While the nostalgia factor of Bionicle is strong, I'm gonna defend the new ones for a specific reason: the quality of the pieces. I just got my first CCBS since Tanhok-Kal and that CCBS is General Grievous. Something that the most recent sets do right: the way you can pose them compared to the artwork is possible unlike the original Bionicle (including the Nova series). That Grievous CCBS easily matches up the scale of a Sideshow Figure which is incredible when you think about it. Quality over nostalgia for me. I got back into LEGO last year because of the Wheel Bike and the Tumbler. I don't regret it at all.
+Alexandre “ScolioReset” Armont yeah character and creature building system is what is also known as "HERO FACTORY PARTS" the old bionicle didnt actualy use technic exept for the very early years but people just calls bionicle parts technic
i come from the future, and looking back on this video makes me remember i took a lot of inspiration for my own g2 bonkle story from your stuff. cheers, mate ❤
I remember subscribing to your channel once you just ended your old HF series, and not once have I regretted it. You are one of the best Biotubers, heck probably one of the best Bionicle fans of all time! You are not a fanboy who loves every single Bionicle set put out, and you are also not a hater who hates anything gen 2. You point out what you honestly like and dislike. Keep up the amazing work!
The idea that Skull Scorpio is a mess of parts Kulta put together when he ran out of parts to make another humanoid figure would'v been a great selling point for Lego I fell, it promotes the idea of creating your own crazy characters and creatures and making them fit into a story no matter how crazy and unique they are. I also don't understand why Lego didn't give Skull Scorpio the axle pieces that can be articulated from side to side or up and down depending on their arrangement, it would've given the set so much more articulation while still keeping it's stability.
I can't stand the people who compare Bionicle Gen 2 to Fant4stic saying it's so bad it is beyond saving. Sure there are things I'd like changed but come on! Bionicle to me didn't really find it's footing until 2004. People are blinded by nostalgia for the early years ignoring their flaws. I really hope Bionicle turns out like Transformers where while it's popularity may waver but it's place in pop culture will forever last (just without Michael Bay). One day when our generation gets to our thirties we'll still be able to share Bionicle with the kids of tomorrow. It just really disturbs me when people say they don't want that and they'd rather have Bionicle died than live on. Honestly it's like Pokémon Gen 3 and Gen 5 where plenty of fans dropped out saying it was doomed to fail only for a new generation of kids to pick it up. I know I'm rambling but in short long live Bionicle!
as always, I agree with you. Thank you for saying those last words. While wondering why some people hate G2, I started thinking about what made them make these decisions and I came up with this idea: Bionicle in general has something that other toys could barely imagine, that's what kept us interested on them, but this something maybe wasn't and still isn't the same thing. What made me fall in love with them when I was given my first set, Guurakh, was the great amount of possibilities offered to me as a child. Bionicle to me is "build your own action figure" so that I could be proud of it any time soon (I'm proud of all the sets I built, but they were also sold to everyone else in this planet, however my MOCs were MINE). Moreover I could create any kind of story behind the CHARACTER I was building, in fact I used to (and i still use to this day) modify some aspects of my MOCs to match his past or viceversa. That is the greatest thing Lego could give us, even better than any other sets, because they sold us the instruments to create an entire new world (and being free is very important to a child, being allowed to make your first own decisions, in a smaller, safer ambient) and nowadays only Bionicle has given me this feeling. Bionicle isn't complex builds, it isn't complex stories, it's the opportunity to be free with the help of Lego itself, in fact they also gave us a base (the sets sold and their story) to laid the foundations for OUR creations. Hero Factory was really good, in set design, but it lacked in giving me ispiration for other MOCs. When I built all the G2 Toa I recognized the essence of Bionicle: I was given possibilities (sorry for the repetitions). Furthermore new possibilities were given in the actual sets, that never were in G1, the so called "conflict in a box" elevates G2 to a whole new level, for me at least. With HF I slowly stopped MOCing because I wasn't inspired anymore, but from winter 2014 my mind has created some of my favourite MOCs of all time, for the reasons I wrote before. In the end, to me Bionicle has this transcendant something, both G1 and G2 to a greater level, and I couldn't be happier to see them again in store shelves but I also understand that I'm no longer the child Lego is mainly aiming for, so, after appreciating a lot the return of the gearbox, now I really want them to dare and do new, never seen before, things and, from what I saw of the preliminary pictures, I think they're really tring to impress both older and new fans. Sorry for this long poem, but is the most sencere and complete I could post, Bionicle was my childhood, to me means really something, I'm an only child, who spent a lot of time in his bedroom alone because I was really shy, but Bionicles were always there to keep me occupied in something and this something was breaking free from my reality, creating my "Utopia" were only my decisions mattered. Thinking about this "gift" by Lego, I couldn't be happier, for me and for all the others who experienced same things like this and I could tear up because of how beatuful this opportunity called Bionicle was, is and, hopefully, will be (that's why I don't like seeing kids playing with phones or tablets). (As I wrote you in your review of G2 Toa, sorry if I've made some mistakes, after all I'm an Italian 17 guy who's still learning English)
Even these days, while my family is into Fortnite and other games, I’m still in my own world of Lego Bionicle, Hero Factory and I’m slowly getting used to action figures made of system pieces…
Whenever I see Ekimu, either in his smaller or larger form, I always get the image of Optimus Prime in my head. The idea that Ekimu is a figure like Optimus to Okoto's people, and that he gave his life to save it from an evil Okotan (Makuta/Megatron), I see Ekimu as the leader of the Okotans the way Optimus is one to the Autobots
Gonna be honest, you made me cry man. It's beautiful to think like that, Bionicle has been and still is my childhood forever, and while the story kinda blows for this generation, the sets are what matters and they are going to great places
you know when you said that kids are too different? well early this year, every time I came to toys r us and looked at bionicle's shelves, the amount of sets that are there would get less and less. So I suppose that there are modern kids that find the new bionicle sets interesting :)
+Rexart35 Not mine. I've only seen people close to my age hanging around the Bionicle sets, but I did meet cool people because of it who also grew up with Gen. 1:D
In my store, I was the only kid who even noticed the Bionicle sets! (or so I think) I would often just look at them hoping that some other kid would think, “That guy likes those sets, maybe they're good.” Sadly, it didn't work.
+Deivyt Toa of Corndogs For me it was hard to get any thing but skull scorpio. The shelves were empty. I did eventually find Warrior in another aisle :D :D :D I wanted to get the grinder and ekimu though.
I'll say this: You've got heart. There are not a lot of people out there that have it anymore, or maybe they misplaced it, or never had it, but you are one of the few that do. I'm not even a Bionicle fan! I clicked on this video just because I could, and watched it all the way through to the end because I could feel your enthusiasm for these play things from my seat! Although I still have two questions: Do you have a video for what's behind the meaning of your username, and if not what's the meaning behind it?
+Saaaaay Fuzzy Pickles! As you've probably guessed, it's a Bionicle thing. Before I joined RUclips, I went by "NickinAmerica," and I wanted something new and cool but with a similar ring to it, so I used Aqua Magna, the planet that the first 8 years of Bionicle G1 took place on. Anyhow, thank you.
+DanToons Well, I may not have time for more than a couple of old waves, since I'm juggling these with game reviews and the like. I do feel like reviewing the Robotriders someday, though. How cool would a Slizer or Roborider Megareview be?
aaaah, how nice. Your speech made others remember their own times with bionicle, me included. i had only one friend who was interested in it enough as i was, though i'll admit i had more sets. if i still kept in contact with him i'd know him well enough to know that his favorite toa would be iruini. and im sure he'd know mine. bionicle not only let us had fun but brought us together as cheesy as that sounds.
Great review, as always.I've really been looking forward to this one.I have my own two cents to put in about some of them though.You mentioned that Skull Basher's horns can cause his mask to fall off, when I think about it, I always think back to the animated Superman, Doomsday movie, where Doomsday killed a deer by grabbing and pulling his horns.That's the way I imagine Onua would end a fight with Basher:getting a hold on his horns and yanking the to make his mask come off. With Skull Grinder being only as tall as tahu, it makes me think that all the other skull villains are almost, but not quite, strong enough to take on the toa on their own.And Kulta is the only one of them who's as strong as a toa.Heck, he seems like he may have even been a corrupted Toa before he died.It just seems like the perfect type of villian for the toa's first big time villian. Also, when you mention Skull spiders and masks it got me thinking, what if all the masks were carved from dead Skull spiders?It would kind of make sense, then, that they can control others by latching onto them like masks, because they are living masks.It would also explain why Ekimu and Makuta are so respected.It would probably take a lot of guts to chase down on of those things. Also, Scorpions are arachnids.You made Skull scorpio sad :(
I really do like this wave, even if I haven't got more than Ekimu and Kulta. I like the fact that they're piecemeal, it conveys the feeling of skeleton warriors better than it would if they were just heavily-armoured warriors with skull masks. And the fan-backstory of Scorpio is so much better than the real one. I see I'm not the only one with an unconditional love of Ekimu. I really like the feel of him being a badass Dwarven king, and the Chima armour helps with that, I think. With regards to your thoughts on Bionicle G2 and its naysayers, the 2015 sets are the only ones I've ever decided I want dupes of, so I can still add their parts to MOCs but keep the whole line built and displayed. And speaking of MOCs, I'd really like to see your MOCs and mods on DA at some point. They look really good from what you've shown of them here, and I'd love to have some clearer views of them.
