I still don't get why everybody hates the yellow? They could've gone ahead and just made him red because that's the best selling set, but yellow is alot closer to gold, so it works. Sheesh.

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It's more the fact that everyone who saw the leaked pics was absolutely certain it was gold; his canister shot makes him look gold; and in the movie he's gold. So having the actual set be entirely yellow is really, really boring and disappointing after we had assumed that he would be the much rarer and more majestic color of gold.

 

Basically, yellow is not an adequate substitute when one was expecting gold and thought that a gold Mata Nui would be the most incredible thing ever.

 

It also just doesn't make sense for the set to be yellow but the movie version gold. So there's a sort of doubled annoyance there – the set is a complete letdown to one expecting gold, but then one feels really frustrated with Lego for making the movie version as awesome as one had hoped the set would be, but leaving the actual physical set so disappointing.

 

Speaking, of course, for those who feel the same way as I do.

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Yeah, I too am annoyed with the head. And I also agree that it could have been the old mask with a Metru head. (And hey, it would have saved Lego money on a mold, and made the mask more easily accessible/buyable.)

 

And I remember way back when thinking that a Mata Nui set needed to be gold. Disappointment.

I think he looks okay for a Toa. D:

 

I do agree, however, that gold instead of yellow-orange-whatever-it-is-now would have made it so much more EPIC. And Mata-Nui-like.

Sorry baby, I gotta disagree.

 

Toa Ignika's Ignika never appealed to me. Maybe it was the colour, but I'm fairly sure it also had to do with the shape. It was just 'meh' in my opinion.

 

Mata-Nui's on the other hand is just downright hot, and if it came in Gold/Black/Silver I would havem chewed off my own hand in order to purchase it.

 

Yeah, you heard me.

 

My own hand

 

Fear me.

 

-Janus

Agree. I prefer the Toa Ignika Ignika to this one. New one is not as sleek from what I can see. The shape doesn't look...right. As you said, it would've saved a mold, plus ice blue eyes. Also, gold should've been definitely used.

I quite agree with this; the rest of him is quite prominently yellow over black, so black over yellow on his hips is most strange. If he were gold, well, this wouldn't be so much of a problem, because he'd have gold armor over everything and then his body would be yellow and black in pretty much equal prominence...

 

Price seems like the most likely reason, but he's Mata Nui! The Great Spirit himself! If Tarix can have a little extra money spent to give him gold armor, then Mata Nui is -definitely- worth it.

I'm personally impressed with Mata Nui in regard to color scheme. I agree that the black Metru chest over the Keetorange waist is a bit bad, but I blame the waist more than the Metru chest.

 

It puzzles me why Mata Nui's armor and mask weren't gold, but I'm not disappointed. Still strikes me as a bit odd considering Tarix as evidence that LEGO isn't completely against good ol' yeller-gold in BIONICLE, but not bad-looking on Mata Nui. The face, meanwhile, looks more like one, matching the Glatorian and certainly working better on Mata Nui, who seems a far less "hollow" character than Toa Ignika.

 

As for the Ignika, I am perfectly happy with its new form. I wish it were not necessary, but given the hugeness of the 2008 Ignika and the smallness of the Glatorian head it seems necessary (I won't begin to describe how weird a Metru head would be among coreleased sets that have Glatorian heads)

 

The Kumquat argument might be funny, also, but it gets tiresome when statements like that (comparing two entirely unrelated objects due to rudimentary similarities) catch on. After all, "brown is the color of stone, yellow is the color of bananas!" made no sense back in the day, yet became a fad. People compared Gali Mistika in early pics to a cow on account of what seemed at the time like a nostril (it wasn't, and the original Kaukau Nuva had nostrils anyway). Overall, I dislike such comments.

Oh come -on-, it's not an argument, it's what I thought of it! Seriously, I just looked at the new Ignika for a while, and thought "... this looks like a kumquat." No joke.

With the three ridges along the top, I'd be more inclined to say some kind of kumquat-starfruit hybrid. But that's just my opinion.

I must admit, it is kind of odd -- it probably would've sold better had they done gold. I guess they assumed that since it's Mata Nui fans will by the set no matter how many corners they cut.