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I think it's the name of the sub-team of Hero Recon Team members that the reporter is a member of. He or she kept on saying "Recon Team Omega". Rocka said "Rocka Out" in Episode 9 of Hero Factory's TV show, so it must be that. The reporter kept on saying "we", anyway.

Hi, guys. Someone in Reddit found a book that shares the same name as Bionicle two days ago! I have links to prove it: 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/bioniclelego/comments/1v3ng2h/picked_up_this_bionicle_book_at_a_second_hand/ . 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/bioniclelego/comments/1v4g5vb/update_as_requested_here_is_a_photo_of_the_back/ . 3. https://www.reddit.com/r/bioniclelego/comments/1v4qysd/mysterious_fan_book_update_2_for_anyone_who_had/ . 4. https://www.reddit.com/r/bioniclelego/comments/1v4s2b8/mysterious_bionicle_fan_book_update_3_last_post/ . People believe that the book is a fan book about Bionicle, but the book is most likely not related to Bionicle. Here’s a bonus link: https://www.reddit.com/r/bioniclelego/comments/1v4pcwj/in_honor_of_the_mysterious_fan_book_i_made_this/ .

Hi, guys. As you may know, Bionicle was featured in many issues of the Lego Magazine, from November 2000 to March 2010 (G1. I hope someone has scans for all of them, including the BrickMaster ones and Club Jr. ones) and November 2014 to March 2016 (plus a bonus one in July 2016 in the UK). Plus, European Lego-related magazines that offered bonus Bionicle pieces and polybag sets. However, I discovered that Bionicle was featured in some magazines that are not completely Lego. Here's a list: 1. ToyFare Magazine Issue #48 in July 2001 - https://www.maskofdestiny.com/news/toyfare-coverage , https://news.lugnet.com/mediawatch/?n=148 , https://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.php?i=51873 (Brickshelf is not working now for some reason), https://news.lugnet.com/technic/bionicle/?n=756 . 2. ToyFare Magazine Issue #57 in May 2002 - https://www.maskofdestiny.com/news/lego-in-toyfare-magazine-again . 3. ToyFare Magazine Issue #62 in September 2002 - https://www.maskofdestiny.com/news/toyfare-nuva . 4. ToyFare Magazine Issue #65 in November 2002 - https://www.maskofdestiny.com/news/return-to-toyfare . 5. ToyFare Magazine Issue #70 in April 2003 - https://www.bzpower.info/story.php?ID=918 . 6. A ToyFare Magazine issue in July 2003 with Takanuva and Makuta (what issue, though?) - https://www.bzpower.info/story.php?ID=1170 . 7. ToyFare Magazine Issue #77 in January 2004 - https://www.maskofdestiny.com/news/toyfare-toa , https://www.bzpower.info/story.php?ID=1522 , https://www.bzpower.info/story.php?ID=1523 , https://www.reddit.com/r/bioniclelego/comments/1f2vndf/found_an_old_toy_fair_magazine_from_2003_with/ . 8. https://www.bzpower.info/story.php?ID=2383 - Premiere Issue of BrickJournal Released (June 23, 2005), https://carneycastle.com/BrickJournal/index.htm . 9. “Brick by Brick” in 2013. 10. https://www.bzpower.info/story.php?ID=11988 - Bionicle to Grace the Cover of Blocks Magazine (October 23, 2021), https://www.bzpower.info/story.php?ID=11999 - Blocks Issue 85 Up For Preorder (October 29, 2021), https://www.jedinews.com/literature/articles/blocks-issue-85-celebrating-lego-bionicle-at-20/ , https://blocksmag.com/limited-edition-poster-celebrates-lego-bionicle-at-20/ , https://blocksmag.com/why-every-lego-fan-should-know-the-bionicle-story/ , https://blocksmag.com/tag/lego-bionicle/ . 11. "TIME: The Magic of Lego" in 2024. 12. "LEGO - Complete Fan Guide" in 2026. I heard these magazines contained prototype sets and concept art. Would be interesting to collect them. You can get this stuff through Amazon, though Amazon does not have the ToyFare Magazines, the BrickJournal Magazine, or the Blocks Magazine. Bonuses: 1. https://www.bzpower.info/story.php?ID=1275 - Bionicle Quiz in latest Disney Magazine (August 12, 2003). 2. https://www.bzpower.info/story.php?ID=1296 - Wired Magazine gives its opinion on the Bionicle Movie(August 20, 2003). 3. https://www.bzpower.info/story.php?ID=1362 - Bionicle the Game in Disney Mag (September 10, 2003). 4. https://www.bzpower.info/story.php?ID=1370 - Mask of Light review in Entertainment Weekly mag (September 13, 2003). 5. https://www.bzpower.info/story.php?ID=1724 - Vahki and Dume Bios (March 2, 2003). 6. https://www.bzpower.info/story.php?ID=2104 - Kraze Club Contest (November 5, 2004). If anyone has these magazines, please put the scans in here.

