Senator Armstrong Dreams of Bionicle

An edited Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance scene replaces Senator Armstrong's speech with an impassioned dream of Bionicle returning to store shelves and continuing Generation 1's unfinished story. Armstrong is shown close-up, then improbably muscular, alongside shelves full of Bionicle sets before speaking with Raiden. The joke is the melodramatic, revolutionary delivery applied to an intensely specific Bionicle fan wish; it works as a reaction to nostalgic franchise revival hopes.

I had a dream! Yeah, I get it. You're trying to do the whole Martin Luther King I had a dream. No, Jack. I had a dream. The dream! The dream where Biola Cole is back on shelves on the aisles, where they belong! Wait, hold on. Was it like the original sets were back on shelves? No, actually it was kind of like an evergreen situation, you know, like what they're doing in the jog out. Re-releasing sets and like updating them a little bit or just doing brand new sets entirely in order to promote old eras of the show. You know that kind of legacy thing. Oh, okay, okay, yeah, I see. Yes, exactly, Jack. But what I'm done here, Bionicle will be back to its former glory. None of that weak gen 2 shit will continue in the story of Generation 1. We'll figure out what Velikie's plans were. We'll figure out who was killing Tren Krom and Kazani. We'll figure out what happened to Leuann Bahatou and the rest of the gang. We'll figure out the truth, the right star, everything, Jack! Son of a bitch, I thought you were just some crazy bastard wanting to start war, but you know what? Fuck yeah, let's bring Bionicle back!

• @eternalclassic / 10450 2022-03-20