United by Duty, bound by Destiny

Sir, that's my emotional support impulse purchase.

[kopakaskoolkompanion]

[shinramakoreactor]

[tempelbeast]

The Doom Viper.

[griscuitsandbavy]

aaaaaaand dirt

[steel-angel]

Bionicles really be like,

"Damn, I have too many if these pieces, I'm going to look for an excuse to use them on anything because I'm just tired of how useless they've been"

..Only for a month to pass and every bionicle you make needs only that exact piece after you already used them all to make something absolutely silly

On a totally unrelated note, I gave good guy a gun

[bagea]

finished this one too recently, hes a toa of ice named Mahkiho with a dubious moral compass

[tiredspacedragon]

Stealth Mode activated

[vgbugs]

Visorak from Bionicle Heroes? There's some other ougs but I don't think they have names

Visorak - BIONICLE Heroes

4-legged biomechanical spiders with massive, stag beetle-like mandibles. Each of them can launch a spinning projectile from its back.

Lorewise these spiders were designed by the Great Beings to trap other beings in cocoons to keep them in stasis, but they were militarized by the Makuta (kind of like the angels of the setting, whose job was to create other beings, but they've since deviated from the Great Beings' plan) and later corrupted by the machinations of Sidorak and Roodaka, causing them to horribly mutate others with their venom.

I have no idea what they're doing on Voya Nui in the context of BIONICLE Heroes specifically though. Lots of characters who have no business being there show up, like Sidorak and Roodaka themselves.

I tried taking some of my own screenshots for this but the bloom was crazy and it ran like ass cause the game wasn't designed for Win11 PCs in 2026. This game also had a GBA port that was just a different game, as was customary at the time with some titles.

I got a fun fact about the Keelerak, the green one.

For context, BIONICLE was a Lego toy-line and these guys were released during what I'll call Season 4. While lime-green parts were nothing unusual, ones with ball sockets were new at this time. Later on, during Season 6, they came back, but apparently due to some mixing error with the dye, lime-green parts were extremely brittle and while in later "seasons" this was fixed, now EVERY part was more brittle than before.

As such, Keelerak were the only way to get non-brittle versions of lime-green socket parts, namely the "long thigh" and "hand" parts.

[kopakaskoolkompanion]

Misinformation! Joints did not break due to a "brittle" nature in later years (2008-2010) it was a very flawed redesign! Fragile, not brittle!

[vgbugs]

Wrong word usage perhaps. To the best of my knowledge, the sockets starting with the Phantoka line (which would be Season 7, following that line of categorization) were more prone to breaking because they made the edges squared instead of round like before.

While this made it easier to connect parts as they were less prone to slipping, the squared shape had less structural integrity than the round ones.

Compare:

When I was a little child I had to ask my dad to connect ball joints because I couldn't do it... I understand why the change was made, but perhaps they did not think about it hard enough...

Sorry for the confusion, I suppose. I'd generally say that I've reached the point where I'm more fluent in English than in my native language but I do occasionally miss a connotation or treat something as a synonym when it doesn't match exactly.

Either that or you were being nitpicky, in which case explode >:(

[kopakaskoolkompanion]

All good! There's been years of the change being attributed to the "lime joint syndrome" which is inaccurate, so I did want to ensure that false narrative was not pervading.

Otherwise yeah it really is just minor difference in the words. Fragile and brittle are similar terms, I personally would consider the poor quality "season 4" plastic brittle, while the "season 7" redesign as "fragile"

[steel-angel]

I was challenged to make the smallest jointed bionicle...

Wow! He's expressive!

Yippee!! ~

[bioniclechicken]

Crossover

[vgbugs]

Visorak from Bionicle Heroes? There's some other ougs but I don't think they have names

Visorak - BIONICLE Heroes

4-legged biomechanical spiders with massive, stag beetle-like mandibles. Each of them can launch a spinning projectile from its back.

Lorewise these spiders were designed by the Great Beings to trap other beings in cocoons to keep them in stasis, but they were militarized by the Makuta (kind of like the angels of the setting, whose job was to create other beings, but they've since deviated from the Great Beings' plan) and later corrupted by the machinations of Sidorak and Roodaka, causing them to horribly mutate others with their venom.

I have no idea what they're doing on Voya Nui in the context of BIONICLE Heroes specifically though. Lots of characters who have no business being there show up, like Sidorak and Roodaka themselves.

I tried taking some of my own screenshots for this but the bloom was crazy and it ran like ass cause the game wasn't designed for Win11 PCs in 2026. This game also had a GBA port that was just a different game, as was customary at the time with some titles.

I got a fun fact about the Keelerak, the green one.

For context, BIONICLE was a Lego toy-line and these guys were released during what I'll call Season 4. While lime-green parts were nothing unusual, ones with ball sockets were new at this time. Later on, during Season 6, they came back, but apparently due to some mixing error with the dye, lime-green parts were extremely brittle and while in later "seasons" this was fixed, now EVERY part was more brittle than before.

