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Bionicle: The Complete Legend


Lewa Krom

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I feel that today is as good a day as any to post this on BZPower (already did it on other sites).

 

For the past month and a half or so, I've been working on a personal project done completely by me. What I have been doing, and what I will be posting updates about in this blog, is a (questionably legal :P) project to gather together all of the Bionicle story into one cohesive leatherbound (or legobound - still undecided) tome. Right now, I am in the process of getting everything into a single word document (and, no, I cannot, should not, and will not post the entire thing on this site, mostly due to my respect for Greg and then copyright laws as well).

 

I started with 2001, which came out to be a nostalgic trip of awesomeness. In that, I have typed up the Bionicle Chronicles #1: Tale of the Toa book as well as taken the Mata Nui Online Game Walkthrough and adapted it into the third person to fit with the rest of the story (however, I might change it back and label it as "As Chronicled by Takua..." or something... not sure... yeah, I'll probably do something like that). I've adapted the three comics into a full narrative. Once I get through everything else, for my first revision, I am going to add in the 2001 GBA game as flashback Takua experiences after the battle with Makuta to signify his "I have my memory back" moment. I will also go back and make the MNOLG parts more narrativey and less, "Hello, Who are you?" "I am Bob?" "What is a turtle?" "A turtle is not a fish." And so on. :P I also intend to add in the Challenge of the Rahi comic and the Legend of Lewa comic. A couple things I'm thinking about regarding it is whether or not I should make the first chapter be Tahu washing up on the shore in BC#1 or Takua's awakening and then vision of Legend of Mata Nui. Suggestions are welcome to anything, BTW. Anyway, ATM, it is about 175 pages in Microsoft Word.

 

Part 2, 2002, is much shorter, just under 100 pages. It was pretty simple because Hapka pretty much copied what happened in the comics, dialogue and all. It includes the 2002 comics, BC#2, and the Bohrok Animations adapted by me, plus Takua's reports. A pretty slow year storywise. :P

 

Part 3 covers the Bohrok-Kal. It includes BC#3-4, the comics, and the animations. Now the annoying part with the Kal saga is that no two story sources agree on which Bohrok-Kal stole which symbol (some even self-contradict). Thus I have decided that they went in pairs regardless of what "official canon" has to say about it. :P I included the flashback scenes from BC #4 (aka, everything except the prologue and openings for chapters). Not a bad storyline over all; don't see why people complain about Bohrok-Kal that much. (They were superior sets to Hero Factory, though I might just be a little biased in that statement... a little... :P). Ended around 125 pages.

 

Part 4 concludes the Mata Nui arc with the Mask of Light storyline. This needs the most work ATM. I have the MoL novelization (:happydance: was the last Hapka book I had to adapt!!! Yeah, I celebrated that :P), the comics, and MNOLG II. MNOLG II's walkthrough wasn't as good as MNOLG I's so I really need to go back and make it interesting. Also, after rereading Dark Destiny, I'm going to go back and include The Legend Continues game and I have deduced that, as far as I'm concerned, Keahi and Aodhan are the two "Ta-Matoran". I couldn't find any Onu or Po-Matoran that resembled them, so I pretended to be color blind and chose two Ta-Matoran with similar masks to them. Also need to go back and add the kraata chronicle thing from the sticker book. About 170 pages.

 

Part 5... is taking quite a while. That might be because it has 4 or 5 books, though. So far I have the first three Bionicle Adventure books down and have just passed halfway on #4. I adapted Comics 19-21 (my favorite comic arc ever). I will need to go back through Mystery of Metru Nui and replace the "a random Matoran" with the Matoran they were depicted as being in the Toa Metru promo CDs. This section alone, and still incomplete, has reached 230+ pages. I'm debating on whether or not to include Voyage of Fear in this one. On one hand, it happened in 2004 and leads up to their arrival on Mata Nui. On the other hand, it's kinda sorta part of the Great Rescue. Though that would give the Great Rescue a bajillion pages. Undecided though.

 

Part 6-7 nothing done for these (Hordika and Inika).

 

Part 8 - I decided that because there's a huge gap in the story, aka Invasion, I am going to use Toa of Italy's epic that depicted these events rather well. Link. Probably should get permission from him, even though it's a private project.

 

Part 9 - The Final Battle. Woohoo. Yay. Not much done for it, but it took me a while to determine how I was going to order everything. Here's my current outline. (BTW, this is the only part divded into subparts - it's that awesome) First part is a prologue of sorts and opens with the Toa Mata's adventures from BL10. I'm not including the prologue or epilogue at this point (later on though). It then goes into alternating chapters with FoF and TMC. The second part is Bionicle Legends#9 and the Toa Nuva parts of Bionicle Legends#10. The third part is all Destiny War, DiD, and BiA stuff... And the fourth part is the Journey of Takanuva. Opens with the prologue and epilogue of Bionicle Legends#10, then goes through Journey of Takanuva, The Kingdom, and Dark Mirror. Oh, and then at the end of that I included material from the EM guide depicting the Olmak shattering. The fifth part includes Bionicle Legends#11 and the final chapters of DW and DiD. Also included is "The Rising." Epic as all get out.

 

Part 10 - Bara Magna. Yuck. Didn't like it that much, but thankfully I only have to type two books into the computer. I through most of RoS in there somewhere. Yeah. Not really fond of that year. Moving on.

 

Part 11 - Journey's End. I've done one run through because it was a simple "convert PDF to Doc file" and then copy, paste, and format session. Plus the best chapters of RoS line up with it. I still only have half an adaptation of the fifth Glatorian comic. I also will be editing it and including the Mata Nui Saga chapters... somehow...

 

Part 12 - The Golden Age of Spherus Magna. Title subject to change. Opens with ROS 12 and then goes through the occasionally updated serials. Also included are No One Gets Left Behind and the ATYU2 winners that didn't fit in in other places (yeah, I jumped the gun and went ahead and assumed that the winners are the winners). When the Lesovikk contest wraps up, I intend to do something non-canon in which Kopeke has gathered stories about Lesovikk as the Toa of Air is hunted down for murder. Can't find anywhere else I would that material.

 

So all in all, I'm up to a 1130 page Word Document and, according to some calculations in Excel regarding average pages per chapter, number of projected chapters, etc., I'm just over a third of the way done with what should be a 3100+ page book.

 

So what am I thankful for? The fact that we have enough material to fill as 3100+ page book. Thanks Greg and the rest (yes, even you CA Hapka :P) for making such a great storyline.

 

I'll probably post so more stuff later, but this is what I've been doing for fun. :P

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