I wonder how the print chests I made ended up there. I made the ones for Tahu and Gali. Was willing to the do the rest but no one cared for taking HD photos of the chest prints from the sets

People that made g2 were immitators who didnt understand what they were imitating

creatures could be polybag sets. besides that like... that would probably be a better way to go about this than what lego did.

6:18 and play sets those would be cool

Gunmetal is phenomenal with Tahu cause it's gives a smokey quality, like burnt volcanic ash

I agree that almost all of these I own have bad friction because of hairline cracks and I have ensured to never use as a support or put too much weight on this piece because it always snaps on MOCs with time

The Star Wars sets were the epitome of shelf warmers, I don't think it influenced G2 that much.

Honestly, I loved the designs of the sets - probably some of my favourite out of all Bionicle (And I say that while having a decent amount of G1 sets). I find the CCBS system so much more modular and versatile. I honestly don't get the hate for CCBS, I never have. Ever since HF came along, people have been abhorring it with zeal. Why? Sure, G1 parts did have a certain classic, nostalgic vibe, but they felt so much more constraining in terms of creativity. Anyways, the main reason for G2's downfall I think is just the lack of advertising. Nobody knew about it's existence, like I know people who were geniunely fond about Bionicle in their childhoods and were shocked to realise it came back and sad they missed it's return.

good video, but it didnt answer the questions i came to the video for i would have liked you to have mentioned the "gamefeel". do the pieces feel like lego? when 2 studs are pushed together, do they feel like lego? do they grip as strongly or losely? same questions for ball and socket, and axels and pins

I just think they didn't look good and I didn't like the CCBS system, though it'd be good if they used pins to connect things again)

i think there was a great point made the specific textures and color choices, as well as lack of mask recolors kinda stopped fans from buying the sets for parts they could use on their own characters.

Honestly feel like something like this could have solved CCBS/ Gen 2... the way their armour looks and was attached just never felt bionicly to me.

I still think the biggest reason G2 failed was because it wasn’t gone long enough to be missed. Most Bionicle fans, by 2015, hadn’t reached what I call a quarter life crisis. About the time a person hits 25-30 they usually get nostalgic for things from their childhood and usually get a career with some disposable income. It’s the same with video games. At around the 15-20 year mark you’ll see a big spike in prices because a new generation has grown up and is looking to reconnect with their childhood. If G2 had come out 5-10 years later I think it would have captured a lot of the older fans that skipped G2

how did you get those bionical parts? :D i swear i dont have those in mine (the masks and the ball, the claw ribs holding it and the claw feet for the red guy) im updating when it asks but it doesnt have 100% all the hero factory and bionicle parts :/

I want them do remake the old parts and do anniversary editions 😢

get fruitpilled

You are SO cringe nan, and you buying too much used lego. Calm down and breathe! Not subscribing and I stopped at 3 min. Angry nerd because his 20+ year old toys are broken. Gheeezus! 🤣

0:01 bro has foresight

Do you have the Lego chima buildable figures? A dream figure for me is CHI Mungus

so by simply having my sets assembled and on display the sockets are under stress and in time will crack :( curses, then i will hoard a ton of spare parts

Haven't watched the video but probably not

You cannot convince me that the 2008 socket design was not a deliberate choice made by Lego to accelerate Bionicle's death.

That microphone you're using is supposed to be about 6 inches from your mouth, that's why you sound like you're underwater

Why is your audio so muffled these past episodes?

You basically said everything that needs to be said about the flawed socket designs, both in original designs and 2008 redesigns. Indeed Lego had better quality plastic in until the 2010s, even Slugger noticed that old bricks had better clutch power, or as you stated older Bionicle pieces lasted longer.

Huh, that's odd, I've never had one of those axle connectors break

tbh the bad socket might have been another factor that lead to bionicles cancellation. with sockets breaking i lowkey worry that bionicle as a hobby is one with an expiration date.

For some odd reason, I have a black, 2008-style Mata foot that never broke, I also have a long 2008 double socket that broke on one side, but not the other, yet a few of the non-lime 2005-2007 long double sockets sockets I have got cracks, and not only have both my friction extender pieces broke, but one of my regular CCBS foot pieces got a crack.

