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Man, I was three when my dad bought me a Slizer, the white one to be exact, which I then had three more I think, but all I have of those are the disks they came with. I collected pretty much every Bionicle up until the underwater ones came out, they were god damn terrible. I then got back into the Glatorian when they came out, loved the lore behind them and all that stuff.
Anyone still have those tiny CD ROM disks you got by chance with the original Toa? They were amazing pieces of cinematic gold. I still have them and the Bohrok CDs. That video by the way, wow, the guy who made the original Toa has an awesome mind.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Ashiraya: For favorite villain, you mean Makuta Teridax right? Not any of the other Makuta?

Teridax is the Makuta.

He was one of the many inspiration sources for my own villain character.

Teridax (I only knew him as Makuta when until Metru Nui?) is THE villain of my childhood, nothing compared to him in terms of evil. I'm getting all nostalgic and I wanna dig my stuff out of the attic.

Bionicle? Back from the dead? Yes please! I loved the Lewa I had back as a kid, he never lost a bionicle match I ever had too when I used him to play against the other kids because I would use the mask from the Bohroks (who were themselves bloody awesome). Plus his axe was always able to hook their masks off.

Did anyone else here get a bunch of the Glatorian sets and have a giant thornax fight? I'm sure that someone out there has done something similar.

 Ashiraya wrote:

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Ashiraya: For favorite villain, you mean Makuta Teridax right? Not any of the other Makuta?

Teridax is the Makuta.

He was one of the many inspiration sources for my own villain character.

That is kind of awesome.

Well you've all succeeded in making me feel fething older than I should be feeling. Everyone's talking about being four to six when Bionicle came out and I was already in the double digits.

Here I thought Roboforce was the best part of my childhood, guess I'll just go sit in the corner playing shuffleboard and yelling at those dang kids to get off my lawn.

Oh well, always glad to see a fun lego series get an update it deserves.

SirSertile wrote:
Did anyone else here get a bunch of the Glatorian sets and have a giant thornax fight? I'm sure that someone out there has done something similar.

I do recall making up rules for Thornax dueling. One of my favourite features of their Glatorian was the HP counter wheel for just that purpose.

Paradigm wrote:

SirSertile wrote:
Did anyone else here get a bunch of the Glatorian sets and have a giant thornax fight? I'm sure that someone out there has done something similar.

I do recall making up rules for Thornax dueling. One of my favourite features of their Glatorian was the HP counter wheel for just that purpose.

By the time the Glatorian were around, I already had moved on (To 40K, actually), though I watched them with interest.

Asherian Command wrote:
That is kind of awesome.

Thank you!

Words cannot describe the fangirling session I just had..... Good to see them bring back one of the best lines they ever had.

 Thorgrim Bloodcrow wrote:
Well you've all succeeded in making me feel fething older than I should be feeling. Everyone's talking about being four to six when Bionicle came out and I was already in the double digits.

Here I thought Roboforce was the best part of my childhood, guess I'll just go sit in the corner playing shuffleboard and yelling at those dang kids to get off my lawn.

Oh well, always glad to see a fun lego series get an update it deserves.

I remember Exo-force. It's like anime, but Lego. Lego had so many good series back in the day.

SirSertile wrote:

 Thorgrim Bloodcrow wrote:
Well you've all succeeded in making me feel fething older than I should be feeling. Everyone's talking about being four to six when Bionicle came out and I was already in the double digits.

Here I thought Roboforce was the best part of my childhood, guess I'll just go sit in the corner playing shuffleboard and yelling at those dang kids to get off my lawn.

Oh well, always glad to see a fun lego series get an update it deserves.

I remember Exo-force. It's like anime, but Lego. Lego had so many good series back in the day.

I loved exo-force; I turned one of them into a Lego-40k Dreadnought-Penitent Engine crossover.

Then all my Lego was thrown away because I was deemed too old for it, and not even asked if I wanted it thrown out. That was 3 years ago and I'm still really fething angry about it.

 Paradigm wrote:

SirSertile wrote:
Did anyone else here get a bunch of the Glatorian sets and have a giant thornax fight? I'm sure that someone out there has done something similar.

I do recall making up rules for Thornax dueling. One of my favourite features of their Glatorian was the HP counter wheel for just that purpose.

I had all of the Glatorian and their Matoran friends, they brought be back to Bionicle after I stopped collecting them. My friends and I had a load of rules for Thornax fights because Lego didn't do a great job on fleshing out the game itself. So basically we modified it so whoever went first didn't always win. So what was everyone's favourite Toa/Matoran?

I think I still have the Veezon and Fenrak model kicking around. Probably my favorite one with Makuta at a close second.

By the way, anyone ever make those combined models? You know, the ones at the back of every assembly manual with some unholy combination of two or three sets?

Yes, but I found making my own more fun. I made some ungodly scorpion super-monster out of various villains from several generations.

Wait, Bionicle had a Story?

I made the Bohrok ones (I had all 6 Bohrok) and the 2nd design of Matoran one (The ones with the Kohli Sticks).

At one point I even downloaded some of the online instructions and made the combined Makuta one from the 1st wave of the Karda Nui sets

Those were fun...

