BIONICLE: Mata Nui Rising 

I was a fan of Bionicle from the beginning and seeing the island of Mata Nui breaking apart is heartbreaking.

Can we just take a moment to admire how much love was put into this franchise? It's no wonder why I'm such a day dreamer when I grew up playing with these heroes and imagining grand adventures and action sequences. Bionicle is truly amazing.

"Even when turned into nightmare versions of themselves, they never surrendered." Well, Vakama DID turn to the dark side for quite a bit, but, yeah, NEVER.

Growing up to the final battle for Mata-Nui's awakening left me with suspense but seeing Mata-Nui Island itself collapse made me realize that my childhood fell with it. Bionicle fan to the end!

If I have kids, I'm going to tell them the story of Bionicle and keep the legends alive.

I wish they covered the gap between Web of Shadows and Legend Reborn with a movie or a show of sorts.

Holy crap who is that narrator, he's amazing.

I miss Bionicle, we need more toys with gripping storys like this.

I used to be able to say all of this without even seeing it.

I could honestly listen to that narrator's voice for hours! It can be compared to Morgan Freeman, it's that good!

Question: What does Bionicle have going for it that made it such a universal success? Answer: Care. Such devotion was put into the sets and, far more importantly, the story. The result: Bionicle stands as a pinnacle moment in Lego's history and we shall never see it's like again.

I consider 2009 canon because in the stories, Mata Nui was actually exiled from his own body and was sent to Bara Magna, where the Mask of Life saved his life and gave a new body.

The demon and bug design for the makuta in the 2008 line was so sick

the narrators voice is so fucking epic. MAN this takes me back.

2009 is totally canon! ps: the giant mata-nui robot was made to fix the planet spherus magna, in case: the whole matoran universe were made FOR the agori (and glatorian)!

Man..can't wait till bionicle returns,

I subscribed to the Lego Club Magazine in mid-2001, and the first issue I got came with this weird comic book for some theme I'd never heard of. It was Bionicle, issue #1. Even though I didn't start collecting the sets until 2003, I still have every single issue of the comic in my closet. When I read the issue where Mata Nui rises, I could scarcely believe what I was seeing, and when the eyes changed colour, and the image turns to the sky, where the stars in that age old constellation of the Unity, Duty, Destiny symbol suddenly change to form the Mask of Shadows, I had to stop and take some time to register. After all these years, all these adventures and Saturday morning cartoon hero/villain plots and world shaping events designed to sell toys to kids, and all the fun heroes and cool characters... The struggles, the sacrifices, the victories, the losses, after all that... He won. Makuta. Won. There's no going back in time and undoing it. Makuta is time. There's no fighting back against the forces of darkness unleashed on the universe. Makuta is the universe. Will you fight the ground on which you stand? The air you breathe? The very matter of your being exists by the will of Makuta.

The Bionicle 2001-2010 story needs to be made into a proper movie/TV series, with all those extra serials and podcasts being made as some sort of extras or mini-TV series' (Like the Marvel movies with agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) If not, an anime based off Bionicle will do.

When Mata Nui rose, it was actually the first time in just over 1,000 years, not 100,000. Mata Nui crashed on the ocean world of Aqua Magna when Makuta put him to sleep during the events of Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui.

was with bionicle since 2002. our kids need to be taught this story aswell :D

Honestly, Bionicle has one of the best storylines ever made

That beginner Lego intro brings back memories with that sound and animation. Just before the movie started

For some reson that was the most epic thing i ever saw Hero factory sucks for taking that away from us

I was born a little too late for bionicle, and really only noticed it existed right as it was ending around 2010. but it was something special. Discovering all of the older stuff and the lore felt extremely special to me, and coupled with the fact i didnt know much english back then, it truly felt like uncovering some ancient texts lol.

I still love this franchise even all these years later.

dear lord, the narrator describing the rise of the mata nui robot itself honestly gave me chills

I remember I could say the whole bionicle story without thinking I was so obsessed I knew everything

The narrator's Makuta voice at the end was so perfect.

