"What if inside each pill, was a tiny soldier?" Honestly that one line added more emotion to the franchise than anything else Lego had ever accomplished.
Osmosonicle:the evil brain cancerkuta has put bill murryata nui to sleep, six legendary pill-toa fall from the sky in canisters to stop brain cancerkuta from rulling the celltoran universe
@Amanda Hahl Quit begging. God *damn* are you desperate. Got to Tumblr with that shit. You're one of the reasons this Website is crashing fast! Christ almighty!
Definitely, bionicle is not dead. We were given the parts. Now, we create the story. Technically speaking we're the great beings. Now, we make a new legend.
This video is aimed specifically for those who grow up in the 2000's: >Comics >Videogames for GBA and Internet >Halo music >Bionicle >2000's tv commercials >2000's rock songs Jesus man, you were killing me with nostalgia.
The fact that after two cancellations, multiple rejections by lego, and only two extremely minor homages locked behind a paywall the Bionicle community is still going strong really shows how impactful this theme was. Bionicle may be over, but it's fanbase will never die
Damn, talking about Bionicle while playing various Halo soundtracks in the background? You are truly pulling at my 10 year old heartstrings in all the right ways my dude.
y'know it hit me, a lot of the toa/matoran had firearm like weapons and even the movie game had them shoot fireballs despite having melee weapons, and the heroes game being an over the shoulder shooter. over the years they've had throwing discs, spinners, launchers, blasters, man i wish we had a decent bionicle game. one that would have an original story.
This whole Lego Rewind series is a major public service, especially for people interested in the history of modern toys. I'm sure history academics will use these videos as guides for understanding Lego for years to come.
@@wanderingoryx3710 Ninjago is definitely another wildly successful Lego theme, not sure why you're saying that in this thread, it's a bit non sequitor
I didn't realize that the story was all based like that, curing Mata Nui's sickness. I loved how you pointed out how the entire universe is one big life form, the canisters are pills, I never realized that. So cool how Christian Faber beat a brain tumor and made an entire story about a group of heroes trying to do the same to save their universe.
You gotta love how high and low concept bionicle is at the same time: "What if these pills had small warriors who fought cancer?" "What if this cancer was in the brain of a absolutely ginormous robot"
@@gone9820 not at all, these days there are many extremely massive franchises that are lore heavy. Warhammer, elder scrolls, loz, halo etc. these are all extremely successful too. I believe if Bionicle were to be revived with the massive lore attached too it it would be massive success in this day and age.
14:22 I just realized something recently, Metru Nui is one giant computer. Ta-Metru is the heat sink and maybe even the RAM, Ko-Metru is the cooling unit and the Knowledge Towers could be something like the data drives and chips, Ga-Metru is either a secondary CPU or the program library, Onu-Metru is the hard drive or mass storage device, Le-Metru is probably either the circuit boards or power unit, (maybe both) and Po-Metru is probably the graphics card or even the microprocessor, possibly even some moving parts like the cooling fans and disk reader. That would probably make the Coliseum the main CPU. The entire city is one big computer that functions as Mata Nui's brain, and if you look at it from a birds-eye view, it even looks like the inside of a computer. That's brilliant.
i remember seeing one last Nuju at the store. After long debate with mom, she finally gave in to buy it. When i went to get him, he was gone. Some other kid was carrying him. It’s a memory that has stuck w me. Couple years ago, i found him complete in a flee market, since then he’s been sitting on my shelf
Nuju was the one Bionicle that sparked my imagination. Every single story that I have conjured up since I was 14 can be traced back to Nuju. The amazing thing was that back then I had zero knowledge of the Bionicle lore and only last year found out about it through this video. When I realized that the one toy that helped inspire countless stories in my mind was part of an amazing story as well I broke down into tears.
48:53 "Why did they make Gresh Toa of Air? He's part of the jungle tribe, shouldn't he be Toa of plant life?" *Bionicle 2015 episode 13* Lewa, Master of Jungle: I feel a breeze! Kopaka: Breeze? What are you? The Master of Air?
I kind of wish the franchise could get the Transformers treatment: over the decades we get different continuities with different stories/characters that all fit under the Bionicle umbrella. It would give the brand more staying power than if they only continued the G1 storyline. Sadly, from my time in the Bionicle fandom it seems like a lot of people would be upset if any incarnation veered too far from the way G1 did things. So maybe I'm in the minority here.
@@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr They could just say that it was one of the many alternate Universes. Rather then a reboot, just a different dimension with some of the same characters apeparing.
Bionicle could work like Mobile Suit Gundam universe when there is one main timeline with many spin-offs and many more timelines with diffrent stories and characters
It hurt that The Lego Movie listed Bionicle as one of the sets "they don't talk about." I loved this series, simply because it was epic and had a nice style. Edit: I realize they actually said "and a bunch of others we don't need to mention." My point still stands though. The lack of representation beyond that is saddening. I mean, they gave Ninjago and a bunch of licensed properties a spotlight, but not Bionicle? Like, not even just having Tahu or one of the other recognizable Toa a cameo in the Master Builder meeting?
They said "and a bunch of others [themes]" They meant there was no time to visit that world in the movie, as there are too many themes to do justice. They showed Fabuland too, and that theme is beloved as well.
@@apothisiii5549 well... I believe Lego said no because A) Bionicle 2015 just came out, so kids wouldn't know who or what that character was. And B) its a older- OLDER property that kids wouldnt know who or what the character was.
I am constantly surprised by how much lore Lego put into the Bionicle series. Even now I am still finding things I never knew before. I came to Bionicle for the toys and stayed for the story.
It's like: a man has fallen into the river in Lego City And then, suddenly: An old world, full of mistery and lore needs it's heroes to rise. Become Toa, warriors of elements and save Mata Nui from certain doom
The borderline terrifying thing is that this video is just scratching the surface. The number of side stories, subplots, societies that were never even seen in the toys, and characters was...immense.
For real. I'm 25 and discovered Bionicle upon release back in 2001. And still to this day I am finding out more and more about the lore of this world. Like the Dark To a or Takanuva's time travel shinnanagins. Its probably one of the most complicated pieces of fiction of come across.
If Bionicle continued their story and made the great beings into mysterious interstellar travelers like he said it. And they would see the race as a threat and attack them. It be like Gurren Lagann then
Bionicle is to Lego what's Metroid to Nintendo. They are important to companies that own them, but everything that those companies do with them is give them small cameos in their other properties.
i saw a picture, technically a meme i think, of samus and tahu at a bar, kind of a purgatory type thing and samus just asks tahu "your company stop caring too?" while tahu just glares straight forward, fuming
At this point, I think both companies are scared to touch the IPs and the half a chance of screwing them up. Especially cause they make a great safety net incase something horrific happens.
@@masterzoroark6664 Pohatu: Don't believe in me, Believe in the me who believes in you! Tahu: (directed at Makuta) Just who the h*ll do you think we are! Lewa: Just rip it off and get NAKED!!! Kopaka: The group I belong to is...Nudist...Beach Gali: What? Kopaka:(cloths suddenly fall off) NUDEST'A...BEACH!!!! Onua: MY DRILL IS THE DRILL THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!!!!
These two worlds always come to my mind in a pair, nothing matches how I felt entering the ruins in the 2nd mission, and watching those little Bionicle videos setting the scene. Another one that made me feel similarly was Brute Force for the Xbox (And the original xbox itself!), the environments and designs are absolute classics to me as well. I notice it left such an impression on me to this day, a much more recent game I play to this day, Warframe, frequently gives me strong nostalgia. Stuff like the Banshee Prime trailer just makes me feel like a kid again... Even just stuff like the mountain from SSX 3 filled me with a kind of wonder, I always loved stuff that felt alien to me. It's raw landscapes mixed with those glowy futuristic rails penetrating the blizzard etc., I can't put it to words. With all that and more, such as Megaman: Battle Network, I'm so lucky to have been a kid during that age. I love how much was left to my imagination a lot of the time
@@NickonPlanetRippleI find myself rewatching this video so much that I've associated the Halo OST with Bionicle. Can I trouble you for the song list used throughout the video?
@@NickonPlanetRipple The use of Halo music gives me the mental image of Master Chief joining forces with the Toa, which is incredibly palpable/powerful.
Jeez, there really are people who view Bionicle as "illegitimate" or "a disgrace"? It's one of the few reasons I still sort of care about Lego at all! Thank you so much for your efforts, Nick, it's been amazing. I sincerely hope you'll continue doing all sorts of cool stuff in the future and wish you luck in your creative endeavors!
@@holden_7597 yeah, I understand that fact and can relate, tis only human, but I legit can't picture a Lego fan who isn't a literal boomer not getting behind Bionicle. I understand that I'm blinded by nostalgia, but it just seems like such an awesome and all-around well respected franchise, one of the few things from my childhood everyone seems to agree has stood the test of time, might I add, that it's weird to think about some folks actually giving it shit, logical as it may be since people's tastes tend to differ drastically.
@@apostlenik809 Right? I may not like Ninjago or Hero Factory because, in my opinion, they are pale imitations of Bionicle, but I'm not going to say that to someone who enjoys those series because it's not my place to do so. I may say something along the lines of "I like Bionicle more" but I won't tear down their series just to make myself feel better about it; I'd rather hear why they like the other series and maybe their insight will give me a better appreciation for it.
Bionicle, the LEGO theme has has had the most impact on my life. While I was alive for most of Bionicle's original run, I was only old enough to buy and understand the story of the last two years. However, as a kid, many of the toys I got were bought from garage sales and other used toy places, so I also owned a large amount of the 2001-2005 sets. I didn't know their stories, but I owned many of the posters and they would inspire so much curiosity about their world. All I knew storywise besides 2009 and 10 was the original three movies, so I would make up the backstories of many of the sets. The bohrok were always my favorite. Two of my friends and I would come over nearly every day of the summer and we would build our own self mocs. I don't know why, but we would always call them our "dudes". Like," Let's build a bad guy for our dudes to fight," or "I'm going to give my dude a new weapon". We would always buy Hero Factory sets and upgrade them with our Bionicle parts and just call them Bionicle characters. We eventually drifted apart. I actually saw one of the friends after G2 had ended, and he asked me if I knew that Bionicle had came back for a while and we talked for a while about some of our Bionicle memories. Fast forward to the present, and I have gotten back into Bionicle and have read the entire series. It was amazing to see the actual stories of the sets, and I was suprised at all things that I had guessed right. I am now buying a lot of the sets that I had always wanted as a kid, and I am glad to say that Bionicle will be an amazing memory from my childhood that I will never forget.
I knew nothing about the Bionicle lore, and you explained it so well and in such a way that I could share your amazements and disappointment at the sets and stories. I'm halfway through the video still, but so far, this is a great finale for Lego Rewind. Also, Halo music was the perfect choice.
I'll never forget the Christmas of 2002 when my big brother and I found two canisters under the tree... He got Onua, I got Lewa... And life was great...
I just wanted to say that the 2009 bara magna soft reboot, though not at all perfect, was successful in bringing in new young fans. I and a couple of my friends, got into bionicle thanks to the Glatorian year(although my first were the Mistika) and and as a kindergartner at the time, bionicle became a huge part of my childhood. And thanks to TH-cam and that legendary “2008 Bionicle Retrospective” video I came to learn about the story of bionicle and became obsessed. But yeah, I just wanted to stand testament to the fact that the glatorian years was the best move lego could’ve made even though it didn’t pay off.
the latest ninjago figs with their "gamer vision" on where you only see the glowing eyes already looks so much like bionicle ninjago is the closest to bionicle it has ever been
While I much prefer the Barraki over the Piraka, I kinda love how stupidly OP the Piraka were. -Zaktan literally survives through sheer force of anger alone and keeps the others in line with brutal yet adept weapon skills. -Reidak could plot and outwit his enemies, he just doesn't want to since he can adapt to any method used to defeat him anyway. -Avak can materialise the perfect prison to contain any enemy just by thinking about it, also a gunsmith capable of building weapons of ridiculous firepower. -Hakann can shrug off extreme heat and can attack enemies with mental blasts, most notably Zaktan who realised the pain could get no worse and drew strength from that thought. -Thok can bring almost anything to life (like the Piraka Stronghold) and is just there for laughs and the mask of life, forming secret alliances with other Piraka so he can betray everyone with ease. -Vezok prior to his division into Vezok/Vezon was the most cunning of the group, a master ambusher, who could've taken the mask for himself if Vezon hadn’t happened. -Vezon himself could not die under any circumstances while cursed, and later he became entangled in a lovecraftian Suicide Squad. It’s like every bad anime villain powerlevel cranked into overdrive. No surprise that they had to be written so they couldn’t stand even sharing air with each other, if they had even a sliver of collaborative skills, they’d have curbstomped everyone.
