United by Duty, bound by Destiny

"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

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.

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.

Wow! He's expressive!

Yippee!! ~

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.

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.

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:

Spine Moc 2/3: Steltan Manticore

Apart from an odd similarity to a certain Skakdi warlord, the Steltan Manticore is mainly regarded as a hostile, cunning, and repulsive Rahi known for stalking the city streets and docks of Stelt at night. Armed from all sides with more venomous spines, fangs, claws, and stingers than gladiator pit filled with Nui-Jaga and Doom Vipers, nearly every person on Stelt knows better than to cross this particular flat-faced cat’s path. These Rahi are agile, nearly silent, and specially equipped to hunt shallow-dwelling Ruki and Takea sharks.