List of Bionicle media

Notes

• A novel titled Invasion was originally set to be the seventh edition in the Legends series, but was cancelled due to low book sales.
• Journey's End was only published in Poland. An English version was posted in segments on the official Bionicle website in 2010.

1. Rise of the Toa Nuva – The Toa Mata arrive on Mata Nui—but is it already too late?
2. Challenge of the Rahkshi – The Toa Nuva have to fight Rahkshi and Bohrok-Kal to prepare for the coming of the seventh Toa.
3. City of Legends – The Toa Metru fight to save their city from a terrible evil.
4. Trial by Fire – The Toa Metru, mutated into Toa Hordika, must save the Matoran, defeat the Visorak, and find the legendary Keetongu before they become beasts.
5. The Battle of Voya Nui – The Toa Inika must fight the evil Piraka to save the Great Spirit's life.
6. The Underwater City – The Toa Inika have to retrieve the Mask of Life from The Pit before it is too late.
7. Realm of Fear – The Toa Nuva have to fight the Brotherhood of Makuta to save a lost Matoran tribe and awaken Mata Nui.
8. Legends of Bara Magna – Old stories of Bara Magna will be revealed.
9. The Fall of Atero – The Bara Magna residents fight for their freedom against the Skrall.

1. "Gathering of the Toa" – The Toa arrive on the Island of Okoto and battle the evil Skull Spiders.
2. "Battle of the Mask Makers" – The story of events leading up to Ekimu and Makuta's confrontation centuries before the Toa arrived.
3. A third graphic novel was planned, but was ultimately never released.

1. Power of the Great Beings (Issue #10) – Mata Nui must find out the dark secrets of his creators, the Great Beings, and save Bara Magna from a force so evil, it could destroy the entire planet. The project was cancelled while it was a third of the way through.
2. Journey's End (Issue #11) – An eleventh graphic novel by the name of Journey's End was planned in advance of the release of the tenth graphic novel. Upon the cancellation of Power of the Great Beings, plans for Journey's End between Papercutz and the Lego Company were abandoned. It would have included the last 2 Bionicle comics and a few Post-Journey's End stories.

The first series of comics ran from 2001 to 2005. It followed the story of the Toa Mata/Nuva, and later, the Toa Metru/Toa Hordika. The first three issues were about the rise of the Toa Mata, illustrated by Carlos D'Anda. Randy Elliott took over starting in 2002, for issues 4–8, about the Bohrok invasion and the transformation of the Toa Mata into Toa Nuva. Issues 9-15 were about the Toa Nuva's battle with the Bohrok Kal and the Rahkshi. Then issue 16 started the Metru-Nui stories, later going into the Hordika starting with issue 22. The series ended on a cliffhanger with issue 27, with a teaser for the movie Web of Shadows which would conclude the story, and the new arc that would begin in 2006.

The Ignition series follows the 2006-2007 storyline. "Issue Zero" was a pull-out poster of Hakann and an interview with the new artist Stuart Sayger, hired for his "darker, edgier style." Issue 6 was online-only, later published in print by Papercutz with the rest of the series, and began the "Sea of Darkness" subseries for 2007. The series chronicled the Toa Inika's quest for the Mask of Life.

The Battle for Power subseries covered the 2008 storyline. It had a new artist, Leigh Gallagher. It had 4 issues.

The Glatorian series covers the 2009 story. The comic had a new artist, Pop Mhan. The series had 5 issues

The Journey's End subseries covers the final battle between Mata Nui and Makuta Teridax, and Mata Nui's efforts to reunite the 3 fragment of the once-glorious planet of Spherus Magna. The subseries kept Pop Mhan as the artist. The subseries had 2 issues.

There have been several promotional comics. The first one was released with the Happy Meal at McDonald's. You would receive a promo Tohunga (later renamed Matoran, due to a conflict over the use of the maori language) and a comic. Later in 2002, Burger King's Big Kids Meal released 3 promo comics about the story of the Bohrok. In the spring of 2004, three promotional comics on the Morbuzakh saga were sold in Mega Lunchables. Some canister sets have had shortened mini-comic versions of the LEGO comics.

1. Lego Bionicle: Quest for the Toa – released for Game Boy Advance in 2001; is also known as "Tales of the Tohunga" ("Tohunga" being an early word for "Matoran"). It acts as a prelude to the Bionicle saga, telling how Takua gathered the Toa stones and summoned the Toa Mata to Mata Nui. Unlike most games, it is considered canon.
2. Mata Nui Online Game – released on the LEGO Bionicle website, it continues from Tales of the Tohunga and shows Takua going around Mata Nui and helping the villages. It is much beloved by older fans of Bionicle. The game was removed in 2003, and returned as a download in 2006 due to high demand.
3. Mata Nui Online Game II – released on the LEGO Bionicle website, it is the sequel to the Mata Nui Online Game and takes place before and during the events of Bionicle: Mask of Light, in which you play as Hahli of Ga-Koro.
4. Bionicle: Matoran Adventures – released for Game Boy Advance in 2002, you play as Matoran fighting against the Bohrok swarms.
5. Bionicle: The Game – released for PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Game Boy Advance in 2003; this is a video game adaptation of the first movie, Mask of Light.
6. Bionicle: Maze of Shadows – released for Game Boy Advance in 2005, this game expands on the story of Bionicle Adventures #6: Maze of Shadows.
7. Bionicle Heroes – was released for PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Gamecube, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS in November 2006, with a Wii version released later in 2007. In the game you play as both the Toa Inika and the Piraka. It was produced by TT Games, the team behind the Lego Star Wars games.

1. Bionicle: Mask of Creation – released for iOS devices in 2015.
2. Bionicle: Mask of Control – released for iOS devices in 2016.

1. Lego Bionicle: The Legend of Mata Nui was planned to be released for PC. It would have covered the events of the 2001 storyline. The player played as the Toa Mata exploring the island, using Kanohi masks and battling Rahi. Due to a programming error, the player couldn't advance from the first level, where you played as Onua. The game was canceled because LEGO switched managements in 2001 and because this game was made by the previous LEGO management, the new guard felt no obligation to keep it going.[1] In February 2018, a functioning alpha build of the game was recovered[2] and on May 12, 2018, the beta version of the game was released to the public.[3]
2. Bionicle: City of Legends was a planned sequel to Bionicle, set for release in 2004. The players would presumably control the Toa Metru in the game. It was cancelled while it was under production because the developer, Argonaut Games, was liquidated before the game's planned release; however, a small playable tech demo exists.

Bionicle.com had some information about parts of the Generation 1 story, including some character biographies.

BionicleStory.com had several sections containing information about the Generation 1 characters, locations, and more. Among the offerings were also story serials and "blog" chapters, the latter being each one or two pages of story text styled as a journal entry from one of the fictional Bionicle characters.

Bionicle.com had two downloadable MP3s (as well as two PDF files with the "lyrics" to the MP3s) that describe the rise the giant robotic body of Mata Nui out of its slumber and his exile from said body when Makuta Teridax took it over in the Generation 1 plotline.[4]

BionicleStory.com also had many podcasts recorded by Bionicle writer Greg Farshtey available for download in the "Latest Story" area of the site that tell much of the Generation 1 story.[5]

On the homepage for Bionicle.com, there was a collection of audio recordings, called the Mata Nui Saga, that told some of Mata Nui's story. Each one had a picture, text, and music with it. They were split into thirty-four "chapters."

There were also downloadable songs and other things on the website that were inspired by different sections of the Generation 1 storyline.