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Can you imagine Bionicle and their masks in todays market? All the mystery boxes on the shelfs. Maybe its time for another remake.

Bionicle was so affordable and approachable, compared to most Lego sets. With a bunch of bucks you didn't just get "another Lego set", you were buying a whole experience, a new concept: the canister was part of the toy, of its lore etc., then the mini disk, online site and game. Everything came knocking on our lives with such simple, mysterious yet unique and fast tv spots. I'm used to saying this: Bionicle perfected the cross-media marketing we now see all over the world, it threw many questions and we had to discover the answers. Nevertheless, what really matterd was the message:"there's nothing like this in the world, come and join us in our quest to re-awaken Mata Nui". Having all the possibilities a Lego product provides just made them the ultimate toy to have back in the day. Yeah, the figures were cool, the plot intriguing, the mystery too, but, at the end of the day, we customers had the absolute freedom to interact with this toy line by making our own stories AND CHARACTERS in a tangible way. Sure, I love my Kopaka, Vakama and all of that, the many themes, stories etc. But they were all tools and Bionicle as a theme was a sandbox for me to come up with whatever adventure I had in my mind, both related to the main plot or 100% new, with its own set of rules. Those that didn't understand Bionicle because it didn't look like Lego really missed the mark: it felt like Lego, because each toy opened our minds to endless possibilities.

the scene of mata nui rising from his slumbr years later is still my favorite lego moment ever, if you didin't see it , watch you wont regret it

Bionicle was literally toy perfection.

The complex story of bionicle still perplexes me 20 years later, the impact of all the plot twists and all of the sub-stories coming together as a whole is genius. I love how many layers this story has and how much information there is to gather. And the fact that everything makes perfect sense if you look at the entirity of the lore... Genius.

Biological Chronicles... The Revelation that the Matoran are responsible for keeping The Great Spirit Robot Functioning. Also I just love how all the Toa Teams have distinct character in the Designs and recognisable themes, Mahri- Aquatic, Ignika- Mutated and Warped, Nuva- Changed and Evolved, Phantoka- Airborne, Sleek, Fast, Mistika- Mobile, and Gliding,

You are so right the McToran were the gateway to Bionicle. An innocent Happy Meal started a yearning for all things Bionicle for my son [and his Dad]. I would read the books to my son at bedtime. He still has his Bionicle collection and remembers it fondly.

I watched The Mask of Light when I was young and I remember my friend bought me a Toa Gali (the blue one I don’t know how to spell her name) for my birthday cause I didn’t stop talking about the movie.

bionicle was such a massive part of my childhood, and somehow my tiny baby brain could still manage to keep up with the lore... EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT THE TOA MATA CAME AFTER THE TOA METRU I HAVE NO CLUE HOW I DIDN'T GET THAT UNTIL MUCH LATER.

I have an entire book collection of this series because I love it so much. Matoro’s death still to this day makes me cry at the mere thought of it. They definitely should’ve continued the story as planned because we were leading up to something really big with Velika being revealed to be a Great Being, Ahkmou becoming a Toa of Shadow and we were finally going to explore Bota Magna.

You know the video’s gonna be good when you hear the chronicler’s company’s theme only 1:20 into the video

Cool to see someone else who had Gali as their first bionicle. Really loving the inside jokes and lore bits from the future waves you referenced. RIP Matoro, can't wait for part 7 or so where you reveal why we all still mourn.

Okay, I always knew the island of Mata Nui looked like a face even as a kid, yet despite years of my obsession with Bionicle never dying and continually revisiting the world even into adulthood I never noticed that you can make out the robot's silhouette underneath the water. Holy shit.

My biggest memory of Bionicle had to do with the Toa Metru. Each tube came with a little lottery scratcher with a chance to win some merchandise. And I think the grand prize winner would get a literal gold Tahu mask. I didn't win a mask but I did in fact win an Autographed Comic book signed by Greg Farshtey. One of those childhood treasures that I still have.

12:45 still can’t get over the Osmosis Jones reference. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a gem

I got into them myself in 2007, my first one was the Barraki Mantax, my first Toa was Mahri Kongu, I wanted him because of the dual cordak blasters. My brother had already been into Bionicle for a few years at that point. We finally got our hands on the gold Mask of Life a few years ago after a literal decade of wanting it.

I watched a lore video on Bionicle around a year ago. It was, like, EIGHT HOURS.

I had fun turning them into tiny animals based on their weapons, like sword snakes, hook bat, claw spider, and a two legged axe scorpion, then fusion them into a single warrior.

Bionicle gave us the Bohrok and Rahkshi, of course they were!