+Dan Gleeson I've modified Basher and Kulta since making this video, and I'll be getting some pieces in the mail from bricklink soon to complete a Toa Tamaru moc and a Toa of Psionics.
NickonAquaMagna I'd like to see those, they sound pretty cool. LOved the Ultio MOC, so seeing more would be awesome. I've been trying to make my own Toa of Psionics but it's not going well. I'm trying to make her look smaller and slighter, but I end up defaulting to the dreaded Nuvaboob,
I only got Mask maker vs. skull grinder. Not because I don't LIKE the other sets. But being a kid who has to rely on his parents for sets I don't have many choices. Although I will get alot of money for christmas, and I plan to buy some of the 2016 sets which look fricking awesome. that and Rocket league
I really really wish I could've gotten more of these when they came out! I was 9 when they came out, earlier in 2015, we only got the Protector of Fire, Earth, and Stone, and later in November, my mom got me and my brother 2 Skull Scorpio sets. I'm 17 at the time and typing this comment and now that I look, I'm absolutely intrigued by these and really really wish I could've just gotten a couple more before they sadly disappeared from the shelves. PPPPLLLEEEEEAAAASSSSEEEE Lego, bring back the Bionicle 2015 sets! They were the best!
I went on AliExpress. Found skull warrior for 3 dollars, bought about 5, and now rest on my shelf. And bought 2 skull Scorpio’s and revamped them slightly.
Technically somewhat The peices actually aren’t that fragile. They look very similar, and to distinguish the skull warrior knockoffs to the real one, i keep the real one like how it is, and mix and match the bones around with the knockoffs.
OK STOP with THAT stupid KID,S OF TODAY THING HF WENT ON AT THE SAME TIME AS TECHNOLOGY I NEW load's OF KID'S THAT LOVED HF AND HAD IPAD'S AND IF SOMEONE offered ME AN IPAD BUT IF I DIDN'T TAKE IT THEY'D GIVE ME LEWA AND ONUA I'D PICK THE BIONICLES! PS sorry for the cap,s and the grammar love your video's.
Cool video. Honestly the only set (so far) I've gotten from the summer wave is the Ekimu vs Skull Grinder because I just don't think I'll be able to get any more (they cost up to 4 times more in Israel, and my parents got me that set when they were on vacation in Europe). It is cool, but I can't help but notice you left out the fusion set with Scorpio in this video... What's your opinion about that monster? He looks like the phase 3 of the Skull Grinder to me.
+Metal Rawr He looks pretty cool, and I think it can pass off for a transformation Kulta would go through after putting on the mask of Creation, but... I just didn't have it in me to cover those models, I'm sorry.
Nick, why do you think it will end in 2017? Is it because there is the mask of control and ultimate power left? Maybe they will expand the story passed the three masks once they have been discovered...
+NickonAquaMagna thanks for replying. I am thinking after 2017 it will be like 2004 where we get a new region with new heroes. My thoughts are lego probably didnt plan for Metru Nui after the first 3 years of Mata Nui so maybe after the first 3 years of Okoto the story will continue in a different region. It is possible so i am staying hopeful.
In my headcanon, the inhabitants of Okoto are descendants of Agori/Matoran settlers of a colony spaceship that landed on an unknown planet and lost contact with Spherus Magna and the Toa Masters are reincarnated versions of the Toa Nuva.
I actually really liked the Makuta's names. They sound like a bunch of weapons and monsters with words like terror, mutant and axe which they should. They are the main villains. There are a few dumb ones (Vamprah) but overall I think it gave the Makuta their own sounding names which fit their place in the story.
love your videos nick you managed to capture my attention by combining two of my favorite things metroid and bionicle ps did you notice 2007s Baraki pridak has a very metroid feel he looks like the amblick from prime hunters.
For the Protector's names, I can see what you mean. But I don't think the names should have to be based off any real languages in order to sound nice. Besides, LEGO was banned from using the Maori language, so I think that's why I think they made up the names of the Protectors' names that way. So that they wouldn't get sued by the Maori people, or anyone else in a different language. I understand if you don't find the names as interesting, but still this is something to think about. However, I wish LEGO could use more words from the Latin language in BIONICLE G2, like they did in 2009. That would be great.
Dude, I swear you read my mind in regards to the Throwbots and Toa Mata/Early Bionicle argument. And you've seen the leaked images, huh? Just curious, what do you think of the guy with the antlers?
+Jman92854 I like him. He looks like a forest-dwelling monster from nordic folklore, like parents would tell their children "stay out of the woods, or the man with antlers will hunt you down, cut you open and eat your heart," or something like that. He's quirky and scary and has that old-world feeling. It really makes him stand out.
NickonAquaMagna That's a tiny bit disappointing. I currently have four of those figures and they are amazing, and I would have liked to know your opinion on them.
One thing I think is really interesting with the skull villains is that the zombie like aesthetic gives somewhat of a peak at what a Bionicle looks like below the mechanical shell. I mean, Bionicles are (to my understanding) essentially cyborgs covered in metallic and robotic components hiding an organic body, but we've never gotten to see what that organic part looks like. With these, however, we at least get a glimpse of it, and I find that to be really interesting.
Not sure how it is for G2, but G1's Toa are sorta like General Grievous, like a metal ant with living organs and bits of muscle tissue holding the frame together, making how they appear in the first three movies incredibly accurate. The 2009 characters, beings from another planet, are almost entirely organic with a few cyborg upgrades, basically the opposite, making their movie portrayal incredibly inaccurate.
@@NickonPlanetRipple I guess the 2009 set's movie portrayal was inaccurate as a result of the characters looking like the toys since, at its core, it was meant to be a toy commercial. The toys (with their billions of pistons and such) probably looked very mechanical to the people making the movie, so they portrayed it like that. I could be wrong though since I haven't really seen any of the movies. Heck, I've barely even known anything about Bionicle 'til quite recently, so as I said, chances are I'm about as wrong as one could be.
People who say the new Bionicle sets suck because the story is simplified make no sense to me. Bionicle, above all else, is a toy line. The fact that G1 had a massive amount of lore bahind it was icing on the cake. A toyline doesn't need a great story to be engaging because it's the toys themselves that make them fun. A great story to back it up is a fantastic bonus but it isn't ever necessary. Yes, the new story is very bare bones, but the sets (the meat and potatoes of the franchise) are phenomenal and, hell, arguably better than what G1 offered. The story behind Bionicle is what drew me into the franchise the most back then, and yet I still think that 2015 is probably Bionicle's best year. The simple story doesn't bother me, and if anything it leaves kids more room to formulate their own stories with the sets as well as make their own unique characters with the CCBS system allowing for more customization without the ol' fear of joint and pieces snapping and braking every which way. Perhaps one way of looking at it is that with G1's story getting more focus from development, the sets received less focus, featuring more form than function. Now with a simple story, G2 has more focus on the sets. I dunno. When I first got news of Bionicle's resurrection, I figured that I'd simply buy around 2 sets for nostalgia's sake. But what wound up happening is that I became a fan all over again. I adore these sets, Kopaka being my personal favorite, with Tahu, Ekimu, and Gali trailing close behind. I look forward to seeing what Lego has in store for this franchise in the future.
+CunningCondor I still remember getting the Toa Mata. We went to the store, and I got Gali, and my brother got Kopaka. We didn't know anything about them, we just thought they were awesome, and I GUARANTEE you these figures are having the same effect on kids now.
Yeah, Mask Maker vs Skull Grinder awesome showdown Akimu's essential, and wearing the creation mask he's defnitely the chief excellent little series, thank you son much bud
The star wars elite praetorian guard buildable figure also kinda has it with the spinney hands and k2so literally has the entire function put on him untouched
BIONICLE 2016 SETS ARE FOR SALE ON LEGO RIGHT NOW AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Oh the toa are called uniters now. Cant wait for a 2016 review!
