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New 2001 Comics from Adventures! Magazine

LEGO Adventures! Magazine ran between 1999 and 2002. For years, scans have been on the ‘net of three Bionicle comics from the magazine’s Russian localization, centering on Lewa and Gali. Darth Jaller was able to provide English scans of The Legend of Lewa parts one and two a while ago, and now PANGOLIN2 has scanned Gali’s Tale, as well as – surprise! – two additional comics focusing on Tahu we never even had in Russian.

Check them all out on our miscellaneous comics page. Huge thanks to PANGOLIN2 and Darth Jaller!

PANGOLIN2 also provided English scans of some more Bionicle content in Adventures! Magazine. Stay tuned, this will be added to the archive in the future.

G2 Story Bible, Style Guide, and More

Recently these items were publicized online. BMP was made aware of them several months ago and can confirm their authenticity. The bible was only available in Russian, but thanks to the efforts of Dryu_nya we are also able to provide an English translation. The Style Guide is incomplete, but contains several original PSD files in addition to PNGs. On top of all this, a few misc items were discovered, alongside PSDs and high quality JPEGs of the 1HY sets’ boxart.

Download from the links below. The materials will be integrated into the archive as time allows.

2015 Story Bible
2015 Style Guide
2015 Product Images + Misc

Minor MNOG Update

Our versions of MNOG are built off of the official 2006 download release from LEGO. Turns out there was a minor hiccup as a result: the 2006 version was missing a couple of the dialogue files for the Chronicler’s Company on the road to the Kini Nui. Thankfully, these files are present in the version of MNOG put up by Templar Games in 2013 on their site.

So we’ve re-added the missing files! Though of course the official 2006 release remains unmodified for posterity’s sake. You can download it on the Games page, along with the other versions.

Video Updates Now for Download!

Late last year we rolled out a big update to the Videos section. There was just one problem – you couldn’t download it. Well, good news, that’s a problem no more – Videos 0.7.1 is now up for download! In addition to all the changes you can see here and here that weren’t already a part of the download archive, we’ve added even more Bionicle videos – to both the downloads and to streaming. check it out:

0.7.1 Changes

  • General reorganization/update to fit with Streaming updates
  • Character Videos
    • Added stage for Vahki animations from Templar
  • Commercials
  • Games
    • Added Legend of Mata Nui Behind the Scenes
  • Short Movies
    • Updated Mata Nui Rising to 480p version from Binkmeister’s YouTube
  • Web Animation
    • Merged and updated Wall of History news pdfs with header images from bionicle.com
  • Miscellaneous
    • Moved the Tahu Nuva vs. Kohrak animation here, as it turns out its relation to Bionicle: the Game is unclear
    • Moved the “Lewa demo” (aka Infected Lewa) animation here as well as its provenence is unknown

In addition, a few small cleanup changes have been made to just the streaming archive:

  • Updated links for MNOG and Wall of History animations to avoid auto-download in some browsers

Stream it or download it – whatever you prefer, enjoy the updates!

Music Update

Hot off the press, it’s an update to the music archive! You can download it now on the music page, or stick around for the changes to be rolled out for streaming in the coming days. Here’s the full list of changes:

  • Animation Music
    • Merged “Movie Music” and “Flash Episode Music” into “Animation Music”
    • Replaced trilogy film soundtracks with a single album of the tracks not availible in the official releases from Nathan Furst
    • Added The Journey to One soundtrack
  •  Game Music
    • Added Bionicle Heroes mobile soundtrack, provided by MisterJulius
    • Updated Bionicle Heroes DS soundtrack to HQ versions of tracks from the composer, track titles now reflect official names (Thanks Skelly for ripping this in the best possible quality from YouTube!)
    • Updated Bionicle: The Game console soundtrack to new version by That1Cactus and Hexadecimal Mantis, complete with unused tracks.
    • Added Mask of Control app soundtrack
    • Added “Other Games” album with music from City of Legends, Bionicle Defenders, Bionicle Challenge, and the Mask of Creation app. City of Legends music provided by Hexidecimal Mantis, mobile game music provided by MisterJulius
    • Updated The Legend of Mata Nui soundtrack with tracks from alpha v.006 and final build, album compiled by Vahkiti
    • Updated Mata Nui Online Game soundtrack
      • Updated “The Charred Forest” and “Defense of the Kini-Nui” with higher quality version of the “Predators” cue
      • Added Takua (Unused Track)
    • Removed Mistika game track in Misc album (redundant in light of Closer to the Truth demo)
  •  Songs
    • Added Bionicle Age, Barcodemegamix, and The Bionicle Music (Extended) to 2001 album.
    • Added Closer to the Truth demo
    • Updated Gravity Hurts instrumental to much higher quality
    • Labelled Creeping in My Soul demo track
  •  Miscellaneous
    • Moved Toa Evolution here from Bionicle: The Game soundtrack
    • Moved Mask of Light and Legends of Metru Nui trailer music here from their respective soundtracks
    • Moved Barraki Trailer music here from the Barraki game soundtrack
    • Added “Obey the Force,” a 2009 Paul Hardcastle composition that uses Bionicle samples (thanks again Skelly)
  • Fan Music
    • Removed Fan Music from main download. Music from this is still accessible in separate archives on the Fan page.

ADDENDUMS

2020/03/20

  • Added new mix of Piraka Rap to Songs (via Ganonthegreat)
  • Moved Voya Nui Adventure reward songs to their own download separate from Songs package – most people looking to download Bionicle music won’t be interested in these and they take up quite a bit of space
  • Added Bionicle Jam 2K2 to Miscellaneous (via DoomTay)

Unreleased 2001 Music Track Uncovered

We’ve tracked down an extended version of The Bionicle Music from the 2001 Powerpack, as well another Bionicle song completely unknown prior to now!

The extended Bionicle Music and the new track, Bionicle Age, can be listened to in our 2001 playlist on the Music page (scroll to Songs>2001). Alternatively, you can download mp3+flac versions using this link. 

We’ve also added to the streaming playlist the Barcode Brothers Megamix that was included on the 2001 Nestle promo CD. Enjoy!

G2 Content Incoming

It’s been a long time coming, but while a big reinvention project is taking place behind the scenes, we are beginning to add Generation 2 content to the site for your viewing pleasure.

You can find the webisodes on the videos page now (scroll to the end). Look for more additions soon!