Bionicle - All Toa Metru Videos (2004)

all the toa metru from '04

[@OzoneVisuals]

The aesthetic and atmosphere they created for the settings of these ads were so surreal and almost eerie, I love it!

[@Timeren2010]

My coworkers and I appreciate you dug our insane hard labor making these. The (unpaid) overtime was intense....

[@yurismgodzilla4866]

In which our heroes: -fall off a cliff -go waterskiing -slide around on ice -make rock sculptures -perform pest control in a factory -ride public transport activities truly befitting legendary warriors

[@ccecereal]

SIX POWERFUL HEROES

[@takezokimura2571]

To be fair the "pest" Vakama was dealing with was an actual menace. Not the big bad guy, but it was causing a lot of trouble.

[@thanoseid2883]

also nuju was growing a new knowledge tower. plus whenua was mining for lightstones. the others i have no excuse for. but those 3 were helping. not great heroics but helping. edit: i forgot onewa carving was actually important too as carvers were valued.

[@JMObyx]

@@thanoseid2883 Yet isn't that the core of what it means to be a hero; to help?

[@thanoseid2883]

@@JMObyx that’s a question you will never get a straight answer for. Anyway they’re helping and there’s nothing wrong with that.

[@sdFreerey]

This really was an exciting time to be a Bionicle fan.

[@truedamageprestigeedition]

+AlexReyWriter I USED TO HAVE ALL OF THEM :3

[@sdFreerey]

Ohayo Oyasumi lol good for you..I only got Vakama and Nuju XD

[@roxterat]

until you've played their game.

[@florianbunzel]

This is childhood one of the best Bionicle Series, maybe the best

[@carsenmaxwell3336]

My favorite personally was Toa Mahri and Barraki

[@KryptonKr]

The newest ones looks so weird. Especially the 2015 ones

[@bradleybourgeois4710]

What I find most interesting about this era of Toa is that most of their equipment are largey meant to be tools rather than weapons; Whenua's shovels allow him to plow through earth; Nokama's axes allow her to ski off the water; Nuju's ice pick allows him to cling to Ice; Onewa's pickaxe allow him to scale stone; and Matau's blades help him glide through the air. The only one that is generally combat focused is Vakama's disc launcher, but I think it could also be used in a non-combative manner like destorying terrain and solving puzzles.

[@NeonRahkshi]

vakama used his launcher as a tool and not a weapon many times, as someone who knew the disk's powers well, he knew how to use them for many situations also the launcher actually has a second function as a jetpack, though he rarely uses it (i think it had limited fuel? idk for sure though) it's actually really cool how they did that, tools mean to help the toa use their elements better, as well as weapons

[@tomvhresvelg9286]

Because Metru nui was the city of lost technology. And that's whu their tools are closer to Modern tools, unlike Primitive Toa Mata.(despite they get metal weapon from protodermis, and gets gun from arthaka when they travel to karda nui)

[@samwikiy8514]

The art direction for Metru Nui was insane. Toy lines will never go this hard again

[@sladetuner8661]

Onewa's mask looks like the clone and stormtrooper biker scout from Star Wars

[@ossianback]

The creativity and resources that went into creating Metru Nui are unbelievable. I don’t think Bionicle went downhill after 2004, but its worldbuilding would never again reach these heights.

[@neitherlink6612]

Interesting locations were never explored. Voya Nui is supposed to be the heart of the Mata Nui robot yet it seems so desolated, Mahri Nui was never even described.

[@a-s-greig]

@@neitherlink6612 Karda Nui was the Heart. And Mahri Nui got explained a bit in "Adventures #6 City of the Lost" as a village that wasn't supposed to exist, living on borrowed time/air and in a truly terrible place adjacent to the Black Water and the Pit. Would've been nice to learn more about its structures and demographics and whatnot, but it didn't matter much compared to the Barraki, the Mask, and Makuta's Plan.

[@IanLetarte]

These look insanely good for being so old.

[@Timeren2010]

Much appreciated, we worked so fucking hard making these. Much of what you see was done by a pretty small team of 3d-artists, myself included.

[@kin4386]

The Ice Toa were always my favourite. They were always the silent and powerful type.

