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what do you think of the new BIONICLE?


skratchR

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Well, you are going to call me everything you find on your vocabulary, but I have to say that, after seeing the new BIONICLE, I am not convinced.

 

I don't like the feelings it gives me. It reminds me too much of those lego toylines that last two years, and never really have a decent story. Such as that line which I don't even remember the name which consisted of people in submarines battling crabs and squids. I have the feeling it is not going to be more complex than 'good guys fight bad guys to find (insert object/location here)'.

 

Also, I don't like the sets. Apart from finding them rather ugly (Onua....), they don't remind me at all to the sets they are supposed to be based off. Then come the masks. Four of them are acceptable, but the Kaukau and Miru still pursue me in my nightmares. I even preferred the Kaukau nuva! (now you all are thinking: this guy is crazy...).

 

Then comes the overall idea of the sets. They are too similar to HF. And I never liked HF. All those armor plates get me nervous. I like the good old days when a limb was a single piece, or two articulated pieces, with one of them covered by another which hid the other completely.

 

And the story... Well, we don't know much yet, but I feel this is not going to get to the complexity of even 2001. Not even unity, duty destiny; not even a decent map, etc. Also, I haven't heard (or read) the names Mata nui, Matoran, Turaga, etc. Without all this, It has absolutely nothing to do with the old BIONICLE, just the names of the protagonists.

 

And now comes the maximum argument: When I read on the frontpage that the bionicle webpagewas up, I quickly opened it to see what was new. And I was VERY underwhelmed. Basically my smile turned slowly into a 'I hope they know what they are doing'. I expected something like Toa tahu staring at me from the screen along with takanuva, and facing an army of Zyglak.

 

All I got was a toyline that does not remind me of bionicle. I hoped for a reboot in a parallel, yet similar universe; or a continuation from the very spot, or from some years later. Or even a parallel history during the years prior to the GC. Not... some sort of parallel universe which has absolutely nothing to do with the original.

 

What do you think? Please don't shout too much at me, but I had to say it.

 

onua...

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