Error Edits: It's super cool how dedicated the Bionicle fanbase is! Thanks for pointing that I made several errors in this video. In the interest of having correct information, here's a list of the errors made. Please feel free to comment anything else I got wrong. I mispronounce and misstate several words: 1. I totally butchered the pronunciation of Māori. Also Māori refers to a group of people, not a singular tribe. 2. Kopaka as Kapooka 3. Tohunga as Toraga. The Toraga were the village elders, but The Tohunga were the generic villagers. The Tohunga were renamed the Matoran. My reference to the Matoran as "little guys" isn't for the purpose of avoiding the word tohunga. I just like calling them little guys. Aside from the part about the Māori, the purpose of this video is meant to be more of a nostalgic look back on Bionicle, rather than super informative. I also got some things wrong about Bionicle itself. 1. I referred to the rakshii as Rahi, 2. The plural of Bionicle is Bionicle. 3. I stated the Bionicle got their powers from their masks, this is only partially true. (i'm finding conflicting information) There were also some misunderstandings, which were less of a factual error on my part, and more of a failure to clearly communicate what I was saying. 1. I know Mega Blocks aren't made by Lego, lmao. This was a joke 2. When I say Bionicle was the beginning of LEGO creating their own sets, I meant to say "story based sets." I know LEGO had their own sets before this. I even show a commercial for some at the beginning of the video. Lesson: If you're going to make a video featuring a words and a language you're not familiar with, look up the pronunciation. If you're spelling words in a word processor, double check to make sure you wrote them correctly, so you don't pronounce the misspelled words.

"I care more about the toys than the story" *proceeds to tell the whole lore while completely ignoring the fact that there were some massive bomb ass sets.*

Stepin in the club like: Y O Y O P I R A K A

My brother was a loner and awkward but Bionicles made him so happy. I was grateful there was something to fill up his time and give him a sense of escapism.

I can't hear the word bionicle without saying "each sold separately" in my head

when i was 11, I memorized the Bionicle alphabets. I still remember it to this day

Sir how dare you offend my religion

Bionicle seriously needs another comeback , cause a concept so awesome shouldn't just be left in the dust .

Actually, the guy who voiced Jaller(the yellow and red guy) was supposed to voice Takua(the blue and red guy) but the actors got the lines mixed up and it just seemed to work.

Bionicles were lit af and the lore was amazing even disregarding the fact that they were children’s toys.

Bionicle was my thing

Jesus christ that commercial with the all american regects song hit me in the face with so much nostalgia that I was unprepared for that I almost broke my neck

2:37 id love for him to be named The Pope

Barack Obama was my favorite Bionicle

Well, you got just about every lore detail and character name wrong, but the most important Bionicle fact of all was the one thing that you got right: as a 7-year-old, these toys were kick-ass.

Lol no one would bat an eye at LEGO naming a character "the pope"

Bioncle was one of the most coolest things that 7 year old me experienced

Change the title. Don't you ever disrespect Bionicle like that ever again

*owns 48 Bohrok* *feels no shame*

I remember my parents buying me a copy of Mask of Light in a grocery store in 2004 and I was engrossed in the lore. I remember they made a sequel on a new continent that I think was a prequel. It was nuts that they created this

I was that kid with a lot of Lego. Because my mother was a founding member of Denmark's biggest and first real Lego fan Club. I went to conventions, competions, and a lot like that. Met people from all over the world, who all loved Lego. All coming to little Denmark to show off what they have been building. And I was there too, a little 11 year old, side by side with people traveling from, Japan, US, Canada, Brazil. And it is first now as an adult, that I appreciate that time, more than "Fun and free Cola"

I'm surprised you didn't bring up the fact the premise of nature-wielding magical robots is weird in and of itself, generally the idea of sci-fi and robotics is like the opposite of nature and fantasy. It was weird but I thought it was really cool at the same time, the aesthetic and setting was very unique and I can't think of another franchise like this.

Bionicle was weird but still they're every man's fetish

Title correction: Bionicle Was Awesome Also, I was part of the Lego Club during this time period and even entered into the sweepstakes to win a solid gold Mask of Light. Didn't win unfortunately. They gave out the most recent comic edition every month and I kept up my subscription for years, so I was kept up with the lore fairly well...

8:31 _bionicles fucking t posing_ _this is what reaching nirvana looks like_

Fun fact in the ninjago city docks set. In the map room, there is a map of the bionicle island

Bionicle was the real shit back in the days. And also you guys not really into the series have NO IDEA how freakin huge the lore is. Even though the latest sets kinda sucked, I really miss all these guys :(

I’m a simple man. I see bionicle and hear all American rejects, I give a like

Bionicle was iconic and one of the coolest looking kids toys EVER. The mix of exotic nature tribes,insects and robots was totally unique and worked so well in my opinion.

