Lego has a gold mine if they capitalize on the Bionicle brand in a few years, when all the childhood fans are grown up and want some nostalgia. It shouldn't be toys, though. Or maybe it should, since if I had children, I would buy them every single set :)
The story of the 2006 line could literally be summarized as, "six children, suddenly turned into adults by a lightning strike during their visit to hell, must fight their way through gang controlled territory to steal a defibrillator from a mentally ill homeless man".
“New from bionicle on a tropical island six elemental cyborgs with amnesia arrive to help local kids deal with a rabies outbreak they pay a visit to the man responsible who is disguised as a child living in his basement with a bunch of crabs he turns into a ball of tentacles and our hero’s use six natural disasters in hopes of awakening his adopted brother who is also god”
Imagine your teammates having masks of Invisibility, telekinesis, mind control, shape shifting, and translation and you get stuck with night vision. Oof that's gotta hurt
@@moldybread2445While that has long been how people imagine it, as far as canon goes, it actually is just a flashlight mask with limited x-ray vision.
I didn't know how much I needed this until I heard someone mention a "9 hour bionicle lore video". I dropped everything to come here, and I wasn't disappointed. This is unironically fantastic.
Same. I was scrolling as my brother in law was walking by, and I said "A video on the full Bionicle lore? Huh. Oh wow it's nine hours." And we both kind of stopped and looked at eachother and nodded. Currently 3 hours in 😂
I always saw the Great Beings as stand-ins for, well, us. The people who built all these sets and did what we wanted, with our available parts and imaginations being the only limits.
It's funny cause i remember having this entire story when playing with bionicles and then years later as an adult finding out they had an actual lore for them.
Velika giving the Matoran Universe denizens sentience just like how we project stories and personalities into pieces of plastic... Except we didn't scheme to rule over them ourselves, hopefully.
It was a great twist, but the best part is what happens after Vakama finds out. His reaction to that knowledge and how it changes him completes his character arc and makes him one of the most well-developed characters in the franchise.
@@Garbigo123 Well, having firmly tried to write and contemplate what could have happened next, really no, no it's not the best ending, it's only okay if you're painting in very broad strokes.
@@Garbigo123 Greg dropped the bal haaaaaard though. It was heaps nice of him to try and continue writing the story after the theme ended, but he probably shouldn't have, since he had to end on a cliffhanger due to being assigned to write other LEGO projects and not having the time to work on the post-2010 story serials. And it was just getting good too
I calculated that if the Great spirit robot was a set sold by lego, he'd be about 802 km tall (or 2 600 000 feet) to be at scale with the matoran and toa sets.
This collection seriously needs to be put into a museum. Or at the very least you turn it into your own. You practically have every single set ever released.
At this point, he owns every set, combiner, alternate model, mask, krana, kraata, kanoka, canister, and many MOCs that are as close to cannon for characters we'll ever get. Missing items from the real world history, such as statues, displays, banners, style guides, story bibles, unique 'artifacts' (like the pure platinum Kanohi Avohki), and prototypes would truly make his collection a museum, which I would love to see made for this incredible theme. And when it comes to media, this video, BionicleSector01, and the BioMedia Project have gathered a full, digital, and free collection of all Bionicle media.
I can't believe I didn't see it sooner, but the part about Teridax disguising himself as Turaga Duma and taking over Metru Nui, while having toa lured to their deaths at the hand of dark hunters stationed to be waiting for them, feels a lot like what happened to the Jedi during the events of the Jedi Purge and Order 66 in Star Wars.
This was a spectacular run down both audio and visually done. My only, only criticism of this wonderful anthology is the moment addressing the real world inspiration for Bionicle. There wasn't an actual lawsuit, representatives for the Maori people as well as other pacific Islanders reached out to Lego to inform them they were using sacred terms in an offensive manner. Lego responded by drawing up a new code of conduct for inspired properties with input from the concerned parties. Frankly, I think it's a bright point in Bionicle's history and that Maori and Pacific Islander culture deserves respect and credit for inspiring such a spectacular series.
Still sounds like the Maori and Pacificers who brought that up for some dumb reason were bitchy ass dipshits. I'd assume most Maori and Pacific Islanders thought everything with bionicle was cool and awesome, whereas likely a small minority of retards sent the "concern"
I was obsessed with bionicle lore as a kid. This is about to be nostalgic as hell Edit: wow, the origins of mata nui are way crazier than I remember Edit 2: holy SHIT this is a lot more complicated and dense than I remember.
It might have been more interesting to add timestamps instead of "Edit" and "Edit 2" (especially for edit 2. Did you comment this after the first 20 minutes or after finishing the video?)
It's funny, this lore is beyond dense and I didn't even know all of it, but so much of it was still tucked away in the back of my mind and I remembered it as if it was fresh despite up to 20 years removed from originally experiencing this story
Personally I like this way of telling hero stories. The timeline of bionicle borders on what I would call shared myth or legend rather than a true story. The language, structure, and manor of conveyance feels more like a shifting legend evolving as we uncover more history from unseen dig sites and artifacts. It’s like a secret culture we all got to experience as boys. We recall the adventures of the Toa Metra or Toa Inika with the same reverence you would here an Ancient Greek would speak of Heracles. I just think THAT is how you elevate beyond a simple hero and enter into something entirely different and much more enduring.
It wasn't really that they thought Hero Factory would necessarily be more lucrative under normal circumstances and more that the writers for Bionicle had other things they were doing and had to wrap things up
With how dense and sprawling the story had become, it became much harder for new kids to get into. Meanwhile the older ones were growing up and losing interest. It makes sense that LEGO would want to pivot to a line with a smaller plot that was easier to get into. It’s why Transformers reboots every few years.
It's kind of amazing that some 8-year-old me's favourite characters were the Voya Nui resistance, especially the weird one who was always telling the wise-sounding stories and driving everyone around him insane. Only to then find out many years later that he was one of the most important characters in the entire universe. Man, I love Bionicle.
I almost died from laughter when you pulled out the whiteboard. Thank you so much for making this video, I will rewatch it a couple of times whenever I want to relive my childhood. Have a nice day
Bionicle is literally almost perfect for a table top roleplaying game, come to think of it, I might have some ideas... Oh and also it might be perfect for adaptation into an animated series or something else
I always thought 2001-3 Mata Nui would be a great setting for an MMORPG. You get an open world with a bunch of different areas and stuff, and the finale of each year's story would make a cool dungeon or raid for teams of 6 players.
