At the same time, we are also expanding the category to appeal to a younger audience through an established third-party property, starting in January. This was an extremely difficult decision for all involved. But as seen in the tales of the Toa, striving for success in any mission requires imagination, new ways of thinking, and the willingness to take risks.
We hope you will share the same level of enthusiasm we have for our plans for the buildable figure category. This meant that their shoulders could only move back and forth and in relation with each other. Previous Toa sets had a limited range of motion in the arm, even though they could be swung. Though the Toa of Ice and the Toa of Earth retained their respective white and black colouring, the Toa of Stone had brown and the other three Toa Metru had darker colouring.
All six were monochromatic, aside from structural parts which were dark stone grey , and nearly identical except for eye colour, mask, weapon, subtle build variations such as a longer neck, and the aforementioned colour schemes.
The Toa's masks were new in design, featuring an axle and a return from the Nuvas' organic look. A new head was also moulded to accommodate neck articulation, and a new eye piece to fit into it. Despite the Toa Metru being younger versions of the Turaga, their eye colours are mostly inconsistent with the sets from All six Toa also feature new weapons which, like the Toa Nuva, could be refitted for a second purpose.
For example, a pair of spiked clubs could become snowshoes or shovels could be combined to make a drill. The Matoran also received an update with a taller form. They were all built around a new body plate piece in the colour of their respective Toa and had grey appendages.
They reuse the Bohroks' feet, though in mostly new colours, and also the older head design. These Matoran also have the Turagas' masks, but with silver moulded onto their foreheads.
The disks would glow in the dark and were printed with the symbol of each Matoran's city district. A silver disk launcher was also included. The Toa Metru were pitted against the similarly sized Vahki, robots with disk launching mandibles, two staffs, and wide stances. The Vahki are the same colours as the Toa, but feature grey more prominently and have a striking splash of colour on their elongated heads.
The Vahki did not have bendable elbows, but they did have gear functions to swing their upper body, similar to the Matoran of yesteryear.
The other was Toa Lhikan and Kikanalo. Lhikan used the same build as the Toa Metru, but his colourscheme was diversified by golden mask, feet, and armour, while his hands and hips are also black.
The other two Titans for the year were two members of the Dark Hunters; the spindly Nidhiki with spider-like legs and huge claws and his partner, Krekka , a bulky being clad in earth blue and white. Similar to Takutanuva, a combiner set using pieces from , , and was released in Ultimate Dume. The set was not actually the same character as Dume, but the name was given to retailers to hide the figure's true identity as Makuta Teridax.
The Hordika are all hunched over with a silver Rhotuka Spinner poised on their back which could be flown upwards. Their colourschemes are less monochromatic because some of their armour is now silver and they all include two-toned weapons. The disk functions are removed from their torsos and moved to their arms. Turning the sprocket on their shoulder will cause their arm to move upward. This did not come at the cost of elbow articulation, though they could only move up and down, but it did return a range of motion in their shoulder and actually increase it from previous Toa.
All six Toa Hordika included precisely 48 pieces. The similarly sized enemies for the year were the four-legged spider-like Visorak which, again, all included 48 pieces, except for Oohnorak which had The Visorak each have unique mandibles and heads, but other than the usual colour deviations, they are only differentiated by small nuances like the piece used for their forelegs.
Each one has a Rhotuka on its back. The Visorak also bring back a two-toned colour scheme by using accent colours on their legs. The small sets for the year were not Matoran, but the mutated Rahaga. Tiny Rahkshi headed characters who are bent over with a Rhotuka on their back. Each carried a staff, had orange eyes, and a colour corresponding to a Toa Hordika.
This brought about Rahkshi heads in four new shades for collectors. Titan sets for the year were all tall, bipedal characters. There were only three, those being Keetongu , Sidorak , and Roodaka.
Special sets featuring two of the Toa Hahaga, the Rahagas' previous and conventionally heroic forms. Though they used the Metru style build, they did not adhere to the uniform look of the Toa Metru and reused other armour, leg, and arm parts plus metallic armour, staffs, and unique Rhotuka launching shields to make them unique.
Additionally, Toa Iruini introduced a new mask piece, though Toa Norik reused Dume's in a new colour. Originally, these sets were going to be Nidhiki and Dume's forms as Toa, but they were changed to the Rahagas' for whatever reason. Each set included a full team of six Toa and at least all of the Visorak. The collectable for the year was the Rhotuka. Five randomly coloured Rhotuka could be found in Rhotuka Spinners. As BIONICLE's story returned from the past to the present, the story took a quite noticeable darker turn, with characters sacrificing themselves to save the universe and enslaved Matoran falling into the lava of a volcano.
Thus, - is known as the "Dark Years" by many fans. In addition, the sets received another creative overhaul pushing the system further from the Mata figures. The first release of were the Piraka who had gangly bodies, spiked spines, scowling faces with huge grimaces, and clawed or webbed feet. They featured a new torso piece which was thinner than the previous ones and had ball joints built into it so arms could be snapped on. The Piraka came in the same shades as the Toa Metru and Hordika, except Avak , the brown Piraka, used the newer reddish brown.
Each Piraka had an exclusive weapon which was designed to be versatile for a number of different situations or attacks. They also had a Zamor Sphere launcher. Among the Piraka in the first wave were 's Matoran who were designed to have a patchwork design.
Each Matoran had a unique build and used no new parts, reusing the Toa Metrus' masks and various older weapons. Of the six, only Kazi stood up straight. The Toa Inika came in the second half of the year with a new torso piece similar to the Piraka one, but allowed larger pieces of armour to be connected to it.
The Toa Inika are made less standardized than their predecessors by using two different chest plates and various pieces for forearms and forelegs, both new and introduced in previous waves.
