Quick correction - I accidentally said in the video that the orange Ruru masks were exclusive to the Manas - totally blanked on the fact that they came in the mask packs as well, my bad! The yellow Komaus are still exclusive, though, adding to their rarity.
I gave my Toa Mata Nui to my nephew, i believe he still has all the pieces but in storage. Just the other day i was playing with Lego with my niece and the Gold Mask of Life popped up in the pile, i have it displayed now with my new lego sets
I still have all my Glatorian sets in the box I left em, in tact, including Toa Mata Nui, and a second gold Mask of Life I got from Lego by requesting a replacement part I didn't need.
Pretty happy to have Karzahni in my collection, I have the seperate versions of the Voporak, Vezon and Kardas sets as well so I at least have all of the pieces.
Technically... Mata nui did grew to that size in a way. Toa Mata nui's body kinda reasembles the great spirit robot if you remove the mask. Chunky lower legs, waist with pistons, and rhe robot's is pretty similar to a regular bionicle skull piece.
This video caught my eye in my feed since I recognized both Bionicles in the thumbnail, turns out I owned both of those plus 2 others in this video when I was a kid 😵💫 No idea where they ended up but this was a great nostalgia trip!
personally i think it would be better to keep those sealed and buy a duplicate cahdok + gahdok, a sealed bionicle set (especially the queens) are worth a load of money
I had those blue and red dragon when I was a kid!! I remember spending 2 days trying to put them together and even had a few outbursts not being able to figure it out. The recommended age to put them together was older than I was. After a few crying sessions I did manage to complete them. Good times! I can't believe they are regarded as rare.
I've been sitting on a 400 dollar set!? All these years that Mata Nui set has been displayed on my desk and I had no idea it was one of the rarest sets out there.....
I remember begging my parents for the Kardas Dragon set, and I managed to convince them to get it for me that day. Never knew till now just how small a window I had to get one. Dang man
I had no idea some of these have gone up so high! I have number 1,4 and 6 (you can tell when I grew up) and toa Mata nui is one of my so time favourite sets!
Thrifted a sealed copy of the bahrag for 60 CAD a couple years ago. Lost my job as did my housemate, and ended up having to sell it to pay my share of rent. One of the most regretful choices of my life. I also had a used set of manas crabs I had to sell around the same time, i was missing one technic panel on the white and orange one, but the rc function actually worked shockingly well for how old they were.
It shouldn't surprise me that these sets are so expensive now, but it somehow did. I love the Bionicle story more, the more I learn of it (watched all of Retold! -great stuff) but I wouldn't spend so much on something that would just sit on my shelf. I do plan to eventually get a few old favorite characters, though.
I remember pre2017 I used to sell bionicle toys from bin full of parts , I would get a lot of rare figures , average price would be like 60 , I never could imagine price shot up for most of figures,
I remember back in 2009 walling out of Toys R Us with my mom and seeing the Toa Mata Nui set and wanting it so badly. Seeing its price now makes it even worse.
I actually got my Skopio in a bundle for 40 bucks. Best deal I’ve ever made XD ended up shelling out 300 for my Toa Mata Nui set, and had to do some freelance work at the LEGO shop near me to work the rest off. XD
Great video! I had no idea the karzahni set was so rare! I had that set and I have my gold Kanohi Ignika on my favourite moc on the desk right beside me! :D
Story time. TL;DR - I received Toa Mata Nui in the mail as a mistake. I was 13, just spent like $600 of my hard earned monies to buy a bunch of those lego castle and goblins sets. Must’ve waited almost a month before Mata Nui himself shows up on my doorstep. I had just come home from school, dad says “package for you on the table” so I tear my backpack off, rush up the stairs only to be confronted with none of the castle sets I ordered. I was bummed out but my mum called lego, asked about the sets and turns out they shipped the orders to the wrong addresses. Me being a kid, asked to talk to the lego representative on the phone. Mum hands me the phone and I ask innocently if I can keep the Toa because I thought he was cool. Guy asks if I like Bionicle. Course I say yes. He asks what my favourite Bionicle is. I tell him how it’s pohatu, but my OG pohatu was stolen by my bully in grade 1 and I was never able to get it back. I then said “I’ll trade this Mata Nui for a Pohatu!” Guy says they don’t have any left, and besides this Bionicle is WAY more powerful than Pohatu, he created- “I know who Mata Nui is and I don’t want him. I just want my Pohatu back.” I can hear the guy smiling as he says something along the lines of “wait and see, you’ll come to like that Mata Nui way more than you’ve ever loved your Pohatu.” He was wrong, I still want my old Pohatu back. That being said after watching this video Mata Nui is going on display front and centre! Heh I’ve got to be like one of maybe 3 people on earth to EVER receive this set entirely by mistake. Needless to say he is not for sale, too precious to me tbh :)
I had #2 Vezon and Kardask in the singular package... Got super lucky. Was on clearance at target just sitting on the end of the aisle. Literally dropped my Jaw and was with my mom at the time who saw the sale and worth of it. I didn't understand it was a combiner model of the time, but when I did I disassembled it and tried making Axon and Brutaka, but I was already missing the extra pieces :( never put it back together
These proces are ridiculous! Nah. I'm sticking to Gunpla by Bandai. Why doesn't LEGO do reissues/reprints for sets. There would definitely be a market for it. This is insane.