I find it hilarious how makuta could have just pretended to be Mata nui and gone about his conquering business without the toa or anyone else knowing (since he teleported those who did know out of his body). But nooo, he just HAD to rub it in their faces that he had WON. He had to see them tremble in fear and terror, because he wanted them to know he was in control now.

15 years later i still remember all of the names, chapters role of each character in all of bionicle. Best toy franchise

It might be over, but our legacy will live on. A new Bionicle story is just... beginning for the new generation.

El narrador de esta historia es sin duda, increíble, tiene una voz épica.

Tony Wedgwood did a great job for making these Commercials and Narrating all this.

It’s stuff like this that makes me miss the old lego: cheap, simple, and so much fun. They’re now a multi billion dollar company that has gone work and made all their sets incredibly expensive while the quality has gone down. Bionicle is the ultimate of all time and I will respect it forever

Can we all try to forget that the 2015 reboot ever happened and appreciate the 1st (and only) generation of Bionicle?

Bionicle has lore almost on par with Lord of the Rings in scale and detail.

Ah... when bionicle was good...

This brings back so many childhood memories and this video is crazy! Remember how much effort hey put into this lore. Pretty cool!

I just love how much effort was put into the Lore-wise Explanations regarding their Design Changes. It just adds more Story-telling to everything...

Looking back I’m awww how good this was , the timing of this couldn’t be better as my best friend I’ve known since I was three were just reminiscing about the many bioniclea we collected

8:12 "Awaken my Mata Nui!" *ayayaya...*

Top five best lego brands 5. The Lego Movie 4. Ninjago 3. Marvel/DC 2. Star Wars 1. Bionicle

Makuta taking over the mata nui robot give me chills

The chills and the crying 😭 all packed in one video!

holy hell me and my brother lost interest in the whole series sometime after the Toa Hordika transformed. I think he bought some big sets and kept up with the comics longer than I did, but dayumm. I've missed a lot it seems.

this video made me cry 😭

Damn, thought this was longer or maybe I'm thinking of another video? Loved Bionicle and i respect it more then anyone else

I love listening to this story. They had great adventures together.

I wonder if LEGO will make another video similar to this one to explain 2001-2010 when they bring back BIONICLE. Long Live Lord of Skull Spiders!

I loved the Legend Reborn Bionicle movie, it was a movie I rewatched often. I actually ended up scoring a Mata Nui from a farmers market.

This video saddens me. Nostalgia of my mama taking me to Toys R Us, running to the lego section and asking if I can get the big-big set. The answer was most times a “No,” but you never know lol. Playing games like Left 4 Dead and it’s sequel. The memories.

Cuando escuchaba esos audios de la Saga del Despertar de Mata Nui me quede llorando de alegría 😭💖😁, pero cuando escuché la voz de Makuta, me destrozó 💔😭 ahora que el universo estaba bajo su merced, fue horrible en esa escena.

Damn this lego-icon made out of the falling 1x1 bricks and the sound that played alongside it... that's a MAJOR throwback to early lego. I remember the old lego technic software that came with a certain set that was like a bulldozer... that's been long.

7:56 Oh come on that stock footage

Finding out Mata-Nui was just the FACE of a giant fucking Bionicle was the biggest mindfuck most kids have ever experienced. It literally came out of left field with almost NOTHING indicating that might be the case.

Love these videos

Eash! Who new Bionicle has such a story like this😵

The way BIONICLE gen 1. essentially ended was really at the beginning (unfinished business sort of thing). Early on, 100 millenia ago, Mata nui intended to reunite the moons (Aqua Magna and Boto Magna) to Bara Magna, the majority of the planet. That's when Teradax (brother Makuta) confronted him during the mending and sent Mata Nui careening through space back toward Aqua Magna, where upon crashlanding on the planet, he hit his head, lying unconscious for the next 100 thousand years. That's when Makuta invaded his internal universe over the course of the story to slowly gain power. Cloaking devices from his body and other terraforming devices then encrusted his face in time, resulting in the island of Mata Nui. This major precursor event in the story became known as 'The Great Cataclysm" which we also witnessed on-screen (unknown to us as being in the body at the time) with the Toa's fight with Makuta Teradax as the crescent moon eyes close in the dark sky in the film: Legends of Metru Nui.

