#legends of Metru Nui

[tsukimon02]

Hello, my name is Yukiko and I used to have a fictional crush on Nuju as a child so of course I had to doodle a Bonkle as a hot human 😳

#tsukimi draws #Bionicle #human bionicle #Nuju #Nuju Bionicle #legends of Metru Nui #Toa Metru #bionicle fanart #Lego #lego fanart

[catsafari25]

anyway, if there is an active bionicle fandom out there (esp for the toa metru) hmu!

#lego bionicle #bionicle #legends of metru nui #web of shadows #yes i may have just gone diving into the bionicle ao3 and ffnet #and been *pikachu surprised face* at how quiet a fandom for a 20yo discontinued lego line is

[bionicle-ramblings]

A detail from the LoMN movie I really like:

When Vakama's "fighting" Teridax and knocking on rocks, there's a very clear metallic, 'clang' sound of Vakama's fist hitting stone. It would obviously do that, he's a somewhat mechanical being, but the fact that it happens in the first place and the filmmakers put that in is just 😙🤌

#bionicle #ramblings #vakama #legends of metru nui

[ahsoka-its-all-of-us]

hello everyone I have a Take™

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thank you that is all

#star wars #attack of the clones #acklay #reek #obi-wan kenobi #bionicle #lego bionicle #lego #krekka #nidhiki #legends of metru nui

[systemsearcher]

Daily Nokama Update: THE MODEL HATH BEEN RELEASED!

It is now available to purchase on my Boosty page, to which you can get via the fancy custom HTML page I've made on my Tumblr!

There's description, reference images, and some other fancy crap.

It costs about $10 so if you're interested - feel free to take a look! And maybe even buy it and use for animation, or scene making or whatever!

#bionicle #bonkle #bonkles #nokama #toa metru #toa #character #3d model #model #blender #blender3d #3dmodeling #3dmodel #purchase #selling #lego #bionicle 2 #legends of metru nui

[wjbs-bonkle-au]

The scene in LOMN where they get their weapons is kinda funny because they're all thinking of the possibilities abd then Vakama just like. Says what his one is in an awed voice. Like, peak cinema.

#bionicle #legends of metru nui

[jurakan]

NOKAMA pUTS HER STONE IN THE WRONG METRU SYMBOL (I think)

#BIONICLE #Legends of Metru Nui

[bingingbarbiepodcast]

Coming Soon...

Episode One available right NOW on out Patreon! Official premiere on Thursday

#bionicle #mask of light #legends of metru nui #web of shadows #toa

[tsukimon02]

I got bored and brainstormed some Pokemon team ideas for the Toa Metru on the fly (￣▽￣)

These are just my own headcanons on what Pokemon that Vakama and the gang would have so don’t take this seriously! And is it just me or does Armarouge remind you of Vakama???

#tsukimi talks #pokemon team #pokemon team crossover #Pokemon #Bionicle #Bionicle crossover #Toa Metru #legends of Metru Nui #Lego

[autumnhobbit]

yeah uhhhh……what exactly is this thing? it’s not the rahi nui i don’t think

#bionicle reread #legends of metru nui #reminds me of the age of lutron hallucination scene #except this did it way earlier lol

[herora-nuva]

New Music Video!

https://youtu.be/ZqQwMWs6szE

It’s a remake of the very first video I ever made!

Legends of Metru Nui set to Pompeii by Bastille!

Ever since I first heard the song I thought it fit well with the story of the second Bionicle movie, with its themes of destruction and looking for hope!

#when I made it I told myself oh I’ll just whip up a quick remake of something I already did shouldn’t take long #went into a trance for 5 hours and this is the result #I’m proud of it #bionicle #pompeii #bastille #legends of metru nui #music video #my videos #youtube

[moviemunchies]

Supposedly this movie was received better by critics than the first movie, with a line in Wikipedia even claiming that critics thought this one explained some of the Plot holes.

I don’t understand that.

But whatever! I don’t like this movie as much as Mask of Light, but I do like it.

