The Secret Bionicle Set That Never Existed

[@KRBrickBot]

Maybe LEGO did subtly acknowledge it as Brutaka’s mask was in a LEGO Atlantis game.

[@PanoptesDreams]

What??? I read your comment over and over trying to understand it. Just no my dude. LEGO do this with old parts all the time, a designer thinks 'this might look nice here' and they get permission and do it. It may also happen when they have too many leftovers.

[@adriangentle2953]

⁠@@PanoptesDreamswhat are you talking about 😂 obviously it was an intentional reference. It’s from a video game they could have put any piece in but obviously intentionally referenced pit Brutaka.

[@adriangentle2953]

@@PanoptesDreamsalso name any other occasion in which a standard Lego system set used a Bionicle mask 😂 You trying to sound like a smart ass on this is killing me “my dude”

[@PanoptesDreams]

@@adriangentle2953 literally every 'System' Bionicle set came with Kanohi.

[@totalCoolerUsername]

​@@PanoptesDreamsThis sentence makes no sense

[@Dhjdidndbbehhsbbehr]

Not only does he look mutated by the waters of the pit, he doesn't look fully mutated yet, like the warlords or the makuta. I think its a nice touch that it looks as if he's slowly getting corrupted and would eventually look indistinguishable from the Barraki

[@lukestarkiller1470]

It would be kind of hard to trap him in the pit for a long time though since he has the mask of dimensional gateways. Maybe he only looks partially mutated because he managed to escape the pit by hopping through different dimensions before he was fully mutated

[@ltb1345]

I think some species don't get as affected. Like for example, the two Matoran in the Karzhani set. They were mutated, but looked mostly normal.

[@lukestarkiller1470]

@@ltb1345 I think there was a story explanation for that but I can’t remember if it was specifically stated anywhere. It’s not shown in the commercials but I’m pretty sure in the books the Matoran actually put air bubbles around their heads so they could breath down there, so maybe that prevented them from being mutated because they didn’t breathe in the water. The Toa also didn’t fully mutate because they were given their breathing tubes. So maybe you can’t be mutated unless you get the water in your lungs. Most beings wouldn’t be able to hold their breath for that long but the Matoran were able to survive because of the oxygen plants around Mahri Nui.

[@PanoptesDreams]

@@lukestarkiller1470 The Toa were mutated by The Mask of Life, not the mutagen. The results are the same though, they can only breathe water. It's not until much later that another god being gives them the ability to breathe on land again, making them amphibious.

[@lukestarkiller1470]

@@PanoptesDreams that’s what I was saying, they would have been mutated more by the water but they were changed by the mask of life to be aquatic before that could happen.

[@loganjohnson2463]

I still remember buying this in stores. I got him, a Baterra, and Voriki.

[@CaptOrionOculus]

HAHA bro I would've been completely fooled by this comment if I didn't know about Voriki

[@Waveland-uu8nu]

Always was a classic fake leak for me. In regards to Bionicle, only Voriki bests this one

[@RomanRogaOficial]

The black wine pieces used for the "gills" also came with Mantax himself, the were on the backs of his upper arms

[@aresnir2725]

In order to make Pit Brutaka you need to buy two Carapars.

[@TheFordoCanonizationCommittee]

And 1 Brutaka

[@richardjulien1329]

And at least 1 more unknown set

[@FifteenthApollo]

@@richardjulien1329 or piece everything out on Bricklink.

[@andrewings3402]

looks like you also need a Reidak/Vezon for the arms and legs , along with a Nuparu Marhi for the black piraka foot on his back

[@aresnir2725]

@@andrewings3402 Yes, other sets two. But how often people buy doubles?

[@therealtroy8275]

Love Brutaka. Great photography Ben!

[@MrPatpuc]

I have this set. My uncle's uncle works for lego and gave it to me

[@KeenMean0079]

I’ve seen box art like this when I had “the dream”

[@dansmith8872]

WOW! You never let us down with your videos Mr. Ben .But I can't part with my Brutaka set .I found mine in a thrift store and it was only .75 cents .take care

[@BenCossyOfficial]

Wow 75 cents for Brutaka is an amazing find! Nice work!

[@MCLegoboy]

Voriki's the most real thing to ever come out of Bionicle, just like this Pit Brutaka; you just didn't look hard enough!