Yeah, I personally never liked that twist. It was like the midichlorians in Star Wars. Trying to explain everything in a sci-fi way ruined the mystique for me.
@@robethematoran6975same, I knew about the robot and stuff but now learning that it happened inside the actual robot? I'm very disappointed. I know it has a very deep meaning for the creator but the way it's handled doesn't make sense. If the matoran were supposed to be robotic and not sentient, why create an entire ecosystem / universe inside the robot? maybe i missed it in the video but I think it doesn't make as much sense as everything happening outside as I supposed it was before
@@magnusprime962Except midichlorians is something George made up later, the great Spirit being a bigass robot was part of the story since the beginning.
to this day, our family uses the term "makuta plot" to indicate an incredibly well thought out plan with layers upon layers upon layers where you can't lose
Absolutely tragic it never happened, but Farshtey's novels were amazing, I read every one of those I could get my hands on. Plenty of comics too. I even enjoyed the second movie quite a lot. I remember 1 being a little cheesy and 3 being messy, but I remember 2 being very competent. Legend Reborn was pretty good too until the ending act for me (again cheesy with the beetles making a giant), but the first act of Mata Nui meeting Ackar was super cool. They were very well done.
The reboot was animated, it was terrible. Too safe to interest kids and far too simple to interest the old fans. It lasted one year, the animated series only lasted 3 episodes and was very heavily shortened. Also the toa mats had only personality trait each.
Thank You for this As a kid I thought the story of Bionicle was simple. There are good guys Toa, and there are bad guys Rakshi, Vakhi, Visorak or Pirakha. They fight for some special mask or their existence and that's all. I'm 26, I started to buy old Bionicle sets only for collection (my mom gave my old sets to my younger cousins, and the little bastard lost them when moving). I wanted to rewatch Bionicle first 3 movies in Polish dubbing, when I accidentally found this video. Now I see that Bionicle story is the best storyline written to sell toys since Transformers. I hope that Lego will someday come back to it.
I still remember the feeling of revelation I felt when it was revealed that Mata Nui was the Matoran universe this whole time. I remember when that reveal was made and suddenly so many things began to suddenly click in place. I don’t think I will ever experience a feeling like that again.
While I don't have first have experience with that, since I was 7/8 at the time and didn't care and about the lore behind the sets, I did have several instances like that in my experience with BlazBlue and Trails of Cold Steel.
i honestly never knew the story was THIS expansive. i thought it stopped after web of shadows when no more movies came out, i had no idea there were comics and shit that carried it on
9 and a half hours and this video still couldn't tell me where Good Guy fits into all of this. For real, though- this is an amazing video. I was an avid fan of Bionicle for my entire childhood until the series ended. I read most of the comics that came w/ LEGO Club magazine but there was so much in this video I never knew about. You are the real Chronicler, Duck. Bravo.
when i was a child i had absolutely no clue there was this much story told outside the movies, i'm utterly shocked at how much there is to know and how much info i had no access back then because of language barriers. i'm so happy to revisit this universe, thanks a lot! i'm enjoying it thoroughly
Hey DuckBricks, I just wanted to write in to say that this series has been honestly the best part of my days for the last few months, I loved every second of it and I couldn't wait for each episode to come out. You truly and absolutely have an incredible talent for narrating, editing, and writing. I can't imagine the sheer amount of hours that went into making all this, but either way, your hard work shows. As per usual you deserve waaay more subscribers and views :) I can't wait for what's to come and keep it up I honestly can't put into words how good this series has been
@@DuckBricks Any chance that you'll compile the names of each track used in chronological order in a pastebin or something and then put it in the video description. I highly doubt that many people can find all of the tracks that aren't blatantly obvious used in the vid with the names alone. I only managed to find one by myself, and that was the theme that plays at the beginning of each episode, which for those who're on the same quest as me and haven't found it yet, it's "Legend of the Bionicle" from the Bionicle: Mask of Light OST.
I say we petition Lego to do a soft reboot/animated adaptation of the whole G1 story. Any plotholes can be smoothed out, and the story can be given the attention it truly deserves
This is a damn masterpiece dude, honestly so well done and well edited overall. Thank you for being our chronicler for such an amazing and long-running storyline! Also the star wars styled intros to each episode are such a neat touch, and the Phantom Menace music whenever Botar appeared made me genuinely chuckle every time.
As a kid who didn't use the internet much and didn't know there were any other bionicle books/comics outside of the couple I received as free promotional items, it was a DELIGHT to finally hear the full story. Is it bloated with all the side adventures and pointless leaps into alternate universes? Yeah. Is the amount of betrayal, mind-control, and fits of blind rage eye-rollingly hilarious? Also yeah. BUT, the depth, consistency, density, and dedication of this universe is BADASS, and goes beyond any other toyline I can think of. The blurred lines of good and evil is an especially unique feat. This franchise deserved more than to be abandoned like this, without a doubt. You've done us a great service by presenting it in the densest form possible (funny as that sounds).
It's absolutely insane to me how fleshed out the lore of Bionicle was, just for a line of buildable action figures. It's such a fascinating universe that was created. It's so much deeper than it looks on the surface. The fact that you've taken the time to streamline all of the story, told across all the different mediums of books, comics, webseries, movies, games, etc. is amazing because I think this is the first time I've actually seen everything told in a comprehensive and entertaining way. I also really like the little interjections for pieces of trivia here and there. This is a series that means a lot to me, as it does for everyone else who grew up with it, so I just wanted to say thank you for putting in clearly a huge amount of work to make a video like this. Bionicle may be gone, but it lives on thanks to people like you!
5:30:40 Man, Federation of Fear was the only story I actually did read as a kid, because I truly always loved Vezon whole design and idea and wanted to see more. That story is so genuinely good. Glad to see others think so as well!
I remember reading a lot of it but not finishing it. It's such a good idea putting all these past underused characters from different eras together in one team. Not entirely sure why Carapar was there though 😅 Vezon's always been super enjoyable. I remember his taunting of the Toa Inika in the chamber of the Mask of Life very vividly. He felt insurmountable. I don't even remember how they beat him.
