They really should've continued the mask collecting for the later years, we'd have so many variations in mask molds and colours right now.

Although I am a member of the Bionicle universe, I still must point out that Ninjago has some very high-end collectibles, most notably the spinner collectibles, including multiple pieces containing spinners and accessories to simulate spinjitzu, and the flyers to simulate airjitzu. Whether or not these are better than the Bionicle masks, kraata, weapons, and projectiles, is a question for the greatest philosophers.

Bionicle is what made me love LEGO (along with Star Wars) and I agree with everything you said. I still love Ninjago though despite its flaws.

You should do a video similar to this comparing Bionicle and Hero Factory... that could be fun.

Yeah I just thought the Time Blades and especially the Reverse-Blade is probably the most powerful artifact/collectible ever in the entire show 🤔😂 I mean „If you control Time you control everything“ is so true in every sense 😱

I don’t think ninjago can ever achieve the uniqueness and world building of Bionicle, but it is a worthy successor

This is very well done. Although I have never seen Bionicle and obviously enjoy Ninjago more, the points in this video are valid and well thought out.

I think the greatest thing Ninjago has over Bionicle is how easy it is to play with their stuff. It’s a lot easier to position and play with 12 minifigures on a battlefield you made than it is to set up 12 large action figures. Especially because in a house there’s probably not enough stable and derelict space than a section of floor. Or you just have big tables. But that’s not so much a brand thing as it is system vs technic. A lot more options come with system just because of the size. I hope that made sense to anyone. Lol

I am no Bionicle fan but your love for the series really astonishes me. Only when a male is as committed to something as you are to Bionicle does he really become a MAN. A real man is measured by his passion. And, my man, you dwarf me in this aspect.

Finally someone who knows what good writing and characters are.

sigh if only the kids could learn.

Both have their positives, both have their flaws, but overall. They are both god tier themes in my OP

I honestly have absolutely Zero interest in Ninjago. Never have and never will. Bionicle on the other hand? is legitimately the ONLY toy line I had as a kid that I still want. The only one I find just as interesting, just as exciting, just as magical and awesome as I did when I was a child. Bionicle really is special and Lego should be eternally proud of what they made.

I am inclined strongly disagree with your 5th point when regarding morality. There is *a lot* of nuance in Ninjago villains. Characters are constantly straddling the sides between good and evil and that makes far less black and white that I think the video makes it out to be. Another comment already provided several examples and I agree with them all and will even offer a few more. Garmadon was mentioned in season 1-2 but he really had unbelievable depth in seasons 8-10. He's struggling with losing his humanity and his held back by it even though he doesn't want to. I think the best part of season 10 was Garmadon, where it's impossible for him to understand human emotions but he disparately wants to. Like he knows he should be feeling something but he can't and I found that amazing. And then we have Skylor and Faith, people who started out as bad guys but become good. I find Faith especially interesting because she's essentially the same character as Krika. The only difference is that Krika felt bound by loyalty/destiny and stayed with the Makuta while Faith actively made a choice to trust strangers when they offered her something better instead of staying with an evil group. We also have Akita (pretty meh character in my opinion) but even she is more complicated than just good and evil. She's a good buy but she's blinded by revenge. She actually fights Lloyd just to kill Zane which is a very interesting 3 way dynamic. Now they could have handled her better in my opinion but her grey morality is still there in this rather subpar seasons. And Haumi, man I'm not even going to bother explaining Harumi, she's like the definition of nuance. She's the poster girl for complex yet understandable villain motivation that seamlessly fits into the story. I think Ninjago does way more with the nature of evil than that point gives it credit for. There are way more instances of good characters turning bad and bad characters turning good than simple mind control or and evil force controlling them. (And even that last part has been handled with more complexity than just automatically evil. Many of these dark forces are corrupting and seductive, like the Dark Side. They will change you but you still have a choice to embrace the evil like with Kai and Chen's staff.)

But my heart lays with this opinion!

There are similarities between the characters and story of ninjago and bionicle but honestly both are also radically different. Ninjago is cool for me because it's a lighthearted lego ninja adventure with good Asian inspired builds and bionicle is just the most amazing and epic tale of robots living on a tropical island. Nothing tops bionicle in story! Ninjago is great too though for its callbacks to bionicle (I've been watching the show) and it's on its own as a funny and cool adventure. Love em both.