I swear i had a toa mata nui as a child. i remember using all the pieces but I dont remember having it put together. i was really young so i probably couldnt
This one here is pretty much a non-canon titan-sized special edition. The normal set was released around the same time as part of the Glatorian Legends series. The standart version doesn't have the golden mask that makes this set special and currently costs about $25 used.
i have parts to a bionical that i just cant find any where nor any idea what bionical they were in the late 2007 set its yellow came with the first ice toa characters sword but its black instead of white it has a part for the transparent eye to go on the mask it is not put togeather correctly cause i dont have the instructions and has some other parts of another bionical set mashed up i also have to say there have been some parts that have broke oh and it has these weird transparent green container looking things on it too may have been from another bionical set
It's crazy to hear how short the shelf life was on most of these I recall clearly each and every one being at various stores throughout the years while growing up Bionicle was a huge part of my childhood, and I suppose this really puts those memories in perspective with how quickly time seems to fly now
Dang, I never realized that Toa Mata Nui shot up in price this much! I bought it used in impeccable condition with box and instructions for 120€ in 2014 I think, and at that time I already thought the price was insane, wow. Times have really changed! I currently have every set listed here, but I never bought extra parts to have the combiners displayed alongside the retail sets they are built from. Do you think it's worth the investment to part those combiners out on bricklink?
I say its worth it. Once I completed my collection, the first thing I did was start buying up additional sets for combiners. Most expensive was probably botar and kardas dragon, because brutaka is getting super expensive now, but next would probably be voporak and the shadowed one, only because roodaka is a favorite and keetongu/sidorak don't go for much usually. Prices will only go up so I'd say buy em now and if you feel like selling the extras later you could easily make your money back.
I've never felt as much power as owning every set in this list. However, I am severely broke for buying almost every Bionicle set except the visorak and hordika, so...
Dude, I feel you. I am missing only 6 out the 240 action figure Bionicle sets (2 of those are here, Manas and yellow Jetrax) and I have also spend soooo much over the last couple of years...
@@kliphord123X that pain feeling where u realized all ur lego sets when u were a kid are gone and skyrocketed its value now days im dissapointed in my self
Here's a goot tale: I'm from Terni, the second most important town in the centre of Italy. Italy never went by "store exclusives", you could find anything everywhere. In early 2009, my parents were discussing about our summer holidays, mainly wanting to visit Sweden. So, I just asked them if we could visit Denmark instead, which meant going to Legoland in Billund, back when the biggest Lego Store in Europe was right there, so that I could certainly get my Glatorian Legends there, maybe even Toa Mata Nui. Come August, we went there, had a really great experience. Except for Legoland: it was late August and the store had already sold EVERY SINGLE BIONICLE SET they had, there were just some Agori left. I was on the verge of tears, I felt kinda betrayed. The following day, I bought a Mata Nui set before leaving Copenhagen. Two months later, my birthday came around and, guess what, a stupid store in my hometown had that f'ing Toa Mata Nui. And I went right were sets are made to not find it. I guess it's a happy ending, but gosh if it makes me laugh nowadays...