[@orest4874]

It's always the quiet ones we all gotta watch out for!

[@tretretre1111]

School shooter vibes.

[@kin4386]

@@tretretre1111 Bro.

[@Matoro0902_The_Wise]

I thought I was a weakest one...

[@UltimateMustacheX]

When Onewa pulls in his hooks, I half expected him to blow on one, cowboy style, for making that statue.

[@a-s-greig]

"Another Onewa original."

[@elizabethcoen]

Same here!

[@EclipseHedgehog]

i remember relating a lot to onewa, i loved building, i loved his arrogant smartassness, and of course his weapons were unique.

[@Vrinara]

The metru toa are some of my favorite designs. Not only did they add more articulation to the figures, they made them all interesting. I also love the look of Metru nui. If I had to rank the toa teams. Metru would have to be the first, tied with the Toa Mata. (That doesn't mean the toa Nuva or inika are bad. Infact they would be tied for second for me.) I just wish I could modify the heads of the Mata and Nuva.. but I can't find any flex tubing! >.

[@neitherlink6612]

The Inika's masks were really weird, though I guess it makes sense since they are supposed to be an abnormality, but it was a shame that they took away the gear functions. The Toa Mata look weird to me (seriously, what is that two fingered hand supposed to look lile?) and they share with the Nuva their lack of mobile knees, elbows, and necks which I also don't like. The Toa Metru are perfect blend without them being hideous..... if you know what I mean (2005 nightmare flashbacks intensify)

[@vinhduong6283]

one of the dopest products lego has ever made

[@kstanni87]

Toa Onewa clearly got the most detailed animation. The cliff breaks and reveals a toa mata/turaga/metru matoran head.

[@hydrixcooper5511]

Nah, Toa Matau was ALWAYS the best of the Toa Metru

[@wheeler116]

Yes! Toa Matau is definitely the best.

[@DaimosZ]

Hydrix I TheNerdRage he was the funniest of all the Toa we met in canon imho

[@neitherlink6612]

Nokama fan here!

[@riverwater2922]

Onewa fan here

[@Matoro0902_The_Wise]

Of the Metru Nui saga, I know, I know...

[@paddyestrella]

Ah the days where I got one after every time at the hairdressers. Good old days :)

[@Igni..]

Sweet nostalgia. In these times, the world was still alright

[@christianfaux736]

No, it wasn't. But our world was smaller, and we didn't see the cracks and the broken seams.

[@joeltrekwars2162]

2:02 and here we see a member of the Toa participating in construction of Ko Metru, namely by building a Knowledge Tower.

[@senseweaver01]

Seeing the Toa move their limbs in ways that they just bloody couldn't in real life is always so disconnecting for me

[@jester_420]

You can now do it like that with adding extra parts

[@TrisketsCheese]

Did Vakama just dive into lava? Since when could he do that? I know he's the Toa of fire, but that doesn't mean he can survive being melted by molten lava!

[@iliketrains4487]

Yaw!

[@kieran10202]

+Trisket it's molten protodermis, not lava, and he can survive in there as long as he can keep absorbing or redirecting the heat.

[@armorhide406]

+Trisket Rule of cool

[@Tyronexl1998]

It's also affective to the TOA Mata mixed with a kranna which makes them evolve into TOA Nuva.

[@Space_Potat]

tyronexl1998 Trosin waait..... Did they really turn into Nuva with help of krana?? If so, I never knew it! (Maybe because I didn’t know about boncs at that time._.)

[@n000b1234]

3:15 HOLY CRAP MATA NUI ROBOT HEAD

[@howdyimhowdy]

they were foreshadowing since then

[@adamschillinger8593]

@@howdyimhowdy they intend him to show up way early in the beginning sets

[@gellog0530]

that looks more like the mata head the gsr head is more square

[@BeruBeruIce]

Seeing that every Toa Metru got their logos, I always wondered why only Vakama had a Kanoka disk with his logo.

[@leonardopapa5000]

Becouse he was a mask maker

[@iliayriev9256]

He is a mask "smith" and create all other stuff

[@jeremy7157]

he probably made it himself

[@FeatheredCreature]

These animations are super coom but also give kinda an eerie feeling

[@stargazeronesixseven]

This is so Nostalgic! Bionicle Forever! Thank You So Much for Sharing! Stay Safe & World Peace! 🌍🌷🕊

[@Mogolito96]

The best Bionicle generation in my opinion! I have each one except Vakama...

