Has it really been eight years?

Seeing the video today of Mata Nui's rising had me thinking all day about how far Bionicle had come. And also that I've been following this story for so long. To think that so many years ago I was in third grade when it all began. I moved on to Middle School, and the story moved from Mata Nui to Metru Nui. Now here I am in High School, tenth grade, the story is still growing, and I'm still following it. Who would have guessed, 8 years ago, that my obsession, and that of many other Bionicle fans, would last this long.

Wow...8 years...so many memories of times gone by, good and bad, that I can place on the timeline of my life just by remembering what Bionicles had just come out then. But now the end of an era is truely near. The twilight is upon us, and all that we've held so familiar to ourselves since way back when.

8 years... are almost over...