#makuta creation

[toacody]

G2 Kurahk

He will only like you when you're angry!

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Creator: Antak3000

#lego #bionicle #armor #armor plates #living #living armor #rahkshi #makuta #brotherhood of makuta #makuta creation #reptile #reptilian #humanoid #humanoid reptile #bionicle g2 #update #style update #revamp #anger #rage #rampage #mata nui #spiny #spines #spear #scepter #staff

[cryptid-cuisine]

2001 Titan Makuta Teridax

As creepy as MNOG's swarm of pieces was, I thought Makuta deserved a proper titan model for his first battle with the Toa.

This model is fully buildable with real pieces, and has two gear functions to boot!

Leg design credit goes to @teelguy's Toa Nui.

Additional view of the model under the cut!

All pieces excluding the black firesword were available in 2001.

#bionicle #makuta #makuta teridax #cryptid's creations

[kanohivolitakk]

My dirty little Bionicle related secret is that I vastly prefer Creation Duo over MN - Makuta as a duo.

Tho granted that may be because the later years diminished MN and Makuta as counterparts til it suddenly became important again in Journeys End. Like by 2009 they didnt feel like counterparts anymore which just made their dynamic weaker.

#kirika talks #bionicle #creation duo posting #artakha #karzahni #mata nui #makuta

[theseaofrainbowclouds]

MNOG Makuta

It's so hard to adequately describe just what about MNOG Makuta made him so terrifyingly powerful. Like there's a hundred-and-one other fantasy Big Bads that match his basic description: spirit of darkness, being of pure evil, corrupting entity. What makes this dark lord work?

I feel like a lot of it is just the deliciousness of the set-up. No amount of exaggerating how powerful he is means a thing in the dark lord contest, but you begin with "God is asleep because Satan tricked him and we have to wake him up" as the basic quest set-up told with an especially strong mythology creation story vibe to it as if to say this is just how the world is.

Then have the Makuta's influence turn the wild animals hostile. In another world this might not be terrifying, but our little dude have nothing but huts and fences to shelter them from the wilderness and when they leave their village they give up even that. These rahi beasts are dangerous enough that even the toa shouldn't fight some of them one-on-one in the beginning.

Add that you're not even safe inside your village. You know how the Makuta fills the island with infected masks that turn the rahi violent? Well, he can create diseases that get you in your home. You almost wonder if the Makuta isn't watching you now from every shadow.

Finally, you fight through all his strongest rahi, you go down into the darkness, you confront him in his grotto face to face and… the form he chooses is just a whirlwind of rusted parts that briefly form themselves into a fully infected version of one of the dudes you're trying to save. He doesn't need to impress you with how big and terrible he is, he can show you fear in a handful of rust. He is nothing you can fight, because he is as inevitable as entropy itself. He is your inevitable failure. You can't destroy what he is because he is nothing.

... And then you find out his name is Terry XD

#bionicle #mnog #makuta #realtalk though Teridax pulls some really devious gambits and straight up wins for a time in the full story #but nothing will ever match up to the raw menace that 2001's Makuta had for me #I only wish there was some way to have my cake and eat it too

[goattypegirl]

While not physically dependent on Kanohi the way Matoran are, Makuta give them equal cultural weight. A Makuta's mask is their identifier. It is difficult to identify who's who if you are all natural shapechagers and illusionists, so it is customary to avoid altering one's mask too drastically in the company of other Makuta. The Hagah tradition to honor past heroes by wearing masks shaped like theirs is derived from this philosophy.

Masks are never swapped or gifted, with a single historical exception. Icarax inherited the Mask of Shadows, and gave his mask of Scavenging to a lowly Matoran as a show of power. Icarax was too foolish to realize Teridax had just done the same to him.

Masks are also emblems of a Makuta's character, their beliefs and philosophies distilled into a single object. Teridax's coup changed the Makuta from scientists and shepherds to occult chessmasters, but can be thought as a shift from the Mask of Mutation to the Mask of Shadows. Would the Makuta have become isolationist hermit-kings had Krika taken control? Accelerationists and disruptors had Gorast?