Hi, guys. When I was researching about Hero Factory, I noticed Issue #141 of the Blocks Magazine in July 2026 has some Hero Factory (early history and concept art in 2010) in it: https://x.com/blocksmagazine/status/2072296664216568008 and https://blocksmag.com . Looks promising. You can find it in select Barnes and Noble's stores and select magazine retailers. If you want a piece of Hero Factory history, go buy the book before it disappears at the end of the month! I want to get the magazine!

We have two more projects that appeared recently. These guys really want Bionicle’s 25th anniversary to be celebrated. I respect that. I hope you guys will help. 1. https://ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/5f788903-7234-4057-8bb2-a6ebf0381261 (The Toa Unite - 25th Anniversary). 2. https://ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/b5224978-afb0-45cb-95ab-82e76ae071d6 (Lego Throughout the Years Advent Calendar. This one had Tahu Mata in it).

You could have said a nicer way of saying “I think the CD was only sold in Europe”. I see no evidence about the CD being sold in the USA, but still.

Hi, guys. I was researching this CD that was exclusive in Nestle cereals: https://biosector01.com/wiki/Toa_Mata_Nestlé_Promo_CD . This article says that such cereal boxes were sold in Europe, but what about other countries, like the USA? I tried Googling it, but Google didn't give me a good answer. So, does any American BZPower member remember getting such a cereal box in the USA?

I wonder if Lego will also announce something cool for Bionicle’s 25th anniversary? I hope that will happen, too.

Here’s a new one, guys: https://ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/e416d33c-7f8e-4385-a082-fe541114f77b (Bionicle 25th Anniversary - Mata Serie : Toa Tahu). Go support it, please!

