It’s not that people don’t care, it’s just that it’s a more exclusive thing. I can go out and get a new Ninjago set whenever I want. Bionicle has been dead for six years, of course people are hyped about it.
I can only speak for myself, of course, but I imagine lots of people are like this: I wouldn’t normally get the sets I bought, because they’re expensive. But I’ll still build them, display them, enjoy them (unless they turn out to be really bad sets, but I doubt it). But I’m not going to say “look guys, I got Zane’s Titan mech!” It’s cool (no pun intended), but I’m not hyped for it like I am Bionicle.
I really resonate with this. I like Lego but nothing from their current themed sets is particularly interesting to me. It’ll be fun building the Ninjago set as something to do, but if we’re talking theme, I didn’t care really. I was just at the lego store for Bionicle plain and simple. It wasn’t only me while who was there with the same purpose. Two other 20-30 looking people were also there specifically for Tahu asking the clerk which random lego set would qualify for the new Bonk.
On a side note i forgot to mention. I noticed when the clerk was ringing up my items, when Tahu was scanned it rang up as $19.99 CAD before canceling to zero as a GWP.
The MSRP might actually be $19.99 CAD if we don’t consider GWP.
Got the Ninjago Dojo Temple, Zane Mech and Jay Jet for just over the GWP threshold. So now I get an entire roster of the Ninjago characters and some cool sets too.
