I Wrote a Guide to Bionicle Collectibles (Kanohi, Krana, Prototypes, etc)

[The Archivist]

Hello! I'm a collector of Bionicle collectibles. Kanohi, Krana, Kraata, Kanoka, Rhotuka, etc. I got frustrated by the lack of centralized information on what to collect and random information about the pieces. So I wrote one to hopefully include all of the info in one place.

I've attached the full PDF but I also took a few screenshots so you can see what I'm talking about.

Idk, hopefully it helps someone. Very glad to be done with this. Open to suggestions/corrections but it's gunna be a while before I ever think about this again. There's no good picture of a ton of the collectibles, so I took them all myself. Stole the rest from the wiki. 

 

EDIT: In case the link doesn't work I hosted it on a PDF hosting site. https://www.hostize.com/v/t8sfUN6zbE/collector-s-guide-to-bionicle-pdf

 

 

Collector's Guide to Bionicle.pdf

Edited May 13, 2024 by The Archivist

[Aiden]

The link doesn’t work 👍

That being said, I think the big reason there isn’t a big centralized source of this kind of information (other than the Official Rare & Promotional Collectibles Topic over in BST) is because prices fluctuate and some items are a bit too rare to assign a hard price. Interested to see what you’ve got once you get that link working, though!

Edited May 12, 2024 by Aiden
Minor grammatical error

[The Archivist]

3 hours ago, Aiden said:

The link doesn’t work 👍

That being said, I think the big reason there isn’t a big centralized source of this kind of information (other than the Official Rare & Promotional Collectibles Topic over in BST) is because prices fluctuate and some items are a bit too rare to assign a hard price. Interested to see what you’ve got once you get that link working, though!

Huh, weird. It works when I hit the button but not on other computers. I tried re-uploading it and also put it up on a pdf hosting site. Thanks for letting me know

 

Yeah I was hesitant to put prices in there, it means I'll have to update it. But I get a lot of "how much is this pile worth?" questions so I tried to make it usable for those people? But yeah I'm not sure it's the right call as it does date the guide. 

Edited May 13, 2024 by The Archivist

[NateMakesMOCs]

I'm in agreement with @Aiden, a document like this gets dated pretty fast. However, it is nice to see all the info compiled in one place like this and as you mentioned, it's a good starting guide for sure. Couple ideas/corrections:

• To avoid the guide being dated by prices, I would embed a Bricklink link to the price history page (this one or this one, dealer's choice) into each of the "suggested prices" below each collectible for all the regular and moderately rare items
  • It looks like the PDF mask tables are images so it probably isn't as easy to embed the links as I'm suggesting, but by doing this and maybe having a "Prices Last Updated XX/YY/ZZZZ" note on the front page to communicate the last time it was edited would help make the document "live" more
• Regarding the Bubble Cheek Kaukau, they also exist in Trans-Dark Blue, there's a topic with one right here on the site for confirmation along with another comment on them in the Official Rare & Promotional Collectibles Topic
• Small typo Regarding the de-chromed Light Gray Hau, it's listed as Pearl Gray
• Red Rurus were also found in this clock set in certain regions
• There are no documented Sand Blue Kakamas, they've all been Medium Blue, think you've had a typo here
  • Also, there have been at least 3 instances documented, though there could be up to 5
    • Reddit user Aarhg found 2 and sold one off (I only know about this because I was a potential buyer during the auction back in 2022, though I think there's some evidence of this auction happening on the r/Bioniclelego discord) and also has a picture of the one they initially kept that lines up with the white background style you've used for most collectibles in case you wanna use it, they sold this one later it seems
    • Reddit user NiMaGre's friend found one about a month earlier, I would assume this is different from the two found by Aarhg
  • Two have been sold on Facebook by the same seller, whom I believe is not Aarhg based on his own posts in the r/Bioniclelego discord server
• A Red Rau was found by this person and seems to be real

Hope some of this is helpful!

Edited May 13, 2024 by Darknut

[Aiden]

Pretty interesting read! I will say, you mixed the images up for the movie kraahkan and ultimate dume mask. Also missed a decent amount of protos, but that’s understandable. I wish that trans green mohtrek wasn’t a 1/1, that’s my white whale right there.

[IgnikaTV]

Yeah, this is super cool, even if the prices change over time, having all the different collectables in one place and a rogh idea, how much its gonna cost you is helpful.

And over all I just love reading about these sort of things, so even if the prices aren't accurate, I like it very much!

[~Takava Nirhii~]

I went through the guide and wrote down all the things I thought needed correcting, because I think it's awesome that you've made a definitive guide and I want to help make it even better, and not because I want to be like "um, ackshully," or so I tell myself.

Page 7:

• "While the original six masks were packaged with the Toa Nuva sets, additional masks needed to be collected through the Kanohi Nuva & Kraata Krana packs"
• The silver Kanohi Nuva were actually available in the 2003 Krana-Kal packs, along with the six regular colors. The 2002 Kanohi Nuva packs only had the six regular colors.

Page 9:

• "The original orange version was intended to be distributed with the Legends of Mata Nui video game, but this idea was scrapped" - This makes it sound like they just decided to go with another idea, but the idea was scrapped because the game was cancelled. I think that should be mentioned.
• "A dark gold version was later made in 2004 and distributed with promotional versions of the Vahi Vahki sets."
• "Silver versions of the mask were included as the hands of Makuta in 2003. It is unclear if this means anything canonically." - It doesn't, it's a Maxilos and the Vezon/Ignika situation.
• "Potentially misnamed, this set shows an evil, “shadow” Takanuva..." - This is technically incorrect, it shows a corrupted, "half-light, half-shadow" Takanuva.
• "...as LEGO was transitioning to this color for use in the Pirakha Piraka sets."

Page 10:

• "The Ultimate Dume Mask was created for the Legends of Metru Nui video game movie..."

Page 10/11:

• The lighter, medium blue Great Rau is actually from Dalu. I have 2 Dalus and 1 Toa Nokama, and both Dalus came with the lighter Rau, while Toa Nokama came with the darker Rau.

Page 11:

• "Kiril, the Mask of Regeneration, was originally created for the 2004 Makuta set." - This is incorrect, the set is Turaga Dume and Nivawk. While it's true that Makuta impersonated Turaga Dume, his disguise looked identical to the actual Turaga Dume, so for all intents and purposes, the set depicts Turaga Dume.
• Your picture of the Olmak has the two red horns from the Lava Chamber Gate inserted, which aren't a part of the actual mask.

Page 13:

• Thornatus V9 in the Pearl Light Gray Crast's box is misspelled "Thoranatus."

Page 14:

• "In 2010, LEGO commemorated what they believed was the end of the Bionicle line with a series of “Starz”"Stars" sets."

Page 25:

• “It came with a black Kanoka launcher, which was also only available through this polybag.” - This is not true. The Kanoka disk packs also contained a disc launcher (in the same style as the Metru-toran’s) in one of the 6 Metru colors. I know this because I bought a pack back in the day and got a red launcher.

[confused piraka]

link is still non-functional, at least for me. 

Edit: never mind, reading it now thanks

Edited June 5, 2024 by confused piraka