Bionicle: a beginner's guide

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  • Опубліковано 24 лют 2018
  • The perfect video to explain Bionicle to your friends.
    I mock because I love.
    All copyrights depicted within this video are the sole property of their respective owners. Copyrighted images used in accordance with the Fair Use act. All other images are public domain. Big thanks to pixabay.com - check them out for public domain images.
    Remake of my original, found here: • [UPDATE - SEE DESCRIPT... . I can't say I'd recommend watching that one because it sounds like my voice is trying to burrow into your inner ear (and it's full of information that's wrong).
    --LINKS--
    Basically everything Bionicle at this amazing website: biomediaproject.com/bmp/
    Failing that, try here: bionicle.wikia.com/wiki/The_Bi...
    Actually good Bionicle analysis videos: / thethreevirtues (just search the back catalogue)
    Bionicle films available here: / @thebionicleanimations...
    Buy yourself a DVD copy then watch these because they've been remastered by the person who runs the channel - big love :)
    Bionicle film soundtracks here (for UK customers):
    www.amazon.co.uk/Bionicle-Lig...
    www.amazon.co.uk/Bionicle-Leg...
    www.amazon.co.uk/Bionicle-Web...
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 167

  • @ParadoxEngineer
    @ParadoxEngineer 4 роки тому +442

    "The Mask of Life turns the Inika into Toa Mahri cause it sensed a plot hole."
    Legendary...

  • @SchneeflockeMonsoon
    @SchneeflockeMonsoon 3 роки тому +38

    “Makuta succeeds at doing something insidious and non-specific.”
    Oh good, the status quo hasn’t changed.

  • @devo342
    @devo342 4 роки тому +59

    It’s a shame the story died just as the old gods, Elemental lords, red star, nigh omnipotent god, and the giant toa killing robot got involved.

    • @rowbot5555
      @rowbot5555 Рік тому +7

      That only means we get to make up fan canon for it that will never be overturned and everyone can have the story play out in a way they love the most

  • @neitherlink6612
    @neitherlink6612 4 роки тому +121

    I just love how the mask of life feels touched by Matoro's Toa path and ultimate sacrifice, deciding to be a Toa itself, just to later decide to annihilate its team mates when they were being mind controled.
    What a turn around!

    • @E4439Qv5
      @E4439Qv5 3 роки тому +5

      That's character development.

  • @kanewarburton8088
    @kanewarburton8088 4 роки тому +153

    Media: good guys win!
    Bionicle: no
    Media: 😱😱😱
    This is how one of the greatest franchises ever was born

  • @qnteban
    @qnteban 4 роки тому +81

    "in this tradition-defying period the Toa fight the bad guys"
    pffffffft i didnt even pick up on that the first time i watched this

  • @Deliverygrot
    @Deliverygrot 3 роки тому +41

    Well ,now i know what some people feel when im trying to explain the lore of Warhammer 40k.

  • @MonkeySharkPro
    @MonkeySharkPro 5 років тому +90

    The jab at the red star got me.

  • @hineschris9934
    @hineschris9934 3 роки тому +5

    Bionicle has an original series, a prequel series, a sequel series, and a reboot all before star wars did.

  • @russellcollings2002
    @russellcollings2002 6 років тому +108

    Bionicle was the stuff man

  • @MetalMarauder
    @MetalMarauder 4 роки тому +14

    how the FUCK did i just realize now ten years later that the large bara magna and the smaller bota magna and aqua magna are supposed to resemble the unity duty destiny symbol

    • @Monkchelle_Kongbama
      @Monkchelle_Kongbama Рік тому +2

      wait till you find out that there is an actual nebula in space that resembles the symbol
      google PK 329-02.2

  • @cobaltprime9467
    @cobaltprime9467 Рік тому +13

    I miss Bionicles
    I think it was such a success because of the media attached to it. And the complexity of the lore. Yeah, seriously, the lore adds weight to the franchise that even as kids we understood the significance of the world.
    And remarkably consistent in spite of various writers and teams working on it. Complex but with very little inconsistencies. Almost no IP can boast that.

  • @Bolbi145
    @Bolbi145 4 роки тому +243

    To be honest the whole lore sounds like a
    sci-fi fantasy improv session that went on for too long.

    • @a-s-greig
      @a-s-greig 4 роки тому +83

      To be honest, the whole lore was a sci-fi improv session that went on long enough to be absolutely brilliant, stupid, then brilliant again.

    • @MatiNuva1724
      @MatiNuva1724 3 роки тому +5

      It was supposed to last 20 years-

    • @MarvelandDC379
      @MarvelandDC379 3 роки тому +5

      Sounds about right and I loved all of it as a kid.

