Well, we get new Constraction MOCs every day posted on this site that have little to no connection to Bionicle or HF, so I don’t see why some of those MOCs shouldn’t be submitted.
That’s kinda what I meant.
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I need this.
Good luck finding 10,000 supporters, but I would probably be one of them.
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the closest thing I could find was this.
That is a pretty lame MOC to be honest. We need one worthy of the title.
I did find this on the depths of the boards.
Probably not
Even though LEGO allows ideas of their existing IPs to be part of the program, there’s no way that they’re going to revive one of their old ones based on an Ideas project. I don’t even think they’d use an Ideas project to gauge interest. Constraction is pretty dead, and the only way BIONICLE will return is if it gets rebooted into a system theme, but with all the similarities between it and NinjaGo, there’s not really a valid reason to do so.
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Ahahahahaha.
Ahaha.
No.
At best you could get TTV to talk about it, but support it? even the massive amount of coverage RSG was getting doesn’t count as an endorsement. There’s a greater chance that LEGO will buy the rights to produce Brickonicle from TTV than there is of TTV endorsing a set concept on LEGO Ideas with their support.[quote=“prentice1215, post:16, topic:49772”]
Constraction is pretty dead, and the only way BIONICLE will return is if it gets rebooted into a system theme, but with all the similarities between it and NinjaGo, there’s not really a valid reason to do so.
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LEGO could always make a movie, but that has the chance to just tick off the entirety of the fanbase. And plus, a LEO Ideas project is one set, so even if something constraction got through, it’d only be for one set.
And technically, with the release of the Exo Suit, that’s what we got.
There have been plenty of Construction Ideas projects. Most of them are incredibly poorly built. And the few that are well done have been lucky to even make it to 100 supporters.
Here’s some fun facts. There are about 200 projects now that have generated enough supporters to make it to the Lego review stage. To keep it simple, we’ll keep it at 200. Now of those 200 projects, around 39 of them have been original or non-licensed ideas. So if your project is not based on an existing property, you have less than a 20% chance of it getting all the support you need.
Then you look at the sets that actually made it. Of the 29 that have made it all the way into the set stage, only 9 of them were of those original ideas. So even if you made it to the review stage, you have a 31% chance of becoming a set.
And if you look at something like the Pop-Up Book set, the creators of it have hundreds of thousands of subscribers to their Youtube channel. If I recall correctly, their video got over a hundred thousand views at minimum within the first week of announcing their project to their subscribers. They could have gained all the support it needed within 24 hours, a week no less! It took months. Months for it to gain the support it need. Three to four months for someone with enough advertisement and viewership to get it all within a week’s time. Even in Constraction’s best hopes and dreams it would not stand a chance.
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Which in itself is very small since Brickonicle is BIONICLE fanfiction and LEGO still holds the rights to 99.9% of the characters minus Voriki.
LEGO could blatantly rip off every Brickonicle concept created either by the Brainstorm Podcast or people like Sokoda and they’d win any sort of copyright infringement case presented to them if by some miracle it even went to trial and wasn’t thrown out or settled out of court first.
So yeah, more evidence to support LEGO Ideas not going to be what revives constraction. 
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Why not? Everyone wants Constraction to return in some way, shape or form, so I don’t see why TTV wouldn’t do what they can to help. Heck, maybe you could convince Ven to be the one to make the MOC for the project.
I mean seriously, a LEGO Ideas Project has a much higher chance of happening than Brickonikle or whatever other fan project people are trying to pitch to LEGO. [quote=“prentice1215, post:16, topic:49772”]
Constraction is pretty dead,
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Well, that is the thing. Though it might be dead in LEGO’s eyes, it’s certainly not dead among the fans of it.
So yeah, maybe try to submit a Licensed MOC such as that Sauron, and if it gets the support it needs, LEGO would have no reason to not make it. It might not be Bionicle, but hey, it might be the only way we could keep constraction alive.[quote=“prentice1215, post:19, topic:49772”]
So yeah, more evidence to support LEGO Ideas not going to be what revives constraction
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The true question is… Has been any large scale, true project worthy of being submitted? From I saw, not really. So we can’t make assumptions before we even tried it. If we make the project, gather all the support it needs, and still fail miserably, than only then we will be able to say that.
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Hahahahahaha no. That’s not how it works.
Ven probably wants constraction to come back in some way, shape, or form. But the likelihood that it will occur via him aligning TTV with whatever fan concept exists is extremely low to the point that it’s by no means worth bothering.
Maybe somehow I could convince Ven to do that. But there’s no way I’m successfully convincing everyone else in TTV to go along with it. Not to say that Ven would be easy to manipulate for whatever constraction-related purpose (or anything really), but one person < however many people are actually on the cast I can’t keep track anymore.[quote=“LegoDavid, post:20, topic:49772”]
I mean seriously, a LEGO Ideas Project has a much higher chance of happening than Brickonikle or whatever other fan project people are trying to pitch to LEGO.
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On the contrary, Brickonicle has a higher chance. Why? Because it’s introducing a new concept to the fanbase and possibly even to the designers, to have minifigure versions of their favorite heroes in their favorite theme. It’s showing that people still want Bionicle even if it isn’t constraction, but since Bionicle is constraction by nature, it’s bound to show up somewhere if the theme were to make a system return.
LEGO Ideas is a collection of very specific suggestions. And there’s already Bionicle projects on there and when it was LEGO CUUSOO that have gone absolutely nowhere. And I’ve supported them.[quote=“LegoDavid, post:20, topic:49772”]
So yeah, maybe try to submit a Licensed MOC such as that Sauron, and if it gets the support it needs, LEGO would have no reason to not make it.
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Well they aren’t exactly making LotR sets nor have they shown any sign of having a current contract with the franchise…[quote=“LegoDavid, post:20, topic:49772”]
The true question is… Has been any large scale, true project worthy of being submitted? From I saw, not really. So we can’t make assumptions before we even tried it. If we make the project, gather all the support it needs, and still fail miserably, than only then we will be able to say that.
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We don’t need a project to bring back Bionicle. We need a love letter to LEGO showing we still do deeply care and are passionate about the theme, and somehow convince them it won’t bomb so hard like G2 did just because it wasn’t dad’s Bionicle.
But the community is still so divided that probably won’t happen for a while.
I think the official rules of Lego ideas prevent ideas based on current or previous themes.
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The question is, does LEGO even care about our deep love and passion? I don’t think they would listen to either of us’ letter, no matter how good it is. Faber is currently the only one who I think would be actually capable of doing so.[quote=“Kardax, post:22, topic:49772, full:true”]
I think the official rules of Lego ideas prevent ideas based on current or previous themes
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Again, it doesn’t necessarily have to be Bionicle. It could be anything as long as It’s constraction.
The thing is though, it doesn’t have to be constraction, it can be any theme and then have constraction be worked into it.
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As long as It’s main purpose is to promote constraction, I am all for it.
Except he’s making a business deal, not a love letter. If he’s even interacting with them at all.
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Yeah, but their interest is business, not love letters. So in that case, Faber has the highest change of succeeding.
I think you’re missing the point, any theme can have constraction, so what theme will bring it back?
A knights theme, a robots theme, a mech them, a monster theme? Any of these could have constraction but what’s the incentive to use it?
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