They made the perfect toy…

Let us return to a time before time... Jett Kuso looks back on the 2002 Lego Bionicle lineup, including the Bohrok, Bohrok Va, the Bahrag Cahdok and Gahdok, and the TOA NUVA!
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[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Funny enough, there was even MORE Bohrok foreshadowing in the online game, including a rock in the jungle you can only see from a certain angle that says "You wake one, you wake them all" in Matoran lettering, and a dream Takua has when he passes out in a blizzard. The Bohrok were properly hyped.

[@KZN02]

I thought that rock was in Ko-Wahi?

[@charleswelch5410]

Hi nick!

[@STICKOMEDIA]

I had no idea Bohrok hype existed lmao

[@MisterX867]

I think there was also a sign you could find in the online game that said "Beware the swarm".

[@thesteelsquid863]

Takua be like "It was revealed to me in a delusion"

[@polishhockeyfan]

The thing that kicked ass about Bionicle is I can't think of many toys that were as fun to play with as they were narratively interesting. Bohrok had some gnarly lore that we were just as confused about as the Toa were facing them down. Masterful.

[@embelished_meister500]

I guarantee you that if Lego decided to take a risk and re-release the entirety of Bionicle from the Toa mata all the way till before the reboot, they would make BANK.

[@ZeeengMicro]

My brother gave me a fully assembled black ball one when I was a kid. I had no idea about the toy line or even the "lore" back then, yet for some reason I already knew that you can turn this guy into a ball and attack with his head. That's some intuitive play gimmick I'd say.

[@oldman222]

My little cousin saw my collection the other day, more specifically the Toa Mata. She freaked out when she discobered she could swing their arms with the mechanism and now she wants two for her birthday. She seemed like she really loved them. Makes me imagine what could have been if LEGO had kept making bionicles like they used to...

[@LPVince94]

Nah a story needs an ending. Look at franchises that are artificially kept alive or reanimated because they were popular. It's true some stories ended too soon (or maybe them ending the way they did and leaving us with the desire for more is what makes us look back on them so fondly). But Bionicle was finished and it was good. They definitively should produce some of the sets once in a while though.

[@oldman222]

Wasn’t talking about the story, look at the regular legos, they started before I was born and they’re still around after all these years. My cousin likes them too.

[@odg1190]

@@LPVince94 They could of added the same types of play these toys provided to a new series of toys. They do it with the Lego bricks, from franchise to franchise

[@ZarHakkar]

​@@LPVince94Literally though, they should. No remakes or reboots, just straight-up reruns. Tell the story again to the next generation.

[@Joe_Potts]

Bricklink is your friend for old LEGO, and most of the BIONICLE sets are relatively cheap. I've gotten a LOT of sets from there, and unless it's a super large bionicle set or has an extremely rare piece (like the gold mask of life), they tend to cost less than $20. (Or even $10, depending on the bionicle)

[@HonorableRosemary]

Gali just looking straight through the fourth wall while the boys argue is such a mood.

[@endobendo9497]

It's basically being the only female in the group moment

[@titanking8403]

Man bionicle was such a cool toy line, I'm still surprised lego nor anyone else have been able to make anything similar to it for awhile now

[@nanoman172]

brroooooo Neo-Shifters

[@titanking8403]

@@nanoman172 sadly that brand is already dead too

[@Tributronbluewhiteman]

Funny you should mention that! I am starting my very own line of buildable action figures called Ascending Depths.

[@jardex2275]

I think it's because of corporate interference. They see the formula, they copy the formula, then they don't know how to adapt when something goes wrong. There's no heart to it. Lore-wise, I'd say Fortnite is similar. Even though it's just a basic battle royale, the bits of story add up, which in turn affect the in game world.

[@davidwhatsthatabout7404]

Bionicle 2002 definitely took inspiration from James Cameron Alien(s) franchise. Bohrok = Xenomorph. Cannister = Xenomorph egg. Krana = Face hugger. Exo Toa = Power Loader. Bahrag = Alien Queen. Gali = Ellen Ripley.

[@thecreativehome1101]

Yes

[@Joe_Potts]

How have I never made this connection??

