Bionicle Was Weird | Billiam 

Error Edits: It's super cool how dedicated the Bionicle fanbase is! Thanks for pointing that I made several errors in this video. In the interest of having correct information, here's a list of the errors made. Please feel free to comment anything else I got wrong. I mispronounce and misstate several words: 1. I totally butchered the pronunciation of Māori. Also Māori refers to a group of people, not a singular tribe. 2. Kopaka as Kapooka 3. Tohunga as Toraga. The Toraga were the village elders, but The Tohunga were the generic villagers. The Tohunga were renamed the Matoran. My reference to the Matoran as "little guys" isn't for the purpose of avoiding the word tohunga. I just like calling them little guys. Aside from the part about the Māori, the purpose of this video is meant to be more of a nostalgic look back on Bionicle, rather than super informative. I also got some things wrong about Bionicle itself. 1. I referred to the rakshii as Rahi, 2. The plural of Bionicle is Bionicle. 3. I stated the Bionicle got their powers from their masks, this is only partially true. (i'm finding conflicting information) There were also some misunderstandings, which were less of a factual error on my part, and more of a failure to clearly communicate what I was saying. 1. I know Mega Blocks aren't made by Lego, lmao. This was a joke 2. When I say Bionicle was the beginning of LEGO creating their own sets, I meant to say "story based sets." I know LEGO had their own sets before this. I even show a commercial for some at the beginning of the video. Lesson: If you're going to make a video featuring a words and a language you're not familiar with, look up the pronunciation. If you're spelling words in a word processor, double check to make sure you wrote them correctly, so you don't pronounce the misspelled words.

"I care more about the toys than the story" *proceeds to tell the whole lore while completely ignoring the fact that there were some massive bomb ass sets.*

Sir how dare you offend my religion

My brother was a loner and awkward but Bionicles made him so happy. I was grateful there was something to fill up his time and give him a sense of escapism.

Bionicle seriously needs another comeback , cause a concept so awesome shouldn't just be left in the dust .

Stepin in the club like: Y O Y O P I R A K A

when i was 11, I memorized the Bionicle alphabets. I still remember it to this day

I can't hear the word bionicle without saying "each sold separately" in my head

Actually, the guy who voiced Jaller(the yellow and red guy) was supposed to voice Takua(the blue and red guy) but the actors got the lines mixed up and it just seemed to work.

Barack Obama was my favorite Bionicle

Bionicles were lit af and the lore was amazing even disregarding the fact that they were children’s toys.

Jesus christ that commercial with the all american regects song hit me in the face with so much nostalgia that I was unprepared for that I almost broke my neck

I remember my parents buying me a copy of Mask of Light in a grocery store in 2004 and I was engrossed in the lore. I remember they made a sequel on a new continent that I think was a prequel. It was nuts that they created this

Bionicle was my thing

Well, you got just about every lore detail and character name wrong, but the most important Bionicle fact of all was the one thing that you got right: as a 7-year-old, these toys were kick-ass.

Bioncle was one of the most coolest things that 7 year old me experienced

Lol no one would bat an eye at LEGO naming a character "the pope"

Change the title. Don't you ever disrespect Bionicle like that ever again

Bionicle was the real shit back in the days. And also you guys not really into the series have NO IDEA how freakin huge the lore is. Even though the latest sets kinda sucked, I really miss all these guys :(

2:37 id love for him to be named The Pope

I was that kid with a lot of Lego. Because my mother was a founding member of Denmark's biggest and first real Lego fan Club. I went to conventions, competions, and a lot like that. Met people from all over the world, who all loved Lego. All coming to little Denmark to show off what they have been building. And I was there too, a little 11 year old, side by side with people traveling from, Japan, US, Canada, Brazil. And it is first now as an adult, that I appreciate that time, more than "Fun and free Cola"

Dude when I was a kid I watched mask of light so many times

Fun fact in the ninjago city docks set. In the map room, there is a map of the bionicle island

Title correction: Bionicle Was Awesome Also, I was part of the Lego Club during this time period and even entered into the sweepstakes to win a solid gold Mask of Light. Didn't win unfortunately. They gave out the most recent comic edition every month and I kept up my subscription for years, so I was kept up with the lore fairly well...

I’m a simple man. I see bionicle and hear all American rejects, I give a like

Bionicle was weird but still they're every man's fetish

I'm surprised you didn't bring up the fact the premise of nature-wielding magical robots is weird in and of itself, generally the idea of sci-fi and robotics is like the opposite of nature and fantasy. It was weird but I thought it was really cool at the same time, the aesthetic and setting was very unique and I can't think of another franchise like this.

8:31 _bionicles fucking t posing_ _this is what reaching nirvana looks like_

Bionicle was iconic and one of the coolest looking kids toys EVER. The mix of exotic nature tribes,insects and robots was totally unique and worked so well in my opinion.

remember when Mata Nui was just a landmass that settled on top of a planet-sized god-robot and all of the Bionicle characters were literally its immune system with amnesia good times

Bruh, Bionicle was my fucking childhood. I forgot how much of it. My old friend and I loved those things.