As deep as the lore was. I could never get into it, not because of it's length of complexity but because I didn't speak english as a kid. But even with this, everyone I knew loved Bionicle because frankly, it was cool as hell.
I loved hero factory and thought bionicle was this group of mocers or something.then i learned it was oficial but got scared bq english was't my first languige.now i am happy to know what it was like:) Ps:pls dont correct me and stuff
I also couldn't get into bionicle lore as a kid because I didn't speak english. I just saw new cool sets year after year, bigger, diferent, with new weapons cooler and cooler every time. Then, the Great spirit robot reveal happened. I was so confused! I already understood engilsh well enough, so I started reading bionicle lore in the wiki. I was just amazed at how complex things were! As if bionicle wasn't already my favorite toy, it became one of my favorite fictional stories as well.
I guess, giving the characters outlandish names made it as exotic for english speakers as for others. I tried to interpret names, sounding similar to words I knew tho, which even worked in a few instances.
“They were planned to knock each other’s heads off, but that was too violent…” That aged well. Remember when Takanuva accidentally split someone in half after her portal closed with her halfway through it?
the stroy grew with its audience so the seven year olds who got into the series were well into their teen years by the time things got "iffy" for a lego theme. First noticeable tone shift was the 2005 encyclopedia mini-story about Nidhiki and how Lariska was using poison knives and doing target practice with corpses.
I just realized, that scene of the infected mask covering half of the island in 2001...that must have been foreshadowing for the 8th year if Bionicle! If it was intentional, that's amazing foreshadowing.
Faber's Facebook page/Blogspot is a wealth of concept pictures dated all the way back in 2000! There's an image floating around of Mata-Nui's head resting under Denmark (the archipelago being the apparent inspiration for the island of Mata-Nui's shape), and his shoulders as Germany!
You made a good point about the sound design. I never realized it before, but the sounds in Bionicle ads (and, by extension, some of the music for those ads, too) shaped a lot of my perception of the toys, and in some cases are the most memorable part of the whole experience. There's a little 30 second animation that plays when you put in one of the mini CDs that came with Bohrok-Kal and Rahkshi sets, and the electronic music for those 30 seconds is the heart of my nostalgia for Bionicle in general. Playing that 30 seconds of audio is enough to get me thinking about Bionicle for the rest of the day.
Yeah. I came to realise everything I liked growing up (including Bionicle) had a sound/musical element about it that shaped the way I thought about it. The Star Wars films are a great example of using sound design to create a experience never seen before at the time. P.S. I became a HUGE Doom fan after just hearing a couple soundtracks from the game.
The Bionicle team had some of the best sound design I think I’ve ever seen. It was as much a character as the toa themselves, and MNOG especially had enough atmosphere dripping off of it to fill the Atlantic. Hearing the flowing water and ambient creature noises you hear when you start in Ga-Koro still makes me feel like I’m there, all these years later.
Even if they don't bring back Bionicle as a whole, something I'd love to see is "remakes" of the original Toa sets, as it were, maybe even in 2021 for the 20th anniversary of Bionicle. Like, keeping the general design and silhouette of the characters, but updating them with modern touch ups like better knees and elbows, slightly more detailed armour and masks, maybe even actual hands to hold their weapons rather than just having them stuck in, stuff like that. Hell, they could even come with a golden version of their mask, and maybe even some silver armour and their Nuva masks and tools that you can swap around, effectively making the Toa Mata and Toa Nuva into one. ...Of course I'd also love to see a "G3" with the same sort of style and aesthetic as G1, but still.
I remember Bionicle coming out in 2000 here in Australia but I think we might have been like a test market or something? So I wonder if Lego would do a 20th anniversary next year?
33:40 Just for reference. One of the oldest references of other makuta is from the second movie. When Teridax is trying to lure Vakama into joining him, he says "Join me and my brothers". There's also the Makuta Nui set, which implies that there are other makuta, because a "Nui" is formed from 6 beings of the same species, like the Matoran Nui.
Makuta Nui is more the antithesis to Mata Nui. Its Teridax's secret beast form and thus does not really allude to there being more Makuta. The quote from the second movie apparently at first was a random creative choice. But it eventually sparked the idea of there being a brotherhood of Makuta.
"the brown ones don't sell" meanwhile: me a person who just missed the original bionicle looking at g2 sets "hmm yes pohatu looks nice" (he's always been my favourite)
Personally, I have no issue with the brown color. Earthy tones are nice, and bright orange feels more a supplementary color to fire than it does stone.
@@Destroyah5000 "Your mask will make a nice addition to my collection" Fuck now i think about Toa Leva landing like Kenobi and saying "Hello there" and Makuta being "Toa Leva" in Grevious' voice
I was never into Bionicle. Between me and my brother we had less than five sets, and we never knew anything of the story. I was vaguely aware of some sort of story behind the weird names and designs existing, but before I saw this series, I never realized how much of a story Lego themes usually had. I was under the impression that was reserved for the 'special' themes like Ninjago, and the licensed themes of course. You've showed me just how deep Lego's history is and the stories it could tell on it's own. Thank you Nick, this was a series like no other. And if perhaps it returns one day, I assure you I'll be there. See you soon.
Heh. Funny thing, me and my younger sister loved bionicle. She liked them more than dolls. Well, i was more into lore and stories, but making our own stories based after the movies or just regardless of them was fun
"It's never too late to appreciate something" I recently took a rather long break from lego, only buying less then 5 sets in 2021. But this year I felt like getting back into buying lego, and found my self really interested in bionicle. And I found myself really hoping that for this community that the theme could return one day. But now I think all I and many others want is a new, non-liscensed theme to create a new legacy. Because no matter what no one and nothing can take away what we've already gotten.
When I was a kid and Bionicle first came out, my brother and I got Onua. Our best friend had Pohatu and a few little McDonald's Tohunga figures (which I didn't care for at all), and I remember thinking how impossibly awesome it would be to own all 6 Toa. As I grew up, I went through the customary decade or so not caring much at all about Lego. Then when nostalgia came knocking in my mid-twenties, I bought all 6 Toa - it was an itch I needed to scratch. About a decade later, now in my mid-thirties, I randomly felt the need to collect all 6 McDonald's Tohunga, as well as the 6 Turaga. Neither of these were things I thought I'd ever care about. It's weird how nostalgia works, coming in waves, and how our memories changes the way we value things. I'm an incurable collector, especially of things that remind me of the innocent desires of my childhood self.
There was never a story like this befor and there never will be again. It interest how it's had an exstramely profound effect on Autistic people all over the world.
Bionicle was one of my first special interests. As a kid I was so obsessed I would try to incorporate Bionicle jargon into everyday conversations and get fake-surprised when people didn't know what I was talking about.
My mum is ignorant especially about autism and is too overprotective of me, it'll be her fault if I die alone and she doesn't know how to talk to me in a way that won't piss me off.
Thanks for making this. The Bohrok and the original Toa make me feel so much nostalgia it almost hurts. I tuned out when the Bohrok Kal showed up, as I felt I was being sold the same toys again, so it's nice to learn how the story played out after that point.
Maybe you should make some cool videos featuring bionicle? You are a very popular lego related channel, maybe just including a few or making like a fighting video with some bionicles to show their capabilities could spark some more fans? As we all know, the more people who are interested in it the more likely it is we get it back
@@hitrapperandartistdababy Check out his Brothers' channel, "Little Brotherhood Studios". They are making Stop motion videos with custom Bionicle Figures.
I actually loved the way they ended the main story, (not counting the rush wrap-up or the extra online blog-- the last part that felt to me like part of the same story, anyway) even if it was because of external factors. Having the bad guy win -- and in a way that actually made sense -- felt like an actual twist, especially for Lego.
Bionicle has always been a major inspiration to me as a writer. when I was young I remember seeing the previews for the mask of light frequently and saw the movie once but I don't remember it much. and the mysterious quality of it is still inspiring to me today. just the mysterious quality of the world is very captivating. Thank you for doing the series of lego rewind I really enjoyed it.
The one thing I really remember about the movies was Teridax’s voice. That was hands down the best casting choice they could have made. Lee Tockar was incredible as Makuta. He gave him such a chilling and creepy voice. I remember it creeped a lot of fans out. I still find Tockar’s performance chilling even now.
All of this from a man who got really sick, and imagined the pills he took as little capsules containing heroes fighting off the virus. Now that's inspiration. Edit: Oh, typed this right before you said it. I miss Bionicle to this day. It was my childhood.
Makuta's death in one sentence: "Mother nature wants you wacked." Also, the Great Cataclysm witnessed in the second movie was the giant robot crash landing on Aqua Magna, hence the giant earthquake.
@@tahutheprotector6988 the giant earthquake was caused by the GSR crashing on the moon Making everything inside quake Islands were shot up into the sky
Regarding the Mata Nui Online Game: I only discovered Bionicle properly in 2008, and learned the previous years' lore through BionicleStory. In *2011*, I finally found MNOG - and was absolutely blown away. The incredible atmosphere, the gorgeous music, the point and click style perfectly complimenting the sense of mystery... Coming up to two decades later, it still stands out as a fantastic way to induce intrigue and present lore. Not only that, but it gave us a reason to care about the stakes too. We get to see the everyday life of the villagers under the protection of the heroes, to walk many miles in their metallic boots. That backdrop really put the importance of the main quest into perspective. Your remarks about the mystery of those original years is totally spot on - but perhaps inadvertently, MNOG provided a delightful contrast between the unknown and the familiar, especially after year one. You could be hunkering down against a bohrok invasion in Po-Koro, or playing with flowers on the shores of naho bay, and these places would feel like little islands of familiarity in a sea of mystery. That contrast made either side even more special, somehow. Thank you, for doing this. All of this. It's been a fantastic experience ✌
MNOG and a VHS-tape with 15 minutes of Bohrok-lore were what sparked a life-long love for Bionicle in me. It (MNOG, that is) really was a perfect way to utilize the internet so early, that is what true innovation looks like.
I'm not going to lie if that was actually true then that means everybody in Bionicle we're just toys in a closet what seemed to be millions of years for them it's only just couple minutes just for some kid to grab them it almost seems in a way to come full circle.
I still hold onto that theory. Much similar to Halo, I like to think that the Bionicle were the Forerunners to the Lego minifigures, and to the Bionicle we were the Precursors as the Great Beings.
joko33 are they pulling some kind of Smash Bros and Master hand thing on us or Lego Movie plot twist. Like, the entire fight and epic battle to save the universe from evil turns out to be all about a little kid playing with his toys in his room.
actually the audience is represented by something called "The Red Star" a star/ship in the skies of the matoran universe that would rebuild and bring back to life those that had died in the matoran universe. meant to represent the creativity of the audience and how we as the consumer dont destroy the figures i.e. dont let them die
FYI everybody- I didn't put ads on this video. It was copyright-claimed for the brief clip of that "Move Along" Inika commercial. Soooo..... not much I can do about that. It just sucks.
"I'd like to imagine him channeling one through each hand", that is EXACTLY how it worked with Takanuva's half-shadow form. It was literally him controlling Light with his left hand and Shadow with his right. The corruption also caused him to feel darker urges which grew increasingly harder to resist. His corruption didn't stop halfway, it merely slowed down. Mata Nui was dying, but Takanuva was slowly turning evil. I always envisioned the G2 story as one of the many "alternate dimensions" that would be accessible through the Kanohi Olmak (Brutaka's mask). Imagine Vezon showing up in the background for a section, crushing one of those living bear-traps and leaving again.
I love how the origin story for the universe uses stones, gives the feeling that it is an Elder telling this story and using the stones as a visual aid.
