I still think a black bohrok should've been 2010's black stars set instead of skrall. bohrok are among the most iconic bionicle characters visually Edit: Lmao I changed my mind. From a story standpoint, the skrall set was unnecessary. But imo it is the best designed stars set. Cool weapons, cool look, and it makes sense in universe. Unlike matoran-sized tahu, takanuva or gresh for example.
I agree and disagree at the same time. While I think it should've been something else instead of the skrall, I don't think it should be a bohrok it should've been a vahki.
@@wisconsinking323 Although the Vahki are a good blend between the Bohrok and the Rahkshi, part of me wonders that it might be less iconic than either. Honestly, I like the villain selection. We get one from each of the major "eras" of Bionicle. Rahkshi represents the Mata Nui years, Piraka the Ignition Trilogy, and Skrall the Spherus Magna storyline. I wonder if swapping out the Skrall with Roodaka or a dark hunter would have been a better idea, though.
@@shonenbag6478 I've done an entire rewrite of 2010 and came to the following conclusion: Stars should represent important moments in the bionicle story. And imo 1 year should have no more than 1 set to represent it, so I'd keep yellow rahkshi (iconic design and cool color) and gresh (recognizable good guy from 2009) and remove skrall and takanuva. Now the next thing we have to consider are the 6 colors. Red - tahu, blue - nektann, green - gresh, brown/yellow - rahkshi. Which leaves us with white and black. Finally let's go over the years: we have 9 years of bionicle leading up to Stars. We must choose 6 of them to get a set. 2001: tahu is the perfect choice. One of the most recognizable faces of bionicle 2002: imo the bohrok are among the most instantly recognizable visual representations of the entire franchise. I'd include the black one here. 2003: rahkshi are fan favourites and we never got a yellow one. This is also the best 2010 set imo. 2004: now we only have 6 sets for 9 years which means 3 years have to be left wirhout a Stars set. Imo 2004 should be 1 of them. The toa metru are now turaga and the vahki are all gone afaik. And can't really shrink a titan to the size of a Stars set. 2005: this is another year I would skip. Hordika, visorak, rahaga... none of them exist in 2010's canon. 2006: piraka are fan favourites and everybody loves nektann to have his own set. 2007: I think 2007 is a fan favourite year and I would give Pridak the last Stars slot. He is the leader of a very iconice group and the best pick for the last white set. 2008: all the makuta are dead and the toa nuva team is already represented. And you're not gonna pick solek are you... 2009: gresh makes sense. One of the faces of 2009. Now how the bohrok's and pridak's appearance would make sense in the canon, that's another story that I already thought through. I'd like to go in depth if I maybe got invited to a ttv podcast episode >.> Hit me up if you're interested ^^
It would’ve been cool if in the story, after the toa mata defeated the bahrag, the bahrag combined into that spider thing and was like “I’m ready for round two.” 😂😂
Perhaps with the Bionicle video games in development, one of them might work on 2002 post-release and use the Spider as a Superboss or a True Final Boss.
I feel like LEGO should do what it did for star wars with bionicle. Let's get some reprints for an anniversary celebration. Bring back the old sets, if not just for better plastic quality and nostalgia. Most of the kits could benifit with a reprint. (Cough Hahli Cough Mahri and phantoka lime Green Cough)
Sadly reprints just aren’t going to happen because when lego has molds that they haven’t used for anything in a while that are made for a very specific purpose in mind like most of the bionicle g1 pieces, they just destroy the molds. In bionicle 2015 when kopaka used a rahkshi staff piece that was a “new mold” since the original mold didn’t exist. If you want an example of this happening in other lego, well there was a lego ninjago legacy set that featured an anacondrai worshiper that didn’t have the snake skull helmet that originals had cause lego destroyed the mold. So sadly as much as I would love bionicle set reprints it’s just not going to happen since for lego that would be extremely expensive to remake so many old molds, I thought I’d mention this since not everyone knows about this, also I don’t know/have any idea why lego destroys old molds this is just something they do.
