The problem with the g2 combo models is that they were all pretty much just upgraded versions of existing sets. the 2016 combiners were much more involved than the ones from the previous year, but they still just look like upgraded versions of the original characters. (with the exception of makuta.) they didn't really try to make new characters or creatures to fill out the world like they did with g1's combiners.
Makuta at the end is like a poetic conclusion to Bionicle's end and lore. It's like Makuta himself ended the series, awaiting the day it might return. It's also nice that the original series ended with mata nui and this series with makuta; the good and evil ending. Like they were two sides of the same coin.
There were recently two polls for an official set to be made including an option for bionicle. One lost (IMO because it was super expensive and a system set, so it wasn’t even A bionicle), but we can still win the other. VOTE, BUY IT IF IT WINS, FIGHT FOR G3!
I must admit, especially the second wave of G2 showed how GOOD Bionicle could've been in their combination models! If Lego could've learned from G2 first wave and G2 second wave Bionicle would've been one of the prettyest and most creative lego toylines period
Gathered Friends let us rejoice, for even though Bioncle is gone, The Great spirit and all of its takes live on In Us Remember the three virtues Unity Duty and Destiny.
All the combiners? Time to review the Rahi and Dark Hunters from their guides! :P This has been a fun journey. It's really awesome to see every combiner through this series, since many of them I haven't built in years, or even at all sometimes. Props to you for your work here, and I look forwards to the finale!
That Makuta model is amazing! It’s one of my favorite things from Bionicle. I got lucky and found most of the sets needed to build the combo model before everything got insanely expensive. I like it a lot!
The G2 sets were barely sold in the UK, so I didn’t get to see let alone buy them- I never saw Makuta until today, and WOW I think, next to Kardas, it is one of the best combiners from Bionicle ever- it used so much of what it was given
I still have my Makuta combiner put together, even today. I actually went and got copies of the component sets specifically to build it, too, as well as ordering a "Titan sized" Mask of Ultimate Power (in black, of course) for him to wear. It's great.
Thank you so much, you have really reignited my absolute love of this series. I remember some of these with fondness, others I hated (Gaardus). So thank you for all you do. Please review roboriders!
Umarak could have come with the large black one and toa ekimu could have come with the smaller gold one. Would have been great.... Hopefully LEGO randomly releases it in a set or something
For Doomurak (that's what some people call that one with all four of the villains), I think LEGO had kept the topheavy issue slightly in mind when they designed the legs. Like, the feet are gigantic, you can actually balance just the completed torso on one leg, without anything else on it (meaning no head, arms, or both feet), and it will stand, thanks to the giant feet pieces used. Edit: Figured I'd just point that out to you, Eljay, if you're reading, for whatever reason.
That was a pretty fantastic video series. Quite a shame that Bionicle got canceled after 2016. I imagined it going into greater lengths in the following years after that. Even if there was just one more year, I would have been satisfied. Shopping trips just aren't the same now that there aren't any Bionicle sets to buy anymore. It's also sad that CCBS is not being produced in sets anymore, much less in Bionicle and Hero Factory sets. I guess LEGO thought bringing out Bionicle again in a new generation would work, but it apparently flopped. For me, I think two years is a bit to short of a lifespan of Bionicle Generation 2, but when it comes to sales, what can you do? I haven't been building any MOC's as often as I used to. I made a few of them from time to time, but I haven't been purchasing very many new parts for my MOC making collection.
I never had any experience with the alternate/combo models as a kid. I have really enjoyed watching your series Eljay! I look forward to whatever you do next!
Interesting video. Makuta was definatly a surprise (didn't know that G2 had something good). But you know what you must do next LJay. You're already hearing the wispers of Meso and Dead Matoro. That wich you'll do next shall be... ...THE HERO FACTORY COMBOS!!!
Makuta is awesome. I built him out of parts that I had on hand and several BrickLink parts-purchases. While it was cheaper than buying the individual sets, it still cost quite a bit. International shops were a lifesaver too for the more rare parts. But man, Makuta G2 is SOOO worth it. It is one of my favorite sets and is definitely the best thing that came out of G2.
So recently I just watched through JTO on Netflix for fun and when looking at the makuta model that they used in the show it had the neck armor gone I don’t know why but the small ccbs trans neon reddish orange is just gone in JTO maybe it was just hard for the animators to implement it or what but it isn’t there in JTO
In the 2003 remixed review you said in the combo between pahrak, nuhvok, pahrak kal and nuhvok kal, that it was the only combo which combines two years of sets. 2016 Makuta busted it!
