The Bionicle Comics Were Weird (ft. Billiam)

[@biosonic100]

Bionicle continues to be what it was designed to be: A legend, destined to be uncovered and rediscovered.

[@benjamindavey4782]

As Christian Faber put it after G2's cancellation, "products discontinue, legends survive...".

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

*"A legend, destined to be uncovered and rediscovered."* I think this quote encapsulates each of our lives and the hidden potential we all possess. All we need to do in unlock the legend within us all.

[@bshpev]

​@@Obi-Wan_Kenobi Not to piss in your cereal, but the "hidden potential" you're talking about requires an absurd amount of work and dedication... there's no "unlock". If you can watch the film Whiplash, and come away from it NOT having some sort of connection to the drive that the main character felt to "be the best". Then you probably don't have that "'hidden potential" you want so bad. To elaborate: Averages exist for a reason. Most people are okay at most things, bad at some, and good at fewer. Anyone can push themselves to be good at literally anything with enough discipline and practice, but it takes legitimate sacrifice and endless practice to be legitimately great at something. And past that, it takes love and passion for the thing you do- more than anyone else- to be one of the best: you have to be Michael Jordan, sneaking out of the house at 10 years-old to play basketball at midnight every day because you just love to shoot the basketball so much, you spend your free time thinking about different ways you could shoot the basketball. You get in trouble for playing basketball when you should be doing other things. You dream of basketball. And even then that isn't enough. You'll need an amazing teacher, or series of instructors, that can help find your flaws even faster and improve your technique- that you can gain ideas and techniques from and improve on them. And these guys either were once the best, on their way to being the best, or failed at becoming great because they just didn't have the right genes (Finger's too short to hit the obscure notes on the fret, body not tall enough, eyes not sharp enough, ankles too weak to take the repeated stress) or they were just unlucky enough to have gotten an injury that stopped them from moving forward. And you'll have to be CHOSEN by these people to become great. So right there, random chance is going to have huge influence on your success (but the more you practice and keep putting yourself out in competitions or venues to showcase yourself the more likely that'll be). and even if you do all of that, and want it soooo bad, someone could come along in the same region as you are and just take it all away from you because they were just BORN better. Someone with perfect rhythm to the point the can literally keep time without a watch, to the minute. Someone with perfect pitch who can literally strum a guitar once, tune it, and strum it again and it sounds perfect. Someone who gets a 4.11 GPA during their fucking doctorate... (^I've met people that could do all of these things, btw. The doctorate guy is my cousin and he's good at literally everything he does. But, the stress he put himself through to be at that level was insane. Our mom's would talk on the phone when he was at his parents' place studying for exams and stuff and you could sometimes hear him having baaaad breakdowns in the background. Awesome guy, though.) You think it's fair that Michael Phelps' feet are so big? Those feet crushed dreams, man. Anyway, I could absolutely keep going with this, but my point is that true greatness takes so much more than hopes and wishes. "Hidden Potential" is sorta just taking advantage of your own genetics... like, Michael Phelps' feet wouldn't help him engineer a car or play a saxophone, ya know?

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

@@bshpev Mate, I'm not sure if this was your intention or not, but your comment comes off as unbelievably pretentious. It also feels like you missed the entire point of what I was saying. I think that everyone has something they were meant to do, something great that can change the world in big or small ways. And it is up to us to realize that destiny. I never insinuate there was a magic unlock button. Our potentials can only be unlocked with hard work and dedication. And I never even mention hopes, dreams, or wishes. Even the greats like Micheal Phelps had to work hard to achieve his goals. (It's also not his feet size that made Phelps so great, it's other factors like his arms span, lung size, double-jointedness.) And so what if he had a disproportionately longer arm span and increased lung capacity? If he never worked hard he never would have become an olympian or even a good swimmer. I remember when he sacked off before the 2012 olympics. He wasn't training as hard and it showed in his performance. He did not get gold in several events including the 200m butterfly, his signature event. And the same can be said for sport star or genius in any field. Albert Einstein, Issac Newton, Lebron James, etc always had the potential to be be great but the had to work hard to unlock it. There are probably hundreds of people in history who have the exact same potential but never unlocked it so we never knew who they were. I really don't understand what the point of your comment was in the first place. It seems like you thought you were telling us hard truths and that we are all just avenge with no greater purpose. And you made such a long comment to tell us all this. I really don't think you understood the spirit of what I meant. You comment is just so cynical and kill-joy for no reason. And you shouldn't base conclusions about anyone's drive or ambitions based on how they react/relate to a single movie. That is unbelievably narrow-minded.