Although I missed the old days of Bionicle, and still has Matoro with me to this day, I think Ninjago is still great and is the first non-bionicle Lego set I got, both series just bring nostalgia man

well said, you made a lot of really good points on what makes bionicle better than ninjago

13:30 "You never see the Toa lose their mask powers or elemental powers" uh, the Toa Nuva lost their elemental powers fighting the Bohrok-Kal, the Toa Hordika lost their elemental and mask powers after being transformed by the Visorak

Where'd you get that story bible at 13:13 from?

I know there is many people in the comments that enjoy Ninjago more than Bionicle, and that's fine. However after the time twins arc, I kind of fell out of interest for Ninjago. As well as outliving its replacement lines like Legends of China and Nexo Knights. Both lines that I enjoy, but sadly came to an end. Lego seems to really want to discontinue it, but didn't because it was too popular to kids. However, after looking at some of the recent arcs, shows that the line has been dragging on longer than it originally can handle. Although it doesn't become too complex like Bionicle, remaining light hearted and having a simple plot for kids to follow, but the recent arcs rarely connect to one another, plot points usually get dropped and characters seem to rarely grow throughout the series. It seems that the story tone and characters have sort of became stagnated after the Airjutisu Arc. The most baffling part of the show to be is that despite having the characters as minifigures, there is no Lego bricks seen anywhere in the show. Not even their vehicles or buildings show any sign of being made of Lego pieces. They don't have to be everywhere, but it kind of funny that this world have minifigures to inhabit it, but has no a Lego bricks that the minifigures can interact with, nor doing something creative. Then again, that's probably something that only bothers me. The Ninja also gets nerfed in almost every arc by stripping them of their elemental powers through other means like magic or realm hopping. Now, I know you are typing on the comment section, saying I'm biased, and you maybe right. I'm just sharing on what's on my mind on why Ninjago doesn't seem to grow on me anymore. Anyway, nice video bringing going up many points on why I probably zoning out of Ninjago after a while. Because the line doesn't have a lasting impact like Bionicle have.

I honestly do agree with some points in this video like the point about playing with the sets is very limited because of the restricted story

Toa matoro Mahri/Inika Rest in Peace. 15:20

In my opinion, Ninjago's prime year was the Serpentine. That one had actual character development and some pretty high stakes too. Plus, the Serpentine were just awesome! Bionicle is still superior though.

Shouldn’t Jala’s revivial of revived Lhikan? Since it was he’s mask and just the mask was left or was their some other context I forgot?

i saw the title and i was already on board

I think in 2010 bionicle got split in 2 lines - hero factory and ninjago. So hero factory upgraded the sets and Ninjago the story. Sadly, only one survived to this day.

1 reason why bionicle is better than ninjago: because it is.

I really love both; the different is the piece, I love more technic

you know what Ninjago should do in a modern season have an astronomer (I can't believe there isn't one yet), who spots a distant planet with moons and some cosmic clouds and the planet shoots 6 objects towards Ninjago eventually found out, to be mask cue the Ninjago, Bionicle crossover (and Chima if they want to, since Ninjago and Chima share the same world)

theres only 10?

I may love Bionicle and Ninjago equally but your 10 reason why it's better than Ninjago are so good, it hurts.

Bionicle has plenty of Toa and possibly more Makuta.

One has transcended the lego medium itself due to their design, and is more than just a Toy even to general audiences, while Ninjago will always be seen as Lego toys and its medium will never transcend that of being associated with Lego due to the iconic look of Minifigures

I've always been a Bionicle fan, but only recently did I get into watching Ninjago. It's sometimes a hit or miss, but I think it rightfully deserves its spot as Bionicle's torch carrier. Still my second favorite theme.

i can remind you that the ghost cole also appeared in Lloyd’s nrg dragon

2:06 kinda funny when you consider that this videos script was written by Greg Farshtey

obvious Bionicle fan here, while i do mostly agree with your points the two i disagree with are the following. 1) while ninjago's consistent cast of 6 limits the story, it's better for brand identity. seeing the same consistent characters makes it so casuals and non fans can easily recognize the series it came from. its why every pokemon anime stars ash and pikachu, just put those characters on a blank page with no show logo and you know where they're from. if next season it was a brand new never before seen creature on some other random kid's shoulder, if the name of the show wasn't above his head no one would know what they were looking at. if they retired ash as a character and made the next anime about a new trainer who also has a pikachu, that'd work however, but it's still on some level a risk. translate this to bionicle, year 1-4 there was at least one red charcter with a hau, a hau was used on a ton of promo material. hordika phase out any hau users and ignition trillogy makes the ignika the new mask in the promos. even tahu's return doesn't even have a hau shaped mask. doing that took a hit to brand recognition built in the first 4 years, and relies on only name and recent iconography. ninjago's approach is less exciting, but safer. 2) having a TV show that's the central piece of canon was a good choice. if you're a new fan, catching up is as simple as bing watching on netflix. Bionicle wasn't as centralized thus having a starting point to follow through end is hard for new fans, even outside of fan guides. Closest thing to a centralized comprehensive story (outside the novels, which can't be the main source BC no one reads books) were the comics but they aren't fully comprehensive of key elements (like skipping Takanuva VS Makuta and saying "watch the film") and they didn't have an accessible backlog at all times. The website often removed older issues and reprints of the trade issues weren't until the end. In fact, it's easy to forget that MNOG was hidden and then straight up removed, making the true starting point lost until fan distribution. I'd say lego's treatment towards bionicle's legacy story content was more instrumental in franchise decline than narrative complexity. Ninjago treats both as a problem, for better and worst.