Only one of Great version each mask has ever been made*, and it is uknown who made them or the Noble versions rewarded to a Makuta's chosen Matoran. One would think that the Makuta's masks were declared immoral for Toa to use after the Brotherhood's betrayal was made public, but this was established in the Toa Code since its creation. A Toa would only ever be in a position to use a Makuta's mask if the Makuta had just died in front of them, most likely by the Toa's own hand.

*There is one exception, debatably two. Chirox and Mutran share the same mask. Some accounts theorize that Mutran initially had a different mask, and changed his mask in order to torment Chirox. Others say that the two always had the same mask, a symbol of their role as left and right hands of a greater whole. The Jultin is a matter of debate. The Jutin was Antroz's mask, but there are conflicting reports of his whereabouts just prior to the destiny war. A Matoran word for failure is 'spiriah', which is not only Makuta in origin, but constructed like a personal name. It is possible 'Spiriah' is in fact the Makuta of Zakaz expunged from history, and that Sipiriah donned an unpowered Jutlin in order to disguise their identity.

Rahi contain 'tags' within their core essence, instantly detectable and innately understandable by Antidermic creatures, but require a veteran archivist's knowledge to even to begin to comprehend for Protodermics. These tags are believed to be signatures by the Makuta who designed that Rahi species, maker's marks imbedded into their fundamental being. A codex of marks and their associated Makuta are on the Makoki stone, allowing for researchers to know precisely which Makuta created which Rahi. Curiously, there are tags within Rahi found nowhere upon the Makoki stone. The history of the Brotherhood begins with the formation of the Makoki stone, which suggests an early "generation zero" of Makuta born prior to the brotherhood. None of these elder Makuta have ever been successfully identified or contacted.

It is common belief that Antidermis was a byproduct of Protodermis synthesization. This is only partially correct. Antidermis was an attempt at artificial energized protodermis. Both substances are mutagenic, both components of a gestalt consciousness, but while energized is damnably finite, new Antidermis can theoretically be created forever.

The earliest design documents for the GSR were found recently. They revealed that the Great Beings initially wanted to build *6* vessels, at least some of which would have been made from Antidermis. Only one vessel was ever created, but the Great Beings reformulated this initial concept into another failsafe for the GSR. This should come as no surprise though. After all, Teridax's plan hinged on the fact that the Makuta are potentially destined to inherit the role of the Mata Nui intelligence.

#bionicle #my writing

[demitsorou]

My lovely Shakratu, Fury. They/she/he are focused on electrogenesis and weather manipulation.

They're especially fond of creating downpours, fog/mist, and thunderstorms to obscure their passage and corral their prey to seek shelter from the elements, only for their prey to find itself with no options to escape when Fury comes around to capture or eliminate them.

When not manipulating storms to cause further environmental disasters, he enjoys observing nature and critters considered less-desireable by many, like slugs, worms, frogs; anything that prefers rain and moisture.

She's also adept at underwater survival and navigation, having been made with Chimaerax's genetic material, who is a primary Makuta for creation and maintenance of deep oceanic regions. Infused with traits of some sharks and fish, Fury easily navigates by electroreception, compensating her poor eyesight.

Fury was the second Shakratu to be created, after Kayos. While Kayos was to be the major destructive force, an unstoppable one-man army for the Brotherhood, Fury was made with a more defensive focus rather than pure carnage. Their weapon of choice is a guardsaber, a blade with a built-in hybrid kanoka/rhotuka launcher, that extends their ability to weather the incoming assaults, as well as potentially protect others.

Fury has enjoyed their rivalry with Kayos, which led the two to develop begrudging respect and friendship-with-benefits. Fury was one of the first lovers who did not submit to Kayos's domineering presence, managing to come out on top in their frustrated sexual struggle. It was an enlightening experience for both of them.

#fury #bionicle #monster #biomech #shakratu #oc #biomechanical #biomecha #terato #demi-bionicle-art #demi-oc-art #demitsorou-art

[whiteheartlight]

"the Toa Mata can't call Artakha father - " darling, the Makuta called their favorite slugs their sons. everybody else is all brother this, sister that. family words are clearly in use for personal creations. what, you don't think Lewa should have rolled into Artakha asking for help like "HI FATHER IT'S ME, YOUR FAVORITE SON" and Artakha was already calling Tren Krom going "hey please distract my youngest child??"