The Ignition Trilogy was so amazing as a kid. My grandma always bought me the newest comic book every month. Good times. Still a bit sad, that we did not get another trilogy of movies for that story arch.
I loved Bionicle as a kid and fell down the extended lore rabbit hole about two days ago. I'm very glad this series exists to fill me in on lore I didn't even know existed.
Watched this whole thing. This video is well crafted well written and edited. I hope many new fans will watch this massive video to learn the full legend of bionicle Thank you for making this wonderful video this is something that will last forever
Unironically, one of my first and favorite pieces of epic storytelling. I still remember finding Beware the Bohrok at a book fair in grade school and being taken by its worldbuilding.
This video and the story of Bionicle that was written come together to make one of if not the most impressive pieces of media to exist in the modern day. The amount of human effort that was done by those who wrote the story and you who collected it and made this video is something I will always cherish, but cannot begin to fathom. The story, however, is now a thing people are able to hear in full. Thank you for what you have done.
I don't know what to say. Watching this back, all the pieces fell into place. I had a few sets scattered across the breadth of the series, but I never realized how they all fit together. I read the story of the Metru Nui in the Mask of Time book, I picked up the comics in 2007 with LEGO Magazine at the start of the aquatic arc, but I could never reconcile them all until now. All throughout the video I felt like Jack at the end of Bioshock: flashes of recognition at different images as everything clicked. Thank you so much for this. It's made me appreciate the series so much more than I ever could have as a kid.
I agree with Noobie Dewbie, because these series have touched me more than anything else i've seen in such a long time. It tapped into a defining part of my life as a kid. Your work and passion has not just brought the love and nostalgia back to life for me, it has enriched it unlike anything else. It's become even bigger now than it already was. Seeing all those cool characters again, dealing with their own moral fissions is just amazing. So amazing that some people even missed the like button. Thanks for all of it man!
This has been a fantastic series. Thank you for your hard work sharing this fantastic story. I've had the chance to show this to friends who never realized how indepth this franchise got.
If I ever need to teach any younglings (edited) the way of the Bionicle, I'll make sure to refer them to your highly informative video. Impressive job in putting everything together from the Bionicle Storyline/Universe! :)
@Oil tank Nah most are millennials as the youngest of them would have been the exact earliest age that BIONICLE was recommended for by LEGO in 2001, which is six-seven-ish. Zoomers would have been the second biggest one, ofc. Still a huge part of fans were them, yes. And many of them would have been six too. But it’s also said that older kids liking stuff often means younger kids will start liking it too. That’s how LEGO marketed their toys. Make it for more grown up kids and the younger siblings will follow suit because what the older kids think is cool is seen as cool by them.
I'm extremely happy and satisfied that fans are carrying this series on all these years. I and Lego themselves put the story and stuff down but you guys keep it relevant for revisiting. I too, hope for a revival... maybe somebody will come along and make the animated series discussed in other comment threads...
I don't know if you read all of these comments, but I wanted to thank you for making these Bionicle lore videos. I was obsessed with Bionicle as a kid, and finding this video reignited a passion that's been dormant for over fifteen years. Since first finding this video several months ago, I've had such an amazing time getting back into the series.
man i remember bionicle was my shit as a kid, going back to look at stuff is such a nostaligia trip, didnt know it went this deep till i started watching this
Hey DuckBricks, the audio cuts out towards the beginning, and I’m assuming that it’s because of copyright, but if there’s a way that you can edit back your audio, that would be cool.
This was honestly fantastic. I am HUGE Lore guy so learning every little thing about this world that I’ve known about for so long is fantastic! I remember seeing Bionicle a ton growing up, but didn’t really get into it to any major degree until the end with some of the final sets. Why? Because Bionicle started when I was 1 and I wasn’t allowed some of the more “advanced” Lego Sets (as my mother called them) until I was like 8-9. Cause ya know. Small pieces? So after years of not touching the franchise I am very happy something like this exists for someone like me who wanted to get into the series for a long time, but either missed the whole thing because of age, or possibly found all of this really…really complicated due to ALL the various media. So DuckBricks…thank ya. Greatly. You have earned yourself a loyal subscriber.
Just wanted to thank you for this awesome video, which had been playing in my headphones the last two days while sorting out my old Bionicle collection that has been in pieces since I was a kid.
I am a woman and I didn’t grow up with this. I am watching this entire thing to make my fiancé happy. If this doesn’t prove my love I don’t know what will, wish me luck.
The real world is absolutely terrible and gets worse every day Thank you for bringing this world back to me, and helping me to appreciate parts of it I didn't even realize were parts of it Thank you for reminding me there used to be something I was always excited to see the next chapter of, and ultimately something I can still be excited to one day see the finale of - even if no one ever actually writes an official ending.
Takanuva's detours through the alternate dimensional timelines must have been a truly sobering experience. Seeing so clearly how justice is not safe just because heroes exist. His expereinces in these doomed timelines would have redefined to him what heroism means.
Took me five days to watch this incredible impressive video in its entirety but it was damn worth it my dude. Extraordinary job, well done and thank you so so much for all your effort and passion put into it. I stumbled upon it by a mere coincidence and I do not regret clicking on in one bit.
Imagine being on Baramagna and watching the great spirit robot returning and thinking “Yay now we can fix our planet!” Only to watch it suddenly lose control and smash into aquamagna.
This was fantastic. I was never expecting it to be so easy to digest, but your impeccable narration allowed me to finally comprehend this amazing universe!
After watching segments of this video at a time, over the span of a couple weeks, I must say as a big Bionicle Fan that this is one of the greatest videos I have ever seen! There is so much detail of the lore and it covers everything in a way that is informative, engaging, and entertaining. As someone who still misses Bionicle and continues my passion for this franchise by collecting any Bionicle merch I can get my hands on and cherishing the memories of the stories that make up the legend, from the bottom of my heart I say thank you DuckBricks for this amazing video. Thank you for putting together this grand tour through childhood nostalgia, fantastical wonder, and epic storytelling.
This is one of the greatest compilations of lore, artwork, and masterful audiovisual storytelling I have ever experienced. I loved Bionicle as a child and now I appreciate it even more, thank you DuckBricks for this incredible monumental work!