[@charlottesimss9853]

Legit though, that's the reason I love Bionicle. Some of my earliest memories include them so I've been a big fan since forever. But I'm still learning new things! There's so many new details and lore bits to learn and that's why it's so amazing. I don't think anyone could get into it now without growing up with Bionicle since it was such a phenomenon you had to be a part of, but I'm glad for how great the community has been at archiving and telling the story.

[@SwertMastra]

I'll just add: Though they are not talked about much in this community, they were absolutely pivotal in hooking fans into the lore. By making them free with the (already free) Club magazine, it helped to introduce us to something bigger than imagined, and eventually led a young kid to run an entire Wiki on the subject.

[@ganto401]

It's what hooked me, man.

[@TakumaNuva]

ohai swert

[@MrEnKaye]

o shit it's swert

[@LateNightTableCo]

MrEnKaye my thoughts exactly XD

[@bushwhacker66]

the story of BioSector1

[@godzillaking5033]

Ah yes,the sacred texts.

[@kitten2799]

Lost to time they were

[@purpleboye_]

@@kitten2799 The time before time

[@kitten2799]

Purpleboye_ on the mysterious island of Mata Nui

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

@@kitten2799 6 canisters washed ashore on the golden beach...

[@TheVirtualObserver]

I actually have like 30 volumes of the comics starting when the Bohrak were first introduced and just touching on the Piraka. :)

[@karenorellana4292]

Roses are red Narnia is a chronicle How cloning Nelson Mandela could bring back Bionicle

[@apothisiii5549]

Lol

[@nethercore9934]

My scientific curiosity has been aroused...

[@themostbritishpersonalive868]

And how exactly does one clone nelson Mandela

[@keilafleischbein59]

@@themostbritishpersonalive868 with a mask of retroactive duplication, of course...

[@themostbritishpersonalive868]

@@keilafleischbein59 *takes notes*

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

Bionicle comics were the first comics I ever read. *No Regrets.*

[@grasshopper801]

Starwars and Bionicles? Is this the most ambitious crossover event in history?

[@oom-3262]

Wait mine too. What the fuck.

[@alowlyncrranger7312]

where can I find that in the jedi library

[@justinlawrence7584]

Hello there

[@willmangrum3686]

Same here.

[@billiam]

Oh dang! Who’s that?

[@ComicDrake]

A handsome devil, that's who!

[@namkha209]

Looks like a dingus who lacks basic knowledge about Bionicle.

[@E4439Qv5]

@@namkha209 Shade thrown. ☺

[@djurran48]

@@ComicDrake happy Bionicle 20th annerversary

[@djurran48]

@@ayaanelisha7034 why would you do that? Like for real. Whats the use of hacking your friends instagram

[@emenefer]

I love it when Bionicle gets semi-mainstream attention. Edit: aND BILLIAM's hERe? My day is made.

[@TevyaSmolka]

Ahh bionicle I have so many memories of this line good times

BIONICLE was one of the true pillars of my childhood, thank you guys for making this. If reincarnation is a thing, I want to be born in a world where the Bionicle comics were even better and lived to their potential

[@ilikemovies22]

Bionicle has a better plot than Kingdom Hearts

[@DarthLego46]

And a more easily understood one, surprisingly enough.

[@ShatteredGlass916]

This is may different than Bionicle, but i always find it ironic that even Devil May Cry (both the original and the reboot that people always assume to have a terrible plot) is somehow has better story and told better than the entire KH games put together

[@horricule451]

@@ShatteredGlass916 people are going to kill me for this but I think that's largely because KH's story isn't that good

[@davechristmas7424]

Horricule no I definitely agree with you lol

[@stargazer378]

@@horricule451 I'm a massive KH fan, and yeah, I have to agree, it's not the best.