Interesting and funny story, even though I bursted out laughing while reading that Terni is the second most important city in central Italy. No offense, but how can you say that when Rome, Florence and Bologna exist? 😂 Anyway, I agree with you that we are blessed to live in a country that's almost free of store exclusives (which doesn't just apply to Lego, but in general)
No one will ever convince me that toa mata nui isn’t an amazing set. By far the crown of my collection. I remember being in toys r us as a kid and my parents offering to buy me a set and I remember my dad pointing out saying didn’t that one look cool. But me and my brother being idiots said we’d rather get more of the smaller sets. So I think we got two of the Glatorian canisters each because then with 4 characters you can make a cool story which is what we did. As I grew up I started playing with them less but still liked collecting them, and at some point I decided I wanted toa mata nui. I remember being so hyped when I won a bid on eBay because I got it for around £50 which if I remember right it retailed for £40 new so it was a good deal, and as a kid I didn’t have tons of money to spend on it so this was already a big enough purchase. I’d also been trying to get it for so long and kept being sniped just as the bidding ended so finally winning it felt so good. Maybe it’s the nostalgia and memories of the story behind it, but even now I have to look at it on my shelf, as the symbol of all of what bionicle was, and my favourite set
I had half of these but my nieces got into them and destroyed them. And i think my grandma got rid of my bionicle bin.....Thousands of dollars in parts....Given away....If you have cool stuff PROTECT IT FROM OLD PEOPLE!!!
I loved Bionicles as a kid growing up, and it was the first non-card based thing I started collecting. To this day I still have all of the sets on display in my apartment. Funny enough, the center piece of my collection is a mask that when I first received it, hated it as it wasn't the same color as all the other parts I had. That mask? The pearl gold Kanohi Kraahkan.
I always wanted to build the Toa Mata Nui set in silver and grey, with some minor changes to represent the Great Spirit Robot, but I never had the silver version of the mask so I never bothered. Nice to know I have the two rarest sets though. I even have 4 Kardas dragons
Someone is currently working on an entire Bigger Bomunga that actually does use the toa terrain crawler mask, and it's honestly insane, I've seen them post some updates on a discord server I'm in
I actually had the Bahrag (Bohrok Queens) set! Still have them disassembled in a bin somewhere lol. I absolutely loved playing with them, the neck snapping was easily one of the best play functions Bionicle has ever had in a set. Even though it wore the gears out lol
I remember getting the Vezon and Kardas set as a kid. Still my favorite set, I have Vezon displayed in my room, but all of Kardas’ pieces are in storage with the rest of my Bionicles. The Takutanuva set also came with a rainbow Mask of Light, dunno if that was in the regular version or not, but I had gotten that set and remembered that being pretty cool, even if the Makuta alt mask was kind of boring
I was collecting as a kid up till 2009 with my final being Icarax Madura who I still have. I had K man till my mom donated him and several other complete builds to my town’s school behind my back. Was only ever able to recover a leg and arm of him which saddens me more knowing he was rare even by the time of the series’ end.......the woes of older times.
I remember getting a big mata nui from a toys r us once. I still have it. A lot of my figures started suffering from weak plastic and have started cracking. Though I know I have the container oneas I liked the yellow color.
I bought a Toa Mata Nui just this last month to reclaim one of my childhood favorites, after my mom literally just threw him in the garbage while moving.
I bought my used Toa Mata Nui for 170 dollars in early 2020. I own every set listed here and found them for fairly good prices, specially my sealed Karzahni. I never found the Yellow Jetrax for a good price, so instead I was looking for the yellow shields in bricklink until they showed up for 13 dollars each one on a UK store. Now there are more yellow shields in bricklink for 15 dollars each one, so if you want the yellow Jetrax the best way to do it is to recolor the blue one, the yellow liftarms needed need are very common.
I have 2 sets of Vezon and Kardas with the boxes and manuals, because both of my parents accidentally bought me the same gift for Christmas =D 1 set of Voporak and 1 set of Takutanuva but I don't think I have the box for it. Just the manual. Vezon and Kardas set was and is still my favorite out of all the sets in this video for sure. Loved playing with the dragon and rebuilding it ^^
I do wonder about the special edition Takanuva, the Metru Makuta - both of which came with an exclusive piece. The worst part was that the second set was missing pieces when I built it… And the brickmaster sets, like the Click set
I got number two for Christmas and I LOVE it still stands proud on my nightstand. Still got the original box and always wondered where my mother got it.
