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LEGO was high off of the success of The LEGO Movie and Ninjago. BIONICLE failed because of their hubris and greed. They wanted bare minimum effort and high profits, like most companies nowadays. If BIONICLE had split off from LEGO, it would probably still exist in a niche like Transformers does. Furthermore, it would have pivoted to adult collectors primarily without unrealistic sales expectations.

The problem is that means no CCBS.

@@charziz6693 That would be too good to be true.

They would have eventually made CCBS anyway. It is pretty much the perfect evolution of the non-specialized Inika build system. You would have seen the same multi-faceted skeletal structure, but the shells would have been more specialized and technic would have likely also played a big role like with the Uniters. For all intents and purposes, the CCBS BIONICLE sets are better than the Inika builds, and the plastic quality was top notch. With the Inika system sets eventually became too homogenous, this is a problem the CCBS BIONICLE sets avoided well.

Another W take. God, it'd have been great to have that split company still...

don't forget the 10th failed attempt to be modern by shoehorning technology into shallow lego themes\

Yep

While I do agree a bit (okay, a LOT) more variety would be nice...I also wonder if they can't use this brick-focused era to translate Classic System's greatest strength, its versatility, into constraction. I'm sort of reminded of your (2nd) Technic video, and how that system evolved from bricks with functions into its own thing with its own pieces that can still build and interact with "classic" LEGO while the original, brick-related Technic were incorporated into System and its play patterns, and I'm kinda hoping the current SCCBS mechs and creatures will evolve into that: their own independent but creative constraction system while the early "bricky" pieces remain in the mechs and creatures of "classic" system. In hindsight, most non-brick constraction so far have had to struggle with being as versatile and creative as System or Technic: Galidor, while not as awful as people tend do to remember (if the quantity of MOCs is any indication), was still clearly limited by highly specialized pieces and very little connectivity with classic LEGO; the Technic-based themes like Slizers or G1 BIONICLE were much better at construction but also started to rely too much on specialized pieces as time went on and the omnipresent pistons and greebles made organic characters difficult to portray; CCBS was probably closest to a good contraction system, but was still too polished for organic beings, the torsos made non-humanoids difficult and it probably could use some more connections and interactivity between their own pieces, let alone other systems (I mean, just 2 pin holes for each shell, and most details bigger than a spike fill both of them?).

Nah, I wholeheartedly disagree. Being different from bricks doesn't make it "not-LEGO". And I don't think it was an accident, either. It was unique but some very talented people worked and researched very hard to make it. 😉

I think he meant it by all the talented people worked on it and were passionate for it not because it was lego but because they were passionate project itself regardless if it was lego. Lego essentially funded a ton of creative people to do their thing because they needed the money and it was successful@@AlVainactual

They tried in 2015 and failed miserably.

maybe at the time but I can quite easliy see a future where fabers "faber coins" were konohi masks and it makes me sick.

@@amymorgan886well the idea of a Games Workshop style Bionicle Company dedicated to the story and sets akin to Gunpla meets 40K unrestrained by Lego is very appealing and we would have never had to keep the fandom alive to the extent we have but I agree that could have happened. Hopefully the hypothetical backlash would have gotten them to stop

If they make a deep lore not children friendly story.... when I was a child i was interested by the deep mature lore in the first place...

Me too.

bionicle g3 I hope, ten years since G2

Well, there's big "ifs" in that. First of all, it's a rumor. Secondly, the only "confirmation" we got is a survey talking about Bionicle clothes being considered. I wanna hope but I ain't keepin hopes up

they pretty much cut support for them once they didn't need them anymore. Feel like if they had more confidence in bionicle and understood the popularity would go up and down there could still be a successful constraction theme today.

There definitely were, and honestly ARE, a group of core people at LEGO then and now that absolutely despise Bionicle, especially that it practically saved LEGO! It's a real shame as I wish they would at least give it the respect that it honestly deserves as LEGO would essentially be nonexistent at this point were it not for Bionicle.

Actually Star Wars isn’t a toy property but a film franchise that’s had a toy line since the beginning.

​@@RetroActionUK Personally I consider Star Wars a Multimedia franchise like DC or marvel that happened to start off as a film series.

@@grandon183 agreed

Easy make your own brand look at space king animation it a satire of Warhammer 40K they are making lots of money now they making more episodes as a independence studio.

Well true but I was thinking more along the lines of a major fan film. Although some are bad there are those that have a lot of care in them. But how is it not copyright violating?

Mark my words if I become rich I'm buying Bionicle and finishing the OG story

Nah my dude, I remember that set. That’s the way it was designed. :)

@@will_tzu My goodness. You are right. I should have checked. I guess I had it built wrong all these years.

Rascus's armor plates are deliberately asymmetric to express how he's supposed to be the unpredictable one.