I remember as kid, the revelation of Makuta shocked and confused me. His discussion with the Toa and what he implied stressed me. Even after the heroes defeated him and we're given what was supposed to be a cheery ending, I was left with a haunting sense of dread just thinking about the topic of Makuta's conversation. To think that story based on a toyline for kids was able to make me (and others I'm sure) feel like this was amazing and epic...
I think it speaks to the effort that Templar Studios put into the game, as well. They had been contracted to make what was essentially an interactive toy ad aimed at boys 8-12. They absolutely could have half-assed it. Instead they made something that had legitimate atmosphere and heart.
I know what you mean, man. For me, the most unsettling part of this was just how...easily Makuta was throwing the Toa around. As someone who grew up on shows watching the heroes dominate all their bad guys, seeing a villian beating the crap out of what all the cutscenes so far had depicted as immortal, invincible titans was chilling. And the most incredible thing is that we find out later in the storyline that at this point in time, he really *was* just toying with them. Makuta was barely even using a fraction of his power against the Toa, and they still got their masks handed to them until they used their elemental powers. They just don't make stories about toys like they used to, man. Then again, I guess that's part of growing up - everything else seems shallow in comparison.
Here's something that will change the way you think about Makuta: Makuta is destruction, while Mata Nui is creation. Makuta is Mata Nui's opposite the same way the Shadow Toa are the Toa Mata's opposite. He says that he bore the Toa. From the void came creation. When Makuta destroys them, they'll return to the void. The void being the swirling mass of Lega parts in his lair, which represents the pile of Lego pieces on the floor that every Lego creation comes from and eventually returns to. Makuta represents the inevitable dismantling of Lego creations and their return to that pile of parts, and he is "side by side" with Mata Nui in that they're both natural elements of Lego.
I can't tell you how many years I've had that thought in my head. Being a kid and going into my Bionicle box over and over again, searching for a part, smearing it all around like that. For some reason, I just never wrote it down. You nailed it. They even say earlier, when they are the Kaita and get split back into their original forms. "Makuta is the spirit of destruction." Getting pulled apart. Its insane to realize just how much philosophy and cosmic dread went into a kid's toy. Never gonna happen again. Not in the same way. Regardless of how we all turned out, this is something we'll all share.
It's also a deeper metaphor for life and death in general. We are all born from the universe, we all die at some point, and our bodies then return to the universe and become dust.
The true form of the Makuta. The immeasurable, Tetsuo esque shapeless destroyer, who I think can be personally blamed for every broken socket in the toyline
In the eyes of the toa this form is horrifying. Just imagine walking up to what looks like a swirling vortex of flesh and blood and it attacks you with guts and bones.
I remember when I first played and beat this game. This part was SOOOOOOOOOO COOL! Lego is bigger now then ever! I wish they would make a game like this or a Bionicle game with REALLY high production value.
Still the best BIONICLE piece of media ever for me. And 2001 Makuta is by far his scariest and coolest form. Really glad 2015 is going back to 2D animation.
SonicSuperBoom1 Nope. None of the Toa Mata died lol. Lewa got abducted by Bota Magna natives and was never heard from again. No one seemed to care though.
Never mind loading. I remember playing the minigames on slow computers, and then being caught completely off guard a decade later when I realized I was only playing them at half speed. XD
In hindsight, playing on potato computers was the only reason I was able to hit EVERY Nui-Rama without taking any damage in the Gekko bird flight combat. minigame
I remember me and a buddy of mine used to watch this while coming up with names for their attacks when we were kids. Tahu: Fire Blast Gali: Liquid Spill Kopaka: Ice Beam Lewa: Solar Beam Pohatu: Earthquake Onua: Acid Bath.
Head cannon on how this fits with the later rework of Makuta as Makuta Teridax: this scene DID happen, dialog and all, but the whole "I am nothing" thing was just Teridax shape shifting and messing with the Toa. "You can not destroy me. For I am nothing." (Off screen) "Heh, suckers. Can't believe they fell for that!" Edit: The same could be said of the way he acts in the Mask of Light movie, claiming to keep Mata Nui asleep to spare him pain. Maybe he's really just been a pathological liar the entire time!
