Bionicles and dye: the experiment begins! Purple masks, Toa, Bohrok and more!

[@The_Bionicle_Nerd]

Vohrok The Energy Bohrok

[@sillywilly6999]

Able to shoot energy blasts from its claws

[@yungmarsupial]

Vohrok the Energy Bohrok

[@fadedportalmaster9745]

Not as good as Kohrok The Ice Bohrok, able to shoot icy blasts from their claws

[@dagur500]

Woah… rock

[@robbymanable]

Fun fact: Toa of Gravity typically have purple and black armor colorations

[@KingOfSciliy]

And since the Maori word for Gravity is "tōāpapa", you could call it Toa Pahpa. Unless you want to use the "Ba-" prefix, then it could be "Bapa", maybe?

[@headcrabking9054]

I actually like the purple-gray parts! They look like lego's old sand purple color!

[@hollowknightfan2379]

My thoughts exactly.

[@SuperSuperSpork]

If you found a good yellow dye, you could make Prototype Keetongu

[@The_Dinosaur_Heretic]

I actually really love the pale violet colour that came out in the light grey limbs. I genuinely don’t think you could go wrong with purple

[@MrJoeyWheeler]

Lore note: Voriki may have been a fan-made Toa of Electricity, but we have looong since confirmed that purple & black is the colour scheme of Gravity.

[@crushedcan5378]

I like how the confirmed colors of electricity is just water with white

[@Deadput]

To be fair Voriki predates the canon depictions of Toa of Electricity.

[@BlitzkriegOmega]

if Voriki were canon, it'd be pretty easy to retcon him into a Toa of Gravity. perhaps his original tool channeled his powers in a way very similar to electricity, and he gets a new tool (along with a new body) that better exemplifies his real powers?

[@Bionickpunk]

​@@DeadputVoriki followed the Energy Slizers color scheme, which was depicted going through electrical energy storm.

[@evorock7477]

@@BlitzkriegOmega lol could make him toa of electro-magnetism

[@NaveSutlef]

Has science gone too far?! No but seriously, these are amazing. You're a brave man with a lot of patience and pieces haha.

[@jadethenidoran]

The light gray limb pieces look kind of like Sand Purple. If you've got a piece in that color, they might be worth comparing to that. I actually prefer the dull purple limbs for Kopaka, and maybe you can use the black shields for the purple Bohrok! Very nice results for the pieces that worked.

[@freddoesvox9033]

The colour of the shields wasn’t the problem, its the type of plastic used. He does mention that.

[@jadethenidoran]

@@freddoesvox9033 I meant using undyed versions of the black shields, since that would fit into the color scheme the best

[@freddoesvox9033]

@@jadethenidoran ah ok, that makes more sense

[@ThumbKnuckle]

Sand purple is an actual lego color and it looks just like the dyed light grey limbs. Get some life on Mars or og attack of the clones sets and you'll see what I'm talking about.

[@WorstHour]

Maybe just give the purple bohrok black hands

[@NerdPuppy]

I have to be honest, I thought this video was going to end with Voriki... Because purple. I love your videos and it's cool to see new stuff being done with Bionicle, even all this time later!

[@SyntaxTsundere]

The Rahkshi parts you tried dying were likely all Pearl White parts - which, as an aside, is a colour exclusive to Bionicle as whole. The only color in which they are all found as non-Pearl is Dark/Metru Green; the Rahkshi head from Rahaga Iruni, the Rahkshi feet from Toa Kongu Mahri, and the Rahkshi back from the Lego Vikings set 7018 “Viking Ship challenges the Midgard Serpent”. Incidently, this means the only other fully buildable Rahkshi is a Dark/Metru Green Rahkshi.

[@falcone8056]

the light grey pieces ended up looking sand purple, really cool

[@Chazzeruni]

The Purple Bohrok came out so clean.

[@taylorlane2907]

I agree with you

[@VestedUTuber]

I actually like how the light gray parts came out. They remind me of "Sand Violet", a color very prominent in the Life On Mars theme. Also, Kopaka looks amazing as a Toa of Gravity.

[@sinfulsymbiote2978]

Holy crap this is amazing, just ordered some dye to try this Edit: I did it, this guide is exellent! Great way to make use of Yellowed parts which does effect the end result but it beats Yellowed "white" parts any day :')

[@lukestarkiller1470]

The purpley light grey limbs look like legos old color Sand Purple, they look like almost a perfect match at least on video. Also I wonder what would happen if you put the transparent blue pieces in red dye, that might make them a bit more purple

[@stuarts9521]

It actually looks like you created sand purple, which is the rare color that was used in the life on Mars theme in early 2001.