[@Animatokid]

A college professor of mine was the one who inked all the Bionicle comics! His name is Randy Elliott

[@retrozaid1600]

Cool as he Inked from 2001-2005 and did the art in 2003-2005

[@virgilbarrios3174]

Ah, I see he's a man of culture as well

[@sebastianorduzo322]

Nostalgia hits hard on this one. Dammit, Lego, next time that you reboot the franchise (again), don't screw it up next time.

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

*_WHEN ALL YOU GOTTA KEEP IT STRONG_* *_MOVE ALONG MOVE ALONG LIKE I KNOW YA DO!!!_*

[@nghoangviet2322]

AND EVEN WHEN YOUR HOPE IS GONE MOVE ALONG MOVE ALONG JUST TO MAKE IT THROUGH MOVE ALONG!!!

[@zegolath5086]

Omg why do I see you everywhere nowadays!????

[@N8-PT]

*to

[@Inkwyrm_YGO]

Oh YES!!! That's really what got me going into music. I listened to all American rejects on repeat for so long!!!.

[@nethercore9934]

Yes sir master Obi-Wan!

[@heatherpilarsky7418]

Oh, you just saved my life. I had a random line from Galidor stuck in my head but never would have remembered that name without seeing it on the cover of one of the lego magazines in this video. Thank you.

[@nirast2561]

This toyline is the reason why Fire and Ice are my favourite elements in any forms of fiction.

[@Lugbzurg]

Bionicle is the reason the main characters of an indie game I've planned to direct since I was about 13 have elemental powers.

[@Cervarius_K]

Bionicle played a pretty large part in shaping me as a person

[@ImaginatorJoren]

Unity Duty Destiny I love Bionicle! BUT WAIT YOU SHOWED AN IMAGE OF GALIDOR!!? Dude I had McDonald’s toys of that which came with the first Comics I ever read in my life!!

[@lewaproductions]

Bionicle was my childhood. I made so many stories with my own MOCs that built into the original story and bridges the gap between Bionicle and Hero Factory. Also Lewa best Toa. Don’t @ me

[@blinkachu05]

My childhood was NINJA, GOO! I also remember the first wave of LEGO superheroes line. And the builable figs. Those were cool. Edit: Also, do you remember that Make Your Own Hero thing from the OG Lego Hero Factory Section. I do.

[@crimsonhunter7598]

Do you mean Lewa or Lewa Nuva? I have Lewa Nuva

[@lewaproductions]

Crimson Hunter They’re the same guy.

[@crimsonhunter7598]

@@lewaproductions yes i know but one is the first version and the second is the evolved version

[@lewaproductions]

Crimson Hunter I’m talking about the character, not the figure. The difference between the figures anyway is just the mask and the abs; they’re basically the same thing.

[@MediumDSpeaks]

Billiam and Comic Drake in the *SAME VIDEO* ? What is this, a _CROSSOVER EPISODE?_

[@crimsonhunter7598]

Most ambitious crossover

[@nolanmcbride5653]

I miss that series

[@danklord2287]

* Sienfield outro plays *

[@munjee2]

Crossover episode means something different ton this channel

[@josefmounirbenegas2825]

A BOJACK HORSEMAN REFERENCE IN A BIONICLE VIDEO,WHAT IS THIS,A CROSSOVER EPISODE?

