I've been wanting to say this for a while now, but had no particular place to put it, so here it is.   There's been a lot of discussion lately about two major things:   1) Reasons Bionicle got unweildy near the end.   2) Criticisms and opinions of Ninjago.   In my opinion, some of the criticisms of Bionicle's later years are right on, and I think Ninjago has so far been a highly refreshing reform of those problems. Hero Factory started out to replace Bionicle, but I think Ninjago has passed it