Allan18

Hope, love and faith, honestly, i never really trought of it that way, but you are right(i guess) makes me wonder how many religious symbolism is there in Bionicle, i know LEGO did took inspiration from maori mythology in the early days of Bionicle and they got into trouble for cultural appropiation, so i always wondered if they also had elements of other mythologies or even religious beliefs into them

speaking as a christian myself, i always trought that the three virtues were partially inspired by the holy trinity

as i said before, if anything, it makes Bionicle feels like modern-day mythology

Yesterday, i had "The Dream" again, but instead of Bionicle G1 (2001-2010), it was Max Steel G1 (1999-2012), like it was the same type of dream, but instead of Bionicle sets, it was Max Steel action figures, like, did any of you guys ever had "The Dream" but with other toy franchises?

my only real problem with the G1 storyline is that, it ended at a cliffhanger, like, if it had just ended with Teridax dying, Spherus Magna being restored and maybe Velika killing a few villains here and there and a way to reveal the red star without making it a cliffhanger, it would have been the perfect ending

dead thread but i'm going to ressurrect it, i love it, my favorite LEGO system theme, and my first LEGO set was a power miners set, too bad it was cancelled too early

we can still make theories and speculations about what happened later on, but yeah, ever since 2022, we have no actual answers anymore, but that's ok, if anything, it makes Bionicle feels like modern-day mythology, greek and norse myths also didn't had a "definitive" ending to them

Maybe i'm being a little Mortal Kombat fanboy here, but didn't "Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm" got a cult following later on? Sure, making a mortal kombat cartoon for kids is an extremelly wild choice, but it was common for IPs in the 80s and 90s that were made for adults to have cartoons and toys for kids and sure, not all of them were "good" but many of them also have their cult followings the kenner alien and predator action figures comes to mind, both movies were gory horror movies for adults, but kenner made some great action figures for kids back in the day to be fair, i'm not denying that kiddie slop is a thing, i'm just saying that there's more nuances when it comes to those types of media than meets the eye not all kids media has to be gritty or edgy, sometimes all it needs is to be decent

people need to understand that Bionicle was a lightining in a bottle type of franchise, it came out at the right place and time when hero factory came out in 2010, LEGO no longer needed to take risks since bionicle already saved them from bankrupcy

i never really got this "he-man and g.i. joe were just toy commercials" thing, even as a gen z guy born in 2003, my parents(born 1979 and 1981) were both huge he-man and g.i. joe fans in the 80s and they still love it, we even went to watch the new Travis Knight he-man movie that came out in earlier this month with my brother (born 2009) and we all loved it i have no nostalgia for those brands, but, as far as 80s cartoons goes, the fact they are still remembered to this very day fondly by their now adult target audience really shows that they were way more valuable than just "toy commercials" i would say that hero factory does fit more the definition than those 80s cartoons

Yes, BZPower is still active, they are just a niche community

I have never trought about it. I was 6-7 when Hero Factory replaced Bionicle in 2010, and as a kid, i never considered Hero Factory "bad" but i always knew that it was inferior to Bionicle, i just couldn't explain why, but you two perfectly explained it for me But to me, Hero Factory is a pretty decent kids IP, it wasn't until 2014 with invasion from bellow that hero factory actually became bad for me in my opinion, 2010-2014 hero factory is a pretty safe kids IP, while 2014 hero factory is when the series actually became bad

no, you can use how many LEGO pieces you have, i really don't like gatekeeping MOCing, i feel like this goes against what makes MOCing, well, MOCing

glatorian rahkshi

Man, it's a shame they never released an updated version for 2010