[@sean.a.s7234]

Bionicles, you mean *BONKLES*

[@justadude3659]

We bionicle Fans are dedicated to keeping the franchise alive, even recently a build of a bionicle game that was supposedly canceled and scrapped was found and I believe also got uplaoded in BioMedia Project, It lived in the time before time, and continues in the time AFTER time ....ok that last one was lame

[@kc_9970]

*uploaded

[@polaris_draws]

You can actually buy the comic in trade paperback form trough Papercutz, which is how I was exposed to these comics, but I'm certain that those are now out of print. On the note of the comics being more stand alone, some of the later collections had original stories not released trough LEGO club magazine. And there were plans for one of them to be produced as a graphic novel and focus on a part of the Bionicle story that was over looked. This was canceled due to the same reason that said plot point was overlooked, the cancellation of Bionicle G1. I say G1 because LEGO gave Bionicle a reboot in 2015, know in the fandom as G2, which had it's own comics, released in graphic novel format, and later serialized in a Bionicle magazine that I think was only released in Europe, and was released close to the cancellation of G2 in 2016. It was so close I think there's only one issue ever published. Just wanted to include some things I knew about Bionicle and comics that fill in some holes in this video. But this was very interesting Drake, fantastic job.

[@Timtam9000]

Ahh my Bionicle Memories, to bad Lego messed up Generation 2

[@crimsonhunter7598]

Do you mean nuva?

[@retrozaid1600]

Crimson Hunter this comment show how much people have never heard of or forgotten Bionicle G2

[@chilliciouspatrioticmeatlover]

I really liked the reboot of Bionicle.......at first. Now, I dont.

[@retrozaid1600]

Comic book/Yugioh/life entertainer magarine yeah Bionicle G2 is the MVCI Of Lego as it had a good base but everything around it was mediocre

[@chilliciouspatrioticmeatlover]

@@retrozaid1600 I agree with you. It lost their mojo

[@Matteo_the_Plague_Doctor]

That was rad! I'm a day 1 Bionicle fan, and I still build with them today as an artist. My Icon is even a Bionicle character I made. Bionicle captured the heart of a generation of kids, and when it ended in 2010, some of us just couldn't move on, and we kept the fandom alive. Our loyalty got rewarded briefly in 2015, with a short lived reboot, but just as fast as it came, it left. That introduced Bionicle to a younger generation to. So now there's us 20-30something year olds, and the 15-20 year olds all enjoying some facet of Bionicle to this day. Thanks so much for talking about my favorite IP in existence, and exposing more people to it. :D

[@moonknightslair8498]

Damn, as a kid I always wanted my parents to buy me Bionicle toys. For some reason I had a weird craving to combine the Biolnicle heroes into a super-bionicle despite actually never having the toys in my posession

[@richardcheese4680]

Yeah I remember loving this stuff. Buying them was kind of a big event for me and my friend who I played with.

[@EtchJetty]

Oh my god I'm so happy I was able to help with this video! Drake uses my joke a minute or two in. Join Drake's Discord server to help him make stuff!!!!

[@ComicDrake]

It was a great joke! Seriously, having Billy bust in with "Did somebody say the late 90s and/or early 2000s?!" is an amazing entrance for him. Thank you so much!

[@thekrakenexperiment280]

I was never a fan of Bionicle when I was a kid, but I actually still own a bunch of Bionicle comics thanks to my Lego Magazine subscription. Now I wonder if they're worth anything.

[@harry9828]

The Kraken Experiment they’re not. It’s still cool though

[@DrMadd]

Thankfully over time Lego eventually settled on using the novels as the primary way of delivering the story. I still go back to them every once in a while for some nostalgia.

[@PandaJohn71]

I had a ton of the Bionicles comics from my childhood and until a few years ago I had a ton of the sets...til I gave them to my best friend for his birthday who was still building and playing his own.

[@elemomnialpha]

Bionicle's were my gateway drug to gunplay and playmo I still need more Bionicle's tho

[@ToaGresh300]

Jeez when it comes to relevancy, this is Bionicle’s time to shine alright.

[@JacobYaw]

I actually loved the piecemeal storytelling. It gave a window into the story and world, leaving you to fill in the gaps with your toys at home.

[@winterbreezesrule9583]

Billiam AND ComicDrake? Oh, I'm excited, especially as a recent ComicDrake fan.

[@sathu8317]

cool dude also DiamondBolt (really good channel, should check him out)

[@DylanScottDavis]

I'm the reverse! I'm a recent Billiam fan so seeing these two together is great!

