How did you get your first Bionicle Set?

[Kazi the Matoran]

_{My first three sets were given to me on my birthday in 2002. I got Pohatu, Turaga Onewa, and Tahnok Bohrok of Fire.}

 

_{Forgive me for my spelling if I messed something up. I haven't kept up with everything the way I used to a few years ago.}

[ExoBro94]

My mom would use to take me to Toys 'R Us a few weeks before Christmas to browse and write down my list for "Santa". I was in first grade and saw some Bionicle sets on the store shelves. That started my obsession.

[Toa TAK]

Onepu from McDonalds, but my first "real" set came at Christmas and it was Kopaka. Still the best Christmas in memory.

 

TAK

[-Jaller-]

A brown vahki for Christmas in '04

[airvortex]

I was very lucky in getting my first set. I bought Lehvak for 50 cents at an Op-Shop

 

And best of all, it was only missing the instructions!

[Reya]

My first set was Toa Onua back in 2001. My mom took me shopping and decided to buy me a present. Needless to say, I have been hooked to Bionicle since.

[Cambion]

my first was Whenua Metru, as a birthday present in 2004. ironically enough, it was from a cousin who wasn't even remotely interested in Bionicle until three years later.

[ToaJaller77]

Got Vahki Nuurakh at Five Below in '04. It esclated from there.

 

Hey I posted in my own Topic!

[Madara: Mangekyou Master]

Birthday gift sent to me from a friend across the country when I was seven or eight. Kopaka (Mata). Afterwards, I collected bottles and cans until I had 9.99 to buy Lewa at a local hardware store.

[Timelady Gallade]

It began in 20011, when i was 9, and i got vesok and avak for £5 altogether from the local car boot sale, new in the box. The rest, as they say, is history. Yeah, I began late.

[Madara: Mangekyou Master]

That's alright. I still remember getting my first Toa Nuva (Onua and Kopaka). Building them together with my dad and having them battle it out was awesome. :') Gear action ftw.

[Hexann]

I got my first Bionicle sets at Target. They were Rahkshi Panrahk, Piraka Hakann, and Toa Inika Nuparu.

[Ziontyro Metalhead]

I got mine for my fourth birthday. It was onua mata.

[gunconvoy]

Funny story, i wanted this big ol mega block set, my dad said, no you won't be able to build it, so the next day i saw a bionicle. I picked that up and pretty much out of spite said. i'm going to do it and i'm going to show him i can build. So thats how i got Toa Kopaka at K-mart.

[Kopekemaster]

Some of my friends (LoTR_Nui and Vezonthebabbler) introduced me to them.

 

Then one time while walking through Wal-Mart, I saw a palette of Vahki.

 

The rest is history.

 

Also-

 

 

I got my first Bionicle sets at Target. They were Rahkshi Panrahk, Piraka Hakann, and Toa Inika Nuparu.

How on earth is that possible?

Edited June 21, 2013 by Kopekemaster

[Valendale]

​On a road with my cousin, who has since disappeared from the face of the earth. I got Kongu and Macku from McDonald's. However, these stayed up in my garage until 2006, when I bought Balta and Kazi. Somewhere during that time, Macku lost her arms. I recently sold Kongu. Not my best idea.

[Erebus Toa of Darkness]

All six Turaga were ordered from a Lego magazine by my grandfather when I was 11 years old. This is when Lego first unveiled them in their magazine mind you. I also eventually got Onua Mata, Gali Mata, and Tahu Mata. From then on my collection expanded depending on my level of interest.

[Green Blockhead]

My first was Piraka Zaktan. I bought him at a TESCO Supermarket here in the UK back in '07.

[Sardrox: Will of Makuta]

I joined late to Bionicle, so bear with me XD

My first was Rahkshi Stars, I got it from a friend who got it at Toys R Us

[Logan Tec]

I think me and my dad saw it in the Lego store and i wanted vakama cause red used to be my favorite color. Also i wonder sometimes if my dad was just getting tired of me smashing all my starwars sets then asking them to be rebuilt so we got something i could build.

[Mr. Cup of Fail]

I think i gotten all 6 Toa Mata from my parents.

[Vakama-san]

I got Nuju Metru for my birthday back in 2004.

[Unauthorized Autobiography]

Toa Nokama, from my mom as a birthday present. Wait no... chirstmas... or birthday? I don't see it in any birthday photos so let's assume it was for christmas. XD

[Art Vandelay]

I was at a Toys R Us back in 2002, and I picked up Gali Nuva, naturally because blue is my favorite color. I didn't know that Gali was female back then, so I decided that "he" would be the King of Bionicles.

[Tiakor]

If you want to count it, my first Bionicle was the McToran Huki on the way home from McDonald's.

If you don't count that, I got my first Bionicle in Legoland: Toa Mata Kopaka.

 

Jeez I feel old saying my first Bionicles were from the very beginning in 2001.

 

But those were good times...good times...

[Boidoh]

My friend was so obsessed with BIONICLE and I wondered why,so when I went to the store I bought Toa Hordika Nuju.

[Jinkmeister]

My first two sets were Onua Nuva and Pohatu Nuva. One day, I was at my friend's house, and they had several Bionicle sets. I built my first MOC (A Toa of lightning and energy, I believe. Keep in mind, this is 2003-ish), and I loved it. I made it clear to my parents, and for Christmas, I believe, I got those two fateful canisters. Now, several thousand dollars later, I managed to collect a ton of sets, but I passed them down to my siblings. Now I'm starting over, beginning with the Toa Mata I just won on eBay! Wish me luck!