LEGO BIONICLE 8582 Matoran Matoro | speed build

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It is somewhat curious how the release of the Ko-Koro Kolhii team members as sets happened to coincide with the runup to the release of "Bionicle: Mask of Light", given that Matoro and Kopeke (8581) don't appear in the film at all. Matoro is the first set to have hand sockets in sand blue, and the last to have the Tohunga feet in that color. The sockets in sand blue also appeared in a Star Wars set (7255) in 2005, before returning to Bionicle for two final appearances in 2006. Between then, the Technic 90-degree "V-beams" in that color also appeared in the first Bionicle "Parts tub" (8711) in 2004 before phased out. Matoro's Kanohi Akaku in that color also appeared there and in a second Parts tub (8713) before the mask was phased out completely. Though the white Bohrok limbs first appeared in Kohrak-Kal (8575), this was the only color of the upper Matoran torso to be used after 2003.