[@dragnalus787]

Whenua is my favorite Toa Metru. Then Onewa, then Matau, then Vakama, then Nokama, then Nuju

[@lyrilmtv2428]

Why didn't they do the movies in this animation style man 😭

[@BeansWithHam]

Because if they did it would have literally been just an extended toy commercial featuring a bunch of emotionless plastic toys.

[@dog123760]

Probably too expensive but I agree, this would have been awesome.

[@Automatik234]

@@BeansWithHam Nah. Eyes and body language can give a lot of emotions. Just look at mnog. It didn't have more than that and it succeded.

[@neitherlink6612]

@@Automatik234 mnog?

[@Automatik234]

@@neitherlink6612 Mata Nui Online Game (from 2001)

[@zozi_zozi]

How I loved this toa videos the first time they came out... They just felt so epic!

[@cosmicprison9819]

When you're the Toa of Water and are diving for really long times but don't actually have the Mask of Water Breathing.

[@NeonRahkshi]

fun fact about the kaukau: normally, it's the least useful of the toa mata's masks, however in it's nuva form, it's actually the only one that can be directly weaponized (as gali at one point uses it on someone on dry land, causing them to choke to death, with absolutely nothing they could do to fight it)

[@cosmicprison9819]

@@NeonRahkshi She does? That seems like a not-very-heroic thing to do. I didn’t know the Kaukau works like Gillyweed in Harry Potter, where you’d actually suffocate if you used it on land. I thought it worked more like an oxygen mask for divers (after all, that’s what the original Kaukau, in its Mata form, looks like). 🤔

[@NeonRahkshi]

@@cosmicprison9819 she does, it's real late in the series, after teridax takes over (and she kinda had to do it i think) and yeah, my thought is that it automatically activates when you enter water but since nuva masks can be used on others (such as onua being able to give someone else super strength) she was able to manually activate it, and use it on someone else it's an extremely deadly mask and i love that

[@cosmicprison9819]

@@NeonRahkshi Ah, so it was already during Bionicle’s “Grimdark” phase. 😜 I know a lot of those fans that still remain consider the Ignition saga the best part of the entire story. I disagree. I think the first three years were the best, followed by the “prequel” years. But much like with Star Wars, once they went back into the present to do a sequel (with Voya Nui), they did a huge disservice to the old heroes, just in order to prop up the new ones. The Toa Nuva got their masks handed to them when they went to Voya Nui, even though for once, they did what the story always asked them to do: Act in unity. When a story punishes heroes for doing what the story itself considers the right thing, it undermines its own premise. Voya Nui was made edgy just for the sake of it. Why cr*p on the Toa Nuva in the process? So that the need for the Toa Inika could be justified (in other words: so that Lego could sell new products). Also, while I believe the evidence that the big-robot twist was planned from the beginning, I think the writers sacrificed almost everything for the sake of that twist. The realisation that awakening Mata Nui, the goal since the beginning of the story, was always going to result in the destruction of the island paradise, kind of makes you wonder if Makuta had a point in wanting to keep him asleep. That was also what the first movie hinted at (“Sleep spares him pain; awake he suffers.”). The initial story was kind of Kane and Able in reverse (Makuta being jealous of his brother for the adoration of the Matoran). Both would have made him a more complex villain. Instead, they retconned him into being yet another cartoon antagonist striving for world domination. Yawn.

[@NLoett]

Agreed. Kopaka, Nuju, Matoro, even Kualus. They were all awesome somehow.

[@the_tablemaster4971]

These animations are hella good for 2004

[@Timeren2010]

Much appreciated, we worked our asses off to make them cool. Buggy software, 32 bit windows that could hardly manage the workload, and so so much overtime.

[@nezaniatoimya]

This video came out while bionicle was still coming out holy crap

[@iliayriev9256]

18 years ago...

[@MrSkeleton14]

Did blud time travel?

[@rebelfleettrooper9881]

Onewa was my favorite.