@@tenletters5889 Japan: (gives the world many technological and media/artistic advances and products for weeks and gamers to enjoy the world over) Everyone: _"Thank you so very much, Japan! ❤"_ Also Japan: (accidentally mistakes Nuhvok for Kohrak and vice versa just once) Bionicle fandom: *_-"TWO NUKES WASN'T ENOUGH."-_*
I love this! Wairuha Nuva looks far better to me... but *not as Wairuha* , which is a shame. I adore the lil birdos and that lovely crab! The Makuta had a real thing for crabby bois.
“This is a Pokawi, and it looks almost like a Kiwi” Well, I actually see more Kakapo in it than Kiwi, but if this thing were brown and had a katana piece for the bill, I could definitely see it as a Kiwi.
@@ultraspinalki11 its because at this time every time i found bionicle in garage sales i bought them and so the bohrok where the one that i found the most lol idk why
It’s still worth mentioning, in terms of alternate models, that the Toa Nuva all came with the necessary pieces to make either one or both arms (or legs on Pohatu Nuva) swing with the gear function. That wasn’t mentioned here or on your original Toa Nuva reviews.
I like to imagine most of the bohrok combiners (that weren't rahi) were other kinds of bohrok units that just weren't seen in the story. Had the toa not stopped the bahrag, we might have seen these combiners on the surface.
To be fair, a frog doesn’t shoot it’s tongue out, that’s chameleons. It’s a common trope, but an actual frog tongue is attached to the front of the jaw and is flipped out, not shot out like a harpoon. What a front will do is lunge forward and flick out the tongue to stick to an insect, then the tongue flips back in with insect in tow.
That intro tho... I was like "oh shit, Eljay's inherited Lewa's curse of getting possessed...!" Edit: also, that Boxor alt model reminds me of the power loader from the first Alien movie, along with the Enderman and Iron Golem mobs from Minecraft.
Something to note about the Boxor walker: The rubber band used on the cockpit is dangerously stretched when Nuparu is riding it. It's pulled way farther than that size of rubber band is supposed to go, and this will cause stressing, or in worst case, breaking, of the band if it's built like that for too long. However, if Nuparu isn't in the cockpit, the visor pulls down and the rubber band isn't stretched as far. Also, I don't own the Bahrag spider, but it also looks like the rubber bands are being dangerously stretched. Does anyone own it and know if it stretches the bands too far?
Man, used to be such a big fan of these guys! I used to listen to all the podcasts, watch all the reviews, and was very active on the message boards. Been years since I looked back at the channel, good to see they are still making content! Wish you guys all the best in the future!
Mask of Destiny had guides to modify the Exo-Toa so you could fit anyone. I have six, I made the modifications, and they have always caught people's eyes whenever they visit.
Took the boxor and the walker variant and take some tread parts from my big LEGO parts bin and make a version of the boxor except with two full Bohrok head designs for the attack function while having two treads for its mobility. In other words: The Super Boxor
For anyone wondering, the Infervanika cannot be built with JUST Tahnok Va and Pahrak Va, as you need one additional black 3l pin and 2 black 2l pin/axle pieces. As the Lego Club description says, you also need "...an extra piece or two from your own BIONICLE collection".
12:45 What if those shovels on the back served as krana launchers to launch onto some poor soul’s face. I mean, those pieces did hold krana in the original builds the model is made of.
Like does anyone thought that you can change the colour scheme from the bohrock combiner Models (because the bohrocks have exactly the same parts in different colours)
Sorry to break it to you but apparently the frog in bionicle the game isn't a ghekula but instead a makika. At least according to Biosector01. You can dispute it with swert if you want. There are several frog rahi after all.
