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[Bambi]

Poll for Shyyrn.
What year did you become a fan of Bionicle?

Edited by Bambi, Mar 16 2012 - 02:49 PM.

[Portalfig]

End of 2005 was when I first got into BIONICLE, but my first year was 2006 all the way.

I wish I could have a pool....

[Peach 00]

2006. I started getting the comics, and then the sets, and then BZP, and then procrastination...

[sukapony]

Around 2002, actually. I was still a young tot, so I was hooked early.

[Soran]

I got hooked on bionicle in 2001. I actually got the sets and magazines and such. I was really young though and couldn't read the comics, but I looked at the pretty pictures. Later in 2003 I made my parents read me the comics and I would always correct them when they got a word wrong like Toa or Rahi. Sometimes they would ask why I needed help reading if I always corrected them... Good times...

~Soran

[CHTrilogy]

I was there from the very beginning!

[Mesonak]

2001. I'll never forget that one, faithful trip to McDonalds.....

Can't believe I have to credit McDonalds for becoming a fan of BIONICLE, but alas, that's the way the cookie crumbles.

After the Tohunga (or McToran, whatever), it was only a matter of time before I became hooked and acquired all the Toa Mata. And the rest is history.

-Mesonak

[Bambi]

End of 2005 was when I first got into BIONICLE, but my first year was 2006 all the way.

I wish I could have a pool....

Ahem..

[fishers64]

2005. Hooked by Mr. Farshtey's books about 2004 and 2005. Legends of Metru Nui was the book that sealed my fate, I believe.

[Astrotorical]

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-2001 all the way. My Tahu Mata is..well I can find his body.. and I have enough Bohrok peices to make 1 complete version (out of the original 3)
-Ill never forget my friend telling me that Bionicle = Bio: Living & Nicle: the metal they were made of
-Many a fight Tahu and Lehrak had.
-Many a day wondering "What the karz is this bulby thing for?"
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\\End of Line.

[Shyyrn]

As I expected, most of the people on BZP seem to have become fans in 2001. However, a surprising mix of latecomers are present, and that's nice to see. I thought I was the only one! (I joined up in 2003, after seeing the Rahkshi in a LEGO catalogue).

Thanks again to Bambi for making the poll,
Shyyrn

[The Mask of Ice]

2003 all the way, I guess. Being four years old at the time, I don't really remember much, other than that I bought a Gurahk, a Kurahk and a Lerahk.

[Toatapio Nuva]

Good old 2001. I got many sets that year, but it was in 2002 that I got interested in the story as well.

[Taipu1]

The poll results would suggest older fans on the forum, what with nobody as yet from '07 onwards, and the majority from '01, myself included. A fan, from the start.

[Zakar0%]

It was 2006.. My grandpa got me an Avak for my birthday, and by the end of the year, I had all the Toa Of 2006. Ironicly, Avak is the only Bionicle I truely lost.
Zakaro

[Sir Kohran]

My first year was Bionicle's first year.

[Indigo Individual]

I first became a BIO fan in 2001, but I was a bit late and didn't get any sets 'til 2002, when I got a Nuhvok.

[Nujanii: Kanohi Master]

I was a fan in 2002 onwards.

I feel like such a noob. A whole YEAR late.

I remember it was in this fabric store with my mom. They had a corner for toys. As luck would have it there was this Gahlok sitting all by itself...

[Makuta Matata]

2001. But I really became connected with the Bionicle community in 2005. I joined BZP in 2007 or 2008.

[TPN]

I was there from the beginning, my first set was Gali Mata all the way back in 2001. However, it wasn't really until 2003 that I really became aware of the storyline. Although from that point on, while I still bought the sets, the story was the main reason that I was into Bionicle. It's really the only reason I'm still here a decade on (that and the wonderful BZP community of course).

[Sumiki]

2002, although early enough in that year for me to get all of the 2001 sets.

[Sparkytron]

2001

From the start until the end...

[Toa Smoke Monster]

2001, when I bought the Tahu Mata and Lewa Mata sets. Though I didn't get into the storyline (or even know that there was a storyline) until 2003.

[Damaracx 7.0]

When I was three I remember seeing Lewa Nuva and asking my dad if I could have it he said no but, I did get the bionicle movies by the time I was 5 I had all three when I got to 6 that is when my interest in bionicle started acting up I blame my father for addiction of bionicle. My first sets were a Rahkshi Toa Nuparu and Hakann.

[Inferna Firesword]

2003 for me. Technically I was knowledgable of it beforehand, because of my younger brother and cousin, but I didn't get hooked until I read the MoL novelization.

-Inferna

[Taka Nuvia]

Got my Nuhvok Kal somewhen back when they came out, but it wasn't until the Toa Metru that I really got hooked.
Therefore, 2004 ._{(Waaaait, I've been into this stuff for so long already? D: Impossible...)}

Additional interest came in 2008 when I joined BZPower... but that doesn't really count. ^^

[Katuko]

I've been with this series since its start, but my first actual set was a Tahnok. Sucks to be a kid with no money, y'know. Nowadays I wish I had gotten some of the 2001 sets, or at least a few mask packs. I mostly got gold and silver masks. :/

[Booker DeWitt]

2001. It's interesting, I was expecting a lot of votes for around 2006, when they seemed to push the promotional boat out, and I thought that BZP members in general were now a bit young to have become fans in 2001, but apparently not.

- Tilius

[King James]

2005. The Visorak were my first sets.

[Great Mask Of Armor]

Late 2002 when my dad got Tahu Nuva(granted, Tahu was for himself, but he let me have it in about 2006). The things I'd do to get my hands on another one of those...

Despite my late introduction, I nostalgia'd really hard when I got Gali Mata a few months ago. Is that normal?

[The Inquisitive Automaton]

2003, Novemberish. When I first got Lerahk as a birthday present from a friend.

[Cheshire Cat]

2002. Tahu Nuva and Onua Nuva <3

Edited by -Malchior-, Apr 09 2012 - 05:26 AM.

[Randy Disher]

2005

[thebeggerpie]

2003.

Kopaka Nuva was the first, and he is the only Bionicle I have left. I have all his parts still.

[bonesiii]

2001.

[WORT WORT WORT]

ummm 2004
went on hold until about 2007


x_x
But I do have access to the books X >

Edited by WORT WORT WORT, Apr 24 2012 - 12:19 PM.

[Tekulo the WindWriter]

Pfft, please. I was a fan of Slizers. I liked Technic before it was Bionicle -insert hipster glasses and lame pose here-

But yeah, 2001. XP

[Parazan]

My first year: 2002, when I got Kohrahk as a birthday present on January 8th.

[Dwanny]

Wow, its amazing how hard the votes curve.
Especially how the last two years are completely voteless, but then again, that was slightly expected.

[Roablin]

I first saw the previews in 2000 in the Lego magazines. I remember thinking they were really weird action figures that I'd never want. That was probably because they were only small pictures. In the begging of 2001, A kid from across the street had gotten in to them, and dragged me along with him. He claimed to be a master of Bionicle lore. I remember the first word I learned was "Kanohi," with the first two syllables pronounced like "canoe." I found out how there were six Toa heroes, all of whom were guys except for Lewa who was a girl. I was delighted to get Tohunga from McDonalds, and I acquired my first set, Pahrak, the following Christmas.

A few years later my family moved, and our new library had Bionicle books and MoL. I ran home excitedly with Tale of the Toa. I discovered how many misconceptions I had believed.

~Roablin