I'll be honest, when I first started watching this series, I wasn't super into Lego anymore. I was watching more out of nostalgia for what I used to play with and to see the Lego sets I'd since missed, or was just too young to really see when they came out. But now, I'm actually getting back into it, and I have you to thank for that. So thank you Nick, for bringing Lego back into life and reminding how great it was, is.
So glad you made this video. For me, Bionicle was pure magic. As a kid, everything was strange, alien, and captivating. I didn't get everything, and I was tootin' mad originally when I learned that it wasn't THE Makuta, it was the Brotherhood of Makuta, but I was born in 1996. Literally, Bionicle was the same duration as my childhood. It gave us strange and interesting designs and incredible characters. But I think the best thing it gave me was an appreciation of longer, more epic stories. Didn't grow up with Marvel or DC, couldn't get into Lord of the Rings, didn't really watch Star Wars. It was the tale of the Bionicle. But I'll give a few of my own thoughts and experiences. I mostly ducked out of 2006 for some reason. I only learned most of the story's hidden niches recently, which is a nostalgia blast, and I've only recently learned about the Piraka's individual personality. But 2007 was the best year for me even if I only got Ehlek. I paid the most attention, wanted most of the sets, and was engrossed by the darkness of the ocean. Karda Nui was a twist, but I also like it. The Mistika Toa are just plain bad, I think there needs to be less grey and the colors and shapes more attuned to the original toa, but given that it's only the set design for a few of the sets that I'm complaining about? I like all the Makuta sets, even with how odd it was to just then hear about more than 1 Makuta. I picked up Vamprah and Gorast, who both have tragically buckled under the weight of their own structural fragility. I have to say, my love of the Makuta was probably helped by me turning Vamprah into the Batwing from Tim Burton's movies and Gorast into a 2-headed Dragon, Transformers-style. Would've loved to have all 6 Makuta. It actually bothered me that there weren't 6 more matoran for the Mistika, designed after their bigger buddies because the first 6 have such heavy design cues. I think Bionicle has affected me, too, in the way I tell my stories (because I, too, am a storyteller). Not in terms of robots on islands, or epic battles waged for the heart and soul of the universe, but culturally. My webcomic has sharkfolk in it that are based off of Polynesian culture, terminology, and ideas, and I don't think that would've happened if Lewa was called 'Axe' or something like that. As a last side note: Can we have links to galleries of your bionicle MOCs and the MOCs of the glatorian and the like you showed here? I want to stare at other people being better builders than I am.
Unfortunately, I do not have such galleries. This is the most people have seen of them. Might make a series of videos showcasing them sometime, though.
Bionicle was one of the greatest things that Lego ever did. It was one of the defining franchises from my childhood, before Transformers or Star Wars. Revisiting it as a 20-something adult, it's reminded me of something about life: there is a reason why we tell ourselves stories. Stories reveal truths about ourselves and about our lives. Stories inspire us and give us hope. To some, they are just action figures, but to me, they are larger than life characters that represent the forces the light and shadow, good and evil, and the amazing mystery of how life never unfolds how you think it will. Thank you, Lego. You made an amazing story that we will never forget. Thank you as well for documenting the whole line like this. This is the way of the Bionicle.
Funny thing is that Bionicle was not cancelled due to poor sales. I am doing my masters in Denmark and got to read one document that states that Bionicle's sales were more or less the same for the last three years in a row. They were significantly better than the sales of other themes but Lego wanted to reboot the story again to boost the sales under a new name: Hero Factory. This now makes sense as Faber has said it's all in the same universe. Hero Factory's sales were higher than Bionicle as Lego expected but the reboot took Bionicle fans out of the market and Hero Factory's sales went downhill after the second year. Then Hero Factory was cancelled and the connection between Bionicle and Hero Factory never happened. Then came the reboot for Bionicle and the goal was to reboot the bionicle story and connect it with Hero Factory but Bionicle fans had either grown by then or lost interest in Bionicle. The Hero Factory fandom was small, sure the figures sold well on the first two years but there was no strong connection between customers and the lore of Hero Factory. That's the reason Bionicle G2 failed and then cancelled. I wonder if Lego still has interest in this franchise as their own IPs are doing great and have more budget for the lore. I think that right now it's the perfect time for Bionicle to return as the lego brand has never been stronger in history. Even misses like Vidiyo didn't hurt the company beyond a scratch that people never speak of.
This is 9 month later but that is both hella interesting and dumb at the same time. The fact they tried doing this again with ninjago and chima is crazy.
Thank you for pushing this up so high in the weeks since it was uploaded, everybody. It's quickly soaring to the top, ready to overtake the most popular Rewind episodes, one of which is a year old and the other two years. We can do this. Make this the biggest Lego Rewind of all time!
Major fan of bionicle. I grow up on watching the first bio movie. ^w^ It's what got me into lego, what got me into building and creating a story like your version. Lego is like gundam. You can build and customize. But sadly Lego didn't execute it as well as gundam.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! I am barely getting into uploading random videos on youtube myself, and the ending of this, was fantastic. As soon as I heard that rewind sound. Superbly done, seriously.
You amazing person. I am now in the proccess of trying to put back together all my old bionicles. I have tens of thousnds of Legos, so this is a daunting task. But my inner child is screaming at me that I must partake on this journey
This showed up on my recommended list. Watching this video makes me want to go into storage and pull out my Bionicle pieces again. I even have the majority of comics and one of the novels.
Kids haven't changed, and they never will. That's something I always see people overlooking. The adults that surround them are changed, they grew up in the different situations that were made for them by the adults of their generation. The interest for this sort of multimedia project and this type of toy will always be there, and I think if we could find a way to get them interested in it and catch their eye it would be healthy for them. We need to treat kids how we wished we were treated as kids. Give them the freedom to do and watch and play with what they want, but also supply them with media and toys with more substance than that. As an example, there's a lot of TV shows we'd watch as kids that we didn't like at first, and only got into because nothing else was on. But now kids are growing up in a world where everything is on- and all the time. We need to spend more time with our kids than our parents spent with us if we want to cultivate their creativity. Not even just their creativity, everything in their minds. That doesn't mean kicking them off the computer or forcing them to play outside. It means deciding to share our experiences and interests with them. That's what actually scares me about bionicle not being around anymore. There's nothing like it. Nothing that'll have my kid diving through lore and filling in the gaps with their imagination. No lego sets that really beg to be taken apart and turned into new characters. No action figures with their own story and people they're fighting. It's all licensed. And a lot of the licensed sets are wonderful, but they don't welcome creativity in the same way. It just makes me nervous. I don't need my kids to play with bionicle- I need them to play with something that excites and engages them. I want my kids to choose their toys over a screen they already have access to, not play with their toys because I said they were spending too much time with a screen and took it away. I get that I'm typing out a whole essay here- and on a video that's been out a while- so nobody's really reading it. But that's what I don't like about the whole situation with kid's content on youtube. That it's so easy to make without putting in any substance at all. We all like to think we would have still chosen our toys over "Spiderman and pregnant Elsa eat poop!!" with several syringes in the thumbnail, but it's not really a fair comparison. A lot of us probably wouldn't have. TL;DR: I think it's important to be proud of the things you like, especially at a young age. And I hope we can start making better things to entertain our kids, because it's our job.
Good essay. I think the stories you liked as a kid are some of the most influential things on your life, even if you don't recognise it later. Without those stories and with parents spending less and less time with their kids each year, I don't know where we're headed.
Bionicle was something that shaped my childhood. I first discovered it in late 2005, when I discovered Lego, but 2006 was when I got into it. I was 6 at the time, so of course I wasn't really familiar with the lore. But what I needed to know was "Toa-good. Piraka-bad. Mask of Life-powerful Macguffin that everyone's fighting over." I loved the line through 2007 and 2008, and I did my homework and got familiar with the years I had missed out on. Then came 2009, where I continued to be a fan of Bionicle. And The Legend Reborn...wow. My brother, my sister, and I would watch the sneak peaks on the Lego website, and we'd love every second of it. I was disappointed when I did not get the movie for Christmas, but I was able to watch it years later. Then came 2010, where, unlike most people, I was satisfied with the ending I got. It was unfortunate to see Bionicle die, but by that point, I'd seen lots of Lego themes I loved get cancelled, so I was used to it. Plus, Bionicle had a decent ending, and Hero Factory did a nice job of filling in the gap it left. I enjoyed Hero Factory for several years, until Invasion From Below ruined it. Then came Bionicle G2, and it was...mixed. The story had no connections to the original, which made it hard for me to get into it. And the sets got worse as the theme went on, to the point that I didn't even mind when it was cancelled. While I don't hate G2 as much as most people do, it was ultimately just a failed attempt to make lightning strike twice. For a couple years after G2 ended, Bionicle still held a special place in my heart. Even to this day, I get out my old Bionicle collection every once in a while. I was one of the supporters for the Legend of the Bionicle Ideas project, and I really hope it gets approved. But even if it doesn't, I'll always be a Bionicle fan. *Note: Wow! You reached out to Eljay, Just2Good, MandRProductions, a couple other Lego channels I'm not familiar with, and Jangbricks himself? That's awesome.
I mean, they were rubbing the Great Spirit being the island since that cutscene in the online game! The 'Mata Nui' stone falling was a symbol of the Great Robot falling onto the planet.
I feel like lego should just turn bionicle into a media product first and a toy line second. It would be cool for them to restart the orginal story (keep it 90%+ the same) and complete it as it was intended. I bet it would even be possible to make a tv series/ movie series with the original animation style at a fraction of the cost.
I just binged this entire series in a matter in a few days, but these are some of the best LEGO documentaries I've ever seen. I got to really get to understand themes that I vaguely knew as a kid existing due to flash like Adventures(or Orient Expedition as I knew it, I didn't know it was a subtheme) and Alpha Team. Honestly, this whole series has inspired me to be more willing to try new things instead of sticking to my usual intake of Batman and Star Wars sets with a City set mixed in here and there. I love Lego to death but I never knew that much of what existed outside of my comfort zones and catalogs. Now I want to get whatever little bits of these old themes I can off of bricklink and to incorporate them into my collection/lego city mocs. This video alone made me really appreciate Bionicle, and actually want to get into it instead of just leaving it there as an option to get into. Heck, I probably will get a few Bionicles down the line and take a nice big break from Licensed themes after I get all of the little slivers of Batman and Star Wars I love to death. There's so much to do and so little funds and so little space, but this series really has made me appreciate LEGO as a whole
I really enjoy watching almost all your videos from this series, mostly while eating lunch or dinner... Helps defeat the corona loneliness! Greetings from Austria and Italy
Watching this video felt like a grand journey in it of itself. As a zoomer who grew up on Ninjago (basically the Bionicle of my generation, as you said in your ninja episode), and only really heard of how big and crazy Bionicle was back in the 2000s, I think I did catch a little of that "secondhand nostalgia" you talked about. It must've been great to have been a fan back in the day. Proud to call myself a subscriber.
I've lost track of how many times I've watched this masterpiece (more than 10 times). I love this video, it is responsible for the reigniting my love for bionicle. Thank you Nick. I have rebuild my 104 sets,re watched the movies, re read my comics and books, found the ttv community and biomedia project. I can't thank you enough. P.S. Hi from Mexico, take care in this hard times
Man, I can't even begin to imagine how much time I spent on BS01 reading the mountains of lore of the various things in the setting as a kid and into my teens. It's such an interesting and well written story with so many details in the background and foreground alike.