    • @hamstreak5591
      @hamstreak5591 3 роки тому +15

      Take it from an expert in the lore, myself, that's pretty much half of it.
      Also, 97% of Bionicle characters, who look like robots, aren't actually robots.
      Kinda.
      Technically.
      Maybe.
      Makes sense, right? Don't worry, it's not SUPPOSED to make sense.

    • @MatiNuva1724
      @MatiNuva1724 3 роки тому +3

      @@hamstreak5591 I'll say 98% of the characters
      And that guide technically only talks about 30% if I would be the one to judge

  • @nehehehgraylois
    @nehehehgraylois 3 роки тому +15

    as a longtime fan i came into this going "oh damn my friend could use this vid" and halfway in i went "those weren't brownies scoob"

  • @heyheyitsjae2475
    @heyheyitsjae2475 5 років тому +72

    3:52 But she did come up again
    ... oh she did.
    On a side note "the artist formally known as Makuta" is the best thing I've ever heard him referred too.

    • @kylefrank638
      @kylefrank638 5 років тому +10

      Krahka was actually a great character when she returned for the Visorak storyline.

  • @Luka1180
    @Luka1180 4 роки тому +24

    Ummmm... the Mata Nui Online Game flash game (the first one, not the sequel) is not horrendously broken. In fact, it's considered one of the best pieces of media BIONICLE ever had by the majority of its fans.

  • @kylefrank638
    @kylefrank638 5 років тому +48

    More specifically than "Lego didn't want to give more money to Lucasfilm", TLG thought that the best way to move into the new century of building toys was to go with more pose-able actions figures. Slizer/Throwbots and RoboRiders weren't exactly discontinued for their lack of originality; Lego never intended them to last more than one wave of sets, as they were purely conceptual lines, and Lego used them to gauge what Lego fans wanted with that new building system.

  • @dominics.8796
    @dominics.8796 5 років тому +63

    The way Mask of Life is texture at 5:46 makes it look like a Fallout: New Vegas asset. Which is a good thing in my book.

    • @hR-gw3re
      @hR-gw3re 5 років тому +6

      youre obsessed

    • @techissus7449
      @techissus7449 4 роки тому +1

      Hello Robert house, happy first month alive

    • @dominics.8796
      @dominics.8796 4 роки тому

      Tech Issus Thank you

    • @MatthewCampbell765
      @MatthewCampbell765 3 роки тому +1

      Plot Twist: Mr House was really after the Kanohi masks, not just the Platinum Chip.

    • @kojeb
      @kojeb 3 роки тому +1

      I had a stroke reading this

  • @Comeechawaylama
    @Comeechawaylama 6 років тому +236

    Criminally undersubbed.

  • @Deadonstick
    @Deadonstick 6 років тому +165

    Well, this was surprisingly one of the most entertaining things I have watched in a while. Mixing informativity (is that a word?) with entertainment flawlessly, bravo.

    • @neitherlink6612
      @neitherlink6612 4 роки тому

      "Entertainment" is a noun, and since you are saying this video is a mixture of two nouns, I thing the word you are looking for is "information".

    • @starkovskij
      @starkovskij 4 роки тому

      @@neitherlink6612 He/she was talking about the noun form of informative, informativity, which is a word. So no.

  • @Unkle_Genny
    @Unkle_Genny Рік тому +6

    3:25 Rookie mistake - the Bionicle fandom wiki is notoriously messy and inconsistent. The most accurate, polished, and up-to-date wiki is the BS01 wiki, or Bionicle Sector 01 Wiki, and it is significantly better than the fandom wiki.

  • @m4sherman375
    @m4sherman375 3 роки тому +10

    Bionicle was my entire childhood. And technically the Toa Metru came before the Toa Mata. I still have Toa Nokama And the ice vaki. I will NEVER let my bionicles go

  • @BubJeans
    @BubJeans 4 роки тому +38

    It’s a decent story with fun and interesting locations and characters, not the smartest but fun and an open world Bionicle game on ps5 would be sweet, one where you can get different parts to power up

    • @that0neguy992
      @that0neguy992 3 роки тому +6

      Look up chronicle quest for Mata nui. Not for the ps5 (likely pc), but it is everything else you described.

  • @evandenis5488
    @evandenis5488 4 роки тому +6

    The Krahka *does* come up again. Once. In one book, that you probably don't have. Then promptly gets sucked away into the Zone of Darkness, and *then* is never heard from again.

