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Netflix has issued a press release for their new kids' series, including descriptions and teaser images for their LEGO Bionicle and LEGO Friends series. Each series' first season will be four episodes long. LEGO Bionicle: The Journey to One launches in the first quarter of 2016, and LEGO Friends: The Power of Friendship launches in the second quarter. Follow the link above to read the press release and check out the teaser images!

 

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With it only having four episodes for its season, the show isn't going to have any time for pointless stuff. It's going to have to get its story going fast. Though I've seen other shows with a limited amount of episodes like this and its works out very well for them. Like The Walking Dead, for example. Its first season only had six episodes, but it told a really good story with them and some people still consider it the best season of the series. Hopefully this Bionicle series will be good too.

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Hope this will be good. Maybe? Maybe.

Hadn't LEGO said early-on that they weren't going to make a show based on Bionicle, though? Or perhaps it's just my imagination.

That was years ago - times change. TV today is something LEGO is already closely familiar with, and experimenting more and more with all the time. Back then, it was something they had hardly even begun to touch.

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Hope this will be good. Maybe? Maybe.

Hadn't LEGO said early-on that they weren't going to make a show based on Bionicle, though? Or perhaps it's just my imagination.

That was years ago - times change. TV today is something LEGO is already closely familiar with, and experimenting more and more with all the time. Back then, it was something they had hardly even begun to touch.

 

No, no, I was meaning sometime during the release/announcement of G2. Maybe I was wrong.

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Hope this will be good. Maybe? Maybe.

Hadn't LEGO said early-on that they weren't going to make a show based on Bionicle, though? Or perhaps it's just my imagination.

That was years ago - times change. TV today is something LEGO is already closely familiar with, and experimenting more and more with all the time. Back then, it was something they had hardly even begun to touch.

 

No, no, I was meaning sometime during the release/announcement of G2. Maybe I was wrong.

Well, I think the specific question was about whether Bionicle would get a TV series like Ninjago or Hero Factory, so a Netflix series (which occupies a weird grey area between a TV series and a web series) wouldn't entirely qualify. Plus, even if the question had been worded more broadly, I don't think they'd have been at liberty to disclose anything about their 2016 media plans at that time.

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My childhood dream is happening.... Don't ruin this lego!

 

Also "the power of friendship"? *Cough totally not an FIM rip-off cough*. 

 

Lots of kids' shows deal with the 'power of friendship', you know. It's nothing unique to one show whatsoever.

 

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I'm thinking this show will be not much of a show, just have four episodes in 2016, then three the next, then two, and then one per year after that - that is how HF went, after all, and there's no reason to think this will be any different.

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I'm hoping that image is just a placeholder to get the general idea across. Not only does it still feature Tahu's 2015 incarnation, it's so set-accurate it doesn't even give him poseable fingers, which would severely limit the expressiveness of the model.

 

(the shells on his right arm are also noticeably clipping right through each other.)

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My childhood dream is happening.... Don't ruin this lego!

 

Also "the power of friendship"? *Cough totally not an FIM rip-off cough*. 

 

Lots of kids' shows deal with the 'power of friendship', you know. It's nothing unique to one show whatsoever.

 

Yeah, MLP doesn't have a monopoly on the power of friendship... and with a show that's literally called "Lego Friends", it kind of comes with the territory. :P

 

Friends even has had a song about the power of friendship, which despite not really being particularly good is a major earworm and has plagued my brain since my visit to Legoland Billund earlier this year, where it was one of the songs on constant rotation at the Lego shop.

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My childhood dream is happening.... Don't ruin this lego!

 

Also "the power of friendship"? *Cough totally not an FIM rip-off cough*. 

 

Lots of kids' shows deal with the 'power of friendship', you know. It's nothing unique to one show whatsoever.

 

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I'm thinking this show will be not much of a show, just have four episodes in 2016, then three the next, then two, and then one per year after that - that is how HF went, after all, and there's no reason to think this will be any different.