@@TheMinskyTerrorist Fair enough. I did come into the fandom in the later years so for a long time I was unfamiliar with the earlier cannon. While I still like the later cannon, I will admit that this version of Makuta is both more interesting and threatening. I think there's one thing we can agree on though: the later canon was still leagues better than Bionicle Gen 2.
C C Heeeeeeell no. Absolutely not. The later canon is leaps and bounds better, particularly in the books and comics The early canon got lucky with having MNOG, but that’s it
0:22 as dramatic as this scene was... I sorta laughed my ass off the first time because of how much the background music emphasised how disappointed I was that Makuta was in a Matoran form. Like yea an illusion but the background music didn't had to be so harsh.
Initially it was likely based on a prototype, as this game was in development before the toys were even finalized. For consistency, they likely left it that way throughout the rest of the episodes.
I'm pretty sure he did that to confuse them. You can't kill the people you're trying to protect(deep stuff, man). And the mask is used as the normal pakari(onua's mask) in all the characters that have them, like takua or hafu. They change that in the bohrok saga episodes
I wish I had known about it, back then I put my tape recorder next to the speaker and recorded the sound from the game so when I found out the song had actually been released I was ecstatic. If only they released a full instrumental version of this that played during Lewa vs Onua fight instead of that 15 seconds or so that they did release.
"The people of this world are builders, but look into their hearts, and you'll see they have the power to destroy". I wonder if he refers to the matoran...or to US, the humans in the real world...
Dan Eyal Jordan Peterson could turn this into a talk about "integrating your own shadow" once again... and the first movie was quite literal about that at the end 😂, with the Toa of Light and Makuta becoming one new entity.
It was some kind of special set. It also came with the Hafu Tohunga figure, and a super-shiny silver Hau. I think it's supposed to be the Mask of Wisdom, forget what it's called.
LegendarySilverWolf 1. makutas are shapeshifter so thats only a form from him. 2. that mask is the pakari (standart onua mask) but in mata nui online game it has a slight different form. i recommend you biosector01 (if you speack englisch) or chronist wiki (if you speack german) these two are the biggest bionicle wikis plus the secound one has aforum (the other maybe has one to but i dont know)
Wait, so the Toa combined their elemental powers to at best temporarily defeat an abominable Makuta? Journey To One, we have a lot to talk about concerning plagiarism.
If you are an enemy of the toa mata... they can easily destroy you even if you are nothing... if makuta thinks he's nothing as a matoran and he messes with him... even if he's nothing he got roasted... i mean seriously he gets roasted... over and over and over until mata nui finally destroys him permanently with the moon... so as the toa would say to makuta... you just got wrecked...
I do not understand this scene too much. Is this supposed to be Makuta Terridax? Or was this long before Terridax, as a concept, existed? Was the Makuta supposed to be something else? Something far less physical?
Ricardo Tolbert like before Terridax was created in universe by the Ancients or before Terridax was even made up by the creators of the BIONICLE franchise?
This version of Makuta actually represents the darkness inside Mata Nui, part of the Great Spirit fallen from grace. He wouldn't become the character we know as Teridax until much later.
Kelsey Raabe yes but the way Teridax was created in lore, it is implied he was always that physical form. Now I can give it up that this game was made far before Metru Nui and the concept of the Brotherhood of Makuta...but there’s a serious Continuity error to be found here.
![Battle With Makuta (Voiced + Remade HQ Audio) [4K]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/cXYWxs204uk/mqdefault.jpg)
I remember as kid, the revelation of Makuta shocked and confused me. His discussion with the Toa and what he implied stressed me. Even after the heroes defeated him and we're given what was supposed to be a cheery ending, I was left with a haunting sense of dread just thinking about the topic of Makuta's conversation.
