Her’s something I would like to say to the defenders of the Av-Matoran build, just because you’ve used the pieces in a moc, doesn’t mean it’s a good building system.
I apologize in advance if any of these aren’t unpopular. I haven’t been involved in the Bionicle community for many years.
Just because the G2 Toa have more articulation and were more poseable than G1 Toa doesn’t automatically make them better.
Umbra’s color scheme of Metru Green and Keetongu orange was actually pretty good. It was the silver that ruined him.
The designer of Hewkii Mahri’s mask did nothing wrong. However, the same can’t be said for whomever decided on his color scheme.
I’d go as far to say that the villains of the Stars wave were somewhat “good”. Their Av-Matoran design was obviously pretty bad, but at least they were somewhat unique. While the Skrall wasn’t exactly anyone to write home about, getting a different version is somewhat nice. We had also never gotten a proper Heat Vision Rahkshi and a bad Rahkshi is still a Rahkshi, which is pretty neat. And Nektann was a new character with a backstory, which I personally prefer greatly over a dumbed down version of an already existing Skadi, which is what we got with all three heroes. It’s actually almost impressive (in a horrifying way) how Lego designers were able to simplify Gresh’s already simple design even further for the Stars.
I never owned the mata or nuva yet I still think they look really cool. I don’t think that could be nostalgia. but it might just be my love for the atmosphere and look of 01-03 and not the actual quality of the sets.
I loved the concept of hazard-themed villains in the place of Bionicle’s traditional elements for HF’s first wave (explosive, corrosive, biohazardous, etc) to fit in with the urban city-scape environment.
The villain’s personalities overall, though arguably shallow, were a nice break from Bionicle’s overused “edgy warlord out-for-revenge and give me the mask” archetypes (by 2007, I couldn’t care less about each of the Barraki’s backstories) HF’s villains were modern, realistic and had unique goals.
Ordeal of Fire is my favourite HF episode, followed by Savage Planet.
The design of the Miru may not be dumb, but the Miru all in all…is pretty stupid. The Kadin makes it totally pointless. Why just levitate up, down or to the sides, when you could just FLY?