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Ultimate Bionicle Checklist Redux


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Hello once again everybody! :D

 

With so much excitement over BIONICLE's return, I thought what better time than now to finally update and post all of my checklists?

 

These lists are intended to be simple in design and easy to use. They mimic the style used by many collectors for some action figure lines I also collect. To use them, simply click on the list you want below to open the full size version, open it in any image editing program, and fill in the boxes using the colors from the indices.

 

There have been numerous changes since last I updated. These include the additional of several entire lists! Updates for 2015 are also well under way and will be continuously updated as new items are unveiled or images become available.

 

Complete: Sets, Masks, Krana, Kraata, Kanoka, Rhotuka, Mask-like

 

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Masks

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Krana

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Kraata

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Kanoka

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Rhotuka

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Mask-like

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I hope you all find them as useful as I do. :)

 

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So THIS is what you were doing with those mask images, haha. Cool. I was actually just looking at BZP's list the other day and thinking it could use an update.

 

As much as I don't want to get sucked back into collecting, I just bought the NYCC mask on eBay... good times.

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Pretty comprehensive list! :) I might just fill it out. I never realized that 2006 had so many sets!!! :o

 

Thanks for making this, especially the Kanohi one!

 

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I know, right?? I didn't even have two of them (the playset minifigs ones) included until just yesterday. Somehow completely missed them when first I made the list. :lol:

 

Why are the helmet/mask/faceplates of Hydraxon and Maxilos missing? I would imagine those could still be part of the list, as they function the same way in sets. Or is it just because they aren't "Kanohi?"

I have most definitely considered adding them, but feedback from the past two days elsewhere led me not to. And it is just because they aren't "Kanohi." Of course, they're also the same ones who requested adding the Hordika "masks" despite me not thinking they should count. So clearly opinions are pretty divided on this... But one of the aims in posting these is to receive feedback. So enough people requesting those two be included and I probably would add them.

 

I did a few minor changes last night to some images on the masks list. And I realized just now how silly it looks having the Hordika face to the right (like they were from their source) when everything else is forward or left, so a little bit later I'll be reflecting those.

 

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Why are the helmet/mask/faceplates of Hydraxon and Maxilos missing? I would imagine those could still be part of the list, as they function the same way in sets. Or is it just because they aren't "Kanohi?"

I have most definitely considered adding them, but feedback from the past two days elsewhere led me not to. And it is just because they aren't "Kanohi." Of course, they're also the same ones who requested adding the Hordika "masks" despite me not thinking they should count. So clearly opinions are pretty divided on this... But one of the aims in posting these is to receive feedback. So enough people requesting those two be included and I probably would add them.

 

 

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And the minor updates have been made. :) Besides flipping the Hordika masks, I also added space for the four Skull Spiders (including a placeholder image for the gold one), a space for an as-of-yet unknown additional solid gold mask, and moved the transparent Tahu mask to be with the other limited items.

 

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@Dorek: Woah, thanks. I totally didn't realize a black hydraxon mask was out there, as I only collect bionicle, not HF. There's also a blue version of the cendox/kaxium glatorian mask found in the HF "Drop Ship" set.

 

@Electric Turahk: Sweet lists!! I personally count all of the glatorian helmets, Hordika masks and Hydraxon and Maxilos faceplates on my scribbled-up mask checklists, as well as the HF recolors of them. They just really seem to be in keeping with the style, if not the canon, of the normal Kanohi. This is really just personal preference though. On the other hand, my canon-OCD alter-ego has me scrounging for parts to make up a Karzahni head to go on my mask display... Mutated yes, but still technically the Kanohi Olisi...

 

Edit: "Additional solid gold mask"???!!! Prithee, do tell

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@Dorek: Woah, thanks. I totally didn't realize a black hydraxon mask was out there, as I only collect bionicle, not HF. There's also a blue version of the cendox/kaxium glatorian mask found in the HF "Drop Ship" set.

