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A big shout-out to Pereki for bringing this to my attention. Thanks!

File-divers continue to uncover the long-lost secrets of BIONICLE: The Legend of Mata Nui. The audio file legocinePohatuMeetsKopaka.mp3 is meant to score an intro cutscene to Kopaka's level, which (as far as we know) was not yet properly animated in the leaked alpha build. However, the text file Lev4_eng.slb suggests that this cutscene would have been an adaptation of a scene from the first BIONICLE comic, The Coming Of The Toa. With this discovery, I decided to try reconstructing the cutscene as it would have played out, combining the original comic with the audio file.

I previously uploaded a version of The Coming Of The Toa that featured my own interpretation of how the comic would have been musically scored. Therefore, I find it fascinating to see how LEGO would have officially created a soundtrack for the comic.

I did not include the entire audio file in this video, since Pohatu and Kopaka's conversation begins to diverge greatly from the source material. In the comic, Pohatu and Kopaka climb a mountain together to find a Kanohi Hau, and then they go meet the rest of the Toa. In the game, Pohatu simply gives Kopaka a Kanohi Kakama and then they go their separate ways. Perhaps one day, I'll go back and try to edit the speech bubbles of the comic to see if I can match the game's dialogue and create a more complete representation of how this cutscene would have played out.

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