I have never had ccbs crack on me before

Genuinely skybird I am confident at this point that someone literally cursed your CCBS parts Like CCBS sockets get loose sometimes, yeah, but in my and everyone I’ve ever asked except for you’s experience, CCBS sockets NEVER break

Good video! My takeaway is that it's awesome LEGO is working on improving the designs and strength of their pieces when they could be just using the exact same designs/molds/plastics as twenty or thirty years ago, even if those aren't as strong or durable as they could be.

As someone who frequents the G4 sockets, I can confirm: both of the cracks I've gotten so far have been right down the middle

I never worry about the old style of hand connector breaking. Even when they crack, the crack closer to the base, and still retain plenty of clutch power. Also, I am so glad to see someone bring up the incredibly breakage prone T-connector piece.

I think the reason people tout CCBS sockets as the best, at least my reasoning, is that they are perfectly smooth, and thus don't stand out as much. The openings in the classic sockets do have their benefits for mechanical aesthetics that were far more prevalent in the Mata Nui era, but at least for me this limits their usability. CCBS as a whole has a very sleek aesthetic, so the smoother sockets work much better there. The same goes for implementing sockets into system builds, or implementing system elements into a Bionicle model for that matter. Even some technic parts that get updated, like the 1x2 pin hole connector with the perpendicular 1/2 thickness axle holes, have been made smoother. IMO, if LEGO decides to bring back the OG socket but one way or another flatten out the gaps, that would be the magnum opus of the technic catalog.

I have had 90% of my transparent 1x1 round parts break and the other 10% are cracked. And have had every instance of broken parts that you have talked about in the video and even more. Clips, Bushings, Axleholes, Antistuds, Ball joints, Pins Plates, Sockets, Plant Leafs, and even Axles all break on me at some point in time just using the standard building system of lego. Its quite strange that a lego who prides themselves on qualiy had quite the qualiy issue with parts.

I tI think the blue is also called "brittle blue" by afols and affects a bunch of system pieces.

Wow that´s really interesting. I´ve never had the first example piece break on me in all this time, perhaps it´s an issue from a specific factory/region specific as I´m european? The hand/socked piece though, ooffh! I´m so scared of breaking any now that it´s discontinued! I´ve had soo many break as they age.....

Great Video

I think that lego will not risk that unortodox minifigure series, after the upcoming fail od F1 "CMS"

nice

Fits a little lower on the Metrutoran build, but still plausibly, IMO.

I doubt that Bionicle will comeback, but with the info you provided might be a bit of a hint something, but nothing concrete to be honest. Only Lego knows if Bionicle will comeback to the masses.

There are still audio issues and it is not very comfortable to listen to.

This sounds a bit weird, do you use a different mic?

So that 50€ dump truck is just a bigger version of the soon to be retired cute 10€ set 42147 from 2023, which on top of accomplishing the same two functions in a more compact package, had a pretty cool B-model of an excavator with two levers for operating its arm. Don't wanna hate on the new one, rather just giving some spotlight to the smaller one, before it's gone. Also, I'm happy for the return of solid yellow Bohrok eyes in the Stingray set, since that means, they'll be available on the online PaB and I need some for my bionicle MOC, that I'm planning to part out eventually.

G2 was fairly rushed. Your observations are correct. Some set designs came from discarded CCBS themes. Lego went full Hollywood with G2 and the budget was a constant chokehold. That's all I can say for now.

Honestly? Go make an Ideas project for this. It worked for the Botanicals and other ICONS related stuff, it might work for this as well.

Compared to a Chima set, the spider set 70130. It did only have 4 eyes, but overall the set was alright but did have that 2 front leg swing action, plus the kinda web launcher. It was a cool set to me when I was younger. The legs were completely rigid tho, but honestly didnt mind due to the play feature. Honestly if this spider set was made in a way you could build it either two ways, or just play first. It would be a lot cooler. You’d have the “jumping variant” and then the front swinging attack one. Or just rebuilt with masks similar to the old G1 sets to knock off. Either on hits head as armor, its abdomen, or something. If made today I feel like it would do a lot better to make the play feature a lot more smooth and easier to do. But honestly if it would be neat to fill the world with more 2 in one or like the really old set that was like a 5 in one if i remember

Despite the Major flaws I absolutely love LOSS, same with G2 in general Infact I think I wouldn’t have known about Bionicle without G2 showing up

I got this set because I couldn't find the Toa anywhere (Kopaka is my favorite), and some time later, I got a collection of G1 figures with missing and broken parts, so I used pieces from LoSS to fix and modify them, and I modified LoSS to give him more articulation. Now, I have 29 total Bionicle sets (mostly modified).