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I got into it young. And, there was a story to keep me occupied - I doubt I would have gotten far with Bionicles if the movies, MNOG, and the comics hadn't been released. I distinctly showing off my sets to people who didn't care telling them about said set's story significance.

I recgonize it but can't attach any name to it

i liked lord of skull spiders because he was such a memorable villian

They do in the movies; but those are made with an obvious artistic license

I've seen that before, but I they are very rare. I think

It's pretty good, It is very common for these things to lack decent pictures

Boxes are for big sets. Canisters are for average sets. Bags are for small sets. This was the way it was for 20 years until everything started changing recently

I picked 2015 because of the novelty of seeing old sets being redone in 2016. It always kinda felt like after Lego releases a line and or wave of sets, they just forget about them. Technic Star Wars anyone? I doubt anyone has thought of those since 2002

At this point in the game, you might as well make your own headcanon ending. Or just ask Greg. He's still on Lego forums, right?

Found the other edgelord. ​Also the sets are pretty complicated considering literally all of them have gear functions that take quite some time to put together, but I have a feeling you're one of those people who have not bought or constructed a single set and are judging them by images you saw online. The animations are pretty darn good too but you were probably expecting uber-violent monochrome schlock with edgy dialogue since you want "darkness" so badly. >bionicle >in anyway being edgy lol, do people actually think this?

For what it's worth, some of the serials WERE written to sell the sets. "Dreams of Destruction" focused on telling the story of store exclusive characters Lesovikk, Sarda, Idris, and Karzahni, who were mostly absent from the year's main story. Likewise, "Brothers in Arms" in 2008 existed to shine a spotlight on Vultraz and Mazeka. I do think it's nice that Greg did write some of the serials and short stories largely for the enjoyment of writing them, as it shows how much he cared about the franchise. Unfortunately, they are also part of why I would choose sets over story: the serials that didn't focus on characters from the current sets often felt aimless and disjointed, especially as the core story approached and eventually reached its conclusion. As side-stories they were satisfactory, but it was their connections with the set-driven core story that gave them a real sense of purpose, instead of just feeling like a bunch of errand-running interrupted by plot twists. The "big picture" in the core story tended to be planned out years in advance, whereas the serials helped fill in the gaps in that big picture. Having that spontaneous cliffhanger-heavy style of the serials without the more purposeful, set-driven main story backing it up is like having mortar with no bricks (no pun intended). I really highly doubt that the books in anyway affected sales. I had never once read any of them while the series was still on going

This is what I meant by how

How and when was the site logo created?

I hate how they've changed the colors of all the modern pegs/pins to be really bright and easy to see. If you ask me, they should all be black and or grey, like they were pre-2002. I also loath Toa Lhikan and Keetongu because everything about that set was out of place

On a semi-related note, I find it funny when people ask Greg about their novel of a theory and he essentially says "Yea, okay I guess that's canon"

"I personally dislike G2 therefore obviously everyone else does too" Oh the arrogance... So, you actually like the G2 story?

*ose If you had to pick between the story, and the sets, which would you choose, and why? This is mainly concerning G1, however, I suppose that G2 may also be discussed despite the obvious answer to this question when applied to it. Also, before somebody writes a book about it, yes; I, and everyone else on BZPower understand that without the sets, there would be no Bionicle Given what I've said regarding the topic in the past, I'd say that it's pretty easy to guess which category I fall under; story, story - always the story. And yes, I also think that Bionicle would be a lot less interesting if it was strictly a story with no sets, but if I had to choose, I would probably choose a good story. Bionicle initially started with the stories crafted to sell more Bionicle sets; the hunt for the Kanohi masks, the hunt for the Krana, Krana-Kal, Krataa, Kanoka Disks, and weird ball things(?)/squids. If you ask me, though, later on, Greg seemed to be writing solely for the sake of the story rather than sales. Post thoughts

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I mean, aren't they all the same character?

Dude, if the story magically becomes cool to me that doesn't mean I'm going to buy the sets. The story and the sets are two completely different animals. What do you mean the story and sets are completely different? Is that suppose to mean one is better than the other? yes also, after 15 years, can this site finally learn that there are some people who have different opinions, and that is no reason to begin slamming keys on tumblr?

These toys are only going to get older. Bionicle still feels 8 years old to me. Bionicle is going to be 20 in 5 years. think about that for a second

I used to like post 2005

G1. WASN'T. DARK. And a story being "not so grim" is not a bad thing you absolute edgelord. ​Also there's been a ton of worldbuilding but of course you've probably ignored all of it. And there's been animal creatures...? At this point I have the feeling you hid under a rock when G2 came out and refuse to actually learn anything about it. You don't know how wrong you are. G1 WAS DARK. I guess a happy little world is a better place for you, anyway. Also there are NO ANIMALS. Unless you count the little "skull spiders" which are more animations than are creatures. Maybe I should "read the amazing books" because clearly I'm missing out on something here? "g1 was dark" true, and it was almost as frightening as torrenting the Bee Movie, right? Honestly, if anyone thinks that G1 was dark, you really need to watch some actually dark things. So what, a Barakki killed someone once or something? Boring! Bionicle G2 could have done with little thing called a story. or a cool game. or something. Maybe Lego has forgotten that kids like to act out the story with their toys, not just play with them. that was at least my case. idk, maybe it's not normal. at any rate who cares; g2 is obviously done for. I'd rather see it stay dead than to be resurrected every few years to be paraded around, and then cancelled (again)

No. Why is everybody so sad? Bionicle G2 was horrifically disappointing, and yet it is worshiped solely because it has the "Bionicle" logo?