From a purely set-based perspective, I appreciate your point.

On a story level, the Barraki were the worst thing ever.

Carapar always felt too hollow for me, bit of a throwaway. 

Takadox however was friggin' dope.

Ehlek was a fantastic set.

 

Was...

RIP green joints.

Represent! The Barraki are my favorite canister villians to this day. And let's not forget their honorary seventy member, in all his affordable and glow in the dark glory, Looking back, I regret I didn't pick up Takadox and Carapar, cause then I'd have all the great Barraki sets.

Pridak is my least favorite. I still despise his set as much as I did in 2007

From a purely set-based perspective, I appreciate your point.

 

On a story level, the Barraki were the worst thing ever.

Worse than foot door? Or Greg forgetting that ice floats in water? Or the entirety of the planned Red Star retcon? Nah, not even close, even if Mantax is a teensy bit of bit of an edgelord.

Only a "teensy bit"?  Only one?

I mean they were just lazy reskins of the Piraka, who were all massive edgelords themselves, with the only real difference being that they had virtually no special abilities and thus would have been unbelievably boring even if they weren't the exact same archetype we just got the year before.

While I'm biased towards the Barraki (my first set was Pridak, actually.) Ehlek is definitely a good design in my opinion.

His lime green joints...different story.

Worse than foot door? Or Greg forgetting that ice floats in water? Or the entirety of the planned Red Star retcon?

Please elaborate on these. It's been a while and I'm old and I wanna enjoy some Bionicle mistakes.

Please elaborate on these. It's been a while and I'm old and I wanna enjoy some Bionicle mistakes.

Foot door

Ice floating: it was either Bionicle legends 7 or 8. Matoro used ice to freeze a Barraki, and somehow he didn't float to the surface. But Bonkle physics don't work like earth physics, amirite?

Red Star Retcon: Basically everyone who ever died in the Matoran Universe isn't actually dead, cause the Red star is a resurrection machine that only broke down recently. This never actually happened in story, cause the serials were (mercifully) canceled, but it's technically canon, argh.