I am so glad the love for Bionicle persists even to this day

Dont forget about MASSIVE amount of contest made by LEGO where your creation could have been included into actual lore. I didnt see any other LEGO series doing that ever

This video really captures the allure of why we were drawn so much into Bionicle as kids and not that Bionicles saved the Lego company from bankruptcy by deviating from construction into edgy technic figures.

I never forget the first time my parents came home with my first Bionicle, Tahu. i still got it to this day. I also remember the days when we were allowed to bring our Bionicles to School but everyone was scared of scratching them so we never played with them.

Bionicle 2001 was perfect from a advertising perspective. The McDonald's matoran figures were near impossible to avoid, the online games and commercials told the story, the figures' play functions were designed for them to interact (so that you would buy more) and the, collectables, uniqueness and mystique kept the consumers coming back for more. This is why the reboot failed

I read a lot of the books. The lore and character building is insane! The bionicle lore runs sooooo deep

Normally stuff with a focus on lore are infamous for the lore being convoluted, but the way you described it makes it seem SO SIMPLE. I missed out because I only got the Mata Nui figure and never knew the lore

Another aspect of Bionicle that I think made truly made it so unique, and last so long, was the diversity of it all. Fans could approach the series in so many ways. Some people could be fans of the toys, and others could be fans of the comics, the games, and movies. Bionicle was more than just a toy line, the sets were just one aspect of the brand. That is why it is still popular even though there hasn't been a single set in almost a decade. Most toy lines aren't much separated from the gimmicks and the collectability, and once the toys leave shelves, that's really it. However, Bionicle moved beyond all of that. It's the same reason that Transformers has done so well: there are so many entry points for so many different kinds of people. Allowing the series to live beyond just the main set branch of the IP.

I remember getting my first Bionicle with my gran at a local department store somewhere. Phantoka Solek. My next Bionicles were Gavla and Vamprah. And thus sparked a flame in my heart for the franchise. I hope more of these come out, because the CCBS system is worth talking about.

What a coincidence, I was cleaning my old stuff and found my original green bionicle still in a mint shape, show it to the kids in my family, so I decided to look in KZfaq about them and here I am found your video which uploaded in same day 😮.

I was just a little tyke when Bionicle started, so I barely got any for the first half of its run. That changed in 2006, when I got invested in the story and started to appreciate the character designs more. For the rest of the run, I got as many as I could, and I still have a lot of them now.

Pohatu was my first Bionicle and will always be my Favorite, and nothing will change that, Plus his Nuva form got him badass armor and Freaking Climbing Claws!!!!, and then He get's Helicopter hands?!?!, Coolest Toa out of them all!. Plus in the Movie Pohatu was just the Chill, Wholesome brother, heck during the Mask of light Game even Gali sounds glad to see Him!. *Pohatu is just, the absolute Best*

To this day Bionicle has been a key part of my life. Since 2007 when I got Dekar, my first ever LEGO set. From then up until it’s cancelation in 2010 my brother and I along with our cousins would always have battles with them. Especially during the glatorian era I loved those sets. I was young so I didn’t know that the theme was canceled, the sets just stoped appearing at Walmart. Hero factory rolled around however I wasn’t too interested in it. Then Bionicle came back in 2015 when I was in 7th grade. This peaked my interest of the theme once again. I watch some videos of the 2015 masters sets then eventually found a video reviewing the bohrok. That video changed my life. It sucked me into the world of Bionicle. I wanted to know everything and see all the old sets. I started to build Bionicle Mocs out of the old parts I had mixed in my lego collection. I spent days searching for parts on the floor where I dumped out bins completely covering the room. I became immersed into the biotube community and eventually started my own channel in 2017 where I showed my Mocs. I joined groups of people with the same interests and evolved my skills as a builder. Year after year I continued at it. Even to this day I always have I Moc in progress. Nowadays the Bionicle mocing community is thriving. There is so many insanely talented people. It’s my main motivation and the thing I enjoy doing the most. There are even contests like the biocup and Moc league. Also collaborations between many people who coordinate together to make individual builds on a shared theme. This is my Bionicle story and I shared it for a reason. To let others know, old fans of Bionicle know that Bionicle is still alive as ever and that a toy from 21 years ago can still reel you back in.

You could do a video on the 2006 Bionicle Heroes Game, the one with the Piraka. I also personally played it as a child and would love to see a video covering it.

Man, I remember once building a Gali without any instructions faster then some other folks could build a like, 8 piece Hotwheels Carwash thing. It was a bet, and ridiculously satisfying to win.

