Monthly Archives: May 2020

Hidden Side Paranormal Intercept Bus 3000 Live Build

 

A little over a week ago, Vahkiti brought us a live build of LEGO set 70423 Paranormal Intercept Bus 3000, from the Hidden Side line. The model is known among Bionicle fans for including this decal depicting Onua in The Legend of Mata Nui PC game – something very significant to us at BMP!

You can watch the replay above if you missed the stream when it was live. Thanks to LEGO for providing us with this set!

Exclusive Content in The Saga of Takanuva Graphic Novel

The Saga of Takanuva! Back Pages

Goodly88 on reddit brings us photos of the exclusive content in The Saga of Takanuva!, a graphic novel published by DC and given out at Toys R Us stores in the UK in 2003. Included are an expanded version of the LEGO Magazine interview about Bionicle: The Game, and a totally unique two-page spread showing Randy Elliot’s drafts for the cover of comic 14. Check it out!

The PDF is on the Graphic Novels page in the Comics section now, and PDF and JPG versions are in their respective downloads.

Meet the Story Section

Story Section

The Serials section has been reborn as something totally new – meet the Story section! You can now browse the many Bionicle novels, guidebooks, magazines, style guides, websites, and more in a single place! This update constitutes a quality pass on many materials we already hosted, and the addition of many, many more. Head over to the page and check it out for yourself! And here’s the full changelog, if you want to see what all has gone into this:

STORY 1.0

  • Revamped Serials section to Story section
  • Books
    • Ameet
      • Added Voiny Piraka and Inika (via Up Tamaru)
      • Added Glatorian I (via MetruToa, located by Mr. N)
    • Guides
    • Novels
      • Added the novels (via cross-wired-freak)
      • Added the intro to Invasion (via JSLBrowning)
      • Added extended version of Tale of the Toa (via Vrahno)
    • Readers
    • Misc
      • Added the Legend Reborn Official Movie Guide
  • Comics
    • Moved here from Pictures
    • Quality pass to ensure all comics are the best possible quality with the scans available
    • Reorganized according to official releases
    • Added much better quality scans of Challenge of the Rahi (via ivanproff)
    • Added better quality scans of Battle for Power 14 (if you’re reading this and you’re the one who sent these to me, let me know so we can credit you!!)
    • Added better quality scans of the Lunchables comics
    • Added the Papercutz graphic novels (minus 5 and 9)(via Up Tamaru)
    • Added Czech Comic 22 (via MarioMatoro)
  • Fan Contest Winners
    • Moved content here from Serials
    • Redid PDFs and removed unofficial graphics
  • Generation 2
    • Gave the 2015 bible and style guide a home here
    • Added the Art of LEGO BIONICLE
    • Comics
      • Added Get the Mask
      • Added Quest for the Mask
      • Added the set comics
      • Added Shadow Ambush
    • Added the Graphic Novels
    • Added US magazine content
  • Magazine Content
    • Made US magazine scans 2001-2004 accessible from the front end
    • Added German, UK, Dutch, and some (2005-2009) US magazine pages trawled from Miniland.nl
    • Added LEGO Adventures! UK scans (via Darth Jaller, extremely hi-res scans of the LOMN pages via Zanthera)
    • Added more LEGO Samodelki scans and moved the ones we had already to this section
    • Added scans of Nintendo Power and Nintendo Power Advance features on Quest for the Toa (NP ones via Toa Nidhiki05)
  • Style Guides and Bibles
    • Moved content related to 2003-2005 Style Guide here from other parts of the site
    • Gave the 2004 bible a home here, and made a cleaned-up translation of it
    • Made 2006-2008 E-Style Guide accessible from the front end
    • Moved 2009 Style Guide here from Promo CDs
  • Web Story
    • Moved serials, Mata Nui Saga and The Rising/The Truth here from Serials
    • Reorganized serials according to release date
    • Redid PDFs and removed unofficial graphics
  • Websites
    • Added recreation of Bionicle.com 2001
    • Made 2006 Bionicle.com Bios accessible from the front end
    • Made Bionicle Heroes site accessible from the front end
    • Made BionicleMovies.com accessible from the front end
    • Added BionicleStory.com winter 2007
    • Moved BionicleStory.com summer 2007 here from Pictures
    • Moved BionicleStory.com 2008-2010 here from Pictures
    • Made FreeTheBand.com accessible from the front end
      • Integrated InikaUnite and RockYacht
    • Moved MaskOfLight.com here from Web Games (its still kind of a game so its still linked on that page too)
    • Made Metru Nui Ministry of Tourism accessible from the front end
    • Made Piraka.com accessible from the front end
    • Made nick.co.uk/bionicle accessible from the front end
    • Made Bionicles.Atticmedia.com accessible from the front end
    • Added Birthday Express Bionicle page
    • Made Cryoshell.com accessible from the front end

2009 Sampler and Style Guide, Misc Videos

BIONICLE Glatorian Legends Content Sampler  –  ISO | Content
2009 Style Guide

The stars have aligned in favor of 2009 this week! Foulowe 59 brings us a rare Glatorian Legends Content Sampler – a CD-ROM full of a bunch of footage from The Legend Reborn DVD. And on top of that, we’ve anonymously received a complete copy of the 2009 Style Guide!

We’ve also brought the Videos archive up-to-date once again with a few new discoveries, and some old things I realized I had squirreled away. Of special interest are the GameHut video showcasing a Bionicle Heroes prototype, and the recording of the G2 launch panel at NYCC. Foulowe 59 also provided us with another trailer for Bionicle the Game, off of an old GCN promo disc! They sure made a lot of those trailers…

The full changelog for Videos:

Videos

  • Game Videos
    • Added GameHut Bionicle Heroes video (via GameHut)
    • Added Bionicle the Game GCN trailer (via Foulowe 59)
  • Commercials
  • Generation 2
    • Misc
      • Added The Brick Show footage of NYCC 2014 reveal panel (via The Brick Show)
      • Added Tour Across the Internet campaign video (via Jinigo Design)
  • More
    • Misc
      • Updated Andy Mac video to better quality
    • Music Videos
      • Updated The Bionicle Music Video to original MOV from Bionicle.com