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Bionicle – my actual part in its origins (2015)


The Wikipedia page about me says that I’m known mostly for my involvement with Lego Bionicle. Obviously I hope one day that will change to ‘author of ‘The Flying Monk&#8…

The third of the four ‘official’ co-creators was Christian Faber, Creative Director of Danish advertising agency Advance, who created the amazing graphic look of the whole project. At the time I was one of the directors of a script services company called Skryptonite, and one of our writers, Keith Brumpton, had previously worked with Bob Thompson when he was at the BBC. I even came up with the idea that the whole of Mata Nui (the world) was actually a giant planetary evacuation ship that had crash landed into an alien ocean, with only its head, knees and feet sticking out of the water.

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