Cool, I actually own 2 of those, that being the Barak twins and Takuta Nuva, though a lot of them weren't even available in Germany. Still cool to see a part of my childhood once again ^^
been watching a bunch of bionicle videos for nostalgia, was pretty shocked when #8 on this list turned out to be a kit I vividly remember owning (fancy mask and all). might have to go digging through my old boxes of bits and see if I can reassemble it.
I have karzahni except he’s in pieces and I lost his cape when I was a kid. I also have the skopio which I got off eBay luckily for $90 a couple years ago.
When I was selling off my Bionicles, I had a feeling I should keep my cahdok and gahdok. While I don’t think they will sell very quickly (almost priceless now), it’s good to know how much they shot up in value
I wow, didn't realize my bionicle collection was worth so much. Been buying them since i was a kid. I have most of these sets, and only missing a few of the smaller sets. I wonder how much a complete or near complete collection is worth?
Quick correction - I accidentally said in the video that the orange Ruru masks were exclusive to the Manas - totally blanked on the fact that they came in the mask packs as well, my bad! The yellow Komaus are still exclusive, though, adding to their rarity.
Was Toa likan rare too ?
What about the Sand Tarakava prototype set?
What about Umbra(roller skater dude)? That's was a limited edition set that came out maybe in 2004-2005.
Is that worth any value?
You're totally Forgiven Chris! Unity. Duty. Destiny!
Socket ball resin masks are rare too , an orange lewa etc from way back in day
I gave my Toa Mata Nui to my nephew, i believe he still has all the pieces but in storage. Just the other day i was playing with Lego with my niece and the Gold Mask of Life popped up in the pile, i have it displayed now with my new lego sets
I still have all my Glatorian sets in the box I left em, in tact, including Toa Mata Nui, and a second gold Mask of Life I got from Lego by requesting a replacement part I didn't need.
Where did it bring it, back to you
@@juansalvadorgarcinifernnde8657 Yeah, he's an Indian giver. 🤦♂️
You could give it to me :(
@@Zramythat’s racist
literally showing my childhood
Pretty happy to have Karzahni in my collection, I have the seperate versions of the Voporak, Vezon and Kardas sets as well so I at least have all of the pieces.
Whoa, I've still got the #1 Mata Nui set in storage. Played with it a ton as a kid, it was the biggest set I'd ever seen at a time
Technically... Mata nui did grew to that size in a way. Toa Mata nui's body kinda reasembles the great spirit robot if you remove the mask.
Chunky lower legs, waist with pistons, and rhe robot's is pretty similar to a regular bionicle skull piece.
So cool to see Cahdok and Gahdok on this video. Got them for Christmas in 2002 and still works.
This video caught my eye in my feed since I recognized both Bionicles in the thumbnail, turns out I owned both of those plus 2 others in this video when I was a kid 😵💫 No idea where they ended up but this was a great nostalgia trip!
I have Cahdok and Gahdok still sealed, actually! One day I’ll get around to building them lol
personally i think it would be better to keep those sealed and buy a duplicate cahdok + gahdok, a sealed bionicle set (especially the queens) are worth a load of money
I only own 2 of those models but the list alone just a walk down memory lane for me. Tysm!
I had no idea the skopio was worth so much! I got it as a kid and luckily still have it! Thanks for the great vid!
I had those blue and red dragon when I was a kid!! I remember spending 2 days trying to put them together and even had a few outbursts not being able to figure it out. The recommended age to put them together was older than I was. After a few crying sessions I did manage to complete them. Good times! I can't believe they are regarded as rare.
I've been sitting on a 400 dollar set!? All these years that Mata Nui set has been displayed on my desk and I had no idea it was one of the rarest sets out there.....
I remember begging my parents for the Kardas Dragon set, and I managed to convince them to get it for me that day. Never knew till now just how small a window I had to get one. Dang man
I had no idea some of these have gone up so high! I have number 1,4 and 6 (you can tell when I grew up) and toa Mata nui is one of my so time favourite sets!