#bionicle

[downtofragglerock]

Alright more Makuta time

A Makuta who ruled over an island covered by a vast desert with a single long winding river in the middle. Upon being given this domain, they promptly propped themselves up as a divine ruler to the local Matoran and other inhabitants, equal or perhaps even greater to the Great Spirit himself. While making the inhabitants build large geometric monuments in their honor, this Makuta went about creating rahi species for this island's environment. Their tastes were a tad eclectic, creating species of hawks, falcons, ibises, jackals, crocodiles, cats, scorpions, serpents, & scarabs, among other things. Eventually the Brotherhood took greater notice of this Makuta's activities, and with Teridax particularly viewing this as a usurpation attempt of his own divine usurpation plan, ordered this Makuta to be killed. The deed was successful, but afterwards, the leader of the now deceased Makuta's Hagah declared themselves the divine successor of the island's former ruler, kickstarting a dynasty.

A Makuta who pattered herself as a witch/alchemist, keeping large amounts of her Antidermis in specialized cauldrons and constantly coming up with new concoctions. She actually played a great role in the advancement of Rahkshi and Kraata production, as she found out how to specifically manipulate the Makuta's Antidermis to produce a Kraata of the desired type, rather than just blindly creating Kraata with random abilities. She was eventually killed by the Order of Mata Nui, but considering how many cauldrons she had stashed around that carried her own Antidermis, a Makuta's very own life force, it's entirely possible she could reemerge.

A Makuta whose creative talents laid in the design and creation of buildings, rather than of rahi. He was soon made the head architect of the Brotherhood, with practically all of their fortresses and facilities at least designed by him. Any species of rahi he did create were in service to construction, wether they be beasts of burden to help carry raw materials, or species with features and apparatuses that could be used to aid in construction (crane-like trunks, excavator claws, etc.). Surviving till Teridax's ascension, this Makuta, like the rest of the known surviving Brotherhood, had his Antidermis harvested to make legions of Rahkshi.

#bionicle

[herora-nuva]

"These machines were never built to make things right.

"These machines were never built to BURN ALIVE!"

Ok but can we talk about how fucking hard these lyrics go?! "As Above, So Below", the new song by @essengermusic and Cryoshell, is a masterpiece and dripping with thematic references to Bionicle, and in particular these two lines from the pre-choruses stick out too me because they feel so filled with meaning to the series. Like obviously I'm not Essenger, so I don't know everything that went into these lyrics, but I have to talk about what they make me feel because I can't stop thinking about them. So, here's my attempt at a lyrical analysis! :D

"Don't you feel that its too late to turn the tide. These machines were never built to make things right."

This line feels so interesting, because it feels like an acknowledgement that the characters were never really meant to be heroes. The Toa and Matoran were just meant to be the worker drones to keep the Mata Nui Robot functioning. Things were never meant to go this wrong, these beings who were just machines were never built to face evils and right wrongs of this magnitude. And yet they did, they rose to take on more than they were ever meant to.

"Don't you feel that its too late to turn the tide. These machines were never built BURN ALIIIIIIVEEEEE."

And then this line hits even harder! At the same time as calling them just machines, it calls them alive, and that they were never meant to burn, never meant to experience this pain. It calls them machines but evokes a pity of them, they were never meant to pay the price for these mistakes.

Just the contrast between these two lines (and I gotta say, I LOVE me some slight changes in repeating lyrics that give new context and meaning) captures what in my view is one of the most poignant themes in Bionicle, that they were never meant to be more than machines, and yet they became a people on their own, burdened with the weight of their creators' mistakes.

"Our sanctuary burns while you play god."

Who this refers to is also very interesting. It works for Mata Nui, Makuta, and the Great Beings, and I'd say most of all the Great Beings, who played god while their world burned.

"The world outside is dying as we slowly drown."

This line comes a little earlier than the previous one I mention, and I while it evokes the overarching theme in the song of the world in peril while the subjects are dormant, locked away in a paradise. It makes you think about the Great Beings off who knows where while their creation struggles. Though the drowning metaphor also makes me think of Mata Nui, also a dormant god who made mistakes, drowning from the waters of Aqua Magna literally filling his heart with the waterfall of Karda Nui. Love me some lyrics that have multiple potential meanings and interpretations.

