Lego Bionicle Review: 2002 Nuparu's Boxor Set and Lore

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Жыл бұрын

Today we're looking at Nuparu's Boxor, a Bionicle set released back in 2002! It's the first and only boxed set to include a Tohunga character, and has some disturbing lore surrounding it... #bionicle #lego #review

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@ReeksofChees3 Жыл бұрын

Nuparu was able to build this in a cave! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!!!!!

@grishy8203 Жыл бұрын

Well I'm sorry... I'm not Nuparu

@jameswalker199 11 ай бұрын

I was about to ask if this joke had been done yet

@VortexKiller2 3 ай бұрын

The Iron Man of Bionicle

@The_sniper1954 2 ай бұрын

And a corpse

@maccaebus Жыл бұрын

I did not know seeing Nuparu Mahri sitting inside a Boxor was a thing I needed to see until I saw it. Thank you, that was amazing.

@brickthumb Жыл бұрын

No problem :p Thanks for watching!

@gregorius9251 Жыл бұрын

I think that the Bohrok parts changed their color due to the Bohrok losing its elemental power.

@jayc6894 Жыл бұрын

this was my first set ever, great to see you covering it! it's still on my shelf and its rubber bands are somehow still alive

@brickthumb Жыл бұрын

Nice! Glad your rubber bands are alive. Some of mine have become a bit saggy, and the Turaga ones especially seem to be a different kind of rubber that just doesnt last :(

@ToaArcan 8 ай бұрын

I was once part of an RP scene where the person playing Nuparu explained the Matoran arm on the back of the mech, and Nuparu's own weirdness with his arms, by saying that Nuparu used _his own left arm_ as a structural support and cobbled together a slightly janky prosthesis from spare parts to replace it. I ended up giving my Toa Nuparu MOC a mismatched left arm because of it. I need to rebuild that guy at some point, scrapped him for parts a bit ago.

@brickthumb 8 ай бұрын

Haha, I can't believe I've never made that connection before. That's an amazing theory!

@Pandre8 Жыл бұрын

I love this set, and your silver Boxor is just beautiful thanks for your sharing this amazing content.

@brickthumb Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching :)

@dashmaddox Жыл бұрын

Silver boxor was very cool to see, but what if the other matoran built their own different colored/elemental boxor-like mechs based off the other 5 bohrok breeds? Would be very interested to see you tackle a video like that some day. Maybe the boxor “hooks” would differ between builds. Keep it up. 🤙🏼

@jondoesit1240 Жыл бұрын

I love these kind of bionicle sets that have really neat technic designs with moving parts. Keep up the great vids!

@brickthumb Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the engineering on some of the early sets is really outstanding! I feel some of the clever design elements were sadly lost on later sets. Thanks for watching :)

@VezonSympathizer Жыл бұрын

Yo love this format with the lore added on. Keep it coming!😊

@brickthumb Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, glad you're enjoying. More to come!

@anthonydiecidue7916 5 ай бұрын

Would be really cool to see the Makuta Tohunga with the Infected Hau sitting in the silver Boxor

@87583 11 ай бұрын

I’ve put it together. He welded and cut apart pieces from the gahlok to make Gali hooks and he threw his disk at another matoran to get that extra arm piece.

@LucasHinojos Жыл бұрын

Love seeing more Bionicle content creators out there. Your videos are great!

@brickthumb Жыл бұрын

Thanks, comments like this mean a lot. Thanks for watching! :)

@cecillewolters1995 Жыл бұрын

I’m subscribing for all your content mate, not just Bionicle ;) I love how you casually show a silver Boxor and big Nupaaru sitting in his old invention xD

@brickthumb Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching ;) I wonder how the Barakki would react if Mahri Nuparu just rocked up in the boxor? Lol.