[@odengrant-9156]

The dark blu kaukau could be used for hahli Sense her feet are dark blue and to differentiate her from Gali

[@snark567]

I think you are supposed to dip into the dye and then take the piece out and dip into a bowl of water. Repeating the process until you get the color you want. As for the soft weapons, I remember seeing a method for making paint stick by lightly torching the plastic pieces. That way the surface can accept the paint without chipping off. Of course it's risky. PS: It would be interesting to see how Nokama Metru mask will turn out if you dye it like this. I think the darkening will really make it match the rest of her body.

[@Bionickpunk]

I would very much like to know if this method works on the softer plastic, most armor parts and masks after 2003 went for the softer plastic. Im surprised nobody dyed socket pieces, since they are the same hard plastic as those Mata limbs.

[@tappajavittu]

I'm wondering if boiling the softer plastic parts in a pressure pot would help the dye penetrate the plastic. EDIT: Love, love, LOVE the metallic purple masks, absolutely fabulous!

[@brickthumb]

Ooh, interesting. I'm actually thinking of getting a pressure pot for some resin work, definitely worth a try!

[@SnifyWisper]

5:57 Alright everyone I just replicated this and yes it is in fact sand purple. Now while grey parts can make sand purple it only takes a few minutes so it essay to over dye them.

[@brickthumb]

Neat! Which pieces did you dye?

[@SnifyWisper]

@@brickthumb Some toa and bohrok limbs as well as some sockets and a bunch of technic parts. I also dyed some trans blue sockets and a marhi visor trans purple matching the trans purple Lego uses perfectly. I recommend dying them on lower tempters as theses colors don't take that long and its essay to over do the sand purple.

[@TOP-Unga]

Borok could simply be given the black shields of the same boroks

[@Bionickpunk]

Or use purple round antenna dishes.

[@ShurikenSean]

always wanted more purple in the original run of Bionicle, love to see that made into reality here

[@keanbobeanbo1486]

Matching colors might take a couple tries, but this could be used to dye white parts lime green for anyone needing replacements! Very informative!

[@Miru_Man]

Wow that matched the official purple so well! I might have to try this.

[@SachkeeratSambhi]

I think if for that kopaka you used the official lego hands for the shoulders and hips instead of the dyed ones

[@Draco-FishProductions]

Voriki is real!

[@MyJoseph996]

It'd be interesting to see how the 2003 matoran parts come out in black and lime green for onepu and kongu. Could even try dying them in teal for tamaru

[@andrewbelmont665]

Same.

[@jaxwarp8373]

Those purple parts were really snazzy! Would love to see some more of your experiences with Dye

[@mysixthscaleobsession]

The Bionicle version of “What if it was purple?” From Eric Andre

[@Raidmasterprod]

For those who have a 3D Printing setup and DON’T want to use your white Bionicle pieces, PRINT AS MANY WHITE PIECES AS POSSIBLE AND DYE THEM INSTEAD.

[@colinroberts2060]

Even before it appeared in the hand sockets and 7M wings as part of the "Electro/Energy" Slizer (8507), the aforementioned shade of purple known as "bright violet" first appeared in sets from the "Competition" subtheme of Technic in 1998, and many of the first parts which came in that color were exclusive to that theme itself. The Slizer limb in this color first appeared in the "Spark" Slizer (8522) in 2000, which was also its only appearance overall. In addition to appearing in Onepu (1389) and the Nui Jaga (8548), this color began appearing more regularly in system parts during 2001, in a set from the "Life on Mars" theme (7317), and in four early sets from the Harry Potter theme (4702, 4709, 4722 and 4723). Most of the time after this, this color appeared almost exclusively in "Belville" sets, though some parts in it continued to appear in education kits until the color was phased out completely in 2010. Largely being replaced by the color of "medium lilac"-a color which is celebrating 20 years in use this year. The shade of transparent purple used in the Bohrok eyes, first appeared in a Harry Potter set (4721), and the eyes themselves in that color made their only appearance in a set (3808) from the "Spybotics" theme in 2002.

[@TOAOFULTIMATEDOOM]

Very nice, I love that Bohrok cover and Miru. I would love to see Nokamas mask in teal for Tamaru

[@TheMarksman949-uh5hy]

or Nokama's mask in black for Ahkmou, also love your stuff!

[@Jumbledarrow]

Wow this is so cool i cant wait to see if you do more in the future

[@GoatMilk196]

Its Vohrikin time.

[@GoatMilk196]

Also Vohrok

[@CathodeRayKobold]

I REALLY like the purple toa with the purple-grey limbs, and Lego actually does have a couple colors that are similar--just not in Bionicle parts.

