Allan18

So, i decided to make an official thread for those who grew up with the original Max Steel G1 toyline that ran from 1999 to 2012(not the 2013-2022 reboot/G2 one). I expect this thread will be filled with a lot of Latin-Americans. But anyways, talk about anything related to the original 1999-2012 Mattel's Max Steel toyline, toys, TV Show, Movies, etc. Just not the 2013-2022 reboot one. Going Turbo!

we need more bionicle-coded media, imagine a black metal band that was Bionicle coded

hope you can get another golden nuva armor and an Irnakk head

on a side note, one of her shoulder armors are white while the other is gold, why is that? shouldn't they both be gold or white?

looks so cool, love the use of CCBS here

it just makes her look unfinished, unless she's meant to be an undead skakdi, all skakd sets that have officially been released all had a normal head/spine

My only complain is the lack of a normal skakdi head on her, like, have you ever tried putting Thok's head on her?

I deleted my Deviantart account due to the influx of AI slop on the website so much for being an "art" website

Nah, pixiv isn't my thing, and i don't like how toxic and politized reddit is

Well, i guess that makes sense, but still, i would say that the Bionicle fandom is one of the best fandoms on the internet, with only very few bad apples here and there

Also, that edit of my Reidak art looks like it came straight out of a 2006-2010 internet forum, nostalgic

Thank you for your critique, my only real problem is that, i don't have a website to post my art, i left DA because it's filled with too much AI slop, if only i could find an actual art sharing website

Thanks, i'm also an amateur animator too

Here's 2 Bionicle Fan-art pieces that i have done using Blender, feedback would be welcome.

Ok, ok, let's adress all of those points one by one, because there're lot's of stuff to unpack here... well, i deleted my comment because those 2 guys were doing spam, and writing walls of text and calling me names over a discontinued children's toyline from the 2000s while being grown men who are older than myself, absolutely nobody who cares about their mental health is going to actually waste their time and energy debating people who are like this. The only thing i did was just say "i'm sorry but i don't see anything wrong with any of this", and 2 guys started attacking me and calling me names, saying things like "you are not that smart aren't you?" or "your parent's didn't raised you well if you think that there's nothing wrong with reviving dead characters", they were the ones who escalated first, all i did was just say this, and yes, i will admit that i may have gone too far in some areas, and i will not lie when i said things like "cope" to them(mostly as a joke) but they were the ones who started it, they didn't say "it's ok, but here's why i don't think those things are good", they literally went straight into personal attacks. Now, please, before you say something, just assume i'm doing this in good faith, i'm not perfect, nobody is. I don't have a problem with people disagreeing with me, i have a problem with toxicity. Multiple wrongs don't make one right. I didn't meant to challenge anybody, i'm all open to debate and disagreement, i just don't like when it's personal attacks, if they have just said "i disagree" and listed their reasons for it, i would have no problem with it, but the moment they call me dumb/kid that's when i draw the line, some dude even tried to act like he "knew" more about Bionicle than i do simply because he started all the way back in 2001 and i was born in 2003, and they also attacked my parents. But here's the thing, i echo chambers are a bad thing, and no fandom should have it, specially not such a wholesome and inclusive for NDs fandom like the Bionicle one, if we fight among each others, we are literally going against unity and the flame dies. Look at toxic fandoms like the Star Wars fandom, do you want the Bionicle fandom to be like this too? I don't. I haven't worded that well, but i will correct you here, what i have a problem with is less the video itself and more the echo chamber the video enabled in the comments section, i don't have a problem with it existing per se, the problem was the comment section, by enabling that toxicty, the youtube channel's owner cultivated an echo chamber, and it hurts more when it comes from somebody you used to like as a kid I want to say that it's ok for people to have a different opinion on who's the best toa team or if they think Velika being a great being is good or not, if everybody shared the same opinion things would be boring, i have nothing against criticism, i have a problem with toxicity, i don't have a problem if you don't like the red star twist or Takua being the first matoran, sure, i may disagree with those things, but as long as it's done in a respectful and mature way, there's room from disagreement, however, an echo chamber is the opposite of a "room for healthy discourse and debate", i don't want people to agree with my opinions, i want people to not be toxic Thank God that's not what i want for the Bionicle fandom at all Keep in mind i'm not trying to claim i'm perfect or that i'm attacking you, no, i'm just replying to things you said that i think are misunderstandings or invalid, i want an united fandom, even if we all share different opinions, heck, there's even things about Bionicle that i don't like(such as the gender-lock and love not being "canon") and we could debate those things all day, but we can do this without toxicity Anyways, i wish you the best

True, but the difference between those types in the Bionicle fandom vs those types in actual toxic fandoms, is that the vast majority of the Bionicle fandom does not enables or torelates this type of behaviour, like, i rememeber that the entire fandom went against toxic folks like the dudes who dedicated their entire life on hating G2 back in 2015-2016

don't worry, i use Blocktube extension on PC to block YT shorts and political/culture war slop, Blocktube is basically a blacklist for youtube, and i was only able to see YT shorts in my android cellphone Shame to see a decent Biotuber become a sellout, i just hopes he wakes up and returns to his roots