I actually like the toa kaita nuva, I just feel they should have been swapped because the one with Tahu, Pohatu, and Onua has the more hunched and wide built figures
I understand where you come from on the nuva kaita, but honestly the wairuha nuva combo looks and feels really good. Yes, it is a downgrade when we talk about size, but if you look at it you can actually feel like it's not just three torsos taped together, but one solid torso. Honestly, i like that look better than akamai, because akamai looks so freaking gappy. I think they should've done something about the nuva armor, idk... Still, I'd love to see their models "flipped" like you said
For whatever it's worth, Eljay, my Bahrag don't make that grinding noise yours do, so I speculate that you built yours incorrectly (and coincidentally, so did whoever built your other queen). The Bohrok Kaita were always among my favorite, I just love how menacing they look. Never did like the Nuva Kaita, though I do respectfully disagree on the Boxor Walker - I think putting Nuparu behind a windshield like that is kind of adorable, and the arm swinging action is very reminiscent of MNOG movements IMO. Potentially a dumb question, but are you ever going to cover the Slizer combos as well? I just recently acquired enough Slizer duplicates to build their combos and... well... they're honestly kind of abominations. Might be kind of funny to see your reactions to them!
I rebuilt the head piece and looked briefly at someone else's Bahrag, to the same result, unfortunately. I'll see what happens when I rebuild them now that I've taken them both apart for this. As for the Slizer combos, I confirmed at the end of the latest one that the next episode of the Retired Reviews will cover them, so yes. =P
@@EljayJohnsen I do recall that the Bahrag construction was kinda confusing sometimes - I built them with my girlfriend and I had to correct some of her construction here and there, so there's a lot of room for error. Glad to hear it with the Slizers! I've sadly not been able to keep up with most of those reviews, but I'll be sure to watch the combo video when it's out!
when i first saw the boxor walker i thought that it was better than the design we got, but seeing the function the normal one is better, i guess the one part i like about it is how the windshield is facing down word.
Idk what he's talking about with the Wairuha Nuva (5:09) looking inferior to its last iteration... The Nuva looks *much* better in terms of build. It's better proportioned, the legs and arms look like actual legs and arms, the spread of color is much better. The only downside of it is the ankles, and how easily they detach. Other than that, it's a great combo-model, and me thinks Eljay's got some mad nostalgia goggles on for that judgement...
Hey guys can you please talk about the prototype sets and concept art more?? All prototypes look really badass FACTS and holy cow some look really mind blowing.. one of my personal faves is the Kinkalao Slave prototype set and the "Giant" Keetongu with Metru Build.. that would be great content!! Ive seen just tooooo many of the sand tarakava.. over and over again however the other prototype sets are being slept on
Kitten Probably a hold-over from when Bionicle was called “Bone Heads of VooDoo island” (think really cartoonish tribesmen with huge masks and googly eyes). The arm pieces were called ‘voodoo bone’ in Lego DD I believe.
My gosh! The idea of the Bahrag being big insects/spiders with bohrok on their backs sounds so cool! :U Makes more sense to me as well since the bohrok are like an insect swarm. The T-rex design allways felt a bit out of place to me. Sure a bionicle T-rex is cool but I can't really see that as the creepy queens of a swarm.
I don't remember what sort of mask collection you have, but I would really appreciate a video going over mask collecting, the sources of different rarer masks, etc. Less a review of the masks and more of an overview for up-and-coming mask collectors
even though the boxor walker doesn't have any of the functionality of the original boxor, I honestly like it more appearance wise. the original is sortof just a giant blob of technic pieces, while the walker has a much more clearly defined shape.
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I still think a black bohrok should've been 2010's black stars set instead of skrall. bohrok are among the most iconic bionicle characters visually
Edit:
Lmao I changed my mind. From a story standpoint, the skrall set was unnecessary. But imo it is the best designed stars set. Cool weapons, cool look, and it makes sense in universe. Unlike matoran-sized tahu, takanuva or gresh for example.
@@DonnaxNL Perhaps a Bohrok Va could be done in this style?
I agree and disagree at the same time. While I think it should've been something else instead of the skrall, I don't think it should be a bohrok it should've been a vahki.