[@IsmaelQuinto732]

I personally feel offended that while talking about Bohrok you didn’t mentioned the almighty “KOHRAK, THE ICE BOHROK”, the most powerful being in the Bonkle universe

[@JettKuso]

Man I found those clips from the bionicle jam before I realized the Kohrak clip was already a meme

[@thenerfkid9228]

Bro I thought Good Guy was the most powerful.

[@IsmaelQuinto732]

@@thenerfkid9228 Good Guy is more than just a being. It’s a god amongst Matoran. While Kohrak is the strongest being, Good Guy is the strongest presence

[@jdvred9210]

what about solek

[@IsmaelQuinto732]

@@jdvred9210 true. If I were to say, it’s at the same level as Kohrak; but I personally give Kohrak more points

[@TheWandererGhost]

If you wake one, you wake them all...

[@TOKUAGOGO]

Just like lesbians

[@cr0sscr0w]

True for both I think

[@dragonlord7987]

ballin

[@shiverfan4867]

​@@TOKUAGOGOhuh

[@KrissFliss]

They're just like Necrons from Warhammer, and the toa's are like space marines!

[@Bionicokura]

I love how bionicle is getting more recognition and space nowadays , some years ago the content about it was almost empty, so i like that more people are beginning to talk about it

[@poenpotzu2865]

Probably because most of those kids are now past their twenties

[@Chokun-Gaming]

An alternate (and in my opinion better) way of launcing the krana is to push down on one of the Bohrok's eyes, this works best if the dome is still clipped in place

[@JettKuso]

Oh woah…

[@pangeaforever]

Yeah, thats the way i did it too. One swift motion and the krana would be launched with a good deal of force

[@Zeldrake]

"sapphic icons" is a perfect description for the Bahrag, absolutely love it

[@Spootprime]

[SPOILERS FOR A 20 YEAR OLD TOYLINE] But... The Bohrok weren't Evil. They were MEANT to clean as a part of Mata Nui's lifecycle, They were merely awoken early.

[@manofmercy1500]

And not only that, the Bohrok were also originally Av-Matoran of Light. A small percentage of them were "destined" when they reached a certain point in their lives to ultimately mutate into becoming the Bohrok shells themselves, then teleported to the nests to be given Krana.

[@jonathangonzalez9394]

No way!!! 🤔

[@raresr9698]

​@@manofmercy1500"Av-matoran of light" I dont wanna sound like an annoying nerd, but av-matoran literally means matoran of light, it sounds hillarious tho "The bohrok are matoran of light.......of light"

[@manofmercy1500]

@@raresr9698 Fair. Just felt like clarifying what element they represented for those who aren't too deep into the lore.

[@mirdordinii5783]

@@manofmercy1500 Yep, though this makes the Boxor kinda cursed.

[@Matau228]

You could also flip the eyes of a Bohrok to help launch the Krana (Though I lost my Gahlock krana in the woods behind my house that way...) That Kohlii-head Takua causes so many problem. He woke one, now he woke them all. Luckily they're totally unrelated to him in any way. I just hope Lewa doesn't get mind-controlled again!

[@djurran48]

*FORESHADOWING*

[@randomjap8431]

Yeah... Totally unrelated...

[@cameronmcsherry6139]

Hehe tren_krom moment

[@leftygurl]

as a child of the year 2000 and not really capable of comprehending bionicle until the visorak hit, the bohrok were in a weird place to me. people i knew had them, i read the stories with them, but it took ages for me to get one of my own. and when i did, collector brain decided to never let me go. i dont yet have all the different types of them, but i do have a couple duplicates, and let me tell you, having more than one bohrok of the same type is just as good as having more types of them, the army builder vibes are very strong with them. the krana also do really well to enhance that vibe, with them being randomly packed in with bohrok so if you bought more than one, you could have each of them be unique thanks to just one little rubbery piece. the bohrok-kal dropped the ball on that a little (heh) but there’s no denying the appeal of collectible orb monsters.

[@Joe_Potts]

All hail the collectable orb monsters!

[@OrmondsStopMotion]

"This was a formative experience for me." Same here Jett, same here

[@StarlightGuardian]

Had very fond memories of playing with other kids in my class with our Bohrok. They were popular around the time my school was getting a big renovation done and the men working on it left a huge pile of dirt from digging where paths would be filled with concrete. We used the dirt pile as a castle or fort for our Bohrok and made a slope that we rolled them down on in their ball modes. We also had in fighting between them constantly bashing heads until we had a winner.