GOD, this song is so sorrowful, and yet feels brimming with a determined rage to make things right, though wondering if ti may be too late. That feeling was so palpable in Bionicle, especially late Bionicle in the Ignition and Bara Magna Sagas. Ahhh, I love it so much, thank you Essenger, I know this was your dream, but to the rest of us, this was a gift beyond measure.

#bionicle #as above so below #music #essenger #cryoshell

[half-man-half-lime]

Fuck you, Bionicle photodump (Part 1)

I went rooting in my parents attic to bring my old Bionicle stuff to my apartment (the Bohrok pictured above were already here, I bought the shelf so odds and ends like them and my old rock collection would look a little less kiddie than on my dresser). Why? Do I have some sense that I'll try building something again? Or put those nasty, dusty relics on display? Who can say?

I bring you some of my classic creations in all their awful glory.

Let's start with my main man, the Guardian of Time. Rebuilt around high school from a design I did in elementary school. Big buff dude, giant poleaxe, Mask of Time.

I wrote some truly awful BZPower fanfic in middle school, a weird prequel to the second movie where he fights this jerk in Metru-Nui:

In retrospect that's clearly a female body type so this one (name long forgotten) I would retcon as a girl, or at least a dude in chest armor and hammer pants. Iunno.

What followed was a fic that highlighted the fact that I was too young to understand that stories are designed to go places and explain mysteries later on, as the story followed basically Mata Nui's & Makuta's dad who got turned into a big demon and sent into a wormhole or something. Behold the king of no structural integrity!

Note the neat wing mechanisms. Actually looks okay for the most part, other than the fact that I just spent like twenty minutes trying to put him back together as he repeatedly fell apart in my hands. The spear is also some sort of snake.

#Bionicle

[toaarcan]

Bionicle in 2008: The creation of the Mask of Light terrified the Brotherhood of Makuta. They viewed the potential creation of a Toa of Light as an existential threat, one so severe that they were willing to launch a raid on the island of Artakha to steal the Avohkii, even though doing so could expose that they had fallen from grace before they were ready, in hope that it would prevent a Toa of Light ever being made.

Also Bionicle in 2008: Okay so a single Makuta has been kidnapping and corrupting AU versions of Takanuva. By himself. He's so good at it that he has an entire army of them, despite the creature he uses to do the corruption only being invented like a month ago. He's not even in the Top 8 Makuta Who Are Good At Shit that Terry wants to get rid of.

#The Shadow Takanuva army was one of Those Ideas #In that it's horrifying when you read it #and the implications of such are interesting #but if you think about it for thirty seconds it immediately breaks #and the whole thing just becomes intensely stupid #Like we read all about Teridax being so terrified of even *one* Takanuva coming into existence #and then it turns out that there's this absolute rando #who isn't even on Terry's ''People who I have to specifically kill at the moment I become God'' list #who apparently has defeating Takanuva down to a science #Bionicle #Makuta #Teridax #Tridax #Makuta Tridax #Makuta Teridax #Takanuva #Shadow Takanuva

[toacody]

G2 Guurahk

"Ultimate Disintegrator, eh?"

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Creator: Antak3000

#lego #bionicle #armor #armor plates #living #living armor #rahkshi #makuta #brotherhood of makuta #makuta creation #bionicle g2 #update #style update #revamp #spiny #spines #reptile #reptilian #humanoid #humanoid reptile #staff #spear #scepter #disintegration #mata nui

[sepublic]

What if we reimagined all of the other non-Teridax Makuta as eldritch horrors, just as Teridax was initially presented in the early years of Bionicle? What if we used each Makuta as a prompt of sorts; What if THEY were the big villain terrorizing an island, their individual name unknown so they’re just THE Makuta to the local Toa and Matoran? Make each one feel worthy of the title of Makuta, with their depictions in Karda Nui being akin to physical, humanoid avatars meant to interact with others, just as the scheming Teridax is like for the vortex from MNOG?

Like for example, Chirox! You have this swarm of spiders known as the Visorak, led by one massive spider, known as Makuta. The Visorak mutate their victims, before dragging them back to their master.

