History Awesome / BIONICLE

* BIONICLE Day 2023 saw the release of a new song by Cryoshell and Essenger, titled "As Above, So Below", to commemorate the occasion. What gives this song extra awesome points is that after ''twenty years,'' they brought back Christopher Gaze, the voice of Turaga Vakama, to provide narration at the beginning of the official music video. Now that's dedication!

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* With Bionicle, even the advertising is great. Bionicle was meant to save Lego from bankruptcy. So as you can imagine, a lot of effort went into the advertising. So much effort and creativity that one has to wonder if it was the story promoting the toys or selling the toys to promote the story. I think we know the results by now.

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* A Website/YouTube channel called [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRDIe4m-hac8m_v2wRvZd7w Noah Productions [NP] ]] actually created their own stop-motion film about the Ignition trilogy which haven't been adapted in film. They currently managed to create movies about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3p2HCLiDxo the Toa Inika]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXT_69zTtMg&t= the Toa Mahri]]. Thus allowing fans to know about the lore behind those figures.
* The sheer amount of personality that goes into the individual set designs is what drew kids to the toys in the first place. Every character has their own story, and even among sets (i.e. the Toa Mata), they differ just enough to where each one seems to be its own. They even resembled humans in weird ways that other toys for their day and age wouldn't have; for example, Lewa has fingerless gloves and Pohatu's upside-down body translates to him being an {{Acrofatic}}.
** It would also be so easy to just give all the Toa PersonalityPowers, but Farshtey ''[[PowerStereotypeFlip defies]]'' this -- Nokama is hot-tempered, Iruini is sanguine, Jaller level-headed and thoughtful, etc.
* If you ever needed proof the ''Bionicle'' {{fandom}} is still alive and kicking, WebVideo/TheTTVChannel has been hosting contests to design official appearances for characters who've gone without one for too long. And we do mean offical -- just like the good old days, ''the winning entries are canonized by Greg Farshtey himself.'' So far, they've done [[https://biosector01.com/wiki/Helryx Helryx]] and [[https://biosector01.com/wiki/Artakha_(Being) Artakha]], and up next is the rest of the [[https://biosector01.com/wiki/Toa_Hagah Toa Hagah]]!
* It took six years, but a group of dedicated fans came out with a FanGame [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpDnhOuhJ3Sxr4SpBudL15Q based upon the 2001 saga]]: ''VideoGame/BionicleQuestForMataNui''. It's been a long time, but fans still love this franchise and want to explore its mythos. It even got ApprovalOfGod!
** The attention to detail is amazing -- enemies appear as if they were BuiltWithLego, the characters are all properly scaled, and then some.
** ''The confrontation with Makuta Teridax will be in the game!''
** And it get's better. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA9w-xA4a0U They even managed to get Tony Wedgwood to do voicework for the game]]. As in, the same Tony Wedgwood that voiced the old Bionicle commercials. Your inner child may scream with delight and nostalgia now.
* Don't think that ''Quest for Mata Nui'' [[DuelingWorks is the only game in town]]. ''VideoGame/BionicleTheMasksOfPower'' has been in development for a similar ammount of time, [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmz1Z5C9fwxHDiKYPgoTz7A and is shaping up quite nicely]].
** Furthermore, due to The LEGO Group's relaxed limitations on fan projects (Mainly, they must be non-profit, and must state they are unofficial projects), ''The Masks of Power'' will be officially listed on Steam.
* The rarest Bionicle piece is a solid platinum [[MaskofPower Kanohi Avohkii]] created for a 2003 Toonami contest, was bought by a collector for a whopping [[https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/platinum-lego-piece-sold-for-15000-w-video/ $15,000 USD]]. A few years later the owner of the mask would [[https://www.facebook.com/BionicleArchives/photos/3483719591721816 wear it]] as a ''[[EnormousEngagementRing brooch at his wedding]].''

