So around 2016 the bionicle brand was revived, but to little fanfare, mainly because although most of the figures was decent the storytelling was not like the original and lacked substance. Also, the original lore was long as fuck and ONGOING and that's not friendly to a new audience, and the original audience was around their late 20's, to the IP was bound to fail. (Me being me, i bought all the fucking figures anyhow lol) There are many more problems as to how bionocle fell, one of which is how far the plastic parts strayed from the "system" and the amount of new parts created, which costs money to contantly create new molds. I can come up with several ways that they could have avoided failure and revived bionicle without a hitch but i'll post that elsewhere, for now, here's the main deal why i'm posting this.
As i mentioned, brand flopped hardcore, pulled off of shelves, fans got pissed, the end. Around 2019, one of the concept artist for bionicle made an esoteric post on instagayram titled "biovival 2020" which had the fanboys going nuts over a potential revival of bionicle, and had me thinking, maybe he'll leak his secrets, or make a ongoing bionicle comic, or story serials continuing the lore?
Here's what actually happened.
Christan faber was hired to help revive bionicle but after a major fight which was very fucking major and painful for him, had stepped down in the most part and they took some of his ideas but abandoned the others.
Biovival was christian getting the OK from lego's legal team for him to leak all of his secrets and ideas for gen 2.
https://youtube.com/@questforfuturecreativity/Here is christian faber's youtube
Now, here is the actual meat of the matter,
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vqnH_LdaqRc [Play]musings and background
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vOMTcEPxVHI [Play]https://youtube.com/watch?v=bEFOkphDGG4 [Play]a little taste of gen 2
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ipyk36wrZDg [Play]and the actual esoterica behind everything gen 2 was supposed to be lego metaphysics, and how all lego IPs are interconnected.