Hi, guys. Fifteen years ago, in the second half of 2011, Hero Factory had its late 2011 story arc called “Savage Planet”. It is about six members of the Alpha 1 Team, who are Preston Stormer, William Furno, Jimi Stringer, Dunkan Bulk, Julius Nex, and a new guy named Daniel Rocka, fighting against a villain called the Witch Doctor. The Witch Doctor was once a professor named Aldous Witch at the Hero Factory building, teaching Heroes, but he got exiled for trying to wear a Hero Core. He then uses corrupted Quaza to mind-control techno-organic animals (Bionicle’s 2001 story arc, with the Infected Mask-wearing Rahi, anyone? This happened 10 years before Savage Planet, so this was like a pretend anniversary gift to Bionicle?) on a jungle planet called Quatros, and mines the Quaza from the planet, destroying it, making the Heroes go save the planet from Witch Doctor. The Heroes wear animal-based armor that give them animal-based powers, to survive the planet, and they were called “3.0 Heroes”. The set wave had 12 sets. Seven for the Heroes, and five for Witch Doctor and his animal slaves. The set wave is the first to have swarm enemies, which are the animal slaves. It used the Character and Creature Building System, like the early 2011 story arc called “Ordeal of Fire”. It has many animal-based pieces, as the Heroes have transparent dark green armor pieces that have their names and pictures of their animals on them. This is the first year to have an XL Hero set, which is Rocka XL, a larger version of Rocka 3.0, similar to Takanuva’s 2008 set and Mata Nui’s large 2009 set from Bionicle. The tallest Hero Factory set in the set wave is Witch Doctor, who is also the tallest Hero Factory set in general. The Hero Recon Team website used the 3.0 parts as well. The set wave has a two-part television movie called “Savage Planet” in September 2011. The movie was also released on DVD on October 4, 2011. The DVD came with the Ordeal of Fire episode as a bonus feature. There are also six new Creep Crushers games called "Jungle Crushers". There are also an online game called "Mission: Savage Planet", a sequel to "Mission: Von Nebula" in 2010 and "Mission: Ordeal of Fire" in early 2011. There are two comics, one in July 2011 and one in November (I don't know what there is no comic in September). I collected all of the Savage Planet sets. The animal-based pieces are neat pieces. Witch Doctor has a limited articulation in his legs and shoulders, and an asymmetrical waist, though. I wish Mark Surge, Natalie Breez, and Nathan Evo had their own 3.0 forms (I would imagine Surge‘s 3.0 form being based on a blue bird, Breez being a green bird, and Evo being a cougar). I also wish there is a 2.0 set (and maybe 1.0 set) for Rocka since his 3.0 and XL sets are his first sets. I would like to think that the “3.0” name would also mean that the Heroes became stronger than their 2.0 forms, even without the animal armor (the Breakout forms look like stronger versions of the 2.0 forms). I also wish the DVD had more stuff, like a documentary (I should say the same to the Rise of the Rookies DVD). Sadly, the Savage Planet DVD is the last Hero Factory DVD for some reason. The Savage Planet is a good story arc, though I wish the Heroes had fought more animal slaves rather than just five (just two Fangz, one Waspix, one Raw-Jaw, and one Scorpio. Lol). I also wish Rocka’s origin story was expanded. Anyway, happy 15th anniversary, Savage Planet.

Hi, guys. I don’t know what day was Bionicle officially released, but I looked into BioSector01. Here’s what I researched: December 23, 2000: Bionicle.com happened. January 1, 2001: Mata Nui Online Game happened. February 1, 2001: The Toa, the main protagonists of the 2001 story arc, were released in Europe. May 1, 2001: The first Bionicle comic in the Lego Magazine happened. June 2001: The Turaga were released worldwide (the US at least, I heard. I wonder what day, though, like June 1? They were released in Europe on April 1, 2001). July 2001: The Toa were released worldwide (the US at least, I heard. I wonder what day, though, like July 1? They were going to be released in August, but this happened instead). Some people claimed that the first sets (the Toa) were released early in December 2000 as a test launch while some claimed that the first sets were released on January 2001. It’s quite confusing, but got to stick with what I said because it is official information. When Bionicle was launched the first time, it saved Lego from bankruptcy. It is why Kanohi-Power, BionicleZone Community, and Mask of Destiny had happened (Before these fan websites, there is Lugnet, which is the first to report news about Bionicle. Kanohi-Power and BZCommunity combined to form BZPower, the very thing we are using today). It has a story that is like DC Comics, Marvel, Transformers, and Star Wars. As you know, it is about bio-mechanical beings fighting each other to get special stuff. It became famous and had many media, including comics, chapter books, and the four direct-to-video movies. Everything was beautiful. However, we had some canceled stuff, like the Bionicle: The Legend of Mata Nui game and that Bionicle Legends book called Invasion. Thus, Lego announced the cancelation of Bionicle in November 2009 for some reason. Bionicle’s original run ended in early 2010, but its story continued. However, the story stopped on 2011, and it doesn’t have an ending. It has many unresolved stuff. It was a dark time. When Bionicle was gone, Hero Factory came in and kept Lego’s action figure category alive. It has some stuff from Bionicle (its 2010 set wave has more similar stuff than the other set waves). Bionicle came back on 2015, but it had a hard reboot similar to The Amazing Spider-Man movies in 2012-2014 (it is a hard reboot to the Spider-Man trilogy in 2002-2007). This version only has the Toa Mata and Makuta Teridax. It is about the Toa saving the island of Okoto from Makuta and his minions, and they have to collect magical golden masks to do it. It had an online animation series, three chapter books, two graphic novels, and a Netflix show called Bionicle: The Journey to One in 2016. Sadly, Bionicle got canceled again on July 29, 2016 for some reason, like the Amazing Spider-Man series. It was another dark time. Bionicle hasn’t came back since 2016. I don’t know what Lego was thinking, but the the cancelations shouldn’t have happened. You guys feel that way, too. However, there are still many fans that talk fondly about Bionicle. Bionicle became a cult following. We see a lot of fan stuff for Bionicle. We are still here. Plus, there are some Lego sets that reference to Bionicle. There are three Tahu sets in 2022-2026, which are the small brick-built one in 2022, the tall one with Takua in 2023, and the mini-figure guy called “Bionicle Cosplay” in 2026. In my experience, I have been a fan of Bionicle since day one. It helped me with my middle school and college. I collected a lot of the Bionicle sets, the direct-to-video movies, and the console video games. I also went to New York Comic Con in 2014 to see the preview of Bionicle G2. I hope Bionicle will came back again beautifully someday (people do “#bringbackbionicle”. Plus, I hope for the G1 story to be officially finished someday, same with Hero Factory’s story, and both being said to share the same universe. Christian Faber wanted that to happen, too). Happy 25th anniversary, Bionicle!

