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Pitch document and yet another PS2 build of Bionicle 2: City of Legends!

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Back in June of 2019, I managed to get a hold of a PS2 build of the cancelled sequel to Bionicle: The Game, known as Bionicle 2: City of Legends. Prior to 2019, the only build of this cancelled sequel available was for the original Xbox.  Now, in April 2020, I received another PS2 build of the game, and a previously unseen pitch document from a source that wishes to remain anonymous. This PS2 build is slightly newer than the one I recovered in 2019, and closely resembles the original Xbox build. Like the PS2 build I received in 2019, this build also has working audio, and all of the graphical effects missing in the Xbox build.

The pitch document I received contains a fair amount of concept art, as well as multiple planned gameplay elements! It’s quite an interesting read. 

You can download this new build from the retail games page, or this link.

The pitch document can be downloaded using this link, or on the retail games page.

Now You Can Watch the Jams

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The organizer of the 2001/02 Bionicle live events at Legoland CA, PRP, has uploaded edited videos of the performances. They are now on the More videos page, under the new Live Performances heading. These are a trip, so have fun.

Additionally, as a follow-up to the Nestle news, Illuminatus has provided his original rip of the Mini Warriors commercial, sans subtitles. It has now been added as well to the 2006 commercials collection.

A Second 2006 Nestle Commercial

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Watch the Nestle battle spinners commercial in the 2006 playlist, toward the bottom.

BZP member Illuminatus has come across an ad for the battle spinners some countries saw boxed with Nestle cereals in 2006. It was uploaded directly by the production studio, Tridev Entertainment, to their Vimeo! In it, Vezok is destroyed by a child with the power of a balanced breakfast.

Illuminatus was also the one to provide a recording of the Nestle mini warriors ad, back in the year it aired! They very helpfully linked to that original upload, so our copy of that video has also been updated (previously we had sourced it from a Youtube re-upload).

Piraka Rap Extended Version, Jam 2K2

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Ganonthegreat recently acquired a rare promo disc from Jetix and found some 06 Bionicle material on it, including this new mix of the Piraka Rap! In addition to being much longer than the only version we’ve had up to now, this one appears to be more polished, with a proper ending instead of cutting off.

We’re also adding the Bionicle Jam 2K2 to the Miscellaneous music section in this update. This is the audio track that accompanied the live Bionicle Jam performance at Legoland California in 2002. It’s been floating around for a while now, but better we add it late than never! Thanks to DoomTay for preserving it on Internet Archive – they apparently got it from BZP back in the day. I’d wager it was probably originally posted on the website of the production studio, PRP Inc.

These tracks are now both streaming on the Music page (under Songs->2006 and Miscellaneous->Miscellaneous, respectively) and included in the appropriate download packages. Here are the individual mp3s if you prefer – enjoy!

Piraka_rap.mp3
01 Bionicle 2K2 Soundtrack.mp3

2004 Bionicle Story Bible

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Lehvak Nuva has done the impossible and discovered a Bionicle story bible on the web! He found it on this page for a Russian Bionicle retailer, which means, like the 2015 bible discovered some time ago, it is in Russian. Here’s the unaltered DOC and a rough Google translation into English:

BIONICLE-Story2004-RUS
BIONICLE-Story2004-ENG_google

Thanks once again to N for alerting us! He noted down some of the most interesting features, so rather than restating them I’ll quote him:

– unfortunately, apparently, this is a cropped version of the Bible. There are absolutely no “Internal Use Only” content, as it was in the 2015 Bible. Apparently, this is why the document was posted in the public domain on the site, because contains only public information
– A LOT OF descriptions of locations. The most interesting thing is that the locations and their description are fully consistent with all locations that we saw on CD-ROMs. For example, Orkham’s house, in which a huge map hangs, just like in a game
– descriptions of all characters, including combo models, with the exception of Lhikan, although Kikanalo is mentioned in the Po-Metru section
– mentioned Troller from the early script of BIONICLE 2
– in the descriptions of the Matoran there are plot explanations of why there are disks with such abilities in sets with them. It is very interesting
– There are some interesting little details that we have never seen in any media. They are not important for the plot and do not affect anything, but nevertheless they very curiously supplement the general picture of the world of the City of Legends. For example, disc collectors are often mentioned throughout the Bible, although we have not seen them in story.

This bible will be added in to a new section on BMP that will be arriving (hopefully!) soon.

Tiny Update Roundup

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A few small updates for you while bigger ones are still in the works:

 

BMP Goes to the Movies

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They’re here! The original trilogy of Bionicle films has finally been added to BioMedia Project. Watch and relive the many Kolhii and Kolhii-adjacent events.

On top of that, we’ve got a general update to the video archive, adding, among other things, the all-important Andy MacDonald promo video. Watch him do some sick stunts in the Misc section!! Or peruse all the updates from this link.

Here is the full changelog. We hope you enjoy the feature presentation(s)!! See you again soon….