 

@Electric Turahk: Sweet lists!! I personally count all of the glatorian helmets, Hordika masks and Hydraxon and Maxilos faceplates on my scribbled-up mask checklists, as well as the HF recolors of them. They just really seem to be in keeping with the style, if not the canon, of the normal Kanohi. This is really just personal preference though. On the other hand, my canon-OCD alter-ego has me scrounging for parts to make up a Karzahni head to go on my mask display... Mutated yes, but still technically the Kanohi Olisi...

 

Edit: "Additional solid gold mask"???!!! Prithee, do tell

All we know of it comes from the interview here.

 

And I really did genuinely consider adding them, and the Hero Factory inclusion wouldn't have been so bad. :P But they aren't really masks, so...

 

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So thanks to Torsti and the amazing BIONICLE Style Guide, we now have access to some very high quality and backgroundless images of characters that I don't think we've ever had access to before. The first few years of the Sets checklist all use the background images because of consistency with each other, but of course those got dropped after a few years. So that consitency ended. Anyone think it would be worth the trouble of updating all of the images possible with the cleaner ones? It might mean some inconsistency within a given year, though, and of course a lot of updating for anyone using the lists too...

 

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These are very good checklists. They're obviously easy to use and it isn't hard to find and see what you're looking for, so I'll probably print them off. 

 

I remember my brother showing me some of the older ones, which were also great, but it is nice to see that they get updated.

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I agree, a separate checklist for combiners/alt models would be sa-weet! But probably would be a lot of work too...

 

Just wanted to note, you're missing the tan kanoka, plain glow-in-the-dark kanoka and plain black kanoka on the kanoka checklist. And it looks like you have the Gunmetal Gray Kraahkan on there, but I'm just curious: where do you draw the line on rare prototypes/one-of-a-kind masks on your lists? If you have GG Kraahkan, why not the alternate gold colored Avohkii prototype, pink Strakk helmet, marbled blue/white miru etc. etc?

 

Anyway, these are all much more comprehensive and a HUGE improvement on the multitude of mediocre checklists we had back around 2004.

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I agree, a separate checklist for combiners/alt models would be sa-weet! But probably would be a lot of work too...

 

Just wanted to note, you're missing the tan kanoka, plain glow-in-the-dark kanoka and plain black kanoka on the kanoka checklist. And it looks like you have the Gunmetal Gray Kraahkan on there, but I'm just curious: where do you draw the line on rare prototypes/one-of-a-kind masks on your lists? If you have GG Kraahkan, why not the alternate gold colored Avohkii prototype, pink Strakk helmet, marbled blue/white miru etc. etc?

 

Anyway, these are all much more comprehensive and a HUGE improvement on the multitude of mediocre checklists we had back around 2004.

I will never count the tan Kanoka. It is not a Kanoka. It is simply a leftover unprinted dsk from the Slizer/Throwbot days in which there were tan disks, and just so happened to be discovered years later. I'm also not familiar with the plain black one, but it is likely the same. Nor do I know the plain glow-in-the-dark one, but... Yeah, that sounds like it could be a Kanoka prototype unprinted variant of the SDCC one.

 

The gunmetal gray Kraahkan is not there, as it is a prototype and I do not wish to include them. The two black variants are the six holed one from 2003's Makuta set and the four holed one from 2008's Icarax.

 

The line is a tricky one, to be sure. When this was first made, I chose to go with what were regarded as misprints at the time (and this was one of my first, so it's been quite a while since I checked what's now regarded as a prototype or misprint). The Noble Matatus and Rurus (red and black excluded), as well as sky blue and yellow Kaukau, are not limited to single copies. They seem perfectly qualified as misprints to me and should be there.

 

Before posting these updated ones, I actually considered removing the brown Noble Komau, dark red Noble Huna, dark blue Noble Matatu, and white Noble Huna. Their seemingly one-of-a-kind nature definitely screams "prototype" to me, and as I said, I do not feel it is appropriate to include those. But the feedback I received was to leave them on, so I did. I am more than open to cutting them if there's a stronger feeling here that they shouldn't be counted.

 

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Awesome job with these ET!  Referring to your latest post, is there any chance you'd include the black Kanoka in the Kanoka checklist or would you not count that one for the same reasons you won't count the tan one?  And the GITD Kanoka are somewhat common.  I've got a handful of them, actually.  