To think that story based on a toyline for kids was able to make me (and others I'm sure) feel like this was amazing and epic...
YES! makuta was basically the devil, he was allways over your shoulder and event when you defend him is imposible to get rid off him!
I think it speaks to the effort that Templar Studios put into the game, as well. They had been contracted to make what was essentially an interactive toy ad aimed at boys 8-12. They absolutely could have half-assed it. Instead they made something that had legitimate atmosphere and heart.
I know what you mean, man. For me, the most unsettling part of this was just how...easily Makuta was throwing the Toa around. As someone who grew up on shows watching the heroes dominate all their bad guys, seeing a villian beating the crap out of what all the cutscenes so far had depicted as immortal, invincible titans was chilling. And the most incredible thing is that we find out later in the storyline that at this point in time, he really *was* just toying with them. Makuta was barely even using a fraction of his power against the Toa, and they still got their masks handed to them until they used their elemental powers.
They just don't make stories about toys like they used to, man. Then again, I guess that's part of growing up - everything else seems shallow in comparison.
Here's something that will change the way you think about Makuta:
Makuta is destruction, while Mata Nui is creation. Makuta is Mata Nui's opposite the same way the Shadow Toa are the Toa Mata's opposite. He says that he bore the Toa. From the void came creation. When Makuta destroys them, they'll return to the void. The void being the swirling mass of Lega parts in his lair, which represents the pile of Lego pieces on the floor that every Lego creation comes from and eventually returns to. Makuta represents the inevitable dismantling of Lego creations and their return to that pile of parts, and he is "side by side" with Mata Nui in that they're both natural elements of Lego.
Holy shit
I can't tell you how many years I've had that thought in my head. Being a kid and going into my Bionicle box over and over again, searching for a part, smearing it all around like that. For some reason, I just never wrote it down. You nailed it. They even say earlier, when they are the Kaita and get split back into their original forms. "Makuta is the spirit of destruction." Getting pulled apart. Its insane to realize just how much philosophy and cosmic dread went into a kid's toy. Never gonna happen again. Not in the same way. Regardless of how we all turned out, this is something we'll all share.
It's also a deeper metaphor for life and death in general. We are all born from the universe, we all die at some point, and our bodies then return to the universe and become dust.
Too bad later lore vastly reduced Makuta.
@@Zmanwarrior Yeah I hate that they rewrote him to be a generic irredeemable "I want to rule the world" villain
The true form of the Makuta.
The immeasurable, Tetsuo esque shapeless destroyer, who I think can be personally blamed for every broken socket in the toyline
I'm pretty sure that blame goes to the person who formulated the lime green plastic.
@@Good100 Antidermis IS lime green. What are the Makuta made out of? Antidermis.
@@Good100Post-2007 switched to those angle sockets that disintegrated no matter what color
"You cannot destroy me.
For I am nothing."
Chills
out of all the makuta variants this is by far my favorite. all power and no over the top design.
In the eyes of the toa this form is horrifying. Just imagine walking up to what looks like a swirling vortex of flesh and blood and it attacks you with guts and bones.
That's brutal.
10 times better than the 2015 animations.
I remember when I first played and beat this game. This part was SOOOOOOOOOO COOL! Lego is bigger now then ever! I wish they would make a game like this or a Bionicle game with REALLY high production value.
Check out the fanmade game The Quest For Mata Nui. Its open world and it looks amazing.Lego approved it!
@@wonderbuilds6523 Ya I'm already keeping track of it lol
@@philippaul6039 IKR
@@wonderbuilds6523 Few sound issues I hope they'll fix though
@@philippaul6039 they're still working on the soundtrack, so I think they're working on audio now:)
Still the best BIONICLE piece of media ever for me. And 2001 Makuta is by far his scariest and coolest form.
Really glad 2015 is going back to 2D animation.
It is also one of his smartest plans. To make the Toa Mata defeat him, but they will also eliminate themselves for the island.
SonicSuperBoom1 "but they will also eliminate themselves for the island." When does that happen?