Well, time for me to throw all of my thoughts into one long ramble at the end of this series. I first really got into Bionicle in 2007 with the Barraki theme. I remember it was one of the first Lego themes I got into, but for me it acted like a gateway into the rest of Lego, and the other themes that were coming out at the time. Castle, Exo Force, Star Wars, and later Atlantis and Power Miners. Bionicle would always remain my favourite, and it was as the story ended around 2010, ironically, that I really fell into the universe, finding the books and the movies. Its really been an experience to go through these videos and see these themes again, where they came from and what came before them, and I've really enjoyed it. Its fitting that it should be ended with a monument to one of the best stories Lego ever told. I don't often comment on videos, but I felt like I should thank you before comments potentially disappear. Not just for Lego Rewind. I've been watching your stuff since 2015 when you started your big Bionicle G2 reviews, which I still enjoy. It was your Alita videos that introduced me to that story, one which I wasn't aware of before, but would now say I am a fan of thanks to you. And then, earlier this year, I bought your first planet ripple book off amazon. And then I bought the second, and the third all in the span of about a month. I enjoyed them tremendously. The world it takes place in really intrigues me. I'm curious about the Pirates, and how they seem to act almost as a government in there own right from what's been seen so far. They have the necessary machines to do whatever they want, and there isn't really anything to stop them, but ruling over humanity on this ocean world where communities are always mobile and localised to there subs would likely make any state building impractical, so plunder and extortion becomes the name of the game. And given how vast and powerful the machines they possess are, it feels like this has been the order of things for a good long while. And then there's the protagonist, Minnow. Reading through her thoughts and feelings has been very enjoyable. Its been nice to see a character who is Autistic be the main character, and allowed to be a character with development and emotions. Often I've found that characters who are somewhere on the spectrum are treated as unfeeling, or otherwise disconnected from other characters. As an Autistic person myself its nice to see some more variation in the characterisation, and addressing how things can be uncomfortable for us sometimes when others might not realise. I've never been desperately comfortable talking about my diagnosis, to the point that I've agonised for a disproportionate amount of time over this comment trying to work out how to say what I want, but your novels have helped me with my own life, and that is something I can't thank you enough for. When the next book comes I will be getting it. Thank you for this whole series Nick, and for everything else. I'll be eager to see what comes next from Planet Ripple.
Bionicle was easily the most potent thing Lego's made, to me at least. You touched on a number of its unfinished parts, but there were a million smaller, unexplored corners of Mata Nui and the rest of the universe outside him. Vezon was travelling other dimensions and could have ended up doing anything, anywhere - a friend of mine made a Twitter RP account for him where for years his Vezon and his steed did exactly that. Half the random side characters had implied or more or less told backstories that were worth exploring, villains included. Every random interaction between two characters could have sustained a novel's worth of tales of cooperation, antagonism, ambivalence or simple side-by-side quiet ambiance. The writing was so enticing, and it left me as mystified as Lego Racers 2's 00s' Arctic's desolate waste. The stories that could be were infinite, and those that were were pretty damn satisfying. A neverending mozaic. As a kid I binged the comics and the books and very much avoided any video commercials, which very much helped me keep my view of it mystical and peaceful, in a way that the pop stuff in those would have prevented. I appreciate others' nostalgia for those, but there's something to be said for the variant of the Bionicle experience that excluded all that pandering and just told its tale with its bizarre shapes and names Also I'm absolutely certain the theme was an inspiration for "The Owl House" where the Boiling Isles are a giant rotten Titan's corpse everyone lives on kind of knowing but generally treating it as just their funky island That aside, this was a lovely tribute, evocative of a great many of my experiences from growing up with it from the first Bohrok line to the end. I haven't looked around bonkle youtube much, but this is without a doubt one of the definitive summaries for the theme, a timeframe set in stone just as it deserved. Thank you for giving it that
I honestly feel like a modernized line of Bionicle would do better than the reboot. Like, same toys, same story, but modernized parts. On top of that, package every toy with a comic that contains a piece of the story and a link to a website that has the entire story as a webcomic, with all tie-in media being based around the main comic. It'd greatly streamline the story consumption while making sure not to detract from it, and also give people the chance to experience the toys in a new light.
When I saw that Bionicle reference in the hidden side set a part of me cried of pure joy.also thanks for this truly amazing series it was great seeing all those old themes giving some love again and I appreciate the amount of work you putted in you truly respect your content and want it to be great to you and everyone else and I’m definitely looking forward to your other projects in the future.
I will always appreciate and love Bionicle, and will defend G2 probably until I die as kits. The cancellation of Bionicle G1 is what eventually led me to picking up Gunpla as a hobby. I wish Lego would pick Constraction lines back up eventually, they brought something different to experience. This series was an interesting watch as a whole.
What if there was a Lego action figure theme that focused on turning everyday objects into weapons? Like taking apart a yoyo to use as twin saw blades?
I still find it intriguing that according to Evan Stanley, an artist who works on the IDW _Sonic_ comic books, mentioned that when designing Whisper the Wolf, her mask does borrow inspiration from Kopaka's Kanohi Akaku. It really shows that even to this day, _Bionicle_ can still ignite inspiration for other people.
Growing up as a kid, Bionicle and Halo influenced my creativity so much. Out of all my friends I think I was the only one that liked both of these series simultaneously; glad to know somebody else did too. It was nice seeing them put together. Always found similarities between the two. Great video.
As someone who owned a lot of the later waves of bionicle G1 with their terrible brittle limbs that snapped immediately, I was a big fan of CCBS and its durability. I loved G2 personally and it being cancelled so quickly was really upsetting to me. I just hope Lego makes another epic constraction theme, or heck any constraction theme.
i won't lie here: i hated CCBS when it first came out, but that changed instantly when i first handled it with bionicle G2. i was shocked how durable it was, and even more shocked when i saw all the MOCs using it.
I’m relatively young so I was real young when G2 came out and I bought the Toah of Fire and thought it was real neat! If it had a real story I probably would have bought more
The fact that a random set in Bionicle can have as much expresion, personality and creativity as a complete system collection, show constraction as the pinacle of character and world creation.
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This video got me in to Bionicle, and now I'm rewatching it with Bionicle MOCs to my sides and the Toa Mata displayed behind me.
This made my day.
Saaame
Welcome aboard, friend.
I remember when I was younger I customized my Bionicles to become Bioformers, I made megatron and a galvatron that transformed into a dinosaur
Agreed@@NickonPlanetRipple
"What if inside each pill, was a tiny soldier?" Honestly that one line added more emotion to the franchise than anything else Lego had ever accomplished.
It's so poetic that Osmosis Jones and Bionicle started around the same time.
Bionicle, Osmosis Jones and Cells At Work
I had no idea the creator was suffering from cancer, that just made me love this series even more
Osmosonicle:the evil brain cancerkuta has put bill murryata nui to sleep, six legendary pill-toa fall from the sky in canisters to stop brain cancerkuta from rulling the celltoran universe
I don’t know why but it made me laugh until I understood the meeting
I like how this video is longer than the Bionicle movies
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They that short?
@Amanda Hahl
Quit begging. God *damn* are you desperate. Got to Tumblr with that shit. You're one of the reasons this Website is crashing fast! Christ almighty!
just slightly
@Amanda Hahl noone cares
Definitely, bionicle is not dead. We were given the parts. Now, we create the story. Technically speaking we're the great beings. Now, we make a new legend.
Bionicle is dead. No new toys, nothing there to continue the brand.
@@wanderingoryx3710 not true. We have those parts from existing sets. We can make new characters. We as the fanbase can continue the story
I see what you did there, TECHNICally.
Am I a Glatorian or a MasterBuilder?
@@smb-c3po exactly
@@acfsharkboy Now about my question.
"Bionicle commercials are art" - That's it. That's the quote of the century.
ah yes a quote from 2019 about something from 2001 will definitely be remembered in 2099.
@@zyanbob he’s exaggerating bro...
Don’t take it so seriously
bro thats the Understatement of the Century
@@zyanbob
Hi Im a time traveler from 2420 and every child has to learn this quote in space school.
Gathered friends...... Listen again to our legend of the Bionicle.....
Carrying we, the ones called the Matoran, to this paradise.
@@HunhowsShadowStalker We were separate and without purpose. So the Great Spirit illuminated us with the three virtues; Unity, Duty, and Destiny.
@@VainerCactus0 We embraced these gifts. And in our gratitude, we named our island home Mata Nui, after the Great Spirit himself.
This video is aimed specifically for those who grow up in the 2000's:
>Comics
>Videogames for GBA and Internet
>Halo music
>Bionicle
>2000's tv commercials
>2000's rock songs
Jesus man, you were killing me with nostalgia.
Leonardo Eloy Calanche Villagran i first began watch and Buy bionicles in 2005 and my first movie was mask of light
@@Zeagods-CyberShadow mind was the metru nui one, then the one with visoraks, the mask of light and the gladorian one
My first LEGO set was Kopaka, man this video hits hard
I was born in 2001 ah memories
Leonardo Eloy Calanche Villagran
thanks for gatekeeping 🙃
I’m glad there’s someone else out there who thinks that Halo’s music is a perfect fit for Bionicle
I'd argue the MNOG theme could've been a better choice.
*SUDDENLYORANGES HAS JOINED THE CHAT*
Same Here
Yeah, the music from the Halo series of games is a perfect fit for Bionicle.
It fits so nice with the lore and story.
The fact that after two cancellations, multiple rejections by lego, and only two extremely minor homages locked behind a paywall the Bionicle community is still going strong really shows how impactful this theme was. Bionicle may be over, but it's fanbase will never die
Damn, talking about Bionicle while playing various Halo soundtracks in the background? You are truly pulling at my 10 year old heartstrings in all the right ways my dude.
y'know it hit me, a lot of the toa/matoran had firearm like weapons and even the movie game had them shoot fireballs despite having melee weapons, and the heroes game being an over the shoulder shooter. over the years they've had throwing discs, spinners, launchers, blasters, man i wish we had a decent bionicle game. one that would have an original story.
Oh my god I wish I could go back in time to when I was a kid
Exact same thing happened to me
I remember building my first bionic leg while listening to the Halo ODST Soundtrack
Agreed
"But being autistic I just built them, and rebuilt them a million times"
Holy shit I wasn't the only one. I tried to do it from memory too.
@Tesla-Effect yeah im not autistic and i lovedddd taking them apart and re-doing it
I am autistic but I never rebuilt any Lego set. Am I weird ?
@@Dockultra not at all!
Oh my god, people did this too?
I do that sometimes
This whole Lego Rewind series is a major public service, especially for people interested in the history of modern toys. I'm sure history academics will use these videos as guides for understanding Lego for years to come.
@Tesla-Effect I agree, these are the best videos about Lego's history
Thats an excellent idea.
Ninjago had more impact to Lego than bionicle ever did.
@@wanderingoryx3710 Ninjago is definitely another wildly successful Lego theme, not sure why you're saying that in this thread, it's a bit non sequitor
When watching these, I often had the urge to share these. They just show such an excellent slice of lego's past each and every time. It's amazing!
I didn't realize that the story was all based like that, curing Mata Nui's sickness. I loved how you pointed out how the entire universe is one big life form, the canisters are pills, I never realized that. So cool how Christian Faber beat a brain tumor and made an entire story about a group of heroes trying to do the same to save their universe.
Indeed. It's especially meaningful to me, seeing as a brain tumor killed my stepmom years ago.
@@NickonPlanetRipple sorry to hear that. ☹
That's why you watch all of "Bionicle Autopsy". uh, so good.
I have my own Bionicle story in mind.
Except said brain tumor ends up taking over your mind once you “cure” it.
You gotta love how high and low concept bionicle is at the same time:
"What if these pills had small warriors who fought cancer?"
"What if this cancer was in the brain of a absolutely ginormous robot"
"Haha, i like how that sounds"
And from that legends are made
Bionicle: each set sold separately
Equal amount of emotional value not garenteed
more like: eAcH sEt SoLd SePaRaTeLy
Almost as much nostalgia as this entire video lol.
Can’t believe it took me so long to realize the kanohi ignika is the great spirit robot on a gold circle.
They really were rubbing it in our faces.
“The story is...actually pretty simple”
Less than 3 years later from the beginning: “What is this simplicity you speak of?”
The first 2 years are pretty simple, it just gets very lore heavy
ah yes simple a thing of the past
The story has too many characters and things going on. A story that is too complex is most definetly bad and hard to understand...
@@gone9820 No.
@@gone9820 not at all, these days there are many extremely massive franchises that are lore heavy. Warhammer, elder scrolls, loz, halo etc. these are all extremely successful too. I believe if Bionicle were to be revived with the massive lore attached too it it would be massive success in this day and age.