The Agori/Glatorian are still 85% organic, so I feel like the toys as well as especially the Legend Reborn appearance are not very accurate appearances
I always assumed the organic parts were mostly inner parts like organs, muscles, and blood vessels. I pictured it like General Grevious. A mostly metallic and cybernetic exterior, but if you were to break open the metal armor and casing on the outside, you would see organs and other organic living tissue.
To me the fact that the toys had hands stood out starkly for me as opposed to the not so handly hands of the toys I had before. And aside from the movies they didn't really have any hands prior.
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You know it's an epic world when he says "this is where our main story begins" two hours into the video
That's how long it takes me to get to the point whenever I tell a story to my crush.
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The people writing this lore did not need to go this hard, but I'm so glad they did
fr I had to constantly remind myself they wrote it for a line of kids toys
Friendly reminder Bionicle saved a tanking Lego so in a sense they *did* need to go hard.
@@Plarzay the guy that was in charge of the lore also had a major life threatening disease too. He changed his view on life.
Lego has a gold mine if they capitalize on the Bionicle brand in a few years, when all the childhood fans are grown up and want some nostalgia.
It shouldn't be toys, though. Or maybe it should, since if I had children, I would buy them every single set :)
@@jilomohammad8078 who? Gregg? What's he up to, anyway?
Good vid. 👍
Now do the ninjago one lmao
Never mind its 17 hours long there is no way u would survive it
you broke my brain with this stream but also epilogue scam
Bro wouldn’t even know, didn’t finish the epilogue 💀
liked by the creator lmao
After 9 hours, my sleep paralysis demon is now Duckbricks appearing saying "another quick recap"
When you die, right before your life flashes before your eyes, dudebricks appears and says "just a quick recap"
“And so…”
I almost fell off my toilet laughing from this
Mine was Teridex
@@mattsheehan3604 you'll know it right when everything pauses and turns grayscale
Let's not forget the coolest piece of lore
The Toa Inika saving the All American Rejects from the Piraka
And the Good Guy being a Great Being
Just amazing
Toa Inika and the Voya Nui story were peak Bionicle for me
9 hours of Bionicle lore being the slightly condensed version just makes you realize how much love went into the Bionicle project
he is ready ruclips.net/video/IcjzMXxhMUc/видео.html
And now there's a 13.5 hr 'not as condensed' version!
The story of the 2006 line could literally be summarized as, "six children, suddenly turned into adults by a lightning strike during their visit to hell, must fight their way through gang controlled territory to steal a defibrillator from a mentally ill homeless man".
"So, I'm DEFINITELY not condoning kidnapping, especially on live television..."
The Holy Defibrillator
“New from bionicle on a tropical island six elemental cyborgs with amnesia arrive to help local kids deal with a rabies outbreak they pay a visit to the man responsible who is disguised as a child living in his basement with a bunch of crabs he turns into a ball of tentacles and our hero’s use six natural disasters in hopes of awakening his adopted brother who is also god”
🤔
Imagine your teammates having masks of
Invisibility, telekinesis, mind control, shape shifting, and translation and you get stuck with night vision.
Oof that's gotta hurt
The movie had to buff it to be basically x-ray vision to make it cool.
You say that now but just wait till you have to fight an enemy with epilepsy.
Flashlight mask.
To be fair, it's more like being able to see no matter what even if there's a light source or not.
@@moldybread2445While that has long been how people imagine it, as far as canon goes, it actually is just a flashlight mask with limited x-ray vision.
I didn't know how much I needed this until I heard someone mention a "9 hour bionicle lore video". I dropped everything to come here, and I wasn't disappointed. This is unironically fantastic.
Where ya from ya might’ve heard it from me
Same. I was scrolling as my brother in law was walking by, and I said "A video on the full Bionicle lore? Huh. Oh wow it's nine hours." And we both kind of stopped and looked at eachother and nodded. Currently 3 hours in 😂
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Im going to listen to the whole lore to make a fnf mode about it tbh
My whole immediate family has a bioncle symbol tattoo except 1 its like unity duty snd destiny.
Finally proof this wasn't a fever dream
Are you sure, this video isn’t a fever dream
Well, in some ways, you could say that the Bionicle story is Mata Nui's fever dream
Kinda long for a fever dream
@@hulkfighter7371his a gaint robot. I think almost a million years isn't long for him or it whatever.
It wasn’t all a dream
And if you don’t know now you know
"I'm lying bae, we weren't having sex. Sit down, I'm gonna tell you the entire Bionicles lore."
if she dont fuck after that dump her
That's how you go from having a girlfriend to being married. ;)
I thought we weren’t having sex?
@@lysandergrunberg688Who says you need to get freaky to get married? ;)
I didn’t get it? And also sorry for my bad english grammar by the way?
I never understood why Turaga Lhikan said "Makuta, you were sworn to protect the matorian." Until I watched this video
I always saw the Great Beings as stand-ins for, well, us. The people who built all these sets and did what we wanted, with our available parts and imaginations being the only limits.
My mind has been blown.
It's funny cause i remember having this entire story when playing with bionicles and then years later as an adult finding out they had an actual lore for them.
Almost like plot of LEGO Movie
Maybe I am Velika-
Velika giving the Matoran Universe denizens sentience just like how we project stories and personalities into pieces of plastic... Except we didn't scheme to rule over them ourselves, hopefully.
I cannot express how fucking funny it was whenever Botar appeared with duel of the fates, man is the embodiment of comedic timing
The order of Mata nui tricking teridax into tricking lhikan is next level mind fuckery.
I still don't know who tricked whom to this day.
It was a great twist, but the best part is what happens after Vakama finds out. His reaction to that knowledge and how it changes him completes his character arc and makes him one of the most well-developed characters in the franchise.
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I love how duel of the fates / Star Wars music plays whenever Botar shows up. It’s honestly hilarious.
what song was used for Vezon?
Yeah i must say this is piece of art
I love how whenever Botar is mentioned it just shows the same image and starts playing Duel of the Fates
never realised how matoro was the realest dude of all time
For real man, he really up and Unity Duty and Destiny-ed
He always had that dawg in him
Until the very end, he never believed he was a true hero. And yet, he was the greatest hero of them all.
I still cant get over how much of a cliffhanger this whole franchise ended on
isn't the perfect ending though? its up to your own interpretation on what happens next. so many possibilities....