Hi, people. Fifteen years ago, on June 30, 2011, the latest chapter of Bionicle's G1 story, which was the seventh and final chapter of a podcast, Sahmad's Tale, had happened. No new chapters for the online story serials, "The Yesterday Quest" and "The Power That Be", were added. Bummer. However, Greg Farshtey was kind enough to answer some questions, but not everything is resolved, and the story does not have an official ending. Many characters are scattered like leaves. Makuta Teridax may have been destroyed and Spherus Magna have been restored in the the 2010 story arc, but still, and there is a crazy Great Being who wants to rule Spherus Magna. Sadly, Greg was laid off by Lego in 2022, so no new additions to the story happened. This is an extremely sad time we are in. I see that many fans have created some fan stories that act as add-ons to the story and true finales to it (there is a bunch of such stories in Myths and Legacies. I am also working on a fan story called "Bionicle and Hero Factory United", where it has add-ons to the G1 story and Hero Factory's story, officially finishes their stories, and makes them share the same universe), but they are not declared to be canon by Lego (some have content that Lego wouldn't approve, like dark tones and maybe more scattering. No offense to the writers). A lot of fans, include me, want the story to be officially finished someday. Seriously. Good thing that there is this dude who is doing this petition. Life is incomplete with the story being unfinished. I should say the same to Hero Factory's story. Someday... If we work together, we could make it happen. I pray for it (On a side note, I'm watching you, Master Inika, Nato G, and Kawaii Kitty. You always say pessimistic stuff that can dishearten people. If you have something like that to say, please don't. I don't like anyone here to feel sadder, please).

Well, when Bionicle is around, you guys always talking about something everyday until 2021 (for Hero Factory, mostly. You only made a few articles in the summer of 2013). You talk about something once in a while nowadays. I hope you guys are doing okay.

Yeah. Will Master Inika? I mean, it’s not pressure, but we could use a good insight for the story, please.

Maybe they are just good guesses based on probability. I mean, he knew (as in having a hunch) that something bad or big is going to happen, so he had to be prepared. I mean, read Bionicle Adventures 10: Time Trap. He knew that Makuta Teridax was up to no good, so he prepared things for the people of the Matoran Universe. I believe the visions were one of those things. He probably didn’t expect the whole thing.