14:22 I just realized something recently, Metru Nui is one giant computer. Ta-Metru is the heat sink and maybe even the RAM, Ko-Metru is the cooling unit and the Knowledge Towers could be something like the data drives and chips, Ga-Metru is either a secondary CPU or the program library, Onu-Metru is the hard drive or mass storage device, Le-Metru is probably either the circuit boards or power unit, (maybe both) and Po-Metru is probably the graphics card or even the microprocessor, possibly even some moving parts like the cooling fans and disk reader. That would probably make the Coliseum the main CPU. The entire city is one big computer that functions as Mata Nui's brain, and if you look at it from a birds-eye view, it even looks like the inside of a computer. That's brilliant.
Honestly surprised you didn't think that Le-Metru would be a fan considering the element its representing.
@@SOMEGUY7893 Well, that too. But based on how the chutes and tracks are laid out, I thought it might be the circuits.
Holy crap Einstein
Nice
Ah yes, my favorite feature of Rahshi...
k n e e s
My favorite feature of them was their spiked backs and their staffs.
Did eddie burback write this comment
I love how they looked in the movie. Now they remind me of elemental themed xenomorphs which is fuckin cool
Dem wobbly knEes
the25thprime
Wrong channel, but good enough.
i remember seeing one last Nuju at the store. After long debate with mom, she finally gave in to buy it. When i went to get him, he was gone. Some other kid was carrying him. It’s a memory that has stuck w me. Couple years ago, i found him complete in a flee market, since then he’s been sitting on my shelf
Nuju was the one Bionicle that sparked my imagination. Every single story that I have conjured up since I was 14 can be traced back to Nuju. The amazing thing was that back then I had zero knowledge of the Bionicle lore and only last year found out about it through this video. When I realized that the one toy that helped inspire countless stories in my mind was part of an amazing story as well I broke down into tears.
48:53 "Why did they make Gresh Toa of Air? He's part of the jungle tribe, shouldn't he be Toa of plant life?"
*Bionicle 2015 episode 13*
Lewa, Master of Jungle: I feel a breeze!
Kopaka: Breeze? What are you? The Master of Air?
I could definitely see Bionicle becoming the next Final Fantasy, an anthology of stories connected by similar aesthetics and themes.
I kind of wish the franchise could get the Transformers treatment: over the decades we get different continuities with different stories/characters that all fit under the Bionicle umbrella. It would give the brand more staying power than if they only continued the G1 storyline. Sadly, from my time in the Bionicle fandom it seems like a lot of people would be upset if any incarnation veered too far from the way G1 did things. So maybe I'm in the minority here.
@@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr They could just say that it was one of the many alternate Universes. Rather then a reboot, just a different dimension with some of the same characters apeparing.
I feel like Lego cucked bionicle
One interesting thing the original writer did is declare the OC characters, made for fiction stories and posted on their forum, canon.
Bionicle could work like Mobile Suit Gundam universe when there is one main timeline with many spin-offs and many more timelines with diffrent stories and characters
It hurt that The Lego Movie listed Bionicle as one of the sets "they don't talk about." I loved this series, simply because it was epic and had a nice style.
Edit: I realize they actually said "and a bunch of others we don't need to mention." My point still stands though. The lack of representation beyond that is saddening. I mean, they gave Ninjago and a bunch of licensed properties a spotlight, but not Bionicle? Like, not even just having Tahu or one of the other recognizable Toa a cameo in the Master Builder meeting?
They said "and a bunch of others [themes]"
They meant there was no time to visit that world in the movie, as there are too many themes to do justice. They showed Fabuland too, and that theme is beloved as well.
Don't need to mention =/= don't talk about.
What sucks more is that in the Lego Movie 2 we where ment to see the 2002/2003 Takanuva.
@@LinkiePup agh dont remind me. It could've been something, but alas I guess it just wasnt meant to be.
@@apothisiii5549 well... I believe Lego said no because A) Bionicle 2015 just came out, so kids wouldn't know who or what that character was. And B) its a older- OLDER property that kids wouldnt know who or what the character was.
Maybe the real Bionicle was the friends we made along the way.
Maybe the real Bionicle was inside of us all along.
@@shovel1367 Nah the homies died from ligma
I think you are right
@@lyben8511 died from neckbeards not wanting new fans discover the franchise by basically boycotting the only chance they had for a bionicle revival*
The only things we built were giant Bionicle towers that my brother and I used to hit each other with.
I am constantly surprised by how much lore Lego put into the Bionicle series. Even now I am still finding things I never knew before. I came to Bionicle for the toys and stayed for the story.
It's like: a man has fallen into the river in Lego City
And then, suddenly:
An old world, full of mistery and lore needs it's heroes to rise. Become Toa, warriors of elements and save Mata Nui from certain doom
The borderline terrifying thing is that this video is just scratching the surface. The number of side stories, subplots, societies that were never even seen in the toys, and characters was...immense.
For real. I'm 25 and discovered Bionicle upon release back in 2001. And still to this day I am finding out more and more about the lore of this world. Like the Dark To a or Takanuva's time travel shinnanagins. Its probably one of the most complicated pieces of fiction of come across.
If Bionicle continued their story and made the great beings into mysterious interstellar travelers like he said it. And they would see the race as a threat and attack them. It be like Gurren Lagann then
Bionicle is to Lego what's Metroid to Nintendo. They are important to companies that own them, but everything that those companies do with them is give them small cameos in their other properties.
i saw a picture, technically a meme i think, of samus and tahu at a bar, kind of a purgatory type thing
and samus just asks tahu "your company stop caring too?" while tahu just glares straight forward, fuming
@@NeonRahkshi That's funny now that we know about Metroid Dread. Maybe Tahu should speak with Captain Falcon sometime XD
This is probably the best analogy I’ve seen today. Well done sir, I tip my hat to you.
At this point, I think both companies are scared to touch the IPs and the half a chance of screwing them up. Especially cause they make a great safety net incase something horrific happens.
Along with Beast Wars to Hasbro and Mega Man and/or Darkstalkers to Capcom
Mata Nui: *Dies*
Universe: *Getting ready to die*
Matoro: *Daga Kotowaru.*
I can hear it in his voice
MATORO IS A DAMN HERO.
He knew what needed to be done.
He knew the cost of what needed to be done.
And he still did it.
Bionicle anime by David Production or Trigger. WE NEED THIS!!!!!!!
"Mata nui is dying"
Toa Metru: OH MY GOD
Toa Inika: Yare Yare Daze
@@masterzoroark6664 Pohatu: Don't believe in me, Believe in the me who believes in you!
Tahu: (directed at Makuta) Just who the h*ll do you think we are!
Lewa: Just rip it off and get NAKED!!!
Kopaka: The group I belong to is...Nudist...Beach
Gali: What?
Kopaka:(cloths suddenly fall off) NUDEST'A...BEACH!!!!
Onua: MY DRILL IS THE DRILL THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!!!!
I really appreciate the use of halo music, really enforces the "mystical" quality of the Bionicle lore and storytelling. Great work!
The two series are very similar aesthetically, so it seemed fitting.
These two worlds always come to my mind in a pair, nothing matches how I felt entering the ruins in the 2nd mission, and watching those little Bionicle videos setting the scene.
Another one that made me feel similarly was Brute Force for the Xbox (And the original xbox itself!), the environments and designs are absolute classics to me as well. I notice it left such an impression on me to this day, a much more recent game I play to this day, Warframe, frequently gives me strong nostalgia. Stuff like the Banshee Prime trailer just makes me feel like a kid again...
Even just stuff like the mountain from SSX 3 filled me with a kind of wonder, I always loved stuff that felt alien to me. It's raw landscapes mixed with those glowy futuristic rails penetrating the blizzard etc., I can't put it to words. With all that and more, such as Megaman: Battle Network, I'm so lucky to have been a kid during that age. I love how much was left to my imagination a lot of the time
@@NickonPlanetRippleI find myself rewatching this video so much that I've associated the Halo OST with Bionicle. Can I trouble you for the song list used throughout the video?
@@NickonPlanetRipple The use of Halo music gives me the mental image of Master Chief joining forces with the Toa, which is incredibly palpable/powerful.
The saga concludes on a high note
lego rewind will live on in our hearts
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Jeez, there really are people who view Bionicle as "illegitimate" or "a disgrace"? It's one of the few reasons I still sort of care about Lego at all! Thank you so much for your efforts, Nick, it's been amazing. I sincerely hope you'll continue doing all sorts of cool stuff in the future and wish you luck in your creative endeavors!
There are, people are whiny when something is not catered to specifically them.
@@holden_7597 yeah, I understand that fact and can relate, tis only human, but I legit can't picture a Lego fan who isn't a literal boomer not getting behind Bionicle. I understand that I'm blinded by nostalgia, but it just seems like such an awesome and all-around well respected franchise, one of the few things from my childhood everyone seems to agree has stood the test of time, might I add, that it's weird to think about some folks actually giving it shit, logical as it may be since people's tastes tend to differ drastically.
Wait those people exist? Bionicle is superior to all lego lines.
I hope it's not political. We all know we don't wanna go down THAT rabbit hole.
@@apostlenik809 Right? I may not like Ninjago or Hero Factory because, in my opinion, they are pale imitations of Bionicle, but I'm not going to say that to someone who enjoys those series because it's not my place to do so. I may say something along the lines of "I like Bionicle more" but I won't tear down their series just to make myself feel better about it; I'd rather hear why they like the other series and maybe their insight will give me a better appreciation for it.
Not gonna lie, I like this more than Star Wars.
Amen my friend
I like immersing myself in Star Wars overall, but Bonkle's story is sometimes cooler to "douse" myself in lol
I disagree but Bionicle is one of the things that built my childhood too.
@@martinconstantino1953 I love Star Wars, but I primarily grew up with bionicle, so I am kinda baised.
yep everything always has to be a competition
This is an hour and a half. Am I about to get myself deep into the lore of toys I ever only owned 2 of? YES
Same here lmao
You're Lucky to have seen one, i found out about this fandom a month ago
@@heartlessnobody1143 The toys are still really common.
@@SalesmanWave not in Brazil they're not
Bionicle, the LEGO theme has has had the most impact on my life. While I was alive for most of Bionicle's original run, I was only old enough to buy and understand the story of the last two years. However, as a kid, many of the toys I got were bought from garage sales and other used toy places, so I also owned a large amount of the 2001-2005 sets. I didn't know their stories, but I owned many of the posters and they would inspire so much curiosity about their world. All I knew storywise besides 2009 and 10 was the original three movies, so I would make up the backstories of many of the sets. The bohrok were always my favorite. Two of my friends and I would come over nearly every day of the summer and we would build our own self mocs. I don't know why, but we would always call them our "dudes". Like," Let's build a bad guy for our dudes to fight," or "I'm going to give my dude a new weapon". We would always buy Hero Factory sets and upgrade them with our Bionicle parts and just call them Bionicle characters. We eventually drifted apart. I actually saw one of the friends after G2 had ended, and he asked me if I knew that Bionicle had came back for a while and we talked for a while about some of our Bionicle memories. Fast forward to the present, and I have gotten back into Bionicle and have read the entire series. It was amazing to see the actual stories of the sets, and I was suprised at all things that I had guessed right. I am now buying a lot of the sets that I had always wanted as a kid, and I am glad to say that Bionicle will be an amazing memory from my childhood that I will never forget.
This is almost word for word my experience with Bionicle! Glad to see others have a similar story.
@@VorpalSlade same here man :D
Word for word my experience with bionicle too. I'm glad other's had that experience
You gave up and sold all the toys. You're no Bionicle fan.
@@wanderingoryx3710 What? Did you even read the post
I knew nothing about the Bionicle lore, and you explained it so well and in such a way that I could share your amazements and disappointment at the sets and stories.
I'm halfway through the video still, but so far, this is a great finale for Lego Rewind.
Also, Halo music was the perfect choice.
My first Bionicle was a Borok-kal. Power of gravity. I have to say I agree. Learned so many things
I'll never forget the Christmas of 2002 when my big brother and I found two canisters under the tree...
He got Onua, I got Lewa... And life was great...
That takes me back. Good times.
I remember getting nuju for Christmas one year
Always wrapped like a tootsie roll...