I sadly can't relate as much as you can as far as how you felt when you first saw the sets on shelves since I did, and still do, have that feeling that CCBS just doesn't hold that mystical look and feel BIONICLE once had along with the fact that HF 2.0 just ruined the building system for me and replaced my love with hate. I can say that after purchasing all of the protectors, and still trying to obtain the Toa since I was a bit late to getting involved with them, that BIONICLE has definitely made me respect the CCBS. I will never relive how I felt back in 2001 opening up Gali and Lewa and smelling those new in canister parts, god such a fond memory and the furthest back memory of my life I can still remember to this day, so fond that I still remember the layout of the living room where I opened the sets in a house I can't remember at all. BIONICLE is back, and now after buying some of last year's and this year's sets I can be happy about it and can still enjoy building the sets as they slowly include more TECHNIC elements, and while I can't feel the same as I did in 2001 with the Toa as you have, which I envy you for being able to feel that exact nostalgia with these sets, I will never say these are Hero Factory, because these sets tried... What I can say though is I wish there were blind box mask packs with more masks, and chances to get different colored Protector mask color combinations like gold with trans purple for Makuta, red with trans blue, green with trans red, the mask packs would be so perfect and would guarantee LEGO to have all of my money, that's the one thing this year was really missing in my opinion.
+ToaKoran Well, it's not necessarily the nostalgia of building Tahu and the others that made it for me... it was the nostalgia of building something that felt new and complete to me.
NickonAquaMagna Ah, the main LEGO products I've ever bought and built are BIONICLE, so my nostalgia resides in them primarily, though I can understand what you mean though cannot entirely relate. Either way, at least you're able to enjoy the sets a LOT from what you say in your reviews and I can respect and admire how enthusiastic and positive you are about them all, heck your reviews are what convinced me to even buy any of them in the first place to give them a shot because of how much you really spoke so highly of them. I can definitely see what you mean, and it's good you can feel such a great and positive feeling building these sets, and after having some first hand experience with some of the 2016 sets I eagerly await what you think of them as well.
Funny you mention that the names sound made up, because they actually were pretty much pulled straight out of Ryder Windham's head, and now that you mentioned it I can understand now why I didn't prefer them and found it easier just to say Protector of Whatever, they don't sound like they are the same.
From seeing the leak at 2014, I still have mix feeling with G2 by this day. I would like to buy more for parts if set these day weren't high due to oil demand, I have higher hopes in 2016 since they step up with builds and parts. Hope to see more video like this.
my head canon for skull slicers second pair off arms is that he took skull scorpio leg and his hands shoved them on him and said to scorpio i don't cure if you cant walk i look cool
Out of curiosity, how exactly can you fix Kulta's gear system so that it can hold up the staff? I couldn't figure out how to do that on my own, and I would appreciate any help.
+That American Narrator Well, you see how each of those giant wheel things in his sides each have an extra gear in them? Just add more. There are plenty of holes to attach them to.
Thank you! How exactly would I attach them without connecting them to the body, though? I've tried that, but I can't figure out how to make them stay in without being connected to something else.
The names and the decision to make Korgot female were actually all on Ryder Windham, author of the first G2 books. Here's more info on that: bit . ly / 1O74pdQ
My first guess with skull slicer's skull spider mask was that if you were under the control of a skull spider for long then you would become a zombie and the skull spider'legs would fall off and become your face did anyone else think this at first?
While I do mostly agree with you on names having consistent patterns, I don't really mind it as much. I'd argue that names slowly deviated from their linguistic pattern ever since the Maori incident. At least LEGO at least won't be accused of stealing a language again. Either way, I prefer the Protector names over, for lack of a better term, pun-names that BIONICLE used for a while. Names like Mantax, Krika, Vamprah, etc. reminds me of old 80's toyline characters, something not great for immersion. The only pun name that worked for me was Chirox, if only because the word "Chiroptera" isn't known to most people.
The haters just need to get off the soap box. This mentality of "THE ORIGINAL IS THE ONLY" is so common, it's rampant in the Pokemon fandom, and I only need to mention Star Wars to emphasize the point. Can't we just appreciate the fact that the new stuff ACTUALLY EXISTS?! It's kind of the reason Pokemon is still around, and why Bionicle and Star Wars are even coming back to begin with, concepts that became a gigantic hit that became the childhood for a large majority of people. I'm sure most that are about 18-25 years old has at least heard of one of these as a kid, if not more. Then people put on nostalgia glasses and flame to the ground anything that doesn't give them that nostalgia. Logic.
+XxZekeKnightxX I'd rather Bionicle to have stopped existing than it turning into what it is now. Some people don't hate on these because they have nostalgia glasses on, there are clear reasons why the originals were superior that someone who had absolutely no nostalgia could see. You get someone who has never seen a Bionicle and show them some older sets (not necessarily the very first ones, I'd say mid to late generations were best) and they'd clearly see which style is superior. God, I wonder if I'll ever get over this new style. I feel so personally offended by it.
+Legion Normandy That's just it. You're talking exclusively about the STYLE. The skin, the fluff, the dressing. You don't pay any mind to things like posability, functionality, durability, the things that are needed for a toy to really work. In terms of simply being able to play with it, the new Toa are some of the best we've ever had. As for how they look, your argument is purely anecdotal. Yeah, let's see what happens when you sit two figures next to each other, and ask someone to fiddle around with them for a little bit and see which one they think is better, without you saying anything beforehand that could skew their opinion in any direction, and see what happens. Some will prefer the old, some will latch onto the new. You can't just... claim that everyone has the same taste you do to support your stance! Heck, when it comes to nostalgia goggles, I would think they'd have the opposite effect on someone's view. That they'd ignore the limitations and failings of earlier figures and dismiss all the improvements that have been made because they prefer a certain style that they're nostalgic about. The people who say they like these new figures say so because they genuinely appreciate CCBS. It isn't because they're so desperate to have something CALLED Bionicle that they'll accept any ol' thing no matter how bad it is. They genuinely don't think CCBS is a bad building system! Is that really so hard to imagine??? That someone could feel that way and isn't just stupid as a person? I just... I think the view that Bionicle should stay dead and buried because you can't stand to see it in its current form is a very selfish one. You're basically saying "I had my fun, now I won't let ANYONE ELSE HAVE FUN because their fun is different than my fun and my fun is better!" Think of how many Transformers fans have felt this way over the years, all the... DOZENS of times it's been remade or soft-rebooted. People like to cling to a particular version of something, THEIR special thing, but that can so easily make them biased.
Legion Normandy That's exactly the talk I'm talking about. It's like saying the Prequel Star Wars movies are "all flash no bang", and anyone who likes it is a one-dimension lunatic and not a "true Star Wars fan", heck, that might even be said about the new trilogy, and we'll have another schism in the fanbase because of that too. Just because it's not the Toa Mahri or the updated Toa Nuva doesn't mean it's crap. It's different, sure, and with the later times better technology comes along, but is technology a bad thing then? Should we just go back to the flimsy upper body posability of the Toa Metru? Or the faceless Toa Inika? I'm sure many fans were put off by both, because it wasn't the Toa Mata/Nuva, because the style was different. Does that mean they were bad? Absolutely not.