[@rikuurufu5534]

The round bonkles did indeed kick unreasonable quantities of ass. I basically only ever had Tahnok-kal, Kohrok-kal, and Lewa, and they were great.

[@SylviaMoonbeam1127]

Pohatu was actually my favorite as a kid, but the Bohrok were always awesome!

[@HiroZeroVirus]

this was the exact point that my mom saw the marketing strategy at play and decided that if we, as a family, were ever going to get off the crazy spiral of new plastic FOMO, this would be the point. you know, after I had all of the throwbots, roboriders, and OG Toa...

[@avroarchitect1793]

of all the toy lines she had to get you out of this was the worst one she could have. These were the shit back in the day. I wish I still had mine

[@johnferraz6417]

The Bohrok remains quite a design character within the Bionicle Universe. I often wondered how they could have been developed even further...until we (my son and l) put wheels on them and made them mobile. We then called them...'Transpods'. Three or four wheels turned them into mobile robots with arms!

[@PhyrexianSurgeon]

So you're talking about g1 Bionicle, while simultaneously showing clips from Alien and playing music by Home. You are a true hero.

[@Pikmin911]

Ball is the peak form of all, organisms and not, ball is peak form

[@darkstone_official_2427]

That original Bakugan commercial was and is a core memory of mine. The idea in the back of my mind that a bunch of us kids would get together in some underground 'fight club' style arena to duke it out with transforming marble monsters was the highlight of my childhood and I still imagine that exact scenario whenever I hear and see that original ad. I'm now 24 years old and the show itself is like 15 years old since episode 1 came out and the toys were first released in the USA and I was like 7 when I first saw the series. Amazing to think that after a hiatus between Mechtanium Surge and the Battle Planet reboot that this legacy has managed to survive 15 years. That's longer than the entirety of Minecraft's development from start to present day. We should count ourselves lucky that despite the new Beyblade rip-off mechanic of the new reboot 'Special Attack' series, that this amazing toy line has managed to start out in the tiny little marble sized magnetic Droideka's and expand into a multiverse wide product that spans pretty much all ages. From the online games like Bakugan Dimensions where you would type out a DNA code on your Gundalian Invaders/Mechtanium Surge Bakugan to bring them from real life into the game, to the failure and buggy mess that was Champions of Vestroia, this series has had its ups and downs, but altogether it was a major part of my life and I'm honored to have something as simple as a magnetic monster marble be able to compete with Lego of all things for the top spot in my childhood memories. Between Lego and Bakugan there's magic to be found in both that one simply cannot provide that the other can, but when it comes down to it, it's a very close race. The increase in technology and Bakugan size in the reboot has also given them more creative leeway for designs making entirely new molds and characters for the reboot series as well as using more durable plastics and such to prevent them from breaking as easily. I have what I call a "Bakugan Graveyard" or I suppose the more accurate term would be "Doom Dimension" pile where I keep the majority of my long defective Bakugan. Either a part broke off or a spring got misplaced or they simply just don't stay closed or open when they roll, I still keep the broken ones around. From what I've heard there was one mold in particular from Battle Planet and beyond that was a little flimsy or poorly designed, but aside from that I haven't heard much, if anything about the new toys breaking like the old ones did. Their bigger designs, thicker parts, and tougher material makes them true units on the field of battle and in order for those Ultra springs to not snap them in two from how much pressure they put to make them flip, they HAVE to be durable. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

[@redmist1175]

You don't actually have to manually untab the headpeace if you rotate the eyes it does it automatically

[@ladonmccabe]

My favorite toys as a kid. I used to make my own bionicles constantly, make my own lore, factions, had them battle, fuse, and everything else you could think of. They were the greatest take on action figures ever.

