I want to do a video on this. Maybe I will someday.
But long story short, there should be. Will there be? I dunno. There’s an app in development, but I don’t know how involved that will be.
MNOG defined the island and honestly defined the franchise. All of the worldbuilding was done in that game (visually worldbuilding is the most effective kind of worldbuilding for this type of franchise, especially for kids), and then the books and comics handled the “main story”. I’d love for this new Bionicle to do the same, because they really need it. We don’t know anything about Okoto, we don’t know anything about the Protectors. We need a MNOG more than ever.
But it needs to be done right. If they just make a normal 3D action game, like Bionicle Heroes or something like that, it won’t do anything. We’re in a nice little golden age when it comes to licensed stuff right now. Shadow of Mordor is fantastic, Alien: Isolation is great…we’re getting there, you know? To be honest, Travelers Tales isn’t exactly the developer I would have in mind to do it. They’d have to get a new dev to really pull it off.
But some kind of interactive worldbuilding needs to happen. I really hope that’s through some video game.
That’d be nice. While we are focusing on new Bionicle, I’d certainly like to talk about old Bionicle and the line going forward. I think, when we last talked, he had to pull off this pretense about Bionicle possibly continuing because they had not announced the reboot yet (even though it was in development). Now that that’s no longer a thing, I’d like to discuss a lot of behind the scenes going on during the old story, so we can get a sense of what’s different when it comes to development this time, as well as maybe his plans for old story going forward (I’m pretty sure he can talk about that now).
It’d also be good to have him publically acknowledge his role with Bionicle 2015 now, so that (hopefully!) a lot of fans stop asking him for that. That answer gets lost every few pages, and I would wager that most kids search up stuff on YouTube more often then not.
I really liked talking to Greg, and I would love to do it again. But of course, it would depend on his schedule and if he actually wanted to do it. I wouldn’t push him for it; I know the Lego Magazine is getting a redesign, so he might be really busy working on that.
