Topic: The Bionicle Thread

I'm a pretty big fan of the Bionicle series. In my opinion, they are this generation's Transformers. Discuss the storyline, reviews of the sets, your favorite Bionicles, and more!

Ah yes, good old Bionicle. While I would'nt call them "this generation's Transformers", they're still pretty kick#$%. Or, at least the older series are. Today I can't really get into the toys because I'm older (no surprise there) and that I don't really want my dog choking herself to death on little plastic pieces that were meant to be fired out of weird contraptions. However, I'm still completely hooked to the story that keeps getting more and more complex. God bless Greg Farshtey.

Greg Farshtey is a fantastic writer. Bionicle was one of my favorite series ever until this year. That is all.

Bionicle were awesome till they wrecked with the gladiators and undersea stuff. The original movie was awesome.

yes it was
I HAVE NO DESTINY!

Oh yeah what was that cool hero of light called?

Oh yeah what was that cool hero of light called?

Indeed. That movie rocked. I actually loved 2007 (the underwater year), but agree that 2009 was by far the worst year ever for Bionicle. Oh well, it's ending in 2011 anyway. :/
Also, Vezon is completely and utterly insane, yet awesome.

Takanuva?

Thank you very much.

Bionicle was awesome to start off with - Kopaka was my favourite. The Toa Nuva era was the best in my opinion, but I think that once they left Mata Nui and based the storyline around other locations it just went downill. The Toa Metru were OK, but after that it was all a bit... well, rubbish. I don't know, maybe I was just getting a bit old for it (I'm 17 now, so I was about 14 then) but I still love other Lego, such as the Star Wars stuff. (I got this for Christmas and I love it!)

The new Bionicle Stars sets have got me a bit interested though, they're basically redesigned versions of old characters, like Tahu, Takanuva and the Rahkshi. Also, 2010 is going to be Bionicle's final year. I'm not really sad to be honest, it just isn't all that good any more!

I thought that 2006 was kinda a pretty poor year for Bionicle, because all the masks and pieces were all rubbery. Thank goodness for 2007, which brought back all the plastic masks and gave us the awesome shooting pieces, the Cordak Blasters

How do you know 2010 is its last year?

Click here.

Bionicle was cool (IMO) through the second (Nuva) or third series. AFter that, the story was too hard to follow and I was too bothered by how they were trying to sell the same things (red, blue, green guys) with different armor and names.

2006 = easily Bionicle's best year
The Piraka have never been surpassed as far as badass Bionicle villains go.

Disclaimer: I could care less about the sets; it's the lore that I love.

Great site for fans: http://www.bzpower.com/

@Dragoon Yus, I love that site. Especially because of this: http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=252575
How much more awesome can a fan website get when it has an exclusive canon short story written by the author of the official books in a cotton pickin' forum topic?!
_{excuse my outburst}

The following is a short story that was given to fans who bought the 11th Bionicle Legends book (Swamp of Secrets, was it?) and entered the code inside it into the Bionicle website. I will post it a page at a time, so as to not clog up the forums.

The Kingdom
By Greg Farshtey
Part I
Takanuva, Toa of Light, fell through inter‐dimensional space, trying hard not to scream. A moment before, he had stepped through a dimensional portal created by Brutaka. His mission: travel to Karda Nui and warn the six Toa Nuva there of a disaster about to occur.
Somehow, though, this trip was not going as planned. Takanuva was being buffeted about, catching glimpses now and then of weird other worlds filled with beings both familiar and unfamiliar. He could guess that if he somehow wound up in one of those places, he might never find his way back to his own universe.
Suddenly, there was a jolt worse than any before. He was spinning wildly, out of control. There was an instant of complete darkness, followed by a very bright light, and then Takanuva slammed onto a rocky shore. He lay there, stunned, for a long time. When he finally lifted his head, it was to view a sight he could never have imagined.
The city before him was vast. It made Metru Nui look like a collection of stone‐cutter shacks. Multiple design styles had combined to create a megalopolis that stretched for as far as the eye could see. Some of the buildings looked like ones in Metru Nui – he recognized the Coliseum, for example – others were totally strange and some almost primitive.
Takanuva glanced up at the sky. No, it didn’t look like the one over Metru Nui. It looked – oh, no, that couldn’t be, he thought. It was the same shade of blue as the one over the island of Mata Nui.
That’s impossible, he said to himself. Everyone left Mata Nui to move back to Metru Nui months ago. And Mata Nui was never this size, or filled with so many beings and buildings!
He stood up and looked around. Everywhere, he could see Matoran of all kinds hard at work. That certainly wasn’t unusual. Of course, the fact that they were working side by side with Bohrok, Skakdi, and Visorak was downright shocking.
“Hey,” said a voice from behind him. “Who are you? Where did you come from?”
Takanuva turned. A Ga‐Matoran, Macku, was there. She gave no sign of recognizing him.
“I’m Toa Takanuva,” he answered. “Can you tell me where I am?”