Bob Thompson is a British writer and producer best known for co-creating the hugely successful Bionicle

Bionicle

Bionicle is a line of toys by the LEGO Group marketed primarily for 5- to 16-year-olds. The line was launched on December 30, 2000 in Europe and June/July 2001 in Canada and the United States. "Bionicle" is a portmanteau constructed from the words "biological" and "chronicle"...

  intellectual property

Intellectual property

Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

 for the Lego

Lego

Lego is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts...

 Company and producing the original multi award-winning Lego Bionicle movies.

Career

Thompson is the founder of Cardiff

Cardiff

Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...

 based Good Story Productions, a film and TV production studio with multi-platform expertise, Thompson formerly worked at the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 and BBC Worldwide

BBC Worldwide

BBC Worldwide Limited is the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995. In the year to 31 March 2010 it made a profit of £145m on a turnover of £1.074bn. The company had made a profit of £106m...

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Notable works

In 2003 Bob Thompson was executive producer, and one of the story writers on the first Bionicle movie, Bionicle: Mask of Light

Bionicle: Mask of Light

Bionicle: Mask of Light: The Movie is the first direct-to-video Bionicle film based on the Lego toy series, made by Miramax Films with the help of Lego. It has sold over 40 million copies worldwide since its release....

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In 2004 Thompson was executive producer, and story writer for Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui

Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui

Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui is the second film in the Bionicle series and is a prequel to Bionicle: Mask of Light. This movie follows the 2004 storyline and was created using Lego elements from the Bionicle series, and was released as a direct-to-DVD.In this movie, Vakama recalls events that...

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In 2005 Thompson was executive producer for Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows

Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows

Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows is the Annie Award-nominated third Bionicle movie installment. It is also the second movie in the Bionicle timeline, as of 2005. The visuals are completely computer-generated...

In 2009 it was announced Thompson would be one of the producers for the forthcoming sci-fi thriller Ultramarines: The Movie

Ultramarines: The Movie

Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie is a science fiction thriller CGI film set in Games Workshop's fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe and based around the Ultramarines Chapter of the Space Marines...

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External links

• Bionicle.com, Official Bionicle website
• Ultramarinesthemovie.com, Official Ultramarines movie website