[@lord_coatrack3755]

12:43 hold up, your local LEGO store still has g1 Bionicles?!! GIVE ME THE EXACT ADRESS OF THIS STORE NOW.

[@Cook-by-the-book]

Argh! That thumbnail. You predicted the future!

[@Robbobobobobobo]

Great video! Cool that he mentioned the transformers comics. They truly are a world of their own

[@legodemonrockstar]

I'm here cause the goddamn thumbnail predicted the future

[@nashwaan2956]

dude, you predicted small, googly eyed Tahu

[@stijnvandevyver7958]

I freaking loved bionicles as a kid. I still own some of them.

[@CesarTheKingVA]

I remember getting the Lego Magazine just so I could get the comics inside every month

[@LDtheBrachio]

"LEGO ISLAND CLIP AT THE BEGINNING MADE ME HAPPY INSIDE!"

[@kalebpinkston3495]

I’ve been seeing alote of bionical love lately. Good to see it’s not dead. Anyone else agree?

[@HandmadeGoose97]

I loved the weird fish hybrid Bionicle line of toys, those things were creepy as hell and I loved them.

[@kc_9970]

They're the Barraki. What did you expect?

[@HandmadeGoose97]

@@kc_9970 I forgot what they were called thanks!

[@retrozaid1600]

Ah Bionicle, a series I held close as I loved the collecting the sets and learning about the story and great characters such as Vakama, Takanuva and Matoro. I always felt the comic were at its best during the 2006-2008 saga Called “Ignition” which had many great stories and I do agree that the story can get convoluted at times(Toa Tuyet) but I still greatly enjoy the story as it is

[@chilliciouspatrioticmeatlover]

Wasnt Toa Tuyet just an alternate form of Takanuva from another universe

[@retrozaid1600]

Comic book/Yugioh/life entertainer magarine no She was a Toa apart of Toa Lhikans team that was evil and was thought to be dead in the pit but she went to a dimension(Not Toa empire)where no one lives but is released after Teridax took over the Mata Nui robot

[@ManiacX1999]

Remember Hero Factory? Neither do I...

[@5BBassist4Christ]

I practically had the Bionicle comics memorized as a kid (never cared for comics either), and I re-enacted them with my own toys on a daily basis. I'm glad my mom found my Legos after I graduated college. Now Kopaka (my favorite Toa) is set up on my desk.

[@KoWahiKit]

I’ve been rereading the Bionicle story and I was surprised by how little information was in the comics. As a kid I remember them all making coherent sense and connecting with what I knew. I think the reason this strange multimedia thing worked at the time was because of the release schedule. You would comb the website every day, looking for pages you hadn’t seen. When the books came out you’d devour them as fast as possible, and then by the time the comic released you were ready for that tantalizing hint of what was coming next. I think in hindsight the distribution of story was frankly masterfully done, though the delicate dance of feeding story tidbits started to fall apart towards the end when old fans were leaving and new fans had eight years of errata to dig through in order to understand what was happening.

[@evasiveupgrade]

other than you drawing out the last syllable of each sentence this was a great video! keep up the great work!

[@ComicDrake]

That's how I talk.

[@evasiveupgrade]

@@ComicDrake sorry about that, I realized it came off as rude though I did not intend for it to, my first language is German so I guess I'm just used to short and concise statements, English is hard in its general state so I am sorry for it coming across as rude.

[@ComicDrake]

Totally get that. Mein Deutsch sprechen is nicht sehr gut.

[@jacoblyman9441]

8:30 Well... this explains how I became such a geek. I was one of those kids who consumed all the new Bionicle media when it came out in order. I kind of forgot the comics skipped around so much until you mentioned it in the review because as a kid I had gotten the whole story via also reading the ancillary sources. It wasn't really until about 2007 when I stopped following all the side story bits, but by then the comic seemed to be a lot more streamlined and focused than the earlier years were and it was possible to get 90% of the story just via that (except in 2009 were there was a skip due to the film released at the time).

[@kitten2799]

They were sold as regular issues in sweden. And thank you for this, it’s nice seeing people outside the fandome talking about Bionicle.

