The three little words that made the return of Bionicle go from "hey, that's neat, maybe I'll buy one of those sometime if I have the money" to "I WILL OWN THEM ALL!!!" for me.

And got me from "So much win" to "Ughh, they'll need to get modded"
I never liked the gears.

That gearbox thing is a really cool idea. A lot of potential.

Not familiar with the old series, but any reason?

I never liked gimmicks that affected articulation, not even as a kid.

Ah alright. I guess I'll have to see it for myself. :)

Well, at least it was done cleverly here, they got both balljoints and the shoulder gear swivel.

Gosh darn when the first official product site launched they looked a bit more beefy which is ok, but now looking at the actual sets in hand or at least for Tahu looks like he put on some anchor arms. I can now only imagine how Onua must look like :lol

Were not talking about any of the blasters right? Because some of them were cool... My favorite being the Midak Sky blasters, moving on...


As for an actual gear gimmick I think the only one I truly liked were the Hordika arms swivel up and down because that didn't hinder anything and it was just a optional thing while keeping screen accurate look when looking at their CGI movie counter part.

Oh no, those are cool.

Yeah, the Hordika pulled it off, it existed, but it didn't affect poseability.

The Hordika arm gear most certainly did affect poseability. It made one of their elbows completely useless.

What they've done here with the new Toa is brilliant. It doesn't impact anything and adds a fun, cool feature.