Bruh, Bionicle was my fucking childhood. I forgot how much of it. My old friend and I loved those things.

Dude when I was a kid I watched mask of light so many times

6:19 Fun fact: some Matoran (the little guys) actually become Toa (the big kids). (Also, never underestimate them, some of them are very crucial to the story, like Matoro)

My favorite part of the whole Bionicle thing as a kid aside from the toys were the two excellent online flash games. Truly shaped my outlook as a writer even through today.

The fish monster bionicles are the coolest shit

The more and more I think about it the more I realize Bionicle was the first edgy Lego theme.

Bionicles were weird but I was in LOVE with it.

*see’s title* Me: SAY SIKE RIGHT NOW!!

remember when Mata Nui was just a landmass that settled on top of a planet-sized god-robot and all of the Bionicle characters were literally its immune system with amnesia good times

Man... The lore this shit had was insane

As a new zealander this video hurt to hear 😅🤣😂 "mayoori" lol!

I went through a Bionicle renaissance in my early 20's and got a bunch of used ones off eBay to make animations with. The ball joints were perfect for animating with!

Without bionicle LEGO wouldn’t by this popular as now

Bionicle was my jam as a kid. I was obsessed with Tahu. Weirdly enough, I was introduced to it through the comic. I read that thing so much the pages fell out. I didn't even realize they were a part of LEGO until years later, despite the fact that I collected Lego at the same time.

Bionicle was a good lego and a memories for me.

my parents are divorced at my dads, he would play this movie on repeat every night. i litterally pushed that outta my head until this video, THANKS BILLIAM

I remember my shoes breaking when walking in to Legoland in Denmark, my parents bought me a pair of Bionicle sneakers with red masks on them and I was so happy!

Don't matter how old I am, Bionicles will always be dope

Bionicle was basically the Overwatch of its day, explaining all of its lore and storylines in multiple different supplementary material instead of just putting it all in one spot

Me: **Sees title** Also me: *SAY SIKE RIGHT NOW!!!*

It's time for adult swim to make the Bionicle anime

Me talking about bionicle lore Everyone else at the funeral

I remember when I was young I was watching a Bionicle and I looked at my fish and it died I was sad

I'm surprised with how popular Bionicle was that it isn't considered the 2000's equivalent to the Masters of the Universe line.

It's time to make the bionicle anime

The Bionicle lore is actually pretty fkin dark if you get deep into it.

Did you just say the first Bionicle movie wasn't amazing?! Heresy! Burn him! How can you not love "TAKUAAAAA" being yelled?!

you said legends of chima and i felt like i had a war flashback

Pretty interesting Bionicle/Lego company story; When I was in fifth grade, I wrote a letter to Lego (I think to the CEO, but I'm not positive) telling them that I loved Bionicle, and that Gali was my favorite (even including a crude drawing of it). But the rest of the letter was me asking them to send me a Gali mask in green instead of blue; I wasn't even polite about it, I just talked about how cheap they must be to make, so giving me one for free was no big deal. I was kinda being a dick. But sure enough, a couple weeks later I got an envelope from Lego; inside was a generic "thanks for being a fan" type of letter from the CEO (I'm sure they sent out thousands of them, but I didn't know that as a kid). But sure enough, inside some bubble wrap in the envelope was the exact mask that I asked them for. I thought it was a one-of-a-kind mask made just for me, and that it was worth huge sums of money. It's funny looking back on it now, but it was still really awesome of Lego to send me that mask for free, even though I was kind of shitty the way I asked for it. Still, ever since then I've really loved Lego as a company; they didn't have to send free shit to some dumb kid, but they still went out of their way to do so, and that was so cool of them. (My green-masked Gali was the shit.)

The point-and-click adventure game on Lego's website was one of my favorite games of all time.

There was nothing better than getting home from toys r us and cracking a cold one with the boys

IDK if it’s just me but the smell I remember from a new Bionicle was to put it short ADDICTING.

Rakshi's were awesome, They were basically "if xenomorphs were robots with spears" And i love it.

The worst part was accidentally breaking the edge of a arm and it would barely be on or it would be broken forever.

You have filled me with overwhelming nostalgia! How dare you! I miss my old toys now.

Snapping together Bionicle pieces is so therapeutic

I used to think _"How good of a story can a toy line have?"_ Then I read the books...

Actually im pretty sure it was the word "tohunga" not "turaga" it was changed into Matoran in the second year, the Toa that were in "Heroes" were the McDonald's figures from 2001 who became the new Toa in the 2006 line

this was nostalgia all over the place mildly because I had vague memories of bionical but then the all american rejects clip played and I was brought back to reality, classic

The iniquities of bionicle lore are so hard to explain to my wife’s boyfriend.

