Please note, it's almost always unwise to go by such advice, as that's coming from your personal tastes, Neelh; GG's tastes may be different. I always advise watching from the start and judging for yourself. And I don't know where you get that the pilots (I assume you mean season 1? -- usually "pilot" means simply the first ever episode of something, not plural) are awful, but to each his own, I guess. I suppose that is so, but I'm just taking notes from the fandom. They're quite different from the main series, which is great. Season 1 also refers to Rise of the Snakes, which is confusing, so we use 'Pilots' to refer to the first mini-series because it wasn't a full season, 'Rise of the Snakes' to refer to what can also be referred to as 'Season 1' or 'Season 2', and 'the last series' to refer to... Well... But back to the main bit of the topic, we basically have Bionicle, just in a couple of different forms as Ninjago and Hero Factory. It's close, but the differences make them individual and not a plain copy.