@chuckschwa Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite bionicle sets! Another lego set that has a similar color scheme from around the same time is the Kek Powerizer from Galidor. I always imagined that the alternate builds was used for swamp traversal. Not sure why Nuparu had 2 disc throwing arms, I suppose he was just "built differently". Although he ended up getting a very powerful boxing arm, 2 in fact, with his invention!

@brickthumb Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, I forgot about Galidor! Yeah, the Kek Powerizer has a very similar color scheme. What a strange series that was...

@dylanconstantine9947 Жыл бұрын

Your content is excellent, hits me in the nostalgia every video. Would love to see you cover the Toa Metru!

@brickthumb Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I will definitely be doing the Metru at some point in the near future :)

@VortexKiller2 3 ай бұрын

I got this today and I love it! Would love to give it so wheels or treads to make it a true mech

@novimon2482 Жыл бұрын

My personal theory on the color change is that boric corpse wood eventually lose its color and turn into a husk

@colinroberts2060 Жыл бұрын

Oddly enough, the black Tohunga punching arms appeared in the Technic Super Battle Droid (8012) roughly a month before this was released, and along with the orange Bohrok head beams, also appeared in a "Parts tub" (8713) from 2005. Aside from the Exo-Toa, the old dark gray "Voodoo Hooks" from Gali first appeared in a "Drome Racers" set (8468) five months before and appeared in another set from that theme (8371) in early 2003. This was also the final standard set to have Technic 3x3 lever and cross block in orange.

@brickthumb Жыл бұрын

Ah, the Technic super Battle Droid...I got really excited when I found it has the Toa foot in metallic blue, thinking I could make a cool metallic blue Toa. Alas...very few other parts exist in that colour, and most come from that one set!

@colinroberts2060 Жыл бұрын

@@brickthumb Metallic sand blue is a fairly rare color, with only 26 elements being produced in it in total. Many of them are Technic parts-which were all exclusive to the Super Battle Droid (8012), though a minifigure of one appeared in the first version of the Republic Gunship (7163) released concurrently. These would have been the only places where parts in that color appeared, but one of the constraction-scale figures from the Knights' Kingdom II theme (8794) had armor and a sword in that color, and five other sets (8778, 8780, 8781, 8799 and 8801) from that theme also had a minifigure-scale sword in that color.

@SonicJrandSarah Жыл бұрын

I remember that when I searched "Boxer" on Google, the results I got were the dog called "Boxer". It is hard to believe that the Matoran included in this set became a Toa in later years.

@soft8oiled Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing ads for this in a toy magazine😅

@SpinnyPerson Жыл бұрын

Nice video

@BadAssXerx3 Жыл бұрын

looks cool, never had it, but I think I could make a Boxor with spareparts

@antigrav6004 Жыл бұрын

I confess, I called toys r us regularly to find out if this one was gwtting stocked

@brickthumb Жыл бұрын

It was definitely one to get excited for! Did you manage to get one in the end?

@Nailfut Жыл бұрын

Boxors are maybe creepier Evangelions

@dimitrithewhovian 5 ай бұрын

Where did they say bohrok were matorans? I never found any website which says that

@SuperSecretBricks 5 ай бұрын

"The Great Beings destined a percentage of Av-Matoran to transform into Bohrok at a certain point in their lives" -- Biosector01, Bohrok wiki page

@austinhinton3944 Жыл бұрын

Since the Bohrok are themselves basically an exosuit for the Krana I don't think there is quite the same moral quandary.

@evgenyransky3545 Жыл бұрын

This is true, except for the fact that the Borak exosuit are actually the transformed bodies of dead AV Matoran. I love this creepy moments from Bionicle lore

@austinhinton3944 Жыл бұрын

@@evgenyransky3545 I just assumed the mechanical parts of their body are recycled. No different than how we used to use mammoth bone and skin to make huts. Or alters of human bone.

@sillywilly6999 Жыл бұрын

@@evgenyransky3545 wait so nuparu made a mech from another matoran's corpse ?