+NickonAquaMagna I believe that if someone genuinely thinks that CCBS is a superior system then you're just wrong. Wrong by most standards you could judge it by. Posability, functionality, and durability were all fine in the originals. If they weren't there wouldn't be a conversation in the first place. We had everything that is available now along with all the benefits of the past. It's not just stylistic preferences, they're practical advantages. The pieces that were used in the past, the ways they worked as a whole set of figures, and especially THE ABILITY TO ACTUALLY MAKE GOOD MOCS which is nearly completely lost with the CCBS system. You say playing with the new Toa is a better experience, well it isn't for anyone that appreciated the versatility of the old style. I appreciated creating my own bionicles that were completely different from anything else there is. True creativity, unrestricted by a faulty skeletal system. The most you could hope to accomplish with the new set is making something vaguely different from the rest or creating something unique that would still pale in comparison to something that could be created in the old system (that applies for both mocs and the company build special sets). Also I very rarely see purely new-age bionicle mocs, they all borrow from the old sets for pieces because of the difficulty to create something unique using the limited pieces/types of pieces they supply in the newer sets. This is not just me or people with nostalgia bias that see this either. Its a practical problem, not a personal problem. We are being practically restricted by the new sets and CCBS, not personally (well, that too, but that's not necessarily relevant). I'd like Bionicle to stay complex, if we were able to handle it as children then new children should be able to too. We shouldn't be restricting them like this. This is why people still love Bionicle so much even after they grow out of the demographic, because they got an experience out of it that was meaningful. We were challenged, and given tools to create anything we wanted. We were coddled, but still given the same tools to create something simple, and something magnificent. Each set was distinct, with new and innovative pieces that changed everything. One new piece, one new weapon, and entire creations were born and destroyed. I can't imagine that happens now to to CCBS. I have never looked at a new set and thought any real progress was made. Sure, minor things have changed since the first wave of Hero Factory, but with the same faulty system it can never truly flourish. Maybe I am too old, maybe kids nowadays don't find the same value in building in the way that I did. Maybe they want to be streamlined, want things to be less difficult, even at the cost of potentially making something great. Even think of the special sets from the old days for gods sake. Maybe it is just how I envisioned Bionicle to be, but I do not think these notions are purely mine, and disablement. Bionicle meant something very specific both stylistically and functionally for most of its lifetime. That's what it was. Throughout the sets there was a clear style (which has now gotten much more blocky, cartoony, simplified, and less detailed) that is now gone. We build brands and names and these... identities for a reason. It's just what it is. To throw most of that away... you may as well not call it Bionicle. Keep it Hero Factory and just let Bionicle be Bionicle. Not this hybrid shadow of its former self. When you make something with the same name as something else, you have expectations of what it will be. The creators have an obligation to those who enjoy the brand to keep things to a certain standard, and these new bionicles in my opinion have broken that trust and expectation. If you're a Batman fan, you'd get upset if they change his character into a black man that kills people. Sure he gets to keep the title, and he looks... similar. Feels similar, but you can't help but feeling as though they should have kept their hands out of Batman. You don't make the TMNTs aliens. You don't change the feel and looks like this of a specific type of toy this much. The old bionicles were consistent, they all felt like they worked within their universe whether above or below see even. These new figures don't even remind me of the old ones, they're cartoony, and blocky, they aren't too detailed, and stylistically they're on the verge of being completely divorced from the Bionicle universe. Call it something different if you're going to go this far! That's what I mean when I said I would have rather them just ended Bionicle. Let Bionicle just be what it is, beginning to end. Let is live and die as what it was for 90% of its lifetime. New toys for a new generation, don't leech of an old brand just for name recognition, that's just as lazy as some of the other disrespectful reboots I'm sure we've both seen. Does that make sense? Well, this certainly got escalated quickly.
I was messing around with Skull Slicer, and while i was trying to make the arms move different ways with the gear box by switching the gears around, I noticed that this made the arms not stay up when I let go of them, no matter how many fixes I made, not even when I brought it back to its normal position.
Diesel 20212 Weird. Mine stayed up perfectly once the weight was distributed evenly. What is it with everyone else have so much worse luck than me when it comes to gears?
NickonAquaMagna I have no idea. Maybe it's because the blue pin holding the gear in between the two small gears holding two of SS's arms is a bit too weak on mine.
If you've seen the movie Warm Bodies, you'll know what I'm talking about.. Skull Slicer sorta gives me the feeling of one of the "Boneys" from that movie, except with 4 arms
I don't think that backstory for slicer is canon. In the same paragraph thing it also says his swords are fused to his hands, and we know that ain't true
Also, I don't think anywhere has it specifically stated that scorpios are native to okoto and this is an undead one. I think that Scorpios are from the skull raiders homeland, as I'm pretty sure the skull raiders are not dead, and scorpios are just a beast they use for battle and the one pohatu fought was a SKULL scorpio, and that kulta has been sending warriors and scorpios out along with the spiders. How would korgot know what a skull warrior was if they were only in the city.
hello NickonAquaMagna thanks for replying to me and sorry for replying 2 days after said reply anyway sorry if what i'm going to ask may seem moronic but what do you mean comment replies disabled i mean the reply and reply prompts work or is it that my laptop doesn't alert me because I'm a new channel and don't comment that much thanks :-)
+NickonAquaMagna ah OK so did you check the website link i gave you and will you make a video about i mean seriously everybody acts like it's the end of the world someone has to tell them to chill out and who better than you you were always the reasonable logical one with the whole sonic 1 is not to fast sonic 3 is fast but wants you think sonic unleashed is boring sonic games need high speed nonlinear platforming blended beautifully all that good stuff so till that video thanks a lot :-)
![Chino Pacas - Smith (ft. Junior H & Fuerza Regida) [Video Visualizador Oficial]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BVK6k56X30Y/mqdefault.jpg)
While the nostalgia factor of Bionicle is strong, I'm gonna defend the new ones for a specific reason: the quality of the pieces.
I just got my first CCBS since Tanhok-Kal and that CCBS is General Grievous. Something that the most recent sets do right: the way you can pose them compared to the artwork is possible unlike the original Bionicle (including the Nova series). That Grievous CCBS easily matches up the scale of a Sideshow Figure which is incredible when you think about it.
Quality over nostalgia for me. I got back into LEGO last year because of the Wheel Bike and the Tumbler. I don't regret it at all.
Tahnok-Kal is not CCBS though...
Because they were called "Technic"? ;-) They are still buildable figures. People weren't saying LEGO Technic Bionicle btw... probably not in fact.
+Alexandre “ScolioReset” Armont yeah character and creature building system is what is also known as "HERO FACTORY PARTS" the old bionicle didnt actualy use technic exept for the very early years but people just calls bionicle parts technic
+Alexandre “ScolioReset” Armont CCBS was introduced in 2011. Everything before that falls into the Slizer/Roboriders/G1 BIONICLE/HF 1.0 category.
i come from the future, and looking back on this video makes me remember i took a lot of inspiration for my own g2 bonkle story from your stuff. cheers, mate ❤
I remember subscribing to your channel once you just ended your old HF series, and not once have I regretted it. You are one of the best Biotubers, heck probably one of the best Bionicle fans of all time! You are not a fanboy who loves every single Bionicle set put out, and you are also not a hater who hates anything gen 2. You point out what you honestly like and dislike. Keep up the amazing work!
+YalkYalkStudios Thanks a bunch. I'm not really a bio-tuber, though, I also review games. It's just that this has been a slow year, it all.
The idea that Skull Scorpio is a mess of parts Kulta put together when he ran out of parts to make another humanoid figure would'v been a great selling point for Lego I fell, it promotes the idea of creating your own crazy characters and creatures and making them fit into a story no matter how crazy and unique they are.
I also don't understand why Lego didn't give Skull Scorpio the axle pieces that can be articulated from side to side or up and down depending on their arrangement, it would've given the set so much more articulation while still keeping it's stability.
I can't stand the people who compare Bionicle Gen 2 to Fant4stic saying it's so bad it is beyond saving. Sure there are things I'd like changed but come on! Bionicle to me didn't really find it's footing until 2004. People are blinded by nostalgia for the early years ignoring their flaws. I really hope Bionicle turns out like Transformers where while it's popularity may waver but it's place in pop culture will forever last (just without Michael Bay). One day when our generation gets to our thirties we'll still be able to share Bionicle with the kids of tomorrow. It just really disturbs me when people say they don't want that and they'd rather have Bionicle died than live on. Honestly it's like Pokémon Gen 3 and Gen 5 where plenty of fans dropped out saying it was doomed to fail only for a new generation of kids to pick it up. I know I'm rambling but in short long live Bionicle!
There are people who actually make that comparison? How ignorant can people be???
+Menacing Threat Very.
Menacing threat.... what did he say?
Imrukii Toa of Fire No that's a username.
I know, but what did he say? I have him blocked and muted, so what did he say?
I think Bionicle G2 was under-appreciated. I’m glad you calmly spoke your opinion and didn’t “force feed” it to us like other people do.
as always, I agree with you. Thank you for saying those last words.
While wondering why some people hate G2, I started thinking about what made them make these decisions and I came up with this idea: Bionicle in general has something that other toys could barely imagine, that's what kept us interested on them, but this something maybe wasn't and still isn't the same thing. What made me fall in love with them when I was given my first set, Guurakh, was the great amount of possibilities offered to me as a child. Bionicle to me is "build your own action figure" so that I could be proud of it any time soon (I'm proud of all the sets I built, but they were also sold to everyone else in this planet, however my MOCs were MINE). Moreover I could create any kind of story behind the CHARACTER I was building, in fact I used to (and i still use to this day) modify some aspects of my MOCs to match his past or viceversa. That is the greatest thing Lego could give us, even better than any other sets, because they sold us the instruments to create an entire new world (and being free is very important to a child, being allowed to make your first own decisions, in a smaller, safer ambient) and nowadays only Bionicle has given me this feeling.
