Well today I am breaking away from my useual randomness about chicken and what have you(PEANUSTS...must...control) to bring you my new series entitled the History of BIONICLE.

In this and the following entries I will be giveing all of you a history lesson on the BIONICLE franchise. Each entry will cover one year. Things covered will be the sets, comics, books, games, and the offical website along with a rundown on what that years story is.

So without further adu, I give you my history of BIONICLE:

part 1- predecessors and early begining.

1999-2000

BIONICLE's orgins can be traced back by two technic lines that came before it. These we're called Throwbots and Roboriders.

Throwbots came into the scene during 1999 and Roboriders in 2000. Although I myself am a little shakey on the details of the stories(I only got one throwbot and diddn't even notice the Roboriders) but I have found out that Throwbots had twelve-something heros. Divided up into the goodguys and badguys. Each throwbot weilded an element and each resembled robots, they also had parts and other pices that would go onto BIONICLE such as there torsos, legs, and collectible disks just to name a few. After Throwbots we're discontinued in 2000 Roboriders took up the stage. From what I have heard they we're a failure but did help define what BIONICLE would be. It aperantly had six hearos each with an element.

Roboriders we're discontinued later the same year, however eventuly promotional pictures for BIONICLE soon to surface. and in December of 2000 it's website along with the Mata Nui Online Game were launched and in Jannuary-Febuary of 2001, the toa and Turaga we're released in Eurpoe. BIONICLE had begun.

2001

Soon after the Toa and Turaga we're relaed in Eurpoe, McDonalds started a promotion that had six Toghunga(sp?) called Jala, Maku, Huki, Matoro, Onepu, and Kongu. Each had seven pices and came with a disk very similar to the ones throwbots carried. These disks could be flung across the room useing the Toghunga's arm. While this happened, the comics we're released to tell the stroy of these Toa-Tahu, Pohatu, Onua, Lewa, Gali, and Kopaka- in their quest to defeat the evil Makuta by finding Kanohi Masks on the island of Mata Nui. They tried to acomplish this task with the help of six Turaga-Vakama, Nokama, Onewa, Matau, Whenua, and Nuju. While all this happened, an unamed and unseen Toghunga tried to hel the six villages on Mata Nui. These events we're part of the Mata Nui Online game which was updated monthly on Bionicle.com.

In June of 2001 the BIONICLE line reached North America, a couple months later the Toa's villans, Rahi we're released in packs of two all over the place-(from cheapest to expensive) Nui Rama, Nui Jaga, Tarakarva, Muaka/Kane-Ra, and the Manas. Also during this year there was a PC game that would tell the whole story fo that year. However deadlines and glitchs caused to the game to be canceled and as the comics did not really have much of an ending the Mata Nui Online Game was the only source that finished the 2001 story in a rather messy way. The stroy would not truely come to a proper close until Bionicle Chronicles 1 was releaed in 2003. Also in 2001 a GameBoy Advance Game was released called Tales of the Toghunga. This told the story of the no-longer unamed Toghunga called Takua in his quest for the toa stones.

Wehn MNOG ended there was also something else, a new enemy shrouded in shadow was ready to be unleashed....

Comeing tommorow, Part 2-BIONICLE takes root.

-BB