User blog comment:Bioniclezilla76/Personal Feelings About the Reboot...So Far/@comment-8548082-20141011100800

From what I've gathered from bits and pieces across the net at the moment, it's still spiritually the same series with the same world set up with masks, "toa" and suchlike, but they've gone for an alternal universe reboot: give what we know about how the Bionicle universe evolved, it could actually be one of the aternate realities that exist alongside the canon we know.

The closest parralel I know for this kind of thing is the Drakengard series, which revolves around alternate realities/timelines, but even that isn't very close.