User blog comment:Engineer Kipo/Jumping on the Hype Train/@comment-453181-20140912222146

I think the odds of the new BIONICLE sets being a continuation are a bit unlikely. It doesn't really make sense from a marketing standpoint, considering that a major way of getting potential customers into their products is the story, and nobody new to BIONICLE is going to want to read up on 10 years' worth of lore. Just as well, it would be pretty awkward for them to pick off where they left off, in the middle of action. The fact that the sets are the Toa Mata, and that they are now being referred to as "Masters" of their respective element rather than Toa, suggests to me that this is going to be a reboot.

I'm honestly in favor of a reboot, because I was pretty unsatisfied with where BIONICLE went after mid-2009. 2010 was just so rushed (for an understandable reason, but that still doesn't mean I can't be unsatisfied) of a conclusion, and I don't even want to get started on the direction Sahmad's Tale took. The story just got too complex, with too many unresolved ends and plot holes. I'll cite the golden fusion as the most egregious and prominent case - why did it even exist? It felt like Greg wanted an idea for the next antagonist, thought "Hey, what if I introduced an insanely overpowered character?", couldn't figure out how to explain the existence of such a character, and decided "TERIDAX WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS". And...why? Why would it benefit Teridax to plant in the Skakdi's minds the idea to create a being powerful enough to actually usurp him, when he already has full control over the Matoran Universe?

That's just one example among many of why I think BIONICLE would be best just starting out fresh. That's just my opinion on the matter. Feel free to disagree.