Which Bionicle was your first? (Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson Parody)

[@DaveSkylark111]

“Once I got my hands on a bionicle….” A life defining moment.

[@sadface7457]

For us all.

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Agreed, everything changed once we got a Bionicle. It was our destiny to open the canister and assemble our own heroes.

[@conorharris2451]

“They turned me down at first but they saw I was about to cry so the lady working there made an exception for me” hahahaha love it!

[@AlphaChadBricks]

I love that part too, it's so absurd, but kinda sweet, like he is a sensitive child.

[@conorharris2451]

@@AlphaChadBricks for sure lol but I think some McDonald’s do let you exchange happy meal toys

[@RyanChenMusic]

Can I just say I look forward to all of these. It’s oddly more captivating to learn about Bionicle lore than some of the official media!

[@johnwalker1058]

I feel like sometimes, the best way to learn about the lore of something is to simply engage in or witness a conversation between multiple people who all share a passion about the thing.

[@dragoon1090]

I love how Jordan talks about when he was the young age of 38.

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Yeah I love that, it's totally absurd.

[@billymanziel5666]

I actually busted up laughing at that part

[@Jefferu_Nintendomoto]

Joe Rogan going to McDonald's and getting into Bionicles in his thirties

[@squishybuspr]

“…And immediately wanted to learn more.” 😂😂😂

[@Monarth]

My first Bionicle was Onua. We were on a family trip in Finland's largest village shop, and in there I spotted for the first time one of those cardboard shelves full of Toa Mata canisters. Immediately fell in love with Onua's design and essentially cried until my parents bought it for me (I was 7 at the time I think).

[@Dunge0n]

Mine too! I was torn between him and Kopaka. His claws, hunched-over body and mask won me over, though.

[@ToineWehrens]

And with 7 I shall assume 37. Very fair of your parents to gift it to you, that must have been life-changing.

[@Monarth]

@@ToineWehrens Just turned 29 actually, I'd rather not be rudely indicted as a man-baby. Life changing? Perhaps. I don't know if anyone can relate, but Bionicle was one of the only things that gave me a certain spine-crawling sensation every time I saw new sets. Bionicle did form a major part of my childhood, as well as adulthood to an extent, as I still like to build as a hobby.

[@ChaplainJoshua]

Onua was the first one I got too! Good times, man

[@koa555kovacsandras5]

Same for me, I was 7 or 8

[@ABW941]

This is extremly funny. Talking about Bionicle, like getting them is a spiritual experience.

[@AlphaChadBricks]

It really is a spiritual experience :D

[@xdress1746]

3:50 Nothing will ever be funnier than having them imply how young they were, immediately followed by them stating their actual age at the time. Simplicity at it's finest.

[@Wafercat]

"yes and they were damn good at throwing those discs like it was their god given right to do so" hahaha. Great writing

[@squishybuspr]

Rogan X Peterson Bionicle Videos are GOD TIER!!! 🤌🏼🥫

[@1911odisea]

My first Bionicles were the Toa Nuva. I've had 3 of them in the following order: Pohatu, Onua and Tahu. You could combine them into one giant mech, which was really cool. To this day, they're my favourite designs.

[@artyomalekseev1224]

I love how everyone shares their stories in the comments. So peacefully and without arguing about ideologies and the current state of society

[@AlphaChadBricks]

I like that too, so far all the comments have been super! This is a chill place

[@EnigmaGameMaster]

@@AlphaChadBricks This is why I've always been deathly afraid of YT removing the comments section, even back when it was mostly toxic, it had gems spread throughout!

[@frishdaw]

Man this really brings me back. That flash game was wild

[@AlphaChadBricks]

I never got to try any of those games, but they look pretty cool! I would probably like to try them all at some point.

[@Vissybabii]

​@Nick's Incredible Bricks bruh... the flash games tied so much of the story together! You gotta find'em!

[@helpIthinkmylegsaregone]

I remember there was a small, independent toy store in my area. The woman owning it was the wife of a local police officer and I went to elementary with her daughter, and she would always laugh and greet me when I already walked in while my mom was still out shopping to look at the bionicle sets. I was just totally obsessed with Bionicle. I had completely forgotten all those memories until I found this channel.

