Mata Nui online game
Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle
Voya Nui Online Game

The three big online RPGs now have their own dedicated pages, with information and links for all the versions available. I hope this will make it simpler to know what options we host and to decide what you want to play!

A couple fun things today! The design manual has some nice expanded, early versions of the Toa and Turaga bios (among several other neat details). Meanwhile, this collection from the 2004 expansion to the style guide has plenty of PSDs containing the Toa Metru at heretofore unseen resolutions.

Amazing what you can find sitting on a park bench! Thanks, park bench.

Recently, I managed to secure another PS2 build of Bionicle 2: City of Legends. This is the third PS2 build of the game I have received, and it is particularly special. This build is from a former Argonaut Games developer, and it is the earliest build of the game known to exist. Compared to the other City of Legends builds, this one is vastly different. This build contains two different levels, and both are in a very early state. This build also has scrapped gameplay elements which are not present in any of the other builds. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this build is that Matau’s model closely resembles the art in the pitch document I received back in April!

You can download this build from the retail games page, or this link.

Gameplay can be found here.

Music

We are happy to bring you a big music update today! Included are many stock music tracks that were used in a variety of trailers and promotional material for Bionicle over the years. They’re all in their own album that you can download or stream from the music page (scroll down to the Misc section).

We’re also planning a gradual transition to FLAC over mp3 where possible – you can see this reflected in the changes.

And there’s plenty more new beyond that! Here’s the changelog:

Music 2.2.3

• General
  • Various albums had slight name changes and album art changes
• Animation Music
  • Renamed TLR and JTO albums for consistency
• Game Music
  • Redid Quest for the Toa soundtrack in better quality, added HQ Kopaka track from Huai Snowball Sling standalone release
  • Quest for the Toa and Heroes GBA downloads include midis and tracker modules respectively
  • Heroes Mobile and Challenge/Defenders downloads have been updated to their original midis
  • Updated Legend of Mata Nui soundtrack. Download now includes WAVs from Dave Madden
  • Added beta placeholder tracks to Bionicle Heroes soundtrack
  • Updated Bionicle Heroes GBA soundtrack to use HQ versions from Tom Miller
  • Renamed Bionicle Heroes mobile track names
  • Renamed Mask of Control track names
  • Updated City of Legends music to PS2 versions (which are better!)
  • Removed Agori Defender music (source now in stock music)
• Stock Music
  • Added stock music
• Miscellaneous
  • Removed tracks that now have full versions in the stock music album
• Added links to Spotify playlists of music we can’t host to downloads

Classic Style Guide 2007
Mata Nui AVO
Style Guide 2009

Big day for Bionicles! Thanks to an anonymous former Lego employee and BZPower we are able to bring you a new style guide, a bit more from the 09 guide, and a disc with Michael Dorn’s uncut recordings for the 2010 Mata Nui Saga.

Despite being from 2007, this Classic Style Guide actually covers miscellaneous stuff 2001-2006, separate from the main 07 guide.

While we had already received the discs from the 2009 guide as ZIPs from another source, you can now also find DMG images of the discs, as well as a clip from a BZP stream where Black Six shows the contents of the booklet the discs came in.

Enjoy the stuff!!

Storyboards for Legends of Metru Nui have continued to show up for sale on eBay, as has a single sequence from Mask of Light. The temporary download has been brought up to date – it will be fully integrated into the archive in the still forthcoming pictures update.

Nothing new in this update, but the Promo CDs page has been updated to change up the navigation a bit. It seems we also had a couple of dupe copies in our archive when it came to variations of the original BIONICLE Promo CD (aka the Toa Mata disc), so those have been pulled and the four variations are now more clearly labelled.

Over in Games, the download for the 2001 GBA game was accidentally labelled as a NA release (U), when it was in fact a European copy (E). That’s been fixed, and a true (U) version has been added as well!

BIONICLE Heroes PS2 Demo

Brendan Smith has already located a lot of Bionicle TV ads – today they bring us a demo for Bionicle Heroes they located on a PS2 demo disc! This is earlier than the PC demos, making it the oldest look at the game we have yet. Hexadecimal Mantis has separated the demo from the rest of the disc, so you can download it as its own thing to run in PCSX2. Make sure you set it to fast boot instead of full or the BIOS gets confused.

Also on the disc is the Gamescom 06 trailer for Heroes in better quality than we’d had in our archive – so that has been updated as well! And this got Vahkiti looking at other demo discs, so on top of all that the E3 trailer for the game (previously just labelled ‘trailer 1’ in our archive) is now much better quality too.

BioMedia Project has joined up with Wall of History and Litestone Studios to become a part of Mask of Destiny. Please look forward to all four finding a home at maskofdestiny.com in the future!

Here’s a miscellaneous video update for you! Highlights include Creative Caper’s test animation from when they were pitching themselves as the studio for Mask of Light, a trailer for the 2003 BIONICLE game from before they switched over to the stylized models, and more of the weird ‘Afternoons on ‘Toons’ spots they pushed the Glatorian Legends and Stars in on Nicktoons.

Mini Story section update too: the misc books downloads now contain a Polish version of the 2008 History booklet.

Full video changelog:

Commercials
For download:
– Added Glatorian Arena Fight (Francias)
– Added MAT version of Glatorian Arena Fight (Russian)
– Updated Bohrok Kal commercial (Espanol) to better quality
– Added edited version of Hordika Product (Russian) with no letterboxing
For download and streaming:
– Updated 2007 Warriors Product (Espanol) to better quality
– Added compilation of Afternoons on Toons Glatorian Legends Nicktoons spots
– Added alternate Phantoka commercial
– Updated 06 Nestle commercials to better quality, removed letterboxing

Game Videos
For download:
– Added edited versions of LOMN cinematics with no letterboxing
– Added 360 version of Heroes intro too, and source PC BIK – the mp4 is still in there too since it has other languages available
– Updated Toa Evolution trailer to original BIK
For download and streaming:
– Added LOMN animation tests provided by the composer, Dave Madden
– Added recordings of in-game cutscenes for LOMN and The Game (LOMN is just download for now)
– Cutscenes are now in their own separate download, as they’re pretty hefty
– Replaced PC version of Heroes Eidos and TT logo with Xbox360 version (better quality)
– Added BonusWeb.cz trailer for The Game
– Added Gamespot The Game dev interview
– Fixed the messed up aspect ratio on streaming versions of the Bohrok Kal and Rahkshi trailers for The Game
– Added new playthrough of Bionicle The Game.
– Updated The Game cinematics to better quality.

Movies
– Added Lewa test animation from Creative Capers
– Updated Bionicle 2 Toa Metru CD trailer to better quality
– Added Mask of Light trailer from The Game
– Added TXT translation of Die Legende Lebt to download
– Added Mask of Light early animation-to-film comparison and updated storyboard-to-film to better quality

Short Movies
For download:
– Added edited version of Creeps from the Deep prerelease with no letterboxing
– Added edited versions of the Mahri short that splice the final audio with the HD video from the prerelease version

Misc
– Added video demo of BionicleBattle.com (since we don’t have the actual site archived!)

Thanks to Vahkiti for pulling this stuff together!