@@Garbigo123 Well, having firmly tried to write and contemplate what could have happened next, really no, no it's not the best ending, it's only okay if you're painting in very broad strokes.
@@Garbigo123 Greg dropped the bal haaaaaard though. It was heaps nice of him to try and continue writing the story after the theme ended, but he probably shouldn't have, since he had to end on a cliffhanger due to being assigned to write other LEGO projects and not having the time to work on the post-2010 story serials. And it was just getting good too
So did melding makuta survive or what?
@@chrissavage1449 yes and he will be a new main character because makuta is just too cool to be gone completely :33
I calculated that if the Great spirit robot was a set sold by lego, he'd be about 802 km tall (or 2 600 000 feet) to be at scale with the matoran and toa sets.
That's crazy thanks for the calcs man pretty cool
And worth every penny.
For an American reference, 802 km is 498.34 miles
Holy shit
That's like a tiny country! The real size of the Great Spirit robot must be as tall as a continent is long.
I cant get enough of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars style recap pieces. I love it.
Including Botar's bursting into the scene with the beginning of Duel of the Fates.
I like how dropping the island of voya nui back onto the chest is only half way through the video.
"In his final moments, Matoro felt no fear..."
Dang man, still hits hard after all years, even though i knew it was coming
This collection seriously needs to be put into a museum. Or at the very least you turn it into your own. You practically have every single set ever released.
At this point, he owns every set, combiner, alternate model, mask, krana, kraata, kanoka, canister, and many MOCs that are as close to cannon for characters we'll ever get. Missing items from the real world history, such as statues, displays, banners, style guides, story bibles, unique 'artifacts' (like the pure platinum Kanohi Avohki), and prototypes would truly make his collection a museum, which I would love to see made for this incredible theme. And when it comes to media, this video, BionicleSector01, and the BioMedia Project have gathered a full, digital, and free collection of all Bionicle media.
Duck bricks is secretly one of the Great Beings.
I can't believe I didn't see it sooner, but the part about Teridax disguising himself as Turaga Duma and taking over Metru Nui, while having toa lured to their deaths at the hand of dark hunters stationed to be waiting for them, feels a lot like what happened to the Jedi during the events of the Jedi Purge and Order 66 in Star Wars.
And the former happened the year before the other, too.
@@SupersuMC So star wars ripped off bionicle?
Sick.
It's forever hilarious knowing that this 9 hour video is technically the "truncated" version of the Bionicle lore. Amazing job with this!
This was a spectacular run down both audio and visually done. My only, only criticism of this wonderful anthology is the moment addressing the real world inspiration for Bionicle. There wasn't an actual lawsuit, representatives for the Maori people as well as other pacific Islanders reached out to Lego to inform them they were using sacred terms in an offensive manner. Lego responded by drawing up a new code of conduct for inspired properties with input from the concerned parties. Frankly, I think it's a bright point in Bionicle's history and that Maori and Pacific Islander culture deserves respect and credit for inspiring such a spectacular series.
That’s amazing!!! I’m so glad to hear that ^u^
I would say it's a low point, you don't need people's permission to make cultural references
Still sounds like the Maori and Pacificers who brought that up for some dumb reason were bitchy ass dipshits. I'd assume most Maori and Pacific Islanders thought everything with bionicle was cool and awesome, whereas likely a small minority of retards sent the "concern"
Friendly reminder that officially, Lewa is still missing in the jungles of Bota Magna. #findlewa #justiceforlewa
I smell a tabletop champaign
And the story stopped being continued right before Velika was about to try to kill him and his unusual company.
not my boy Lewa
I was obsessed with bionicle lore as a kid. This is about to be nostalgic as hell
Edit: wow, the origins of mata nui are way crazier than I remember
Edit 2: holy SHIT this is a lot more complicated and dense than I remember.
YES! EXACTLY THIS!!!
Same! This took TWO HOURS to get to the parts I was familiar with! When did the lore get so crazy?!?!
It might have been more interesting to add timestamps instead of "Edit" and "Edit 2" (especially for edit 2. Did you comment this after the first 20 minutes or after finishing the video?)
Yeah I remembered so much of the lore and then that was actually only like 45% at best
It's funny, this lore is beyond dense and I didn't even know all of it, but so much of it was still tucked away in the back of my mind and I remembered it as if it was fresh despite up to 20 years removed from originally experiencing this story
Personally I like this way of telling hero stories. The timeline of bionicle borders on what I would call shared myth or legend rather than a true story. The language, structure, and manor of conveyance feels more like a shifting legend evolving as we uncover more history from unseen dig sites and artifacts. It’s like a secret culture we all got to experience as boys. We recall the adventures of the Toa Metra or Toa Inika with the same reverence you would here an Ancient Greek would speak of Heracles. I just think THAT is how you elevate beyond a simple hero and enter into something entirely different and much more enduring.
It they just had better ways to convey their stories back then, I might have stayed invested for much longer.
@@porky1118They did a pretty good job through the books, but it seems like a lot of fans only read the comics.
The fact lego gave this up for hero factory boggles my mind.
It wasn't really that they thought Hero Factory would necessarily be more lucrative under normal circumstances and more that the writers for Bionicle had other things they were doing and had to wrap things up
With how dense and sprawling the story had become, it became much harder for new kids to get into. Meanwhile the older ones were growing up and losing interest. It makes sense that LEGO would want to pivot to a line with a smaller plot that was easier to get into. It’s why Transformers reboots every few years.
@@magnusprime962and yet here we all are, back after all these years
It's kind of amazing that some 8-year-old me's favourite characters were the Voya Nui resistance, especially the weird one who was always telling the wise-sounding stories and driving everyone around him insane. Only to then find out many years later that he was one of the most important characters in the entire universe. Man, I love Bionicle.
I almost died from laughter when you pulled out the whiteboard. Thank you so much for making this video, I will rewatch it a couple of times whenever I want to relive my childhood. Have a nice day
Bionicle is literally almost perfect for a table top roleplaying game, come to think of it, I might have some ideas... Oh and also it might be perfect for adaptation into an animated series or something else
I always thought 2001-3 Mata Nui would be a great setting for an MMORPG. You get an open world with a bunch of different areas and stuff, and the finale of each year's story would make a cool dungeon or raid for teams of 6 players.