Makuta is a spider-like entity that emerges from a cave, using his spindly limbs to grapple with and analyze his victims... Potentially drawing upon them for inspiration, before tearing and prying them apart into their base pieces, adding them to his massive collection. From these recycled parts, Makuta creates more Visorak, or dreaded Rahi creatures that wreak havoc on the ecosystem. Like Makuta, they are poison, destruction incarnate; They always inherit his twisted spirit that destroys.

That’s all Makuta does, even when he does create; He inevitably just destroys. Instead of coming up with new things on his own, he relies on Fate to mutate the living into something random, hoping chance will eventually grant him a working design for Makuta to copy. You could say Makuta has no real ideas of his own, and is a gambler, a parasite, betting something will come along for him to take. 

But isn’t destruction the same as creation, isn’t destroying his victims necessary to make things? That’s where the imagery of the spider comes into play; Its long, spindly limbs? They’re fingers. Makuta is not just a spider, he is a hand; The same hand that reaches into the parts bin to make new creations, plays with MoCs before tearing them apart to make something new. Just as Teridax represents the parts bin, Chirox is the builder’s hand, like in the Lego Movie, or Super Smash Bros. 

Each Visorak is like a hand of its own, grabbing victims, reassembling them randomly with mutation. Dragging them back to Chirox, whose hand motif is also inspired from the fact that he is the only Makuta who can fully control his Shadow Hand. And Makuta’s spider-like form? It’s attached to something much, MUCH bigger... It is not just a hand metaphorically, it is a literal hand and when Makuta’s lair collapses around him, it reveals the massive figure he is attached to; His whole, true self, a titan more resembling the Chirox we are familiar with.

The others are different angles and facets to approach the myth, the legend of the Makuta; Different re-imaginings, just as people came up with their own G3 and their own take on Makuta. Just like the Makuta contest we had for G2. Vamprah can represent the animalistic side of Makuta; The raging, kicking, screaming beast he was once described as by Vakama. The apex predator, for if his minions are the Rahi beasts, he is the greatest of them all.

Or Bitil! A temporal entity, haunted by his past selves, constantly summoned by his future self. Always going through different iterations, just as a MoC is frequently edited, redone, rebuilt; You can track his transformation, his evolution across his many selves; Makuta represents the existential horror of the timeline, of the way things change. A ghost of the past, and also a vision of the future. If the Vahi is central to the tale of Bionicle as the Mask of Time, what about Makuta as someone who constantly exploits and distorts this force?

Those are some of my initial ideas. Makuta needn’t always be this faceless force of nature, they can be a humanized figure, like Krika, who can be a sympathetic, tragic villain doomed by the narrative, consigned to his role and aware of it as part of a meta discussion; Miserix is the mighty dragon our knights must slay; The Makuta of Stelt, a land of merchants and commerce, the all-consuming force of corporatism that stifles creativity, or a bargaining devil. Gorast is a fanatical priestess hoping to bring in a new age, Mutran the quintessential mad scientist who played god and flew too close to the sun in his obsession.

Spiriah is a corrupt lord seething over his failures, who transformed and resents his people the Skakdi and must be rebelled against; Tridax is a multiversal collector providing commentary on adaptations; The Vortixx hope to harness the ultimate weapon that is Antroz; Kojol is the arcane keeper of knowledge like Lucifer, who stole the Light of enlightenment from the land of thinkers and is burned for it; And Icarax? A completely straightforward dark lord to conquer, as he always intended to be. Each plays the role of Makuta, as the final villain, the ultimate evil who started this conflict, whom our protagonists must rise to eventually vanquish.

#bionicle #makuta #brotherhood of makuta #chirox #vamprah #bitil #krika #miserix #makuta of stelt #gorast #mutran #spiriah #Tridax #antroz #kojol #icarax

[arr-jim-lad]

Mutran is such a great character, I understood his vibe immediately when he first appeared.

Like… his introduction paints such a clear, vivid picture of him and immediately makes him a fun villain. He is basically a mad scientist who is precise and careful of how his creations are built, but that also makes his work slow and less efficient than the other Makuta would've wanted.

I feel like the way he creates his rahi is likely the closest to what makuta were supposed to do, though Mutran is also very much corrupted. he is happy to create horrible creatures, but he also wants them to be physically and mentally designed in a way he deems correct. other makuta, who want to get stuff done ASAP, don't really appreciate that, and boy are they happy to let him know lmfao

guy is so tired from everyone constantly destroying his work lmfao

#Mutran #bionicle

[byz-was-here]

So we know there are at least 5 confirmed, Great being-planned sentient species in the MU.