I had like 4 of these in the list as a kid, the rarest one being the big green guy with the two smaller guys
A person in my class apparently has a special edition of the jetrax
Thrifted a sealed copy of the bahrag for 60 CAD a couple years ago. Lost my job as did my housemate, and ended up having to sell it to pay my share of rent. One of the most regretful choices of my life.
I also had a used set of manas crabs I had to sell around the same time, i was missing one technic panel on the white and orange one, but the rc function actually worked shockingly well for how old they were.
It shouldn't surprise me that these sets are so expensive now, but it somehow did.
I love the Bionicle story more, the more I learn of it (watched all of Retold! -great stuff) but I wouldn't spend so much on something that would just sit on my shelf. I do plan to eventually get a few old favorite characters, though.
I'm incredibly happy to own the vezon & kardas dragon complete set, though I bought the seperate sets instead of the complete sets.
Damnn... I have that number 2 dragon from when I was a kid. I remember spending all my savings because I loved axon.
I remember pre2017 I used to sell bionicle toys from bin full of parts , I would get a lot of rare figures , average price would be like 60 , I never could imagine price shot up for most of figures,
My parents at 26: we just closed on the house and our son is on the way
Me at 26:
I remember back in 2009 walling out of Toys R Us with my mom and seeing the Toa Mata Nui set and wanting it so badly. Seeing its price now makes it even worse.
Thanks for reminding me why I moved over to gundam plastic models
I remember seeing the #2 spot in a book of the upcoming sets as a kid
I actually got my Skopio in a bundle for 40 bucks. Best deal I’ve ever made XD ended up shelling out 300 for my Toa Mata Nui set, and had to do some freelance work at the LEGO shop near me to work the rest off. XD
Would you like it, if LEGO reworks BIONICLE and other sets?
Great video! I had no idea the karzahni set was so rare! I had that set and I have my gold Kanohi Ignika on my favourite moc on the desk right beside me! :D
I went into my lego dark ages in 2006. In December of 2009 I picked up the Mata Nui set for around $60 on a whim. I'm really glad I did
Story time. TL;DR - I received Toa Mata Nui in the mail as a mistake.
I was 13, just spent like $600 of my hard earned monies to buy a bunch of those lego castle and goblins sets. Must’ve waited almost a month before Mata Nui himself shows up on my doorstep.
I had just come home from school, dad says “package for you on the table” so I tear my backpack off, rush up the stairs only to be confronted with none of the castle sets I ordered.
I was bummed out but my mum called lego, asked about the sets and turns out they shipped the orders to the wrong addresses. Me being a kid, asked to talk to the lego representative on the phone.
Mum hands me the phone and I ask innocently if I can keep the Toa because I thought he was cool. Guy asks if I like Bionicle. Course I say yes. He asks what my favourite Bionicle is. I tell him how it’s pohatu, but my OG pohatu was stolen by my bully in grade 1 and I was never able to get it back. I then said “I’ll trade this Mata Nui for a Pohatu!” Guy says they don’t have any left, and besides this Bionicle is WAY more powerful than Pohatu, he created- “I know who Mata Nui is and I don’t want him. I just want my Pohatu back.”
I can hear the guy smiling as he says something along the lines of “wait and see, you’ll come to like that Mata Nui way more than you’ve ever loved your Pohatu.”
He was wrong, I still want my old Pohatu back. That being said after watching this video Mata Nui is going on display front and centre!
Heh I’ve got to be like one of maybe 3 people on earth to EVER receive this set entirely by mistake. Needless to say he is not for sale, too precious to me tbh :)
I had #2 Vezon and Kardask in the singular package... Got super lucky. Was on clearance at target just sitting on the end of the aisle. Literally dropped my Jaw and was with my mom at the time who saw the sale and worth of it.
I didn't understand it was a combiner model of the time, but when I did I disassembled it and tried making Axon and Brutaka, but I was already missing the extra pieces :( never put it back together
These proces are ridiculous! Nah. I'm sticking to Gunpla by Bandai. Why doesn't LEGO do reissues/reprints for sets. There would definitely be a market for it. This is insane.