This story follows the 2004 BIONICLE storyline, which was a flashback to long before the Mata Nui island Plot. Six Matoran from across the island city of Metru Nui are chosen by Toa Lhikan to go to the Great Temple, where they suddenly find themselves becoming Toa. Guided by Vakama’s visions, they decide to prove their worth by obtaining the six Great Disks, but upon presenting them to the city’s leader, Turaga Dume, they’re labeled as fakes and framed for Toa Lhikan’s disappearance. With half of them capture, and half of them on the run from the law and the two Dark Hunters actually responsible for Lhikan’s disappearance, they’ve got to figure out how to use their Mask Powers to rescue “the heart of Metru Nui.”

This one is, like the original film, Mask of Light, a story of self-discovery for the main characters as they work out their own powers and learn to be heroes. And in the context of the movie, this mostly works? Out-of-context it’s a bit odd, because if you keep track of the comics and books, the Toa Metru have already been doing a lot. Not enough to necessarily invalidate this character arc, but this movie treats them like they haven’t done anything, when we know from the stories that they’ve been going on epic quests to get the Great Disks and fighting an evil vine monster.

Really, this movie leaves out a lot. For starters, the Toa don’t show any elemental powers at all. The books explain that the Toa had expended their elemental energies fighting the evil vine monster and have to wait for them to recharge, but the movie does not mention this. There’s no mention of elemental powers in this movie, which is odd, considering that’s the Thing Toa are known for in the stories. Yeah, Mask Powers are important too, but elemental powers? That’s where it’s at.

Lhikan has no excuse, given that he didn’t use up all his powers. There’s no reason he shouldn’t be barbecuing Nidhiki when they fight, instead of jumping around and throwing his swords (though that, like all the action sequences, are pretty cool). The reasoning, I suspect, is budget and because this is aimed at children. Can’t exactly have that level of violence in the movie on-screen.

The changes from comics and novels to books are the result of another year where the Plot of the movie dictates what has to happen in the story for that year. This resulted in some weird things, like Lhikan not appearing until the actual movie, despite his giving Toa stones to the six Metru being something that SHOULD have been shown to us, along with characters like Dume.

And there are things that the movie leaves out, or oddly done. Lhikan declares that Makuta swore to protect the Matoran, but this is the first time, we, the audience, have any indication that he used to be a good guy or that people knew who he was, or that he was involved in this storyline at all. It makes that Vakama seemed to know who he was before the reveal a little strange, as well. This was true back in 2004. His scenes where he and Dume talk to each other don’t really make much sense, considering he’s pretending to be Dume–the novelization tries to fix this with “fake Dume was talking to a mirror,” but it doesn’t really make it any more logical. There are clearly two-sided conversations going on here! And if this is some sort of magic mirror, well, that kind of thing has never been explained or referenced again!

This watch-through made me realize that they made Nokama incredibly competent, almost to the detriment of everyone else? She’s apparently the best fighter and has a better idea of what to do than any of the other Toa. And there’s a scene where they’re getting sucked into a whirlwind, and she’s the one that digs her Hydro Blade into the ground (Matau follows her example seconds later). To be clear: both Onewa and Nuju (Toa of Stone and Ice, respectively) have Toa tools designed specifically for climbing, anchoring someone into a solid surface. And yet Nokama, the Toa of Water, who has tools designed for swimming, who has experience as a teacher and swimming through canals, is the only one who thinks of using her weapon as an anchor.

I’m not going to lie, though: watching her deflect disks from Krekka by spinning her Hydro Blades is pretty darn awesome.

And you know what? The Kanohi Vahi, the Mask of Time, is completely extraneous to the story. It’s an important artifact that the Makuta is after, but it doesn’t really have that much of a role in the story. It’s kind of there, an extra thing, as if the LEGO story team realized that they should explain what the deal with this mask is, and you know what? I kind of appreciate it. But the only real explanation we have as to why Makuta wants it is because he just wants to… I don’t know, fast forward to the part where he wins, I guess? I can make some estimates based on what I know of the story later on, but I don’t think that knowledge was in the writers’ minds when they crated this movie. I strongly suspect it wasn’t.