0.7.2 Changes

Commercials
– Removed letterboxing on VHS rips that had this/corrected some aspect ratios
– Updated 2001 Bionicle launch commercial to better quality version (located by Brendan Smith, via Vintage Kid)
– Updated 2001 McDonald’s Happy Meal commercial to better quality version (via that90sguy)
– Added 2001 RoseArt games commercial (via Triangle Entertainment)
– Added 2003 Takanuva and Makuta commercial in English (via Brendan Smith)
– Added 2003 Cheetos tazas commercial (via Toa Znake)
– Added 2006 CiTV spots (via Karen Kwok)
– Added better English versions of Barraki commercials (via Karen Kwok)
– Added Spanish-language 2007 Happy Meal commercial
– Fixed borked stereo mixing on Bohrok launch commercial

G2
– Added Nickelodeon sweepstakes commercial (via annemsk92)
– Moved The Bionicle Story 2016 to the Journey to One folder, as its simply clips from the series

Game Videos
– Renamed from just “Games” because that could get confusing
– Ripped Legend of Mata Nui cinematics in better quality
– Source MPG of LoMN demo disc trailer now included
– Better captures of Quest for the Toa intro and outro – no more “Bryan” Takua
– Removed letterboxing on BTG trailers: E3, ‘Toa’, and individual Nuva clips
– Source MOV of BTG Sports CD trailer now included
– Removed PtoPOnline video of City of Legends movement demo now that actual demo is available

Internal/Concept
– Renamed download folder to this, to match streaming (was ‘Development Videos’)
– 2002 sell video is now labelled by its correct name, “The Truth Will Hatch”
– 2003 Style Guide video is now labelled by its correct name, “A Brief History of Bionicle”
– Galileo feature updated to full German version (located by brodee, via BionicleLegendsVideos)

Movies
– Added the movies!!! (Mask of Light, Legends of Metru Nui, Web of Shadows)
– reorganized movie-related content around this addition
– Added Roy Braverman Legends of Metru Nui sound tests (Thanks for finding these, Skelly!)
– Upgraded the quality of some of the bonus features

Web Animation
– Added easily viewable MP4 versions of all Flash-based animations (excluding 06 animations with games)
– Moved Vahki animations here from Character Videos
– Renamed 2002-03 ‘Wall of History’ to ‘Bohrok’ – animations could be found on 2003 Wall of History but did not originally appear on it
– Relabelled actual Wall of History animations from 2004 to 2003, their actual premiere year
– Removed ‘Recent Updates’ PDF in Bohrok folder – this text will be avalible in-context in upcoming Bionicle.com restoration

Misc
– Added Andy Mac vid from 2001 US color Bionicle CD (Thanks to William R. Conley for alterting me to this one!)
– Moved 2008 Lego Out of the Box demo here from Internal/Concept Videos

Streaming-Specific Changes:
– Fixed an issue where some videos played without sound
– Better quality character videos for original Toa
– Better quality Creeps from the Deep teaser
– Better quality Legend of Mata Nui trailers
– Fixed borked stereo mixing on Mask of Light’s Toonami extended ending
– Added some missing BTG trailers
– Added to Misc: 2008 BionicleStory.com ad and Out of Box demo

 

Addendums:

2020/02/16
– Added Hollow Chest Makuta video to Concept and Development videos (via Christian Faber)

2020/03/05
– Added Daniel Pocetti Journey to One animatics to Generation 2 (via Pocetti’s Behance)

2020/03/30
– Added 2006 Nestle Battle Spinners commercial (via Illuminatus, uploaded by the production studio Tridev Entertainment)
– Updated 2006 Nestle Mini Warriors commercial to original upload (was previously sourced from a Shield of Ages reupload)(via Illuminatus)

2020/04/11
– Added 2006 Nestle Mini Warriors commercial sans subtitles (via Illuminatus)
– Added new section: Live Performances
– Added Legoland CA Bionicle Jams (via PRP Inc)

2020/05/13

  • 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

2020/05/23
– Added Piraka character spots with UK narrator to commercial archive (via Ganonthegreat)

2020/05 at some point
– Misc edits to Movie Extras

2020/8/8

  • Commercials
    • For download:
      – Added Glatorian Arena Fight (Francias)
      – Added MAT version of Glatorian Arena Fight (Russian)
      – Updated Bohrok Kal commercial (Espanol) to better quality
      – Added edited version of Hordika Product (Russian) with no letterboxing
    • For download and streaming:
      – Updated 2007 Warriors Product (Spanish) to better quality
      – Added compilation of Afternoons on Toons Glatorian Legends Nicktoons spots
      – Added alternate Phantoka commercial
      – Updated 06 Nestle commercials to better quality, removed letterboxing
  • Game Videos
    • For download:
      – Added edited versions of LOMN cinematics with no letterboxing
      – Added 360 version of Heroes intro too, and source PC BIK – the mp4 is still in there too since it has other languages availible
      – Updated Toa Evolution trailer to original BIK
    • For download and streaming:
      – Added LOMN animation tests provided by the composer, Dave Madden
      – Added recordings of in-game cutscenes for LOMN and The Game (LOMN is just download for now)
      – Cutscenes are now in their own separate download, as they’re pretty hefty
      – Replaced PC version of Heroes Eidos and TT logo with Xbox360 version (better quality)
      – Added BonusWeb.cz trailer for The Game
      – Added gamespot The Game dev interview
      – Fixed the messed up aspect ratio on streaming versions of the Bohrok Kal and Rahkshi trailers for The Game
      – Added new playthrough of Bionicle The Game.
      – Updated The Game cinematics to better quality.
  • Movies
    – Added Lewa test animation from Creative Capers
    – Updated Bionicle 2 Toa Metru CD trailer to better quality
    – Added Mask of Light trailer from The Game
    – Added TXT translation of Die Legende Lebt to download
    – Added Mask of Light early animation-to-film comparison and updated storyboard-to-film to better quality
  • Short Movies
    • For download:
      – Added edited version of Creeps from the Deep prerelease with no letterboxing
      – Added edited versions of the Mahri short that splice the final audio with the HD video from the prerelease version
  • Misc
    – Added video demo of BionicleBattle.com (since we dont have the actual site archived!)

Legends of Metru Nui Storyboards

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Contributors N and The Shadow Emperor, with a bit of my help, have trawled the various eBay listings of Legends of Metru Nui storyboards to provide an organized download of all that we could find. While this will be integrated into a future update to the Pictures section, you can download it now! Enjoy the many very animated expressions within.

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