[@majorghoul9017]

Man, it was so cool to see the Metru Turaga in their prime like this

[@promaja2]

Thank you so much for creating a channel dedicated to the video of my childhood! ♥

[@ocarina601]

Wow! Vakama is hot! But Nuju is so cool! *cough cough*

[@kierontemnov2452]

^^

[@petercross1879]

Ship it like FedEx

[@toahero5925]

PUN POLICE! YOU'RE UNDER ARREST!

[@JoshCBauer]

When I was a kid Nokama's video inspired me to take swim lessons

[@Ghostly_One1]

Typical Matau. The other metru are doing work, and he's just playing

[@neitherlink6612]

They are all fooling around except Vakama. Nokama is taking a swim and then goes sightseeing, Onewa is using his new strength and bigger hammer to make larger statues, Whenua is collecting glowing stones, Nuju is ice skating/doing parkour on heights, and Matau is flying around.

[@moshibass]

I wonder if Vakama told Tahu he surfed on lava first.

[@corvus9359]

Not just surfed, he straight up swam in it

[@DarkCrusade]

2:19 minecraft players when they see a tile of water at the bottom of an endless cliff

[@MrSkeleton14]

Fr though

[@TheSynthPunk]

Now it's my wet dream to collect the entire 2004 set line

[@neitherlink6612]

Not that hard if you don't mind them used.

[@fighterx9840]

I have Toa Vakama, now I'm wanting to collect the other five Toa Metru, and their canisters

[@vinhduong6283]

this brings back much childhood man

[@DaimosZ]

I wish we got 2005 shorts like these tbh

[@Ridsssss]

Vakama was my first Bionicle, shame that i lost his disk and now he's using one from the mctoran

[@NovaWarrior77]

buy another on ebay or amazon!

[@neitherlink6612]

You can buy one from Bricklink, they are really inexpensive.

[@ARPolimeni]

Thank you for posting! Been lookin' for this.

[@insanenero2922]

from 0:21-0:27 daaaaaaaang, dat rock guy's got some moves!!!

[@TrisketsCheese]

Do a barrel roll!

[@kstanni87]

INSANE Nero Whenua is a earth guy, Stone/Rocks are the brown characters until 2006

[@DarkTemplar300]

remember this time ? When LEGO had ideas ?

[@iliayriev9256]

yeah, and good creators

[@MrSkeleton14]

They still have good ideas and creators, they just dont use them or reject their ideas

[@henrytang7025]

Back when they gave bionicle marketing a budget.

[@Timeren2010]

As a member of the team who made these commercials, i can assure you that the budget wasnt big enough :) So MUCH unpaid overtime you wouldnt believe it.

[@ksavius]

​@@Timeren2010That's pretty sad,but the end result is AMAZING

[@GWKTM]

Vakama and Whenua's videos are the only with music in bg

[@GeneralGrievous-1138]

Am I the only Nuju fan here? XD

[@demonsblightwarcraft5429]

General Grievous1138 No, Vakama and Nuju were always my favorites, Stealth and Telekinisis for the win! (at least in the metru era)

[@GeneralGrievous-1138]

Vakama and the mustache on his mask. :-3

[@GeneralGrievous-1138]

Matau was cool in '04, but he was far too whiny for me in '05. "I don't know what's gotten into me. Oh wait, I do - some kinda monster!"

[@juice2307]

+General Grievous1138 He wasn't whiny. He's always been the sarcastic jokester. It's a part of his personality. He's like the Sokka of the Toa Metru.

[@codacious14]

It's more just a skull mask

[@sladetuner8661]

0:58 when you find just hit the jackpot!

[@catpin]

I want 6 Toa Metru sets.

[@aventori2990]

I think that the Toa Metru are the best, though the Toa Mata - classics

[@shaunpaglini3955]

Toa metru. other names: toa hordika (when mutated, formerly), turaga (3rd form). race: matoran (toa). type: classic element. class: guardian. ability: elementumkinesis, elemental blast, strength💪, speed⏩, agility, durability, endurance, accuracy, strategy, stamina, accuracy, willpower. attacks: mask power. weapon: toa tools. source: toa stones. home: metru nui (original, formerly), mata nui (currently). homeworld: spherus magna. predecessor: toa mangai. successor: toa mata. rarity: legendary. alignment: good😇. status: alive. color: various. ELEMENTS. 1 fire🔥 (vakama). 2 water💧 (nokama). 3 air🌪️ (matau). 4 ice❄️ (nuju). 5 stone🪨 (onewa). 6 earth🌎 (whenua).