[@ryanstephenson7312]

The soft plastic would probably be best to be painted. It would probably work because it's not ball joints, it's just axles and you're not going to see those anyways because they'll be in hands

[@cecillewolters1995]

Posca has some matching paints as well. They don’t change the plastic color, but you might want to paint over failed experiments or different plastics like the the Bohrok weapons. I have also used spraypaint / graffiti and those look great as well. The chromes are less shiny then original chrome pieces sadly, but if you paint everything on one build the same it’ll still look good and cohesive

[@brickthumb]

Yeah, definitely gonna have to look into paints to get some of the soft plastic bits covered. Posca, eh? Thanks for the tip :)

[@RobertStrong124]

Thank god child me who liked to sharpie his clone troopers did not see this video

[@camyblank]

I'm usually not a big fan of altering official bionicle parts, but this is just way too good looking. Definitely gonna give this a try myself!

[@aaronMinceRaft]

Any suggestions for changing reddish brown pieces to white? I imagine dye wouldn’t do much, but acrylic paint leaves thinned out streaks and doesn’t stick well (maybe I’m not patience enough).

[@hypertekextinction7886]

I wonder if this kind of dye would work on generation 2 masks and CCBS parts

[@cordak_Blaster]

I imagine the purple bohrok being smarter than others. That's why he has hands instead of weapons

[@Deadput]

Your videos have helped me out with my own Voriki attempt which is almost complete, happy to see that purple used on other pieces, I'll be sure to upload my own video of the dye in effect sometime this week, in my experience I was able to get the torso a matching shade on the first go or at least good enough for my own eye-sight.

[@brickthumb]

Sounds good, will check it out!

[@Deadput]

@@brickthumbLate response apologies, it was tough finding a good time to film, and then a couple more days to edit the video. But I have since uploaded the video on my channel and made it public, it's not the best demonstration since I'm more of a photographer than a video maker but it is a showing at how your videos have helped others such as myself at using dye.

[@GodzillaGirl64]

For the purple bohrok, maybe vohrok, or vorahk? Like vo-matoran and voriki.

[@HORRIOR1]

Think you could try dyeing a fully golden toa?

[@dr-arm]

For things like weapons spray paint works great! just cover the axel so the paint doesn’t cover it. you wont have to worry about paint scratching as much as you would with ball joints. Same goes for socket connectors. if you cover the socket and paint then you wont have to worry about paint chipping. It would let you make that full purple borahk or a purple rahkshi which would look amazing

[@BenQ-1308]

i think the dyed medium blue bits look a lot like the newer dark purple color

[@NooceneSounds]

Cahdok in purple would be amazing! I was just thinking today a lot of the parts already come in purple, and the I saw your Bohrok torso halves, and it had to be!

[@Eisenwald64]

Those light gray arms came out like that sand purple color!

[@malegends6066]

gravok for the bohrok feels like a good name

[@sithstalker770]

I love purple, most of theese turned out great!

[@ToaOfFusion]

My man made Sand Purple Bionicle limbs and he called the results disappointing? I know some people would kill to have more sand purple pieces, let alone Bionicle parts.

[@SnifyWisper]

This man had the holy grail and thought it was a just some crapy cup.

[@ClintonMatos]

This has got me wanting to try dying Transformers, since you can't paint them with all their moving parts

[@scarlet-overdrive67]

Think you could try light blue and dark blue? I wanna make a toa of lightning for my toa team concept and I would love to know what those colors would look like

[@maxdot93]

I would absolutely love a how to video once you have experimented some more on how to do this like recommended temperatures, times, recommended dyes that match the official colors etc !

[@torncard]

I really have not expected to think about Voriki in 2023... After all this time he still lives in our hearts

[@maikorage444]

Id use the purple Kopaka shield for the bohrok weapons. I can imagine them as little gravity displacers.

[@HIIMPIEZ]

but you're WRONG! Lego HAS had a purple-ly grey! It was called SAND PURPLE!

[@michaelanderson7140]

Whoa, chill out dawg. Is just LEGO

[@MrXD117]

I thought of life on mars too

[@SuperSecretBricks]

there's a 8x8 inverted dish in sand purple, would be perfect for Purple Kopaka Nuva

[@Matter_Of_Fact]

Awesome content

[@BonkleCollector]

Wonder what color the golden kanohi would come out like.? The silver ones look amazing!!

[@KARKAT420]

Maybe you could die some of those feet introduced during Bionicle stars for bohrock shields? Or at least use the black ones, I feel like they match the feeling of the regular shields pretty well.

