I may be wrong, but can’t you turn on subtitles for Netflix?
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The Disney Theory certainly is plausible. Or maybe corporate Lego just didn’t care about Bionicle, like a lot of people are saying, so they made little effort to market it. This led to people being disinterested in buying the sets, therefore leading to a lack of sales. Corporate Lego then used the poor sales from the first wave to justify cancelling Bionicle the next year and focusing on Nexo Knights.
I don’t get why they wouldn’t care, though. Bionicle saved them from bankruptcy; is there biggest, most popular IP; and, as @Lurmm said, was their most anticipated reboot.
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There are no Russian subtitles for Bionicle as to my knowledge.
The main issue here, in my opinion, is that Netflix is not as accessible as Lego YouTube channel or TV channel like Cartoon Network, for example. There’s almost no chance that some kid would accidentally find Bionicle on Netflix.
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There is one benefit to it, however, that you don’t need to wait for reruns if you missed it.
Hey we’ve been talking down to those people who seem to hate G2 and want other people to hate G2 for the past day now and surprisingly none of those people have come to argue with us.
If they do come just ignore them because they’re not worth our time.
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It also didnt help that Gen 2 had negative marketing from the elitist fans who were against the CCBS build from the start. Not sure how much it contributed to the lines end, but it surely wasnt needed a top of other issues it had with its own marketing.
Its almost like they wanted this franchise to just die rather than see it grow and evolve (both those “fans” and even LEGO to a degree).
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here is something to consider about Journey to One, it was being developed in 2015, around the time they would have made the decision to cancel g2. Ii might have been that they were planning on releasing it on Cartoon Network or something similar, but because of the poor sales they knew they would continue it thus wasting money by putting it on tv. By putting it on netflix and making it exclusive they would have been able to make some of that money back from JTO.
Basically, had bionicle sold better in 2015, we might have had JTO on tv instead of netflix.
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we still don’t know how bad or good Bionicle sold in 2015.
i mean, how can a LEGO theme sell so universaly bad that it scares LEGO to quicly cancel Bionicle as fast as possible.
If corporate Lego were not interested in Bionicle it wouldn’t happen at all.
There might be a different reason - Lego constraction itself. G1 Bionicle had massive budget, but after several year it died. No problem, might be something with the theme itself, too complicated after so many years, okay, let’s change things a little. So was HF born in 2010. First, it had a nice budget to, with titan sets, vehicles, a TV series and all that good stuff. But then, there were no longer titans, no vehicles and a cheaper TV series. Maybe that moment Lego became a little bit disappointed in their constration stuff, so budget for Bionicle G2 was not big to prevent massive losses, because big budget didn’t save G1 Bionicle after 2007 and didn’t safe HF. However, they still have Star Wars sets. Might be because the theme is more recognizable, or they still have a license for SW constraction action figures and they don’t want to lose money spent on it, or they just need something constraction before they develop a new theme to replace Bionicle again, or maybe all these things combined plus something else. Who knows.
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I think right now would be a great time to reintroduce Exo-Force. It would be the perfected joining of CCBS and System into one great line.
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But they have massive mechs in almost every series they produce already.
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Not Japanese Anime Gundam Mechs.
Im not sure LEGO deserves it.
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Yeah, Exo-Force was cool, but for now I don’t know if Lego needs it.
So it will sell bad because everyone will just see it as a rehash of all the other Mechs in Lego. Like those people who say that Bionicle G2 sold bad because people thought it looked too much like “Hero Fectery”.
Nexo Knights is a rehash of Knights Kingdoms and Tron, Ninjago a rehash of Bionicle and Mortal Kombat…so what.
Bionicle fans need to remember that everything takes influence from something, rarely is anything original today and all kinds of stories have already been told. the book “A Hero with a Thousand Faces” says it all better than I can.
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No. It will sell good if Lego promote it well. Children don’t care what it look too much like.
I mean that Lego have enough mechs in different series, so I don’t see why they would want to make a line based only on mechs. Instead they would make something redundant, like spies or adventure, underwater, space stuff…
Have to argue about that, because Nexo Knights is LEGO Systems. They already have a pre-established built infrastructure and the experience to develop another Systems TV show, having already made Ninjago and Legends of Chima. They can literally reuse assets from the other shows to use in Nexo Knights.
Bionicle, as a tv show, would have to be developed from the ground up; why they didn’t use previous studio Ghost, I’ll never know. Ghost was great in that they can use the set-style really effectively because they knew how to set up dramatic lighting and stuff and it worked well.
The design choices for JtO, while still set-style, poses a different challenge as opposed to other LEGO shows, because Toa builds and other character models would have to change each year if they continued the show and thus adding time to develop rigs for those models.
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Not to mention, the models for the characters are really complicated. They take a lot of time.
yea, if they were actually 100% on-model with the actual sets, it would’ve been faster to develop, but the artistic licenses they took definitely takes more time. And let’s not forget the masks/heads, they have to create deformations for each mask in order to display all the emotive eye-brow game they had going on. And they would have to do that with next year’s new masks if the series continued. In contrast, minifigs face animation is basically 2D imposed onto a yellow cylinder.
minus Sensei Wu whos mouth is 3D because he has a beard.