[@thescarecrrow282]

These are my favourite sub genre of video on KZbin right now

[@bagman4896]

Dude you made this very funny but now its tugging on my childhood heart strings

[@Countcomfortable]

I never got the original Bionicle sets, so I had to wait until 2015 to get my first sets. They were, Narmoto: Protector of Fire, and Kivoda: Protector of Water. Later on, some of my family managed to get an In-Box Matau for me, and it’s one of my favourite sets I have

[@DarthCool99]

I remember that day like it was yesterday. I was quite young, 6 or 7, and I ran into a cardboard Tahu standee. It was so cool, I stared deeply into the artwork on the packaging for what felt like 30 minutes, and I settled on Gali, because blue was my favorite colour.

[@rytlocknroll]

This is how the world will revive the Bionicle community.

[@mowe4156]

My first was Toa Gali when I was about 5. Good old times. The release of each new gen was more hype than a new game console release is nowadays. Its quite fun to watch these videos and remember all the bionicle that i forgot over the years.

[@andyparkinson1996]

2:31 - Jordans arms spreading in surprise and shouting WOW is a fucking work of art, that caught me so off guard

[@johnwalker1058]

I remember when I had friends who collected Bionicle sets. They had the Toa Metru and the dark hunter sets. I was so fascinated by them and thought they were awesome. This was around me being 5 years old. Apparently, my parents took notice or that led to me begging them (I don't quite remember which as my memory is pretty fuzzy around my 4-6 years). When I turned six, my parents got me three Bionicles for my birthday. They were Toa Metru Nuju and Toa Metru Onewa and Vahki Vorzakh. My dad helped me put them together and I absolutely cherished them. I even sometimes slept with their canisters like how a child might typically sleep with a stuffed animal in such fashion.

[@AlphaChadBricks]

That's awesome that you slept with them! That's actually a pretty good idea

[@johnwalker1058]

@@AlphaChadBricks Thanks. I think it was my way of keeping them safe or something. I think it was also because I just absolutely loved the art on the containers and thought they looked so cool, so I had them where I would see them often.

[@BlackOtter9]

Lewa mata was my first. I was super lucky to experience the entirety of G1 as I grew up, got my first one when I was 3 or 4. Bionicle became an integral part of my childhood, no joke. I have this sweet memory of my grandpa asking me stealthily for a set number and winking so that my parents wouldn't notice, then the next time I was visiting grandparent's house, lo and behold, a canister was sitting there on the table in the guest room. I got so invested in the story and characters, that they took a permanent spot next to franchises like Star Wars. Then of course I got older, never lost interest but "grew out" out of playing with the sets, so I just followed the story until it ended. I was a teenager and somehow still felt devastated that the story was over, felt like an official "end" of my childhood. Now I'm and adult with way more responsibilities and a 9-5 job, but whenever I'm visiting my parents' house, I open my big ol' box and look at all the core memories I've gathered, sitting there just the way I left them. And I'm unreasonably happy every time I do that.

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Nice man! I don't have any of my original childhood Bionicles, but I'm building up my collection from scratch! It's funny, I got a rare Rahi set a few months ago, before I was into Bionicle, and sold it to someone!! Now I probably would have kept it for myself! I have all 6 Toa, all 6 McToran, and almost all the Turaga. I have most of the 2001 sets so far!

[@MisterAnonymous1000]

I believe I first picked a Rahkshi when I was like 3 or 4. I remember playing with Turahk when I was that age. Shortly after they were gone from local store, I found Panrahk in some old toy store in the big city. I later started picking up the Metru Nui line of BIONICLE's and I had fun with those, but my heart yearned for a complete set of the Rahkshi.

[@SethAbercromby]

Rahkshi looked great for the time, and imo still look a lot cooler than many of the later enemy designs. The hunched-back reptile aesthetic gives them such a great menacing look.

[@SolarFlareAmerica]

Panrahk was the ONLY ONE I never ended up getting sadly. The red one (Turahk, yeah?) was always my favourite, to a ridiculous degree. I wrote a headcanon about him lol.

