An Apocalyptic End: Bio-Cup 2025 Final Results and Winner
After months of chaos, creativity, and absolutely unhinged part usage, Bio-Cup 2025 has reached its dramatic conclusion. With the third and final round complete, Bio-Cup 2025 has come to a close!
The final round theme was the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Each of the four remaining builders was assigned one of the horsemen (Famine, Pestilence, War, or Death) and tasked with unleashing their end-times avatar upon the world. Let’s saddle up one last time and take a ride through the results.
DEATH: ANUB1S
Coming in fourth place, Joey took an interesting approach to Death. Anubis is the Egyptian god of death, protector of graves and guide to the underworld. To make Anubis’s signature jackal head, he used an upside-down Metru foot for a snout and large claw elements nestled within Hero Factory claws for the ears. A sideways Nexo-Knights axe blade gives the eyes a cybernetic edge for a combined ancient and futuristic vibe.
But Death isn’t alone. A little mummy companion is wrapped up in the shoelace element from the Adidas Originals Superstar. He almost looks cozy… Notice the large funky gold things in the back? That’s a mummy storage container from Adventurers. Quite the throwback, and awesome usage.
WAR: Trojan Centaur
Coming in third place, Panuvara was tasked with war. What a gruesome character! Ya don’t see blood and guts rendered from LEGO pieces very often, but man, it’s cool when it’s done well. There’s a whole smorgasbord of wacky parts all over the torso. A Kraang cuddled next to a rat and a purple Krana Vu make up his lower organs. Gross. I love the usage of a minifig arm, a Friends torso, and some snakes for flesh hanging onto the skeletal remnants of the forearms.
In the middle of the torso there’s a Nestlé promotional minifigure hiding within: Toa Jaller Inika. Yes, back in the day, The LEGO Group collaborated with a bunch of food companies, including Quaker cereal, Kabaya aweets, and even some McDonald’s and Burger King happy meals!
PESTILENCE: The angels floss their teeth with my bones
In second place, The Maestro was prompted with pestilence. What better to build than a centaur riddled with strange, gross growths all over its upper body??? A bunch of yellowish green eggs covering the right arm look kinda like a mix between a pustule and the fruiting body of a fungus: essentially a mushroom. Opalescent pink 2x2 domes and some crystals erupting from blue eggshells add a similar effect around its waistline.
It’s got a cowl built primarily out of Technic panels, with Xplode’s head mounted on top. The face uses a bandana mounted above a neck collar accessory, giving it an equine visage. It’s equal parts beautiful and revolting, a high compliment in my book.
FAMINE: breadwinner
Finally in first place, just like his previous Bio-Cup 2025 entries, Hlebo Bas continues to kill it! Across all his entries, he built characters using black as their primary color. (A bold decision, but it really worked out!) For his rider based on famine, he used the Mask of Time mounted under a Knight’s Kingdom shin for a headdress, adding a cherry for the eye. His bowl of snacks ingeniously uses some headphones mixed with 1x1 round plates.
The horse is primarily built from Technic panels and Hero Factory/Star Wars constraction armor. Both the mane and the tail use claw/tail/teeth elements. While they’re vile little fellas, I adore the little dudes eating the horse’s organs. Their distended bellies and dead eyes are a perfect metaphor for scarcity in excess.
And with that… we close the pearly gates on Bio-Cup 2025! From mechanical nightmares and mythological monsters to centaurs, plagues, and the apocalypse itself, this year’s competition has once again shown that Bionicle builders are unmatched in pushing parts to their absolute limits.
Congratulations to all the builders who competed, and especially to our champion, Hlebo Bas. See you in the arena next year… if the world hasn’t ended first.
Which is your favorite horseman of the apocalypse? Let us know in the comments below!
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