[@SunburstSenshi]

I grew up with 1 Bionicle and never knew anything about them except that they looked cool. I had the red Toa Nuva, thank you for spelling it in the video, and I used to play with him and his sword surfing abilities a lot! I had no idea he *actually* used the swords as a surfboard, as I child I just saw that the swords fit on his shoes and pretended that was intentional. Glad to know I was on the right track! 😂

[@PriestessOfSlaanesh]

I remember 2001, the first Toas. I friggin remember the day i went into a store to buy one. I was 13 yrs old and ive heared trough tv about them. I was 100% sure they would be sold out in the first hour.... so i stood up 2 hours earlier while being on a 5 day visit to my grandparents. I was in the mall 1 hour before they opened. My naive dumb mind expected literally runs on this things. Please note that a 13 yr old in 2001 was much more naive and "purer" than today. Especially since there was no internet/social media to ruin their minds. Ofc no one cared about bionicle. And ofc i was literally the only person who did. The shelves was full and my dumb naive 13 yr old mind was buffled how no one bothered. So i took my time. I was in there for full 90 minutes in front of the shelves to decide which one i wanted. I suffered... going trough so much during the process of deciding... In the end i picked Onua. 3 Weeks later i had all of them. Never regretted to pick Onua... the toy is now deeply connected to that beautiful time and childhood memories. Now 22 years later im grown adult. My grandparents and that beloved time are both dead. Onua still sits on my shelves as an artifact of that time. God i miss the late 90s. 1996-2002 was the best time on this planet for me. And Onua will accompany me to always remind me of that till im old. Cheers! Bionicle is awesome

[@OmegaZD]

To be honest, since my country was always behind trends and stuff like legos/transformers etc. I couldn't get my bionicle phase until the toa nuva came out. Soooo I couldn't get to play the game nor buy the 1 year of comics or even toys, but that GOD DAMN movie sold my kid soul to the toa nuva so I bought them all!

[@kaze117]

I have to assume you're saving the bohroks' true nature for a later video, but man it makes the Boxxor even weirder. Loving these so far! Really takes me back!

[@JettKuso]

Yeah i'm mostly intending on feeding out the lore at the same pace we learned about it as kids, to capture the feeling of each year. With the exception of my first bionicle video...

[@avroarchitect1793]

@@JettKuso Well you are having the desired effect. Keep it up.

[@eyeof3ndr364]

20:34 Gali staring into the camera like she's on The Office. Love it.

[@bionabot]

I can watch you passionately talk about these goofy robot toys that mean the world to me and so many others until the end of time

[@NineHundredDollarydoos]

I've always thought that Bionicles were one of the 'perfect' toys for boys, super cool robot action figures that you get to build yourself, either according to the instructions or however you wanted to Transformers are another 'perfect' toy. They're robot action figures that you can change into vehicles, weapons, animals, a fucking planet, whatever the hell they wanted to make. The Bohrok felt like a combination of both concepts. Sure, they only transformed into a ball, and only if you actually made them properly in the first place, but it was still super fun.

[@BloodMoonVA]

Thats amazing! I only had Toa Hordika Whenua in 2005 and after long years I got a Shadow Matoran in 2010 as a gift. That was the last time I ever had any Bionicle sets. It was so much fun building them

[@SeerOfTheWest]

The toa nuva shoulder armor may have been the biggest mistake of a peice lego has produced. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Nobody uses it as shoulder armor.

[@djurran48]

actually

[@Bionickpunk]

They use it as shoulders, heads, fists, boobs, butts, balls. Very versatile piece.

[@MellowDarkflower]

Heres a rundown of what I remember about the Exo-Toa 21 years ago .. Build was cool, nice blend of grey and silver akin to the Boxor Launcher shot far and was poseable, claw arm extended out like a Bohrok head when squeezed Legs could bend, but lack of knee joint meant that they pretty much walked on long stilts. Toa Nuva could also fit inside provided you removed the armor.

[@noobpoob3889]

So, I was way too late into Bionicle, and only like a year ago I started collecting them. After long search I got all toa Nuva, and decided to get one bohrok (gahlok) to test it out... Well, as they say... _if you wake one, you wake them all_ And now I have every 2002 bohrok and half of the bohrok kal

[@bigfan10-gaming79]

The Exo-Toa also in canon prevented the Toa Nuva from using their Elemental Powers

[@JohnWilliams-wl9px]

I got into Bionicle during the ‘flashback years’ so I missed the Bohroks but when I found out about them they became my favorite villain wave. They just came across as the perfect rivals to Toa Matas.