[@aresnir2725]

How is Voriki real? It was just photoshopped image, while Pit Brutaka actually appeared in canon, and real MOC was made.

[@lukestarkiller1470]

⁠@@aresnir2725you wouldn’t understand how real Voriki felt to the people who were there at that time. I don’t understand either because I was born in 2002

[@eightcoins4401]

@@lukestarkiller1470 It makes sense when you think about how poor screen resolution typically was in 2001.

[@aresnir2725]

@@lukestarkiller1470 I think it was pretty obvious that Voriki was fake.

[@lukestarkiller1470]

@@aresnir2725 photoshop was still pretty new back then, people weren’t as attuned to it as we are today. It may look obvious to us but to people who didn’t have much experience with photoshop it just looked like an actual photograph.

[@eightcoins4401]

It's real. I found it in a dumpster right next to my Mint Condition Yamaha CS-80

[@mollof7893]

I have both Karapa and Brutaka!!! (I didn't know their names intill this video tho)

[@imahaloguy]

Such a legendary fake! Is there a parts list for it?

[@BenCossyOfficial]

Yes. The instructions PDF has a list of all the pieces with part numbers included

[@blankblank6214]

What do you mean I have this and the box on my shelf

[@richardjulien1329]

Is there a way to build it as a combo model? From the look of it, we need at least 1 brutaka, 2 Carapars, and one more set at the minimum, right?

[@ChaoticMartian]

Best option would be brincklink for each peice

[@WorstHour]

Hope you have a merry Christmas Ben :)

[@BenCossyOfficial]

You too! ;)

[@Magmafrost13]

"it is a real set its just not in stores here" In fairness Australia do be like that

[@Bakiim]

Brutaqua

[@liammeech3702]

I'd love to see an animation showing his mutation using these 2 forms...

[@adambrunn5699]

Would have loved to have this set

[@modifyadolf]

Ben cossy ive subbed you IM A BIG FAN

[@modifyadolf]

Ive subbed you since 2 yr ago

[@justacrittic1578]

I miss the blue colouring of his original look, as the black blends in a bit too well, but that could easily be remedied by just changing some of the black pieces. I would even be curious about experimenting with brighter shades of blue or transparent pieces, to get a more toxic waste feel. This is of course just a matter of taste. I do like the proportions of the build, the original is a bit skinny, while this managed to make him more muscular and natural, while keeping him lean.

[@DefenderB0SS]

I dont know why, but i remember that box

[@seaslimeshanties4546]

That's odd I remember seeing a mock similar to this but with some differences (mainly it kept the 2 additional arms, and had a custom mask)

[@autismicreviews]

do we have a bricklink parts list for this moc, i would really like to make one of my own

[@BenCossyOfficial]

The last 2 pages of the instruction pdf have a parts list

[@skraox1053]

We were just 12 at the time, we deserve a break for believing terrible Photoshop edits lol

[@wythe2445]

Tbh this looks goofy to me could have used a bit more bulk on the chest also some more blue. Still very charming.

[@Mate397]

Another one for my backlog x_x

[@williamaftongamingandstuff7655]

The 7th purple toa was a limited to target I believe

[@OtisCluck]

Wait, it wasn’t real? I always thought it was planned and then canceled

[@MrM.E.R.]

Not an upgrade, but it cool. Its ugly, but is kinda supost to be ugly. So it all makes sence and i wish i had it. but the original is better.

[@coledavidson5630]

It's just Brutaka merged with Carapar lol

[@jeantoor7103]

BGM source? Sounds familiar

[@FoakHome]

I mean it is cool but I still think the original set looks better

[@pablesm]

It is real. I found this supposedly cancelled set at a toy store named "Comsed" in Bulgaria in 2007. It was priced at 90 BGN (around $45)

[@tabris1135]

If anything, it was a knockoff.

[@marioandluigi89]

gaslight gatekeep girlboss

[@pablesm]

​@@tabris1135 Maybe it was, since in Bulgaria we don't get Lego all that often. Mostly Chinese bootlegs.

[@BenCossyOfficial]

@@pablesm Would love to see images of the bootleg if you still have it!

[@lukestarkiller1470]

You sure it wasn’t just the regular Brutaka set? 2007 was a long time ago so maybe you’re just misremembering it

[@willwaggenspack6411]

Mandela effect

[@knightowl5512]

Yooo,never been so early lol

[@lennytartaglia3305]

Fake, but sad.