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| Bionicle #1: Rise of the Toa Nuva (Bionicle Graphic Novels) | 
 enlarge | Author: Greg Farshtey
Creators: Carlos D'anda, Richard Bennett, Randy Elliott
Publisher: Papercutz
Category: Book
List Price: $7.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 65135
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 1597071099
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781597071093
ASIN: 1597071099
Publication Date: June 10, 2008
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Six mighty heroes ? the Toa ? arrive on a tropical island to find a land under siege. The Great Spirit Mata Nui has been cast into an unending sleep by the evil Makuta. Now Makuta is attacking the island?s Matoran villagers with vicious Rahi beasts. The Toa must combine their skills and elemental and mask powers to defeat Makuta and restore peace to the island. In the second story, The Toa return to the island named for Mata Nui to find it is being overrun by mechanical insects called Bohrok. These Bohrok have been unleashed by Makuta and are rapidly destroying trees, mountains, rivers, villages and anything else in their path. After a long, difficult battle, the Toa are able to defeat the queens of the swarms and end the Bohrok threat ? for now. During the fight, the heroes are transformed into Toa Nuva, with new armor, new weapons, and new Masks of Power.
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Binding Fell Apart October 21, 2008
I bought this item for my son's birthday and after reading through it once, the glue on the binding fell apart and all of the pages fell out.
 Okay content -- horrible binding October 5, 2008
We ordered this and had to return it because it completely fell apart. Amazon exchanged it for us, but the new one fell apart as well. A friend had the exact same thing happen to her with the copies she bought at Borders. We won't be buying any more of this series for this reason.
 Finally! The collected Bionicle Tales. June 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Who doesn't have a young teen boy these days that hasn't heard the words "Toa Nuva", "Bionicle", and "Masks" in the same sentence? On our bookshelves, guardian bionicles stand watch over slumbering children, waiting for the dreaded enemies of the Toa Nuva (probably new warriors in some lego language).
The toys are very cool. What was once Johnny West, Batman, or Spiderman is now full poseable, fully changeable, and the dynamics of the body structure are such that these 'toys' could even be our bodies in mechanical form! My eyes don't usually glow, and my hands are digitized, but movement wise, they are magical.
Just like this book, collecting the Lego magazine stories, there is a sense of completeness about the story now. Whenever I read the Lego installments, I always thought that it was time for a collection. Papercutz has a remarkable reputation for quality books printed on quality paper, and is a natural choice for such a property.
The team of Greg Farshtey, Carlos D'Anda, and Randy Elliot have created a world around the characters that is very cool. The setting is other worldly, but the battle for survival is no different than any humans have endured. This is no 'band of brothers', but it is a 'band of others'.
The arrival of Makuta on the Island of Mata Nui signaled the transformation of Nui into a place of evil. The Tohunga wait for salvation, and six arrive who control the forces of nature to help them find it. Collect the masks, and defeat the Makuta no matter what the cost.
The art and color in the books is amazing. D'Anda and Elliot have captured the feel of the characters beautifully. The challenge of illustrating any book with non humanoid features is to make them 'real' and the artists have done that very well. I can imagine their studio. Shelves filled with BIONICLES in various poses, giant boxes of LEGO waiting for construction. How do they ever get any work done?
Read in short installments, these stories made little sense. Now that Papercutz has collected the episodes, the story is clear, and even for adults who have had to learn new words in a new language, the story of the Bionicles has just become more interesting.
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