The Bionicle Comics Were Weird (ft. Billiam)

Bionicle was weird, but their comics? DC Comics made them so why are they so ignored?!
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Tags: #Bionicle #Comics #Lego

[@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. :)

[@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.

[@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*

[@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

[@localdude2979]

the story of BioSector1

[@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.

[@emenefer]

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

[@Primordial_Radiance]

The books have the most info and don't really skip around. Sometimes the canon gets weird when the movies take place but its the books that are the bulk of the series.

[@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

[@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

[@kj9004]

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!

[@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.

[@TevyaSmolka]

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

[@nirast2561]

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

[@lugbzurg8987]

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

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

[@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.

[@higgsbonbon]

Big part of that is not assuming kids don't like deep lore. The intricacies of Bionicle are precisely why I obsessed over it as a kid.

[@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!!

[@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.

[@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?

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@lord_coatrack3755]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@elemomnialpha]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@richardcheese4680]

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

[@ToaGresh300]

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

[@tedcruzforgayrights2045]

This is the crossover I didn’t know I wanted

[@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.

[@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!

[@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!

[@stijnvandevyver7958]

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

[@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.

[@CesarTheKingVA]

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

[@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.

[@TheLostAge]

I can't belive I missed this collab! I love both of your channels! I hope you can find another relevant topic for both of you so you can make another collab in the future, this one was a blast!

[@firepuppy1ofrandom]

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

[@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

[@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!

[@kalebpinkston3495]

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

[@ManiacX1999]

Remember Hero Factory? Neither do I...

[@ajhigginscomposer]

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

[@Robbobobobobobo]

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

[@LDtheBrachio]

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

[@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.

[@djurran48]

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

[@fanb1536]

Dude, did you really have to spoil the part about Mata Nui? Like yes we knew ever since the beginning of the story that Mata Nui was the Great Spirit and Makuta was his jealous brother, but we never found out the TRUTH about Mata Nui's identity until literally the climax of the entire line in 2009. You don't just LEAD with that kind of trivia, ffs. It was this HUGE reveal that flipped the ENTIRE story on its head and made you think about it differently; come on.

[@ozgurfratboz6770]

Dude the franchise ended a decade ago, everyone knows Mata Nui is a giant robot.

[@fanb1536]

@@ozgurfratboz6770 *everybody who actually gave a shit about Bionicle and followed it through to the end knows. Bionicle is by no means mainstream enough to say that "everybody knows". The majority of people who ever liked Bionicle just like their red robot toy and that's the extent of what they know. Bionicle's story is one of the most niche things out there, so since this is a video meant to be made BY newcomers FOR newcomers, then yes, it's a big goddamn spoiler.

[@ozgurfratboz6770]

@@fanb1536 By everyone, I meant everyone who gave a shit about bionicle. I too would be mad at him if he spoiled that information 10 years ago. But a decade has passed, that's considered _"oh now i can accidentally or intentionally give spoilers without being called names by internet people"_ The thing I'm trying to say is that you can't talk about something forever without giving spoilers. After some time of waiting, it's ok to give spoilers. Even though I don't agree with your opinion on giving spoilers, I do respect it. Good day/night, sir/ma'am

[@SonofSethoitae]

Everybody who cares already knows, and nobody who doesn't know cares.

[@nicholasszabo5954]

I actually have several bionicle comics still for some reason

[@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

[@dragonsswarm1987]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@RaiJolt2]

Bionicle..... Finally some more reconishion!

[@gafeleon9032]

So that's why I never understood the story, now it makes perfect sense No, it still doesn't

[@Official_Anonymous]

Yeah, it’s definitely a confusing lore for a toyline. I recommend reading the pages on various wikis, they kinda act like summaries or excerpts that do a great job of explaining each various topic.

[@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.

[@alexanderroberts9373]

How to fix the dceu: make bionicle movies.

[@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.

[@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).

[@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.

[@KaibaTheKing]

I had a few of the single issues and the first volume, they used to distribute them in a membership and at the kids section of barnes and noble

[@ytchip21]

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.

[@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.

[@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

[@SoulX81201]

Argh! That thumbnail. You predicted the future!

[@TSOWizard]

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

[@TheJege12]

Oh woah I.... must've had a lot of these issues as a kid cuz I recognized almost all of the panels from the first nine issues shown here! Wonder if they're still around somewhere in my apartment...

[@nick-playercharacter8583]

Oh, that music! I owned the Bionicle CD back in the day and that track was a blast from the past.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@andruekeyser8174]

Been super excited for this video

[@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 .

[@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.

[@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.

[@AnnLiesArtist]

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.

[@TheVrevolution]

I loved the bionicle comics the were my first comics i ever read or owned, and now remembering they were made by DC Makes me wonder what if the Anti-monitor show's up in there universe?

[@mattheussaenz5363]

Oh boi the thumbnail aged like fine wine

[@BlackBloodCombatClub]

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

[@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.

[@TheCreepypro]

I was too old to get into Bionicle but I always knew about it and it was fun to learn about it here a great video and collaboration

[@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.

[@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.

[@chilliciouspatrioticmeatlover]

I remembered that I was a big fan of Bionicle. I was a huge huge fan of Bionicle and I remember getting everything related to Bionicle. I remember getting all the comic books of all the different Heroes and I remembered reading them until the death of Mata Nui. I also remembered that when I was little when I would use to get all of the comic books, my mom would always trash them away because she couldn't stand when I would have my room in a pigsty. I remembered always aaking her to not trash those comics away, but she did because she wanted to. I think what she was doing was she thought that comic books were something that could just be chucked away in the trash and be forgotten like garbage. I remember every time she would do that I would be very pissed and angry at her for doing that. I am glad I still haven't trashed any of my Comics away because I would never do that. I guess you could say I am a comic book hoarder for DC comics.

[@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.

[@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

[@TamTroll]

Ahh bionicle. still have all the toys i ever got for it. Got ahold of most of the books, not sure where they are though, and i was never able to track down the comics. i really wanted too as i was finding huge gaps in the lore (such as "how did the six matorons from Mata Nui become underwater toa?" ) and only explanation for what was happening that i ever got was "it's in the comics", which as you stated, were incredibly hard (impossible for teenage-me) to track down.

[@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

[@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

[@darthpaul99]

My brother was really into these when he was younger. I thought they were cool too, but too old for them myself at the time. I remember him getting that magazine and those comics too. Didn’t keep any of them. I do know that he still has his figures though.

[@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.

[@ShadowWingTronix]

I picked up the first volume of the Bionicle comic reprints by Papercutz and was wondering why the story jumped around. And now I know. I own one figure and I like it and I saw the first three movies and liked...the first two but I was never heavy into the lore. I saw the website a few times and that was it. I feel informed now.

[@vawnjour]

Watched this a long time ago, but don't remember anything. Definite to in need of a rewatch.

[@TheGamingBDGR]

I remember the TV commercial for the second or third line of toys that had All American rejects to be the theme song. Also that time I outbid a dude for the mask of time on Ebay for $30... I love the 2000s.

[@LocalTorchwoodIntern]

Omg I had one of the chapter books!!!! I vaguely remember them but I always wanted more of them