Give me about 3 months and I'll write this
@@emptybusseat4901 and then I'll beg Lego to let me make a game about it.
@@kravahi5783 where at?
@@emptybusseat4901 Red Star Games
The fact that the intro to each chapter has the Clone Wars Yularen briefing to start it feels so fitting
It's a very nice touch, since many of the 2000s kids watching this grew up with both franchises.
It’s a testament to just how hard they worked on this that I’d unironically watch a grittier more serious version of this as an adult.
nah, just make itnas heavy as it felt when you first heard it as a kid.
how do you make this grittier? you have genocide, slavery, death, betrayal, cruel gods, apocalypse,..
@@seelfire4725 fair. I guess I just meant a more adult oriented movie
@@seelfire4725 Tahu says fuck, that's the only difference
i mean they did steal a whole bunch of lore from Maori mythology like… straight copypasting so indefensible Lego lost the lawsuit against them
Kind of mind blowing that the bionicle universe was just them living inside a giant robot
Yeah, I personally never liked that twist. It was like the midichlorians in Star Wars. Trying to explain everything in a sci-fi way ruined the mystique for me.
@@magnusprime962 i agree that almost ruined bionicle for me not gonna lie it took many years to come to terms with that
@@robethematoran6975same, I knew about the robot and stuff but now learning that it happened inside the actual robot? I'm very disappointed. I know it has a very deep meaning for the creator but the way it's handled doesn't make sense. If the matoran were supposed to be robotic and not sentient, why create an entire ecosystem / universe inside the robot? maybe i missed it in the video but I think it doesn't make as much sense as everything happening outside as I supposed it was before
@@magnusprime962Except midichlorians is something George made up later, the great Spirit being a bigass robot was part of the story since the beginning.
I love how Botar's theme is Duel of the Fates! That made me smile.
Insurrectionist: "Why do I hear boss music?"
I fucjing love that. Bro shows up and just teleports you to jail.
botar the best lol #getbotard kisses
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to this day, our family uses the term "makuta plot" to indicate an incredibly well thought out plan with layers upon layers upon layers where you can't lose
This is the most wholesome thing ever, thank you
We definitely need a Bionicle animated series.
There was one for a short amount of time, if i recall. I didn't watch much of it though...
Absolutely tragic it never happened, but Farshtey's novels were amazing, I read every one of those I could get my hands on. Plenty of comics too.
I even enjoyed the second movie quite a lot. I remember 1 being a little cheesy and 3 being messy, but I remember 2 being very competent.
Legend Reborn was pretty good too until the ending act for me (again cheesy with the beetles making a giant), but the first act of Mata Nui meeting Ackar was super cool. They were very well done.
I agree plus ultra
The reboot was animated, it was terrible. Too safe to interest kids and far too simple to interest the old fans. It lasted one year, the animated series only lasted 3 episodes and was very heavily shortened. Also the toa mats had only personality trait each.
we did get a 4-episode miniseries in 2016, but it was pretty mid all things considered. pretty animation tho
The sacrifice of Matoro is up there with the death of Ace in One Piece as one of the best moments in comics/graphic novels/manga history.
Wtf ace dies awww shit
Man, that was one of the moments in fiction that really made 8-year-old me come to terms with mortality.
It was better in the book, but the comic did a good job of it
Thank You for this
As a kid I thought the story of Bionicle was simple. There are good guys Toa, and there are bad guys Rakshi, Vakhi, Visorak or Pirakha. They fight for some special mask or their existence and that's all. I'm 26, I started to buy old Bionicle sets only for collection (my mom gave my old sets to my younger cousins, and the little bastard lost them when moving). I wanted to rewatch Bionicle first 3 movies in Polish dubbing, when I accidentally found this video. Now I see that Bionicle story is the best storyline written to sell toys since Transformers. I hope that Lego will someday come back to it.
I feel your pain bro. My mother dumped my bionicles...
I thought so to I was wrong it interesting how much lore there is.
They did bring it back for a year or 2. It was terrible
@@C._Bradford correction: I hope that Lego will someday come back to it and don't screw it up.
I too lost my own collection I only have one unique build I did that I preserved for my son when he's old enough
I still remember the feeling of revelation I felt when it was revealed that Mata Nui was the Matoran universe this whole time. I remember when that reveal was made and suddenly so many things began to suddenly click in place. I don’t think I will ever experience a feeling like that again.
When in the story was this revealed? I was too young and missed this reveal..
@@tiotoy99 2008 I think. Dang, that was a crazy moment.
“Click into place” sounds like a perfect metaphor for Bionicles 😁
The simple "oh....OOOOOH!" só many people felt at that moment
While I don't have first have experience with that, since I was 7/8 at the time and didn't care and about the lore behind the sets, I did have several instances like that in my experience with BlazBlue and Trails of Cold Steel.
i honestly never knew the story was THIS expansive. i thought it stopped after web of shadows when no more movies came out, i had no idea there were comics and shit that carried it on
There were a lot of books too. Not just guidebooks, genuine novellas for kids that continued the story. They were often the best parts of the story
9 and a half hours and this video still couldn't tell me where Good Guy fits into all of this.
For real, though- this is an amazing video. I was an avid fan of Bionicle for my entire childhood until the series ended. I read most of the comics that came w/ LEGO Club magazine but there was so much in this video I never knew about. You are the real Chronicler, Duck. Bravo.
How Good Guy fits into this?
Well, Velika watched over the Matoran Universe for the longest time. But someone has to watch the watchers...
Good Guy was actually planned to be Mata Nui reincarnated, however the storyline ended before this could be implemented
20-something years ago I pulled a little po-matoran out of a happy meal.
Now I'm wasting company time watching the entire lore series
when i was a child i had absolutely no clue there was this much story told outside the movies, i'm utterly shocked at how much there is to know and how much info i had no access back then because of language barriers. i'm so happy to revisit this universe, thanks a lot! i'm enjoying it thoroughly
Hey DuckBricks, I just wanted to write in to say that this series has been honestly the best part of my days for the last few months, I loved every second of it and I couldn't wait for each episode to come out. You truly and absolutely have an incredible talent for narrating, editing, and writing. I can't imagine the sheer amount of hours that went into making all this, but either way, your hard work shows.
As per usual you deserve waaay more subscribers and views :) I can't wait for what's to come and keep it up
I honestly can't put into words how good this series has been
Thank you so much for the kind words - I really appreciate it and am glad you enjoyed!’
