cough yes I’m milking this post for all that it’s worth yet again
So with that block as context… Why is nobody supporting LEGO Ideas projects that will either bring Bionicle back or pay respect to the good ol’ days?
Because many of these projects simply aren’t Bionicle to a lot of people.
The individualized, uniquely-experienced adventures of tens of thousands of kids playing with action figures across the entire world don’t all look like this:
And to be honest, I haven’t and probably never will vote for this project. It’s entirely unappealing to me, and the designs don’t, in my opinion, do a very good job of portraying any of the characters.
The Bionicle head statue is a different case, as it very accurately portrays a rather nostalgic piece in the original sets. But this model doesn’t target the younger Bionicle demographic, but the older one, the one which would most likely want to spend a good amount of money for a collectible bust from their favorite toy line.
And, like Chronicler said, most of those people have matured and moved on, viewing Bionicle in the mindset of it being a fun and fond experience from their childhood which keeps popping up every now and then. The ones that are left are very stingy about what is and isn’t Bionicle, universally dunking on the admittedly acceptable and sometimes downright superior (just my opinion) Generation 2 as not being really Bionicle for whatever reason.
It’s a miracle 10,000 Bionicle fans agreed on any Bionicle project, much less two in a row.
As for me, I would like to see Bionicle come back, but the only way it can do that acceptably is to defy the preferences of almost every Bionicle fan. System? I can name ten different old fogies in the community with prominence to their names disgusted at the concept. And so it’s difficult to believe any LEGO Ideas project centered around Bionicle with something as controversial as a new take on the theme will get anywhere with voters and much less so with the LEGO company itself, who knows the Bionicle community better than anyone.
The only one that stood a reasonable chance was Axelford’s GSR.