Btw, i used to have this toy growing up, but it broke, sadly

Pridak and Strakk, nice combinations It also reminded me of this 2008 "Ice Elementor" action figure from Max Steel G1 (1999-2012)

What hurts me the most is that, this youtube shorts video, as i said before came from a biotuber i used to respect since 2012-2014, it was made by [ iDs ] honestly, i will say that his channel fell off, he only makes those "ranked by memes" youtube shorts slop videos nowadays, he sold out a long time ago i'm not saying Biotubers can't do YT shorts, but he is just doing a content farm at this point, CallanLOF does yt shorts, but they are pretty neat for most part i needed a reason to unsub from [ iDs ]'s channel since it was getting boring, but this incident was the straw that broke the camel's back for me

i was born in 2003, i wasn't alive during 2001-2002, i joined the fandom in late 2008-early 2009, during the mistika/glatorian waves, i knew bionicle since 2006, but i was too young at the time to care, granted, i trought it was cool, but i was still too young to fully understand it, i joined the fandom when i was 5-6 years old, i was 7 when Bionicle got cancelled, i'm 22 now and will be 23 in june of this year since english wasn't my first language and i wasn't born/was too young during 2001-2010 i don't really have a good grasp of how the fandom was during those years however i do have a better grasp of how the Bionicle fandom was during 2011-2014, that is in my opinion, the golden age of biotube, granted, i have no idea how "toxic" it was because i was just 8-11 years old at the time and all i cared was seeing my favorite alien cyborgs on youtube, but i do remember some manchildren got really mad over g2 back in 2015-2016, granted, those types were a small minority and the fandom didn't took them seriously and they ceased to exist after g2 flopped and was cancelled, but they existed then there was also the Bionicle fans who hated hero factory with all their guts, but this was still just a minority too and they ceased to exist after hero factory ended(and to me, hero factory was good from 2010-2013, 2014 was pretty bad in my opinion, even the bionicle stars and g2 were better than invasion from bellow) i also remember that the community was pretty chill for the most part from 2017-2019, i'm not sure if the pandemic changed things up, but i feel like the bionicle fandom is, for the vast majority of it's part, good, sure, LEGO does some stupid things here and there, but the bionicle fandom as a whole isn't a toxic cesspit, those bad "fans" are just a few bad apples, this fandom is mostly good, and it's an oasis compared to the rest of the internet fandoms, it took me 17-18 years to see real toxicity(without it being called out) and it was just some random guys with no content on their channels on a YT shorts video my actual problem, really is that this YT shorts came from a Biotuber i used to respect a lot

lmao same

opsie!

Man, those glatorians look like a weird mixture between Minecraft skins and FNaF animatronics

I have been a Bionicle fan since 2009(i knew about the franchise since 2006, but i was too young to care, it was only around the mistika/glatorian wave that i actually joined the fandom and became a fan) and i have been in the fandom since late 2009-2010 and i have followed every single Bionicle video, forum, subreddit for almost 2 decades, and i never saw toxicity(and when i saw it, it was heavily despised and denounced by the vast majority of the fandom) and i have never been attacked by other Bionicle fans, until yesterday. I want to clarify that i still think that the Bionicle fandom is one of, if not, the best fandom on the internet, i would go as far as to say it's the only non-toxic fandom i've ever been into, 17 years without toxicity(be it attacks against me or toxicity being normalized) is insane, there's no toxic negativity or toxic positivity, unlike most fandoms who have either of those or sometimes both of those at the same time, it's a great fandom and i truly believe over 95-98% of Bionicle fans, both IRL and online are great people, this fanbase is also extremelly inclusive towards neurodivergent individuals too(i'm autistic too as well) However, since we live in a fallen world, nothing is perfect, and sadly, even a great fandom can have a few bad apples in it and this is what i'm talking about today. It all started when i saw a youtube shorts with the title "every stupid greg canonization ranked by memes" in which they mocked things like takua being the first matoran ever created, Makuta being a species instea of Teridax being the only individual, Velika being a great being in disguise, and of course, everything related to the red star, specially it's capacity to revive dead characters i trought it was a pretty bad video that was nothing but pure nitpicking, then i wrote "i'm sorry but i don't see anything wrong with any of this", and then i got 2 guys harassing me, they kept saying that i was a kid, that i was dumb, that i was wrong, that i don't know what good writting is like, i tried debating them, but it was worthless, they were very bad folks and i deleted my comment. I decided to return to my old abandoned BZPower account because i need a support group from this, we as a fandom needs to be better and we should not enable this type of behaviour, LEGO is not bringing Bionicle back anytime soon, if we fight among each other, the flame will stop burning and Bionicle will die for good. Unity is one of the three virtues, we cannot in good conscience normalize this, we must fight against this, this is not toxic positivity, this is being sane.