6:19 Fun fact: some Matoran (the little guys) actually become Toa (the big kids). (Also, never underestimate them, some of them are very crucial to the story, like Matoro)

*see’s title* Me: SAY SIKE RIGHT NOW!!

Me talking about bionicle lore Everyone else at the funeral

It's time for adult swim to make the Bionicle anime

As a new zealander this video hurt to hear 😅🤣😂 "mayoori" lol!

My favorite part of the whole Bionicle thing as a kid aside from the toys were the two excellent online flash games. Truly shaped my outlook as a writer even through today.

*owns 48 Bohrok* *feels no shame*

I remember my shoes breaking when walking in to Legoland in Denmark, my parents bought me a pair of Bionicle sneakers with red masks on them and I was so happy!

Bionicles were weird but I was in LOVE with it.

Me: **Sees title** Also me: *SAY SIKE RIGHT NOW!!!*

It's time to make the bionicle anime

The more and more I think about it the more I realize Bionicle was the first edgy Lego theme.

Bionicle was a good lego and a memories for me.

I went through a Bionicle renaissance in my early 20's and got a bunch of used ones off eBay to make animations with. The ball joints were perfect for animating with!

Man... The lore this shit had was insane

The fish monster bionicles are the coolest shit

I remember when I was young I was watching a Bionicle and I looked at my fish and it died I was sad

my parents are divorced at my dads, he would play this movie on repeat every night. i litterally pushed that outta my head until this video, THANKS BILLIAM

The worst part was accidentally breaking the edge of a arm and it would barely be on or it would be broken forever.

Without bionicle LEGO wouldn’t by this popular as now

Bionicle was basically the Overwatch of its day, explaining all of its lore and storylines in multiple different supplementary material instead of just putting it all in one spot

you said legends of chima and i felt like i had a war flashback

After bionicle didnt they make a thing called hero factory i seem to remember that really well

Rakshi's were awesome, They were basically "if xenomorphs were robots with spears" And i love it.

You have filled me with overwhelming nostalgia! How dare you! I miss my old toys now.

I grew up with an older brother, so I had (and still have) a love for legos. My brother was able to build cars that looked like it was from a kit, but he made it up and had no instructions. He was crazy talented with them.

Bionicle was my jam as a kid. I was obsessed with Tahu. Weirdly enough, I was introduced to it through the comic. I read that thing so much the pages fell out. I didn't even realize they were a part of LEGO until years later, despite the fact that I collected Lego at the same time.

IDK if it’s just me but the smell I remember from a new Bionicle was to put it short ADDICTING.

There was nothing better than getting home from toys r us and cracking a cold one with the boys

Pretty interesting Bionicle/Lego company story; When I was in fifth grade, I wrote a letter to Lego (I think to the CEO, but I'm not positive) telling them that I loved Bionicle, and that Gali was my favorite (even including a crude drawing of it). But the rest of the letter was me asking them to send me a Gali mask in green instead of blue; I wasn't even polite about it, I just talked about how cheap they must be to make, so giving me one for free was no big deal. I was kinda being a dick. But sure enough, a couple weeks later I got an envelope from Lego; inside was a generic "thanks for being a fan" type of letter from the CEO (I'm sure they sent out thousands of them, but I didn't know that as a kid). But sure enough, inside some bubble wrap in the envelope was the exact mask that I asked them for. I thought it was a one-of-a-kind mask made just for me, and that it was worth huge sums of money. It's funny looking back on it now, but it was still really awesome of Lego to send me that mask for free, even though I was kind of shitty the way I asked for it. Still, ever since then I've really loved Lego as a company; they didn't have to send free shit to some dumb kid, but they still went out of their way to do so, and that was so cool of them. (My green-masked Gali was the shit.)

Bionicle is the best, for more than the unique sets and cool aesthetics, but because I could join in the fun without having to buy all of them; the story was super weird and intense and angsty enough for a young preteen me to get overly attached too to this day.

I'm surprised with how popular Bionicle was that it isn't considered the 2000's equivalent to the Masters of the Universe line.

I saw this video and thought "Hey, I think I had some of those". Then I clicked through the Bionicle Wiki and I realized: I had more than just a few. I think I had most of the Toa, all of the Bohrok, most of the Barraki, all of the Piraka and probably even more. But I don't remember any video games or comics. I live in Germany, so maybe it wasn't that hard advertised. So I never really knew about the official story. I remember that I often had a favorite character of each race and that I gave that character all the good weapons. Some of my Bohrok for example had two of the shields at each hand. But I don't remember how I really played with them. I never just played with one kind of toy, all of my toys were part of my own 'universe' or 'kingdom'. And my best friend thought really similar about his toys, so when we played together, we always planned a while which toys we choose to 'send' to that other world. I still know that I used the Barraki and the Piraka as strange sea creatures. Except the ice Piraka, that was the evil undead king of the ice realm.The Piraka had those weird exo-skelettons or whatever it was meant to be. In my mind those were the actual beings. Every time they were beaten, they would just disconnect from the body, fly away and build another body somewhere else.