[rubs head] Oh gosh, I’m sorry, I’m making it sound like I hate this movie. I don’t. I love this movie. I haven’t seen it as many times as Mask of Light, so I don’t have as much of it memorized, but it still sticks in my head quite a bit. I suspect, in part, because I absolutely love the soundtrack (maybe even more than the first movie?).

And the ending–I talk about how the Mask of Time doesn’t really do much with the Plot, but the final fight with Makuta is great and I love that dialogue. I love watching Vakama go from a timid mask maker (albeit apparently the most skilled one in Ta-Metru) to realizing that he can be a hero, standing up to the ultimate evil. 

Also the soundtrack is fantastic. Nathan Furst is great and I’m sad he’s not talked about more.

But while Mask of Light felt very much like a BIONICLE movie, this one is working with a setting and ideas that fans are still getting used to at the time of release. It’s not completely inaccessible to newcomers, but it doesn’t feel representative of the story overall, with things like the lack of elemental powers. Long-time fans will be happy with some of the reveals, but at the same time it skips over so much of the books and comics I don’t know that they’ll be thrilled either.

I like this movie, but I suspect because I saw it when I was super into BIONICLE. Someone going into BIONICLE now, or trying to understand it, might not be as forgiving towards this movie.

#BIONICLE #Movie Munchies #Legends of Metru Nui #LEGO

[systemsearcher]

Bionicle design thought

Am I the only one who prefers the sort of "vocoder" grill that Ga characters and the Turaga in the movies have over the more typical mouth, and, unlike what seems like the majority of people, would prefer if everyone had that rather than giving the female characters a normal mouth?

I dunno, it just feels more interesting and, well, aesthetic to me.

#bionicle #mask of light #legends of metru nui #web of shadows #design #bonkle #grills #mouth #matoran #toa #turaga

[80s-arcade-carpet]

his head looks like a horse

#bionicle #vakama #toa metru #legends of metru nui

[jurakan]

This movie has really weird and abrupt jump cuts between scenes

#BIONICLE #Legends of Metru Nui

[toaarcan]

Bionicle Ask (with no heed to what you've answered before):

A33

B22

C11

A33: Favourite element?

I'm a secondary-elements guy myself, with Gravity, Magnetism, and Psionics all rating pretty highly, but I think the overall winner is (unsurprisingly) Plasma.

I like the idea of star-nuke-Toa that shoot lasers and wield lightsabers.

B22: Favourite soundtrack?

Can't go wrong with Movie 2. While I listen to the vocal tracks from later years more, they don't really form a coherent soundtrack without some proper visual media to tie it all together. But Legends of Metru Nui's soundtrack gets me right from the Miramax logo all the way to the credits.

C11: What character should have been given (another) physical set?

I have two answers for this, one for an ideal world, and one for the world we got.

Ideal World example: Teridax. The only set of him we have post in 2006-2009 scale is a possessed robot rather than actually being him, and IMO he deserved something on the scale of 2008 Takanuva and Titan Mata Nui.

On the other hand, it always bothered me that 2004-5 got zero representation in 2010, while we got two 09 sets (both of whom were still on shelves in some places). I recognise that almost every major character from those years was out of action by then, but excuses could've been made. They already had the Ignika devolve Tahu back to a Toa Mata for a 2001 reference, they can have it turn one of the Turaga back into a Toa Metru, or have the Vahi do it with time-wimey bullshit. Or fuck, finally pull the trigger on Toa Ahkmou being a thing after all these years.

#Bionicle #Bonkles #Legends of Metru Nui #Takanuva #Toa Takanuva #Mata Nui #Toa Mata Nui #Teridax #Makuta Teridax #Makuta #Ignika #Toa Ignika #Ahkmou #Toa Ahkmou #Vahi