 

Looking forward to the full Kanohi list as well.  I'm trying to figure out though, what are the 11 blank spaces for in it?  I know that 6 of them are for the Protector's masks.  How many Skull spider variations are there?  And is the blank spot next to the clear Hau for the trans-orange one?

 

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Awesome job with these ET!  Referring to your latest post, is there any chance you'd include the black Kanoka in the Kanoka checklist or would you not count that one for the same reasons you won't count the tan one?  And the GITD Kanoka are somewhat common.  I've got a handful of them, actually.  

 

Looking forward to the full Kanohi list as well.  I'm trying to figure out though, what are the 11 blank spaces for in it?  I know that 6 of them are for the Protector's masks.  How many Skull spider variations are there?  And is the blank spot next to the clear Hau for the trans-orange one?

 

- :t: :l: :h:

I am indeed disinclined to consider the black disk a Kanoka as well. Do you have a good picture of the GITD one? I can get to adding that, then.

 

The blank spot next to the clear Hau is for the as-of-yet unrevealed eight solid gold mask that is supposed to be coming. And there are 4 Skull Spiders, including the gold one at the end of the empty spaces.

 

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Nice to see so much thought went into these :D. Your logic on the black and tan kanoka and prototypes is sound. And my mistake, the 2nd Kraahkan looked like gunmetal, but 4 hole vs 6 hole makes more sense. I agree with leaving out the one-of-a-kind protos, and I absolutely agree that the brown komau/ white & metru red hunas/ metro blue matatu seemed to straddle the line. They are definitely not one-of-a-kind, but pretty close to it.

 

@Dorek: Good point! If you look closely at the checklist, both gold variations of the Kraahkan are included ;)

 

One more question: the last Avohkii on the line next to the corrupt/dark avohkii... is that meant to be the 2010 slightly-different shade of the silver avohkii? Because if you consider those to be different masks, there are alternate pearl-light-grey / flat silver versions of a number of different masks. For example, I have 2 Kanohi Rode with exactly the same difference in shade. Splitting hairs... :P

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Oh, something that came to mind: the "gold Kraahkan" actually came in both variations of gold, due to the color switch in the production cycle. I don't have both, unfortunately, but I know they both exist.

As he said, the two gold Kraahkan are both there. :)

 

Nice to see so much thought went into these :D. Your logic on the black and tan kanoka and prototypes is sound. And my mistake, the 2nd Kraahkan looked like gunmetal, but 4 hole vs 6 hole makes more sense. I agree with leaving out the one-of-a-kind protos, and I absolutely agree that the brown komau/ white & metru red hunas/ metro blue matatu seemed to straddle the line. They are definitely not one-of-a-kind, but pretty close to it.

 

@Dorek: Good point! If you look closely at the checklist, both gold variations of the Kraahkan are included ;)

 

One more question: the last Avohkii on the line next to the corrupt/dark avohkii... is that meant to be the 2010 slightly-different shade of the silver avohkii? Because if you consider those to be different masks, there are alternate pearl-light-grey / flat silver versions of a number of different masks. For example, I have 2 Kanohi Rode with exactly the same difference in shade. Splitting hairs... :P

Easy enough mistake. It wasn't that easy to find a picture that would clearly convey the difference, since there's only a stock photo for one of them and the light had to hit the angle and lighting had to be juuust right to show only four holes... and I didn't have access to my collection at the time... But methinks the rightmost one does a good job for the four holes. The leftmost six hole one is indeed not as easy to notice.

 

You are the first person to ever bring that up, I think. :lol: The 2010 Stars Takanuva is not a set I own, so I was never able to compare the two directly. I believe I went off of Bricklink for that one, which does label them as different colors (though I recognize it's not a perfect source...).

 

(Yeah I really don't know what to do about the oddball misprints now. xP)

 

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I'm gonna say Bricklink is right on this one, they are distinctly different shades. I wonder if TLH knows anything about this, he's a pretty hardcore collector :alert:. If you want I can snap comparison photos of the PLG/Flat Silver Rode and Avohkii once I have access to my collection again (in a week or two).

