As of the posting of this article, BIONICLE®: The Legend Reborn on DVD is in my possession. I overpaid for my copy because I didn’t want to drag my family more places than I had to — mine came from FYE for $16.99 USD, on sale from $19.99, whereas if we had crossed the street to the local BJ’s Wholesale Club I could have bought it at $13.99 and probably gotten a gift with it. I’ll be there later so I’ll confirm what the BJ’s version comes with, if anything.

The opening previews of the DVD had an advertisement for both an existing and an upcoming Curious George movie and a preview for Barbie and the Three Musketeers (Barbie, by my count, has had more occupations than Homer Simpson, but that is speculation), and if that has convinced you to skip to the main menu you may want to hold out a bit longer to see the preview of LEGO®: The Adventures of Clutch Powers, the first film from the LEGO Company focusing on LEGO® products outside of BIONICLE®.

When it came time for The Legend Reborn itself, I liked the design, animation, and translation of the toys into the characters more than I liked the writing and the voice acting, but they did a pretty good job of balancing the plot and conversations with action and fighting. The more interesting plot of the movie winds up being pushed aside, and while we do get a serviceable ending the credits role just as you’re starting to think: “I like where this is going.”

The DVD comes with some extra content, including the aforementioned commercials, some profiles for the characters and a music video, but the only two extras I though were worthwhile were the deleted scenes and the extended ending. The deleted scenes weren’t so much deleted as they were animated storyboards that the production team decided not to develop further. If you can use your imagination to fill in the gaps in the slideshow they’re a bit interesting, and a couple are funny enough that I’d like to have seen them fully rendered. The extended ending, however, shows a fully rendered clip. It seemed to conflict a bit with the mood and events of the film, and it was a long scene, so I can understand why it was cut, but it’s worth a view nonetheless.

Before I close out, I found this BrickFair MOC to be a very interesting coincidence… You’ll understand why after you see the movie.