@@DuckBricks Any chance that you'll compile the names of each track used in chronological order in a pastebin or something and then put it in the video description.
I highly doubt that many people can find all of the tracks that aren't blatantly obvious used in the vid with the names alone.
I only managed to find one by myself, and that was the theme that plays at the beginning of each episode, which for those who're on the same quest as me and haven't found it yet, it's "Legend of the Bionicle" from the Bionicle: Mask of Light OST.
you have no idea how much my inner child pops off whenever this full grown man comes out on screen, holding actual Bionicles
I say we petition Lego to do a soft reboot/animated adaptation of the whole G1 story. Any plotholes can be smoothed out, and the story can be given the attention it truly deserves
This whole franchise was a journey. It truly was one of a kind and to this day I miss it greatly. If only I could go back and experience it all again.
This is a damn masterpiece dude, honestly so well done and well edited overall. Thank you for being our chronicler for such an amazing and long-running storyline! Also the star wars styled intros to each episode are such a neat touch, and the Phantom Menace music whenever Botar appeared made me genuinely chuckle every time.
Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed
what song was used for Vezon? aside from Vezon's awakening. @@DuckBricks
As a kid who didn't use the internet much and didn't know there were any other bionicle books/comics outside of the couple I received as free promotional items, it was a DELIGHT to finally hear the full story. Is it bloated with all the side adventures and pointless leaps into alternate universes? Yeah. Is the amount of betrayal, mind-control, and fits of blind rage eye-rollingly hilarious? Also yeah. BUT, the depth, consistency, density, and dedication of this universe is BADASS, and goes beyond any other toyline I can think of. The blurred lines of good and evil is an especially unique feat. This franchise deserved more than to be abandoned like this, without a doubt. You've done us a great service by presenting it in the densest form possible (funny as that sounds).
Before this video, I never knew that was Makuta an order and not a person. Definitely makes a lot more of the lore make sense
It's absolutely insane to me how fleshed out the lore of Bionicle was, just for a line of buildable action figures. It's such a fascinating universe that was created. It's so much deeper than it looks on the surface.
The fact that you've taken the time to streamline all of the story, told across all the different mediums of books, comics, webseries, movies, games, etc. is amazing because I think this is the first time I've actually seen everything told in a comprehensive and entertaining way. I also really like the little interjections for pieces of trivia here and there.
This is a series that means a lot to me, as it does for everyone else who grew up with it, so I just wanted to say thank you for putting in clearly a huge amount of work to make a video like this. Bionicle may be gone, but it lives on thanks to people like you!
Good to know that the 5 hour lore video wasn't the longest one
Tren Krom said “y’all fucked it up” then dipped
9 HOURS???
This will literally make 9 blockbuster movies
5:30:40 Man, Federation of Fear was the only story I actually did read as a kid, because I truly always loved Vezon whole design and idea and wanted to see more. That story is so genuinely good. Glad to see others think so as well!
"Don't say it..."
"We're gonna need a bigger boat."
And yeah, Vezon is probably at least one of my top three favorite characters.
I remember reading a lot of it but not finishing it. It's such a good idea putting all these past underused characters from different eras together in one team. Not entirely sure why Carapar was there though 😅
Vezon's always been super enjoyable. I remember his taunting of the Toa Inika in the chamber of the Mask of Life very vividly. He felt insurmountable. I don't even remember how they beat him.
The Ignition Trilogy was so amazing as a kid. My grandma always bought me the newest comic book every month. Good times. Still a bit sad, that we did not get another trilogy of movies for that story arch.
One of the greatest sci Fi epics of all time.
I loved Bionicle as a kid and fell down the extended lore rabbit hole about two days ago. I'm very glad this series exists to fill me in on lore I didn't even know existed.
Watched this whole thing.
This video is well crafted well written and edited.
I hope many new fans will watch this massive video to learn the full legend of bionicle
Thank you for making this wonderful video this is something that will last forever
Thank you! Appreciate the kind words
Unironically, one of my first and favorite pieces of epic storytelling. I still remember finding Beware the Bohrok at a book fair in grade school and being taken by its worldbuilding.
The Voya Nuvi part of the story is elite. The entire bionicle history is flawless but that specific part is just fantastic
This video and the story of Bionicle that was written come together to make one of if not the most impressive pieces of media to exist in the modern day. The amount of human effort that was done by those who wrote the story and you who collected it and made this video is something I will always cherish, but cannot begin to fathom. The story, however, is now a thing people are able to hear in full. Thank you for what you have done.
I don't know what to say. Watching this back, all the pieces fell into place. I had a few sets scattered across the breadth of the series, but I never realized how they all fit together. I read the story of the Metru Nui in the Mask of Time book, I picked up the comics in 2007 with LEGO Magazine at the start of the aquatic arc, but I could never reconcile them all until now. All throughout the video I felt like Jack at the end of Bioshock: flashes of recognition at different images as everything clicked. Thank you so much for this. It's made me appreciate the series so much more than I ever could have as a kid.
I agree with Noobie Dewbie, because these series have touched me more than anything else i've seen in such a long time.
It tapped into a defining part of my life as a kid.
Your work and passion has not just brought the love and nostalgia back to life for me, it has enriched it unlike anything else. It's become even bigger now than it already was.
Seeing all those cool characters again, dealing with their own moral fissions is just amazing. So amazing that some people even missed the like button.
Thanks for all of it man!
Thank you so much for the kind words. I am glad you enjoyed the series and hope it helped you relive the legend!
@@DuckBricks it sure did! And after hours and hours of listening, i can literally 'hear' your comments and that's a good thing! ;)
This has been a fantastic series. Thank you for your hard work sharing this fantastic story. I've had the chance to show this to friends who never realized how indepth this franchise got.
This is proof bionicle was and still is a under appreciated titan of a franchise thank you for making this.