[@ammefan]

i love the movie with metru... they should make more movies... =(

[@nbkt1ud]

I also want all of the Toa Metru heroes, because they have awesome moves, weapons and neat colors!

[@corvus9359]

The most surprising thing for me is that Vakama shows that apparently a Toa of Fire can actually swim in lava.

[@TheVletHansen]

That's because the ice crew was always the best!

[@TwoFoxPlays]

I realize that all except Toa Vakama have a pair of weapon, yet in the movie they change Toa Onewa's weapon xD

[@neitherlink6612]

What are you talking about? Onewa's weapon is still some sort of pickaxe, but it is a single weapon and larger than in the set.

[@reubenguttenberg7405]

TIME TO QUICK RUN!

[@fighterx9840]

I remember starting my love for Bionicle with Piraka, those were good times, I also purchased a Toa Metru from Amazon a couple years ago, specifically Vakama. I really don't regret my purchase one bit. Correct me if I'm wrong though, but weren't all the toa metru sets originally supposed to have their own Kanoka Disks, but didn't? I ask this because Vakama has his own disk.

[@fishyface711]

I'm calling bullshit on the fact that matau can look forward while flying.

[@wheeler116]

I know right. The way they attached his head made it so he can't look forward. If they had done it like they did on nuju or Nokama, it would have worked better.

[@caycebower8225]

That was a huge disappointment for me when I got the set

[@neitherlink6612]

@@wheeler116 it would have worked better, yes, but it would have also looked horrible. The way Nokama's and Nuju's masks are dessigned allows for that position to look good, the rest just look like their necks got stretched.

[@MacbookJesse]

Jesus 2004 was the best

[@sostitanic6102]

My favorite was Toa Metru Vakama

[@Tertontheshinigami]

Sweet nostalgia.

[@AdamwithanA]

because they were! they blew my mind

[@PrimeReclaimer]

anyone notice that at @3:15 it looks just like the temple head from the mask of light movie

[@Morioka_Morio]

2024 is Metru-Nui 20th Anniversary!!

[@patrickparks1393]

Lucky for me I have all six of them

[@TomRule]

Why the hell does Nuju just lob his toa stone off a tower? xD

[@dart.115]

It wasn't a Toa Stone, in Ko-Metru the Ko Matoran use those to create towers. Watch again, he throws it, jumps off, & rises up on a tower. Basicly, they turn into towers.

[@mbradiouk4898]

That's not a Toa stone. Thats a crystal used to create knowledge towers, aka the thing he landed on.

[@TomRule]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh. whoopsie.

[@kreonkuki320]

BIONCLE

[@leonardopapa5000]

@@kreonkuki320 bOnKlE

[@JMotion]

@suomiusername its supposed to. its the face hudden behind all classic masked

[@AceKylar]

why is Metru Nui so freagin high tech compared to Mata Nui?!

[@cloudcleaver23]

Mata Nui was post-apocalyptic. Metru Nui was the state they had fallen from.

[@AceKylar]

yet, Mata-Nui was narrated as paradise.

[@cloudcleaver23]

Ioseph Stalin It's a pretty idyllic little island, even if its people had lost all their technological greatness. The Matoran also had no memory of Metru Nui.

[@AceKylar]

its like giving kids who never had a smartphone a Nokia 3310.

[@edward18517]

Because Metru Nui is literally Mata-Nui's brain.

[@insanenero2922]

heeeeey, i remember Toa Nokama. he/she(still could not tell if it was a boy or girl) was my FIRST bionicle! i remember i was like 6 yrs old, i had a tough time building it till i figured it out

[@UltimateMustacheX]

It's she. Tough to tell without a rack like Toa Mata Gali.

[@TuomasH]

That part was a rack? Everything I know is a lie.

[@kira-dk2mx]

The matoran and toa of water and lightning are all females. Save for the matoran of light, they're both male and female.

