Mister N

10 hours ago, Toa of Italy said:

I've read your blog, as well as Maku's document. I must say, this is seriously impressing (where have you been all this time? BZP could have used someone like you over the years...).

For many years I was more a fan of the years from 2004 on... there was more storyline material and the Bionicle world got gradually more complex, which I considerably appreciated. Besides, I got into Bionicle only from 2003 on...

Most of the time I spent on Rusbionicle Forums and in Russian community itself. Although I had an old account on the BZP, from which I shared my MOCs and one mini-project dedicated to the map of Metru Nui Chute System (funny, but he even managed to get to the main page, you can find it if you are interested) several years ago. I became interested in the research of early concepts relatively recently, about a year ago, although the Faber's blog in 2012 was very exciting and gave me many hints that bionicle could be something completely different, more simple in terms of elaboration of story, but richer in terms of elaboration of the world.

11 hours ago, Toa of Italy said:

However, in recent years several projects that have gone back to the origins of the storyline (in addition to Faber's renderings) have made me re-evaluate the first years... especially if they were meant to be really as elaborate as you propose. They really pique one's imagination... which is why I will be sure to keep following your blog. Great rendering of Lhii, by the way.

Thank you very much! At the moment I have big plans for this blog, and it is very important for me that it could serve as an occasion for dialogue with other fans, as this topic allowed me to take a fresh look at the franchise.

27 minutes ago, Tahu_Stars said:

Greg said there was nothing in the story bible about the Red Star except that it planned to be a space station nearby the Mata Nui.

At the same time, Gordon Krimes said that they added the Red Star in the game, because it was in the bible. It seems to me that Thompson had certain plans for this star.

On 9/24/2019 at 8:40 AM, Master Inika said:

That render is beautiful. Can't wait for the article on the seventh tribe. At least Lhii stayed part of canon, just built upon and retconned. The Makuta-loyal tribe got totally abandoned and replaced with it being just Ahkmou alone.

Thank you, I tried to make special preview in MNOG style for each post. 

I planned to post the English version of the article about the seventh tribe tomorrow.

14 hours ago, Peri said:

Yay, glad to see this is up! Excited to read more of these through proper translation instead of just google... the blog looks really spiffy too. nice header!

Thank you, Peri! I made this header with PSD-s from 01-03 style guide.

9 hours ago, Toatapio Nuva said:

For future posts, it would be interesting to see the original intent behind the Red Star talked about. It was such a fascinating concept before Greg retconned it into a revival machine.

All of them are already written in my native language. In the third article about Papu and Rangi I paid a lot of attention to the Red Star. I hope it will be interesting. 

About a year ago, I started my own Drop a Brick blog, which I dedicated to an early iterations of the Bionicle story. But I am from Russia and I kept this blog in my native language. Since then, I have decided to keep my articles in English. Special thanks to my friend Frozen Death for the translation and a big thanks to Eddy and Maku aka The Shadow Emperor for editing.

What's about this topic?

I’ll say it right away without complicated introductions – it's all because of Maku. This guy with his document “Early & Unused Story Concepts in Bionicle” showed me the other side of the Bionicle, the one that I always dreamed about and which I always tried to comprehend, considering the fascinating concept-arts by Christian Faber. This is a document that I highly recommend checking out before reading my articles. Since Maku and I accidentally found out about each other, thanks to Peri, we share with each other the finds of the original story. The resulting symbiosis is very important to me, and I sincerely hope that these articles will also infect someone with the idea of an early Bionicle.

MNOG. The game that many fans rightly consider the best media in the history of the franchise. And I also love this little piece of art madly. But this block of articles will be devoted not so much to the game itself as to the secrets that it hides. MNOG for me is not a reason, but an occasion to tell about the very original lore from the Story Bible, written by Alastair Swinnerton and Bob Thompson. Many people stereotypically believe that the early Bionicle was a naive tale and nothing more. To some extent, yes, since it is still the backdrop for the sale of toys, and we need to keep it in mind all the time. But we also cannot ignore the fact that Bob Thompson with his famous Seven Books of Bionicle wanted to create a complex and large world in which its study prevails over the narrative. Everything was built around the idea of the Big Secret and was strung on it by a huge number of small details and secrets. It is hard to deny that the 2001–2003 Bionicle made a strong bet precisely on the atmosphere of mystery and the fact that “everything is not so simple here”.

2001–2003 was the first book among the cycles of Bob Thompson, and it is logical that this book was to lay the foundation for the subsequent disclosure of the world. We were shown a huge number of strange and incomprehensible things, many of which, after Thompson left the company in 2005, were not justified, but forgotten or repelled. And in this block in each article I will take one of the elements of the game and carefully examine it with the help of Kanohi Akaku, extracting for you a grain after grain of an untold story.

Prologue

Ch. 1: Lhii the Surfer

Ch. 2: The Hidden 7th Tribe

Ch. 3: Sky Father Rangi and Earth Mother Papu

Ch. 4: Secrets of Kaita

Ch. 5: The Rahi breeding cycle

Ch 6: The Culture and Meaning of Tohunga and Turaga