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This is the first episode of a BIONICLE documentary series I made with my friend Political_Slime, where we reveal the original pitch that kicked off constraction through an exclusive interview with Andrew Nagel, a design consultant. This is a story we uncovered back in September 2021. For many years, we thought Christian Faber's Cybots project in 1995 was what started the concept, but that turned out to not be the case. Hope you all enjoy this first ep!

Thanks man! Yeah, I had a lot of fun syncing vids up with the lyrics. That whole sequence first has Vakama as a Metru, then it flashes forward to his Turaga days, followed by a glimpse of the Vahi (the mask he created), and then it flashes back to when he got transformed into a Hordika. I had a lot of fun making small sequences like that. I slipped in quite a few memier references like Jaller from Insane BIONICLE Brain, and I even tied that with it's own little sequence involving Jaller Inika holding Thok's spine from BIONICLE heroes, followed by him being held by Hydraxon as a Mahri-- kinda like a call and response . I didn't even know Hardcastle had a YouTube account, so it was pretty cool when he commented on it. Maybe he was nostalgic about BIONICLE?

Made this music video about 3 years ago, but thought I'd post it to BZP for my first real topic here on the site. I really liked the unreleased song by Paul Hardcastle called 'Bionicle Age', and I wanted to sync the video to the beats of the song. Also tried stringing together a narrative for the various segments of the song: a calm before the storm, villians attacking, heroes descending etc. Been thinking about remaking the vid using LordFindogask734's 4K upscales, but don't know if I will. Something cool that recently happened was Paul Hardcastle actually commenting on it-- didn't expect that at all. I'd be interested to hear what y'all think of it!