[@UltimateMustacheX]

***** *lightning ... light is both genders.

[@insanenero2922]

UltimateMustacheX ..........uuuuuuuuuuuuuuum...

[@MatthewSmith-uc1kx]

The Toa Metru.

[@TikiFoamy38]

Nokama is so pretty. :)

[@Matoro0902_The_Wise]

Yeah, no sh*t, Sherlock. She made it obvious

[@TikiFoamy38]

@@Matoro0902_The_Wise A bit bold of you to assume I never saw that.

[@Matoro0902_The_Wise]

@@TikiFoamy38 I have no idea what I should say

[@TikiFoamy38]

@@Matoro0902_The_Wise I will accept an apology for your rudeness from you.

[@Matoro0902_The_Wise]

@@TikiFoamy38 yeah, sorry for the bullsh*t

[@Moviecraft2024]

Надо пометить минуты, где появляются тоа Нокама и тоа Вакама.

[@alejambicho4982]

I need a BIONICLE Metru-Nui open world game

[@neitherlink6612]

It would take a lot of money to dessign such varied biomes and the very dramatic height difference.

[@Matoro0902_The_Wise]

How about making it in Minecraft(I may be able to try it in a Minecraft animation) P.S. I'm just a beginner

[@simplylogan93]

0:24 - That must've hurt :D

[@iliketrains4487]

💟 da toa metrus!

[@PirateKingBoros]

Anyone else read the books? (Not the comics)

[@k-leb4671]

What were Whenua and Nuju doing with crystals? They weren't the Toa Stones, I presume, but they sure looked like them.

[@GeneralGrievous-1138]

K-leb Knowledge Towers were grown from crystals thrown into vats in Ko-Metru, which is what Nuju was doing there.

[@av_b3y0nd7]

I like Nuju and Kopaka

[@saullandiof5768]

matau's is so cool

[@jester_420]

Only metru toa I liked was nuju, I leaned more to toa mangi, hagha, mata and nuva more

[@av_b3y0nd7]

I think the first toa was Tahu,Kopaka,Gali,Onua,Pohatu and Lewa. Now it is Whenua,Nokama,Nuju,Onewa,Vakama and matua

[@Egiovanni2003]

Av_ B3Y0ND nope toa metru (vakama and others) were the first ones

[@lukasvavra2473]

@@Egiovanni2003 ur stupid

[@neitherlink6612]

@@lukasvavra2473 chronologically on the story, the first team of Toa that were released as sets are the Toa Metru, but the first Toa team ever released were undoubtly the Toa Mata.

[@av_b3y0nd7]

It is time for the new toa

[@AnAmbientGrey]

@linusk3 nuju was my favourite set :D

[@mijinnko2772]

懐かしさで発狂して死んでしまいそう

[@MrNjpac123]

Cool vid I love toa

[@NLoett]

Yup.

[@mechanwhal6590]

What is that face Onewa uncovered? Edit: *Of course...*

[@MrSkeleton14]

Bionicle heads

[@jackdaniels5168]

Always liked Vakama and Nuju the best, although I always thought Vakama's weapon is sorta silly

[@neitherlink6612]

In the story is really powerful since each disk has a unique effect on the target, teleportation, dodging obstacles, and enlarging are some of them.

[@starstrudel8417]

That's funny cos the other Toa Metru thought it was silly, too! They made fun of Vakama for picking it (he picked it because it reminded him of his simpler Matoran days). The launcher was essentially compared to an over-sized toy. Just for that little trivia, it's one of my favorite Toa tools and one of the few I can think of that had characterization significance.

[@iliayriev9256]

3:38 who is this crab

[@MrSkeleton14]

I think its just a random crab

[@That_Guy00]

Not a crab, that's a Morbuzakh vine

[@willemory1]

Nuju is the coolest

[@u9s45]

vokama didn't look like that in the movie

[@neitherlink6612]

None of them did.

[@Matoro0902_The_Wise]

They all can open their mouths!

[@MileGorica]

I can't believe who disliked this

[@Randomize-md3bt]

Muy Y2K como dicen los chavos

[@masonmancoffey1722]

I have mata nui