I kid you not, on my bookshelf mixed in with all my remaining Transformers toys, is a custom Bionicle Rahi I made when I was maybe 15 at the oldest, and I'm 28 now. Bionicle was a massive part of my childhood, and I'm so glad I still have a piece of it to look back on!

the lore and freedom of creativity was by far my favorite part of Bionicle, I loved Transformers but something about the mythos of Bionicle drew me in, it was like a role playing system like D&D where you could make a character, toa, matoran, or even other species in the setting and their was a simple system that gave room to make up your own story and feel like a part of the world.

What's even more impressive about the giant robot thing is that it was so efficiently foreshadowed that it was first realized by a member of the BZPower forums named Planetperson using information that was already revealed, but he still didn't publish his theory until only a year or so before the reveal happened. It was basically the perfect amount of information for the perfect aha moment.

I've designed over 160 custom Rahi for this line One of the coolest things about the Nui Rama (lime fly rahi) you chose to build and feature is that the set uses flexable axles as wings which store and release the tension of the function, so where the regular black axles you showcased were impressive and powerful enough to knock off masks on their own, the silver flex axles went a step further, even feeling like a mild sting to the hand 😅 there's a story in there

Bionicle is just so special to me, I didn't get many sets as a kid and am only starting to try to collect many of the blue characters. But for all the ones I now have, whenever I look at them I don't just see Lego, I don't just see a toy, or parts to build with, I see a character, I can instantly recall the stories I leaned about them, recall the lore I've started delving into more as an adult, and fondly remember back to the wonder I felt as a kid. Today it's more nostalgia then wonder as I know most of the lore now, but I still love it, I still go back and rewatch the movies, read the comics online, read the books, most toys I'll even throw away the packaging but not Bionicle as it often has beautiful artwork displaying the toy. I so very much desire a videogame to let me explore a canonical recreation of that world, to adventure and explore. Bionicle was my early intro to fiction with deep lore, it's why I'm fascinated by IPs like Star Trek, Star Wars, Transformers, anything really with a deep lore I can delve into and piece together, or a mystery like Five Nights At Freddy's, all of the love for these IPs I have started with Bionicle, it is the very root. I cherish it forever.

15:58 That soft piano kicks in, a core memory is unlocked, and my eyes began to well up. Holy shit I used to be a kid and Bionicles were the greatest mystery to be solved.

I just graduated from high school when Bionicle debuted so I don't have quite the same "childhood nostalgia" that most of the people in the comments share, but it wouldn't be hyperbole to say that the course of my life shifted significantly when I got my first set (Pohatu) as a graduation gift. I also had a subscription to Lego Magazine at the time so it waa around the same time that the first Bionicle comic book came free with the magazine... That big splash page of Kopaka was one of the coolest things I'd ever seen - I used some iron on paper to make my own tshirt of it - and I was hooked. I still have all of my sets in storage

My first Bionicle was Kopaka Nuva back in the day, still love the ice powered characters, even made my own revamp moc of Strakk who I renamed to Glacius. Looks like a Viking Ice Traveler or something lol.

This video is incredible.

Man, this takes me back. This series was one of my favorites as a kid, and I was a die-hard fan as soon as I got Onepu in a rare Happy Meal and played the Mata Nui Online Game! Excellent video!

Bionicle is amazing and very unique, such cool sets and an interesting story I wish they’d bring it back as there isn’t anything like it before or since

oh god, i'm feeling it ugh, i love bionicle. favorite thing as a kid. seeing someone talk about it in a new and refreshing way really got me feeling the vibes

I forgot so much about this... I heard that song you had at the end and it opened a whole box of memories. Loved the vid!!

Boss I gotta say that the production quality on your bakugan iceberg video was astounding.

My fave Bionical was one of the sphere ones the pure white. It’s been so many years I don’t even remember what they were called or that ones name. I think I was 8-10 when I had it.

You'll never be as cool as Kopaka just casually halting a complete avalanche before returning to do whatever the hell they were doing. Enjoying the vista? Whatever. That video alone still has me hyped.

Glad I saw this, this was so nostalgic, I bought the Takanuva then got so obsessed that I bought Toa Mata and Makuta..

9:18 I did not expect you to reference that song in a Bionicles video

By far the best part was combining them to create your own custom ones

Bandai's current line of Entry Grade Gundam kits aren't much more complex, and seem to currently retail stateside for about $8-9 a pop. Moreover, they've been slowly standardizing all their lines of the same scale, so even the more complex Grades have some interplay and compatibility with simpler ones. As you fall down the rabbit hole, options for customization open up exponentially. And that's JUST the Gundam franchise, Bandai's newer line of 30-Minute-Mission is ALSO compatible with Gundams of the same scale. If Bionicle wants to make a comeback, it'd better be soon, before these things take over that market in the west.

