The BIONICLE® collection continues its success into 2005. This year marks the exciting debut of new characters, new storylines and new features in the products, as well as the first-ever BIONICLE play theme construction sets and minifigure versions of the heroes and villains!

The Toa fulfill their promise and return to the city of Metru Nui to rescue the hibernating Matoran left behind in the city’s tower coliseum. Upon arriving, the Toa discover the island is experiencing black-out conditions and that a great variety of Rahi creatures have escaped the archives — turning the powerless city into an untamed island of roaming wildlife. Even stranger, as the Toa move toward the coliseum, they discover vile oozing webs of an unknown origin. They soon discover the source of the webs; fierce spider-like hunter creatures, the Visorak beasts, who ambush and soundly defeat the overconfident heroes with launchable “spinners” that inject “venom” on contact.

The bodies of the Toa are mutated, twisted and transformed by the Visorak venom. In turn, Toa Metru forms and bestial Visorak forms are combined into something new: the Toa Hordika! Though the heroes have gained the ability to launch “spinners,” their elemental powers have seemingly disappeared. The Toa do not know how to complete their mission until they meet the small, but wise Rahaga. The Rahaga are the BIONICLE equivalent of trapper beast-masters, and help the Toa Hordika tame their bestial side and master their new ability with the spinners – while rediscovering their elemental powers as well. The Toa Hordika regroup and form a strategy – planning the construction of a “super transport,” which they will use to carry the Matoran to a new home. They split up and set out to different parts of Metru Nui to gather the pieces for the transport – all the while, being hunted by the powerful Visorak Beasts.

In the end, the Toa return to the Coliseum in their completed transport, but find the arena has become the nest of the Visorak Beasts. The Toa face off against the powerful patriarch and matriarch of the Visorak, the venom king Sidorak and the poisoness queen Roodaka (both former bodyguards of the Makuta). The Toa’s personal growth has earned them a powerful ally in a legendary creature of unmatched power, KEETONGU, who has the ability to negate all venom powers. As a Clash of Titans is waged in the arena, the Toa Hordika load the hibernating Matoran into their transport to complete the Great Rescue.(If you saw LoMN [Legends of Metru-Nui] you might be confused. The 2005 storyline is still a flashback. It takes place between the toa rescuing a couple Matoran after fighting Makuta, and when the toa sacrifice their power for the matoran.)