    • @a-s-greig
      @a-s-greig 3 роки тому +2

      ...And then appears again in the Ignition Saga.
      That'd be Bionicle Legends #5, _Inferno._
      She and the Tahtorahk step out of the portal created by Brutahka's Mask of Dimensional Gates, shortly after Botar took him to the Pit.
      We're tremendously lucky that the Zivon didn't also return...

    • @E4439Qv5
      @E4439Qv5 3 роки тому

      @@a-s-greig Are you absolutely _sure_ she doesn't she come back after that?

    • @a-s-greig
      @a-s-greig 3 роки тому

      @@E4439Qv5 When the Krahka is sus: 😳

  • @PolishBigfootCircle11
    @PolishBigfootCircle11 3 роки тому +8

    So you see, the Bionicle Lore is suprisingly deep

  • @Durgemann
    @Durgemann Рік тому +1

    You forgot to mention how Takanuva was messing around in alternate universes before plopping out into Karda Nui, or how the totally not Suicide Squad had to go fight Makuta’s boss.

  • @theokepler9484
    @theokepler9484 4 роки тому +9

    this is the best bionicle summary ive ever watched

  • @blueshadowdx
    @blueshadowdx 4 роки тому +24

    That was a good basic recap of the story, although you neglected to mention Takanuva's jog through an alternate dimension... or 2... or 3...

    • @Alex-mb2cy
      @Alex-mb2cy 4 роки тому +2

      Tbh these events aren't necessary when going for a basic recap of 2008
      Only if you want to explain how he got his new weapons, other than that? Nah

  • @jpeg6906
    @jpeg6906 5 років тому +19

    You forgot the story serials from 2011 that didn’t end properly lol

  • @BovineDesigns
    @BovineDesigns 2 роки тому +1

    "The artist formerly known as Makuta"
    That works way to well as a joke

  • @Lupinemancer87
    @Lupinemancer87 4 роки тому +15

    Bionicle was THE franchise!

    • @redmenace5536
      @redmenace5536 4 роки тому +1

      For some reason mars missions was my life.I have over 500 hours in the "Crystalien Conflict" game and occasionally still play the redux version xD

    • @adamnelson7840
      @adamnelson7840 2 роки тому

      Bionicle, Power Miners, Mars Mission, those were the glory days...

  • @PelinalWhitestrake36
    @PelinalWhitestrake36 5 років тому +70

    #PraiseMatoro

  • @Pridak_W
    @Pridak_W 4 роки тому +5

    THANK YOU FOR BRINGING MY CHILDHOOD BACK

  • @HelgeNoreg
    @HelgeNoreg 6 років тому +57

    Bonkles, hell yeah

  • @klob7451
    @klob7451 5 років тому +21

    Thank you, just thank you...

  • @muzz1957
    @muzz1957 Рік тому +1

    So to some up: first, the Great Beings built a robot that exploded then built another one dubbing it the Matoran Universe/a gigantic robot with a literal universe inside it, the robot known as Mata Nui goes on an adventure then the Makuta family cause him to crash land and fall asleep. The events of the second and third movies take place first, the events of the third movie takes place sometime between events of the second movie. And the events of the first movie take place after the second and third. Then a whole bunch of new Toa teams go on a mission to revive Mata Nui and awaken him. Then comes Bionicle the Legend Reborn movie where Mata Nui wakes up and we found out all the “toa events” (that’s what I call some of the story) have happened inside a giant robot called Mata Nui. He wakes up, Makuta Teridax takes over and Mata Nui’s spirit and mask go to space and he crash lands on the planet Mata Nui’s giant robot universe body was created. He gets a new body, makes new friends, finds out the Great Beings made his original body, he finds the first robot body that exploded to fight his old one which we never get a movie sequel to our disappointment. And there’s a reboot. That wasn’t at all confusing was it? 😁

  • @Wave_MC2269
    @Wave_MC2269 5 років тому +9

    I always loved the music.

  • @Luka1180
    @Luka1180 5 років тому +6

    We learn that the bounty hunters are called "Dark Hunters" in BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui too.

  • @shadeshadow007
    @shadeshadow007 Рік тому +1

    also, the film sound tracks are amazing

  • @Frosty4Rock
    @Frosty4Rock 5 років тому +16

    Ah my childhood. Shame I couldnt explain it to my friends myself. I may as well show this to em

  • @qnteban
    @qnteban 5 років тому +1

    Much better video than the other one. you can see the progress

  • @alexbrownstone4939
    @alexbrownstone4939 6 років тому +39

    I'm still lost

    • @Beanibirb
      @Beanibirb 6 років тому +3

      Don't worry I am too

    • @Pyrashusband
      @Pyrashusband 5 років тому

      Same

    • @linkaran512
      @linkaran512 4 роки тому +9

      You had to be there. Jk, the story got really confusing after 2004. They extended the flashback from 1 year to 2 years instead and from there just added more side stories nd extraneous material that convoluted the main story.