I don't remember where I got my first bionicle, though I can see it in my head. I only tended to get one or two sets a year, so I missed out on so many that I should probably consider getting on Bricklink at some point... Toa Metru were my starting point, and its interesting to think back to how even in the time of the flying ones, the sets stayed pretty good. There were also some that I have no idea how they have such high resale values today, particularly a couple of the aquatic generation ones. It's insane how multi-media the theme was though, and remained fairly good throughout. Toys, comic books, games, movies... I don't know of any company that could pull it off better than Lego did, but Bionicle managed to also set itself apart from the brick-focused stuff that on the surface should have felt similar, such as Exo Force.

The lore is incredible. An entire world with deep stories, interesting characters, the villain to end all villains in Makuta Teridax and just so many twists and turns. An entire universe with its own terminology, science, history, all coming together for a truly fascinating universe.

As someone who still loves them to thus day I can give you my answers: abso-fucking-lutely

man .. i remember getting that EXACT red and yellow mcdonalds bionicle toy and loving the crap out of it, even though i had no interest in Bionicle at the time, it was just so fun lol years later when the Barakki came out i got the whole set, the best thing was that Bionicle was ALWAYS evolving... so even if it didnt seem like the coolest thing to me as a kid... it was soo cool to me as a tween with their sick rock marketing

I want a video of Jett explaining the entire Bionicle lore for some reason.

I might be the only one, but I built my bionacles or lego sets once. After playing with it for a few weeks I'd disassemble every component and it would go in the lego/bionacle bin. I had so much more fun making whatever with the parts. Making new heros with different armor, looking for the piece that I wanted for a certain function. Making wings for heros, and so on. It was just a blast, I wish I still had them to be honest

Man, I LOVE Bionicle, even without being able to afford one/being too young and having a worried mother about hurting myself with it or just losing pieces at the time (tho I bought the successors, Hero Factory). And Bionicle 2 is my favorite animation movie of all time. I don't know, something about this world, the dub (I'm brazilian), the sense of adventure, the characters... everything there makes me love it.

I was just a little bit too young for the peak of Bionicle in terms of toy buying but I did buy Hero Factory and I'd love to hear more about that.

Though I never was at all one to read the colossal lore of the different Bionicle storylines, I was absolutely having the time of my life playing with these bad boys with my older cousin. I personally as a teenager was into the later full-sized figures, specifically from the Toa Mahri era and onwards, with Toa Matoro specifically being my absolute favorite. Recently I splurged and got a NIB Matoro and it was such a blast getting to build and appreciate him again 🤍💙

I remember getting Kopaka (8571) for Christmas when I was a kid. I remember the cylinder container. I loved that gift!

I absolutely loved that! Bionicle was my favorite toy line as a kid! I also was a big Bakugan fan, it was my first anime and the toys were satisfying. I like Gen 1 of Bionicle and Bakugan the most, the reboots lacked a LOT of what made them both special initially. I loved the video where you fought against Masquerade! That looked so real! I hope you do more year overviews like this for Bionicle in the future!

Oh, I am so glad that KZfaq recommended this channel! This video is really well-made from editing and filming to writing! Well done, you have a new subscriber! I also love videos that end in a sentimental note, because even if they were just toys, they meant something. Hell, the power of Bioncle's message of Unity in kids even showed itself when some bigots appeared in the Bionicle subreddit. It was really heartwarming how the community banded together to champion those ideals we absorbed from these cool ass toys.

This is the first video of yours that I watched and I really enjoyed it! You have a entertaining but non hectic style of moderating, got a couple laughs out of me and the visual fidelity and amount of material showed was really impressive! And the nails are lit!

Wow it’s been years since I last watched a Jett kuso video, you’re so successful!! Congrats man I loved watching your old videos you deserve it all

I almost forgot they were lego😂

As a bionicle outsider, this is the video I've been hoping existed. To just go over the different toys and help me make sense of all the context for things. Thank you so much~ Subscribed!

A while back I broke out my old toybox and reassembled some of my old Lego sets. Lots of missing parts, but most standard Lego sets survived - though the Bionicles are less fortunate with plenty of broken parts - Mahri Hahli having basically all her lime joints cracked. I can get replacement parts for basically every missing normal Lego pieces, but Bionicle joints are kinda rare... Really hoping that 3D printing can revive them at some point.

Oh man Bionicle was such a big part of my childhood and I still like all the lore behind them and collecting them as just figures to put on a shelf!

