#bionicle fandom

[malwarewolf-mocs]

Happy twentieth birthday to my favorite year of Bionicle.

[dreamcatcher-faux]

Had a silly thought that was basically: What if The Makuta's Life Force that resurrected him influenced Jaller's Toa Forms? And as you can see, I had fun with it :3

Below the cut is my Makuta Teridax design for comparison :3 (I need to redesign him but you get the jist)

[a-thread-of-green]

A real treat from r/bioniclelego.

[dontfindme445]

bionicle masks of power looks amazing but…

The demo looks awesome. Everything they have planned is awesome. It’s crazy how it’s just an indie dev team who have permission from Lego as long as they don’t make money off the game.

eventually, when it comes out, the YouTubers will play it and it will get as much attention in media as the average triple A game.

the problem with that is…

when something gets popular…

certain people will find it…

Certain people that mostly reside on twitter…

People who were born near the tail end or after bionicle ended who take pleasure in “canceling” things and people because it makes them feel like heroes…

they are the farthest from heroes you get before you reach criminal territory. /srs

what do you think will happen when they find out about bionicle? They will research bionicle. And, what do you think will happen when they research bionicle? They will find out about early bionicle. And what do you think happens when they look further into early bionicle?

havoc.

chaos.

Barely escapable, ever consuming darkness.

all by the hands of outsiders of the bionicle community who don’t have as deep of an understanding of bionicle as us.

we need to stop this darkness from escaping somehow…

any suggestions?

(I have to say here that I have nothing against people fighting for what’s right, it’s just… some of the people who think they are heroes were actually villains all along.)

[legend-as-old-as-time]

I vaguely remember there being a post about a Bionicle blog community on tumblr, one of tumblr's recent features? Is that blog still active?

[furmewolfy]

LEGO is just crack for autistic people

[knightofthenewrepublic]

When you search for the tag:

[spiritproductionsart]

Werewolf-ified OC for Blackbelt! This one was a hella fun commission!

[crystaltoa]

Thought experiment: In an alternate universe where Bionicle recently got a wildly popular reboot and now has a MASSIVE following on Tumblr...

...What's the most annoying thing that the fans are doing?

[malwarewolf-mocs]

Watch in horror as I deliberately destroy the value and integrity of a 22 year old happy meal toy just so I can store it better.

[dreamcatcher-faux]

"The evil on this island is about to learn that justice can be very... cold."

Honestly I feel cold just looking at this-

Below the cut are the flats and a version without the hood and belt :3

[kanohivolitakk]

I don't know if I ever said this before, but one of my most steadfast believes with Bionicle is that you cannot put into traditional categories of "objectively good" or "objectively bad". Not just because Bionicle itself is all over the place qualitywise with very high peaks and abysmally low lowpoints, but also because of what Bionicle fundamentally is. A toyline.

Sure, there have been a lot of toylines that have their own stories just look at Transformers or Masters of The Universe instance. But a core difference between those and Bionicle is that most storydriven toylines have the story and toys be fundamentally separate. Even if the toys were made first and the story just exists to sell toys, the story still exists as a separate entity with little connection to the toys. The toys mainly exist as to be memorabilia of characters the kids can recreate the plot with rather than having a concrete purpose.

Meanwhile with Bionicle it being a toyline is a large part of its identity largely thanks to it being a Lego product. Legos entire brand is all about creativity, to let kids come up with their own ideas with imagination as the only limit. Sure, they do have themed sets but the themes have always been more of a suggestion than a demand. And this mindset applies to Bionicle as well. Bionicle is ultimately a creative sandbox, a springboard that gives the base concept and set up kids can build their own adventures around.

And heck this translates to not just kids but even teens and adults. As the audience got older they got to affect the story more what with those MOC contests, story contests and what not. Not to mention, a lot of the canonization Greg got critiqued for were less his ideas and more kids headcanons he just gave a seal of approval (because lbr at some point we fans clearly cared more about the worldbuilding than Greg ever did). And then there's all the stuff we are now doing as community, with all our fanfics, projects and headcanons to expand on or play with this world and characters we all love so much.

Because sandboxyness and creativity is a major aspect of Bionicle's identity, it cannot be judged as a traditional story. Trying to judge Bionicle as a traditional story that has a "set" beginning, middle and end removes a huge aspect of what makes Bionicle work as is. Yes, you can (and should) critique the "canonical" story, but judging Bionicle from that alone isn't smart. It'd be missing the forest for the trees essentially.

[dontfindme445]

trying to explain a bionicle oc I made

I’m sorry about the low quality of the image above.

edit: have made a different Matoran design for him.

Seradoka is a Toa of stone who comes from a small sister island of Mata Nui, [I decided to just call it “Huatak Nui” ]. He wears a Kanohi Olani (a fanmade kanohi mask that I designed for him.) It is referred to as “the mask of radiation transference”. Basically, he can take the radiation out of things like idk some random polluted piece of trash that came from Metru nui, and put it into something else like a case meant to carry nuclear radiation or you if you try and hurt any of the matoran in the local village.

(Fun fact: The word “Olani” sounded very Polynesian to me, so I checked to see if I appropriating any sacred words, but it turns out that it just means “dry roast by a fire”. 😂😂😂 If Seradoka ever became evil, Tahu would totally Olani him.)

Anyway, he became a Toa after his brother brought back a Toa stone, saying it was fake because he would wouldn’t become a Toa when he touched it. Seradoka, at this point known as “Doka”, told him to put it in the spare chest they had in the upstairs portion of their house because “it might be worth a fortune”. After forgetting the stone existed, Doka one day checked inside of the chest, touched the stone, and shaboom shabang, you already know what happens!

EDIT: The picture of him as a matoran is more of what he’d look like in the bionicle movie, I made an updated version that looks less like the movie version.

[theyre-gay-because-i-say-so]

Today's LGBT+ Headcanon is;

Tamaru from Bionicle-Transgender Woman

Species; Bionicle

Requested by @lemonylepid

Status: Alive

[cryptid-cuisine]

ahkmou would sell seashells by the sea shore