How did you get your first Bionicle Set?

[ToaJaller77]

90% of this will be MCD related

 

Yeah. Title says it all.

[Hitoshura]

I got it(Hewkii Inkia) for Christmas.

[FrozenFlash]

Two simple words: toy shopping. I just casually just got Mata Tahu at Toys R Us if I remember.

[Bfahome]

Well I'd seen the six Toa sets in the old pamphlet things LEGO had, but then one day someone brought his Turaga Whenua to school (I think I was in third grade?), which is when I discovered that BIONICLE was more than just the Toa. Then I went out and bought Turaga Nuju and Onewa, and that, as they say, escalated quickly.

[Van Hohenheim]

I stole the parts from Gali Nuva and Onua Nuva from my uncle

[JPNML]

birthday.

nuff said.

[T.B.O.C]

Onepu from the 2001 McDonalds promo. Very excited about it back then, and it just went on from there!

[christo1096]

I got my first set from my father. I knew bionicle when I saw cereal ads on TV. So I told my father to buy it. And My father bought kopaka mata

[Klanadack]

When they first came out, my parents didn't want want me to get any, they thought they were too "violent". But I wouldn't give up asking, so my dad got me toa matau as an experiment... It just escalated from there.

Edited March 14, 2013 by Toa Enax

[Sycron]

I got Toa Matoro Mahri from my cousin as a birthday present. Heh, I'm young.

[AdaptingChaos]

I remember my mom just buying a bunch of DVDs from a store one day. When she arrived she bought Mask of Light and Legends of Metru Nui. I quickly watched them bc it caught my attention and my interest in Bionicle grew. The next day I went to Toys R Us and I saw the Bionicle Logo. After that I arrived to a shelf filled with Toa Metru 2-packs and Toa Hordika. I knew however that the Hordika were knew so I got those instead. I got the green one bc it was my favorite color, at the time.

[randomreviewerbros]

I got my first bionicle set, hordika vakama, at a big w near where I live here in Australia back in early 2005.

[Kask Daxxe]

I got Galohk for chrsitmas, I think. I got Kopaka Nuva about a couple months later.

[Liopleurodon]

A friend gave me Lewa Mata as a present.

[Kaanfight]

Got Whenua Hordika for my birthday, When I visited the site I was hooked

[Twi]

It was my first time going to Legoland (despite living in San Diego), and I picked up a Turaga Matau. I was infatuated with it. Hooked ever since.

[Taipu1]

I got Turaga Matau for my 7th birthday.

[CeeCee]

My Mum just radomy got me Tahu Nuva when I was 7.

[Zacian]

I got my Onewa Hordika for my birthday.

[Dual Cee]

I have Bionicles as far Back as I remember so I don't reallly know, I guess the Nui-Rama for they're the oldest set I own.

[TechnicRage]

I was strolling through the toy aisle as I laid my eyes on something that would dig it's way into my heart: a Bionicle. I sprinted towards the gritty brown figure that I wanted oh-so dearly. Begging for it from my mom, she scaled the aisles checking for anything cheaper than 11 dollars. She, without hesitation, advertised the Vahki, prefferebly Nuurakh. I grabbed the red canister. I got home and opened the package, only to be met by tons of menacing looking gears and pins. Scared, I gave it to my parents to construct and was soon greeted by a fun, gimmick-y toy that I would love for the rest of my life; or the next few months as I lost him as I moved away from Florida, but stilll have remants of his leg. That is my story.

[ToaJaller77]

I was strolling through the toy aisle as I laid my eyes on something that would dig it's way into my heart: a Bionicle. I sprinted towards the gritty brown figure that I wanted oh-so dearly. Begging for it from my mom, she scaled the aisles checking for anything cheaper than 11 dollars. She, without hesitation, advertised the Vahki, prefferebly Nuurakh. I grabbed the red canister. I got home and opened the package, only to be met by tons of menacing looking gears and pins. Scared, I gave it to my parents to construct and was soon greeted by a fun, gimmick-y toy that I would love for the rest of my life; or the next few months as I lost him as I moved away from Florida, but stilll have remants of his leg. That is my story.

That....Was an amazing story....