[@TheHouinMark]

I actually remember a water park in Colorado called water world was giving these issues out one day, I was lucky enough to be there when that was happening. I remember that one issue became the reason I would beg my mom to buy me the comics whenever she could. Bionicle was one of the early series of comics I got into along with the Archie Sonic, Scooby Doo, Batman, Spider Man, Venom and Nightwing

[@foreignwun8585]

Bionicle is one of those things that leaves such a mark and has such a dedicated and Beneficial fan base that it may never truly be gone.

[@dragonsswarm1987]

My family had a VHS for the Bionicle mask of light movie. But we lost it a long time ago.

[@nolanmcbride5653]

Hey look I’m in the video! I got into Bionicle at right at the end of Toa Nui arc (the last comic of that arc was my first Bionicle comic and Bionicle was the first comic series I really collected.) I remember simultaneously loving the comics and being completely lost about the lore when I first go started. I eventually tracked down the books in my school library and on Amazon and looked up the wiki to figure out what I was going on and catch up. I had to keep using the wiki to follow the lore when I only had the comics. When I started seriously collecting comic years later I tracked down all the issues I still have.

[@mattheussaenz5363]

Oh boi the thumbnail aged like fine wine

[@MediaFREAKED]

Oh god, I actually read these! I kept a subscription to the magazine just to read it and kept most of them for years. This is so cool to see people talking about it!

[@CatManThree]

The weird and dumb shit is mostly just the original toa mata runs honestly. Starting from the Ignition story lines, the art became absolutely gorgeous in a mew oil painting-like style and the story became less stupid. Like, stuff happening off panel doesn't happen anymore. Also the advertising in them was always limited at this point to 2 or 3 pages and at times these "ads" would serve the point explaining background info on a character or either teasing or announcing new character. Seriously Drake: read the "Ignition" archs.

[@Psydekick00]

There were a bunch of collected editions released by Papercutz. My younger brother has some of them

[@pheonixfireblazer]

When I was younger, Bionicle was one of those things that wasn't really very popular among kids but adults seemed to think was still a massive thing so I ended up getting a couple for birthdays or Christmases. Me and my friends thought they were cool but didn't care too much about them. It's interesting to see this from somebody who genuinely loved them.

[@tuchenciotuch3976]

I live in Mexico and it was distributed like a normal comic book series in a small stand at a mall. Such great memories.

[@lukestarkiller441]

God I remember Growing up with Bionicle. I remember having a lot of the early figures, as well as the Books & Mask of Light movie, and even a few of the comics.

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

I grew up with Bionicle. I remember the start, and just how interesting the lore and everything was. But I also remember how the lore got more and more convoluted as time went on. That was its inherent flaw. They had some interesting story concepts, but as a toy company they kept having to release new toys and then had to write some kind of story around it, just to keep kids interested in the property. Bionicle started out with an innovative story. The innovation served that story. It ended up with a story written to serve the constant need for innovation. And though it was already slightly convoluted (though still good) before that happened, once the franchise had fully switched over, there was just no stopping the rampant convolution.

[@deez1883]

How was it convoluting?

[@djurran48]

Welp and this JUST before TTV Channels fanfilm: Biocraft: Chronicles was uploaded

[@averagefilmbro]

A while ago my family was looking for a house. One of the houses we were touring was owned by a dude who worked for Lego. He was a distributor or something, I don't remember. Anyway we were looking at this house and we walk into a room with SHELVES FULL OF BIONICLES. There were boxes full of every bionicle ever made. And mind you this was when Lego was really pushing Hero Factory so this was. Insane.

[@williamdragon9415]

From a fan and community standpoint, the comics were notorious for being inconsistent from 2001-2006. Sometimes they told the full story and sometimes they didn't. In 2001 they were supplementary, while in 2002 they told the main story. They continued to flip-flop until 2006 when the story telling stabilized. After 2006 the comics told the main story, while the books told the same story in more depth. 2002 was actually the best time for Bionicle in both sales and story, and showed what the comics really could have been. The 2002 comics told the main story from the perspective of the heroes, while online animations told the same story from the perspective of the villagers. Both had complete story lines that overlapped, adding a great deal of depth. Wonderful video. I'm really glad you did one on Bionicle. If you really want to collect some old Bionicles, I'd be happy to send you a few.