Reason 11: Movie scores by Nathan Furst are based af

I love how this is a top ten list, which implies that there are many more.

Only 10 reasons, you sure are going easy on Ninjago.

Idc if Greg says love isn’t canon, there’s something called Death of the Author, meaning if the writers word actively contradicts what’s actually written then it doesn’t matter, Hewkii and Macku was written as a romance, so saying “love isn’t canon” doesn’t matter

Actually for the Ninja losing their elemental powers for the Ghost Season, it makes sense. In the Stone Army Season the Ninja find the Temple of Light and through a ritual give some of their power to help Lloyd unlock his Golden Power, eventually the Ninja decide they need their powers back as the ELemental Blades acted as a substitute, but the Ninja don't have them anymore (You can definitly criticize that nonsense.) ANyway they basically reverse the ritual and Lloyd gives the Ninja back their powers, yet I think this then established Lloyd as basically tied to each of the Ninja, so when Morro possesed Lloys this messed up their connection to him and they lost their powers until Lloyd was unpossesed. THe Golden Weapons acted as like a crutch, it allowed the Ninja to use their powers easily, as we see the Golden Weapons can allow anyone to use their elements. THe Ninja just made use of them so much they naver learned to use their natural power, they were like this until they got the ELemental Blades and lost their pwoers to Lloyd, the Blades acted as a new source, then in rebooted they got them back, and with no elemental weapons this tiem the Ninja actually used the powers themselves, and weaponswere still used but largely due to them still being ninja, and it meant they could fight an not always needign to rely on SPinjitsu or powers. But yah it got realy bad when powers and abiities were just randomly dropped like Airjitsu and the Elemental Dragons.

honestly can't argue with that

Why Bionicle is better then Ninjago? 1. Bionicle is Bionicle. 2. Ninjago is not Bionicle. It's that simple.

I also like Bionicle as much as everyone does but I also like other Lego themes like Chima and Mixels

a video on things that g2 did better than g1 would be interesting

I remember building a Bionicle transformer when I was a kid.

coming back after seabound, im hoping that the nya sacrifice stays just so we finally have actual stakes

Bionicles rules, wish they didn’t discontinue, the lore and action toys are siiiiiick

I miss you matoro! 5:27

I like Ninjago a little bit better personally. It was a bigger part of my childhood. I also like the sets better because Bionicle sets are fragile sometimes. Still. Bionicle is a close second.

Well, Bionicle is obviously better than Ninjago because it’s the first them to have a lot of media that tell it’s story, which feels like an actual story, and the heroes take things seriously. Plus, there is more than one character who has an elemental power rather than one character.

Duckbricks I know Lego sends you sets early for review so I know you have a really good relationship with them. Is there any way you can ensure a Bionicles reboot sometime that reboots the original story that started in 2001 incorporating alternate universes and time travel? That’s my dream!!!! Well it’s one of my ultimate dreams!!! And if so can you ensure the Lego pieces are like bionicles used to be made from in 2006 2007 and 2008? I feel that those joints and pieces were the perfect design!!!

I’m trying to get the titan and vehicle sets for bionicle

They're both equal in my opinion

number 11 JUST BETTER SETS

Can't wait for the upcoming Ninjago Mahri

Bionicles IS better than Ninjago, I’m not trashing on ninjago but it’s just facts.

Nooooooooo not evil venom from an evil snake pls

In the season 14 or in15 ninjago should have one of the realms be bionicle that would be cool

All agreed. Also i have sets from both themes. Ninjago i have more but i feel Bionicle is just better. Nexo knights or Chima can easily beat both of those.

i think love isn't canon is 1 of reason why bionicle is better than ninjago,because since ninjago season 11 sometimes there is a shipwar between harumi x lloyd and lloyd x akita and sometimes make ninjago fandom become a toxic fandom,and because love isn't canon in bionicle so bionicle fandom isn't toxic because a shipwar

ninjago is for kids, bionicle was for us geeks.