Bionicle isn't complex builds, it isn't complex stories, it's the opportunity to be free with the help of Lego itself, in fact they also gave us a base (the sets sold and their story) to laid the foundations for OUR creations.
Hero Factory was really good, in set design, but it lacked in giving me ispiration for other MOCs.
When I built all the G2 Toa I recognized the essence of Bionicle: I was given possibilities (sorry for the repetitions). Furthermore new possibilities were given in the actual sets, that never were in G1, the so called "conflict in a box" elevates G2 to a whole new level, for me at least. With HF I slowly stopped MOCing because I wasn't inspired anymore, but from winter 2014 my mind has created some of my favourite MOCs of all time, for the reasons I wrote before.
In the end, to me Bionicle has this transcendant something, both G1 and G2 to a greater level, and I couldn't be happier to see them again in store shelves but I also understand that I'm no longer the child Lego is mainly aiming for, so, after appreciating a lot the return of the gearbox, now I really want them to dare and do new, never seen before, things and, from what I saw of the preliminary pictures, I think they're really tring to impress both older and new fans.
Sorry for this long poem, but is the most sencere and complete I could post, Bionicle was my childhood, to me means really something, I'm an only child, who spent a lot of time in his bedroom alone because I was really shy, but Bionicles were always there to keep me occupied in something and this something was breaking free from my reality, creating my "Utopia" were only my decisions mattered. Thinking about this "gift" by Lego, I couldn't be happier, for me and for all the others who experienced same things like this and I could tear up because of how beatuful this opportunity called Bionicle was, is and, hopefully, will be (that's why I don't like seeing kids playing with phones or tablets).
(As I wrote you in your review of G2 Toa, sorry if I've made some mistakes, after all I'm an Italian 17 guy who's still learning English)
mucho texto
Even these days, while my family is into Fortnite and other games, I’m still in my own world of Lego Bionicle, Hero Factory and I’m slowly getting used to action figures made of system pieces…
Whenever I see Ekimu, either in his smaller or larger form, I always get the image of Optimus Prime in my head. The idea that Ekimu is a figure like Optimus to Okoto's people, and that he gave his life to save it from an evil Okotan (Makuta/Megatron), I see Ekimu as the leader of the Okotans the way Optimus is one to the Autobots
tahu and the argonauts search for the golden mask
Gonna be honest, you made me cry man. It's beautiful to think like that, Bionicle has been and still is my childhood forever, and while the story kinda blows for this generation, the sets are what matters and they are going to great places
Nickon, my god, this was worth the wait, what a good review, I cannot wait for your thoughts on 2016 :)
+Middlefingerstudios1 The villain looks pretty cool. I can't say the same about the others though. Hopefully they prove me wrong though.
I remember the g2 Bionicle sets being the coolest thing Lego ever made to me as 5 yr old kid
you know when you said that kids are too different? well early this year, every time I came to toys r us and looked at bionicle's shelves, the amount of sets that are there would get less and less. So I suppose that there are modern kids that find the new bionicle sets interesting :)
+Rexart35 Not mine. I've only seen people close to my age hanging around the Bionicle sets, but I did meet cool people because of it who also grew up with Gen. 1:D
In my store, I was the only kid who even noticed the Bionicle sets! (or so I think) I would often just look at them hoping that some other kid would think, “That guy likes those sets, maybe they're good.” Sadly, it didn't work.
+Deivyt Toa of Corndogs For me it was hard to get any thing but skull scorpio. The shelves were empty. I did eventually find Warrior in another aisle :D :D :D I wanted to get the grinder and ekimu though.
In my area bionicle sold like hotcakes to little kids. There were times I couldn't find a particular set because they sold out
welcome back my friend I've been waiting for a new video but take your time
Preach! Big ups on your review. The ending was freaking beautiful. Looking forward to more from you!
This review is great! Also the beginning inspired me to put more effort to my characters names, since I'm writing a book.
to me the skull warrior's mask looks a bit like a combination of a skull spider and a terminator.(i am so happy that you finally made this video)
I'll say this: You've got heart. There are not a lot of people out there that have it anymore, or maybe they misplaced it, or never had it, but you are one of the few that do. I'm not even a Bionicle fan! I clicked on this video just because I could, and watched it all the way through to the end because I could feel your enthusiasm for these play things from my seat! Although I still have two questions: Do you have a video for what's behind the meaning of your username, and if not what's the meaning behind it?
+Saaaaay Fuzzy Pickles! As you've probably guessed, it's a Bionicle thing. Before I joined RUclips, I went by "NickinAmerica," and I wanted something new and cool but with a similar ring to it, so I used Aqua Magna, the planet that the first 8 years of Bionicle G1 took place on.
Anyhow, thank you.
I hope you do these MegaReviews for older Bionicle waves. I'm loving these videos.
+DanToons Well, I may not have time for more than a couple of old waves, since I'm juggling these with game reviews and the like. I do feel like reviewing the Robotriders someday, though. How cool would a Slizer or Roborider Megareview be?
+NickonAquaMagna REVIEW GALIDOR!!
Beyond Awesome
I already did. You can find my thoughts on them in the earlier Toa Megareview.
aaaah, how nice. Your speech made others remember their own times with bionicle, me included. i had only one friend who was interested in it enough as i was, though i'll admit i had more sets. if i still kept in contact with him i'd know him well enough to know that his favorite toa would be iruini. and im sure he'd know mine. bionicle not only let us had fun but brought us together as cheesy as that sounds.
Great review, as always.I've really been looking forward to this one.I have my own two cents to put in about some of them though.You mentioned that Skull Basher's horns can cause his mask to fall off, when I think about it, I always think back to the animated Superman, Doomsday movie, where Doomsday killed a deer by grabbing and pulling his horns.That's the way I imagine Onua would end a fight with Basher:getting a hold on his horns and yanking the to make his mask come off.
With Skull Grinder being only as tall as tahu, it makes me think that all the other skull villains are almost, but not quite, strong enough to take on the toa on their own.And Kulta is the only one of them who's as strong as a toa.Heck, he seems like he may have even been a corrupted Toa before he died.It just seems like the perfect type of villian for the toa's first big time villian.
Also, when you mention Skull spiders and masks it got me thinking, what if all the masks were carved from dead Skull spiders?It would kind of make sense, then, that they can control others by latching onto them like masks, because they are living masks.It would also explain why Ekimu and Makuta are so respected.It would probably take a lot of guts to chase down on of those things.
Also, Scorpions are arachnids.You made Skull scorpio sad :(
I really do like this wave, even if I haven't got more than Ekimu and Kulta.
I like the fact that they're piecemeal, it conveys the feeling of skeleton warriors better than it would if they were just heavily-armoured warriors with skull masks. And the fan-backstory of Scorpio is so much better than the real one.
I see I'm not the only one with an unconditional love of Ekimu. I really like the feel of him being a badass Dwarven king, and the Chima armour helps with that, I think.
With regards to your thoughts on Bionicle G2 and its naysayers, the 2015 sets are the only ones I've ever decided I want dupes of, so I can still add their parts to MOCs but keep the whole line built and displayed.
And speaking of MOCs, I'd really like to see your MOCs and mods on DA at some point. They look really good from what you've shown of them here, and I'd love to have some clearer views of them.
+Dan Gleeson I've modified Basher and Kulta since making this video, and I'll be getting some pieces in the mail from bricklink soon to complete a Toa Tamaru moc and a Toa of Psionics.
NickonAquaMagna I'd like to see those, they sound pretty cool. LOved the Ultio MOC, so seeing more would be awesome.
I've been trying to make my own Toa of Psionics but it's not going well. I'm trying to make her look smaller and slighter, but I end up defaulting to the dreaded Nuvaboob,
Bring back bionicles
dated september 2019
I only got Mask maker vs. skull grinder. Not because I don't LIKE the other sets. But being a kid who has to rely on his parents for sets I don't have many choices. Although I will get alot of money for christmas, and I plan to buy some of the 2016 sets which look fricking awesome. that and Rocket league
I really really wish I could've gotten more of these when they came out!
I was 9 when they came out, earlier in 2015, we only got the Protector of Fire, Earth, and Stone, and later in November, my mom got me and my brother 2 Skull Scorpio sets.
I'm 17 at the time and typing this comment and now that I look, I'm absolutely intrigued by these and really really wish I could've just gotten a couple more before they sadly disappeared from the shelves.
PPPPLLLEEEEEAAAASSSSEEEE Lego, bring back the Bionicle 2015 sets! They were the best!
I went on AliExpress. Found skull warrior for 3 dollars, bought about 5, and now rest on my shelf. And bought 2 skull Scorpio’s and revamped them slightly.
