Favorite Bionicle Hand? What do You Think the Perfect Bionicle Hand Wo

[Banana Gunz]

We have gotten several versions of the Bionicle hand. We've gotten the piece used as hands for the Toa Nuva, the mata hands, the open socket joint, the bent Glatorian neck, the Glatorian one made specifically to look like a hand, and possibly others. Which one do you like best out of these?

 

Also if you don't like any of them completely, which would be your dream hand piece?

 

My favorite out of the one's we've gotten is the Nuva hand. It's simple, versatile, and looks the best.

 

My dream hand piece would be the nuva piece (the newer, rounder version) except without that odd finger stuff on the end of it. I could be made just a drip thicker on all the sides and maybe even some finger details (but not as prominent or specifically defined as the Glatorian one). 

[Click]

I'm just fine with the classic ball socket hand. It had plenty of connection points to add posable fingers or different weapons on to. I never liked the Glatorian hands. They were too realistic and bulky for me. A lot of the good old weapons don't even fit on it. 

 

The big old Mata hands are cool too, mostly because of nostalgia. They still look better than Glatorian hands in my opinion, and had more connection points and the possibility for fingers if you're clever.  I also like the idea of two-fingered Toa, for some reason.

Edited September 18, 2014 by Click

[Zidonaro]

I wish every set had Hydraxon-like hands. Those were the best.

[Sumiki]

Hydraxon-style hands are very useful if slightly modified. I loved the version that came with the set itself for the parts more than the style inherent in the instructions.

[The 1st Shadow]

I use the Hydraxon-style hands on my MOCs as often as possible. Helps make my comic characters more expressive.

[25K Now!]

The Nuva hand. They were incredibly useful. A lot more modifiable than the Glatorian hands.

[John Smith]

Yup. Nuva hands all the way, at least for canister-sized sets. Glatorian hands just look silly, IMO. I like titans to have fingers, since it can be done without making the hands disproportionately large.

[Vspinax]

I like the big Toa Mata hands, mostly because they just look freakin awesome! But for holding weapons and other tools the Toa Nuva must have the best hands.

[xccj]

I've pretty sold on the sockets for hands. But I do have a soft spot for the classic Mata hands on Pohatu, Tahu, and Lewa. (And I guess Onua's claws, but they're more specific to his character than others.)

 

[dotcom]

every bonkle should have axonn's hands. every. single. one.

[ghostylemon48]

Personally the old mata hands just catch my attention but I also like the ball socket hand which are the ones I actually use the most.

[Reya]

Hydraxon-style hands were the best in my opinion.

[Nidhiki of the Shadows]

Yeah, the classic joint hand is always going to take the cake for me. Unless we can count Hydraxon's hands. Those were awesome.

 

-NotS

[Kaxix]

I like Axonn's hand a lot. Apart from that, the classic hand was ok too.

[Lyichir]

I like the four-fingered Hero Factory hand, the Savage Planet paw piece, and even the technic-based hands of Tunneler Beast. Really, there's no "ideal" hand yet, though—I hope that at some point a hand mold which is nearly as compact as the Hero Factory hand mold but has clip attachments for independently-poseable fingers is introduced.

[randomreviewerbros]

Like many have said above the Hydraxon hands were great, as well as Axonn's 'mega hands' i thought those were awesome

[Adventurer]

Axonn hands were the coolest - though to make them proportional to most sets the rest of the body would need to be bigger (worked for Axonn, but we couldn't have all of our characters looking like Norse Dwarves ). I did really like specifically though how the fingers and their ends looked like the animated version of the Matoran hands (that kind of nice rounded end). Hydraxon's hands and most other titan sized characters tended to have claws of some sort.

[Click]

You know what would really be the ideal hand? A Nuva hand with two 1/2 length bars on either side of the top cross hole. That way, you can add Hydraxon fingers withough having them oddly coming from the top of the hand. It would also be great to have a piece you can snap on the top of the hand to add those bars in the correct place. It would mean we'd lose one connection point, but I bet that there would be a lot of great uses for such a piece.

[Toa of Gallifrey]

My favorite hand piece so far is the HF hand piece. It's a more refined Glatorian hand, which I really like. If you count the design, then either Hydraxon or Axonn take the cake. My self-MOC uses a Hydraxon-like hand with an Axonn-like thumb.

[Dralcax]

The regular Nuva hand. The Glatorian/HF hands just look awkward on anything that isn't an armored HF limb, especially in the wrist region, because the ball joint is the actual "wrist" with the HF system but the lower palm on most Bionicle limbs. The Nuva hand is just an incredibly versatile part in general, being able to easily connect ball joints to any Technic part, as well as resembling a hand in the simplest way possible. 

[Toa Smoke Monster]

I personally prefer the Nuva hands. Nothing against the other forms of them, but I think that they look the best.

 

Though Hydraxon has some good hand designs too. 

[Banana Gunz]

You know what would really be the ideal hand? A Nuva hand with two 1/2 length bars on either side of the top cross hole. That way, you can add Hydraxon fingers withough having them oddly coming from the top of the hand. It would also be great to have a piece you can snap on the top of the hand to add those bars in the correct place. It would mean we'd lose one connection point, but I bet that there would be a lot of great uses for such a piece.

 

Ooo, dis sounds goood. It also relates back to what Lyichir said.

[Irrie]

My favorite are the jazz hands

Mata hands looked good on the '01 Toa, but if they were used with most of the later ones, they would look abnormally small in my opinion. As with Hydraxon and Nuva, they are #totesamaze. 

Glatorian hands look good for modeling but they don't have a third hole, which I found to be somewhat disappointing. 

[Toa TAK]

Agree with good 'ol Nuva hands.

 

Glatorians are 2nd place, though.

 

TAK