@@wisconsinking323 Although the Vahki are a good blend between the Bohrok and the Rahkshi, part of me wonders that it might be less iconic than either. Honestly, I like the villain selection. We get one from each of the major "eras" of Bionicle. Rahkshi represents the Mata Nui years, Piraka the Ignition Trilogy, and Skrall the Spherus Magna storyline. I wonder if swapping out the Skrall with Roodaka or a dark hunter would have been a better idea, though.
@@shonenbag6478 I've done an entire rewrite of 2010 and came to the following conclusion:
Stars should represent important moments in the bionicle story. And imo 1 year should have no more than 1 set to represent it, so I'd keep yellow rahkshi (iconic design and cool color) and gresh (recognizable good guy from 2009) and remove skrall and takanuva.
Now the next thing we have to consider are the 6 colors. Red - tahu, blue - nektann, green - gresh, brown/yellow - rahkshi. Which leaves us with white and black.
Finally let's go over the years: we have 9 years of bionicle leading up to Stars. We must choose 6 of them to get a set.
2001: tahu is the perfect choice. One of the most recognizable faces of bionicle
2002: imo the bohrok are among the most instantly recognizable visual representations of the entire franchise. I'd include the black one here.
2003: rahkshi are fan favourites and we never got a yellow one. This is also the best 2010 set imo.
2004: now we only have 6 sets for 9 years which means 3 years have to be left wirhout a Stars set. Imo 2004 should be 1 of them. The toa metru are now turaga and the vahki are all gone afaik. And can't really shrink a titan to the size of a Stars set.
2005: this is another year I would skip. Hordika, visorak, rahaga... none of them exist in 2010's canon.
2006: piraka are fan favourites and everybody loves nektann to have his own set.
2007: I think 2007 is a fan favourite year and I would give Pridak the last Stars slot. He is the leader of a very iconice group and the best pick for the last white set.
2008: all the makuta are dead and the toa nuva team is already represented. And you're not gonna pick solek are you...
2009: gresh makes sense. One of the faces of 2009.
Now how the bohrok's and pridak's appearance would make sense in the canon, that's another story that I already thought through. I'd like to go in depth if I maybe got invited to a ttv podcast episode >.>
Hit me up if you're interested ^^
I honestly prefer the rhakshi but the borok are pretty neat.
It would’ve been cool if in the story, after the toa mata defeated the bahrag, the bahrag combined into that spider thing and was like “I’m ready for round two.” 😂😂
They didint get 100% so no true finale boss for them!
Haha funny. Round two, there's 2 bahrag combining.
That would be like Twinrova in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Perhaps with the Bionicle video games in development, one of them might work on 2002 post-release and use the Spider as a Superboss or a True Final Boss.
Exo Raptor is my favorite hands down. It just looks so cool
It does look very cool and it is a very good combo model
Shooting pp xD
Exactly what I thought
I feel like LEGO should do what it did for star wars with bionicle. Let's get some reprints for an anniversary celebration. Bring back the old sets, if not just for better plastic quality and nostalgia. Most of the kits could benifit with a reprint. (Cough Hahli Cough Mahri and phantoka lime Green Cough)
I think you mean LITERALLY ALL OF PHANTOKA! At least 25% of mine have broken sockets!
Zer D all of mine have broken sockets, in fact I had to replace their socket joints with spare ones from pre 2008
Sadly reprints just aren’t going to happen because when lego has molds that they haven’t used for anything in a while that are made for a very specific purpose in mind like most of the bionicle g1 pieces, they just destroy the molds. In bionicle 2015 when kopaka used a rahkshi staff piece that was a “new mold” since the original mold didn’t exist. If you want an example of this happening in other lego, well there was a lego ninjago legacy set that featured an anacondrai worshiper that didn’t have the snake skull helmet that originals had cause lego destroyed the mold. So sadly as much as I would love bionicle set reprints it’s just not going to happen since for lego that would be extremely expensive to remake so many old molds, I thought I’d mention this since not everyone knows about this, also I don’t know/have any idea why lego destroys old molds this is just something they do.