[@kohakkanuva3224]

the fact that you managed to almost make a onua mata.... is respectable. Sure it's terribly inaccurate but for what it is... that is the most dedicated thing I've seen a person do. Good job, Comic Drake.

[@Ussurin]

I don't agree with that Bionicle should be single-media story. It maybe isn't so obvious now with the handsight of whole story, but one of the main hooks into story was the mistery behind it all. You got this toys with strange names and you want to know. Soemtimes you got a CD with them, but it got only small bits of info. So you went online and checked-out the Bionicle site and played Mata Nui Online Game, which also contained only like bits of info, but you started putting the story toghether. You followed the crumbs of story and it was a great journey, where discussion with other fans, especially in later years, when old Bioncile sites were pulled down and new created was a huge deal and another hook, where people were discussing what story elements they manged to uncover. Story was great, but the main part of it being so enjoyable while it's release was that it was episodic storytelling in a form of "story hunt". I loved that I had to go through all media to get all the info, not just book series or comics. Buying different toys from your friends just to get different dvds and ge whole story was also great, even if it may doesn't look it right now. It created community around the series in a really organic way. I wouldn't want it any other way.

[@tahunuva4254]

*THIS.* As someone who only got into Bionicle around 2008, trawling old Wayback machine pages to figure out the lore was what got me hooked (after the online comics, that is). Bionicle was like a kind of Alternate Reality Game, but way more accessible. Even the collectible aspect of the early sets echoed this: you were on a massive scavenger hunt with your friends to collect as many Kanohi as you could! It's a genius marketing strategy, and I'd argue that figuring out the story is still as fun today as it was back in 2008.

[@LukeTheSketcher]

Piecing the story together is like building a set. The experience of figuring it all out is the fun part.

[@tjtheentertainer9376]

I remembered my oldest brother would bring me and my other brother Bionicle comics for us when we were younger. I always found them confusing, but enjoyable nonetheless! It helped me explore the realm of Bionicle outside of the movies and figures

[@rocksaltzwidaz3411]

The lore was actually surprisingly dark. I remember one arc about a dimension traveling evil toa, who eventually is stopped by getting cut in half trying to go through one of her portals.

[@E4439Qv5]

Tuyet. I remember her.

[@ajhigginscomposer]

*Mata Nui Online Game, no "The" in the title.

[@averytherockgod9822]

I actually owned a Ninjago comic back in like 2012 and on the back it had an ad for Bionicle’s comics, a series I was also a fan of, showing volunes of all the comics in the series for sale. So yeah, u definitely could get em as standard comics

[@ToaVentron]

How to fix the dceu: make bionicle movies.

[@TheRedDemonZero]

Ah memories. The comics are actually how I found out about Bionicle before they came out - I remember reading it and being so excited for them to come out

[@gamerthehoopa]

It’s been forever dude. Nice to see you again.

[@ComicDrake]

I didn't go anywhere?

[@gamerthehoopa]

I know it’s just that it seemed that your channel was wiped off the face of the earth. Took me 4 years to find this channel again.

[@SQGReviewShow]

Dude! These were the first comic books i ever read! A friend in grade school didn't care for Bionicle yet loved Lego magazine so he gave me his Bionicle comics and while they were weird, so was i so i loved it.

[@TechnicalJimActual]

I think it's safe to assume that more people got Bionicle comics for free with their Lego magazine subscriptions than they actually paid for them. I never missed an issue of that magazine & ended up getting every single Bionicle comic (& yet I was still missing stuff like that Matoran Nui mini-comic.)

[@RaiJolt2]

Bionicle..... Finally some more reconishion!

[@Iwatoda_Dorm]

Wtf, this video didn't pop up in my sub feed... I'm four days late?! Welp, time to hit that bell. Bah, seriously though I was eagerly waiting on this video. Glad I didn't fully miss it!