Would love to see more Bionicle content from your channel! I was looking up the old soundtracks to share with my kids when I came across this video.

Very nice video, always great to see people look back on Bionicle fondly. Wanted to let you know that I appreciate the effort to put bionicle music in your video too and putting the old miramax music in @16:00. Nothing brings me back to childhood like those 8 notes.

This was amazing 👏🏻👏🏻 absolutely captures that feeling we all had in 2001! Looking forward to the next Bionicle video!

I'm SUPER excited for your Bohrok video! The Bohrok and Rahkshi were always crazy fun to play with as a kid!

dude your music to delight that you put in your vids is perfect

I actualy managed to remove the eye pieces from the head piece of the toa, It's not easy but it's possible

It’s funny how I got into bionicle at age three. They became part of my life. I still have my collection of them even gen 2.

I had a huge things for masks with any sorta powers as a kid, Bionicle, Crash Bandicoot's masks, the weird masks in Rayman 2, and even Jim Carrey's The Mask, yeeeah masks were everywhere in my childhood. But I did espeeecially love them with Bionicles, went bananas when I found the mask booster packs at stores.

Dude what the heck? This video is such high quality??? As a bionicle OG and supremacist, bravo good sir, how fun this was to watch.

I used to build massive bots with working mechanical hands. Bionicle was a huge part of my self exploration into simple mechanics

That was such a well formatted video. New sub :)

Hi, when I was interested to Bionicle I was only 7 or 8 years old, my babysitter wanted to show us some of his Toa. We were hooked almost instantly, I went straight for Gali simply because she is blue.

I had throwbots not bionicle but I read comics, played flash games and I loved the part of the lore I thought I understood.

10:08 I have actually never seen or heard of this mask and I’m a Bionicle expert

Man this makes me miss those days... i remember begging my parents to subscribe to the lego magazine so i could get the bionicle comic. And collecting those bionicles were such a blast. I regret giving them away so much when i was a stupid teenager....

The outline of Mata Nui's body being visible blew my mind

Love these videos! Gives a big sense of nostalgia with a fun topic. Keep up the good work!

The Nostalgia hit me like a brick wall!! I remember being a kiddo that went on the entire train ride you described. I’m getting some sets for my kids now :) Thank you sir - EXCELLENT content. Subbed!

Man I remember watching, and playing with these all the time. We had the silver storm trooper “I gave up trying to remember her name” fin, darth maul, darth Vader, and basically all of the ones from the show. Somehow we lost the Star Wars ones and all of them are over 60 dollars at least, and darth Vader is now at 160 dollars 💵. But very nostalgic video.

Bionicle is a great toy line to talk about since it has stellar marketing, but also because it's a great example of LEGO learned what worked and what didn't; and that experience helped improve every LEGO Theme thereafter.

This video brought back a lot of great memories from when I was little. Thank you :)

Oh man Bionicles were such a huge part of my childhood and I didnt even spoke english back then! So I didnt know shit about the story or lore! Besides a Bionicle CD that had an animation that didnt make any sense but leave me filled with curiosity. Also, original Bionicles were so expensive back then, so we could only buy like 2 original, the rest were from different not official stores but OH BOY I was so happy building and creating with all the lego pieces I ended up having. I loved them, mostly for their desings and how creative some mechanism/pieces were. Now for the sad sad part... we moved houses when I was 11 and all my Bionicle pieces went missing. Till this day that I wish I could have them back. But the fun memories will forever be with me 🥲

I remember building my two bionicle pride and joys after watching the movie with Mata Nui as the protagonist gold guy. I still have them and I haven’t been able to build anything as large, articulated, or detailed as them since, albeit I don’t have many parts left.

Morphing these things together was always super fun. I loved these as a kid. I had a shit ton of masks.

I swear, every video about Bionicle on KZfaq ends with music from the movies

that game that you keep on showing was so good i remember playing it on the lego website when i was a kid, i loved how much mystery was in it.

I adored Bionicles as a kid and would spend all my allowence on them. I always went to the store hoping they had new designs. I remember thinking to myself that I was spending so much money collecting them, and I really hoped I would never grow out it. Even if I haven't touched a Bionicle in like 15 years now, I feel like I never actually did grow out of loving them... Bionicles are part of me still in a way... ( In a weird Osmosis Jones kinda way I hope?? Maybe I have tiny Toa in my bloodstream. ) I'm 28 now and I would really want to build all the ones I missed out on... The excitement of putting a new design together was unlike anything else for me at the time. Thinking back on it makes me emotional, man... I wish I could go back to those simple times.