I swear i had a toa mata nui as a child. i remember using all the pieces but I dont remember having it put together. i was really young so i probably couldnt
Let's talk about Lesoviik xD It's a really rare set on retail market, still looking for it.
i remember titan mata nui had his own custom blaster, did you have that as well or you never had it?
I still have Toa Mata Nui. I had no idea it is so expensive! It still has all of it's parts. I don't think I would get rid of it tbh.
Forgot this series exist
this channel is underrated
I remember seeing to a mata nui in the shop, I should’ve got it
This makes me wanna pull out all my bionicals
I actually have number 2!! But its missing pieces and vezon is gone now. Still got the box in perfect condition though!
I bought the titan mata-nui for 25 Canadian dollars yesterday lmao, only missing the sword.
Is there a second Mata Mui out there? I remember having one that didn’t look as complex
This one here is pretty much a non-canon titan-sized special edition. The normal set was released around the same time as part of the Glatorian Legends series. The standart version doesn't have the golden mask that makes this set special and currently costs about $25 used.
I like how I have none of these sets except #1
i have all the toa mata and toa nuva, some bohrok aswell
WAIT WHAT! I used to own the number one set. I remember making him fight my Zane from lego ninjago set. I threw all of it out though 😫
I just realized Karzahni’s knees are made from masks and his head is made from feet. What a weird set.
i have parts to a bionical that i just cant find any where nor any idea what bionical they were in the late 2007 set its yellow came with the first ice toa characters sword but its black instead of white it has a part for the transparent eye to go on the mask it is not put togeather correctly cause i dont have the instructions and has some other parts of another bionical set mashed up i also have to say there have been some parts that have broke oh and it has these weird transparent green container looking things on it too may have been from another bionical set
bruh, I had the blue and yellow jetrax and ended up disassembling them to use for parts for my Lego guns🤣💀
Take a shot every time he says the word "set" in this video.
Crazy collection!!!
Wonder why he didn't showcase mata-nui with his shield
Man, and I thought my Ultimate Builders can was my rarest set
yoooooo, i have one of those masks, i got it from a car boot sale in a massive set for £5
Me, owning these sets: I've won, but at what cost...
I mean, the rarity is the COLOR, not the molds?? Man i don't get you LEGO people, just PAINT
Had all of them, they all broke because I was a kid and played with them
damn i have this mask somewhere, sadly i wont be able to find it
Do you ever do giveaways?
Old bionicles where crazy, if you compare them to the newer ones or even hero factory they are just boring next to the original sets
Wish I kept all the original sets I had, I had the originals that were first released.... Damn im an idiot
My friend stole the mask. Feels bad
It's crazy to hear how short the shelf life was on most of these
I recall clearly each and every one being at various stores throughout the years while growing up
Bionicle was a huge part of my childhood, and I suppose this really puts those memories in perspective with how quickly time seems to fly now
Right!
The most surprising fact was Karzahni only being available for a month and a half. I had no idea I was that lucky finding it in store.
Dang, I never realized that Toa Mata Nui shot up in price this much! I bought it used in impeccable condition with box and instructions for 120€ in 2014 I think, and at that time I already thought the price was insane, wow. Times have really changed!
I currently have every set listed here, but I never bought extra parts to have the combiners displayed alongside the retail sets they are built from. Do you think it's worth the investment to part those combiners out on bricklink?
I say its worth it. Once I completed my collection, the first thing I did was start buying up additional sets for combiners. Most expensive was probably botar and kardas dragon, because brutaka is getting super expensive now, but next would probably be voporak and the shadowed one, only because roodaka is a favorite and keetongu/sidorak don't go for much usually. Prices will only go up so I'd say buy em now and if you feel like selling the extras later you could easily make your money back.
Might be worth
Depends which legos you own
I've never felt as much power as owning every set in this list.