[@Brawler_1337]

The Bohrok were some of my favorite toys in Bionicle. The transformation gimmick and head lunging gave so much play value. I loved them so much that I even custom built one as a hero, a Bohrok who gained a conscience and turned against the swarm. I gave him a bladed staff as well, and IIRC I used the black head shell from the Boxor because I didn’t give him a Krana.

[@broken_links_gaming]

Here we go, let’s see what Jettkuso can bring to the table this time

[@purplehaze2358]

Fun fact: The bohrok are formed from former av-matoran. This means that, without even knowing it, the Matoran essentially constructed mechs from the corpses of their own kind.

[@jonathansuber1551]

I love this video I've been waiting for somebody to talk about the history in the context of the toy line. I can't wait for the piraka and the underwater ones.

[@DirectorOfChaos9292]

The Mahri

[@williamburnett3660]

I liked Pohatu he was my first bionicle. I still have the extremely fond memories of him.

[@Savagewolver]

The Bohrok were so satisfying to play with. Just that click from how their heads went forward and back.

[@freddoesvox9033]

I was born in 1999 so I missed out on the bohrok and nuva. However I still remember my first ever boncle, it was Kohli Hewki :)

[@Hadthese]

As a kid I would flip the two white pieces that connect to the opening head, making them look and act like fangs. It was fun ripping the masks away!

[@thevenomous1954]

Great video. Really brought me back to my childhood. I loved these Bionicle sets and would love them to come back again

[@GameGodZERO]

Hoenstly Pohatu was always one of my favorites solely cause the OG version came with the lego rock he could kick. Also was one of my favorite boss fights in the web game. Probably cause it's the only one I remember lol

[@BakuCraftVT]

Oh dang, ngl, I'm kinda invested in this. Funny enough, when I got my legos as a kid it had some Bionicle stuff as well, I don't remember any actual Bionicle masks, but it had the bahrok masks. Never knew what they were for, as I never heard of Bionicle, but I probably would've been invested in it if I heard about it when I was younger.

[@cortejadordeestrelas2837]

I'm Brazilian (22y) from the countryside, when I was a child I barely knew Lego. And at 12 years old, when I found out, I didn't know that the toy I had bought at a fair as a child was a very half-assed replica of a first generation Bionicle. As soon as I found out (because I had access to the internet at home) I was AMAZED by the Bohroks. I've always had this fascination with "sphere robots" since Phantom Menace and their attack and shooting mechanisms made me run to look for my "fake Bionicle" and keep it with great care. I really wanted to know what the fake brand was and to this day I still ask myself about it once or twice a year... I love Bionicle today and I was honestly sad to hear that Hero Factory took all the spotlight. Unfortunately, America (both North and South) has this thing for heroes, but I just wanted a Black Bohrok on my shelf inside its cocoon.

[@thatgamingkiwi1630]

Also furthering the alien parallels is the fact that the Boxor is pretty much just the powerloader but for Matoran.

[@legojedi5296]

im glad people who are non bionicle are talking about it it was revolutionary and amazing part of many kids childhoods such as myself im 15 but i still had time i had kopaka and others i was mainly a hero factory person tho but i was still invested into bionicle

[@CosmicRejectsVideo]

Didn't you already do Bionicles? Pftt, who cares, it another Jettkuso video, it can only be good.

[@JettKuso]

MORE OF THEM

[@CosmicRejectsVideo]

​@@JettKuso Yo, Pohatu slander?

[@goose7617]

13:20 I was lucky enough to have one and I remember it blowing my mind that a whole toa could fit into it. The feet were kinda goofy and the joints were anatomically stiff but the best thing was the little launcher gun on its arm--thing actually shot so far for a lego.

[@Darkoriax17]

The Bohrok were a fucking marvel of Lego at the time. Able to seal up and be carried in their own container, many moving parts, it was perfect. But here we are, in the end of 2023, where Bionicle is a relic of a forgotten age of play. Makes me sad…

[@TheSybermedic]

I can't wait for the next round, this was a very interesting trip down memory lane. I remember getting the Boxor and the Exo-Toa for my son. He played with his collection for hours on end. Personally, I preferred the alternate build of the Exo-Toa.

[@ovengaya]

I had two of those ball bionicles, the green and the blue... and I eventually merged them into a two headed four armed and legged cylinder of death. It was fun.

