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- Jun 4, 2015
Part of the reason it was spread out like that was marketing stuff IIRC. The first animated film was the finale of stuff that'd been building up the first 3 years, the 2 after it were cut down versions of the stories that were taking place the year they came out. There's also book versions of what happens in the movies and games as well as comic only stuff and some of it conflicts with each other due to there being several writers but it all kind of meshes together enough that you could flip between whatever was coming out at the time and know what was going on more or less. The comics also came free with the paid version of the lego magazine from what I remember.I knew the names of the characters and the basic gist of the story, but outside of the animated films, I never got really deep into it. I think the reason why is that it was spread over many different forms of media.
There were also high effort advertisement animations that I kinda wish the uncut versions were available of somewhere in actual HD, not 4k ai upscale yt video slop. I say this because I vividly remember some movies I went to back in the day playing the ads before the films and people in the theatre were unironically thinking it was some weird lego movie coming out soon.
About the movies, it kinda bothered me as a kid how they stylized the first 3 bionicle movies. I got used to them and gained a kinda appreciation for the weirdly stylized takes on the characters over time, though.
We do not speak of the fourth one