God damn, I used to watch Bionicle Web of Shadows endlessly. And the amount of custom made bionicles I made was insane. Those were the good days. I still have a box full of bionicle pieces, weapons, and armour in my attic.

*4:43* Bitch almost made get a an asmtma attack from laughing so hard

I saw this video and thought "Hey, I think I had some of those". Then I clicked through the Bionicle Wiki and I realized: I had more than just a few. I think I had most of the Toa, all of the Bohrok, most of the Barraki, all of the Piraka and probably even more. But I don't remember any video games or comics. I live in Germany, so maybe it wasn't that hard advertised. So I never really knew about the official story. I remember that I often had a favorite character of each race and that I gave that character all the good weapons. Some of my Bohrok for example had two of the shields at each hand. But I don't remember how I really played with them. I never just played with one kind of toy, all of my toys were part of my own 'universe' or 'kingdom'. And my best friend thought really similar about his toys, so when we played together, we always planned a while which toys we choose to 'send' to that other world. I still know that I used the Barraki and the Piraka as strange sea creatures. Except the ice Piraka, that was the evil undead king of the ice realm.The Piraka had those weird exo-skelettons or whatever it was meant to be. In my mind those were the actual beings. Every time they were beaten, they would just disconnect from the body, fly away and build another body somewhere else.

The Maori weren't upset over the word Turaga, it was the word Tohunga. The Problem wasn't just the fact that they used the word, it was because the used it to refer to bionicle's generic villager characters.

"Masks that gives them elemental powers" WRONG! the masks in G1 did not have elemental powers. that was actually a "built in feature" of the characters in the Bionicle Universe. The masks instead had different powers, from being able to breath underwater, project a shield around one self, increased strength, super speed, being able to fly and more. Its in the short lived Bionicle G2, however, that the masks grants elemental powers.

Man, I miss Bionicle. I loved those colors.

Dude I still have some of my old ones up in my closet somewhere. They were so dope.

Bionicle is the best, for more than the unique sets and cool aesthetics, but because I could join in the fun without having to buy all of them; the story was super weird and intense and angsty enough for a young preteen me to get overly attached too to this day.

After bionicle didnt they make a thing called hero factory i seem to remember that really well

thank you king, for getting the all american rejects stuck in my head

I always thought I'd imagined Bionicle, my brother had a few then I never saw it ever again!

8:34 all 6 Toa Mata hitting that **T p o s e**

"That's like naming this guy the pope" Honestly, if you did and somebody had a problem with it, would you take them seriously?

I remember weird Bionicle mini games on mini CDs they were the biggest cashgrab for Lego. 2-3 minutes playtime for 7-8€

So basically, Bionicles were the 2000's version of 80's He-man toy marketing

I never realized how much I miss Bionicle until seeing this video.

How cloning nelson mandela can bring back bioncle

I had SO MANY bionicle toys growing up. I'm 24 years old now, and I think I was at just the right age for Bionicle when it came out. My best friend of over 18 years now and I would take them apart and combine the pieces to make weird and awesome bests, then we'd battle them. We traded masks, we traded weapons, and we traded the accessories. Bionicle was my shit growing up.

90s kid mostly only had a giant box of blocks

I don't think I loved anything more than I loved Bionicle as a kid.

“How cloning Nelson Mandela could bring back Bionicle”

I grew up with an older brother, so I had (and still have) a love for legos. My brother was able to build cars that looked like it was from a kit, but he made it up and had no instructions. He was crazy talented with them.

Ryan: “it’s the 90’s”

7:03 you’re very darn close, in the story the Piraka actually pretend to be toa in order to take control of Voya Nui

It's always a pleasant surprise whenever someone outside of the little fandom makes a video about the toyline. Dusting off the old plastic for a nostalgic review never gets old.

Bionicle was something every boy somehow had growing up. I don’t think I remember there being any lore or story. I thought they were cooler, more abstract Transformers.

I like the identification of the Piraka as “Evil Toa,” which isn’t too far-fetched because their first big action was going to another island and convincing its inhabitants that “Yes, we are totally heroic Toa, now stay still and be our slaves lol”

You call it "weird" I call it "gifted"

Man I love Bionicle. I followed it to the end when I got into the lore around the Toa Inika wave and after that I circled back in time to the Toa Nuva and continued from there while I waited for the next comic to come out. By the way I got the comics for free in my LEGO magazine subscriptions. I was always excited about the next issue!

Ahhh the one that couldn’t stand straight, it’s really weird LEGO hasn’t done anything about it. Thanks for the childhood memories

Those old Bionicle discs you'd find in cereal boxes.. oh those were the days..