Bionicles were WAY cooler than you remember



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Everyone remembers LEGO Bionicles, but are we all just blinded by nostalgia? The Toa Mata are kinda weird looking right? And what’s up with those McDonalds Matoran toys? In this retrospective review, let’s find out the truth about Bionicle!

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— Le-Koro Band Remake by Essenger
https://youtu.be/m5fqfulx3sw
— Mata Nui cross-section art from here: https://board.ttvchannel.com/t/cut-through-the-resting-giant/6461
— Chronicler’s Company Cover by Hayden Medwin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w46qo1Nglzk
— Beach Chant Cover by Wingus Dingus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VExvBevJSYU

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24 thoughts on “Bionicles were WAY cooler than you remember”

  1. Id love if bionicle came back but was brick built instead.

    I think lego bricks would look far better than the default bionicle designs.

    I feel this way because of how cool the brick built dragon heads in ninjago are.

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  2. Okay, I always knew the island of Mata Nui looked like a face even as a kid, yet despite years of my obsession with Bionicle never dying and continually revisiting the world even into adulthood I never noticed that you can make out the robot's silhouette underneath the water. Holy shit.

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  3. The eye piece can come out its just a pain in the ass, you have to push eyes in slightly tell you get a small gap in between the pieces and get you figure nail in the gap and wiggle it out.

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  4. Man I remember watching, and playing with these all the time. We had the silver storm trooper “I gave up trying to remember her name” fin, darth maul, darth Vader, and basically all of the ones from the show. Somehow we lost the Star Wars ones and all of them are over 60 dollars at least, and darth Vader is now at 160 dollars 💵. But very nostalgic video.

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  5. I just graduated from high school when Bionicle debuted so I don't have quite the same "childhood nostalgia" that most of the people in the comments share, but it wouldn't be hyperbole to say that the course of my life shifted significantly when I got my first set (Pohatu) as a graduation gift. I also had a subscription to Lego Magazine at the time so it waa around the same time that the first Bionicle comic book came free with the magazine… That big splash page of Kopaka was one of the coolest things I'd ever seen – I used some iron on paper to make my own tshirt of it – and I was hooked. I still have all of my sets in storage

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  6. The complex story of bionicle still perplexes me 20 years later, the impact of all the plot twists and all of the sub-stories coming together as a whole is genius. I love how many layers this story has and how much information there is to gather. And the fact that everything makes perfect sense if you look at the entirity of the lore… Genius.

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  7. To this day Bionicle has been a key part of my life. Since 2007 when I got Dekar, my first ever LEGO set. From then up until it’s cancelation in 2010 my brother and I along with our cousins would always have battles with them. Especially during the glatorian era I loved those sets. I was young so I didn’t know that the theme was canceled, the sets just stoped appearing at Walmart. Hero factory rolled around however I wasn’t too interested in it. Then Bionicle came back in 2015 when I was in 7th grade. This peaked my interest of the theme once again. I watch some videos of the 2015 masters sets then eventually found a video reviewing the bohrok. That video changed my life. It sucked me into the world of Bionicle. I wanted to know everything and see all the old sets. I started to build Bionicle Mocs out of the old parts I had mixed in my lego collection. I spent days searching for parts on the floor where I dumped out bins completely covering the room. I became immersed into the biotube community and eventually started my own channel in 2017 where I showed my Mocs. I joined groups of people with the same interests and evolved my skills as a builder. Year after year I continued at it. Even to this day I always have I Moc in progress. Nowadays the Bionicle mocing community is thriving. There is so many insanely talented people. It’s my main motivation and the thing I enjoy doing the most. There are even contests like the biocup and Moc league. Also collaborations between many people who coordinate together to make individual builds on a shared theme. This is my Bionicle story and I shared it for a reason. To let others know, old fans of Bionicle know that Bionicle is still alive as ever and that a toy from 21 years ago can still reel you back in.

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