[@SolarFlareAmerica]

@@SethAbercromby the mask must be made of titanium for how much it carries XD. Such a cool mask design, universally cool.

[@CorvusCorps]

As a kid who participated in the Bionicle craze and went to Legoland to get my neon green mask. This is how I imagine I would talk about Bionicle it I still had the youthful spirit of passion.

[@elliothill3953]

My first Bionicle was the Visorak Keelerak. Got him for my 6th birthday and just remember how much fun it was to put an action figure together, the color scheme was beautiful as well. definitely spent a lot of hours in my backyard having adventures with Keelerak.

[@SSJNSSJNSSJNSSJN]

Yeah these videos are going straight into my “always watch these forever” playlist. Keep it up these are great!

[@Yan_Alkovic]

Mine was the Green Rahkshi. I assembled it at a restaurant with my parents sitting across me, somewhat perplexed.

[@ManOfSdeel]

Your videos occupy a special place in the comedy sphere. My buddies and I smoke cigarettes and watch them and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh

[@philburdell9235]

CHYA DUDE

[@Nightmare-eo4io]

The thing I really enjoy is how they talk about the bionicle as if they were children and then immediately juxtapose it with their actual age lol

[@niki_mafioso39]

My very first Bionicle was Pohatu. Good times.

[@JEBEDIAH8D]

we need an animated series based on all bioncles lore

[@wizajn]

My first was Kopaka when I was like 7. It was the coolest LEGO set I had at a time but I got it right at the end of the line. Later I got 3 Rahkshi models but that was also a time when my little brother grew to the "I destroy every toy" faze. All my toys suffered including the bionicles and I was so scared that I didint want any more sets so they wouldnt be destroyed.

[@fosterbennington6405]

My Fenrakk suffered from the same affliction, I guarded them all very closely from then on

[@Wingspand1]

I always wanted a Bionicale but parents never got me one cause they were afraid I was going to lose the pieces, or at least that is what they told me. Best friend at that time had quiet a few so I played with them alot but never took them apart cause didn't want to ruin my friends hard work.

[@CallanLoF]

Been enjoying these from afar, had to comment on my cameo! It really is a coming of age ritual, as I have been collecting every BIONICLE set. ;)

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Thanks for watching and commenting! Your channel has some really cool stuff. Thanks for stopping by!

[@numbnuts1247]

I think it's wild how I wasn't even born when the Toa Mata came out, I got my first two from my aunt when I was 6 - Krika and Tahu from the Mistika line but they came with a little booklet telling the story so far and I always loved the design of the originals, as much as I loved those first two I remember how amazed I was when I got one of the Bohrok-Kal a few years later because of the functions

[@themitheophotography3978]

I unironically looked up a 1 hour video on Bionicle lore because of this series.

[@AlphaChadBricks]

This video has created a chain reaction of nostalgia for so many people!

[@ellowell8160]

i had moments watching this video where i'd let my guard down and forget it's a parody. what a trip

[@Vesohag]

Onua. Still one of my favourites.

[@AlphaChadBricks]

I think he was my very first Bionicle. He was awesome, I always liked his claws and how both arms moved. And black is a badass color as well

[@Vesohag]

​@@AlphaChadBricksI also liked how he was the strongest (although I think Pohatu ends up being the strongest when turned into Nuva because of his speed) despite him being shorter than the rest. Going away from the typical thing of having the strongest guy of the group being also the biggest one, like they did in the G2 version.

[@carlpanzram7081]

This idea is hilarious. I love you for doing this.

[@MrDdog678]

missed opportunity to say "I was hanging with a buddy of mine" instead of "i was hanging out with my friend eddie bravo"

[@vedran626]

It's therapeutic listening to these two talk about Lego. Kopaka was my first bionicle. Later a friend of mine got me Pohatu for my birthday.