    • @tonyildelirante6873
      @tonyildelirante6873 4 роки тому

      me too

    • @deez1883
      @deez1883 3 роки тому

      About what?

  • @cooperdavis9663
    @cooperdavis9663 Рік тому +1

    Wasn't there a chapter in the story where everyone was flying around on heavily armed jet bikes or something? I vaguely remember seeing it in one of the comics in LEGO magazine

  • @davitdavid7165
    @davitdavid7165 Рік тому

    I have been so confused about the story for years, trying to piece it together from the movies and a few reviews.

  • @Shagamaw-100
    @Shagamaw-100 2 роки тому +1

    And Prophet still is having a hard time understanding the plot.

  • @punishedchad8733
    @punishedchad8733 Рік тому

    5:54 'a bunch of grinning loons" lmaooooo im out of breath son ahhahhaha

  • @thetruegoldenknight
    @thetruegoldenknight Рік тому

    All those weird foreign names, and my brain kept repeating one word: *"HUH?!"*

  • @GWKTM
    @GWKTM 4 роки тому +5

    Where did Toa Nuva find the mask of time anyway? In flash animation it seemed to appear out of nowhere for some reason, and Tahu Nuva managed to use it regardless his elemental powers being stolen...

  • @felipepiaggio4164
    @felipepiaggio4164 5 років тому +8

    8:40 I have this bad boy on my attic 🤑🤔

  • @NickLoganbill
    @NickLoganbill Рік тому

    "The Artist Formerly Known As Makuta"
    ☠☠☠

  • @MatiNuva1724
    @MatiNuva1724 3 роки тому +1

    Well Krahka does appear later too....

  • @swyrm616
    @swyrm616 Рік тому +1

    I feel enlightened now

  • @gurkenbrumm3r2
    @gurkenbrumm3r2 4 роки тому +1

    as a long time fan of bionicle i can only say that this is very true. not gonna lie

  • @Vezon2121
    @Vezon2121 4 роки тому +4

    I forgot how good the music was for the first movie. I wonder if I still have a copy.

    • @zac1002
      @zac1002 4 роки тому +1

      It's on UA-cam in upscaled 1080p

    • @a-s-greig
      @a-s-greig 4 роки тому

      Google "Nathan Furst."

  • @flightg97shadowgarth32
    @flightg97shadowgarth32 5 років тому

    You just got yourself another sub.

  • @itsprobablydean
    @itsprobablydean 4 роки тому

    This video is excellent.

  • @dorediskin9365
    @dorediskin9365 2 роки тому

    Yup it's basically a kid taking random pieces and sticking them together. I used to be that kid. Good memories

  • @eggplant8452
    @eggplant8452 6 років тому +4

    Thanks Hbomberguy!

  • @ijren
    @ijren 5 років тому +3

    The 2 dislikes are jealous because of how many Subscribers you have

  • @jackninja1
    @jackninja1 6 років тому

    Great video!

  • @eduardpeeterlemming
    @eduardpeeterlemming 2 роки тому

    I had one set of bionicle and maybe 2 sets of hero factory

  • @jonathangomez2542
    @jonathangomez2542 4 роки тому +1

    Wait wait wait, what happened to the mata matoran when they turned into Inika?? I remember they were asleep in the tombs and the Piraka woke them up.

    • @fiendwithoutaface6833
      @fiendwithoutaface6833 4 роки тому +2

      It was only really like that in one of the online animations. In the story proper, the 6 matoran are transformed in the Toa cannisters on the way to Voya Nui by the red star and wake up as the Toa Inika on its shore not unlike the Toa Mata of 01. They weren't entombed ancient Toa as the animation would have you think.

  • @henrygeoghegan815
    @henrygeoghegan815 6 років тому +28

    hang on...this seems awfully familiar....

  • @mesaplayer9636
    @mesaplayer9636 4 роки тому +1

    How many times is the letter T used in this video

  • @hidayahhazizi281
    @hidayahhazizi281 Рік тому

    Mishkat: seee new bioncle

  • @1995krampe
    @1995krampe 4 роки тому +1

    ahhhhhh the memories!

  • @sgtbrunope
    @sgtbrunope Рік тому

    gen 1 storyline: ➡️↘️↙️↖️⬆️⬅️➡️↪️↩️⤴️↖️⬆️⬇️↗️🔽⬅️⏫⏬
    gen 2 storyline: toa mata go to okoto because ekimus brother makuta was put into sleep and they fight makutas skull minions

  • @DylanBegazo
    @DylanBegazo 3 роки тому +1

    The Bionicle story deserved better than these constant plot holes and plot rushing.
    Bionicle deserved better.