Fun fact: the promo image for the Japanese combo model mixes up Nuvohk and Kohrak's names
Fuuuu-sion HOOOOOO
Ten Letters I’ll never forgive the Japanese!
@@SyrupyShana -I do love my Walkman though-
@@tenletters5889 now: I hate Japanese tea!
Later: I lOvE jApAnEsE tEa!
@@tenletters5889
Japan: (gives the world many technological and media/artistic advances and products for weeks and gamers to enjoy the world over)
Everyone: _"Thank you so very much, Japan! ❤"_
Also Japan: (accidentally mistakes Nuhvok for Kohrak and vice versa just once)
Bionicle fandom: *_-"TWO NUKES WASN'T ENOUGH."-_*
Wairuha Nuva is just Danny DeVito in lego form, change my mind
LMFAOOOOO
"It's a good thing I had my pieces."
"Your what?"
"My Skyblasters! So anyway, I started blasting. Bang! Bang!"
You’re 1000% correct
It kinda reminds of when a Dragon ball saiyan fusion goes wrong and it makes the fusion all fat.
@Mothbean yes
8:14
Borak Fusion: HEAK NO! SOMEONE GET THE ORDER OF MATA NUI FOR THIS THING!
THIS WASP THING HAS GUNS FOR ARMS!
If anything *Wairuha Nuva* is the embodiment of the Chaddest upgrades to all Kaitas.
He's the Bionicle equivalent of Danny DeVito
23:56 ahhh yes, long gears with pinholes
22:47
*bohrok about to kill takua*
Nuparu: *rolls up in walker* get away from him you BI-
-ONICLE
@@steffenday510 lol
Isn't the purpose of the "shovels" on the Keras that you can put a McToran rider on it?
That sounds really cool.
It is
Itried that. it doesn't really fit for both feet. Only one leg at a time.
Like the crab from mask of light
I always figured they were supposed to be flippers. Crabs usually have big, flat flipper limbs used to help them swim
I love this! Wairuha Nuva looks far better to me... but *not as Wairuha* , which is a shame. I adore the lil birdos and that lovely crab! The Makuta had a real thing for crabby bois.
“This is a Pokawi, and it looks almost like a Kiwi”
Well, I actually see more Kakapo in it than Kiwi, but if this thing were brown and had a katana piece for the bill, I could definitely see it as a Kiwi.
Kakapo is the holy bird
Bruh this aged like fine wine
I remember making multiples bohrok kaita in one color each because back then and still now i owned a lot of bohrok like 30 40
Lucky you! My parents only got me a single Bohrok in my youth :(
@@ultraspinalki11 its because at this time every time i found bionicle in garage sales i bought them and so the bohrok where the one that i found the most lol idk why
Thats impressive!
@Xianad this will be soo hard because most of them or just all of them are now in box
Bohrok were like the Bionicle equivalent of the "Build an Army" Minifigure sets
It’s still worth mentioning, in terms of alternate models, that the Toa Nuva all came with the necessary pieces to make either one or both arms (or legs on Pohatu Nuva) swing with the gear function. That wasn’t mentioned here or on your original Toa Nuva reviews.
The Pokawi is one of the only Rahi Combo models I've ever constructed, and I love it to death. It's just a goofy little bird.
It’s weird how none of the canon 2002 combo models don’t end up in the rahi guide book
Jake Stillwell They're in the appendix, but I know what you mean. :I
Ohhhhh okay
The anime angel Bohrok combiner thing was probably a lot easier to pose back in the day when the balls and sockets were still fresh.
Can't wait to see the Japanese Rahkshi combo models in the next video. One of them is pretty amazing.
I like to imagine most of the bohrok combiners (that weren't rahi) were other kinds of bohrok units that just weren't seen in the story. Had the toa not stopped the bahrag, we might have seen these combiners on the surface.
Someone needs to take screen shots of these to fill in the images missings on the wiki
To be fair, a frog doesn’t shoot it’s tongue out, that’s chameleons. It’s a common trope, but an actual frog tongue is attached to the front of the jaw and is flipped out, not shot out like a harpoon. What a front will do is lunge forward and flick out the tongue to stick to an insect, then the tongue flips back in with insect in tow.