[@blue1111111100]

Thought this was a billiam video, was about to click away but then he talked good of my man, so now I’m still here

[@LuckyCrust]

Haven't thought about the Roboriders since I was a small child. I had them too.... wow... thanks for unlocking an awesome memory from my brain that I haven't thought about in about 20 years.

[@RayramAureanBlue]

Music at 2:22 "I bore you, for I am nothing. And it is from nothing, you came. And it is into nothing that you will go. I stand by Mata Nui, side by side. I am his brother. The people of this world are builders, but look into their hearts ... and you will see that they have the power to destroy. I am that power. I am destruction. And I WILL destroy _you_ ."

[@pineapples1751]

The thumbnail... they predicted tahu's redesign!

[@roberte.o.speedwagon6043]

"There are a thousand ways I could destroy you right now and 941 of them hurt." - _Teridax, Time Trap, some-fuckin-year_

[@mislavgrosinic5584]

"Federation of fear " is the best bionicle story

[@StudioNama]

Man, I get a nostalgia trip, now all I see is Bionicle. I dig it.

[@MarcSteen]

I bought multiple issues in my younger years from a local convenience store that had a few comics. They weren't bundled with anything, just sold individually. This was in Denmark though.

[@munchrai6396]

The Bionicle comics do get a lot less jumpy after entering Metru Nui. Even then, there are huge jumps between arcs and this really only stops when the get to Voya Nui where only a large chunk of the character's origins and a few fights with the Mask of Life Guardians are left out. Mahri Nui is probably the most consistent, containing every event that happened in that arch that wouldn't contradict the lack of information of the previous comics. Despite the fact that it still leaves out the first transition chapters

[@diegoalejandro6784]

the last thing I remember was that On a comic there were two bionicles (green and white , cant remember their names tho) aruguing about that you only live once , they were on Bike Ships thingys

[@TSOWizard]

This was one of the most nostalgia-inducing things I've seen in a long time.

[@goofmuffin]

The comics were certainly sold here (Finland) in just regular shops on their own, that's how i got all the copies i owned (and propably still have somewhere)

[@ironclaw3000user]

it's been canceled twice, and yet lots of random Bonkle vids keep popping up out of nowhere from the most unlikely of places. (kinda like how they popped in many none-lego tv shows) it's a nice surprise to encounter.

[@DoomPickle490]

I’ll admit, I never saw Bionicle. But what I was obsessed was with was Hero factory. (Along with Ninjago) and I 100% believe it would’ve never existed without Bionicle. It also had figures and comics

[@toalesovikk7168]

You can get these comics from Papercut Z. They're not the original comics that you use to get with the Lego club magazines but it's the same thing in a different form.

[@biosonic100]

In addition: Transformers have the luxury to have fans of JUST the comics, or JUST the toys, or JUST the movies. Bionicle was designed to be enjoyed in its ENTIRETY. You can’t be just a fan of the books, or the comics, or the toys. In order to be a Bionicle fan, it is required to take it ALL on as a whole. This was its biggest strength and it’s biggest weakness. You get a series, story, and toy that was rich, deep, and high quality, and the cost of needing everything to understand it all.

[@crimsonhunter7598]

Yeah

[@rivengle]

Thank god for Bs01 wiki.

[@jokmok56]

nice video and blast from the past. I was also a huge bionicle nerd but since i had a kid brother we divided them color wise in between us so Green,blue and white for me ahh good times. just wanted to say that over here in sweden the comic was sold in stores. Keep the good work up and cheers .

[@LiamRproductions]

This was great!

[@BlackBloodCombatClub]

The background music gave me flashbacks of being in the Black Cat on VRChat

[@Darklordiban7]

I'm pretty sure that I remember mini-comics being included in the first few original products - From the Toa to the Rakshi, at the least.

[@metacat3106]

Still have some of the comics stored away, as well as the Bionicles themselves. Good to know there's a way to fill in the blanks for the copies I don't have.

[@nicholasszabo5954]

I actually have several bionicle comics still for some reason