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Bionicle Adventures #4
Legends of Metru Nui
New heroes. New villains. A new mission.
An exciting new Movie Novelization based on the Miramax DTV, LEGENDS
After their defeat of the Morbuzakh and the shape-shifting Krahka, the Toa Metru expect to be hailed as heroes. Instead, they are betrayed by someone they thought they could trust.
Three of the Toa are arrested. In prison, they meet a mysterious stranger who helps them to escape--and to learn more about their new powers. The remaining Toa are forced to flee through the city, avoiding security forces and the Dark Hunters who try to capture them.
Can the Toa reunite and defeat their new enemy? Or has the their luck finally run out?
An exciting new Movie Novelization based on the Miramax DTV, LEGENDS
After their defeat of the Morbuzakh and the shape-shifting Krahka, the Toa Metru expect to be hailed as heroes. Instead, they are betrayed by someone they thought they could trust.
Three of the Toa are arrested. In prison, they meet a mysterious stranger who helps them to escape--and to learn more about their new powers. The remaining Toa are forced to flee through the city, avoiding security forces and the Dark Hunters who try to capture them.
Can the Toa reunite and defeat their new enemy? Or has the their luck finally run out?
144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 1, 2004
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About the author
Greg Farshtey
240 books86 followersGreg Farshtey is the author of the popular BIONICLE chapter books and Level 3 readers, as well as the long-running BIONICLE comic book series. His day job is Editor-in-Chief and head writer for the LEGO Club Magazine and the LEGO BrickMaster Magazine.
Greg has been writing since fourth grade. After earning a degree in Communications from the State University of New York at Geneseo, he worked as a reporter, sports editor, game designer and editor, and copywriter before joining LEGO Company in 2000. Before becoming involved with BIONICLE, he wrote game material for such diverse properties as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Tales From the Crypt.
Greg is the author of more than 30 novels and guidebooks, as well as the author or co-author of more than 35 game sourcebooks and adventures.
He lives in West Hartford, Connecticut.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Far...
Greg has been writing since fourth grade. After earning a degree in Communications from the State University of New York at Geneseo, he worked as a reporter, sports editor, game designer and editor, and copywriter before joining LEGO Company in 2000. Before becoming involved with BIONICLE, he wrote game material for such diverse properties as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Tales From the Crypt.
Greg is the author of more than 30 novels and guidebooks, as well as the author or co-author of more than 35 game sourcebooks and adventures.
He lives in West Hartford, Connecticut.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Far...
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April 3, 2025
We come again to the tricky section of a Bionicle movie novelization. On the one hand, I really enjoy the climax. On the other, I feel like the script hampers itself by ignoring the previous three books altogether. The fact that here we don’t get a connection to the Morbuzahk has always bothered me even when I was six. But if the movie— and subsequently this novel— tried to cover all of that it would’ve been a three-hour direct-to-dvd masterpiece. As such, I must assume that this covers only what Turaga Vakama would’ve told his audience: a summary of the important beats, but not everything. Where this book does shine is after the Toa are scattered and on the run, because here the book makes up for the odd blocking I remember in the movie. This js especially apparent in the final confrontation with Makuta where it is obvious that Turaga Lhikan dies because he was hit with a bolt of shadow and not because Makuta used the shadowhand to steal his surfboard from his arms. It doesn’t help the Toa seal coming out of nowhere, but at least we had Krahka in Darkness Below prep us for that. A little conflicted, would rather give 3.5 stars but I will round up to 4.
February 15, 2019
Cinematic, details differ from the movie. Retreads some older plot points. O k
March 20, 2023
It's a flawless novelization of the direct to dvd film released the same year. It has a great plot, characters, drama and focuses on one of the most important events of the series.
November 30, 2023
another novelization of one of the movies, and one of the worst of the movies at that.
January 22, 2023
“Legends of Metru Nui” is an odd story (this is also the novelization of the movie) because it sort of re-does the origins of the Toa Metru, which had already been done in the books and comics up to this point. It’s quite obvious reading the last three books that the details of how they became Toa, who Lhikan is, and how the city is run were deliberately vague so that they could be brought up in the movie.
The result is a story that doesn’t really make that much sense? They hardly ever use their elemental powers at all, with only a line towards the end explaining why. There’s a bit towards the end that implies the events of this story were foretold in a prophecy that was never mentioned before this point. Exactly how the characters know who Makuta is and whether he was seen as evil before this point is very unclear.
It makes little sense to me. Nonetheless, this movie was, I think, more popular than “Mask of Light.” Maybe because the characterization in this movie is so strong? The characters are memorable and fun, and they’re actually mostly in line with the way characters appear in the story (unlike “Mask of Light” which is all over the map in terms of how close they get the characters). It’s got great dialogue, and even though hardcore fans already know what the Toa Metru’s mask powers are, the scenes where they learn what they can do are fantastic.
Still, works better as a visual story though. Might be worthwhile to sit and watch the movie again.
Also I should bring up the pictures. The cover image only kind of looks how Vakama appears in the final product. The book also brags eight pages of photos from the movie, but three of those pages are not from the movie but promotional set images for the Toa Metru. And one of the screenshots has a label obviously meant to be Lhikan, but it’s Onewa using his mask power.
The result is a story that doesn’t really make that much sense? They hardly ever use their elemental powers at all, with only a line towards the end explaining why. There’s a bit towards the end that implies the events of this story were foretold in a prophecy that was never mentioned before this point. Exactly how the characters know who Makuta is and whether he was seen as evil before this point is very unclear.
It makes little sense to me. Nonetheless, this movie was, I think, more popular than “Mask of Light.” Maybe because the characterization in this movie is so strong? The characters are memorable and fun, and they’re actually mostly in line with the way characters appear in the story (unlike “Mask of Light” which is all over the map in terms of how close they get the characters). It’s got great dialogue, and even though hardcore fans already know what the Toa Metru’s mask powers are, the scenes where they learn what they can do are fantastic.
Still, works better as a visual story though. Might be worthwhile to sit and watch the movie again.
Also I should bring up the pictures. The cover image only kind of looks how Vakama appears in the final product. The book also brags eight pages of photos from the movie, but three of those pages are not from the movie but promotional set images for the Toa Metru. And one of the screenshots has a label obviously meant to be Lhikan, but it’s Onewa using his mask power.
September 16, 2010
It was good. I recommend it for those Bionicle fans out there. After there defeat of the Morbuzakh and the shape-shifting Krahka, the Toa Metru expect to be hailed as heroes. Instead, they are betrayed by someone they thought they could trust. Three of the Toa are arrested. In prison, they meet a mysterious stranger who helps them to escape-and to learn more about there powers. The rest of the Toa are forced to flee through the city, avoiding security forces and the Dark Hunters who try to capture them.
March 13, 2015
A great Bionicle tale with a well-paced story. The book is basically a condensed version of the past few adventures and the addition of a new (but relevant) one. The introduction of Makuta is well-executed.
April 19, 2008
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June 5, 2009
I love this book this is the best book in the entire series.
this book is awesome.
this book is awesome.
February 20, 2012
Favorite series in elementary school
January 4, 2013
It was good
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