Yknow what lego should do to revive the technic line so we can get a lot of these pieces to a new generation? Make a mech series, they had an anime themed one back in the day but they could just go nuts with technic pieces and have a lego figure inside, the pose ability would be phenomenal with this type of build set
after 4 years of saving i have ordered all the last wave sets (didn't come out in my country ;^;) and all the component sets for makuta... and also a tiny villager makuta
The problem with the g2 combo models is that they were all pretty much just upgraded versions of existing sets. the 2016 combiners were much more involved than the ones from the previous year, but they still just look like upgraded versions of the original characters. (with the exception of makuta.)
they didn't really try to make new characters or creatures to fill out the world like they did with g1's combiners.
That is accurate
the only non-upgrade official combo model would be the skull villains combo, right? (basher,slicer,warrior)
It's hard to think that we'll probably never see bionicle review's from Eljay again, he started seven years ago, and we've truly made it to the end.
It would be really cool if he did Hero Factory at some point
Makuta at the end is like a poetic conclusion to Bionicle's end and lore.
It's like Makuta himself ended the series, awaiting the day it might return.
It's also nice that the original series ended with mata nui and this series with makuta; the good and evil ending.
Like they were two sides of the same coin.
Sadly g1 ended with the stars, even if toa mata nui is the real last set... And for me, one of the best
I wonder how many of the pieces from the makuta set you can still order from lego's part reclamation thing
@@bloodstoneore4630 probably the technic pins, axles, and beams that are still in use, and that's pretty much it
@@PuppeteerGaming damn, I was hoping some ccbs would be in play
G1 ended with Gaardus
Makuta, the first villain named for Bionicle, now its last creation. Almost poetic in a way
👁👁
Such a bittersweet video, we've seen all of the lovely combo models, but this is where the road ends, no more combo models, no more episodes.
there is another, 2 actually: 6936 and 6937
@@Chefbigpp iirc he reviewed them both on his personal channel a while back, so this is most likely the end
@@PuppeteerGaming yes I saw that. Don't know how I missed those
There were recently two polls for an official set to be made including an option for bionicle. One lost (IMO because it was super expensive and a system set, so it wasn’t even A bionicle), but we can still win the other. VOTE, BUY IT IF IT WINS, FIGHT FOR G3!
Gathered friends, let us rejoice and remember all the good times lj has given us.
XDD
@@Matoro0902_The_Wise how are u still alive?! Didn't u sacrifice yourself for Mata Nui?
@@vakamatoaoffire4948 matoro keeps stalking me at every bionicle video i go to...
I love hearing the pure joy in Eljay's voice while talking about Makuta
Where boys, man and legends left a tier go down from their eye:
I must admit, especially the second wave of G2 showed how GOOD Bionicle could've been in their combination models!
If Lego could've learned from G2 first wave and G2 second wave Bionicle would've been one of the prettyest and most creative lego toylines period
Agreed, g2 had AMAZING sets, imo, most of them are better than nearly all g1 sets.
When Eljay dropped the British accent with the monocle, I lost it. XD
Powered up Tahu: Awesome
Posered up Kopaka: Amazing
Powered up Umarak the destroyer: Lame you just add a few things
Yeah, I'm actually trying to make a better Umarak the Destroyer combiner, giving him longer legs, a tail, and multiple arms and functions.
Powered up umarak more like snake umarak or crocodile umarak
Next time- End of Eja
Gathered Friends let us rejoice, for even though Bioncle is gone, The Great spirit and all of its takes live on In Us
Remember the three virtues
Unity Duty and Destiny.
Well Bionicle is going to be 20 years old in 2021. Hopefully just hopefully Lego does something for it.
I'm expecting nothing, but I'm hoping for at least something
@@ColdGoldLazarus they better pull a Ninjago Legacy and do remakes of older sets.
I want Lego to re-release the first three Bionicle movies with a live symphony, I'd LOVE to see that. If that does happend it sould nation wide.
A sticker.
All the combiners? Time to review the Rahi and Dark Hunters from their guides! :P
This has been a fun journey. It's really awesome to see every combiner through this series, since many of them I haven't built in years, or even at all sometimes.
Props to you for your work here, and I look forwards to the finale!
I’ve enjoyed watching your reviews for closer to a decade than not. Thank you very much for all your hard work, Eljay. Have a wonderful New Year.