I just wanted to say that the 2009 bara magna soft reboot, though not at all perfect, was successful in bringing in new young fans. I and a couple of my friends, got into bionicle thanks to the Glatorian year(although my first were the Mistika) and and as a kindergartner at the time, bionicle became a huge part of my childhood. And thanks to TH-cam and that legendary “2008 Bionicle Retrospective” video I came to learn about the story of bionicle and became obsessed. But yeah, I just wanted to stand testament to the fact that the glatorian years was the best move lego could’ve made even though it didn’t pay off.
The next Bionicle is just the Ninjago cast becoming Bionicle
And the next Ninjago is just the Bionicle cast becoming Ninjago
I hope not.
I mean one is already an android...
the latest ninjago figs with their "gamer vision" on where you only see the glowing eyes already looks so much like bionicle
ninjago is the closest to bionicle it has ever been
Oh gee I hope not. Bionicle felt special but ninjago feels soulless to me.
While I much prefer the Barraki over the Piraka, I kinda love how stupidly OP the Piraka were.
-Zaktan literally survives through sheer force of anger alone and keeps the others in line with brutal yet adept weapon skills.
-Reidak could plot and outwit his enemies, he just doesn't want to since he can adapt to any method used to defeat him anyway.
-Avak can materialise the perfect prison to contain any enemy just by thinking about it, also a gunsmith capable of building weapons of ridiculous firepower.
-Hakann can shrug off extreme heat and can attack enemies with mental blasts, most notably Zaktan who realised the pain could get no worse and drew strength from that thought.
-Thok can bring almost anything to life (like the Piraka Stronghold) and is just there for laughs and the mask of life, forming secret alliances with other Piraka so he can betray everyone with ease.
-Vezok prior to his division into Vezok/Vezon was the most cunning of the group, a master ambusher, who could've taken the mask for himself if Vezon hadn’t happened.
-Vezon himself could not die under any circumstances while cursed, and later he became entangled in a lovecraftian Suicide Squad.
It’s like every bad anime villain powerlevel cranked into overdrive. No surprise that they had to be written so they couldn’t stand even sharing air with each other, if they had even a sliver of collaborative skills, they’d have curbstomped everyone.
Yeah, the two years, 2005 and 2006, are what I call the "It's Not A Phase Mom!" phase.
Local alien terrorist literally too angry to die
As deep as the lore was. I could never get into it, not because of it's length of complexity but because I didn't speak english as a kid.
But even with this, everyone I knew loved Bionicle because frankly, it was cool as hell.
I loved hero factory and thought bionicle was this group of mocers or something.then i learned it was oficial but got scared bq english was't my first languige.now i am happy to know what it was like:)
Ps:pls dont correct me and stuff
I also couldn't get into bionicle lore as a kid because I didn't speak english. I just saw new cool sets year after year, bigger, diferent, with new weapons cooler and cooler every time.
Then, the Great spirit robot reveal happened. I was so confused! I already understood engilsh well enough, so I started reading bionicle lore in the wiki. I was just amazed at how complex things were! As if bionicle wasn't already my favorite toy, it became one of my favorite fictional stories as well.
I am very thankful much of bionicle was localized into my language. I would’ve never gotten to know the lore as well otherwise.
Same
I guess, giving the characters outlandish names made it as exotic for english speakers as for others. I tried to interpret names, sounding similar to words I knew tho, which even worked in a few instances.
“They were planned to knock each other’s heads off, but that was too violent…”
That aged well. Remember when Takanuva accidentally split someone in half after her portal closed with her halfway through it?
Eeeeeeeeyup.
the stroy grew with its audience
so the seven year olds who got into the series were well into their teen years by the time things got "iffy" for a lego theme.
First noticeable tone shift was the 2005 encyclopedia mini-story about Nidhiki and how Lariska was using poison knives and doing target practice with corpses.
That was no accident 😬
I just realized, that scene of the infected mask covering half of the island in 2001...that must have been foreshadowing for the 8th year if Bionicle! If it was intentional, that's amazing foreshadowing.
Faber's Facebook page/Blogspot is a wealth of concept pictures dated all the way back in 2000! There's an image floating around of Mata-Nui's head resting under Denmark (the archipelago being the apparent inspiration for the island of Mata-Nui's shape), and his shoulders as Germany!
Totally deliberate imo. The ending we got was supposed to be the ending of 2001 if I'm understanding correctly.
You made a good point about the sound design. I never realized it before, but the sounds in Bionicle ads (and, by extension, some of the music for those ads, too) shaped a lot of my perception of the toys, and in some cases are the most memorable part of the whole experience. There's a little 30 second animation that plays when you put in one of the mini CDs that came with Bohrok-Kal and Rahkshi sets, and the electronic music for those 30 seconds is the heart of my nostalgia for Bionicle in general. Playing that 30 seconds of audio is enough to get me thinking about Bionicle for the rest of the day.
I know EXACTLY which tune you're talking about.
Yeah. I came to realise everything I liked growing up (including Bionicle) had a sound/musical element about it that shaped the way I thought about it. The Star Wars films are a great example of using sound design to create a experience never seen before at the time.
P.S. I became a HUGE Doom fan after just hearing a couple soundtracks from the game.
The Bionicle team had some of the best sound design I think I’ve ever seen. It was as much a character as the toa themselves, and MNOG especially had enough atmosphere dripping off of it to fill the Atlantic. Hearing the flowing water and ambient creature noises you hear when you start in Ga-Koro still makes me feel like I’m there, all these years later.
Even if they don't bring back Bionicle as a whole, something I'd love to see is "remakes" of the original Toa sets, as it were, maybe even in 2021 for the 20th anniversary of Bionicle.
Like, keeping the general design and silhouette of the characters, but updating them with modern touch ups like better knees and elbows, slightly more detailed armour and masks, maybe even actual hands to hold their weapons rather than just having them stuck in, stuff like that.
Hell, they could even come with a golden version of their mask, and maybe even some silver armour and their Nuva masks and tools that you can swap around, effectively making the Toa Mata and Toa Nuva into one.
...Of course I'd also love to see a "G3" with the same sort of style and aesthetic as G1, but still.
My dream is for 20th Anniversary sets in 2021 like they did with Star Wars, but I really doubt it'll happen.
@@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr Yeah, it's fairly unlikely, but I still have hope they might remember it.
@@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr This is my hope too.
I remember Bionicle coming out in 2000 here in Australia but I think we might have been like a test market or something? So I wonder if Lego would do a 20th anniversary next year?
I agree with your idea
33:40 Just for reference. One of the oldest references of other makuta is from the second movie. When Teridax is trying to lure Vakama into joining him, he says "Join me and my brothers". There's also the Makuta Nui set, which implies that there are other makuta, because a "Nui" is formed from 6 beings of the same species, like the Matoran Nui.
Makuta Nui is more the antithesis to Mata Nui. Its Teridax's secret beast form and thus does not really allude to there being more Makuta. The quote from the second movie apparently at first was a random creative choice. But it eventually sparked the idea of there being a brotherhood of Makuta.
"the brown ones don't sell"
meanwhile: me a person who just missed the original bionicle looking at g2 sets "hmm yes pohatu looks nice" (he's always been my favourite)
Frans A The only G2 I wanted was Pohatu. Pohatus color scheme was always very appealing to me.
Personally, I have no issue with the brown color. Earthy tones are nice, and bright orange feels more a supplementary color to fire than it does stone.
Yeah, Brown and Black were the two colors I got first every single time.
I loved the brown ones honestly. Always got them first
"Like an inside out Terminator", a better analogy would be "like General grievous"
Grievous is the honorable Bonk
“Your Toa of Light will make a fine addition to my collection.”
“Hello there.”-Toa Tamori.”New Toa of Light,how bold of you to fight me!”-Makuta Malkomou.
More accurate, less entertaining
@@Destroyah5000 "Your mask will make a nice addition to my collection"
Fuck now i think about Toa Leva landing like Kenobi and saying "Hello there" and Makuta being "Toa Leva" in Grevious' voice
I was never into Bionicle. Between me and my brother we had less than five sets, and we never knew anything of the story. I was vaguely aware of some sort of story behind the weird names and designs existing, but before I saw this series, I never realized how much of a story Lego themes usually had. I was under the impression that was reserved for the 'special' themes like Ninjago, and the licensed themes of course. You've showed me just how deep Lego's history is and the stories it could tell on it's own. Thank you Nick, this was a series like no other. And if perhaps it returns one day, I assure you I'll be there. See you soon.
Heh. Funny thing, me and my younger sister loved bionicle. She liked them more than dolls. Well, i was more into lore and stories, but making our own stories based after the movies or just regardless of them was fun
"It's never too late to appreciate something"
I recently took a rather long break from lego, only buying less then 5 sets in 2021. But this year I felt like getting back into buying lego, and found my self really interested in bionicle. And I found myself really hoping that for this community that the theme could return one day. But now I think all I and many others want is a new, non-liscensed theme to create a new legacy. Because no matter what no one and nothing can take away what we've already gotten.
When I was a kid and Bionicle first came out, my brother and I got Onua. Our best friend had Pohatu and a few little McDonald's Tohunga figures (which I didn't care for at all), and I remember thinking how impossibly awesome it would be to own all 6 Toa. As I grew up, I went through the customary decade or so not caring much at all about Lego. Then when nostalgia came knocking in my mid-twenties, I bought all 6 Toa - it was an itch I needed to scratch. About a decade later, now in my mid-thirties, I randomly felt the need to collect all 6 McDonald's Tohunga, as well as the 6 Turaga. Neither of these were things I thought I'd ever care about. It's weird how nostalgia works, coming in waves, and how our memories changes the way we value things. I'm an incurable collector, especially of things that remind me of the innocent desires of my childhood self.
There was never a story like this befor and there never will be again. It interest how it's had an exstramely profound effect on Autistic people all over the world.
Bionicle was one of my first special interests. As a kid I was so obsessed I would try to incorporate Bionicle jargon into everyday conversations and get fake-surprised when people didn't know what I was talking about.
@@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr for me i loved them mostly as toys but i only got into the story yaers after it was over.
@@madmachanicest9955 I got into it in early 2007 and by the end of the year I was mostly caught up on the story. I wish I had that kind of drive now 😅
There definitely _will_ be again. Hell, there's a bunch of kids who have these exact same feelings for Ninjago and that's a current line.
My mum is ignorant especially about autism and is too overprotective of me, it'll be her fault if I die alone and she doesn't know how to talk to me in a way that won't piss me off.
Thanks for making this. The Bohrok and the original Toa make me feel so much nostalgia it almost hurts. I tuned out when the Bohrok Kal showed up, as I felt I was being sold the same toys again, so it's nice to learn how the story played out after that point.
Maybe you should make some cool videos featuring bionicle?
You are a very popular lego related channel, maybe just including a few or making like a fighting video with some bionicles to show their capabilities could spark some more fans?
As we all know, the more people who are interested in it the more likely it is we get it back
@@hitrapperandartistdababy Check out his Brothers' channel, "Little Brotherhood Studios". They are making Stop motion videos with custom Bionicle Figures.
I actually loved the way they ended the main story, (not counting the rush wrap-up or the extra online blog-- the last part that felt to me like part of the same story, anyway) even if it was because of external factors. Having the bad guy win -- and in a way that actually made sense -- felt like an actual twist, especially for Lego.
Bionicle has always been a major inspiration to me as a writer. when I was young I remember seeing the previews for the mask of light frequently and saw the movie once but I don't remember it much. and the mysterious quality of it is still inspiring to me today. just the mysterious quality of the world is very captivating. Thank you for doing the series of lego rewind I really enjoyed it.
The one thing I really remember about the movies was Teridax’s voice. That was hands down the best casting choice they could have made. Lee Tockar was incredible as Makuta. He gave him such a chilling and creepy voice. I remember it creeped a lot of fans out. I still find Tockar’s performance chilling even now.
All of this from a man who got really sick, and imagined the pills he took as little capsules containing heroes fighting off the virus.
Now that's inspiration.
Edit: Oh, typed this right before you said it.
I miss Bionicle to this day. It was my childhood.
Makuta's death in one sentence:
"Mother nature wants you wacked."
