Bohrok Awakener

Nice to have you back, Greg. BIONICLE just wouldn't be BIONICLE without you, and even if we never see another book I'm happy to know that we'll still have you to write the comics and serials and continue helping to craft such amazing, inspiring storylines, especially with the new movie coming out (which looks excellent).

Good news, BIONICLE fans! After a lot of work and research by myself and the team over at the officially christened Chronicler's Company Podcast, we are pretty much ready to go. Here's a quick check-list of the last month's events and what you can expect as we move into 2009 - note that I'm going to be calling my hosts by their first names as well as their BZP usernames, as this is what I'll be calling them on the show and as listeners, it's what you'll be hearing: Me, LORDs tekneon (Joey) and Kanohi Zatth (Pablo) recorded a pilot episode of the show back in early November that was for our own benefit; unfortunately we couldn't get the audio files together, but it went well and proved that the show could work. The episode ran for 52 minutes.I recruited a fifth host - Corey, known around these BZParts as Amethyst. We're all happy to have him on board and while I've stopped accepting any more applications for the time being, in the future I may be looking for more, so keep your eyes peeled!Joey has been doing a ton of useful research - he's been in touch with James of LAML Radio, a popular LEGO podcast, and I'm going to be entering talks about a possible partnership and hosting program. Sometime within the next few weeks before Christmas, we'll be recording another pilot episode for James, and hopefully you'll be able to check it out too.Assuming our negotiations with James go well, we're hoping to bring you the first regular episode in either late December or early January. We've also had some exciting debates among ourselves about things to include on the show; one idea that I came up with was for movie commentaries - that is, we would record our own commentaries for the three (soon to be four!) BIONICLE movies which you could download and play synced with your DVDs to listen to our thoughts, anecdotes, discussions and opinions on the films. I'll post once I've made contact with James and secured a host - until then, au revior!

These past few days I've not made very much progress with the podcast, I'm afraid; I've been under a lot of strain from work that I've let build up, but once it's cleared within the next few days I'll be able to dedicate far more time to this project. Plus, it's giving me thinking time as well as time to get myself a better headset and sort out any other technical issues, not to mention getting to grips with the editing software. It may be frustrating, especially for my co-hosts, but stick with me here; things may be kind of slow getting started, but this is so that we can bring you all a good-quality show from the off, rather than entering the picture on a poor note.

We have a fourth host! Coming in traditionally late is the news that I've appointed LORDs tekneon to be my fourth official co-host; having spoken to him I can tell you that he has many great ideas for the show's content as well as an understanding of MOCs and other fan projects (well... better than my understanding of them, anyway!) and I'm sure he'll bring a lot to the show. I've just spoken to both Krahka!!! and Kanohi Zatth and we get on well, and things are really coming together now, enough that we may have the show up and running within as little as a week. One problem I did encounter was occasional audio breakups with Krahka particularly, but I'll try and sort this out within the next few days. Stay tuned!