That Makuta model is amazing!
It’s one of my favorite things from Bionicle. I got lucky and found most of the sets needed to build the combo model before everything got insanely expensive. I like it a lot!
Hearing Eljay happy will always make me happy.
The G2 sets were barely sold in the UK, so I didn’t get to see let alone buy them- I never saw Makuta until today, and WOW
I think, next to Kardas, it is one of the best combiners from Bionicle ever- it used so much of what it was given
I still have my Makuta combiner put together, even today. I actually went and got copies of the component sets specifically to build it, too, as well as ordering a "Titan sized" Mask of Ultimate Power (in black, of course) for him to wear. It's great.
Yes, time to watch another remixed review 😁
Yes sir
Thank you so much, you have really reignited my absolute love of this series. I remember some of these with fondness, others I hated (Gaardus). So thank you for all you do.
Please review roboriders!
I wish Lego actually made the mask of ultimate power as a an official piece that would've came with umarak the destroyer.
yeah, me too
Umarak could have come with the large black one and toa ekimu could have come with the smaller gold one. Would have been great.... Hopefully LEGO randomly releases it in a set or something
It came as a sticker in ninjago city docks
@@ferfender007 I can imagine just someone sticking that sticker onto the face of Makuta lol
lego should have made g2 makuta a combo set and made the mask of ultimate power exclusive to it like old times
You've got some gaul premiering this on central European new year's hour.
For Doomurak (that's what some people call that one with all four of the villains), I think LEGO had kept the topheavy issue slightly in mind when they designed the legs.
Like, the feet are gigantic, you can actually balance just the completed torso on one leg, without anything else on it (meaning no head, arms, or both feet), and it will stand, thanks to the giant feet pieces used.
Edit: Figured I'd just point that out to you, Eljay, if you're reading, for whatever reason.
We should get a new top 10 combination models video this year now that this series is complete.
Achievment Unlocked: Uniter of Plastic (review every canon Bionicle product)
Fun fact:Umarak the destroyers power up is officially named Doomarak
That was a pretty fantastic video series. Quite a shame that Bionicle got canceled after 2016. I imagined it going into greater lengths in the following years after that. Even if there was just one more year, I would have been satisfied. Shopping trips just aren't the same now that there aren't any Bionicle sets to buy anymore. It's also sad that CCBS is not being produced in sets anymore, much less in Bionicle and Hero Factory sets. I guess LEGO thought bringing out Bionicle again in a new generation would work, but it apparently flopped. For me, I think two years is a bit to short of a lifespan of Bionicle Generation 2, but when it comes to sales, what can you do? I haven't been building any MOC's as often as I used to. I made a few of them from time to time, but I haven't been purchasing very many new parts for my MOC making collection.
I got my mask of ultimate power for christmas this year from shapeways and Cyberhand made a great mask
You've heard of elf on the shelf, get ready for:
3:38 BIONICLE with a monocle
That skit was glorious.
The best way to end 2020 and start 2021, thanks L.J.
I never had any experience with the alternate/combo models as a kid. I have really enjoyed watching your series Eljay!
I look forward to whatever you do next!
Eljay > Your favorite reviewer
Congrats my man
Love that Makuta figure so much.
Love the Makuta combo at first but my main problem is that it doesn't hold up to the test of time
Interesting video. Makuta was definatly a surprise (didn't know that G2 had something good).
But you know what you must do next LJay.
You're already hearing the wispers of Meso and Dead Matoro.
That wich you'll do next shall be...
...THE HERO FACTORY COMBOS!!!
That Makuta build is Incredible!!
Thank you for these! Can't wait to see your finale ^^
Makuta is awesome.
I built him out of parts that I had on hand and several BrickLink parts-purchases. While it was cheaper than buying the individual sets, it still cost quite a bit. International shops were a lifesaver too for the more rare parts.
But man, Makuta G2 is SOOO worth it. It is one of my favorite sets and is definitely the best thing that came out of G2.
I think it was one of your previous videos that inspired me to build him, so thank you! You are awesome.
I wonder what Lego Theme will ElJay be Reviewing Next, Robo Riders? The Classic Ninjago Sets from 2011 - 2018
Premier people rise up!!!!
2:45 Exo-Force's Grand Titan called.
-I'm kidding of course.-
Nobody:
TTV Messageboards Highlights: Date night Maku
(News announcer voice)
Eljay, now that you’ve reviewed everything, what will you do now?!
