X-Ray Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Hello and welcome. I'm here to ask what you think the best Bionicle book was and why, as well as which one is your favorite, and why. In my opinion, the best book was probably Tales of the Masks, as we got to see considerable character development for the Toa Nuva and the Turaga, and very interesting character development at that. My personal favorite was Time Trap, which I also own, which worked an interesting premise around just a few characters as opposed to the large host of characters. I'm also partial to The Final Battle, mainly because there were so many great moments in it, Raid on Vulcanus, because it used the time honored magnificent-seven-samurai plot, and Journey's End, which, while not released as a book per se, was a great cap off to the entire Bionicle saga. X-Ray Quote "Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken." - Ecclesiastes 4:12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenFlash Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 (edited) I'm saying Time Trap as my favorite and the best Bionicle book. It was a bit weird and stuff, when Vakama started dreaming about that alternate timeline or whatever but the appearance of the Shadowed One really made the book for me. Edited April 29, 2013 by Wind Elemental Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitoshura Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Makuta's Guide to the Universe.Well, it is a good guide. But I really enjoyed Time Trap. Really great, seeing what happens to Vakama only a few individuals know. Quote profiles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunconvoy Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 I loved timetrap (granted that is the only one i could get my hands on and read) but i just loved it, it was coming off my second favorite part of the series, and it did good closuer, as well it had my favorite character from that part of the sereis in it. Mostly i just found it relatable because Me and Vakama both had confidence issues. So, it did good for closure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 1st Shadow Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Time Trap, seeing as that was when we first got a really good look at the complexity of who and what Teridax was. For me, a close second would be either Raid on Vulcanus or Maze of Shadows. Quote ~Your friendly, neighborhood Shadow ~Credit for Avatar and Banner goes to NickonAquaMagna~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~garnira returns~ Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Maze of Shadows was certainly the best (close second being Time Trap), but my favorite still is either City of the Lost or Shadows in the Sky. Quote "Copy and paste me into your sig! The shadows command you!" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)#tumaislove,tumaislife Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archivist_66 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 When I read "City of the Lost", I was amazed by the unusual underwater world full with a strange creatures. I enjoyed it, and I think it was the best, too. Quote "You are a Toa -- prove yourself worthy of the name!" Onua, "Into the Nest" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
25K Now! Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 I really enjoyed the Web of Shadows novelization. And Time Trap. That was brilliant. Quote http://vimeo.com/198967785 BZPRPG Profiles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. House Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Legacy of Evil is my favorite. Learning backstory and seeing what happened before the current story very much interested me. Quote I occasionally return to BZP for a nostalgic trip back. Hit me up on discord if you need anything. BZPRPG Characters that I will possibly revive, Mons-Shajs-Tarotrix-Aryll Vudigg-Jorruk Yokin-Senavysh Angavur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slifer3000 Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Legacy for me. Or final battle. My guts were wrenched after reading 7 years of books and seeing my favorite Toa lose? Just as I was expecting an epic win! Quote Knock Knock Who's there Hoff Hoff who Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toatapio Nuva Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 I think the best was Voyage of Fear. It told a very important part of the story that was not mentioned anywhere else. My favourite would have to be Time Trap or Web of the Visorak. Time Trap was amazing and the Web of the Visorak was a nice "in between" storyline - what happened after the Toa Metru returned to Metru Nui and before they turned into Hordika. Quote My BZPRPG profiles - Viima, Lai Lai Kirgan, Jarkale, Hile, Tuli + Kavala, Khervos, Thira Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liopleurodon Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 I loved the atmosphere of danger from Island of Doom and City of the Lost. Regarding serials, The Kingdom, Dark Mirror, and Journey's End were my favorites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klanadack Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 I liked Time trap the best. Seems I'm not alone... Quote Chuck Norik is no match for Bruce Lhikan! If you use correct grammar in your posts (or try hard to), place this in your signature. Join Myst's campaign for correct grammar usage on BZPower! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Matoran with a Vahi Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 (edited) Tales of the Masks always holds a special place with me; the interaction, and particularly the tension between the various Nuva was really what made the whole team for me, and it was captured perfectly there. Hapaka's books were never able to get that correctly, and in the later books the Nuva just seemed to get along with no problem at all, but I loved the way their various tensions with each other were played up in TotM. Time Trap and all five books of the Piraka arc are also ranked very high amongst my personal favourites too, though. Edited May 5, 2013 by Darth Jaller Quote "New legends awake, but old lessons must be remembered. For that is the way of the BIONICLE." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neelh Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 I haven't read many of them (First and last Chronicles, first four Legends) and my favourite was The Darkness Below. Krahka and Nokama and I just yes. Quote i wanna be the very best like no one ever was to catch them is my real test to train them is my cause Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornado Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 I like time warp Quote I'm back from the deadwill be posting new stuff soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underscore Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 (edited) This was veeeerrry tough. I like the adventures #2: trial by fire, adventures #3: darkness below, adventures #6: maze of shadows but also legends #1: island of doom, legends #5: inferno, legends #9: shadows in the sky, legends #10: swamp of secrets and legends #11: the final battle. Perhaps it's because those are the ones I read over and over again. Edited May 8, 2013 by Mairanui Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanakalackin Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Tale of the Toa will always be #1 in my book. Quote I have an Instagram page where you can see these pictures and more like them! Just click HERE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zestanor Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 The Second Legends book, with the Inika Matoran and the Toa Nuva. It was such a great story, unfortunately it was completely glossed over in the comics. Quote Has following the story become too complex? Look no further:How to Follow BIONICLEA Simple, chronological checklistUPDATE May 22 2013: Every is now color coded!Contains every bit of content, organized by story year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cambion Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Time Trap, Dark Destiny, The Darkness Below, Voyage of Fear, and Maze of Shadows were all great. can't really pick a favorite between them. (i haven't read Legends #5-8 or 11, though, so my opinion might be different if i had.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madara: Mangekyou Master Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Time Trap and Tales of the Masks were the most enjoyable ones to me. Tales for the way it hinted to a bigger world than Mata Nui. Time Trap because of the incredible dynamic between Vakama, Teridax, and the Dark Hunter/Makuta throwdown. Quote STAR WARS GALAXY AT WAR ... we have cookies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Inika Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 The Second Legends book, with the Inika Matoran and the Toa Nuva. It was such a great story, unfortunately it was completely glossed over in the comics.I was more partial to the plot of Jaller's group going through Karzahni than the main story. My favorites would have to be Tales of the Masks, The Darkness Below, Time Trap, and Legacy of Evil. Quote "You are an absolute in these uncertain times. Your past is forgotten, and your future is an empty book. You must find your own destiny, my brave adventurer." -- Turaga Nokama Click here to visit my library! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zestanor Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 (edited) I was more partial to the plot of Jaller's group going through Karzahni than the main story. Was that not the main story? 'Cause that part is specifically what comes to mind when I think of Legends 2. I think it was split pretty evenly between Jaller's group's journey, the Pirakas' banter, and the Voya-Nui Matoran helping the Nuva. Edited May 23, 2013 by Zestanor Quote Has following the story become too complex? Look no further:How to Follow BIONICLEA Simple, chronological checklistUPDATE May 22 2013: Every is now color coded!Contains every bit of content, organized by story year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toatapio Nuva Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 I was more partial to the plot of Jaller's group going through Karzahni than the main story. Was that not the main story? 'Cause that part is specifically what comes to mind when I think of Legends 2. I think it was split pretty evenly between Jaller's group's journey, the Pirakas' banter, and the Voya-Nui Matoran helping the Nuva. Main story it was, yes, but I think the book was way too splintered. It handled three different stories, actually. Also, the Piraka really got surprisingly little screentime in that book. Quote My BZPRPG profiles - Viima, Lai Lai Kirgan, Jarkale, Hile, Tuli + Kavala, Khervos, Thira Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromatic Ninja Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 Time Trap is certainly the arguably agreed-upon best book in the entire series. I certainly enjoyed it! Makuta and Vakama are two of my favorite characters. Can't go wrong. That said, I think the novel I enjoyed most in the series was probably Adventures #5: Voyage of Fear. I felt the character interaction was really strong and it held a lot of weight. It's a tough decision, though. I also really loved Legends #4: Legacy of Evil. Seeing as pre-split-off-with-Vezon Vezok is another one of my favorite characters. And the Piraka are awesome. ~Tay Quote You may also know me as Zeta, Zen, Tay, or Slushie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zestanor Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 