The 4th BIONICLE episode is now live on the BIONICLE website, and with it we now have the teaser for the next episode, Episode 5: The Power of the Golden Masks.

The 4th installment of the new BIONICLE online animations is now available on LEGO’s website. Here is the official synopsis.

Journeying through Okoto’s most hostile regions, the heroes and Protectors battle onwards to reach the shrines of the golden masks.

Interestingly, it is not yet available on the BIONICLE website, although I expect it will likely be available there soon. As always, they have been added to the archive in both their streaming TS and FLV formats.

Happy New Year’s Eve everyone! LEGO has just released a trailer for the new, and free, BIONICLE smartphone app, Battle for the Mask of Power! The trailer is mostly comprised of existing CGI animations, but has been archived none-the-less. The app is currently available on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.The trailer promises availability on the Google Play store also, but it does not seem to be available there yet.

Update: The App Store link is now available in the US.

Update 2: Android version now available.

It turns out the BIONICLE 2015 poster is actually the back cover of a 2015 BIONICLE catalog that shipped with the new LEGO Club Magazine. There are no digital copies of this catalog yet, but Voriks Forge has uploaded scans of this new catalog. You can also check out all of these pages below. Of notable interest, the Mask of Time is confirmed to be present in this universe.

LEGO has released the January – February 2015 LEGO Club, LEGO Club Junior, and LEGO Friends magazines online. Included in the LEGO Club magazine, is a two-page interview with Senior Design Manager Cerim Manovi for the BIONICLE 2015 sets, plus some concept art for Kopaka and the Protector of Jungle. Check it out form the links above, or by clicking on the images below!

There are also reports that the physical copy includes a BIONICLE poster, as seen here. This poster is not included in the digital copies of the magazine. If you have a copy you can scan, please contact us! We would love to have a high-quality digital copy!

LEGO has teased the title and a screenshot of the next upcoming animation, Episode 4: The Protectors Fight Back. There’s not too much information yet, but it sure sounds exciting!

In other news, LEGO has uploaded the last batch of episodes to their YouTube channel in 1080p. You can check them out there, or here in our archive.

A 30 second CGI trailer of what looks like a BIONICLE TV commercial without narration has been making the rounds on the internet. It’s not yet clear what the origins of this video are, but what appears to be the original upload also features the character animations without narration. The quality is much lower than the character animations on the LEGO website, but it is unique and has been added to the archive.

With any luck, a higher quality version of these videos will appear in the coming weeks!

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Today LEGO has released not one, not two, but three new 1:30 animated episodes on the BIONICLE website! But wait, there’s more! They also release six 0:30 character animations for the Toa, absolutely free!

All joking aside, these episodes offer some tantalizing clues into the future of BIONICLE 2015, such as the ever-present Vahi and a closer look at the Temple of Time.

All 3 episodes and all 6 character animations have also been archived by the BMP team.

LEGO has just this morning put most of the 2015 BIONICLE sets on shop.lego.com, for those who can guess the URL. All the sets are listed as “Coming Soon on 1 Jan 2015”, so you can’t buy them yet, but most of them have their product images available for viewing. I’m not a big fan of looking at them through a little zooming window, so I downloaded them in full-resolution, 2400 x 2400, alpha transparent images, and uploaded them for your viewing pleasure. I was even able to get the images that aren’t viewable on the LEGO product pages. Click the images below to view the full resolution.

BIONICLE.COM now has an interactive, zoom-able map of the island of Okoto, which is neat, but it lacks a way of viewing the whole image at once. So, I decided to fix this. A few short scripts and a little ImageMagick magic later, I present to you the full map of Okoto, in a single PNG image. Click the image above to view the full 4096 x 2048 image, or click here (warning, the image is about 9 megabytes).