The title was originally “Inika”, but was changed to “The Lost World” after the first storyline was dropped and production had halted so Sam Shenberger could devote his full attention to “Sam’s Comics: The Movie”. It was later renamed “Time Paradox” for a few months, but after “Comics” wrapped and production for this film restarted, the project began again from scratch, this time once again under the title “The Lost World”.
Unlike COTC1, there was intended to be another installment after COTC2 ended, but the intended sequel story was drastically different. Takua ended COTC2 with the line “I feel there will be a new batch of Toa coming along sometime soon”, which tied into the “Toa Inika” idea that involved Jaller, Hahli, Hewkii, Kongu, Nuparu, and Matoro becoming the Toa Inika and journeying to a distant island overrun by the evil Piraka (based on the 2006 Bionicle storyline). This idea ended up being dropped for budget reasons and the project was completely rewritten to have the Toa Nuva instead.
This film has several unintentional connections to the MCC Film Club’s first project, Cerea. Both films feature Carl Mohr, Shannon Asprooth, Frank Padour, and Lauren Murphy, with Sam Shenberger serving as casting director and occasionally secondary cameraman. Both films also feature two music tracks by Kevin MacLeod: “Private Reflection” (used in COTC3 during the Ruins of Ta-Koro scene and in Cerea plays over the prologue) and “Movement Proposition” (in COTC3 when Pohatu and Onua are fighting, in Cerea during the flashback at the beginning).
Altair was named after the very first PC computer. Before this name was picked, other names like Aorcost, Takaru, Peft, Homete, and Teoku were considered. Although cut from the final film, Altair also mentioned having a brother named Atari, after an old-school video game platform.
The characters Kongu and Ahkmou are never seen on screen together. That was because the model for Kongu and the model for Ahkmou shared the same lower body piece and could not therefore be shown on screen at the same time.
Production for this film began on February 11th, 2011. It continued until March 7th 2011, when “Sam’s Comics: The Movie” was greenlit by the MCC Film Club. As a result, production for COTC3 was pushed back to September 2011. Later, “Comics” ran over schedule and production was pushed back again to December 2011. It never resumed fully until April 2012, more than an entire year later.
Lewa is the tallest of the six Toa. Onua is the shortest.
As was the case in COTC 1 and COTC 2, Bailey Freemire was originally attached to this project as the voice of Hahli. She was dropped from the film in favor of having her star in “Sam’s Comics: The Movie”.
Originally meant to be released as a feature film. Later, when the final length fell under the required 60 minutes for a feature, it was released episodically like the first two.
Only three of the Toa actually use their elemental powers: Tahu, Gali, and Kopaka. There was scripted a scene where Lewa was to use his, but it was too complicated to film so it was cut.
Unlike The Fallen Order and Masks of Power, both of which featured music from the original Bionicle movies by Nathan Furst, this film features music composed by Kevin MacLeod. When the Toa Inika storyline (and a little bit into the February 2011 production) was still being produced, music from the video game “Bionicle Heroes” by Ian Livingstone was to be used.
Each of the three Chronicles of the Chronicler series parts pertains to one of the three virtues of the Toa. Fallen Order: Duty, Masks of Power: Destiny, and Lost World: Unity.
Sam Shenberger recorded voice-overs for both Hahli and Kopaka, but later recast the two roles with Shannon Asprooth and Carl Mohr.
Jaller says that Ahkmou is prisoner 9091. This is an inside joke to the Beatles song “One After 909”. This number combination had been previously used as a phone number in “Sam’s Comics: The Movie”. 9091 is also the number combination of Sam Shenberger’s professional YouTube channel.
Lewa is left-handed, even though in several pre-production stills and even the first teaser trailer he was shown to be right-handed.
Second major Chronicler’s Company Pictures film to have visual effects.
While Matoro’s voice in COTC2 was based on Tobey Flenderson’s voice in “The Office”, his voice in this movie was changed to resemble the voice of Joel Hodgson from “Mystery Science Theater 3000”. Counting the “Adventures of Takua and Jaller” shorts released prior to COTC, this is Matoro’s third voice.