* Matau, definitely gets his in the third movie, "Web of Shadows." While the other Toa are fighting the horde, he manages to escape, find Vakama, and they have a duel, Anakin/Obi-Wan style. In the end, Vakama knocks Matau to the edge of the tower they're fighting on. Matau manages to grab onto the edge to avoid plummeting to his doom. Vakama steps on his hand, trying to get him to let go and fall. Matau, the ego-maniac who never admits to ever being wrong, then apologies for his unsympathetic criticism of Vakama's leadership and appealing to him to lead the Toa once again. Matau then lets go of the ledge to his doom, counting on him to rescue him.

** This needs to be emphasized. Teridax is using the Staff of Artakha to bring back the Nui Stone, Matoro is helpless, and it seems that all is lost. Then Brutaka shows up, blasts Teridax in the back, and goes toe-to-toe with Teridax before sending him running. When Teridax warns him that it's not over, Brutaka just laughs and tells him [[BringIt he's counting on it.]]

** It's even better than that. Teridax sent all of his most elite Makuta minions into Karda Nui, not to stop the Toa Nuva, but to be in the area when they succeeded, wiping them all out and leaving Teridax as the ONLY Makuta left in the universe.

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** Even before then, Vakama basically defeats Makuta by throwing rocks at him.

* Near the end, the six Rahkshi have Takua and Jaller surrounded only for the six Toa to show up to fight them. Before this point only Kopaka has been able to slow them down while all the others have been curbstomped no matter if they outnumbered them or not. Six versus six, and it's completely in the Toa's favor.

** Even more Awesome is when the Takanuva-Makuta hybrid being resurrects Jaller from just his mask. The mask previously worn by Turaga Lhikan, who also made a HeroicSacrifice to save the hero(s), and was killed by Makuta. Yet Takanuva manages to use some of ''Makuta's own power'' to bring Jaller back.

-->'''Pohatu:''' (Chuckle) Am I supposed to be scared by all that? Everybody has doubts and fears... everybody worries that maybe they'll lose their friends, or screw something up... but you get up and you keep going and you take the chance. That's called being alive, spirit, something you wouldn't understand. I don't run from my fears -- I use them to keep me going, keep me striving to achieve something more. You cannot scare me spirit -- you are me.

** Lewa then uses the psychic remnants of the mind control to help defeat the threat.
* Kopaka freezing a lava flow and Lewa figuring out how to get past an unsmashable wall: There is nothing that Onua and Pohatu can't break. Therefore, since they can't break the wall, it must not exist. As soon as its nature as an illusion is revealed, the wall vanishes.
* During the battle with Cahdok and Gahdok, Gahdok figures out that Gali's weakness is intense heat and proceeds to start giving her heatstroke via continuous blasts of fire. Tahu takes one look at this and simply steps in between them, absorbing the fire with no problem whatsoever and allowing Gali to recover while he singlehandedly holds Gahdok off.

* [[WhatTheHellHero Following the above thing, Jaller, of all people, starts shouting at Tahu that he has no right to act recklessly and get himself killed because the Matoran depend upon him for their protection]]. It's especially noteworthy since Jaller had spent all of their interactions up to this looking up to Tahu and showing him nothing but the utmost respect. Even better, Tahu actually ''listens'' and apologizes for his actions.
* Kopaka, Gahli and Lewa attempt to use their Kaita form (as demonstrated above) against the Bohrok-Kal. The Bohrok-Kal respond by forming their own CombiningMecha and effortlessly defeating them.

* Near the end, the six Rahkshi have Takua and Jaller surrounded only for the six Toa to show up to fight them. Before this point only Kopaka has been able to slow them down while all the others have been curbstomped no matter if they outnumbered them or not. Six vs six and it's completely in the Toa's favor.
* There's also Jaller's HeroicSacrifice in TheMovie when Takua is under attack by Rahkshi Turahk. He does so by literally clinging onto his staff and absorbing all the fear energy from his attack. Nothing says brave like hanging on as pure fear is being pumped into you.