[@christianlimonsoto1596]

For the harder pieces to dye you could try hydro dipping sense that method is used to day many different types of materials like diferente types of plastic for example plus having 2 method of dying pieces is always a plus

[@InvaderNaj]

have you tried out any other colors from this brand? couple others look pretty promising but hard to judge just from images

[@darrak95]

Would you share how long you dyed the Toa feet by chance? Been working on a Voriki moc and would love to have some proper purple parts.

[@brickthumb]

It was super quick. If the water is at the right temperature, like, 30 seconds maybe? I think the best strategy is to dip the pieces in and out to keep an eye on the color. Good luck!

[@rezracer6986]

I’m definitely loving that Bohrok, I’m gonna have to try this

[@CLIDgeneral1]

For the borock you can have Tannok’s fire weapon and Galoks weapon because red and blue make purple

[@rafrecon]

Is there a good grey dye that would color something into a similar color to the grey that is used all over the basic rahkshi built (and tons of other bionicle)?

[@K9-King]

Even if some attempts weren't perfect it was worth a try and i like that, i always did wondered how would a purple toa look like, i admit i feel a similar wondering though for a yellow and/or cyan colored toa, especially the former as back then i would had loved to see a yellow toa.

[@zerokaratgold2589]

Those look great. I might try this too!

[@FossilBox]

Whooooaaaaaaa. This is crazy cool!!

[@zafool4997]

Those pinkish purple feet could be good for a non-Toa moc

[@Cosmalano]

That’s awesome

[@codylester7489]

How long did you leave the parts in for and how hot was the water. I want to give this a shot.

[@NightDandy675]

Yeah. Also, since he said he was using too much dye, how much did you end up using with how much water?

[@alexandratsankova5825]

You could probably use this method to create stronger lime green parts as replacements for the old ones

[@JFTSwiertz]

Oh shoot! I want more purple bonkles! I should do this.

[@andrewbelmont665]

I wouldn't mind seeing if it is possible to dye mctoran feet in tan or light grey.

[@Belipe_SSB]

I never thought about using dye and seeing your vid it looks like it came out solid. Do you have any idea if it can be used on the Inika rubber masks? I had my Inika Hewkii´s gunmetal pieces and mask spray painted to match the brown of the flash animations and the moment I lay a finger on him or move him the paint comes off 😭😭

[@NightDandy675]

I don't think it would work since it is soft plastic as well. Did you use primer on the parts first before spraypainting them?

[@kenjimamiku4542]

Man be cooking that Bionicle Leen Potion

[@mRhea]

what type of plastic are the all the different pieces of bionicle? if we can learn that we can probably find a die for each

[@fadedportalmaster9745]

Finally, we just need a custom mask and we can get freaky with Voriki

[@nautilusnotasquid]

PURPLE + BOHROK, YES PLEASE

[@cloroxguy496]

Wohrok the bohrok behind the slaughter

[@gergodemeter4753]

How come you did not use white limb pieces instead of gray ones? One of them even has originally purple colored varient (from the slizer line). Or were you aiming to get some more purplish-gray limb pieces?

[@brickthumb]

Was just curious to see how it would look. Will probably try using white base pieces next time!

[@augusthasani6588]

Have you dyed more since then? I just got my first purple Idye poly pack wondering if theres been new discoveries since then?

[@andrewbelmont665]

I'm curious to see if maybe he died some 03 matoran parts in teal

[@LegsON]

THIS IS AMAZING!

[@GeargusArchfiend]

Is it just me, or is the rau a perfect match for Knights Kingdom Santus' colors?

[@huemanatee1452]

I think the black shields would look fine on the bohrok

[@AsianKU]

Poison toa build Soon?

[@ElectricGeckos]

So I can't dye my black technic to be gray?

[@andrewb639]

I’d be interested to see how the ruru and kaukau look compared to dark blue parts!

[@andrewbelmont665]

Me too!

[@Chefbigpp]

Looks very cool. Have you tried making a yellow Ruru?

[@brickthumb]

Haven't tried yellow dye yet, but I do already have a recast yellow ruru for sand tarakava! :)

[@XboxTF2Tidbits]

Very late but the darker kaukau could be used for Hahli to match her legs

[@daniellegrand7242]

Try alcoholic inks, whenever I used to make dolls with my mom, that's what she would use. That might work for the softer plastics

[@137shadowX]

.. the nuva legs do exist in black. as a proto. i own a pair. i would like to know your specific mix because i absolutely love old purple

[@dex_reanimacja2582]

Lime + purple is great color combo Like Joker or Evangelion

[@shawnamishler5341]

If the silver of the bohrok kal krana cover could be dyed then you could dye a bohrak kal shield for the bohrak

[@Alex-el4nv]

Vopaka?

[@ashemabahumat4173]

Maybe Ahbrakk for the Bohrok?