LEGO Bionicle & HERO Factory what made these very Brief but Significant Group of Fans from 2001 to 2014 that really Saved LEGO when LEGO really needed help to Survive! No offence , but Ninjago seems to be made for the target audience of Children , so have not own a single Ninjago piece until today! My most Precious LEGO Sets would be the Bionicle Piraka Gang & the Toas from the Mata Nui , Voya Nui & Mahri & Preston Stormer , Evo & Furno from the HERO Factory! >>> 🌷🌿🌍💖🇩🇰

Both Bionicle and Ninjago are good. Just love the mask collection and each new piece for each wave.

What I like most about Ninjago's story (and what elevates it above Bionicle in my eyes) is that it doesn't take itself to seriously. Bionicle's melodrama gets a bit grating after a while.

What about 5 thinks what ninjago did better now?

For most, it’s a no brainier that Bionicle is better than Ninjago…

I think both are great

These are very good reasons.

I love Ninjago and don't know much about Bionicle yet I agree with this.

you have a Point on all these

I enjoy Ninjago sets but yikes does ninjago have problems

This is mostly right, but some of this stuff just feels bias. I am a Bionicle fan and Ninjago one. Ninjago does have progression, and just making everything canon is not smart and Bionicle's lore is a reason it was cancelled. Ninjago is smart as it's easy to keep up with the story.

Is funny how this video has very few dislikes but I’ve seen videos that are the opposite saying that ninjago is better than bionicle and those have tons of dislikes, lol The toxicity of the community 🤷‍♂️

Both is good

Tahu=Kai Matoro=Zane Matau=Jay Mata Nui (Great Spirit)=First Spinjitzu Master Vakama, Mata Nui reborn= Sensei Wu Nokama=Misako Takua/Takanuva=Lloyd Garmadon MakutaTeridax (Spirit of Destruction)=Lord Garmadon Makuta Teridax (Master of Shadows)=Overlord Makuta Infection=Dark Mass Metru Nui=Ninjago City Colosseum=Borg Tower Hahli=Nya Rahi Nui=Grundal Krahka=Skylar Vahki=Nindroids Roodaka & Sidorak=Chen & Clouse Piraka/Zaktan=Sky Pirates/Nadhakan Toa Inika=Ninja Replacement Team Barraki=Time Twins Skrall=Dragon Hunters Golden Masks=Golden Weapons Shadow Toa=Shadow Kai Golden Armor=Golden Weapons 2.0 Great Spirit Teridax=Oni Titan Zivon=Preeminent Brotherhood of Makuta=Sons of Garmadon/Oni

I disagree with the affordability of the characters, because many sets include multiple main characters and to have the full Bionicle main cast each wave would be like 60 dollars a year, without any villain's to play with on the side. Buying each separately adds up over time, and the lack of opponents would make for dull play, unless you spend EVEN MORE money.

I like ninjago but this video is spitting fact honestly ranking this three Lego show’s by darkness and machete Bionic is the most machete then Moinke Kid and then Ninjago

He has a point do

I also don’t want to play with little yellow figures. I want COOL SHIT.

i like ninjago but its true :c i need to read the bionicle comics not watching past the spoiler warning sorry good video

Silly fool bionicle has always been better than ninjago

I have olny one issue with this vid the collectebles masks those are all masks

Honestly in march of the oni cole should have died OR in Crystalized master Wu should have died

The ninjago characters do age and it shows that esspecially in season 9 with master wu and Lloyd is shown to change in season 8 when he seems to reach puberty

Bruh i know this was before buy what about sea-bound and zanes sacrafice

Only 10 reasons?

Bionicle is better for newcomers. OG ninja go is the only thing that comes close or rivals bionicle. I’d argue they’re equals in a sense.

You for got the most importante thing: bionicle save lego from bankrupt

Unlike Ninjago, which should have lasted 4 years max, Bionicle got an actual plot and solid lore. That’s all you need to know

Fax

Ninjago was just the favorite in the family

Ninjago is better because of pyro whipper

I think Ninjago is better because the characters have more depth, the story is consistent, it has great world building and the sets have great prices. Also I think its a bit unfair to compare ninjago and bionicle, bionicle had books,comics,movies and games, ninjago just has a show

its the best thing lego ever produced

Ninjago is better Bionicles is bad my unbiased opinion

i haven't been interested in ninjago anyway, so i can agree with this.

Yo yo Piraka!