 

Just because Hero Factory went like that doesn't mean Bionicle will. Hero Factory's budget was getting smaller towards its cancellation, but that also doesn't mean Bionicle's will. By the look of things, Bionicle's budget is getting bigger.

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I feel like- or rather I hope that- the fact that LEGO has made a deal with such a well-known company as Netflix for a BIONICLE show means that the show will be good, at the very least for its target audience. I would like to enjoy it to, but honestly I would be content with it being successful with children.

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 I'm thinking this show will be not much of a show, just have four episodes in 2016, then three the next, then two, and then one per year after that - that is how HF went, after all, and there's no reason to think this will be any different. 

 I'm hoping for more of a Ninjago situation - a couple of episodes for the first year of story, and a full season for the next.

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I'm just glad to see Bionicle back on a TV screen again. 

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Hope this will be good. Maybe? Maybe.

Hadn't LEGO said early-on that they weren't going to make a show based on Bionicle, though? Or perhaps it's just my imagination.

That was years ago - times change. TV today is something LEGO is already closely familiar with, and experimenting more and more with all the time. Back then, it was something they had hardly even begun to touch.

 

No, no, I was meaning sometime during the release/announcement of G2. Maybe I was wrong.

Well, I think the specific question was about whether Bionicle would get a TV series like Ninjago or Hero Factory, so a Netflix series (which occupies a weird grey area between a TV series and a web series) wouldn't entirely qualify. Plus, even if the question had been worded more broadly, I don't think they'd have been at liberty to disclose anything about their 2016 media plans at that time.

 

Ah, okay, thanks for clearing it up.

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My childhood dream is happening.... Don't ruin this lego!

 

Also "the power of friendship"? *Cough totally not an FIM rip-off cough*.

Lots of kids' shows deal with the 'power of friendship', you know. It's nothing unique to one show whatsoever.

 

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I'm thinking this show will be not much of a show, just have four episodes in 2016, then three the next, then two, and then one per year after that - that is how HF went, after all, and there's no reason to think this will be any different.

Just because Hero Factory went like that doesn't mean Bionicle will. Hero Factory's budget was getting smaller towards its cancellation, but that also doesn't mean Bionicle's will. By the look of things, Bionicle's budget is getting bigger.

Yeah, let's hope that can happen. I hope that if the first season is successful and the budget is good, we would get a second (or more) season with 10-13 episodes, like how Ninjago did, rather than decreasing a number of episodes every year, like how Hero Factory did.

 

Anyway, I'm so happy that my dream of Bionicle getting a TV series has definitely becoming true! Yay!:D Man, it would be a very great way to tell the Bionicle story rather than having direct-to-video movies. Hopefully, there will be very talented voice actors and Tinseltown Toons or whatever company that made the animation in the first Biobicle movies would voice the characters, rather than having one guy or very few people that we don't know. It would be very much like the Hero Factory TV series, but better. Each episode would be 30 mintues long, and the story wouldn't be rushed. I would imagine it to be like the Transformers: Prime that way.

 

Again, still excited for the Bionicle TV series! Yay!:D

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I'm really excited for this, but please, please don't be bad. At least be better than the movies we got in G1.

 

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Are you saying that the films in G1 where bad? Because they weren't (excluding TLR, which was frankly the worst) but hoping that they are better than the first three films is pushing it, very much so. Though it would be great to see that, I doubt it, if this is going to be a ling running series than it can greatly improve over time, I mean just look at ninjago! When it started it was a bit mediocre, but now it's a fantastic show! Even chima, which had an extremely rocky start ended up becoming pretty good at the end of it's run! So if that can happen to two rather infamous lego themes, why not a theme known throughout our modern day culture?

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I'm really excited for this, but please, please don't be bad. At least be better than the movies we got in G1.

 

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Are you saying that the films in G1 where bad? Because they weren't (excluding TLR, which was frankly the worst) but hoping that they are better than the first three films is pushing it, very much so. Though it would be great to see that, I doubt it, if this is going to be a ling running series than it can greatly improve over time, I mean just look at ninjago! When it started it was a bit mediocre, but now it's a fantastic show! Even chima, which had an extremely rocky start ended up becoming pretty good at the end of it's run! So if that can happen to two rather infamous lego themes, why not a theme known throughout our modern day culture?