  • @MNGN101
    @MNGN101 5 років тому

    What's the music at the start of the video?

  • @cheesemoon6319
    @cheesemoon6319 Рік тому

    This video is so fucking good.

  • @doctordalek4502
    @doctordalek4502 3 роки тому +1

    Technically the vahi didn’t do jack shit against the kal

    • @E4439Qv5
      @E4439Qv5 3 роки тому +1

      The Kal beat themselves by accepting gifted Toa power... which causes their own powers to go haywire leading to actually kinda brutal deaths.

  • @spicethea3258
    @spicethea3258 3 роки тому

    wow. I should have started watching this xD

  • @deez1883
    @deez1883 3 роки тому

    What did you say about the Flash games?

  • @KeLoman0
    @KeLoman0 4 роки тому +1

    broken online flash game? did you even played the bottom left one ??

  • @flarsson3222
    @flarsson3222 5 років тому

    Jesus Christ! You need more subs!

  • @jack1701e
    @jack1701e 3 роки тому +1

    And I thought Elder Scrolls and C0DA lore was confusing...

  • @aakyi840
    @aakyi840 4 роки тому +1

    Oh shit that's deep

  • @mislavgrosinic2999
    @mislavgrosinic2999 4 роки тому +1

    Shitty New bionicle reboot :
    Let me introduce myself

  • @mislavgrosinic5584
    @mislavgrosinic5584 4 роки тому +1

    3:45 NOT those matoran

  • @Banana0_0Manly
    @Banana0_0Manly 3 роки тому

    Who wrote this story have i ultra big brain

  • @aylmao1715
    @aylmao1715 5 років тому +3

    Spooky legos

  • @SmashBroD
    @SmashBroD 3 роки тому +1

    Particularly up until Mahri Nui at least, I have never felt so attacked by stuff that I also agree with. lol jk.

  • @remyheart27
    @remyheart27 11 місяців тому

    I really feel we missed the part explaining what the actual F a Bionicle is. But the whole lore thing definitely didn't help

  • @ST-gi5yf
    @ST-gi5yf 5 років тому +2

    Ok I still do not get it

  • @godzillacc5
    @godzillacc5 5 років тому

    I guess that's about right

  • @Person-wz6iy
    @Person-wz6iy Рік тому +1

    1:37, 1:46, 2:45, 3:13, 3:29, 4:14, 5:19, 7:09, 8:03, 11:01.

  • @arismafiamafiaiskandar5145
    @arismafiamafiaiskandar5145 4 роки тому +1

    So.... The Toa are basically avatar benders right??

  • @AngryGoats555
    @AngryGoats555 5 років тому +3

    B O N K S

  • @riordian2
    @riordian2 4 роки тому

    soo, it's not worth checking out or what?

  • @thesuperthingymabob8209
    @thesuperthingymabob8209 6 років тому +6

    I was excited to see you made another bionicle video but you just reused most of the script of the other one. Why do this? The first one was so good. This one is somehow less funny too, despite having like the same lines.

    • @yv5808
      @yv5808 5 років тому +3

      I actually didn't get the first one very well. Probably because it was missing some images due to copyright issues. So I'm happy he made this one.

  • @stuff2climb102
    @stuff2climb102 2 роки тому +1

    Ahhh, Bionicle. You come back to it after 15 years, and you can't decide if it was brilliant, trash, or both at the same time...

  • @AWildPotato-kp6ub
    @AWildPotato-kp6ub 5 років тому +1

    this is so fucking hilarious

  • @zackf1929
    @zackf1929 2 роки тому

    As a rookie, i understood this

  • @ianwagner3603
    @ianwagner3603 3 роки тому +2

    Bionical was meant for kids right?

  • @silverchairsg
    @silverchairsg Рік тому

    Wow I stopped playing with Legos and Bionicle after the Rahkshi saga. Everything else is unfamiliar to me.

  • @careyrobinson6921
    @careyrobinson6921 3 роки тому

    Why you gotta do Bionicle like this...

  • @zabeX01
    @zabeX01 4 роки тому

    Sooooo what?

  • @clydejp5047
    @clydejp5047 3 роки тому

    2:00 voice crack

  • @willcrabbe1947
    @willcrabbe1947 3 роки тому

    I've heard comments are good for the UA-cam algorithm

  • @merlijnhuntjens
    @merlijnhuntjens 3 роки тому +1

    What