[Tenebrae Invictus]

I was in some random store and they had this little cage without a top set up with a lot of BIONICLE sets in it, and I thought they all looked really cool. Well, my favorite color was (and still is) blue so I picked the blue one, and my parents bought me it. That set was, as you could assume, Gali, but I had no idea she was a girl until I really started getting BIONICLE sets.

[Great Being Velika]

On either 2/12/06 or 2/13/06, I got Reidak at borders books. A day or two later, on Valentines day, my grandma gave me Zaktan & Thok. It escalated quickly from there....

[TechnicRage]

 

I was strolling through the toy aisle as I laid my eyes on something that would dig it's way into my heart: a Bionicle. I sprinted towards the gritty brown figure that I wanted oh-so dearly. Begging for it from my mom, she scaled the aisles checking for anything cheaper than 11 dollars. She, without hesitation, advertised the Vahki, prefferebly Nuurakh. I grabbed the red canister. I got home and opened the package, only to be met by tons of menacing looking gears and pins. Scared, I gave it to my parents to construct and was soon greeted by a fun, gimmick-y toy that I would love for the rest of my life; or the next few months as I lost him as I moved away from Florida, but stilll have remants of his leg. That is my story.

That....Was an amazing story....

I try.

[The Swimming Beard]

When they first came out, my parents didn't want want me to get any, they thought they were too "violent". But I wouldn't give up asking, so my dad got me toa matau as an experiment... It just escalated from there.

 

The same thing happened with my parents. I got Matoro & Nuparu Inika from my Grandmother for Christmas.

[Clue: The Traitor]

Onewa Hordika. My dad gave it to me when he came back from work.

[Gears The Toa]

Toa Jaller Mahari, I got him toyshopping with my grandmother. I am missing his mask, but before I started moc-ing he was whole, untill I would throw him and have to reattach armor d:

[Kanakalackin]

Whenua Metru from a closeout sale.

[Kessen]

It was Onua Mata, we got him at Walmart when I was three, because it was just after my allowance. Still have him, and he's in perfect condition.

[Indigogeek]

Gosh, it's been years... I got for my birthday Takua and Pewku, and built it all by myself as a 5 year old. I was so proud! I guess that's how I picked my name. Every since then i've loved takua.

[Omega12]

I was about 7 or 8 and I would always get a toy when we went to Walmart. While we were in the checkout lane I asked my dad if I could get one of "those". He said alright and I grabbed Pohatu because he looked cool. Then I changed my mind and got Gali.It's the only toy I remember buying that well.

[archivist_66]

Kopaka Mata. My dad bought it in a local shop when I was four.

[tosha96]

I think I saw my first bionicle in the lego magazine, and bought it from there.

[Parugi]

My first sets (Kopaka, Tahu, and Onua Nuva, iirc) were Christmas presents, I believe. Either that or they were the first Rahkshi sets I bought.

 

Oh, the good ol' days... :]

[The Legendary TNT]

When I was three years old, I went to McDonald's with some friends of mine and got a Happy Meal like cool kids. I opened up the toy and who was inside? Tohunga Matoro. That fateful day started a craze that would last me all the way to the present.

[Rooster Nui]

My father just randomly bought me Tahu Nuva and Tahnok Va one afternoon in 2002. From there on i just got them.

[ankyfdarkness]

Toa Pohatu Mata with my own money. Although, technically, I got the McDonald's Hewki first, I just like to think that doesn't count.

[That Matoran with a Vahi]

The January 2001 'Lego World Club' magazine had showed up on my doorstep, complete with a double-page spread devoted to the Toa Mata and comic one tucked inside its front cover. I was, shall we say, enamoured by the Bionicle sets - and even more so after reading Kopaka's exploits - and as soon as possible I badgered my mum into taking me to the local toy shop so I could buy Onua Mata.

 

I think I chose him because in the initial picture of him, his design really confused me, so I wanted to see what he looked like in reality XD

[Lachanu]

My first set was Gali as a toa mata. My aunt gave me her when I was four. I was into legos and other building toys then (I still am into legos, but not some of the other stuff like K-nex) Thus I was interested in Bionicle for a few years I then got Gahlok, Kohrak, Gahlok Va, and Toa Metru Nokama.

 

Shame I got so few back in bionicle's golden age, but I was young then.