 

Better characters and a more comprehensible story than the first 3 films isn't too much to hope for, even if those really were pretty decent for what they were. I do doubt the new series will have as good production values as the original films, which I guess is testament to the quality of the cgi, for the time.

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Not sure how I feel about a Bionicle show delivered by the people who brought us Dinotrux...

 

I really hope this isn't treated as another obligatory kid's show.

Dreamworks isn't making it, though?

Umm... Dreamworlds created Dinotrux. I assume the Bionicle TV show would be created by some other company. It would be cool if Dreamworks would make the show, but I doubt it.

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Is it just me, or is it really creepy that the Friends characters have exactly the same face? I mean, there's definitely a precedent for that in girl shows ala Bratz etc, but the increased realism and detail is weirding me out.

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Is it just me, or is it really creepy that the Friends characters have exactly the same face? I mean, there's definitely a precedent for that in girl shows ala Bratz etc, but the increased realism and detail is weirding me out.

I wouldn't be surprised if more people noticed that. Come to think of it, same face syndrome shows up everywhere, last time I saw that happen was in one of the Batman Arkham games where all the female characters such as Harley Quinn, Catwoman & Poison Ivy looked identical. 

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Is it just me, or is it really creepy that the Friends characters have exactly the same face? I mean, there's definitely a precedent for that in girl shows ala Bratz etc, but the increased realism and detail is weirding me out.

I wouldn't be surprised if more people noticed that. Come to think of it, same face syndrome shows up everywhere, last time I saw that happen was in one of the Batman Arkham games where all the female characters such as Harley Quinn, Catwoman & Poison Ivy looked identical. 

 

 

From what I've seen in the LEGO Friends cartoon (I've only watched the first TV special from 2012) it tends to affect a lot of the male characters as well. Though for cartoons in general it tends to be more of a problem with female characters, perhaps because character designers are preoccupied with making female characters conventionally "pretty". Some cartoons these days like Steven Universe (which I just started watching yesterday, yay!) are starting to get better about recognizing and correcting for this rather than just taking for granted that female characters should resemble some strict archetypical "baseline" while male characters' features can be exaggerated for comic effect.

 

I suppose in cases like LEGO Friends, My Little Pony Equestria Girls, Bratz, Monster High, etc. it's partly a consequence of the characters being based on toys that use a common face sculpt. In the LEGO Ninjago cartoon and sets, making a character's face look different is as simple as adding a different 2D decoration to give the character wrinkles, more defined cheekbones, a uniquely-shaped smile, etc. Changing the facial features in the LEGO Friends TV specials would more likely mean actually sculpting the face differently, which would be more costly and time-consuming, and for the main characters it could be construed as "off-model". So the features that do vary tend to be simpler features like eyelashes, makeup, and freckles rather than changes to the actual shape of the face. It's definitely still something I hope they could improve on with a larger budget.

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*reads through Aanchir's post* 

 

*sees Aanchir's sig with the Lego Elves' animated characters in it, which obviously have different faces*

 

Welp, that's one solution. I think the idea with Friends was supposed to make them seem more real and more like the toys, though actually the franchises where the characters look exactly like the toys feel more like the exception than the rule, even given things like Ninjago and Chima.

 

Bionicle has always had their characters look different from the sets, American Girl was different, Elves - different...even those Spongebob and Hello Kitty toys look different from their animated counterparts. 

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Yeeeeeeesssssss! LEGO, Netflix - Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I've always dreamed of a BIONICLE TV show, and no matter how bad it ends up being, it's still something I've wanted to see. The first 4 episodes will be binged as soon as they are released (this also kinda justifies my unused Netflix account too, go figure). And that screenshot - Looks to use some cel-shading, liking it already.

 

Bring on 2016!

 

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