Also, the Great Cataclysm witnessed in the second movie was the giant robot crash landing on Aqua Magna, hence the giant earthquake.
I don't think I understand
DAMN that moon.
@@tahutheprotector6988 the giant earthquake was caused by the GSR crashing on the moon
Making everything inside quake
Islands were shot up into the sky
Matoro: sacrifice himself to save the world
The matoran that commit suicide because the world is ending: ._.
wait, what?
@@francyssanchez4262 some of the matoran might have kill themselves when the world is about to end but that's just a theory
Matoro: I'M GONNA DO CPR ON A GOD AND I DON"T CARE IF IT KILLS ME
"insane ramblings of a diehard robot skeleton toy fan set to Halo music"
This is my video! It was made for me!
All the Halo music mixed with Bionicle makes me emotional, man. The two things that I really defined my childhood.
Regarding the Mata Nui Online Game: I only discovered Bionicle properly in 2008, and learned the previous years' lore through BionicleStory. In *2011*, I finally found MNOG - and was absolutely blown away. The incredible atmosphere, the gorgeous music, the point and click style perfectly complimenting the sense of mystery... Coming up to two decades later, it still stands out as a fantastic way to induce intrigue and present lore. Not only that, but it gave us a reason to care about the stakes too. We get to see the everyday life of the villagers under the protection of the heroes, to walk many miles in their metallic boots. That backdrop really put the importance of the main quest into perspective.
Your remarks about the mystery of those original years is totally spot on - but perhaps inadvertently, MNOG provided a delightful contrast between the unknown and the familiar, especially after year one. You could be hunkering down against a bohrok invasion in Po-Koro, or playing with flowers on the shores of naho bay, and these places would feel like little islands of familiarity in a sea of mystery. That contrast made either side even more special, somehow.
Thank you, for doing this. All of this. It's been a fantastic experience ✌
MNOG and a VHS-tape with 15 minutes of Bohrok-lore were what sparked a life-long love for Bionicle in me. It (MNOG, that is) really was a perfect way to utilize the internet so early, that is what true innovation looks like.
Always assumed the great beings were us, humans
I'm not going to lie if that was actually true then that means everybody in Bionicle we're just toys in a closet what seemed to be millions of years for them it's only just couple minutes just for some kid to grab them it almost seems in a way to come full circle.
I still hold onto that theory. Much similar to Halo, I like to think that the Bionicle were the Forerunners to the Lego minifigures, and to the Bionicle we were the Precursors as the Great Beings.
joko33 are they pulling some kind of Smash Bros and Master hand thing on us or Lego Movie plot twist.
Like, the entire fight and epic battle to save the universe from evil turns out to be all about a little kid playing with his toys in his room.
And we are the creator, we make our own legend, our own story.
actually the audience is represented by something called "The Red Star" a star/ship in the skies of the matoran universe that would rebuild and bring back to life those that had died in the matoran universe. meant to represent the creativity of the audience and how we as the consumer dont destroy the figures i.e. dont let them die
FYI everybody- I didn't put ads on this video. It was copyright-claimed for the brief clip of that "Move Along" Inika commercial. Soooo..... not much I can do about that. It just sucks.
I have my own Bionicle story that's still a work in progress and hope to tell it someday.
I'll just go watch it with adblock
Claim ur own vid lol
@@robotowl1355 ...I can do that? But it's not like I own "Move Along."
"I'd like to imagine him channeling one through each hand", that is EXACTLY how it worked with Takanuva's half-shadow form. It was literally him controlling Light with his left hand and Shadow with his right. The corruption also caused him to feel darker urges which grew increasingly harder to resist. His corruption didn't stop halfway, it merely slowed down. Mata Nui was dying, but Takanuva was slowly turning evil.
I always envisioned the G2 story as one of the many "alternate dimensions" that would be accessible through the Kanohi Olmak (Brutaka's mask). Imagine Vezon showing up in the background for a section, crushing one of those living bear-traps and leaving again.
I love how the origin story for the universe uses stones, gives the feeling that it is an Elder telling this story and using the stones as a visual aid.
I'll be honest, when I first started watching this series, I wasn't super into Lego anymore. I was watching more out of nostalgia for what I used to play with and to see the Lego sets I'd since missed, or was just too young to really see when they came out. But now, I'm actually getting back into it, and I have you to thank for that. So thank you Nick, for bringing Lego back into life and reminding how great it was, is.
So glad you made this video. For me, Bionicle was pure magic. As a kid, everything was strange, alien, and captivating. I didn't get everything, and I was tootin' mad originally when I learned that it wasn't THE Makuta, it was the Brotherhood of Makuta, but I was born in 1996. Literally, Bionicle was the same duration as my childhood. It gave us strange and interesting designs and incredible characters. But I think the best thing it gave me was an appreciation of longer, more epic stories. Didn't grow up with Marvel or DC, couldn't get into Lord of the Rings, didn't really watch Star Wars. It was the tale of the Bionicle.
But I'll give a few of my own thoughts and experiences. I mostly ducked out of 2006 for some reason. I only learned most of the story's hidden niches recently, which is a nostalgia blast, and I've only recently learned about the Piraka's individual personality. But 2007 was the best year for me even if I only got Ehlek. I paid the most attention, wanted most of the sets, and was engrossed by the darkness of the ocean.
Karda Nui was a twist, but I also like it. The Mistika Toa are just plain bad, I think there needs to be less grey and the colors and shapes more attuned to the original toa, but given that it's only the set design for a few of the sets that I'm complaining about? I like all the Makuta sets, even with how odd it was to just then hear about more than 1 Makuta. I picked up Vamprah and Gorast, who both have tragically buckled under the weight of their own structural fragility. I have to say, my love of the Makuta was probably helped by me turning Vamprah into the Batwing from Tim Burton's movies and Gorast into a 2-headed Dragon, Transformers-style. Would've loved to have all 6 Makuta. It actually bothered me that there weren't 6 more matoran for the Mistika, designed after their bigger buddies because the first 6 have such heavy design cues.
I think Bionicle has affected me, too, in the way I tell my stories (because I, too, am a storyteller). Not in terms of robots on islands, or epic battles waged for the heart and soul of the universe, but culturally. My webcomic has sharkfolk in it that are based off of Polynesian culture, terminology, and ideas, and I don't think that would've happened if Lewa was called 'Axe' or something like that.
As a last side note: Can we have links to galleries of your bionicle MOCs and the MOCs of the glatorian and the like you showed here? I want to stare at other people being better builders than I am.
Unfortunately, I do not have such galleries. This is the most people have seen of them. Might make a series of videos showcasing them sometime, though.
I totally agree with you about the Makuta. In my mind he's still the one and only.
Bionicle was one of the greatest things that Lego ever did. It was one of the defining franchises from my childhood, before Transformers or Star Wars. Revisiting it as a 20-something adult, it's reminded me of something about life: there is a reason why we tell ourselves stories. Stories reveal truths about ourselves and about our lives. Stories inspire us and give us hope. To some, they are just action figures, but to me, they are larger than life characters that represent the forces the light and shadow, good and evil, and the amazing mystery of how life never unfolds how you think it will.
Thank you, Lego. You made an amazing story that we will never forget.
Thank you as well for documenting the whole line like this. This is the way of the Bionicle.
Funny thing is that Bionicle was not cancelled due to poor sales. I am doing my masters in Denmark and got to read one document that states that Bionicle's sales were more or less the same for the last three years in a row. They were significantly better than the sales of other themes but Lego wanted to reboot the story again to boost the sales under a new name: Hero Factory. This now makes sense as Faber has said it's all in the same universe. Hero Factory's sales were higher than Bionicle as Lego expected but the reboot took Bionicle fans out of the market and Hero Factory's sales went downhill after the second year. Then Hero Factory was cancelled and the connection between Bionicle and Hero Factory never happened.
Then came the reboot for Bionicle and the goal was to reboot the bionicle story and connect it with Hero Factory but Bionicle fans had either grown by then or lost interest in Bionicle.
The Hero Factory fandom was small, sure the figures sold well on the first two years but there was no strong connection between customers and the lore of Hero Factory.
That's the reason Bionicle G2 failed and then cancelled.
I wonder if Lego still has interest in this franchise as their own IPs are doing great and have more budget for the lore. I think that right now it's the perfect time for Bionicle to return as the lego brand has never been stronger in history. Even misses like Vidiyo didn't hurt the company beyond a scratch that people never speak of.
This is 9 month later but that is both hella interesting and dumb at the same time. The fact they tried doing this again with ninjago and chima is crazy.
Thank you for pushing this up so high in the weeks since it was uploaded, everybody. It's quickly soaring to the top, ready to overtake the most popular Rewind episodes, one of which is a year old and the other two years. We can do this. Make this the biggest Lego Rewind of all time!
Major fan of bionicle. I grow up on watching the first bio movie. ^w^
It's what got me into lego, what got me into building and creating a story like your version. Lego is like gundam. You can build and customize. But sadly Lego didn't execute it as well as gundam.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! I am barely getting into uploading random videos on youtube myself, and the ending of this, was fantastic. As soon as I heard that rewind sound. Superbly done, seriously.
You amazing person. I am now in the proccess of trying to put back together all my old bionicles. I have tens of thousnds of Legos, so this is a daunting task. But my inner child is screaming at me that I must partake on this journey
Well of course, your hard work really shows and it came out as a fantastic video!
This showed up on my recommended list. Watching this video makes me want to go into storage and pull out my Bionicle pieces again. I even have the majority of comics and one of the novels.
“Discovering things we didn’t know we were looking for” - that’s me. Thanks Nick. Great series
You really did the Bionicle franchise justice, damn watching this was an extreme blast of nostalgia! I absolutely loved it!
Here in 2021, this video seems nostalgic for Lego Rewind itself being nearly three years old. It's crazy how times flies.
Kids haven't changed, and they never will.
That's something I always see people overlooking.
The adults that surround them are changed, they grew up in the different situations that were made for them by the adults of their generation.
The interest for this sort of multimedia project and this type of toy will always be there, and I think if we could find a way to get them interested in it and catch their eye it would be healthy for them.
We need to treat kids how we wished we were treated as kids. Give them the freedom to do and watch and play with what they want, but also supply them with media and toys with more substance than that.
As an example, there's a lot of TV shows we'd watch as kids that we didn't like at first, and only got into because nothing else was on. But now kids are growing up in a world where everything is on- and all the time.
We need to spend more time with our kids than our parents spent with us if we want to cultivate their creativity. Not even just their creativity, everything in their minds. That doesn't mean kicking them off the computer or forcing them to play outside. It means deciding to share our experiences and interests with them.
That's what actually scares me about bionicle not being around anymore.
There's nothing like it. Nothing that'll have my kid diving through lore and filling in the gaps with their imagination. No lego sets that really beg to be taken apart and turned into new characters. No action figures with their own story and people they're fighting. It's all licensed. And a lot of the licensed sets are wonderful, but they don't welcome creativity in the same way.
It just makes me nervous. I don't need my kids to play with bionicle- I need them to play with something that excites and engages them. I want my kids to choose their toys over a screen they already have access to, not play with their toys because I said they were spending too much time with a screen and took it away.
I get that I'm typing out a whole essay here- and on a video that's been out a while- so nobody's really reading it.
But that's what I don't like about the whole situation with kid's content on youtube. That it's so easy to make without putting in any substance at all. We all like to think we would have still chosen our toys over "Spiderman and pregnant Elsa eat poop!!" with several syringes in the thumbnail, but it's not really a fair comparison. A lot of us probably wouldn't have.
TL;DR: I think it's important to be proud of the things you like, especially at a young age. And I hope we can start making better things to entertain our kids, because it's our job.
Good essay. I think the stories you liked as a kid are some of the most influential things on your life, even if you don't recognise it later. Without those stories and with parents spending less and less time with their kids each year, I don't know where we're headed.
Same thoughts.
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I do, and it’s not pretty. If you want a hint, take a gander at Mao’s China.
@@combativeThinker That is a lot of genocide and mass murdering.
Exactly and same here.
