liberated from the island of Karzahni and after being released onto the world proceeded to kick a lot of ass! Instead of having normal weapons he carries two large shields acting as a defensive tank and then beating enemies over the head with a shield! He also has an amped up disk launcher which he saves as a Last Resort because it's basically the nuclear option!
I love this alternate history and how each character has such a different backstory. I always loved the Toa of Iron and was disappointed that so many of the fun variations never go mainstream promotion.
@petermurraystudios I also started writing a follow-up story to our RPG with the approval and input from my friends where Vezon shows up with his crazy dimension jumping shenanigans and sends our toa team to a world similar to the beginning of the main Canon contradicting our characters history where the Toa Mata's cannisters malfunctioned and they were lost at sea for some thousand years. So our Toa who were trained by the Turaga Mata show up right before them and have to mentor the difficult and confused Toa Mata while Teridax is trying to probe information from us and adjust his plans accordingly. I wonder just how far our toa will go...will they take the first chance to return to their own world or will they stick around to see how new history plays out.
Thank you it was soo well made ❤❤❤❤
We will always support bionicle fans
Great vid man, it’s cool to see more Bionicle vids, love the Corridor hat too. Did you make the thumbnail?
I appreciate that! Yeah I made the thumbnail myself using a mixture of reference images
3:39 you couldn't get that technic piece off the rahkshi head, could you
been there before paiiiiiin
Great video I’ve read most of the chapter books and seen all the movies grew up with bionicle
I only got into Bionicle in the Glatorian era, so I missed a lot of the promotional stuff from the earlier waves, but I managed to find a lot of the books and comics as well as get sets from every wave.
I wish Lego had kept the theme going. Ninjago is good but doesn't fill the same role in my opinion.
Yeah Ninjago is fine, but lacks the world complexity that Bionicle had, and was continuing to work towards.
amazing video, hope it blows up soon
I appreciate that!
Great video!
Great vid homie! Love that us bionicle kids will never let it die~
The way that AI voice pronounced "Matoran" gave me an aneurysm.
@@purplehaze2358 Yeah it was a bit rough trying to get the words the synergize. Something I'll probably never use again since I'm more confident in my own voice now.
smae
This video is amazing!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
" Dark hunters are at least as powerful as toe" 😂
The charecters are fun and fleshed out. Many charecters dreams hopes are there without making them simple stereo types. Also their were stakes as well as exploration of things that stradled boundries. Such a toa Matoro not telling his team about terridax possessing a robot and walking among them.
This is cool!
Bionicle is so beloved, that fan-made video games about it are currently in development such as Quest for Mata Nui and Masks of Power. In fact, the latter game has one of it's trailers having Cryoshell sing a new song for it, As Above So Below.
@@WildDancer101 100% Essenger's song's an absolute banger
Really well made video :)
I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
Why does the AI keep saying Matoran wrong
When I was developing the model, certain words were a greater challenge to work out like "Piraka, Toa, and Matoran." If I reuse the model I'll try to make the pronunciation better.
Very VERY cool!
Cool vid!
Good times
Bionicle taught me English and storytelling and helped me practice reading. It basically raised me as a child
wish we can see g3 someday....
Can you show us that model around 8:27? Would be great to see any of your other mocs too
Roodaka awaken something in people...
Too true
Yay Bionicle
These names eventually turn into soup in my brain. Cant really dmfollow anything after a certain point
Kanohi powers are not the same as elemental powers. There is no "kanohi of fire" or "kanohi of sonics". Elemental powers are inherent to the beings and races associated with them, while masks give powers that are individual and that no other source can provide.
Good good. What the names of cryoshel remixes playing on the background&
@@vandkleiss140 The songs are done by Essenger who I've tagged him in the description, but I'll also link his channel below. The song names are Closer to the Truth and Creeping in my Soul
Essenger Bionicle:
youtube.com/@essengerbionicle?si=vWGQiCVViWU_UGFn
Leaving a comment bc I love it
I appreciate that!
HOW THE HELL DO YOU HAVE LESS THAN 200 SUBS WTF THIS SHIT IS AWSOME
Dude your an inspiration, insanly good work
@@WhyAreTheyComplaining I appreciate the kind words and wishes. Hopefully we can get there someday
did you hire the guy who made the adds damn
@@wallycastagnir Adds?
3 minutes in, how on Earth is your sub count and like ratio on this vid so low with this level of production quality? And six months ago, why less than 3k views?!
Haha who am I to question the almighty algorithm?
@@petermurraystudios The Algorithm is dumb.
@@Chiberus Unfortunately I don't get to make the rules. But I'm glad you found enjoyment in the video!
nice
Bionicle will always be best
Positive comment
I don't think that's how you pronounce "Hydraxon".
Bionicle is also the best thing to use against those people who say 40k is the most OP sci-fi out there. Just introduce them to bionicle lore
@@dukeynukey6725 I'd like to see a god-engine try and stand against the Mata Nui robot. That'd be a crossover for the ages
@@petermurraystudios it would be very anti-climactic. Mata Nui would be able to just stomp on it lol
@@dukeynukey6725 Hahaha if it was a 1v1 for sure. I'd love to see the god-engine as an element of a larger force as part of the Imperium's crusade when they discover Spherus Magna. They could even view the Bionicles as an extension of the Necrons
@@petermurraystudios Who knows, I don't think the imperium would care where they came from, they'd just try to exterminautus them
And then watch as one random toa forms an airbubble around the planet that goes "no u" or something lmao
A funny thing is the fact that bionicle is connected to lego space, and if you compare the physical figuree for a lego spaceman and a space marine they are about the same size. So if you add in bionicle figures into the mix the toa would be around imperial knight size
i just wish the bionicle lore wasn't so convoluted! at the begging of the story they said mata nui and makuta were bothers but later on they made a backstory for makuta that completely contradicted what they said earlier..and dont even get me started with characters like velika and tuyet..the latter wasn't even given an offcial design!!!!