Minigun101 I don't know... I heard that that's what happens...
SonicSuperBoom1 Nope. None of the Toa Mata died lol. Lewa got abducted by Bota Magna natives and was never heard from again. No one seemed to care though.
Minigun101 Thanks, for correcting me. I'm not really familiar with the whole 2001 story.
I remember waiting forever for this to load on dial up.
I think this was the best rendition of Makuta in the series.
I have the CD with this battle's music on it. It's still awesome after over a decade.
Never mind loading. I remember playing the minigames on slow computers, and then being caught completely off guard a decade later when I realized I was only playing them at half speed. XD
Same dude, same.
All the Bionicle games just loaded and went way faster than they should, it was so strange.
Dude, you actually got it perfectly.
This is exactly how I remember it, playing back in 2001.
Did you do the one with Muaka and Kopaka as well?
In hindsight, playing on potato computers was the only reason I was able to hit EVERY Nui-Rama without taking any damage in the Gekko bird flight combat. minigame
God yeah!
I remember me and a buddy of mine used to watch this while coming up with names for their attacks when we were kids.
Tahu: Fire Blast
Gali: Liquid Spill
Kopaka: Ice Beam
Lewa: Solar Beam
Pohatu: Earthquake
Onua: Acid Bath.
Except Lewa is a Toa of Air in G1 and Onua is Toa of Earth so the Earthquake would go to him as Pohatu is a Toa of Stone.
@@Battleship009 "when We were kids" how would kids know Their elements?
@@MatiNuva1724 Depends on the kid.
Putting nostalgia aside, this scene is genuinely amazing and Makuta's monologue is fantastic.
This version of Makuta was VERY final form. Fucking awesome.
For a toy series for kids. This shit was DARK.
Head cannon on how this fits with the later rework of Makuta as Makuta Teridax: this scene DID happen, dialog and all, but the whole "I am nothing" thing was just Teridax shape shifting and messing with the Toa.
"You can not destroy me. For I am nothing."
(Off screen) "Heh, suckers. Can't believe they fell for that!"
Edit: The same could be said of the way he acts in the Mask of Light movie, claiming to keep Mata Nui asleep to spare him pain. Maybe he's really just been a pathological liar the entire time!
Austin Miller Or he was indeed always meant to represent nothingness. The nonexistent can't suffer. That would fit said line from the movie, too 😉.
@@cosmicprison9819 That's a good point.
It doesn't because the later canon sucks
@@TheMinskyTerrorist Fair enough. I did come into the fandom in the later years so for a long time I was unfamiliar with the earlier cannon. While I still like the later cannon, I will admit that this version of Makuta is both more interesting and threatening. I think there's one thing we can agree on though: the later canon was still leagues better than Bionicle Gen 2.
C C Heeeeeeell no.
Absolutely not.
The later canon is leaps and bounds better, particularly in the books and comics
The early canon got lucky with having MNOG, but that’s it
0:22 as dramatic as this scene was... I sorta laughed my ass off the first time because of how much the background music emphasised how disappointed I was that Makuta was in a Matoran form. Like yea an illusion but the background music didn't had to be so harsh.
"You expected something else?"
"Something like..."
"THIS!?"
always loved that part
This is the only acceptable version of makuta.
Initially it was likely based on a prototype, as this game was in development before the toys were even finalized. For consistency, they likely left it that way throughout the rest of the episodes.
Imagine if this makuta was a set. The just give you a bunch of black parts and an exclusive rusty hau and tell ya “go nuts”
Instructions tells you to add all your broken bionicle parts to the paste and use it to destroy more lego pieces
Relic from a golden age
YOU HAD TO JINX IT, TAHU!
I'm pretty sure he did that to confuse them. You can't kill the people you're trying to protect(deep stuff, man).
