Allan18

then why did you had a problem with what i said and talked about "LEGO having spies" on Disney?

do you even know what "marketing" is?

i'm a 23 year old brazilian college student with no job "yet" the only bionicle from G1 i own is toa mata gali and she has some broken pieces, and i bought her in 2019 on ebay(before i knew about bricklink or brickowl) and now, bricklink is no longer avaliable in my country, only brickowl i also have 2 g2 sets(protector of fire and lord of skull spiders) but i gave them to my younger brother, he took them apart and they are inside our "lego scrap box"(a literal shoe box) somewhere on my closet, but i don't care about g2 sets, only g1 so yeah, since i'm a young dude living in a developing country, i could never afford any g1 sets during my lifetime, but i will try to find a job that pays more than minimum wage and start buying them on brickowl to see if i can at least have my favorite sets i always wanted from childhood honestly, i'm a huge sucker for the titan sets, i hope i can get my hands on brutaka or teridax, or noctrum or tuma or sidorak but yeah, you don't need to own any g1 sets to be a real Bionicle fan, gatekeeping sucks

i deleted my original comments, but my youtube username is "SkyggernesMaske" i apreciate your feeling and don't worry, i know sometimes things go out of our controls, but if that's the best you could have done, there's nothing wrong with that but there's comments of those two guys being mean with other users on that video too, don't worry, it wasn't just me

Disney already started marketing Davy Jones and his crew as early as 2005

they most likely were, i mean, yes, the "creature from the black lagoon" trope is very old, but when you look at the timeline, it makes sense as to why people would make this connection. the militarist undertones of the barraki also add salt to the injury also, speaking about the barraki, i still wonder if pridak's red markings were meant to be literal blood soaked marks until angry parents got mad at LEGO and they had to do corpo-speak and say they are his "natural markings" i never bought this, specially since i'm a biology student and pridak's markings are cleary meant to be soaked, not part of his natural coloring, i know how red pigmentation works in nature, heck, even pridak's teeth are bloody red too

i really don't really have a problem with Bionicle never coming back, some IPs are from a different era and that's it

you do have a point, and i do feel like that Bionicle(a secular franchise), was actually just a mix-mash of multiple cultures, mythologies and religions around the world that the folks at LEGO trought it was interessing or cool, like, polynesian folklore was a huge inspiration in the early years of the franchise but yeah, i do agree that Bionicle, as a franchise, has more to do with gnosticism than christianity, i'm not saying that LEGO made Bionicle to support gnosticism, they did not, they were just trying to make cool stuff, it's just that, many of the themes in Bionicle cleary have similarities to gnosticism I also think that, at least the bara magna years, were heavily inspired by MENA mythologies and folklore, with a little bit of "ancient astronauts" in the mixture in the form of the great beings the GSR was meant to be an allegory to a human body, the toa were pills and makuta was a cancer cell, so there's that too, they don't call it "BIOLOGICAL CHRONICLE" for a reason

thecnically speaking, i made the first "hot" topic in years, with my post about my bad experience i had with some Bionicle fans on youtube

i know that Bionicle deconstructs many mythological and even religious tropes, but just because they decontruct a trope doesn't mean the symbolism ins't there or that they haven't taken inspiration from it, we know they took inspiration from maori mythos before until they got into legal trouble i think it's a bit more nuanced than what meets the eye, HeroraNuva made 2 videos on this topic "A Story of Fallible Gods..." and "Who is Bionicle Jesus?" while i agree that Bionicle is a secular franchise, to say they never took inspirations from mythologies or religions is to be a little bit close-minded, LEGO took many religious and mythological elements from multiple different cultures when they made Bionicle, maori mythology is probably the most famous(or infamous if you will) example I do agree that the Matoro=Jesus comparision is kinda cringe

As a christian, i agree, lol

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?