Matoro's heroic sacrifice was probably the single best example of the trope I can think of. Godspeed, Toa Mahri of Ice, you did us proud.

 

>tfw matoro's sacrifice was over a decade ago

 

Did the Red Star bring him back

I sure hope not

 

Nope. You gotta have an intact body to return to. Matoro's body was converted to energy.

 

The Red Star was a failsafe to avoid accidental death and keep the population of Mata Nui stable and sustained. However if the body was too damaged or the death was intentional they weren’t revived. The Red Star never actually brought anyone back in the story, it wasn’t designed to be an undo-death-machine for the writers, just as a function of the Great Spirit Robot. (Which is why the teleportation system was damaged, so death still mattered in the story)

 

Is this Bionicle story we're talking about a animated series or a book series?

 

A comic and a novel both detailed Matoro’s sacrifice. It was never animated.

 

That's too bad. I'd personally like to see an anime adaptation of Bionicle G1 that stays true to the source material. This idea could also retell Mask of Light, Legends of Metru-Nui, Web of Shadows and The Legend Reborn!

Legends of Metru-Nui left out the Morbuzakh plants, BTW.

And I would pick Actas, Inc., the animation studio behind Transformers Armada, to do animate it.

 

I wish that Bionicle had gotten a full animated series, full stop. I wouldn't mind VOLTA doing the animation work for it-- what they pulled off for Journey to One was actually quite solid, they just need a better script to work with.

 

Not completely. They cameo'd but that entire adventure happened "off-screen."

 

I'd actually prefer Tinsletown Toons, the studio that did Legend Reborn and most of Hero Factory.

 

So do I.

 

Hero Factory wins the mech game, and Bionicle wins the organic one.

Only pic I have of this guy right now but he's my fav out of the HF line. Only wish pieces didn't fall off as easily.
That's where Bionicle wins, you could almost use them for nunchucks and they wont come apart.





Bionicles do make decent transformers

 

I miss Hero Factory.
IFB was especially great. It was such a breath of fresh air for Constraction with the Minifigs and CCBS mechs. It was a neat idea and something I'd love to see more of.

I'll admit, the line was pretty lacking in the story department, but I can't really complain since it offered a lot of creative freedom. Pretty much anything someone built could be considered canon, and I really like that. I find Bionicle to be hard to write stories for just because there's so much lore, and it's difficult to make original content fit in the universe without conflicting with the canon. HF though... Make a Hero, make a Villain, and you're good to go. I really appreciate that freedom.

Also loved the sizes of the sets, with the Heroes being smaller, impulse-buy sets and larger villains. Made the good guys easy to acquire and the Villains big and impressive. Made the baddies feel like an appropriate threat. Even later in the line, Breakout and on, where there were larger Hero sets, the Villains still balanced them out by also having large and small size classes.
It was something I felt Bionicle G2 took a step back on. I really didn't like how big some of the G2 Toa were. Which was only made worse with how wimpy the Skull Villains were. I mean, small bad guys are fine, but when Kulta, the first year's primary antagonist, is going up against six dudes that are greater or equal to him in size and far more built, it's comically sad.

Anyway... Didn't mean for this post to be get so long. Or read as a Bionicle vs Hero Factory rant. I just love HF, and feel like it gets an unfair bad rep when it did a lot of fun things. There's plenty to enjoy from the line when taken as its own thing.

 

were there ever Bionicle RPGs online?

 

Not that I recall.

 

For anyone who knows g1 lore, at what point in the storyline was it revealed that Makuta was a race and the Makuta was teridax? I didn’t follow the story to close in the mid years and back when I found out my mind was blown