[@Brinkalski]

I don't know how these are always so enjoyable

[@makutas-v261]

My first Bionicle was Gali Nuva. 2006, I was on a grocery store with my grandma, and I saw her on those shelves of miscellaneous stuff in the check out, she was with other toa but I picked her above all others... she instantly caught my attention, like it was meant to be, so mysterious, under the water, inviting me... of course, my life changed forever, unironically, opening that was something else I would spend hours looking at the little paper displaying the different nuva masks in different colors, it was... something else entirely, it was a different world, with so many secrets to uncover. The rest is history.

[@kristopherkowal3242]

Thanks!

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Thank you sir! I appreciate it very much! :D

[@TheMightyKite]

my first was Pohatu!, and ever since I got him i wouldn't stop playing with them more than any of my other Lego's and then the Nuva version came out and little me was thinking. "Mom they gave him armor and Claws!, CLAAAAAAAWS!!!!!"

[@vervese6583]

First one that i can remember was in '04 when my mother was shopping for clothes or smth idk but i remember going to the lego section where i saw the rahkshi in the shelves (i think metru were sold out at that time). The one that catched my eyes immediatly was lehrahk because of his bright green colour and his ability to poison things which reminded me of snakes and at that time i was a little obsessed with them. Long story short i ran to my mother and begged her to buy the rahkshi for me. And the funny thing is that during my ride home while holding the rahkshi there was this song on the radio called alpha beta gaga by air and evertime i hear the song or someone whistling that is close to that in the song my mind goes immediatly to that memory.

[@RÅNÇIÐ]

Mine was Gali Mata. Got it as a gift for Easter in 2001. Still my favorite to this day.

[@CharlieBoardman1]

I don’t know how you came up with these but it’s incredible, beyond belief, hats off to you

[@AlphaChadBricks]

That's why my youtube channel is called Nick's Incredible Bricks! No average stuff here :P

[@ObiWanBockobi]

34th birthday! 😂 These videos are the peak of the internet. I gotta go dig through my old toys, I had the green full sized one that threw disks.

[@fabianstalder5008]

JP: "It was their God-given destinies to throw those disks." 😂😂😂

[@DakNJaxter]

My first Bionicle was Lewa. I bought him with a fiver my dad gave me on a day out. He was annoyed at first because he thought I'd bought an expensive flask. When I and my brother explained that it was a robot you build, he sighed with resignation and said "nice shopping kids". I build him on the back shelf of the car later. So rad!

[@cmarbormaster]

My first Bionicle was pohatu. My mom picked it up on clearance and was missing the building instructions😂 backed before the internet so I literally looked at the photo and built them

[@lumptydumpty6992]

Mine was gen 1 Pohatu, I was 5 years old. It was amazing. Christmas at my cousins house, circa 2001

[@ino7604]

I was still pretty young at the time, about 38 years old lmao

[@noahpetherbridge5127]

I would listen to a regular hour long podcast episode of these two talking bionicles/legos

[@AlphaChadBricks]

There will be more, my next one is coming out today :)

[@DoubleZDogg]

I might be one of a tiny handful of people who got the Peterson Orders at Burger King reference, but I'm so glad you included it

[@AlphaChadBricks]

I like when people notice some of the funny pictures I have included in each video! It adds an extra level of humor to the dialogue :)

[@theeccentrictripper3863]

I got Onua first in summer or fall of '01, from a CVS I think. Immediately fell in love and was already getting the Lego magazine so I started getting the comics as well when those started and I was hooked.

[@TheTetsuHai]

My first Bionicle was Pahrak of the Bohrok, those guys were dope.

[@bingobangobongothe3rd434]

I love how positive and into it they are

[@PsychedelicSpud]

2:48 when they mentioned the comics I had a flood of memories hit me

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Yo those comics were lit yo!

[@groovyhat9282]

I'm so excited when I see these uploaded. This and Harry Potter Balenciaga are my favorite things on the internet right now.

[@danielknapp159]

This brings me back. I got the bionicle story magazines before I got any of the toa. I am pretty sure I bought all the OG toa with my own paper route money. It was a great time.

[@AlphaChadBricks]

That's cool that you earned them yourself! The LEGO Magazine and the comics that came with them was so cool back in the day.