Wait... if you bought it on Aliexpress, doesn't that make it a knockoff?
Technically somewhat
The peices actually aren’t that fragile. They look very similar, and to distinguish the skull warrior knockoffs to the real one, i keep the real one like how it is, and mix and match the bones around with the knockoffs.
you almost made me cry ;-;
You've earned a new subscriber
Cool. Welcome, sub 6000. Just letting you know, you may want to enable replies...
There we go, lol
OK STOP with THAT stupid KID,S OF TODAY THING HF WENT ON AT THE SAME TIME AS TECHNOLOGY I NEW load's OF KID'S THAT LOVED HF AND HAD IPAD'S AND IF SOMEONE offered ME AN IPAD BUT IF I DIDN'T TAKE IT THEY'D GIVE ME LEWA AND ONUA I'D PICK THE BIONICLES! PS sorry for the cap,s and the grammar love your video's.
Yes! Finally! Thank you for all the hardwork. You've done a fantastic job with all the 2015 reviews.
+Catalyzer935 Rest assured, I'll be reviewing next year's sets, too. First, though, there's Sonic Adventure.
Sonic Adventure? Are you making another video about that?
That question was asked out of curiosity. Sorry if it sounded different than I intended.
That American Narrator
Yes. I'm re-reviewing the Adventure games, since there's no major Sonic releases this year.
+NickonAquaMagna Are you reviewing the Combiner models for wave 2?
Cool video. Honestly the only set (so far) I've gotten from the summer wave is the Ekimu vs Skull Grinder because I just don't think I'll be able to get any more (they cost up to 4 times more in Israel, and my parents got me that set when they were on vacation in Europe). It is cool, but I can't help but notice you left out the fusion set with Scorpio in this video... What's your opinion about that monster? He looks like the phase 3 of the Skull Grinder to me.
+Metal Rawr He looks pretty cool, and I think it can pass off for a transformation Kulta would go through after putting on the mask of Creation, but... I just didn't have it in me to cover those models, I'm sorry.
30:38 That video made me laugh more than it should've.
Nick, why do you think it will end in 2017? Is it because there is the mask of control and ultimate power left? Maybe they will expand the story passed the three masks once they have been discovered...
+Xavious061 Lego has said they only have three years planned. If the sets sell well enough, then maybe they'll make more.
+NickonAquaMagna thanks for replying. I am thinking after 2017 it will be like 2004 where we get a new region with new heroes. My thoughts are lego probably didnt plan for Metru Nui after the first 3 years of Mata Nui so maybe after the first 3 years of Okoto the story will continue in a different region. It is possible so i am staying hopeful.
In my headcanon, the inhabitants of Okoto are descendants of Agori/Matoran settlers of a colony spaceship that landed on an unknown planet and lost contact with Spherus Magna and the Toa Masters are reincarnated versions of the Toa Nuva.
I actually really liked the Makuta's names. They sound like a bunch of weapons and monsters with words like terror, mutant and axe which they should. They are the main villains. There are a few dumb ones (Vamprah) but overall I think it gave the Makuta their own sounding names which fit their place in the story.
love your videos nick you managed to capture my attention by combining two of my favorite things metroid and bionicle ps did you notice 2007s Baraki pridak has a very metroid feel he looks like the amblick from prime hunters.
I kinda wish we got that "skull blaster" character we saw concept art of, maybe he would have come with tahu's mask.
the nostalgia,
bro i'm about to cry
For the Protector's names, I can see what you mean. But I don't think the names should have to be based off any real languages in order to sound nice. Besides, LEGO was banned from using the Maori language, so I think that's why I think they made up the names of the Protectors' names that way. So that they wouldn't get sued by the Maori people, or anyone else in a different language. I understand if you don't find the names as interesting, but still this is something to think about. However, I wish LEGO could use more words from the Latin language in BIONICLE G2, like they did in 2009. That would be great.
+Diesel 20212 He knows about that. He just wishes they weren't world of warcraft bs fantasy names but rather has a definite flow.
Mark A I know.
okay.
Loved your review, and loved this towline
Dude, I swear you read my mind in regards to the Throwbots and Toa Mata/Early Bionicle argument. And you've seen the leaked images, huh? Just curious, what do you think of the guy with the antlers?
+Jman92854 I like him. He looks like a forest-dwelling monster from nordic folklore, like parents would tell their children "stay out of the woods, or the man with antlers will hunt you down, cut you open and eat your heart," or something like that. He's quirky and scary and has that old-world feeling. It really makes him stand out.
Excellent review. Just as awesome as the last one.
Have you considered doing a review of those Star Wars Ultra Build figures?
+Drixenol! The brand that eases your coughs and sneezes! Yes, but I don't think I will.
NickonAquaMagna
That's a tiny bit disappointing. I currently have four of those figures and they are amazing, and I would have liked to know your opinion on them.
*****
Grevious and Vader are great sets. The other four... they're all right, but pretty standard.
One thing I think is really interesting with the skull villains is that the zombie like aesthetic gives somewhat of a peak at what a Bionicle looks like below the mechanical shell. I mean, Bionicles are (to my understanding) essentially cyborgs covered in metallic and robotic components hiding an organic body, but we've never gotten to see what that organic part looks like. With these, however, we at least get a glimpse of it, and I find that to be really interesting.
Not sure how it is for G2, but G1's Toa are sorta like General Grievous, like a metal ant with living organs and bits of muscle tissue holding the frame together, making how they appear in the first three movies incredibly accurate. The 2009 characters, beings from another planet, are almost entirely organic with a few cyborg upgrades, basically the opposite, making their movie portrayal incredibly inaccurate.
@@NickonPlanetRipple I guess the 2009 set's movie portrayal was inaccurate as a result of the characters looking like the toys since, at its core, it was meant to be a toy commercial. The toys (with their billions of pistons and such) probably looked very mechanical to the people making the movie, so they portrayed it like that.
I could be wrong though since I haven't really seen any of the movies. Heck, I've barely even known anything about Bionicle 'til quite recently, so as I said, chances are I'm about as wrong as one could be.
You picked the exact same re-color schemes for your metru as I did :D they look so nice
People who say the new Bionicle sets suck because the story is simplified make no sense to me.
Bionicle, above all else, is a toy line. The fact that G1 had a massive amount of lore bahind it was icing on the cake. A toyline doesn't need a great story to be engaging because it's the toys themselves that make them fun. A great story to back it up is a fantastic bonus but it isn't ever necessary. Yes, the new story is very bare bones, but the sets (the meat and potatoes of the franchise) are phenomenal and, hell, arguably better than what G1 offered.
The story behind Bionicle is what drew me into the franchise the most back then, and yet I still think that 2015 is probably Bionicle's best year. The simple story doesn't bother me, and if anything it leaves kids more room to formulate their own stories with the sets as well as make their own unique characters with the CCBS system allowing for more customization without the ol' fear of joint and pieces snapping and braking every which way.
Perhaps one way of looking at it is that with G1's story getting more focus from development, the sets received less focus, featuring more form than function. Now with a simple story, G2 has more focus on the sets. I dunno.
When I first got news of Bionicle's resurrection, I figured that I'd simply buy around 2 sets for nostalgia's sake. But what wound up happening is that I became a fan all over again. I adore these sets, Kopaka being my personal favorite, with Tahu, Ekimu, and Gali trailing close behind.
I look forward to seeing what Lego has in store for this franchise in the future.
+CunningCondor I still remember getting the Toa Mata. We went to the store, and I got Gali, and my brother got Kopaka. We didn't know anything about them, we just thought they were awesome, and I GUARANTEE you these figures are having the same effect on kids now.
Yeah, it was fun to see the Lego isle regularly stocked except for the Bionicle section which was wiped clean this year. :D
CunningCondor
Looks like they're gonna have to make more!
Yeah, Mask Maker vs Skull Grinder awesome showdown Akimu's essential, and wearing the creation mask he's defnitely the chief excellent little series, thank you son much bud
yes! you uploaded the summer sets!
16:28 I remember the dragon from Hero Factory Brain Attack had a function like this when you push the button the wigs move up and down.
The star wars elite praetorian guard buildable figure also kinda has it with the spinney hands
and k2so literally has the entire function put on him untouched
BIONICLE 2016 SETS ARE FOR SALE ON LEGO RIGHT NOW AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Oh the toa are called uniters now. Cant wait for a 2016 review!