That intro tho... I was like "oh shit, Eljay's inherited Lewa's curse of getting possessed...!"
Edit: also, that Boxor alt model reminds me of the power loader from the first Alien movie, along with the Enderman and Iron Golem mobs from Minecraft.
Something to note about the Boxor walker: The rubber band used on the cockpit is dangerously stretched when Nuparu is riding it. It's pulled way farther than that size of rubber band is supposed to go, and this will cause stressing, or in worst case, breaking, of the band if it's built like that for too long. However, if Nuparu isn't in the cockpit, the visor pulls down and the rubber band isn't stretched as far.
Also, I don't own the Bahrag spider, but it also looks like the rubber bands are being dangerously stretched. Does anyone own it and know if it stretches the bands too far?
I do remember they don't last long when used on a bohrog either with repeated play. Most of mine from 2002 snapped around 2007.
Man, used to be such a big fan of these guys! I used to listen to all the podcasts, watch all the reviews, and was very active on the message boards. Been years since I looked back at the channel, good to see they are still making content!
Wish you guys all the best in the future!
21:06 omg that looks kute
God, the Exo-Toa were so cool. Even if two of the Toa couldn't really fit in them. The Raptor looks really neat too.
Mask of Destiny had guides to modify the Exo-Toa so you could fit anyone.
I have six, I made the modifications, and they have always caught people's eyes whenever they visit.
Great video! Also, the Hapaka is obviously a really tiny elephant.
The Thinking SJW So, basically, the Bionicle equivalent of Dumbo?
Andrew Homer Precisely
The Exo-Raptor, the Bahrag Spider alternate models are definitely my favourites. Very cool solid versions of the sets.
The Keras is intended to be ridden by 2001 Matoran. The grey Krana holders are where you put their feet.
Wow, so cool combomodels that I didn't even know existed! Bird and crab xreature were so cute 😀
The Pokawi is the key to all of this.
The Hapaka looks like an Elephant
Took the boxor and the walker variant and take some tread parts from my big LEGO parts bin and make a version of the boxor except with two full Bohrok head designs for the attack function while having two treads for its mobility.
In other words: The Super Boxor
pokawi has been and will forever be the cutest canon bionicle set to ever exist
(also its pronounced POH-kah-WEE)
Keep up these great vids!
I've just bought Tahnok, Pahrak and Gahlok. Which Kaita should I build?
1:40 those combination models are from Bionicle but other pieces are from throwbots and roboriders and other technic pieces
Nice vid Eljay Premiere was fun.
Where can I get the instructions for the Japanese nuhvok and kohrom combiner?
Solek Man I believe BSO1 has fanmade instructions.
23:02: ‘Boxor-Stalker’
You guys over at teatv are awesome I loved these toys when I was a child and it is awesome to look back on them with the Nostalgia that I have
You forgot to put the other pahrak shield on the bohrok kaita za
You're right, my bad! Thank you for letting me know.
You're welcome man
For anyone wondering, the Infervanika cannot be built with JUST Tahnok Va and Pahrak Va, as you need one additional black 3l pin and 2 black 2l pin/axle pieces. As the Lego Club description says, you also need "...an extra piece or two from your own BIONICLE collection".
Anyone else find it strange how he did review Kardas, but never reviewed Ultimate Dume when it came with an exclusive mask?
Kardas was an expectation to the rule because he was the largest bionicle set to ever be released
and ultimate dume is a combo model
Mark _154 so was Kardas
Deigo Quixotwry he reviewed Irnakk because it had an exclusive piece
I made an exception for Kardas. I will be reviewing him again and explaining why I didn't review the other three. Stay tuned.
12:45 What if those shovels on the back served as krana launchers to launch onto some poor soul’s face. I mean, those pieces did hold krana in the original builds the model is made of.
