Is hero factory part of the bionicle timeline?

[Sixshot]

Here’s a thought I have had for a while. What if hero factory took place in the bionicle timeline but it happens so far in the future that everyone forgot the bionicle story.

[Lenny7092]

I would say Hero Factory happens in the same events as Bionicle G1 does. Both of them are in the present time. I’m doing a fan story called “Bionicle and Hero Factory United” in Lego World Builder about it.

[confused piraka]

what if it was before and something really bad happened so it put everyone back to the ''dark ages''

(my theory)

[T.B.O.C]

It would be fundamentally useless from a narrative standpoint. If it's so far in the future that no one remembers, and it doesn't affect the plot or setting, there's no purpose. Making a connection to serve no purpose adds nothing to either world, in my opinion.

[Starset]

Short anwer is no.

Long answer is yes, if you really want it to.

Basically, it was not meant to be in any official way.

At this point, it's your own choice to integrate it or not. I honesty think that forcing the Hero Factory Storyline into the Bionicle Storyline is kind of limiting the narrative here. I prefer to imagine my own version of Bionicle's past and future. However, if you like the idea of mixing these two universes, than go ahead. Whatever suits your boat. However, I don't think there will ever be an official statement from Lego or the authors of these series regarding that. It's one of these questions better left unanswered because it fuels our own imagination and freedom to make things play out as we think they would/should. That is the whole idea behind Lego as well. Be creative and build your own universe.

[Nato G]

55 minutes ago, Starset said:

I honesty think that forcing the Hero Factory Storyline into the Bionicle Storyline is kind of limiting the narrative here.

Absolutely agreed.

The whole of Bionicle is a 100,000 year narrative about repairing one broken planet. And while there were vague mentions of Mata Nui observing other worlds and civilisations, there's nothing to suggest that anything he encountered was technologically advanced in any way (certainly not advanced enough to notice a giant robot landing on their planets). 

To retroactively say that the entire Bionicle storyline actually unfolded in a universe that is densely inhabited by other advanced civilisations, where humans and aliens exist, and robot police travel from planet to planet with ease, makes the whole Bionicle story feel weirdly small and inconsequential, and a lot less unique. 

[Master Inika]

On 8/29/2023 at 1:11 AM, Nato G said:

Absolutely agreed.

The whole of Bionicle is a 100,000 year narrative about repairing one broken planet. And while there were vague mentions of Mata Nui observing other worlds and civilisations, there's nothing to suggest that anything he encountered was technologically advanced in any way (certainly not advanced enough to notice a giant robot landing on their planets). 

To retroactively say that the entire Bionicle storyline actually unfolded in a universe that is densely inhabited by other advanced civilisations, where humans and aliens exist, and robot police travel from planet to planet with ease, makes the whole Bionicle story feel weirdly small and inconsequential, and a lot less unique. 

Lol, I hate to say it but that would be the funniest and most memorable take of Bionicle and G1 being set in the same universe. If Spherus Magna and the Great Beings are just these primitive cavemen compared to everyone else.

[Lorentz]

No. It's a completely different story. You're welcome to make up your own convoluted connections, as long as you're aware that it's crossover fanfiction.

Edited October 10, 2023 by Lorentz