I think I tried that too. I always had to give the creation mask-claws for some reason. I think I also made an arm cannon for my Rakshi when it's arm broke off.

I made all of the combination models like the Kaita and stuff but I took them apart because I missed having six Toa. The only combination model I kept was the Nui-Rama combo that the Le-Koro matoran used in Mata Nui the Online Game. Possibly one of the first games I played and that was on dial up!

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
So what was everyone's favourite Toa/Matoran?

I always liked Toa Tahu, and in The Mask of Light, Onua was a complete badass, bringing a mountain down on a couple of Rakshi. Of the later ones, I liked Matoro from the Inaka and Lewa in the Phantoka. The best, though, had to be Kardas, made from a combo of Axon, Brutaka and Fenrak and standing about 2 feet tall!

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
Teridax (I only knew him as Makuta when until Metru Nui?) is THE villain of my childhood, nothing compared to him in terms of evil. I'm getting all nostalgic and I wanna dig my stuff out of the attic.

All I'm gonna say is . . . chaos gods.

Onua and Gali forever, though I liked all of them honestly.

 Avatar 720 wrote:

SirSertile wrote:

 Thorgrim Bloodcrow wrote:
Well you've all succeeded in making me feel fething older than I should be feeling. Everyone's talking about being four to six when Bionicle came out and I was already in the double digits.

Here I thought Roboforce was the best part of my childhood, guess I'll just go sit in the corner playing shuffleboard and yelling at those dang kids to get off my lawn.

Oh well, always glad to see a fun lego series get an update it deserves.

I remember Exo-force. It's like anime, but Lego. Lego had so many good series back in the day.

I loved exo-force; I turned one of them into a Lego-40k Dreadnought-Penitent Engine crossover.

Then all my Lego was thrown away because I was deemed too old for it, and not even asked if I wanted it thrown out. That was 3 years ago and I'm still really fething angry about it.

Not Exo-Force! ROBOFORCE, you young whipper snappers. Back in my day our robots came in big, blocky bodies and used wheels to move their legs.

I remember when Robo Raptor and Robo Raider had feet that could shift back and forth, we nearly crapped ourselves out of excitement over legs that could move. None of this "individual leg joints", you young'uns have now.

SirSertile wrote:

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
I am excited! I really hope they don't screw this up. Honestly Bioncle was the only LEGO setting that had great (and fairly well thought out) lore (well... at least until the final few series, they got weird.).
Speaking of lore, assuming LEGO does that again, how will it work? I thought they ended it with the whole 'saved this weird planet, combined it with its moons and brought peace' thing.

 Ma55ter_fett wrote:
I miss the old browser point and click adventure game more...

Those 2 games were great... I enjoyed them so much I even went searching for a download of them.

Right here. And EVERY single bionicle game from the site.
http://biomediaproject.com/bmp/

The memories, the feels, so many feels!

My day has been made, thank you good sir or madam.

I'm just watching the video series on Takua and co. fighting against the Bohrok! I completely forgot that the Boxor was a set!

Takanuva and Makuta for me, loved that set when I was a boy..

Oh boy, I forgot all about those sets! I have to see if they are still kicking around my house now as I have the urge to build them all again. Man I wish I was a little kid so I could justify buying some more of those guys...

 happygolucky wrote:
Takanuva and Makuta for me, loved that set when I was a boy..

Oh god that set was incredible. The bike was a pain in the arse though.

Though I always liked the Big rolly ones. I forgot their names. I rememember what they looked like, I remember the Tao and I always wanted to collect the little guys.

But I got out of it after Metra Nui. And went straight into warhammer 40k.

 Asherian Command wrote:

 happygolucky wrote:
Takanuva and Makuta for me, loved that set when I was a boy..

Oh god that set was incredible. The bike was a pain in the arse though.

Though I always liked the Big rolly ones. I forgot their names. I rememember what they looked like, I remember the Tao and I always wanted to collect the little guys.

But I got out of it after Metra Nui. And went straight into warhammer 40k.

the Bohrok? I loved bionicle, I just couldn't afford any of the fancy ones when they came out, so I got the basic ones up to the Rahkshi, I think, and moved on to stuff I could afford, like video games or warhammer. I still kept up with the storyline, though.

 Goliath wrote:

 Asherian Command wrote:

 happygolucky wrote:
Takanuva and Makuta for me, loved that set when I was a boy..

Oh god that set was incredible. The bike was a pain in the arse though.

Though I always liked the Big rolly ones. I forgot their names. I rememember what they looked like, I remember the Tao and I always wanted to collect the little guys.

But I got out of it after Metra Nui. And went straight into warhammer 40k.

the Bohrok? I loved bionicle, I just couldn't afford any of the fancy ones when they came out, so I got the basic ones up to the Rahkshi, I think, and moved on to stuff I could afford, like video games or warhammer. I still kept up with the storyline, though.

Man they really went all out with Bionicle.

And continued the storyline with each new wave of models.

I think I miss that in alot of things. Sometimes it works, most times it doesn't. But for bionicle it was one of the few that got it right. They added to it. They made it more heroic and more desperate, even with the power creeping.

But yeah they were expensive.