I can't imagine them doing anything like the they did in the Golden era. Some of those mold/color combos were very esoteric, limited only to a single set in some cases. More likely you'd get something distilled, like hero factory. The old molds are said to be destroyed because it costs too much to maintain them.
I could imagine a G3 Bionicle succeeding if they were to reverse the approach from the original formula. Distribute the story and create sets around the characters popularity. They need to recapture the original velocity of the story in animation to captivate children but respect the story enough to draw the original base (and their new generation)
Considering the current state of Lego I can't imagine they would ever be able to bring something as good as bionicle or just bionicle back again. They don't have the desperation that led to creativity, they are coasting off of licensed themes and "adult" sets. Don't even feel like Lego from 2006 that made the Piraka is the same company as the one now that is bringing us "Geology rocks" lol
BIONICLE was the only dark fantasy from LEGO, and series really focussed at the more mature consument than other original series. Ninjago, Chima, Nexo Knights etc. have own story, but even in the darkest moments, all those series look pretty childlish compared to BIONICLE which was like watching anime on Jetix (Naruto, Shaman King or whatever you were watching as kids instead of standard child-friendly cartoons). Now, LEGO doesn't have in their offer anything for teen fans. There's a huge gap between Ninjago and 18+ sets, waiting for dedicated product. And unfortunatelly, all we can do is doing our best with LEGO Ideas and keeping talking about BIONICLE under LEGO's posts on Instagram, Twitter and FB, hoping that someday, someone in the company will notice how huge mistake LEGO made by killing the construction building system. Seriously, I can understand replacing best LEGO series with worse successor like Hero Factory, but killing whole building system? It's like telling to 25% of consuments "We're not gonna make product for you anymore" :p
bionicle always kind of reminded me of power rangers, namely the trope of the superhero team of similar-looking characters differentiated by colour even the 7th toa from mask of light was basically the trope of that special 'extra' power ranger that joins the team later on I think just like with power rangers, it starts out strong and popular, then as the years go by, the fad dies down because it keeps repeating the same general formula over and over. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that the story narrative basically just runs in a loop. 6 new heroes or 6 new monsters following the same colour scheme
I have once again goofed🙂
I can't imagine them doing anything like the they did in the Golden era. Some of those mold/color combos were very esoteric, limited only to a single set in some cases. More likely you'd get something distilled, like hero factory. The old molds are said to be destroyed because it costs too much to maintain them.
I could imagine a G3 Bionicle succeeding if they were to reverse the approach from the original formula. Distribute the story and create sets around the characters popularity. They need to recapture the original velocity of the story in animation to captivate children but respect the story enough to draw the original base (and their new generation)
Considering the current state of Lego I can't imagine they would ever be able to bring something as good as bionicle or just bionicle back again. They don't have the desperation that led to creativity, they are coasting off of licensed themes and "adult" sets. Don't even feel like Lego from 2006 that made the Piraka is the same company as the one now that is bringing us "Geology rocks" lol
"Jaller's story into becoming Takanuva"
Cam please 😭😭😭
We are going to pretend that never happened..
my fav toa is also nuva so bulky but still classic look
Lego did bionicle so wrong in gen 2 that I do agree
Look up Chef Labs - there ain't much to see yet, but I'm getting closer
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BIONICLE was the only dark fantasy from LEGO, and series really focussed at the more mature consument than other original series. Ninjago, Chima, Nexo Knights etc. have own story, but even in the darkest moments, all those series look pretty childlish compared to BIONICLE which was like watching anime on Jetix (Naruto, Shaman King or whatever you were watching as kids instead of standard child-friendly cartoons). Now, LEGO doesn't have in their offer anything for teen fans. There's a huge gap between Ninjago and 18+ sets, waiting for dedicated product. And unfortunatelly, all we can do is doing our best with LEGO Ideas and keeping talking about BIONICLE under LEGO's posts on Instagram, Twitter and FB, hoping that someday, someone in the company will notice how huge mistake LEGO made by killing the construction building system. Seriously, I can understand replacing best LEGO series with worse successor like Hero Factory, but killing whole building system? It's like telling to 25% of consuments "We're not gonna make product for you anymore" :p
3:40 im so sorry
bionicle always kind of reminded me of power rangers, namely the trope of the superhero team of similar-looking characters differentiated by colour
even the 7th toa from mask of light was basically the trope of that special 'extra' power ranger that joins the team later on
I think just like with power rangers, it starts out strong and popular, then as the years go by, the fad dies down because it keeps repeating the same general formula over and over. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that the story narrative basically just runs in a loop. 6 new heroes or 6 new monsters following the same colour scheme
Maybe you should get into Ninjago, it has a few similarities with Bionicle.