However, I am severely broke for buying almost every Bionicle set except the visorak and hordika, so...
you have no idea how much respect I have towards you for having almost every bionicle set
Dude, I feel you. I am missing only 6 out the 240 action figure Bionicle sets (2 of those are here, Manas and yellow Jetrax) and I have also spend soooo much over the last couple of years...
why miss out on those particular sets?
bionicle is my childhood but sadly lost all of it today and it s been a LONG time I've ever held one lol
@@kliphord123X that pain feeling where u realized all ur lego sets when u were a kid are gone and skyrocketed its value now days im dissapointed in my self
Here's a goot tale:
I'm from Terni, the second most important town in the centre of Italy. Italy never went by "store exclusives", you could find anything everywhere.
In early 2009, my parents were discussing about our summer holidays, mainly wanting to visit Sweden. So, I just asked them if we could visit Denmark instead, which meant going to Legoland in Billund, back when the biggest Lego Store in Europe was right there, so that I could certainly get my Glatorian Legends there, maybe even Toa Mata Nui.
Come August, we went there, had a really great experience. Except for Legoland: it was late August and the store had already sold EVERY SINGLE BIONICLE SET they had, there were just some Agori left. I was on the verge of tears, I felt kinda betrayed.
The following day, I bought a Mata Nui set before leaving Copenhagen.
Two months later, my birthday came around and, guess what, a stupid store in my hometown had that f'ing Toa Mata Nui. And I went right were sets are made to not find it.
I guess it's a happy ending, but gosh if it makes me laugh nowadays...
Haha I m jealous
Buddy… pal… Lego land is a theme park… Not an injection molding facility 💀
Interesting and funny story, even though I bursted out laughing while reading that Terni is the second most important city in central Italy. No offense, but how can you say that when Rome, Florence and Bologna exist? 😂 Anyway, I agree with you that we are blessed to live in a country that's almost free of store exclusives (which doesn't just apply to Lego, but in general)
Very epic story, glad you got it! ^^
Bro nessuno conosce Terni … la seconda città più importante gtfo
Wow, I still have the Toa Mata Nui set. Never would have thought it would be worth so much one day.
I’m surprised 10023 Rahi Master Builder set and Lesovikk aren’t on this list; those prices are nuts compared to the original MSRP!
Iirc Lesovikk barely was edged out at number 11!
While the Bohrok Queens *can* battle eachother, the Yanking Function was supposed to be used by the Exo-Toa Set.
No one will ever convince me that toa mata nui isn’t an amazing set. By far the crown of my collection. I remember being in toys r us as a kid and my parents offering to buy me a set and I remember my dad pointing out saying didn’t that one look cool. But me and my brother being idiots said we’d rather get more of the smaller sets. So I think we got two of the Glatorian canisters each because then with 4 characters you can make a cool story which is what we did. As I grew up I started playing with them less but still liked collecting them, and at some point I decided I wanted toa mata nui. I remember being so hyped when I won a bid on eBay because I got it for around £50 which if I remember right it retailed for £40 new so it was a good deal, and as a kid I didn’t have tons of money to spend on it so this was already a big enough purchase. I’d also been trying to get it for so long and kept being sniped just as the bidding ended so finally winning it felt so good. Maybe it’s the nostalgia and memories of the story behind it, but even now I have to look at it on my shelf, as the symbol of all of what bionicle was, and my favourite set
I had half of these but my nieces got into them and destroyed them. And i think my grandma got rid of my bionicle bin.....Thousands of dollars in parts....Given away....If you have cool stuff PROTECT IT FROM OLD PEOPLE!!!
I loved Bionicles as a kid growing up, and it was the first non-card based thing I started collecting. To this day I still have all of the sets on display in my apartment. Funny enough, the center piece of my collection is a mask that when I first received it, hated it as it wasn't the same color as all the other parts I had. That mask? The pearl gold Kanohi Kraahkan.
I always wanted to build the Toa Mata Nui set in silver and grey, with some minor changes to represent the Great Spirit Robot, but I never had the silver version of the mask so I never bothered. Nice to know I have the two rarest sets though. I even have 4 Kardas dragons
I just realized, anyone who wants to create a giant Bomonga can use the front of the Terrain Crawler!!!
@@137shadowX Fair enough! XD
Someone is currently working on an entire Bigger Bomunga that actually does use the toa terrain crawler mask, and it's honestly insane, I've seen them post some updates on a discord server I'm in
I remember getting my Toa Mata Nui for Christmas when I was about 11 years old. I still have the set, though disassembled.
