Whole thing kinda seems silly and yet kinda logical at the same time. I can’t decide which view I take 
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honestly when I was a kid I didn’t think about until once I thought to myself “Hey, that kind of looks like blood. Nah! Coincidence!” then moved on. It wasn’t until I started watching the recap reviews that I started thinking about it more.
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That’s funny. I never thought of it as blood… More like stain and it didn’t bother me at all.
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Well, some people always overreact.
I actually can’t remember ever thinking of it as blood - and if I had seen it as blood I probably wouldn’t have cared. Child me was way more concerened with why Pridak had red eyes in some pictures while in reality he had blue ones.
If I had thought of it as blood the story I invented together with my sister might have gone a different way, though, and Pridak might have become something resembling the true character more than, well, a ballet dancer. …thinking back most of the Barraki were kinda strange in our story…
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…did no one remember what Pridak did to Kalmah in the commercial? He cut off his tentacle! And blood came out!
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I never did notice the blood. Funny that people got mad over the Pridak markings over that.
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Blood?! Actual blood?! Quick! Call the authorities! Call all the lawyers! Sue LEGO! Get the company shut down! Something as common as blood just can’t be put into a kids toyline! The horror! /s
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Wow! I never noticed the blood!
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Is it blood, or is it ink?
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It’s blood, but if you ask them, it’s ink.
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Time to rewrite the Kalmah bs01 entry.
Kalmah, he’s got ink in him or in his tentacle bit.
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When I got Pridak, I saw it as blood. I think I even showed my parents, and they said “Gruesome” and that was about it.
When it came to him having red all over his face, I saw that as him just burying his face in the larger creature’s hide and tearing chunks out of it like a vulture.
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That’s dumb. It’s also dumb that lego has to put up with those people. Could you imagine having to be Lego’s PR manager?
I wonder if there would be less of an issue if they just reversed the colours like this, making it look more like natural markings
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I always just assumed the markings were blood no matter what Greg said. XD And I think it’s silly how worked up some people got about it. If you don’t want your kid playing with a toy that has blood on it, don’t buy it. Turning it into a scandal is silly.
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I only though of it as blood right after I read that it wasn’t supposed to be blood.
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The thing is, I never really considered blood existing in bionicle.
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I just…
So many memories…
…
Oh, right, blood.
But that short…
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I thought it was blood too back in 2007. I never got the set but it still sometimes looks like blood to me.
I got my Pridak secondhand at a garage sale and thought somebody painted blood on as a cruel joke. Turns out I was wrong. Lego you should be ashamed of all the childhood shark trauma you’ve caused!
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