The scene where Eljay rinses Nuhvok, I do that to rid the dust on every Bionicle and place next a fan to fully dry
Premieres in 60 seconds gang
Is that Japanese one supposed to be an angel with guns?
There are the hot bionicle sets,
Then there are the popular bionicle sets, and I look like..... a bohrok va with two assault rifles.
Looks alot like a Scizor but that may just be me
Like does anyone thought that you can change the colour scheme from the bohrock combiner Models (because the bohrocks have exactly the same parts in different colours)
for the chekula, I think that the black axels are the eye, and the bohrok teeth are horns (which some toads and frogs have).
Sorry to break it to you but apparently the frog in bionicle the game isn't a ghekula but instead a makika.
At least according to Biosector01.
You can dispute it with swert if you want. There are several frog rahi after all.
11:57 *mr. Krabs rave bass boosted*
13:00 WALRUS! WA1RUS!!!!!!!
I am the walrus
Theres a hungarian youtuber called walrusz
i can't build the infernavika with the parts given, i had to use the other bohrok va sets for more pieces.
Toa Kaita Wairuha Nuva: Danny Devito
Toa Kaita Akamai Nuva: Now is the time! Awaken, my masters! … that kind of energy
I actually like the toa kaita nuva, I just feel they should have been swapped because the one with Tahu, Pohatu, and Onua has the more hunched and wide built figures
Voice speaks in his mind CLEAN THEM ALL IT MUST BE CLEANED CLEAN THEM ALL IT MUST BE CLEANED
I understand where you come from on the nuva kaita, but honestly the wairuha nuva combo looks and feels really good. Yes, it is a downgrade when we talk about size, but if you look at it you can actually feel like it's not just three torsos taped together, but one solid torso. Honestly, i like that look better than akamai, because akamai looks so freaking gappy. I think they should've done something about the nuva armor, idk... Still, I'd love to see their models "flipped" like you said
For whatever it's worth, Eljay, my Bahrag don't make that grinding noise yours do, so I speculate that you built yours incorrectly (and coincidentally, so did whoever built your other queen).
The Bohrok Kaita were always among my favorite, I just love how menacing they look. Never did like the Nuva Kaita, though I do respectfully disagree on the Boxor Walker - I think putting Nuparu behind a windshield like that is kind of adorable, and the arm swinging action is very reminiscent of MNOG movements IMO.
Potentially a dumb question, but are you ever going to cover the Slizer combos as well? I just recently acquired enough Slizer duplicates to build their combos and... well... they're honestly kind of abominations. Might be kind of funny to see your reactions to them!
I rebuilt the head piece and looked briefly at someone else's Bahrag, to the same result, unfortunately. I'll see what happens when I rebuild them now that I've taken them both apart for this.
As for the Slizer combos, I confirmed at the end of the latest one that the next episode of the Retired Reviews will cover them, so yes. =P
@@EljayJohnsen I do recall that the Bahrag construction was kinda confusing sometimes - I built them with my girlfriend and I had to correct some of her construction here and there, so there's a lot of room for error.
Glad to hear it with the Slizers! I've sadly not been able to keep up with most of those reviews, but I'll be sure to watch the combo video when it's out!
The gears still skip teeth, right?
@@matthewbrown7834 It rolls along the gear like in every other set IIRC.
@@GhabulousGhoti I thought it used a rubber band to grip to it so when the neck fully extends it losses grip and slams shut.
Man I didn't realize that I was gonna come into this video with every combo model being hated lmao
"Clean it all. It must be cleaned. Clean it all. It must be cleaned. Clean them all. They must be cleaned." LOL!
BEEN WAITING ALL MONTH!!
Lmao I know this happens once a months
I love the 02 combiners though - they have such a nostalgic vibe to them!
In the lego offices
Designer 1: ok we need a bohrok combiner any ideas.
Designer 2: ummm.......CRAB RAVE.
At one point i had bohrok kaita za built for about 3 months because of its impressive size
Why is the pokawi SO CUTE
Is it just me or is the sound in this video slightly off to the left?
Where are the Ramana and Kirikori Nui?