If I ever need to teach any younglings (edited) the way of the Bionicle, I'll make sure to refer them to your highly informative video. Impressive job in putting everything together from the Bionicle Storyline/Universe! :)
@Oil tank I thought it was millennials. But it could be Zoomers too. I've updated my description to "younglings"
@Oil tank Nah most are millennials as the youngest of them would have been the exact earliest age that BIONICLE was recommended for by LEGO in 2001, which is six-seven-ish. Zoomers would have been the second biggest one, ofc. Still a huge part of fans were them, yes. And many of them would have been six too. But it’s also said that older kids liking stuff often means younger kids will start liking it too. That’s how LEGO marketed their toys. Make it for more grown up kids and the younger siblings will follow suit because what the older kids think is cool is seen as cool by them.
@Oil tank There are 30 year olds who are prominent fans too. But maybe you’re right. At least there were more millennials early on, I’d say.
hey yeah, i'm 13 and i just got into this fascinating bio-mechanical world and fandom last year
I’d use this to teach my future kids about the bionicle history
As a childhood fan of bionicle, I am sooo happy to finally realize the vast lore behind one of my childhood heroes.
Never had i thought the Star Wars Clone Wars recap theme would gel so well with the Mask of Light main There.
I can't even fathom how much work this was to put together. Thanks so much for doing this.
I'm extremely happy and satisfied that fans are carrying this series on all these years. I and Lego themselves put the story and stuff down but you guys keep it relevant for revisiting. I too, hope for a revival... maybe somebody will come along and make the animated series discussed in other comment threads...
I don't know if you read all of these comments, but I wanted to thank you for making these Bionicle lore videos. I was obsessed with Bionicle as a kid, and finding this video reignited a passion that's been dormant for over fifteen years. Since first finding this video several months ago, I've had such an amazing time getting back into the series.
Thank you for making this video. Bionicles was my whole childhood,and the whole reason why I've been reading at school.
man i remember bionicle was my shit as a kid, going back to look at stuff is such a nostaligia trip, didnt know it went this deep till i started watching this
5:04:20 For anyone confused, he misspoke. That's Gorast, not Chirox
I've been looking for a Bionicle timeline this in depth for many years now. Thank you for this excellent series!
Spends 10 hours explaining the Bionicle lore, what a chad
Hey DuckBricks, the audio cuts out towards the beginning, and I’m assuming that it’s because of copyright, but if there’s a way that you can edit back your audio, that would be cool.
This was honestly fantastic. I am HUGE Lore guy so learning every little thing about this world that I’ve known about for so long is fantastic!
I remember seeing Bionicle a ton growing up, but didn’t really get into it to any major degree until the end with some of the final sets. Why? Because Bionicle started when I was 1 and I wasn’t allowed some of the more “advanced” Lego Sets (as my mother called them) until I was like 8-9. Cause ya know. Small pieces?
So after years of not touching the franchise I am very happy something like this exists for someone like me who wanted to get into the series for a long time, but either missed the whole thing because of age, or possibly found all of this really…really complicated due to ALL the various media. So DuckBricks…thank ya. Greatly. You have earned yourself a loyal subscriber.
Botar: Appears
[Duel of the fates intensifies]
Just wanted to thank you for this awesome video, which had been playing in my headphones the last two days while sorting out my old Bionicle collection that has been in pieces since I was a kid.
I am a woman and I didn’t grow up with this. I am watching this entire thing to make my fiancé happy. If this doesn’t prove my love I don’t know what will, wish me luck.
I do not know you, but you truly are a formidable person for this alone
@@absoluteedgelord9981 honestly, thank you. Some parts are still confusing, but he’s very happy that I’m trying and making progress
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imagine you actually got invested
This is honestly incredible. This is the kind of lore that people have poured their heart and souls into and it really shows in the way fans respond.
It’s *_my_* sleepover, and *_I_* get to pick the movie!
The real world is absolutely terrible and gets worse every day
Thank you for bringing this world back to me, and helping me to appreciate parts of it I didn't even realize were parts of it
Thank you for reminding me there used to be something I was always excited to see the next chapter of, and ultimately something I can still be excited to one day see the finale of - even if no one ever actually writes an official ending.
her: i bet he's talking to other girls
me: 2hrs deep in a Bionicle lore* Ohhhh this is where it gets good
Takanuva's detours through the alternate dimensional timelines must have been a truly sobering experience. Seeing so clearly how justice is not safe just because heroes exist. His expereinces in these doomed timelines would have redefined to him what heroism means.
Took me five days to watch this incredible impressive video in its entirety but it was damn worth it my dude. Extraordinary job, well done and thank you so so much for all your effort and passion put into it. I stumbled upon it by a mere coincidence and I do not regret clicking on in one bit.
19:18 the fact that the clone wars intro music is in the back ground is fantastic!
Imagine being on Baramagna and watching the great spirit robot returning and thinking “Yay now we can fix our planet!” Only to watch it suddenly lose control and smash into aquamagna.
"...frick."
This was fantastic. I was never expecting it to be so easy to digest, but your impeccable narration allowed me to finally comprehend this amazing universe!
After watching segments of this video at a time, over the span of a couple weeks, I must say as a big Bionicle Fan that this is one of the greatest videos I have ever seen! There is so much detail of the lore and it covers everything in a way that is informative, engaging, and entertaining. As someone who still misses Bionicle and continues my passion for this franchise by collecting any Bionicle merch I can get my hands on and cherishing the memories of the stories that make up the legend, from the bottom of my heart I say thank you DuckBricks for this amazing video. Thank you for putting together this grand tour through childhood nostalgia, fantastical wonder, and epic storytelling.
This is one of the greatest compilations of lore, artwork, and masterful audiovisual storytelling I have ever experienced. I loved Bionicle as a child and now I appreciate it even more, thank you DuckBricks for this incredible monumental work!
I used to love Bionicle when they were first released. Thank you so much for bringing this video.
Glad you enjoyed!!
The Agori/Glatorian are still 85% organic, so I feel like the toys as well as especially the Legend Reborn appearance are not very accurate appearances
I always assumed the organic parts were mostly inner parts like organs, muscles, and blood vessels. I pictured it like General Grevious. A mostly metallic and cybernetic exterior, but if you were to break open the metal armor and casing on the outside, you would see organs and other organic living tissue.
To me the fact that the toys had hands stood out starkly for me as opposed to the not so handly hands of the toys I had before. And aside from the movies they didn't really have any hands prior.
@@johnwalker1058 It's canonical that they have skin too. Look at BS01, there's a reference directly from Greg on this.
This is what I'm putting on for my movie night. It's a great show of knowledge and you have made such a cool series