Matoran

Skakdi

Vortixx

Makuta

The Bahrag

There's a lot of bionicle characters who don't quite fit into any of these groups, so I propose 3 hypotheses.

1) Many of the non-matoran bionicle characters are sentient rahi made before the makuta went bad. (Like Krahka and Keetongu)

2) The order of mata nui just straight up commissioned a bunch of one-off dudes from Artahka (which would explain a bunch of one off characters whose species we never see. If he made the Toa Mata, he can probably make other guys.)

3) This is my personal favorite. The Great beings all separately & individually decided to hide their favorite blorbos and other creations in the great spirit robot for safe keeping before it took off. (Looking at you, Dark Hunters.)

#bionicle #bonkle #byzrambles #Matoran #skakdi #vortixx #order of mata nui #makuta #artahka #the great beings #all the blorbos

[matoroblogs]

Building: Bionicle

It’s getting tougher to find the “LEGO®” aisle in toy stores these days. Traditional LEGO construc- tion sets are more often than not hidden behind strangely shaped canisters featuring robotic-looking creatures. Shoppers are more likely to stumble upon this “Bionicle” aisle before ever seeing another LEGO set, for the simple reason that LEGO Bionicle has been the company’s biggest selling product line for the last several years.

But what IS this Bionicle invasion, anyway?

To parents, it tends to be a complete mystery. Robotic warriors from a tropi- cal island or ancient city of legends. A lexicon so complex it has its own diction- ary. A layered story involving collectible disks and masks: Toa and Turaga, Makuta and Rahkshi, Vahki and Matoran. Bohrok and Bohrok-Kal. Video games, shoes, backpacks, and party favors. Even Halloween costumes.

To kids (typically 6-12 year old boys, for whom Bionicle is squarely aimed), Bionicle is a richly populated universe with cool LEGO sets, movies, books, an ever-updating storyline, Bionicle comics shipped with their LEGO Club magazine subscriptions (http://club.LEGO.com), its own official website (http://www.bionicle.com), and popular online resources such as BZPower (http://www.bzpower.com) and Bionicle Sector 01 (http://www.bioniclesector01.com).

Bionicle begins as a story set on the island of Mata Nui (recently expanded to the ancient city-island of Metru Nui) that pits several good guy Toa against bad guy Makuta and his minions. The Toa protect the other inhabit- ants of the islands, the Matoran, from the vicious Rahkshi and Visorak, among other nasties. Each is available as a set.

New and updated construction sets have been released at least twice each year since 2001, when Bionicle was widely introduced. The first six color-coded Toa of Mata Nui -- lava red Tahu, icy white Kopaka, sea blue Gali, stone brown Pohatu, deep black Onua, and forest green Lewa -- were an instant hit, winning awards and shattering sales records. Follow-up releases have also been strong, with updated Toa -- Toa Nuva, Toa Metru, and the latest, Toa

Hordika -- continuing the ongoing story. Of course, the Toa need something to protect, so there have been several rounds of Matoran sets released, the first in 2001 McDon- ald kids meals. Those poor Matoran often need help, from wild Rahi (animals) or Makuta’s Rahkshi “sons” to their own Vahki protector machines run amok.

Driving the story (and not coincidentally, LEGO set sales figures) are sev- eral media, primarily the Bionicle comics from DC and a popular series of books from Scholastic, most authored by Greg Farshtey (who also writes the comic). There have also been two well-received com puter-animated films released directly to video/DVD (“Bionicle:

Mask of Light” and “Bionicle: Legends of Metru Nui”), and a third is in the works. The official Bionicle website likewise provides storyline updates using text and animation, and has also included two immensely popular online games.

When you get into Bionicle, you’re not just buying a construction/action set... you’re entering a universe full of dramatic good-vs-evil action. There’s a lot behind those little canisters on the shelf, just waiting to be discovered.

To see many more amazing Bionicle-based creations, visit this creative forum on BZPower: http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=175513.

Kelly McKiernan is co-owner and administrator of BZPower.com, the largest and busiest Bionicle fan site on the web.

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#sunday paper #bionicle #2005 #magazine #article