[@fomod_]

My first bionicle set was the Kaxium V3 set. I was 8 at the time so I was too young to get into Bionicle when it first came out unfortunately. I remember also getting Piraka from the Stars line in 2010 but I really got into bionicle during G2. Got all the toa with a few of the villain sets. the second G2 wave I kinda dropped off but I still got a few of the new toa sets there, though not all of them unfortunately. I recently got back into G1 and started buying a bunch of sets on Bricklink. Right now my favourite is Roodaka, the toa Hagah and Von Nebula. The Latter is from hero factory, yes but since he's from the early days of hero factory he still has the look and feel of a bionicle since at that point CCBS didn't exist yet.

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Bricklink is such a handy place to buy Bionicles from. I got Kongu, the one McToran that I was missing from this dude with a Bionicle shop. Buying from that guy was one of the best Bricklink experiences I had :D I met up with the guy in person and he sold the bionicle to me in the alley behind his building, since we didn't want people seeing what we were doing... it's a tad bit embarrassing :D

[@fomod_]

@Nick's Incredible Bricks that's crazy, sounds like a drugdeal xD

[@AlphaChadBricks]

@@fomod_ Yeah it felt like one!

[@flangwang]

First time I saw anything Bionicle was in Turkey when my grandmother tried to find a movie in English for me to watch, and it was the Bionicle one! From there I got a bunch of sets it was awesome

[@AlphaChadBricks]

That's cool! Man, I have got to watch that movie again, it's been 20 years since I saw it...

[@9zeromine]

Theses are great. The dialogue has also improved since the last episode

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Thank you for the feedback, and thanks for watching my videos! :)

[@djtoxicdhg]

This is soo funny and cool bro ceep up the grate work

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Thank you very much for watching and commenting! I appreciate it :)

[@djtoxicdhg]

@@AlphaChadBricks no problem I can't whate for more from you bro it's soo funny you should do one about them talking about the mask of light next

[@valentinhasler7024]

Love it! You made me play with my old bionicles again:)

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Glad to hear that! I wish I could get some more used ones soon, perhaps this spring/summer I will hunt some down.

[@SpaceRaider.]

Can’t get enough of this stuff any chance we get them talking about hero factory at some point that series was sick had so much fun.

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Yeah I will probably touch on Hero Factory at some point as well.

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

From this point on, it became a tradition in the Peterson family to receive a Bionicle at the age of 38 to symbolize a boy entering manhood.

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Hahahaha yes! Once you are 38, you are no longer a boy anymore.

[@elijahbuscho7715]

I got Jala too. I didn't get all of the Mctoran, but I did get all of the Toa and Toa Nuva and most if not all of the Toa Metru. My 30s were the best part of my childhood

[@Tggutz]

Its a real trip when you consider most of the McTotaran would go on to become the Toa Inika

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Yeah that's kinda wild how those characters were the Toa Inika. This Bionicle universe goes deep!

[@xEXABYTEx]

never stop, these are great

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Oh I will make many MANY more!

[@christasaurusrex8078]

I find these videos are weirdly wholesome.

[@toplel1860]

I remember picking up the blue rakshi it was my first bionicle character than I got the red one and tahu the surfboard was the coolest thing to me at the time And my first giant was makuta and it was the first version of him i regret not keeping him built 😢

[@AlphaChadBricks]

I think a friend of mine had makuta when I was a kid. He is extremely cool, his mask perplexed me....

[@toplel1860]

@@AlphaChadBricks yeah lol they later released a version of him that was supposed to have a mask closely resembling the movie depiction of makuta

[@WaterDog1502]

My first bionicle was Kopaka. I really wanted Tahu because red was my favorite color and fire was cool. Unfortunately Tahus were sold out so my mom got me Kopaka for my 6th birthday. Even though i didnt get the one i originally wanted i enjoyed kopaka so much his sword and shield was so cool.

[@dallinhunter7385]

This is my childhood condensed

[@SolarFlareAmerica]

Honestly, that canister was GENIUS marketing. I never got one of the original sets, but you can tell they wanted Bionicle to succeed. Sooooo much creative freedom early on. Compare that to the soggy potato that was the relaunch failure. What a shame.