[@sharklazerboy9529]

I found an entire Bionicle Lego Box, unopened and all, just sitting on my bookshelf. I might build it soon because this video brought back a lot of memories :)

[@SmileyFairy47]

You're amazing, thank you very much. I've been waiting for this video almost a half of year, and that's totally worth it. So nostalgic. I'm happy I didn't sell nothing of my Bionicle collection (almost. good bye, Nui Jaga and complete Krana collection). I just love them. I've had so happy childhood. Anyway, now I'm waiting for your next videos. Thank you again.

[@SmileyFairy47]

... also HIS NAME IS POHATU. HE'S THE MIGHTY TOA OF STONKS.

[@ignikatv1589]

That background music be hittin different, nice work!

[@Uajd-hb1qs]

Throughout the entire Bionicle franchise, the Bohrok still are my favourite next to the Visorak and Vahki. They’re similar to a brand Mega Bloks released called Neo Shifters. Guess things that fold into spheres just have a special appeal. By the way, his name is Pohatu!

[@alicemursteinlesbefaen666]

as a lesbian i can confirm we get strongeer the closer we are to each other, love to see some accurate and respectful representation ❤

[@NeonUFO]

i'm really happy to hear you'll be making videos on future arcs and sets, all your bionicle videos have been so fun! personally the bohrok have always been my absolute favourite bionicle toy, but as a kid I used to think they were supposed to resemble chickens not bugs lmao. when I table at conventions I always carry a red bohrok with me and pose him so that he's holding up my business card, he's my hype man 🙏🔴

[@CommanderWolf888]

Your Ignition foreshadowing has me worried, since that's when I got into Bionicle as a kid and so those characters and figures are the most nostalgic for me (I made sure to get my hands on Mahri Matoro as a kid specifically because of the comics). I'll do my best to set aside my biases when you eventually cover them though.

[@JettKuso]

I have a few personal aesthetic dislikes that I’ll probably make a lot of jokes about, and some criticism of questionable marketing choices in the Inika year. But it won’t be that bad… Mahri is top tier Bionicle though.

[@ESw0rdsman]

If you read the books, it actually has a description of what being submerged in Energized Protodermis felt like.

[@StrunDoNhor]

As a kid, I was more interested in making my own things with loose parts. I _did not_ appreciate how good Bionicles were as action figures. Transforming was one thing, but being able to physically "break" parts off by headbutting, punching, and _viciously biting_ them? Not only is that cool as hell, it's a kind of articulation that other action figures could've only _dreamed of._ Yet, Bionicle was there making it look easy back in the early 2000's.

[@tristanlee8495]

I always thought that the Bohrok Va's build felt much more in line with what I imagined the Turaga should look like; with the hunched over bodies and even the parts themselves creating a visual parallel to the draping robes they had in the movie.

[@DioGriseo]

When I was a kid I really wanted the RED BIONICLE (Tahu) so when christmas happened they gave me... Tahnok and Tahu nuva (at that time the 1st bionicle gen was no longer available) As a child, I cried, it was not what I wanted. But with time I appreciated the toys and became my favorites, specially the bohrok

[@GWKTM]

"Do you ever grow wary of pissing me off?"

[@legozackproduct111]

as to this day, i still have the earth(brown) bohrok that i traded from a kid in elementary school sitting on my shelf exactly 20 years ago. only sad part is the little mask in the head deteriorated.

[@kirby1781]

I remember the first Bionicles I got were from a yard sale, getting a Pohatu with an Owena mask (a great body/mask combo so it was cool) and a mostly black Bohrok with the appendages/eyes of the green one. I still have the Bohrok up, I love my little mismatch guy and he's next to the two Bionicles I got in a recent recraze towards the series.

[@purplehaze2358]

Conspiracy theory: This video is an unmarked sponsorship from LEGO and what we didn't see were the fat stacks they gave Jett to praise the Bohrok.

[@dsg2v]

I used to leave them in the ball form and peel the sticker off the container and fill it with water like a stasis tank

[@JettKuso]

That’s sick, love it.

[@christophermetcalf7540]

"I didn't know this was a Summoning Salt video." -Me, when I hear We're Finally Landing by Home.