1:15 He said that he was not going to show them off, due to both of them not being full on Bionicle models and using other Technic themes at the time.
when i first saw the boxor walker i thought that it was better than the design we got, but seeing the function the normal one is better, i guess the one part i like about it is how the windshield is facing down word.
10/10
Wairuha Nuva was the only Kaita I ever built, so I never actually realized just how short and stocky he was compared to all the other Toa Kaita.
I love the two birds so much.
Idk what he's talking about with the Wairuha Nuva (5:09) looking inferior to its last iteration... The Nuva looks *much* better in terms of build. It's better proportioned, the legs and arms look like actual legs and arms, the spread of color is much better. The only downside of it is the ankles, and how easily they detach. Other than that, it's a great combo-model, and me thinks Eljay's got some mad nostalgia goggles on for that judgement...
I’m very excited for Zivon in 2005
I think the eyes for the Chekula are supposed to be the axles holding its horns in place.... maybe?
I like to pit a six long axel instead of a five long on the gehkula so that the little black parts sticking out appear as little black dot eyes
Hey guys can you please talk about the prototype sets and concept art more?? All prototypes look really badass FACTS and holy cow some look really mind blowing.. one of my personal faves is the Kinkalao Slave prototype set and the "Giant" Keetongu with Metru Build.. that would be great content!! Ive seen just tooooo many of the sand tarakava.. over and over again however the other prototype sets are being slept on
I honestly don't recall the nuhvok-kohrak combo, I remember seeing the japanese Rahkshi combo a lot though.
Welp, I guess I'm gonna build the Exo Raptor and Bahrag Spider now. There goes my money
20:17 best bird
Looking forward to the makuta combo next
Akamai does have a codpiece now.
The Japanese bohrok combiner is slight tweaking with outside parts away from being one of the best anime mocs ever
I like the Waruha nuva a lot actually but yeah the ankles are a pain. BTW why are they called voodoo balls?
Kitten Probably a hold-over from when Bionicle was called “Bone Heads of VooDoo island” (think really cartoonish tribesmen with huge masks and googly eyes). The arm pieces were called ‘voodoo bone’ in Lego DD I believe.
im so exited for 2006 and 2007
My gosh! The idea of the Bahrag being big insects/spiders with bohrok on their backs sounds so cool! :U
Makes more sense to me as well since the bohrok are like an insect swarm.
The T-rex design allways felt a bit out of place to me. Sure a bionicle T-rex is cool but I can't really see that as the creepy queens of a swarm.
They look more like chickens to me.
@@matthewbrown7834 I can see that. xD
I don't remember what sort of mask collection you have, but I would really appreciate a video going over mask collecting, the sources of different rarer masks, etc. Less a review of the masks and more of an overview for up-and-coming mask collectors
24:50 totally agreed
didnt the matoran kaita show up in the mcdonalds challenge of the rahi?
The Matoran Nui did, but no Matoran Kaita.
@@EljayJohnsen ah my bad thanks
Alright wake me up when its march. Ready for part 3.
Since when is there a bohrok kaita
Most of these make good things to draw by the way the exo raptor and boxor walker we’re my favorite
Why do you keep saying static? What's the slang definition? Or is it something that people say where you're from?
Jesse Pupp static means it doesn’t move
pretty sure the infernivika is that acid-spitting ta-wahi critter seen in one of the animations
I think infernivika looks like a rooster
Very well made vid!
could you review that at some point anyways?
I have no plans and no interest in reviewing either of the two models I mentioned at the start.
@@EljayJohnsen That was an incredibly fast reply...
Completely understandable, have a good day!
I would've love for the bahrag spider to be the bohrok queen and carry them on their back!!
Clean
Kraadpiece
even though the boxor walker doesn't have any of the functionality of the original boxor, I honestly like it more appearance wise.
the original is sortof just a giant blob of technic pieces, while the walker has a much more clearly defined shape.
i actually like the design of the bohrok kaitas legs, they remind me of plants as if there growing from the ground somehow