How much do you know about Bionicle? Join us as we take a journey down the Bionicle Iceberg in this Explained video.
Credit goes to Malachy Lewis for providing and assisting us with the Bionicle Iceberg presented in this video (Bionicle Iceberg created on July 16, 2022). Link: https://imgur.com/a/f3Fngs5
Thanks to Biomediaproject and Biosector01 for providing the information and images for this video.
Narrated by: Brian Khong (Intro and Outro), AnaheraX (Tier 1), Fayroth (Tiers 2+4), Lovice (Tier 3), SomeBioFan (Tiers 5+6), Maisie Irene (Tiers 7+8), Luis Alarcon Ramos (Tiers 9+10)
Edited by Andrew Francis
Links:
Bionicle Saved Lego From Bankruptcy: https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/gaming/a31152877/lego-bionicle-faber/
2001 Story Bible:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NvpUPA8aOulNvSMq4kpX82bDbugJ2mbOL6cVfMXPNoc/edit
Alastair’s Swinnerton’s unused ideas:
https://alastairswinnerton.com/2015/09/07/bionicle-my-actual-part-in-its-origins/
List of Tiers:
INTRO 00:00 – 01:10
TIER 1 01:10 – 04:05
TIER 2 04:05 – 09:00
TIER 3 09:00 – 13:29
TIER 4 13:29 – 24:39
TIER 5 24:39 – 36:39
TIER 6 36:39 – 44:20
TIER 7 44:20 – 51:20
TIER 8 51:20 – 57:07
TIER 9 57:07 – 01:03:18
TIER 10 01:03:18 – 01:09:50
OUTRO 01:09:50 – 01:10:58
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A 1-hour-long Bionicle video? Count me the fuck in
YOOOO I DIDNT KNOW THERE WAS A BIONICLE DAY!!!! Just yesterday I got a Toa Mata Nui for my collection what a coincidence!!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Are you sure that Matoran and stuff can’t love each other? I get not reproducing duh but like you have to do that to romantically love someone. I feel like the two are conflated as being a package deal but that’s not always true. Ace people for the win!
May not be 810nicle day but, any day is Bionicle day if you're brave enough.
42:10 – I didn't know I'd see it again, you can see where it got the name XDD
"A character has a moment of self-doubt and doesn't fit into a specific group? Must be trans."
I definitely fell deep down the iceberg though i not to the bottom surprisingly
Fellas, is growing up a trans allegory?
I'm surprised the video didn't talk about the rumored ignition movie trilogy, there's rumors Lego at one time had plans for it but according to Wikipedia Miramax stopped doing kids movies shortly after Web of Shadows came out.
10:30
Moari= we offended cause Lego used our words for a toy line, we want justice.
Also Moari=Disney used our words in Moana, we now feel represented.
I can accept asexuality and reproduction being impossible or just not part of the Bionicle setting. But they're also very fuzzy concepts in Transformers, and they get to have romance. Why can't they just like cuddle and hold hands.
47:32 that's literally me
bruh, you skipped years and years of G1, only Tahu was mentioned and fast forwarded to G2 wtf. go back and slow the fuck down
no no no, orange is a troll with the strawberryclock voice, the most annoying ear cancer audio ever and no it cant be popular
good guy and the others are a joke
how is a krana and kraata supposed to work together?
krakua does wears the hau, it came first. thats stupid
free the band who were caught by fictional characters, real people in a fictional world? thats the dumbest thing ever
every contest and poll lego did were rigged and would always ignore the true winners, designs with the most points, what people voted for and wanted. chibi tahu and mixel tahu is a insult too. its not just roodaka, nuva boobs and more
forget how makuta died, the fact he cheated, stole mata nui's body as if all the sacrifices the toa made during their long adventures to save the great spirit was all wasted, thats greater bulllshit.
you mentioned chibi tahu and love isnt canon twice. fail
other lego sets with bionicle easter eggs is kinda insulting, lego knows we want it back but they wont do shit about it
they pulled the plug on the final movie, it was lacking characters, one was a giant a giant silhouette of bugs, malum, the others did not show up and one was planking his vehicle. plot holes and cliff hangers. many bad games. gen two was done poorly. they skipped mata in the movies and games.
bzpower comics? wrong. its fan comics. fail
the hand debate is stupid
wrong, the pc game that was revived DOES NOT WORK. I TRIED
turaga lhikan has no right hand? thats a load of crap, plus those promo sets were made to be lame and only good for parts
tren krom/cthulhu has no business being in bionicle
wrong on the fan bionicle game, its more inspired by dark souls. not star craft two. fail
lego not choosing fan work is stupid as nintnedo. fan content bad. morons
26:09 wrong, that clearly is a nuva shoulder with a mouth piece and a new horn
kongu chose two blasters because he had two hands. lol
who the fuck is mavrah and they were never on the red start. thats bs
the thing with golden masks, only the toa masks were the toas goal, the others are extra. so the clashing segment is bs
you did miss one in mnog
the human concept is cursed meme content and shouldnt be here
there is no imposter. wtf
the red star is not hell, thats karzahni
right, faber fucking trolled us with misleading art, although good art, the cronovirus slapped on the poster for no reason, super generic merch and lazy art for that mech, black with a single yellow stripe… wtf
two swords is NOT a typo,thats not how it works. a typo is one wrong letter or two.
brown not selling well is bs and brown with yellow is not hewkii's color anyway
and so is orange pohatu with a orange kaukau. all bs
you just said the gold skin being was all piraka
the great beings are NOT human
THIS VIDEO IS A FUCKING MESS, JUMPING BACK AND FOURTH TO EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED
It's a bit of a shame that everything related to the biodermis smith was completely cut and decanonised, matoran being able to create small rahi is a concept with a lot of potential
53:50 cringe
I did not know about the 2001 movie plans. Can you give a source? I'd like to read about it.
I see now why this video took so much time and effort to make. Fantastic work by everyone involved!
I still hate the Maori controversy, because you should be able to use anything from any culture to create a work of fiction. Where were Dune be if Frank Herbert didn't pull words an elements from Middle Eastern culture. It's like going after everything in the fantasy genre because it's based off of European culture and history.
51:16 this energy is refreshing-
Dark709 damn that's a blast from the past