Same here different day.
I still have mine too, though I bought it for myself while working at Toys R Us.
I miss 2015 when the prices were so much lower :(
We all miss 2015 :(
I actually had the Bahrag (Bohrok Queens) set! Still have them disassembled in a bin somewhere lol. I absolutely loved playing with them, the neck snapping was easily one of the best play functions Bionicle has ever had in a set. Even though it wore the gears out lol
I remember getting the Vezon and Kardas set as a kid. Still my favorite set, I have Vezon displayed in my room, but all of Kardas’ pieces are in storage with the rest of my Bionicles. The Takutanuva set also came with a rainbow Mask of Light, dunno if that was in the regular version or not, but I had gotten that set and remembered that being pretty cool, even if the Makuta alt mask was kind of boring
Great video may not be as exciting but could you do a top ten most common bionicle sets?
Nice video, but did you know there is a place #0? 6936 Piraka & Catapult; and probably the Kabaya sets as a honorable mention
I was collecting as a kid up till 2009 with my final being Icarax Madura who I still have. I had K man till my mom donated him and several other complete builds to my town’s school behind my back. Was only ever able to recover a leg and arm of him which saddens me more knowing he was rare even by the time of the series’ end.......the woes of older times.
I remember getting a big mata nui from a toys r us once. I still have it. A lot of my figures started suffering from weak plastic and have started cracking. Though I know I have the container oneas I liked the yellow color.
I bought a Toa Mata Nui just this last month to reclaim one of my childhood favorites, after my mom literally just threw him in the garbage while moving.
I bought my used Toa Mata Nui for 170 dollars in early 2020. I own every set listed here and found them for fairly good prices, specially my sealed Karzahni. I never found the Yellow Jetrax for a good price, so instead I was looking for the yellow shields in bricklink until they showed up for 13 dollars each one on a UK store. Now there are more yellow shields in bricklink for 15 dollars each one, so if you want the yellow Jetrax the best way to do it is to recolor the blue one, the yellow liftarms needed need are very common.
I have 2 sets of Vezon and Kardas with the boxes and manuals, because both of my parents accidentally bought me the same gift for Christmas =D 1 set of Voporak and 1 set of Takutanuva but I don't think I have the box for it. Just the manual. Vezon and Kardas set was and is still my favorite out of all the sets in this video for sure. Loved playing with the dragon and rebuilding it ^^
3:22 I dig the use of Visorak pincers on the sides of this vehicle. Also that big red windscreen would be so good for so many MOCs 😫
I do wonder about the special edition Takanuva, the Metru Makuta - both of which came with an exclusive piece.
The worst part was that the second set was missing pieces when I built it…
And the brickmaster sets, like the Click set
I got number two for Christmas and I LOVE it still stands proud on my nightstand. Still got the original box and always wondered where my mother got it.
Cool, I actually own 2 of those, that being the Barak twins and Takuta Nuva, though a lot of them weren't even available in Germany. Still cool to see a part of my childhood once again ^^
Glad I just got Mata Nui before the price keeps getting higher.
been watching a bunch of bionicle videos for nostalgia, was pretty shocked when #8 on this list turned out to be a kit I vividly remember owning (fancy mask and all). might have to go digging through my old boxes of bits and see if I can reassemble it.
*I guess the duracell promos, polybags and rare masks weren't rare enough, huh? At least I can proudly display my Mata Nui : )*
Did anyone the Axxon model? And were they also fascinated by the fact he had opposable fingers? Because I was. Also had the original Makuta model.
I have karzahni except he’s in pieces and I lost his cape when I was a kid. I also have the skopio which I got off eBay luckily for $90 a couple years ago.
It's kind of funny to me that a set as terrible as Toa Mata Nui is in such high demand.
When I was selling off my Bionicles, I had a feeling I should keep my cahdok and gahdok. While I don’t think they will sell very quickly (almost priceless now), it’s good to know how much they shot up in value
I wow, didn't realize my bionicle collection was worth so much. Been buying them since i was a kid. I have most of these sets, and only missing a few of the smaller sets. I wonder how much a complete or near complete collection is worth?
I feel like I'm watching a higher being with a bonkle collection like that behind him.