Bionicle was something that shaped my childhood. I first discovered it in late 2005, when I discovered Lego, but 2006 was when I got into it. I was 6 at the time, so of course I wasn't really familiar with the lore. But what I needed to know was "Toa-good. Piraka-bad. Mask of Life-powerful Macguffin that everyone's fighting over." I loved the line through 2007 and 2008, and I did my homework and got familiar with the years I had missed out on. Then came 2009, where I continued to be a fan of Bionicle. And The Legend Reborn...wow. My brother, my sister, and I would watch the sneak peaks on the Lego website, and we'd love every second of it. I was disappointed when I did not get the movie for Christmas, but I was able to watch it years later. Then came 2010, where, unlike most people, I was satisfied with the ending I got. It was unfortunate to see Bionicle die, but by that point, I'd seen lots of Lego themes I loved get cancelled, so I was used to it. Plus, Bionicle had a decent ending, and Hero Factory did a nice job of filling in the gap it left. I enjoyed Hero Factory for several years, until Invasion From Below ruined it. Then came Bionicle G2, and it was...mixed. The story had no connections to the original, which made it hard for me to get into it. And the sets got worse as the theme went on, to the point that I didn't even mind when it was cancelled. While I don't hate G2 as much as most people do, it was ultimately just a failed attempt to make lightning strike twice. For a couple years after G2 ended, Bionicle still held a special place in my heart. Even to this day, I get out my old Bionicle collection every once in a while. I was one of the supporters for the Legend of the Bionicle Ideas project, and I really hope it gets approved. But even if it doesn't, I'll always be a Bionicle fan.
*Note: Wow! You reached out to Eljay, Just2Good, MandRProductions, a couple other Lego channels I'm not familiar with, and Jangbricks himself? That's awesome.
Are you me? Because I had pretty much the same story play out!
I mean, they were rubbing the Great Spirit being the island since that cutscene in the online game! The 'Mata Nui' stone falling was a symbol of the Great Robot falling onto the planet.
mata also means face in maori
Damn 7 bucks thats crazy. Miss those days.
Kopaka was my favorite with Pohatu and Onua close behind. Such classics.
I feel like lego should just turn bionicle into a media product first and a toy line second. It would be cool for them to restart the orginal story (keep it 90%+ the same) and complete it as it was intended. I bet it would even be possible to make a tv series/ movie series with the original animation style at a fraction of the cost.
A Bionicle Anime would be awesome
I just realise-Nick was the lego chronicler himself in this series
He needs a crab steed
I just binged this entire series in a matter in a few days, but these are some of the best LEGO documentaries I've ever seen. I got to really get to understand themes that I vaguely knew as a kid existing due to flash like Adventures(or Orient Expedition as I knew it, I didn't know it was a subtheme) and Alpha Team. Honestly, this whole series has inspired me to be more willing to try new things instead of sticking to my usual intake of Batman and Star Wars sets with a City set mixed in here and there. I love Lego to death but I never knew that much of what existed outside of my comfort zones and catalogs. Now I want to get whatever little bits of these old themes I can off of bricklink and to incorporate them into my collection/lego city mocs.
This video alone made me really appreciate Bionicle, and actually want to get into it instead of just leaving it there as an option to get into. Heck, I probably will get a few Bionicles down the line and take a nice big break from Licensed themes after I get all of the little slivers of Batman and Star Wars I love to death. There's so much to do and so little funds and so little space, but this series really has made me appreciate LEGO as a whole
Then this series is a success.
@@NickonPlanetRipple I Agree
500K views. Thank you, everyone. you made this the most successful Lego Rewind episode of all.
It’s such a good vid, like you said I get nostalgic for the toys even tho I only got 1 star set when I was a kid. Thanks for letting me experience it!
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I really enjoy watching almost all your videos from this series, mostly while eating lunch or dinner... Helps defeat the corona loneliness! Greetings from Austria and Italy
The music at 44:24 is so good but Idk where it's from
If there is ever a season 4, could you cover mixels.
It was one of the best value lego themes in my opinion
All those TH-camrs at the end really made me appreciate how Lego Rewind has really intigrated itself into the Lego TH-cam Community.
This was quite the ride.....so long, Planet Ripple. Let’s hope there’s something to look forward to in the new decade...
"I broke a socket."
Well. We've just started the episode. I'm already triggered. FML
Not his fault things are so cheap! I remember snapping a couple of them and feeling like I just earned a ticket straight to hell.
@@xshullaw I'm triggered because I did it too. Lol my green bohrok.
Watching this video felt like a grand journey in it of itself. As a zoomer who grew up on Ninjago (basically the Bionicle of my generation, as you said in your ninja episode), and only really heard of how big and crazy Bionicle was back in the 2000s, I think I did catch a little of that "secondhand nostalgia" you talked about. It must've been great to have been a fan back in the day. Proud to call myself a subscriber.
The ”you are Lego rewind” line gives me the chills.
Bionicle, and of course Lego is just... beautiful.
And so was this series.
Thank you.
I've lost track of how many times I've watched this masterpiece (more than 10 times). I love this video, it is responsible for the reigniting my love for bionicle. Thank you Nick. I have rebuild my 104 sets,re watched the movies, re read my comics and books, found the ttv community and biomedia project. I can't thank you enough.
P.S.
Hi from Mexico, take care in this hard times
Man, I can't even begin to imagine how much time I spent on BS01 reading the mountains of lore of the various things in the setting as a kid and into my teens. It's such an interesting and well written story with so many details in the background and foreground alike.
When i was a kid, probably half of my Legos were Bionicles
Same
Well, time for me to throw all of my thoughts into one long ramble at the end of this series.
I first really got into Bionicle in 2007 with the Barraki theme. I remember it was one of the first Lego themes I got into, but for me it acted like a gateway into the rest of Lego, and the other themes that were coming out at the time. Castle, Exo Force, Star Wars, and later Atlantis and Power Miners. Bionicle would always remain my favourite, and it was as the story ended around 2010, ironically, that I really fell into the universe, finding the books and the movies. Its really been an experience to go through these videos and see these themes again, where they came from and what came before them, and I've really enjoyed it. Its fitting that it should be ended with a monument to one of the best stories Lego ever told.
I don't often comment on videos, but I felt like I should thank you before comments potentially disappear. Not just for Lego Rewind. I've been watching your stuff since 2015 when you started your big Bionicle G2 reviews, which I still enjoy. It was your Alita videos that introduced me to that story, one which I wasn't aware of before, but would now say I am a fan of thanks to you.
And then, earlier this year, I bought your first planet ripple book off amazon. And then I bought the second, and the third all in the span of about a month. I enjoyed them tremendously. The world it takes place in really intrigues me. I'm curious about the Pirates, and how they seem to act almost as a government in there own right from what's been seen so far. They have the necessary machines to do whatever they want, and there isn't really anything to stop them, but ruling over humanity on this ocean world where communities are always mobile and localised to there subs would likely make any state building impractical, so plunder and extortion becomes the name of the game. And given how vast and powerful the machines they possess are, it feels like this has been the order of things for a good long while.
And then there's the protagonist, Minnow. Reading through her thoughts and feelings has been very enjoyable. Its been nice to see a character who is Autistic be the main character, and allowed to be a character with development and emotions. Often I've found that characters who are somewhere on the spectrum are treated as unfeeling, or otherwise disconnected from other characters. As an Autistic person myself its nice to see some more variation in the characterisation, and addressing how things can be uncomfortable for us sometimes when others might not realise. I've never been desperately comfortable talking about my diagnosis, to the point that I've agonised for a disproportionate amount of time over this comment trying to work out how to say what I want, but your novels have helped me with my own life, and that is something I can't thank you enough for. When the next book comes I will be getting it.
Thank you for this whole series Nick, and for everything else. I'll be eager to see what comes next from Planet Ripple.
Bionicle was easily the most potent thing Lego's made, to me at least. You touched on a number of its unfinished parts, but there were a million smaller, unexplored corners of Mata Nui and the rest of the universe outside him. Vezon was travelling other dimensions and could have ended up doing anything, anywhere - a friend of mine made a Twitter RP account for him where for years his Vezon and his steed did exactly that. Half the random side characters had implied or more or less told backstories that were worth exploring, villains included. Every random interaction between two characters could have sustained a novel's worth of tales of cooperation, antagonism, ambivalence or simple side-by-side quiet ambiance. The writing was so enticing, and it left me as mystified as Lego Racers 2's 00s' Arctic's desolate waste. The stories that could be were infinite, and those that were were pretty damn satisfying. A neverending mozaic.
As a kid I binged the comics and the books and very much avoided any video commercials, which very much helped me keep my view of it mystical and peaceful, in a way that the pop stuff in those would have prevented. I appreciate others' nostalgia for those, but there's something to be said for the variant of the Bionicle experience that excluded all that pandering and just told its tale with its bizarre shapes and names
Also I'm absolutely certain the theme was an inspiration for "The Owl House" where the Boiling Isles are a giant rotten Titan's corpse everyone lives on kind of knowing but generally treating it as just their funky island
That aside, this was a lovely tribute, evocative of a great many of my experiences from growing up with it from the first Bohrok line to the end. I haven't looked around bonkle youtube much, but this is without a doubt one of the definitive summaries for the theme, a timeframe set in stone just as it deserved. Thank you for giving it that
I honestly feel like a modernized line of Bionicle would do better than the reboot.
Like, same toys, same story, but modernized parts. On top of that, package every toy with a comic that contains a piece of the story and a link to a website that has the entire story as a webcomic, with all tie-in media being based around the main comic.
It'd greatly streamline the story consumption while making sure not to detract from it, and also give people the chance to experience the toys in a new light.
When I saw that Bionicle reference in the hidden side set a part of me cried of pure joy.also thanks for this truly amazing series it was great seeing all those old themes giving some love again and I appreciate the amount of work you putted in you truly respect your content and want it to be great to you and everyone else and I’m definitely looking forward to your other projects in the future.
I will always appreciate and love Bionicle, and will defend G2 probably until I die as kits. The cancellation of Bionicle G1 is what eventually led me to picking up Gunpla as a hobby. I wish Lego would pick Constraction lines back up eventually, they brought something different to experience. This series was an interesting watch as a whole.
the bionicle to gunpla pipeline..... we got another one boys
Wait, there was a Piraka Yoyo?
Genius marketing right there Lego
YOYO PIRAKA!
Bahrag Queen has already touched that yoyo!
What if there was a Lego action figure theme that focused on turning everyday objects into weapons? Like taking apart a yoyo to use as twin saw blades?
@@JayTohab Ninjago comes very close when you consider many memorable ninja weapons were actually gardening tools.
I still find it intriguing that according to Evan Stanley, an artist who works on the IDW _Sonic_ comic books, mentioned that when designing Whisper the Wolf, her mask does borrow inspiration from Kopaka's Kanohi Akaku. It really shows that even to this day, _Bionicle_ can still ignite inspiration for other people.
If I ever need to explain to someone why Bionicle is the only Lego thing I truly love, this is the video I'll use. You did a fantastic job.
Finally the time has come the time to listen...
Sad to see the series end, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and every part of the process - thank you very much for an extended trip down memory lane.
"From the beginning, you know the end."
Growing up as a kid, Bionicle and Halo influenced my creativity so much. Out of all my friends I think I was the only one that liked both of these series simultaneously; glad to know somebody else did too. It was nice seeing them put together. Always found similarities between the two. Great video.
Bionicle fans don't know better, they know BEST!
^this guy gets it
As someone who owned a lot of the later waves of bionicle G1 with their terrible brittle limbs that snapped immediately, I was a big fan of CCBS and its durability. I loved G2 personally and it being cancelled so quickly was really upsetting to me. I just hope Lego makes another epic constraction theme, or heck any constraction theme.
i won't lie here: i hated CCBS when it first came out, but that changed instantly when i first handled it with bionicle G2. i was shocked how durable it was, and even more shocked when i saw all the MOCs using it.
I’m relatively young so I was real young when G2 came out and I bought the Toah of Fire and thought it was real neat! If it had a real story I probably would have bought more
"I was there to witness the violent explosion of its birth, and watched it die twice." Pretty much sums up how Bionicle went.
The fact that a random set in Bionicle can have as much expresion, personality and creativity as a complete system collection, show constraction as the pinacle of character and world creation.