I hope he does hero factory
@@Dualbladedscorpion7737 OMG YES
Hero Factory would be great!
This will be missed,Eljay I love your part in Knoxus's story
It would be so cool if there was a finale video that talked about combo models overall in bionicle though as I type it it sounds like a nak and jay.
Don't be sad it ended, just be happy it happened
So recently I just watched through JTO on Netflix for fun and when looking at the makuta model that they used in the show it had the neck armor gone I don’t know why but the small ccbs trans neon reddish orange is just gone in JTO maybe it was just hard for the animators to implement it or what but it isn’t there in JTO
I feel like if g3 were to come around it should be brick Built g1 sets and vehicles that have proper minifigs and finish off G1's story
Did you hear that Faber is working on Bionicle g3?
@@wisconsinking323 nope but im glad
its sad that this is the last one but i guess theres no more combos to review
Duck Bricks is handling all the fan-submitted canon Bionicle models over on his channel.
What about the alternate powered-up Umarak combiner from the German Lego Magazine?
In the 2003 remixed review you said in the combo between pahrak, nuhvok, pahrak kal and nuhvok kal, that it was the only combo which combines two years of sets. 2016 Makuta busted it!
Wouldn't it be cool to put Takutanuva's mask of shadows on the G2 Makuta?
How can I find all the pieces for the Makuta model for fairly cheap?
End of an era
Somewhere, in an alternate universe, lego made g2 versions of the piraka instead of the three beasts.
#DeadJay
How did u get the instructions for these 2 combo models ya know the ones with the 2 toa at the beginning of the vid
2001-2008 = best bionicle combiners.
That's incredible build
What about the fan created rahi/dark hunters ? They are cannon too. And some of them are very cool !
This had the funniest skit ever, I swearXD
Hello there from 2021!
Thanks for thos series it was really informative and interesting
El rant jay finally did it
Yknow what lego should do to revive the technic line so we can get a lot of these pieces to a new generation? Make a mech series, they had an anime themed one back in the day but they could just go nuts with technic pieces and have a lego figure inside, the pose ability would be phenomenal with this type of build set
I remember when i build the makuta, it umm took a little 7 days
How did u get the instructions for like all of dis XD I never found any instructions for this
I love the details
You should combined all the red Bionicle figures throughout the years
using the 2008 onward joints is very risky though
@@nobodycares8421 true
after 4 years of saving i have ordered all the last wave sets (didn't come out in my country ;^;) and all the component sets for makuta... and also a tiny villager makuta
dude tried to scam me by making me use a dodgy site. to this day i do not have them
i love the umarak the destroyer combiner set
Never say never! Bioncile will come back in the future in some shape. I know it.
The prophecy will be fulfilled.
Oh god that hulking body held on that spinning hip. Umarak the destroyer won’t be able to stand
I find it funny, how the first and last combo models both need an extra ball piece
Congratulations, Eljay! You've finished the Remixed Reviews!
Now, when are we gonna see the fan-build reviews? :p
Yes made it
Eljay: "Gen 2 sets are expensive"
eBay: Average price $30 bones Canadian
Me, a video game collector: "those are rookie numbers"
$30? That was retail price here
LETS GOOOOOO
You should do a series on fan combo models
@Gryffen_Medina congrats on accidentaly being the last person to say something in the live chat
The absolute madlads, a bionicle with a monocle (also a rare good mock British accent for once! xD)
I like the doomarak he is amazing power up instructions
Ninjago Recap Reviews plz
Is Zhokker's mask villager scale or titan scale?
It's as close to 1:1 with the one the LEGO set designers use as possible. So as far as I know, titan scale.
Thanks
Where is the extra shell on JTO Makuta?
On the lower chest on Makuta’s Right Side
I like jto makuta version
Lets make lego to release bionicle in 2021
No Eljay's canonized reviews?
GOD I wish I was rich so I could buy the $10,000 platinum version of that mask O.O
I AM MISSING ONE SET TO MAKE MAKUTA ARE YOU KIDDING ME
TTV... So you're making one last Bionicle video... Good luck on your final Bionicle video 🙂
The mediocre g2 has one of a greatest combo model at it's end, and the great g1 has as it last combo... well, you know
OMG is he finally gonna review 6936 and 6937
Done and done. ua-cam.com/video/G1CdTzks96c/v-deo.html
@@EljayJohnsen ohh noice, see you back for the comic and book sets xd (happy new year!)
Hell ye
Never thought that Bionicle would become this expensive.