As such, Keelerak were the only way to get non-brittle versions of lime-green socket parts, namely the "long thigh" and "hand" parts.

[kopakaskoolkompanion]

Misinformation! Joints did not break due to a "brittle" nature in later years (2008-2010) it was a very flawed redesign! Fragile, not brittle!

[whiteheartlight]

I know that making the Vahi (and not making and losing and retrieving it and all this stuff) is pretty central to Vakama's character development, but in general I'm not sure the story ever really impresses on the reader how much of a big deal this is outside of Vakama's character. This Matoran-recently-turned-Toa just created the Mask of Time. The Mask of Time?! That is almost as big of a deal as the Mask of Life - a mask that takes multiple story arcs, multiple enemies and heroes, and multiple sacrifices to get to. And Vakama just forges the Mask of Time???? Just forges it??? Tahu wears it to fight Bohrok?? Mind boggling on a world development scale. The tabs that the Order of Mata Nui must have on Vakama are wild. Even if he never became a Toa, if Vakama was a Matoran who "just" made the Vahi and that was all he ever did, that would still make him one of the most influential beings alive in the whole of the Matoran Universe, and certainly one of the greatest crafters. If he had done that a millenia or two ago, he would have been sent to Artakha just for crafting it. The cosmic scale of the Vahi is unreal and unrealized in canon. maybe that's what Time Trap was trying to accomplish but geez, Vakama

[bioniclechicken]

[whiteheartlight]

Love the differences in the Toa-Matoran relationships between the Toa Mata and the Toa Metru. With the early books about the Toa Mata on Mata Nui, there's a definite sense of them being protective of their Matoran almost instinctively and looking after them carefully. Kopaka protecting Matoro is the first thing he does on the island, Tahu carries injured Matoran on his back, pats Takua on the head, and insists on going after him and Jaller to keep them safe, and Lewa's always calling his Matoran little brothers. In turn, the Matoran can be seen saluting and bowing to their Toa, address them respectfully, and understand that they have positions of authority. Jaller even throws himself at a Bohrok-Kal to help Tahu and Tahu lauds him in front of everyone.

Then we meet the Toa Metru, who are two seconds away from inventing swear words just to describe how badly these little bastards they have to deal with tick them off, and with them are six Matoran at varying degrees of willingness to tell them to fuck right off in return. The way Onewa would punt Ahkmou if he had the chance. The way the Matoran cheer watching them get arrested by a whirlwind and sent to Archives prison. The pure antagonism. Yes they will still protect any of these guys with their lives (probably) but MATA NUI

[kopakaskoolkompanion]

Ir does bear to note that the Metru themselves had been Matoran until like a week ago, these specific six Matoran are like lifetime rivals for most of them (even if it largely goes one way), and the Toa are under an awful lot of stress to live up to Lhikan's legacy. Plus their own infighting.

They also are often in the books described as forgetting they are no longer Matoran or heavily reflecting on being one and at times wishing to go back to it.

Conpare the Mata, who were told when they arrived on the island that they are prophesied heroes and are revered as such. They have no memories (although even if they did it would largely be training and protecting Matoran from Avohkah) or prior connection to the Matoran, much less personal connections as coworkers and friends.

So really the Toa Mata are kinda the exemplary Toa and every other one probably is more akin to the Metru in the ways that they'd interact with Matoran in their daily lives, especially on the island they hail from.

[kopakaskoolkompanion]

Entry for @malwarewolf-mocs' #SPINE06 challenge! It's uh. A cuttlefish or something. Some form of cephalopod.

[mollotovm]

macku i don’t think the "unity is a virtue too" excuse will work on the turaga after the 70th time

[coldgoldlazarus]

Inspired by the concept of video game demakes, I randomly decided to see if I could demake and simplify my Nuparu redesign back down to a classic Inika-style build. The result? Definitely still more detailed than a traditional canister set would have been, but it works pretty well as a 'low'-effort proof-of-concept sorta thing.

I did initially just go with the shield piece from the Mahri set, but wound up committing more to the Proof Of Concept angle than the Stylistically Faithful angle, all in service of an extra feature I have planned for the big version:

The shield can store on Nuparu's back, but more importantly, to go along with the Mask of Flight, it becomes a huge pair of wings, to really drive home the Stealth Bomber inspiration used in the original Nuparu Mahri design.

Albeit with these proportions, actually flying looks a little bit silly. Hopefully I can make it look better on the big titan-moc version, somehow. Also thinking the shoulder-mounted cordak launcher on any version, while great on the ground and as a nod to Nuparu Inika, may need to have someplace to relocate to for flying so it doesn't risk getting in the way.

As a bonus, here's an alternate version of the legs I did, which I wound up leaving off because they were still way too detailed even relative to my not-quite-canister-ready final design. Still for what they are, as a halfway point between the enforced minimalism I was going for, and the nutty scale of my plans for the proper big versions, this gives a slightly more comprehensive idea of what I wanna do with this.

Kinda going for a baggy mechanic's chaps sorta vibe