While recording voice-overs, Carl Mohr couldn’t remember the names of the characters he was to be playing, so he gave them nicknames. Pohatu was "Potato", Lewa was "Lewis", and Kopaka was "Cold Pack".
The film has two deleted scenes, the first being a scene where Takua is threatened telepathically by Makuta and the second one showing Gali fighting a Rahkshi on the beach of Ga-Koro.
This is the first and only installment to feature voice talents other than Sam Shenberger. Carl Mohr plays the voices of Lewa, Pohatu, and Kopaka. Lauren Murphy plays the voice of Gali, Shannon Asprooth voices Hahli, and Frank Padour voices Tahu.
Sam Shenberger originally wanted his friend Ryan White for the part of Lewa. However, the script was not finished in time for him to do the voice over and was never offered the role.
In all three installments, Jaller and Takua have the last two lines (if you don’t count Hahli’s narration at the end of this one). The last lines in the first and third films are the same.
The only COTC film that does not open with a shot of the mask of Shadows.
Some voices were based on real actors/movie characters/celebrities. For example, Hewkii was loosely based on Roy Scheider, Matoro was based on Joel Hodgson, and Altair on Christopher Lloyd.
Several scenes were partially filmed during production in February – March 2011, including: The scene where Altair looks through the Telescope, The scene where Makuta first appears in the Kini-Nui, and Tahu and Jaller in Ta-Koro (Matoro was not there in the original shoot). All this footage was scrapped when production picked back up in December 2011. Only one scene that was shot in February 2011 was kept, as it was the only complete scene: The fight between Onua and Pohatu. A fragment of the original Makuta at Kini-Nui also appears briefly.
Many of the voices in this installment actually aren’t the same as the voices heard in the previous films. Takua’s, Jaller’s, and Nuparu’s voices are deeper, Hewkii now has a (inconsistent) New Yorker accent, and Matoro’s and Onua’s are completely different. It can also be noted that Pohatu is played by Carl Mohr in this film, whereas Hordika Pohatu was voiced by Sam Shenberger in the first. Similarly, Hahli is voiced by Shannon Asprooth in this film.
Every character in this film’s names end in a vowel except Jaller, Altair, and Orkham.
Although his name is never said aloud, the first Ta-Koro guard is Nuhrii.
Episodes 5 and 6 are the only episodes which feature the entire cast. Shannon Asprooth as Hahli does not speak in episode 2 and is absent from episode 4, and Frank Padour as Tahu is absent from episodes 1 and 3. Both Lauren Murphy as Gali and Carl Mohr as Lewa, Pohatu, and Kopaka are absent from episode 1.
All three films begin with the line “In a time before time”. In the first two, these words are followed by “in a world you’ve only imagined”, but the third is followed by simply “a world you’ve only imagined”.
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below this line are bits of trivia that give away major plot points.
Both Jaller and Matoro die in this film. In the actual Bionicle storylines, Jaller died in the 2003 storyline, and Matoro died in the 2007 storyline.
Jaller’s death scene was different than originally planned. His death was to be caused by a poisonous Kraata bite, but the Kraata eventually got cut from the climax, so Jaller had to be killed by a Rahkshi instead. Voice-overs for this original ending were recorded.
Sam Shenberger described Jaller's death scene as "the scene that kept growing. Every time I edited it, I felt it wasn't strong enough. Originally, I didn't want a long drawn-out Hollywood death scene. When it came right down to it, it ended up being far too short for this hero. Eventually, some models had to be reconstructed to film some more footage. After all that, I decided that the voice-overs weren't emotion enough, so I kept re-recording Jaller's lines and adding more panicked reactions from Takua."
The whole finale was entirely rewritten at the last-minute. It originally ended without the whole time-alterations. Sam Shenberger wanted to end it on a bittersweet note by killing Jaller and Matoro off, but in the end decided that the concept of the mask of time lent itself to major time-induced intrigue.
As in COTC 2, Hahli kills the secondary main villain. She beheaded Aft in “Masks of Power” and pushes Ahkmou to his death in “Lost World".
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