A book I just re-read, which I've never given much credit, is Adventures 4. That's the movie 2 novelization. Normally I just skip it and watch the movie. But upon reading, I realized how much extra is in the book. It's not quite the same as Greg's own books, but I appreciated all the extra bits of foreshadowing which he was able to slip in. Now that I think about it, the Toa Metru got the most screen time of all the Toa teams. The Mata/Nuva got eight books for their four years. Jaller's team got six for their two years. But the Metru got ten books for two years! Quote Has following the story become too complex? Look no further:How to Follow BIONICLEA Simple, chronological checklistUPDATE May 22 2013: Every is now color coded!Contains every bit of content, organized by story year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaanfight Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Legends number 4: Legacy of Evil. This is one of my favorite not only bionicle books, but all time books! I mean, it introduced Lariska, the dark hunters were interesting, there was dark humor, and it was very well written Quote TANNOHK-KAL FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In a world filled with peace, one shadow will spark a war My epic, Shadow Destiny: http://www.bzpower.com/board/index.php?showtopic=10089 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LewaLew Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 I think the best books are the ones with the fewest demands placed upon them. Books like Time Trap, Legacy of Evil, and Raid on Vulcanus that were not really crucial to the main story, but were free to follow fewer characters and storylines and focus on only one or two things. Time Trap was all about Vakama and Teridax, and benefited from placing more meat on that story while cutting away the fat of characters that were mandatory in the main story. Legacy of Evil was basically a villains episode, which was extremely beneficial to the story year as a whole because 2006 was really the first year where the six main villains were individuals with personalities, and Legacy of Evil really gave them depth that few villains not named Teridax had enjoyed up to that point. In later years, this purpose was served by serials like The Mutran Chronicles and Empire of the Skrall. Raid on Vulcanus is also very good, because it focuses just on Vulcanus, and the fight to defend it from the Bone Hunters. And although it has more characters than Time Trap, and does focus on Gelu and Gresh in some points, Raid on Vulcanus is very much Ackar's book, just like Time Trap belonged to Vakama. My favorite book is hard to say. I've read the Legends series far more often, so I lean towards those every time topics like this one come up, but whenever I read the Adventures, I am reminded how much I like those books--particularly the 2005 Adventures. 2005 was my least-favored story year, and BIONICLE 3 was my least favored of the four movies, but the books during that year (I'm including Time Trap) are some of the best in the series. Quote How well will you die? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toa kopaka4372 Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Too hard to choose, as there are simply too many great BIONICLE books. My favorites would include The Darkness Below, Maze of Shadows, Time Trap, Dark Destiny, Legacy of Evil, Downfall, and Raid on Vulcanus. I more or less love all of the novels, though. Quote Credit goes to Linus Van Pelt (Formerly known as Cherixon) and Spectral Avohkii EnterprisesMy Memoirs of the Dead entry, Reflectons:http://www.bzpower.com/board/index.php?showtopic=7351 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotcom Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 I'm actually meaning to re-read the books, since I'm pretty curiosu to see exactly which are my favorites after all this time. From what I remember, though, I know I loved The Darkness Below, Island of Doom, Dark Destiny, Power Play, Inferno, (All the '06 books really), Prisoners of the Pit, Downfall, The Final Battle, and Raid on Vulcanus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Miss Krahka Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Voyage of Fear because of all the Onewa/Whenua feels it gives me. OTP 5evah. Quote If I had a cool thing to put here I would put it here Probably not though It'd probably be some dumb meme Maybe some hipster-tastic lyrics Who cares Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishers64 Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Time Trap owns all other Bionicle books IMO. Although I probably should credit the WoS novelisation and Challenge of the Hordika for being good, too. Quote Hero Factory RPG | Bionicle Mafia XXIX: Storyline & Theories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vakama-san Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 Time Trap owns all other Bionicle books IMO.Yes. Yes it does.Time Trap is my favourite(and the best IMO) because (1) it fills in a story gap, (2) you get to see more of Teridax's personality that you don't see in the other books, (3) Teridax/Vakama chase scene, and (4) it's just plain epic. Quote "Why can't I dream that I'm alone?" "That is not a dream, that is a substitute for reality""So where is my dream?" "it is a continuation of reality""But where is my reality?" "It is at the end of your dream" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopaka25 Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 Tales of the Masks, Time Trap, Maze Of Shadows and Raid on Vulcanus are all my favourites. Quote "Where wisdom and valor fail, all that remains is faith. And it can overcome all." - Tahu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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