TwistLaw

No matter how many times life kicks you in the balls, there can always be one more time.

>G2 toa of time >uses tons of G1 pieces aside from that, very cool!

The point is that the fans shouldn't even be mentioned in this matter. We're always talking about the elusive toxicity of this community, but one of the most toxic things I see happening all the time is blaming a ridiculously small minority for something that happened because of much bigger players. You call G2 "a failure", even though you claim you loved it (like if I didn't, just look at my profile picture and my controversial feed at EB), but we don't even know if it actually was a failure, and not just because of that infamous LEGO tweet, but because the line was axed in late 2015, when they didn't even know how much it was exactly selling. LEGO didn't bring back BIONICLE because of a handful of people and it didn't kill it for the same handful of people. At this point I don't even care anymore who was the mysterious assassin of my favourite toyline, I just don't wanna see the real toxicity expanding in a community where the same fifty people talk to each other in at least two different forums and an anonymous imageboard.

>it's another "the fans killed G2" episode jesus christ is it that hard to accept that LEGO was just terrible at handling the reboot? It's been a year by now, I thought it was enough. Also, thinking that a minority of a minority of a minority (AFOLs who bought Bionicle sets back in the day and still care about the franchise) could have anything to do with a toy line aimed at children is just blatantly delusional.

Well, 90% of vertebrates have extremely similar bones that could be mistaken from each other, especially within the same group, so I wouldn't be bothered at all to know that canonically Bionicle characters share similar pieces in different colours. I mean, don't we do the same with clothes? As far as hands are concerned, I've always thought that the socket hands could be opened just like our hands, with small mechanical fingers able to be compressed in such a way they look like a single piece, granting the best grip possible on weapons and tools. And talking about organic parts, I always imagined them INSIDE the pieces, far from the eyes and protected from any external agent, just like our muscles. I've spent hundreds of dollars on Bionicle sets and I want them to look like exactly the way I paid them. besides thinking them as warriors made out of "pieces" strengthens their uniqueness (and their Lego-ness), instead of making them just another bunch of cyborgs trying to kill each other.

Well that doesn't sound surprising at all. They handled terribly G2, killed it one year earlier, and tried to push an overpriced line with repetitive builds and colours. Who would have guess LEGO would have had problems with selling it? Way to turn a nice effort to cooperate with the community into an insult. To be honest it's a wonder Lego still makes any effort at all to connect with Bionicle fans, given how routinely unpleasable they tend to be... This is what most of the fandom (outside the small pond that BZPower is) thinks. You can't expect a nice and warm reaction from the very same people that were teased with two years of G2 and weren't given a much needed conclusion - to be clear, no need to be hypocrite here: most people who cared about the reboot are still off about the way it ended, without LEGO itself giving any actual explanation, and this is something the company needs to acknowledge whenever they want to interact with us. Seeing a multibillionare company asking a fansite about ways to promote toys related to one of the most popular intellectual properties of all times speaks volumes about the success of Star Wars CCBS, and as a BIONICLE fan this makes me all the sadder.

Well that doesn't sound surprising at all. They handled terribly G2, killed it one year earlier, and tried to push an overpriced line with repetitive builds and colours. Who would have guess LEGO would have had problems with selling it?

Since BIONICLE was the only LEGO thing I really cared about, the company is currently dead to me. I plan to get some old sets (from G1 I miss only the first Bohrok wave, a couple of McTorans and not much else) and that's pretty much it. I still MOC sometimes and now that I think about it I need to bricklink UtD, the only G2 set that wasn't even sold in my country.

There's been a lot of disinformation going on in this thread and I feel the need to intervene. First of all, the action figure market is actually in good shape in the US, as this report from the Toy Industry Association clearly underlines: since 2013 sales from the action figure market are constantly growing. Keep in mind that BIONICLE relaunched in 2015: if it's doing bad, you can't really blame a general decline of the market. Besides BIONICLE is a buildable action figure toy, and that's an important detail when considering it part of a larger category. Last but not least, the existence of a magazine in Europe doesn't really prove anything about the state of the line in the Old Continent. The graphic novels did pretty bad in the US, the cancelation of the third volume isn't a good sign for sure, and as someone who is involved in the publishing industry you can trust me when I say that when you pay for something to be made (just like LEGO did with the comics) you try to gain a profit in every way conceivable. Thus the magazine was born: a cheap way to distribute the comics in an area where you hadn't sold it already. The US won't get the magazine simply because all it contains is just the comics (I bought it myself so I'm not theorizing, there's literally nothing else in it), and LEGO has already tried to sell it there. Without great success. If that's not enough, even countries like Italy (where I live) got the magazine. Italy, a secondary market for LEGO where constraction is substantially non existent. And Europe, bar France, got zero books and zero comics translated. Not even Germany. If I want to buy them, I gotta use the internet and read them in a language that is not mine. Perfect strategy for your target audience. I don't think BIONICLE is doing well at all, but if you have to defend it, at least get your facts right.

Nah, you should sense I'm pretty bored if I'm typing up all this. But I have to say the whole idea behind that sentence (a joke, fine) bugged me a lot. Oh well, I sure ain't the big name in the hood, so my words have little to no weight here. At least I said what I wanted to say.

I fear you missed the point of my message. The problem is not avoiding to buy something, but giving a certain type of explanation. He just sounded like "I never buy LEGO but I'm allowed to get them for free a month before they're on store". You know, we're on BZP, not some random blog about toys. You'd expect from an influent user (and overall an influent reviewer) to own THE most important set of a certain year, at least because it may be useful for comparisions. "LEGO didn't send it to me" sounds really dissatisfying for your average user, who visits your site to get the very best from the BIONICLE community. In a word, we want to see passion. Not "LEGO didn't send it to me".

What's this about? This is about LEGO sending out review copies of sets. But the set has been out for months now, the reviewer could have bought one. If you're a fan and want to support Lego, why wouldn't you? Seriously, this. I shuddered when I read that line. LEGO is kind enough to give you sets for free, and you even have to show so openly that you're not interested in their products unless they're for free? I get it man, it's a harsh life and all, but 30$ for what is the best set of 2015 don't sound like a bad purchase to me, especially if you're a BIONICLE fan. At least you could have avoided the explanation for the absence of the mask. I don't know about you, but I would think twice before taking into account the opinion about a toy by someone who doesn't show interest in them. My words may be harsh themselves, but you sounded greedy and between the lines I read "pls send more sets". >Inb4 ban

LEGO did that because they tought it was a wise choice from a marketing standpoint. Whether it was to appeal to a small minority on the internet (lel) or not, there's no need to show such an attitude towards other people's tastes (as for me, I like this piece, but it makes sense with small sets because of its size; on Tahu is just ridicolous).

Cool set but ridicously overpriced in Europe.

To be even more precise I'm the guy who at first leaked sets on a forum I can't name but most of you know :^) while I was doing that, on 4chan Black Six kept on telling I was a liar. Looks like he was wrong :^)))))