[@JettKuso]

“Summoning Salt who?” -Me, ripping off Summoning Salt’s soundtrack on purpose

[@christophermetcalf7540]

@@JettKuso lmao xD

[@DefenderB0SS]

that live action stage dance lego video with music and shouts is too wild

[@jonasholm-mw5bn]

I had one of those exosuits and it was cool. It was kind of taken apart and I just couldn’t find the manual or parts. That’s probably why I didn’t know it was an exosuit until now. It’s weird why it was never shown as that

[@AtomicWaffle14]

Still have my green Bohrok after all these years. He got some upgrades at one point but i returned him to his original state when i realized i wanted to roll him up again.

[@omarreyes2219]

The art in those comics are amazing

[@JettKuso]

Yeah it was genuinely amazing stuff

[@cameron4225]

Best bionicle video hands down

[@ShadowQuickpaw]

Even the Mata Nui reveal was properly foreshadowed even in the Online Game! The Onu-Matoran could only dig so deep before hitting their god's face and being unable to go further until they found the entrance mouth (I can't believe I can say that about a fictional story).

[@MorganGriffiths-l1c]

I wasn't even alive when these came out. When I discovered the sets online I immediately knew I had to get one.

[@AlexReynard]

14:04 That frisky smile has me rolling.

[@mr.simpleee]

Bohrok were the Coolest ''Bionicle'', Such Amazing Look, Cool to display, kinda like a pet, cool to play, Its an Extraordinary Toy. The creators did an amazing job. Would be cool to make new versions, simple but complex on its own way. I wish they bring it back so I can collect them, cuz I lost all my old ones (its been more than 20ys).

[@RiksGamingChannel]

ball bug bonkles slapped, me and my twin brother still collectively have a whole set of them

[@gubbothehuggo2771]

15:06 lol at Lewa getting absolutely Yoda death sounded out of existence

[@frogamic]

This was great! I used to fight bohroks against each other, we'd put the white fangs on upside down so they stuck down and could hit the transparent eyes better to flip the krana out. I would love to see a similar video on the Spybotics franchise!

[@username6a]

My son forgot Onua's name while we were playing and he was like, "Lewa calls this black guy in for backup!"

[@fractalsliver]

Stellar video! The greatest injustice of calling Pohatu the Dirt Toa is I think that infringes on Onua's IP what with being the Toa of Earth.

[@Anton-de5vu]

I really hope you cover these dudes more

[@94miggee]

love that i guessed from the intro that the improvement was gonna be just "BALLLL"

[@FPrimusUnicron]

i only got 2 toa nuva when i was younger, onua and kopaka, i didnt fallow the story for whatever reason i WANTED the bohrok so much, it wasnt just the story, the designs of most of the bionicle s around that era were just RIGHT

[@rhaeasoul8531]

Of the clone villain sets I’ve always liked the bohrok just slightly more. I even modified a whole set of six to be able to combine without lego style partforming and be modular so each of them can form all the same combiner parts while of course keeping the ball forms.

[@justinlangiewicz975]

Lmao I like how he kicks tho. Had to have every model of "the dirt one". Even got "the bike one" 🤣

[@fishpop]

I had 4 of the 6 Bohrok as a kid, specifically Tahnok, Pahrak, Nuhvok & Lehvak. Never got Kohrak and Gahlok until after the franchise had died the first time.

[@lazylink1723]

As someone who grew up with the ignition arc, i really hope you learn to love it, lol.

[@hab0272]

I like Pohatu. He seemed a silent strong type. Had a lot of fun making bionicle villages in the garden. I like how these robots are basically tribesmen that live in the wilderness. I think it humanizes them.

[@klikkolee]

when I was a kid, I didn't really know anything about the bohrok story, but the bohrok were definitely some of my favorite toys. I never used them to knock off masks -- I probably assumed something like that either wasn't possible or wasn't good for the toys. I just liked the lunging motion. I don't think I made the connection that the rubber masks were supposed to launch. I also had original toa and toa nuva at about the same time as each other. most of the nuva masks felt really weird even back then, but kopaka nuva (which I don't think I had as a kid) has a mask that looks good.

[@graviidy]

I pray and hope that Lego bring these legends back soon in the future 🙏 Our childhood can’t be forgotten 💖

[@warmachinemkx2308]

Goddammit I'm not even a bionicle fan and now I want a bohrok