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Could there possibly be a list for the official set combiners? I am trying to complete my collection with combiners inclusive :P

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Awesome job with these ET!  Referring to your latest post, is there any chance you'd include the black Kanoka in the Kanoka checklist or would you not count that one for the same reasons you won't count the tan one?  And the GITD Kanoka are somewhat common.  I've got a handful of them, actually.  

 

Looking forward to the full Kanohi list as well.  I'm trying to figure out though, what are the 11 blank spaces for in it?  I know that 6 of them are for the Protector's masks.  How many Skull spider variations are there?  And is the blank spot next to the clear Hau for the trans-orange one?

 

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I am indeed disinclined to consider the black disk a Kanoka as well. Do you have a good picture of the GITD one? I can get to adding that, then.

 

The blank spot next to the clear Hau is for the as-of-yet unrevealed eight solid gold mask that is supposed to be coming. And there are 4 Skull Spiders, including the gold one at the end of the empty spaces.

 

~|ET|~

 

 

Here's a pic of the GITD Kanoka.

 

Also, here's a slightly better pic of the numberless disk of time.

 

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I'm gonna say Bricklink is right on this one, they are distinctly different shades. I wonder if TLH knows anything about this, he's a pretty hardcore collector :alert:. If you want I can snap comparison photos of the PLG/Flat Silver Rode and Avohkii once I have access to my collection again (in a week or two).

Curiously, on the Avohkii front, Brickset says it is only in one set... That could just be a consequence of however they inventory stuff, but it's making it more difficult to find corroboration on their potential differences.

 

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Thank you for the pictures! Very useful.

 

Maybe you could add a new picture with all the Combo Model, that would be very cool :P

Could there possibly be a list for the official set combiners? I am trying to complete my collection with combiners inclusive :P

Did not expect to be getting as much interest in a combiner list as I am, here and elsewhere. :lol: For now my recommendation is just to use the "own multiple" color for the sets you have as combiners too, if that's applicable. Not sure if I'll make a list yet, though.

 

 

 

Awesome job with these ET!  Referring to your latest post, is there any chance you'd include the black Kanoka in the Kanoka checklist or would you not count that one for the same reasons you won't count the tan one?  And the GITD Kanoka are somewhat common.  I've got a handful of them, actually.  

 

Looking forward to the full Kanohi list as well.  I'm trying to figure out though, what are the 11 blank spaces for in it?  I know that 6 of them are for the Protector's masks.  How many Skull spider variations are there?  And is the blank spot next to the clear Hau for the trans-orange one?

 

- :t: :l: :h:

I am indeed disinclined to consider the black disk a Kanoka as well. Do you have a good picture of the GITD one? I can get to adding that, then.

 

The blank spot next to the clear Hau is for the as-of-yet unrevealed eight solid gold mask that is supposed to be coming. And there are 4 Skull Spiders, including the gold one at the end of the empty spaces.

 

~|ET|~

 

 

Here's a pic of the GITD Kanoka.

 

Also, here's a slightly better pic of the numberless disk of time.

 

- :t: :l: :h:

 

You are the best. :) Kanoka list updated!

 

~|ET|~

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Do you think these mean anything for the Kanohi list, or were these exclusive to just the new lego store invite only event?

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I would be interested in a combiner checklist, too.  Is there even a comprehensive list of Bionicle combiners anywhere out there online?  I guess there's the pull-down menu in the set database, but that's not very user-friendly, and I think it's missing a few models.  A list arranged by year would be nice.  I know some pretty obscure combiners came to light in the discussion in the Japanese Bohrok combiner topic a few days ago.  Also, on a related note, do models like the Ranama and Kirikori Nui count as combiners?  Official instructions were released, but they take a lot of Throwbot parts, Kanohi in alternate colors (like a red Pakari, for example), and other parts that aren't found in any Bionicle sets.  I think those were the only two models like that, but I'm not 100% sure.

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Do you think these mean anything for the Kanohi list, or were these exclusive to just the new lego store invite only event?

I went through all of the images there, but I'm not seeing anything not already accounted for...?