The Bionicle lore is actually pretty fkin dark if you get deep into it.

The point-and-click adventure game on Lego's website was one of my favorite games of all time.

this was nostalgia all over the place mildly because I had vague memories of bionical but then the all american rejects clip played and I was brought back to reality, classic

Actually im pretty sure it was the word "tohunga" not "turaga" it was changed into Matoran in the second year, the Toa that were in "Heroes" were the McDonald's figures from 2001 who became the new Toa in the 2006 line

Don't matter how old I am, Bionicles will always be dope

God damn, I used to watch Bionicle Web of Shadows endlessly. And the amount of custom made bionicles I made was insane. Those were the good days. I still have a box full of bionicle pieces, weapons, and armour in my attic.

Man, I miss Bionicle. I loved those colors.

Snapping together Bionicle pieces is so therapeutic

The Maori weren't upset over the word Turaga, it was the word Tohunga. The Problem wasn't just the fact that they used the word, it was because the used it to refer to bionicle's generic villager characters.

I don't think I loved anything more than I loved Bionicle as a kid.

Ahhh the one that couldn’t stand straight, it’s really weird LEGO hasn’t done anything about it. Thanks for the childhood memories

thank you king, for getting the all american rejects stuck in my head

i fkn love Bonkle

I used to think _"How good of a story can a toy line have?"_ Then I read the books...

Dude I still have some of my old ones up in my closet somewhere. They were so dope.

I always thought I'd imagined Bionicle, my brother had a few then I never saw it ever again!

"Masks that gives them elemental powers" WRONG! the masks in G1 did not have elemental powers. that was actually a "built in feature" of the characters in the Bionicle Universe. The masks instead had different powers, from being able to breath underwater, project a shield around one self, increased strength, super speed, being able to fly and more. Its in the short lived Bionicle G2, however, that the masks grants elemental powers.

“How cloning Nelson Mandela could bring back Bionicle”

I remember when I was really little I used to love playing with bionicles all the time. Crazy how they don't really sell them anymore.

Bionicle was something every boy somehow had growing up. I don’t think I remember there being any lore or story. I thought they were cooler, more abstract Transformers.

The iniquities of bionicle lore are so hard to explain to my wife’s boyfriend.

8:34 all 6 Toa Mata hitting that **T p o s e**

God I love your channel I just keep watching and getting extra nostalgic, i was one of those kids that was way into the lore of these

Did you just say the first Bionicle movie wasn't amazing?! Heresy! Burn him! How can you not love "TAKUAAAAA" being yelled?!

I had some Bionicles and gave them to a daycare in my town. Now some toddlers will know the greatness of them Edit: In my town there are two daycares one of them is for toddlers the other one is for 9-13+ year old kids and I gave the Bionicles to the daycare with the 9-13+ kids

"That's like naming this guy the pope" Honestly, if you did and somebody had a problem with it, would you take them seriously?

The first time I ever heard of Bionicle was one day when I was browsing the Lego website on dial-up internet. It must have been just before they launched the toy line, because I had never seen the name posted anywhere and I was immensely curious. There was no information about the toys, no story, no photos, just a flash game where it drops you on a beach and you get to explore Mata Nui. The game would slowly add new content, like two villagers catching Tahu in a twig net and him slicing his way out, the water villagers being stuck in a hut and you having to use weights to open the door, and eventually visiting other places. The game was incredible and eventually when I saw the products for sale I was super invested in getting them. I could be remembering things incorrectly (I was super young at the time) but it was definitely the best marketing strategy I have ever been targeted by.

Really wanted you to mention the mata nui online game. I played that a lot in elementary school and never figured out if i was doing it right lol Also, Mask of Light had a tie-in rpg game that was pretty good.

Man I love Bionicle. I followed it to the end when I got into the lore around the Toa Inika wave and after that I circled back in time to the Toa Nuva and continued from there while I waited for the next comic to come out. By the way I got the comics for free in my LEGO magazine subscriptions. I was always excited about the next issue!

"Bionicles" AAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH

Dude I fucking loved these things, never knew there was a whole lore universe, thanks for the education and nostalgic kick

I had SO MANY bionicle toys growing up. I'm 24 years old now, and I think I was at just the right age for Bionicle when it came out. My best friend of over 18 years now and I would take them apart and combine the pieces to make weird and awesome bests, then we'd battle them. We traded masks, we traded weapons, and we traded the accessories. Bionicle was my shit growing up.

I never realized how much I miss Bionicle until seeing this video.

5:47 - all of those games were garbage cash grabs. The real game was the online adventure game lego had on their website. Oh, the story. Oh, the lore.

I remember getting my first Bionicle at five below. My two friends had the white and red ones so I wanted one too. Later they told me that the one I picked (blue) was a girl.

I like the identification of the Piraka as “Evil Toa,” which isn’t too far-fetched because their first big action was going to another island and convincing its inhabitants that “Yes, we are totally heroic Toa, now stay still and be our slaves lol”