I can't wait for winter wave #2
I sadly can't relate as much as you can as far as how you felt when you first saw the sets on shelves since I did, and still do, have that feeling that CCBS just doesn't hold that mystical look and feel BIONICLE once had along with the fact that HF 2.0 just ruined the building system for me and replaced my love with hate. I can say that after purchasing all of the protectors, and still trying to obtain the Toa since I was a bit late to getting involved with them, that BIONICLE has definitely made me respect the CCBS. I will never relive how I felt back in 2001 opening up Gali and Lewa and smelling those new in canister parts, god such a fond memory and the furthest back memory of my life I can still remember to this day, so fond that I still remember the layout of the living room where I opened the sets in a house I can't remember at all.
BIONICLE is back, and now after buying some of last year's and this year's sets I can be happy about it and can still enjoy building the sets as they slowly include more TECHNIC elements, and while I can't feel the same as I did in 2001 with the Toa as you have, which I envy you for being able to feel that exact nostalgia with these sets, I will never say these are Hero Factory, because these sets tried... What I can say though is I wish there were blind box mask packs with more masks, and chances to get different colored Protector mask color combinations like gold with trans purple for Makuta, red with trans blue, green with trans red, the mask packs would be so perfect and would guarantee LEGO to have all of my money, that's the one thing this year was really missing in my opinion.
+ToaKoran Well, it's not necessarily the nostalgia of building Tahu and the others that made it for me... it was the nostalgia of building something that felt new and complete to me.
NickonAquaMagna
Ah, the main LEGO products I've ever bought and built are BIONICLE, so my nostalgia resides in them primarily, though I can understand what you mean though cannot entirely relate. Either way, at least you're able to enjoy the sets a LOT from what you say in your reviews and I can respect and admire how enthusiastic and positive you are about them all, heck your reviews are what convinced me to even buy any of them in the first place to give them a shot because of how much you really spoke so highly of them.
I can definitely see what you mean, and it's good you can feel such a great and positive feeling building these sets, and after having some first hand experience with some of the 2016 sets I eagerly await what you think of them as well.
My series actually takes place after the main story as well, just many, many years later, after all the original characters passed away.
Next years sets loo beautiful, even more so than the Toa of 2015. We get animals dude!
+kira64 I like the villain but I am not really feeling the toa :\
Funny you mention that the names sound made up, because they actually were pretty much pulled straight out of Ryder Windham's head, and now that you mentioned it I can understand now why I didn't prefer them and found it easier just to say Protector of Whatever, they don't sound like they are the same.
From seeing the leak at 2014, I still have mix feeling with G2 by this day. I would like to buy more for parts if set these day weren't high due to oil demand, I have higher hopes in 2016 since they step up with builds and parts.
Hope to see more video like this.
I feel guilty for coming here only because of the last minute of this video
Guessing you're a fan of the Metroid series?
+Fred Jones Yes.
did you know there's a SDCC exclusive skull Scorpios mask is his ribcage color.
I took the third gear off ekimu because he doesn't need that much friction and put it on kulta
+Tako KUN Good move.
my head canon for skull slicers second pair off arms is that he took skull scorpio leg and his hands shoved them on him and said to scorpio i don't cure if you cant walk i look cool
THIS BETTER BE GOOD
OUR MESSIA NICKONAQUAMAGNA IS ALIVE!
+stupid Hello, Earth person. I have descended from the planet Aqua Magna to share the wisdom I acquired there with the mortals.
BIONICLE! THROWBOTS IN DISGUISE!
if lego made a titan mask maker or a toa of creation in the new winter wave I would be sooo happy.
Out of curiosity, how exactly can you fix Kulta's gear system so that it can hold up the staff? I couldn't figure out how to do that on my own, and I would appreciate any help.
+That American Narrator Well, you see how each of those giant wheel things in his sides each have an extra gear in them? Just add more. There are plenty of holes to attach them to.
Thank you! How exactly would I attach them without connecting them to the body, though? I've tried that, but I can't figure out how to make them stay in without being connected to something else.
That American Narrator
You just use a half pin, half axle. They usually come in blue. The axle goes in the gear, the pin goes in the hole.
I see! Thank you very much!
Okay, I apparently have none of those blue pieces left over, even though I own all of the 2015 sets. That's just great, haha!
I'm starting not to care that much that I lost my mask of creation. The bad guys are just too badass :D
The names and the decision to make Korgot female were actually all on Ryder Windham, author of the first G2 books. Here's more info on that: bit . ly / 1O74pdQ
+Valtharr Sorry to say, I've only just recently seen the interview.
eh, it's alright...that's why I linked it ^^
Did you read the book, btw?
Valtharr
Not yet. Sometime I will.
I just got my gen griev set.... it's so amazing XD
when are you going to do the 2016 sets?
+killerbossatmc Ugh, I'm so weary of people asking this...
Not for a while. I've gotta finish another video, first.
I agree that Ekimu is the best. BTW, the staff pulling off masks was intentional & was advertised on the back of the box as doing so.
My first guess with skull slicer's skull spider mask was that if you were under the control of a skull spider for long then you would become a zombie and the skull spider'legs would fall off and become your face did anyone else think this at first?
And then we fit another set with skull bashers function (K2SO)
How to play as well
When you realize that like roughly translates to play well because it’s based off of another word that translates to play well
That axiom verge music in the background?
Would make sense.
Also Skull villains look like Terminator.
+Anaru LST Yep.
...Maybe that's why I haven't memorized the Protector's names.
+Shade2800 Yeah. They're rather forgettable names.
Exactly how I feel
I didn't know they had names.
GammaWALLE Someone on TTV found the names in the new book. Not sure if that book is out yet or not.
Nilkuu is pretty easy to remember...
While I do mostly agree with you on names having consistent patterns, I don't really mind it as much. I'd argue that names slowly deviated from their linguistic pattern ever since the Maori incident. At least LEGO at least won't be accused of stealing a language again.
Either way, I prefer the Protector names over, for lack of a better term, pun-names that BIONICLE used for a while. Names like Mantax, Krika, Vamprah, etc. reminds me of old 80's toyline characters, something not great for immersion. The only pun name that worked for me was Chirox, if only because the word "Chiroptera" isn't known to most people.
+Sharnak Punny names are what I'm against most of all.
The haters just need to get off the soap box. This mentality of "THE ORIGINAL IS THE ONLY" is so common, it's rampant in the Pokemon fandom, and I only need to mention Star Wars to emphasize the point. Can't we just appreciate the fact that the new stuff ACTUALLY EXISTS?! It's kind of the reason Pokemon is still around, and why Bionicle and Star Wars are even coming back to begin with, concepts that became a gigantic hit that became the childhood for a large majority of people. I'm sure most that are about 18-25 years old has at least heard of one of these as a kid, if not more. Then people put on nostalgia glasses and flame to the ground anything that doesn't give them that nostalgia. Logic.
+XxZekeKnightxX Everyone thinks "yeah, those other fanbases are silly, but MY nostalgia is special."
+XxZekeKnightxX I'd rather Bionicle to have stopped existing than it turning into what it is now. Some people don't hate on these because they have nostalgia glasses on, there are clear reasons why the originals were superior that someone who had absolutely no nostalgia could see. You get someone who has never seen a Bionicle and show them some older sets (not necessarily the very first ones, I'd say mid to late generations were best) and they'd clearly see which style is superior.
God, I wonder if I'll ever get over this new style. I feel so personally offended by it.
+Legion Normandy That's just it. You're talking exclusively about the STYLE. The skin, the fluff, the dressing. You don't pay any mind to things like posability, functionality, durability, the things that are needed for a toy to really work. In terms of simply being able to play with it, the new Toa are some of the best we've ever had. As for how they look, your argument is purely anecdotal. Yeah, let's see what happens when you sit two figures next to each other, and ask someone to fiddle around with them for a little bit and see which one they think is better, without you saying anything beforehand that could skew their opinion in any direction, and see what happens. Some will prefer the old, some will latch onto the new. You can't just... claim that everyone has the same taste you do to support your stance!
Heck, when it comes to nostalgia goggles, I would think they'd have the opposite effect on someone's view. That they'd ignore the limitations and failings of earlier figures and dismiss all the improvements that have been made because they prefer a certain style that they're nostalgic about. The people who say they like these new figures say so because they genuinely appreciate CCBS. It isn't because they're so desperate to have something CALLED Bionicle that they'll accept any ol' thing no matter how bad it is. They genuinely don't think CCBS is a bad building system! Is that really so hard to imagine??? That someone could feel that way and isn't just stupid as a person?
I just... I think the view that Bionicle should stay dead and buried because you can't stand to see it in its current form is a very selfish one. You're basically saying "I had my fun, now I won't let ANYONE ELSE HAVE FUN because their fun is different than my fun and my fun is better!" Think of how many Transformers fans have felt this way over the years, all the... DOZENS of times it's been remade or soft-rebooted. People like to cling to a particular version of something, THEIR special thing, but that can so easily make them biased.