And the mask is used as the normal pakari(onua's mask) in all the characters that have them, like takua or hafu. They change that in the bohrok saga episodes
i wish the sounds would be high quality as well, but its a 2001 flash game, so its understandable why its so low quality
Ahhhh makuta teridax, they dont do anymore badass villain like him
GODD*MN IT! i keep trying to click the red triangle. TWELVE YEARS HAS TRAINED ME TOO WELL!
I wish I had known about it, back then I put my tape recorder next to the speaker and recorded the sound from the game so when I found out the song had actually been released I was ecstatic. If only they released a full instrumental version of this that played during Lewa vs Onua fight instead of that 15 seconds or so that they did release.
The nostalgia
I think this might have been running too fast, I remember it going at a bit more sedate a rate when I watched it when I was young.
How is Onua able to switch his mask for another one?
When they collect all the masks they´re able to do so
Lemirado Parker the golden masks, you mean?
The golden mask is a combination mask which has all six powers. It changes shape by summoning the masks from their Toa Suvas (Mask Shrines).
Rayram AureanBlue and there is just one such mask?
Hi. You must be from Bionicle 2015.
I feel sorry for you. Learn well.
"The people of this world are builders, but look into their hearts, and you'll see they have the power to destroy". I wonder if he refers to the matoran...or to US, the humans in the real world...
Dan Eyal Jordan Peterson could turn this into a talk about "integrating your own shadow" once again... and the first movie was quite literal about that at the end 😂, with the Toa of Light and Makuta becoming one new entity.
It was some kind of special set. It also came with the Hafu Tohunga figure, and a super-shiny silver Hau. I think it's supposed to be the Mask of Wisdom, forget what it's called.
Voyd211 It was called the Bionicle Power Pack, I got my hands on it back then. 😊
LegendarySilverWolf 1. makutas are shapeshifter so thats only a form from him. 2. that mask is the pakari (standart onua mask) but in mata nui online game it has a slight different form. i recommend you biosector01 (if you speack englisch) or chronist wiki (if you speack german) these two are the biggest bionicle wikis plus the secound one has aforum (the other maybe has one to but i dont know)
I miss this
God I love this music.
I suddenly want to play this again :P
In the Lewa vs. Onua fight, Onua has a normal looking Pakari.
Normal? its missing some vents in the mask
was the matoran he that meant to be a fake makuta?
and @1:41 whats with that mask? its not in the set or any where else
Oh my god...IT'S SLOW! THAT'S WONDERFUL!
Wait, so the Toa combined their elemental powers to at best temporarily defeat an abominable Makuta?
Journey To One, we have a lot to talk about concerning plagiarism.
Otto von Doom
Can't plagiarize yourself.
knowyourmeme.com/memes/roll-safe
If you are an enemy of the toa mata... they can easily destroy you even if you are nothing... if makuta thinks he's nothing as a matoran and he messes with him... even if he's nothing he got roasted... i mean seriously he gets roasted... over and over and over until mata nui finally destroys him permanently with the moon... so as the toa would say to makuta... you just got wrecked...
I do not understand this scene too much. Is this supposed to be Makuta Terridax? Or was this long before Terridax, as a concept, existed? Was the Makuta supposed to be something else? Something far less physical?
Digging Deeper #01 this is technically Makuta...way before Teridax was created
Ricardo Tolbert like before Terridax was created in universe by the Ancients or before Terridax was even made up by the creators of the BIONICLE franchise?
Digging Deeper #01 before he was given the name by the creators...by 2008 they decided to make Makuta a “species” instead of just one person.
This version of Makuta actually represents the darkness inside Mata Nui, part of the Great Spirit fallen from grace. He wouldn't become the character we know as Teridax until much later.
Kelsey Raabe yes but the way Teridax was created in lore, it is implied he was always that physical form. Now I can give it up that this game was made far before Metru Nui and the concept of the Brotherhood of Makuta...but there’s a serious Continuity error to be found here.
What CD was it released with?
scariest makuta ever
yeah i was thinking that too
pause there
Yeah, blame the artist :P
lame clickbait title. all you did was rip the scene from the game