[@AlphaChadBricks]

I agree with the canisters, I was thinking about how smart they were. Most toys came packaged in a box, so a canister really stood out from other toys. It was also a cool container that actually could interact with the Bionicle. Smart!

[@animositis6632]

Maaan this is giving me so much nostalgia I can't even... Haha. I was so into this as a kid. I played the browser games on the lego website, and always kept up with Maskofdestiny way back when. Kopaka was always my guy.

[@seandowney2338]

My first was the blue piraka. Ended up pulling the spine off because it was warped and it kept me from posing it how I wanted, but while I cringe now, I was only 6. I think the only complete set I ever got was the Baraki, those dudes were cool, and so where the opposing toa with the guns, as well as the big guys like Hydraxon and the robot dude. My favorite set was Brutaka, but I got Axxon first.

[@ShowerOnceYearly]

Lewa was my first Bionicle that my mom got me for being brave getting a shot at the doctor when I was 6 or 7.

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Nice dude! I remember getting a huge box of Smarties (Nestle chocolate in Canada, not sure if other countries have them) after getting a shot when I was around that age. I'd rather take the Bionicle ;)

[@sebs-shenanigans]

"Bionicle symbolizes the transformative nature of growing up..." Matorans become Toa, Toa - Turaga, and Turaga become Legends... Holy fucking shit I never once thought of it that way!

[@raghudurina2354]

My first bionicle was actually gen2. I had been playing with bionicles since like 2008 but those were my brothers i was too young.

[@ckiimyirhnski1056]

My first Bonkle was a bohrok, the green non-Kal one. God I fucking love Bonkles.

[@TheScientificBackpac]

That’s actually insane I feel called out, my first bionicle was a fucking McDonald’s Jala too. Didn’t even remember till that part but holy shit the memories flooded back immediately. I remember it was in San Diego I was driving with my grandpa and he took me through the drive through, I remember the whole time internally panicking because he let me sit up front seat and I was 5 year old lmao. Thanks for that memory man, liked and subd!

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Nice man, I liked how each of these Bionicles not only tells stories in their own world, but also personal memories of getting each one. The McDonalds Bionicles were some of the coolest, since they were obtained in a special way. Thanks for subscribing, I appreciate it :)

[@Fibonochos]

It's so weird that we can see into the near multiverse now.

[@anthonyflint7440]

I love these videos. It reminds me when I was a kid I went into this very upmarket hobby shop out of curiosity . I saw men probably in their 40s just gawking at some new plane models that just came in. These things were not cheap, by a long shot, and you probably need a degree in engineering to figure out how to assemble one. However that day was just proof that men never really grow up our toys just get more expensive.

[@MrBoxJolly]

For me it was kopaka master, i was at my grandmas house, and i was waiting for my dad to come back from sweden, and when he finaly came back, he gave me kopaka, i was so happy

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Nice, he was probably the most badass of all the Toa. He was too cool for his crew.

[@thewebspinner]

I had the same first Bionicles as Joe Rogan. Who'd have guessed?

[@empirednw6624]

My first was nuva kopaka. I believe I was five or six at the time. A friend had some and I thought they were awesome. I would end up getting a bunch more from every era throughout childhood, even the lego miniature ones from the vizorak era. Loved the lego magazine comics too.

[@perpscerp]

The Bionicle movies actually seem like they were based on these videos in a weird way

[@ReelRai]

I wish I got Bionicles for my 34th birthday.

[@UberSeamus]

Kopaka was my first but Lewa was my favourite :)

[@LordMegatron818]

My first Bionicle was Toa Vakama got for Christmas.

[@cmf1402]

It was always takanuva for me, he always looked so badass to me.

[@troudbalos]

Based on true stories.

[@austingood22]

I need these types of videos for everything’s especially twitch plays Pokémon.

[@flaccidium9350]

I think my first Bionicle was phantoka Lewa or Kopaka from the 2008 wave. I was pretty young at the time so I missed out on a few of the earlier waves like the Toa Mata and Bohrok.

[@Archivist42]

I think Tahu was my first Bionicle when I was about 6