* What, no mention of the epic Takanuva vs Makuta battle? Teridax mockingly challenges him to a game of deadly kolhii, which Takanuva wins. Then, when Teridax gets back up, Takanuva jumps on him and wrenches the Mask of Shadows off the Makuta's face, sending them toppling back into a pool of energized protodermis, fusing them together. Oh, and Takanuva ends up in control of that fusion. He's fused with the mind of the big bad himself, who had intricate plans within plans comprised over thousands of years, and Takanuva ''out-willpowered him''.

** Then, there's Vakama actually ''hurting'' Makuta by causing the temperature of his arm to go up [[UpToEleven several thousand degrees.]]

* The sheer amount of personality that goes into the individual set designs is what drew kids to the toys in the first place. Every character has their own story, and even among sets (i.e. the Toa Mata), they differ just enough to where each one seems to be its own. They even resembled humans in weird ways that other toys for their day and age wouldn't have; for example, Lewa has FingerlessGloves and Pohatu's upside-down body translates to him being an {{Acrofatic}}.

** Onua is the last man standing, and it takes ''four Piraka'' to take him down.

** [[http://biosector01.com/wiki/index.php/BIONICLE_Legends_8:_Downfall It really has to be read to be believed.]]

* Need I say: The birth of Takanuva from the Toys/{{Bionicle}} film, ''The Mask of Light''. To elaborate, Takua just lost his friend to Rahkshi Turahk and remembers him saying, "You know who you are". He then realizes who he is, shifts his [[ExpressiveMask expression]] from one of grief to one of boldness and determination, dons the Mask of Light, and becomes the very Toa of Light he was searching for. After christening himself as Takanuva, he then one-shots Turahk and finishes revealing the hidden statue of himself as the {{herald}} before [[ActionFilmQuietDramaScene going off to mourn Jaller]].
* What, no mention of the epic Takanuva vs Makuta battle? Teridax mockingly challenges him to a game of deadly kolhii, which Takanuva wins. Then, when Teridax gets back up, Takanuva jumps on him and wrenches the Mask of Shadows off the Makuta's face, sending them toppling back into a pool of energized protodermis, fusing them together. Oh, and Takanuva ends up in control of that fusion. He's fused with the mind of the big bad himself, who had intricate plans within plans comprised over thousands of years, and Takanuva out-willpowered him.

* Kind of Fridge-y, but Vakama's creation of the Vahi, the Legendary Mask of Time. Sure, it happens fairly quickly in the movies, but think about it: the Vahi is a mask so powerful, if damaged, Time itself would be undone within the Matoran Universe. There are only two other masks as powerful: the Ignika, the Mask of Life, and Artakha's Mask of Creation. Guess who made those? The Great Beings, more or less the greatest inventors and creators in Bionicle. That's right, Vakama is a mask-maker on par with the creators of his universe. Of course, he did have help from Artakha, who made the mask's composite materials (the Great Disks), but the point still stands.

* Turaga Dume AKA Makuta Teridax took control of Metru Nui without firing a shot, easily outgambited the Toa, commanded an army of robot policemen and succeeded in his plan by tricking an entire population into entering stasis chambers.

** The online promos for the final battle ends with none other than the awakening of Mata Nui. At this point, it has been 10 years since we were first introduced to the story and the protagonists' overarching goal of awakening the great spirit, and the cinematic delivers on that. We don't see some messianic figure rise from a tomb, but a colossal robot from the deep. Slabs of land and ''mountains'' roll off his shoulders like cookie crumbs and at the end we see Mata Nui towering over the clouds in the sky in all his glory. As if to punctuate the majesty of the moment, the video goes silent with no narration from that point onwards.

** It would also be so easy to just give all the Toa PersonalityPowers, but Farshtey ''defies'' this--Nokama is hot-tempered, Iruini is sanguine, Jaller level-headed and thoughtful, etc.
* It took six years, but a group of fans revealed they made a game based upon the first year of ''Bionicle'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2ggASWkA2c Bionicle: Quest For Mata Nui]]''. It's been a long time, but fans still love this franchise and want to explore its mythos.
** The attention to detail is amazing - enemies appear as if they were made of legos, the characters are all properly scaled, and then some.
** ''The confrontation with Makuta Teridax will be in the game!''