I cried when I saw that tahu mask in the sand it felt like my childhood was in that sand and RIP MATORO RIP MATORO RIP MATORO RIP MATORO

DANG! Inika was cool

This story is amazing.

"as something massive........ pushes up from below."

nostalgia at its finist

The Evil Won?! Wew ö.Ö

When I first saw the island of Mata Nui shatter I was like noooo what happened.

I really wish the movies had the same art style that the promotional material had, instead of what they had. I always thought the designs in the movies were ugly.

Childhood

Ohhh the memories

I'd like to imagine this as a prelude to a new Lego movie. Where all previous advertising is centered around Emmet and his adventure, before the movie starts we see a recap of the Bionicle story, putting in every drop of effort to get the audience invested in this property before, suddenly, it stops. "But as The Mask of Life made its journey into the stars above, Lego cancelled Bionicle." The narrator says, somberly. "The story would be given an abridged ending, an unsatisfying conclusion to such an epic tale. The Biological Chronicle... was over..." "But to brave Tahu, it was not the end. As time passed with Bionicle fading into memory, noble Tahu refused to simply be forgotten. While he had realized that he was but a plastic toy long after the cancellation, his story, no, his _life_ was still real to him. He remembered the struggle, the friends he made, and the ones he lost. He could not rest without proper closure." "For a moment, Tahu and the others had a chance to prove themselves once more, but times had changed and the story was simplified. The Toa could not stay on store shelves, and without sales the story ended there too." "But stubborn Tahu refused this fate as well, and did everything he could to save himself, the Toa, the Matorans, Mata Nui, and even the vile Makuta. And so, seizing an opportunity involving a Legoland promotion, Tahu took control of a set and waited for an opportunity to escape." Then boom the intro ends, and we get to the actual movie with Emmet. It starts out normal with a plotline mostly involving defending against zombie hordes of legos made from broken pieces, but then Tahu swoops in and just deals with the problem seeking the aid of anyone willing to embark to the nearest Lego HQ to resurrect Bionicle and finish the original story.

This unironically goes so hard

This is amazing

Our Thanos snap moment.

I remember watching this when I was like 5 this was so cool

A new Bionicle series is coming out, it's a perfect time for a TV series based off of this to be made. I say TV series instead of movies because the story line will fit better and the writers would be able to flesh out the characters and give it good pacing.

Bionicle lore had no right being this fucking good

“Reboot the Bionicle universe, or Submit to the power of Makuta. Dive into the darkness. Ignite the flame within. Now there is no turning back...” *Make the future, begin....*

Mata Nui as Primus The Makuta as Unicron

2018, I'm getting so much nostalgia

If only the same storyline continued with Bionicle. Now in Bionicle 2015 we're still gonna have Tahu and the rest. But what about Takanuva?

Bionicle series R.I.P. (sniff)

what shame, that there is no footage, were krika offers gali to flee out of karda-nui

Long live bionicle.

Bionicle was the best it is good day to be a bionicle fan

I love this song.

How did you guys react to Mata Nui's supposed awakening?

That Moment when Tahus mask comes from the Solid Metal. Epic

Legends they were But still to day

I love the the figures that can shoot or transform

Where did you get the narration, when the Mata Nui robot was rising?

This gave me chills because of the nostalgia and makes me mad about g2

Gravity hurts = nostalgia

"Did we just lose?"

As cool as it was finally seeing Mata Nui in toa form, I honestly thought the main character of the Bara Magna storyline was going to be Toa Ignika. I mean, the guy was wearing the Mask of Life and was introduced as a "hero reborn."

Sums of Bionicle really well, I wish they had added on the Glatorians saga to this movie too though. Overall it was good 10 out of 10.

I miss you bionicle T-T

I've said it before and will continue to say it until the end of days: Bionicles are (if not the best "toys") the greatest action-figures ever made.

Is this Bionicle the legend reborn?

I like how they used animated stuff and then there’s like a jpeg and a gif of water lmao

BIONICLE Is just.... epic PS I have devoted hundreds of hours into making a book series on bionicle its half done

"Since I consider 2009 non-canon," what do you mean by that?