The Archivist Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 (edited) 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 by The Archivist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiden Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 (edited) 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 by Aiden Minor grammatical error 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Archivist Posted May 13 Author Share Posted May 13 (edited) 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 by The Archivist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darknut Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 (edited) 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 by Darknut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiden Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgnikaTV Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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