Yes, but G2 didn’t flop because it was a fresh start. It flopped because it was barely marketed, received a lot of interference from higher-ups*, and because its story was presented incredibly poorly. I have plenty of personal gripes about G2’s story, but the core concept was solid, objectively speaking. It could have worked if it had been handled with more care and allowed to live up to its potential. Hopefully a G3 that took the same approach (a brand new story) wouldn’t suffer the same internal sabotage.
*This is admittedly speculation on my part, based on the dissonance between the unbridled enthusiasm of the set designers and concept artists and the lacklustre, unmotivated presentation of the story. It just seems to me like the Bionicle G2 team were passionate about the project and wanted it to be as grand in scale as its predecessor, but were forced to tone it down so much that it completely lost its spark
@TTheLus Hard disagree on the sets. They all had their flaws, of course, but almost all the G2 sets were excellent, IMO.
Everything else though? Yeah, exactly.
Edited for Double Post - BioKnight