Legion Normandy That's exactly the talk I'm talking about. It's like saying the Prequel Star Wars movies are "all flash no bang", and anyone who likes it is a one-dimension lunatic and not a "true Star Wars fan", heck, that might even be said about the new trilogy, and we'll have another schism in the fanbase because of that too. Just because it's not the Toa Mahri or the updated Toa Nuva doesn't mean it's crap. It's different, sure, and with the later times better technology comes along, but is technology a bad thing then? Should we just go back to the flimsy upper body posability of the Toa Metru? Or the faceless Toa Inika? I'm sure many fans were put off by both, because it wasn't the Toa Mata/Nuva, because the style was different. Does that mean they were bad? Absolutely not.
+NickonAquaMagna I believe that if someone genuinely thinks that CCBS is a superior system then you're just wrong. Wrong by most standards you could judge it by. Posability, functionality, and durability were all fine in the originals. If they weren't there wouldn't be a conversation in the first place. We had everything that is available now along with all the benefits of the past. It's not just stylistic preferences, they're practical advantages. The pieces that were used in the past, the ways they worked as a whole set of figures, and especially THE ABILITY TO ACTUALLY MAKE GOOD MOCS which is nearly completely lost with the CCBS system.
You say playing with the new Toa is a better experience, well it isn't for anyone that appreciated the versatility of the old style. I appreciated creating my own bionicles that were completely different from anything else there is. True creativity, unrestricted by a faulty skeletal system. The most you could hope to accomplish with the new set is making something vaguely different from the rest or creating something unique that would still pale in comparison to something that could be created in the old system (that applies for both mocs and the company build special sets). Also I very rarely see purely new-age bionicle mocs, they all borrow from the old sets for pieces because of the difficulty to create something unique using the limited pieces/types of pieces they supply in the newer sets. This is not just me or people with nostalgia bias that see this either. Its a practical problem, not a personal problem. We are being practically restricted by the new sets and CCBS, not personally (well, that too, but that's not necessarily relevant).
I'd like Bionicle to stay complex, if we were able to handle it as children then new children should be able to too. We shouldn't be restricting them like this. This is why people still love Bionicle so much even after they grow out of the demographic, because they got an experience out of it that was meaningful. We were challenged, and given tools to create anything we wanted. We were coddled, but still given the same tools to create something simple, and something magnificent. Each set was distinct, with new and innovative pieces that changed everything. One new piece, one new weapon, and entire creations were born and destroyed. I can't imagine that happens now to to CCBS. I have never looked at a new set and thought any real progress was made. Sure, minor things have changed since the first wave of Hero Factory, but with the same faulty system it can never truly flourish. Maybe I am too old, maybe kids nowadays don't find the same value in building in the way that I did. Maybe they want to be streamlined, want things to be less difficult, even at the cost of potentially making something great. Even think of the special sets from the old days for gods sake. Maybe it is just how I envisioned Bionicle to be, but I do not think these notions are purely mine, and disablement.
Bionicle meant something very specific both stylistically and functionally for most of its lifetime. That's what it was. Throughout the sets there was a clear style (which has now gotten much more blocky, cartoony, simplified, and less detailed) that is now gone. We build brands and names and these... identities for a reason. It's just what it is. To throw most of that away... you may as well not call it Bionicle. Keep it Hero Factory and just let Bionicle be Bionicle. Not this hybrid shadow of its former self. When you make something with the same name as something else, you have expectations of what it will be. The creators have an obligation to those who enjoy the brand to keep things to a certain standard, and these new bionicles in my opinion have broken that trust and expectation. If you're a Batman fan, you'd get upset if they change his character into a black man that kills people. Sure he gets to keep the title, and he looks... similar. Feels similar, but you can't help but feeling as though they should have kept their hands out of Batman. You don't make the TMNTs aliens. You don't change the feel and looks like this of a specific type of toy this much. The old bionicles were consistent, they all felt like they worked within their universe whether above or below see even. These new figures don't even remind me of the old ones, they're cartoony, and blocky, they aren't too detailed, and stylistically they're on the verge of being completely divorced from the Bionicle universe. Call it something different if you're going to go this far! That's what I mean when I said I would have rather them just ended Bionicle. Let Bionicle just be what it is, beginning to end. Let is live and die as what it was for 90% of its lifetime. New toys for a new generation, don't leech of an old brand just for name recognition, that's just as lazy as some of the other disrespectful reboots I'm sure we've both seen. Does that make sense?
Well, this certainly got escalated quickly.
Hey, if the bad guys in the 2015 sets are all skeletons. .
Who were they when they died??
I was messing around with Skull Slicer, and while i was trying to make the arms move different ways with the gear box by switching the gears around, I noticed that this made the arms not stay up when I let go of them, no matter how many fixes I made, not even when I brought it back to its normal position.
+Diesel 20212 Not even the way I have them rearranged in the video?
NickonAquaMagna Nope. :P
Diesel 20212
Weird. Mine stayed up perfectly once the weight was distributed evenly. What is it with everyone else have so much worse luck than me when it comes to gears?
NickonAquaMagna I have no idea. Maybe it's because the blue pin holding the gear in between the two small gears holding two of SS's arms is a bit too weak on mine.
You know what I would do with 4 skull warriors
Give one a sword
Give one a lance
Give one a bow
Give one a axe
With the right pieces, especially with Uniter Pohatu, you could give one a chain mace!!
wait so are you going to review the starwars sets.
+Toa of Darkness Probably not.
If you've seen the movie Warm Bodies, you'll know what I'm talking about.. Skull Slicer sorta gives me the feeling of one of the "Boneys" from that movie, except with 4 arms
Amen NickonAquaMagna, amen.
Umm the sckull basher function is on dragon bolt tho
Not saying the video is bad,just something was wrong and it happens
Wait, it's confirmed that Bionicle will end again in 2017?
+Calafrio The Ice Lord hopefully it becomes really popular
I don't like having Skull warrior with the darker mask, I gave him the silver skull mask, and gave SkullGrinder the Darker mask.
good review
G2’s biggest weakness:
1. Lack of advertising
2. Underwhelming lore/worldbuilding
3. The highest quality CCBS sets LEGO’s ever produced… At prices nobody could afford
actually that function on basher is also used on dragon built.
People who say the new Bionicle sets are made with the hero factory parts kind of trigger me
Call” hero factory parts also kind of trigger me
I personally really hated PoI's name until I started pronouncing it with emphasis on the I, and not on the Zo.
Watching these old reviews, optimistic about the future of CCBS, makes me a little sad
Is that Metroid Prime I hear in the background?
I got the Mr. Bill reference. XD
What songs are used?
+TheClayCrab Some are from Metroid Prime, some are from Axiom Verge.
Are we related? Because your like my long lost brother.
+Imrukii Toa of Fire No, sorry.
I don't think that backstory for slicer is canon. In the same paragraph thing it also says his swords are fused to his hands, and we know that ain't true
Also, I don't think anywhere has it specifically stated that scorpios are native to okoto and this is an undead one. I think that Scorpios are from the skull raiders homeland, as I'm pretty sure the skull raiders are not dead, and scorpios are just a beast they use for battle and the one pohatu fought was a SKULL scorpio, and that kulta has been sending warriors and scorpios out along with the spiders. How would korgot know what a skull warrior was if they were only in the city.
ali movla I can't answer that question, because you have comment replies disabled.
+NickonAquaMagna The names of the protectors actually were based of actual languages :D
hello NickonAquaMagna thanks for replying to me and sorry for replying 2 days after said reply anyway sorry if what i'm going to ask may seem moronic but
what do you mean comment replies disabled i mean the reply and reply prompts
work or is it that my laptop doesn't alert me
because I'm a new channel and don't comment that much thanks :-)
ali movla
They didn't work at the time. I couldn't reply to your original comment.
+NickonAquaMagna ah OK so did you check the website link i gave you
and will you make a video about i mean seriously everybody acts like it's
the end of the world someone has to tell them to chill out and who better
than you you were always the reasonable logical one with the whole
sonic 1 is not to fast sonic 3 is fast but wants you think sonic unleashed
is boring sonic games need high speed nonlinear platforming blended
beautifully all that good stuff so till that video thanks a lot :-)
ali movla
Sorry, I just... I don't have much to say about Fire & Ice.
In my mind I see the skull villains were ancient toa
you know skull bashers function is almost identical to dragon bolts function from hf brain attack…
I'm wondering does he know skull grinder's a toa?