The Inika also introduced new pieces for shoulder pads. Every Inika had a unique "organic" Kanohi made from rubber which could only attach to a special headpiece exclusive to them. The Inika were armed with a sword which would light-up with a blue, red, or green streak and a Zamor Launcher with an attachment that would allow it to hold three extra spheres. The Toa's spheres were again either blue, red, or green to match the colour of their sword's light. The Inika used the same darker shades as the Metru, but most of the Inika made heavier use of secondary colours and did more experimentation; for example, the primarily earth blue Toa of Water, represented by Toa Hahli , used white as a secondary colour rather than dark grey or another shade of blue, as her predecessors had.
The colour scheme of the Toa of Stone, included in Toa Hewkii , was again changed. This time his primary colour was metallic dark grey while he also used plenty of flame yellowish orange accents.
The four titans for the year were Umbra , Axonn , Brutaka , and Vezon and Fenrakk. Umbara, Axonn, and Brutaka were all large, mask-wearing warriors clad in a plethora of armour and with large weapons, but featured the seventh Piraka, Vezon, as a normal sized figure though with a cape and no Zamor Launcher as he rides on Fenrakk, a spindly four-legged "spider" with a toothy jaw.
Two of the combiner models were also released as sets. The combiner model built Vezon with a shield in addition to his staff and the colossal Kardas Dragon. Extra Zamor Spheres were available in Zamor Spheres which included a total of 10 spheres in gold, silver, and bronze. Unlike past collectable packs, they were not randomized.
The final two accessory sets with jars filled with parts were also released this year. A few of simple "good guys" and "bad guys" were also given away as promotions. Some of them featured Rhotuka spinners and other pieces left over from the previous arc, while others did not even have masks.
The playsets line continued from The minifigures were remastered and now had moveable arms and heads, though their legs remained static. Each character had a unique piece for their head, and the Piraka also received tails. The mini Toa Inika and Piraka were also dispersed through several sets, rather than a full collection being included in each set.
The regular sized villains were the Barraki , mutated warlords with the features of marine wildlife. Though they have some unifying factors, such as the same silver mandibles and a crossbow-like weapon used to fire rubbery "vampire squids," the Barraki come in a wide variety of shapes and builds.
The squids were either orange or yellow. Only two Matoran were released as separate sets; one flame yellowish orange and one earth green. They both feature larger builds than the year before with the scaly Hordika armour as breastplates and recolours of the Toa Hagah masks. Both of them are armed with two short blades and a shoulder mounted Zamor Launcher, which fires a "solidified air bubble" really an orange zamor sphere.
Two small, quadrupedal Rahi called Hydruka with Rahkshi heads, jagged fangs, and a tail which ends in a Zamor Launcher were also released under the Matoran subtheme. An additional two Matoran, one dark red and one earth blue, were included in the Titan set Karzahni. Though they are similar to the two stand alone Matoran, they have larger feet, air tubes, and different weapons. The Toa Inika were rebranded as the Toa Mahri in the second half of the year and received more deep sea friendly designs and motifs.
Their Kanohi implemented features such as visors and air tubes. Unlike the Inika and Hordika masks, these new ones were compatible with the Metru heads. Though they had not been phased out entirely, the Metru heads had been less prominent up to this point. The Mahri kept the same build features introduced in , but they were further variegated with different types and amounts of armour.
Some of them also reused torsos from the Hordika and Piraka. Most of their colour schemes continued to evolve, too, by replacing a secondary colour with another or including less of the primary shade. Each Toa had a Cordak Blaster, a rotating barrel that fires red darts. With a total of six, featured more Titans than any other wave.
This included larger humanoids such as Hydraxon and Maxilos and Spinax , or to a lesser extent Nocturn , a four-armed figure with glow-in-the-dark elements who had much in common with the Barraki. Their masks had an axle hole which would be connected to a Metru head via a separate red axle piece. The previously mentioned Karzahni included the titular figure as the centerpiece, plus two Matoran adversaries and a trap they had set for him. The most unconventional, however, was Gadunka , a creature with a huge head, spiky teeth, a tiny body, powerful legs, and thin arms ending in large claws.
The three playsets included mini Barraki and Toa Mahri used the same style as the previous year's sets. However, rather than each character having a unique head mould, each faction was relegated to three. Only five of the six Barraki were converted into minifigures; Carapar was excluded.
The sets also moved from mostly being location based to centering around vehicles and mounts for the characters. Poly bag sets in were , , and The first release, the Phantoka includes three skeletal Makuta with rib cages that burst open to launch transparent fluorescent reddish-orange Tridax Pods filled with rubber shadow leeches. These Makuta take inspiration from bats and all three include black and silver in their colour schemes. The Phantoka Toa are reintroductions of the Toa Nuva wearing adaptive armour.
They are updated with the newer build style and pieces, as well as new masks. All three have their colour schemes modified, though Toa Kopaka only switches light grey out for dark stone grey.
Each of the three Toa have a mean of flying which is unique from the others, be it wings, jet packs, or rotors, and carries a Midak Skyblaster , a part which packs silver Zamor Spheres, this time referred to as balls of solid light, and shoots them back out. The six Matoran released alongside the Phantoka are also split along the lines of good and evil. These Matoran are the largest yet, but they use new specialized moulds for their torsos, legs, arms, and head, giving them the smallest part counts since the original ones included in McDonald's Happy Meals.
Each Matoran has a colour scheme and a mask which corresponds with a Toa or Makuta. While the good Matoran have jet packs and green eyes, the bad ones have bat wings and orange eyes.
The Matoran are able to connect to the back of a Toa or Makuta to "team-up. Mistika included the other half of the Toa Nuva and three more Makuta. Register Don't have an account? Activate Akaku. History Talk 9. Universal Conquest Wiki.
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