 

I would be interested in a combiner checklist, too.  Is there even a comprehensive list of Bionicle combiners anywhere out there online?  I guess there's the pull-down menu in the set database, but that's not very user-friendly, and I think it's missing a few models.  A list arranged by year would be nice.  I know some pretty obscure combiners came to light in the discussion in the Japanese Bohrok combiner topic a few days ago.  Also, on a related note, do models like the Ranama and Kirikori Nui count as combiners?  Official instructions were released, but they take a lot of Throwbot parts, Kanohi in alternate colors (like a red Pakari, for example), and other parts that aren't found in any Bionicle sets.  I think those were the only two models like that, but I'm not 100% sure.

And therein lies one of the big, big problems I have that kind of turns me off from making one... What to include... Anything with instructions that came bundled with sets are no-brainers. Ones that had instructions online become more questionable. But then you get all of the odd overseas ones, most of which I don't even consider official combination models - just cool MOCs people that got featured in magazines that just happened to be made exclusively from only specific sets.

 

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Made some more minor-ish image updates to the Kanohi checklist. Thanks again to the style guide, the red, black, brown, white, green, and blue Kanohi Nuva have all received updates to be a bit higher quality.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/BZP_Tweets/media/grid?idx=7&tid=520354478932115456

Do you think these mean anything for the Kanohi list, or were these exclusive to just the new lego store invite only event?

I went through all of the images there, but I'm not seeing anything not already accounted for...?
I meant as far as the colors of the mask's are concerned :P

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https://mobile.twitter.com/BZP_Tweets/media/grid?idx=7&tid=520354478932115456

Do you think these mean anything for the Kanohi list, or were these exclusive to just the new lego store invite only event?

I went through all of the images there, but I'm not seeing anything not already accounted for...?

 

I meant as far as the colors of the mask's are concerned :P

 

Umm, going through one-by-one, then...

 

Red Mask of Fire: Check

Yellow-green Skull Spider: Check (No picture in checklist yet though)

Blue Mask of Water: Check

Gold Mask of Water: Check

Brown Mask of Stone: Check

Green Mask of Jungle: Check

White Mask of Ice: Check

Gold Mask of Stone: Check

Gold Mask of Ice: Check

Silver Skull Spider: Check (No picture in checklist yet though)

Gold Mask of Fire: Check

Solid gold Mask of Creation: Check

Solid gold Mask of Ice: Check

Solid gold Mask of Water: Check

 

Sooo... yeah. I'm still a little confused by what colors you mean.

 

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A new picture by DV in his blog show quite a few more transparent orange/red Masks of Fire than I was thinking there would be. Very curious now and am definitely inclined to add them to the checklist as a result.

 

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https://mobile.twitter.com/BZP_Tweets/media/grid?idx=7&tid=520354478932115456

Do you think these mean anything for the Kanohi list, or were these exclusive to just the new lego store invite only event?

I went through all of the images there, but I'm not seeing anything not already accounted for...?
I meant as far as the colors of the mask's are concerned :P
Umm, going through one-by-one, then...

 

Red Mask of Fire: Check

Yellow-green Skull Spider: Check (No picture in checklist yet though)

Blue Mask of Water: Check

Gold Mask of Water: Check

Brown Mask of Stone: Check

Green Mask of Jungle: Check

White Mask of Ice: Check

Gold Mask of Stone: Check

Gold Mask of Ice: Check

Silver Skull Spider: Check (No picture in checklist yet though)

Gold Mask of Fire: Check

Solid gold Mask of Creation: Check

Solid gold Mask of Ice: Check

Solid gold Mask of Water: Check

 

Sooo... yeah. I'm still a little confused by what colors you mean.

 

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A new picture by DV in his blog show quite a few more transparent orange/red Masks of Fire than I was thinking there would be. Very curious now and am definitely inclined to add them to the checklist as a result.

 

~|ET|~

Well I don't mean to drag this on but if you notice in the pic with the masks, there is a brown mask of water, a brown mask of ice, and a brown mask of fire. I was saying that this could imply that every mask might be available in every different color, but my question about this is that were they exclusive to the Lego store free build session or should we plan to see these different colored masks as collectibles in the future?

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