Toa Dazura

Im so glad Greg did all of the Metru Nui stuff. Call me mad but i think it was best story ark out of all of them.Metru nui?! youve gone mad! haha, just kidding. While i wasnt a huge metru nui fan, the metru nui based books voyage of fear and time trap (both bridge stories) were easily someof my favorites. Greg did a good job expanding. He also did a very good job during the visorak/2005 story line too. the books were very good and set the eerie abandoned city mood quite well!I dont know. I really liked the 2005 sets. Besides the arms of the Hordika. They suckedtrue that! and no, i actually really did like some 2005 stuff like the visorak, even if they were "clones" as some would say. and the rahaga have a special place in my heart as christmas stocking stuffers with entertaining shooting spinners too haha. OH and the toa hagah they were just flat out amazing in my opinion!

Im so glad Greg did all of the Metru Nui stuff. Call me mad but i think it was best story ark out of all of them.Metru nui?! youve gone mad! haha, just kidding. While i wasnt a huge metru nui fan, the metru nui based books voyage of fear and time trap (both bridge stories) were easily someof my favorites. Greg did a good job expanding. He also did a very good job during the visorak/2005 story line too. the books were very good and set the eerie abandoned city mood quite well!

I read tale of the toa years ago. Should I just go directly onto Greg's books or read thee first 3 first?Nothing important happens in the first 3 that hasn't also appeared a zillion times in other Bionicle media. But if you missed the comics and stuff, you might want to start from the beginning.yea, if you really wanna know the story of the first book atleast, skip it and play the mata nui online game from 2001! its alot more entertainong, and you can share in the nostalgia that we die-hard fans all know and love. haha but in all seriousness, the first 3 book stories and years for that matter are pretty simple. unlike the later bionicle story, things like comics and flash videos can tell the story pretty much just as well as a book

I personally loved the books, especially once the mask of life saga began (actually i take that back, time trap, the book right before the mask of life saga is where they get good). The first three by Hapaka are a bit of a drag. you can see they are very clearly a younger read, and they do conflict a bit with Greg Farshtey's cannon, but once you get to Farshtey's books, i really think they are worth reading. while they were probably aimed at a slightly younger audience, I never felt like i was reading a silly kids book. Greg does a great job of keeping it readable for all age groups (and thats coming from someone whose been interested in Bionicle form age 7 to age 18 ) I'd recommend you read them! although, the real stuff is the online story serials, they were pretty amazing, though i'd say get to know the story well before you start them, they can get pretty in depth. So yea, thats my analysis of Bionicle literature in a paragraph! hope it helps!

You know its funny how this always seem to work out. I'd say the biggest complaint ive seen on this forum is either the alternate universe idea, or the ending between mata nui and makuta... and incidentally i loved both. I felt that the alternate universes really added some mysetery and depth to the universe, and "the kingdom" short story is probably (in my opinion) one of Greg Farshtey's greatest pieces of work. As for the ending, i'll never forget reading the comic excitedly that night i got it, and then running into school to my friend and saying "You have GOT to see this!" I dont know, while i can see the gripes that it was a short lived conflict (it kinda was) I think that last desperate scene of mata nui forcing teridax into the moon just blew me away, and ended it just right for me.Therefore id say that worst moments in Bioicle's life were either the movies (just a given), riddle of the great beings (always seemed very pointless, easily the worst serial) or the toa inika's rubber masks ( i woulda loved 6 more real masks to add to my collection, and green/white balls do not count to me as heads )OH! and... i... kinda did like the little bit of huki/maku romance...lets be clear, im NOT one of those people who gets on a forum and rants about a fictional relationship like *shudder* the avatar: the last air bender kataang/zutara ordeal... but i wouldnt have minded a tiny bit of romance in the story

Something about the Kualsi always made me like it, i love how it hangs low, always looked very ancient to me, very cool. Something about noble komau always made me like it too, its not very toa-ish, but for a turaga, it was just great

Ok. When looking at the arm cannon and round armor, am i the only who has the name "Samus" come to mind?

okay, analysis time! well, I for one am thoroughly baffeled as to the seeting of these sets, i see airpower, underwater, land, i dont know where Lego is headed with this. but onto the sets, I really have mixed emotions. I think some heroes, especially evo are great. but at the same time, alot are a bit sub par (especially surge, whose 2.0 mode i loved, not so much now). i personally dont like the return to glatorian heads, I think hero factory needs to identify itself, not stick to bionicle concept, kinda why i didnt like the first wave (dont get me wrong, LOVE bionicle, but hero factory isnt bionicle, needs to be different.) finally i do see some great new piecs, those swords on breez and phantom, the cyber shields, cuffs, love alot of it!