Retro LEGO | The Toa Mata Ranked!
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- LEGO BIONICLE hit store shelves in 2001 with the 6 original Toa.
Today, I will be ranking all 6 Toa Mata and sharing my thoughts on the beginnings of a theme that defined a generation of LEGO fans.
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Nice to finally see Onua getting some love. He will always be my favorite, too.
I haven't met many who say Onus is their favorite, so it's great to hear I'm not alone in that opinion. Thanks!
Ditto. Also, the mask and claws made some amazing spiders builds !
You had me at that intro.
😆 I might’ve gotten a bit carried away, but I had a good time! 😂
it's on Point 💁🏻♀️
Onua, my heart, my first ever bionicle. May he reign proudly
Onua forever!!!!!
5:42 fun fact: i felt the same way about his mask and the same resemblance. So back around 2016, during G2, i created a Jason Voorhees figure using the white version of this mask and mamy brown parts, especially from Pohatu and others of his element.
Haha! I knew I couldn't be the only one who thought this. That's cool that you actually acted on that and made a Jason figure!
Pohatu was actually my first and favorite, I liked that he had a different look, that he can attack from range, and his mask kind of looked like a cat to me 😅
Totally valid! I think they did a great job at appealing to a wide group of people. Any one of these Toa is worth being someone’s favorite!
Of the Toa Mata, I had Lewa. Course the one I really wanted was Kopaka.
Both great choices 👍
Fantastic production value and great work!
Thank you very very much! I'm very passionate about this stuff, and I'm glad you enjoyed me blabbing about it. LOL.
Tahu, the brave - if sometimes brash - leader.
Gali, the caring heart.
Kopaka, the skillful loner.
Lewa, the jokester.
Pohatu, the ever-friendly soul.
Onua, the patiently wise.
These six were the heroes of my childhood, and to hear that Bionicle is now considered retro just breaks my heart…
Nothin' wrong with being retro! It just makes it even cooler.
Great video, glad I subscribed!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it.
I just recently got back into these since my childhood, I found a complete bahrok in my basement and the remnants of Topaka missing his mask and a foot lol, I searched around on eBay and just bought a completed Onua with canister to start to rebuild the collection I once had
Luckily they’re not crazy expensive if you’re patient. Good luck!
I remember buying Tahu at the Lego store in Downtown Disney when I was maybe 8 or 9, great memories.
That's where it all started for us! Great times.
I thought about my favorites before I watched the video, and surprise, we had exactly the same order!
Nice video :-)
Woot woot! You might be the first 😆
My favorite was the green one, and I also collected a bunch of them. so fun
They're all great!
I had the next series of them. Never had these first editions, but the movies and story was so complex and interesting at that time for me.
Still probably the deepest lore of any LEGO theme.
No way, Onua was my favorite too 😁
Onua reps unite!
In the books, Pohatu was a super friendly and chill guy, which makes me love him. But as a set, he’s definitely not as flashy
Yep! There's really nothing wrong with him. He just didn't have the aesthetic I preferred back then (or now).
This takes me back 😊😊😊
2001 was a GREAT year for LEGO releases.
All 6 Toa Mata are lit 11/10 sets🔥
That’s why they were hard to rank! They’re all so strong. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I liked the Mata much better than the Nuva.
@@keltondavisLEGO True I do think Mata are much better then Nuva, but do I think at least Nuva are better then Mistika.
@@j.streicker769 I didn’t really follow Bionicle after the Nuva (my dark ages had begun) but from what I’ve seen, you’re quite right.
@@keltondavisLEGO Yeah I agree I did kinda follow Bionicle after Nuva. I really liked the Toa Metru of 04 & same with Titans sets 04-05. I wasn’t big fan of Hordkia, however after that I couple of 06-07 figures thought some of them were pretty solid, but after 08-09 then I dropped of Bionicle altogether.
Pohatu in my mind is the (transforers) bumblebee of the series. Overly friendly and energetic his front face vents gave e the impression of big puppy dog cheeks 🐶. I also saw lewa as a wise cracking overconfident dude
So funny how we all projected personalities on these characters. LEGO gave us the first piece, then we completed the puzzle.
do more retro lego this vids are fire man love it
Thank you! New episode coming this Friday!!
My ranking:
1. Lewa
2. Kopaka
3. Onua
4. Tahu
5. Gali
6. Pohatu
In an only slightly different world, that could very well have been my exact list.
1. Kopaka (solo warrior)
2. Lewa (forest savage)
3. Tahu (gladiator)
4. Gali (scubba girl)
5. Onua (caveman)
6. Pohatu (soccer player)
Solid ranking! Love the nicknames.
ONUA WAS MY FIRST TOA TOO! My dude!
He’s the best!
Throwbots were my jam. If you make a video on them and robo riders I will appreciate it
Definitely on the list!
Yeah I love seeing other people's rankings. But here's mine
6.Gali mostly for the same reason as you, my 11yr old mind wasn't ready for a female protag lol. Which is ironic given my now love for strong female leads in media.
5.Onua. I always thought of him as the oafish, brute force one, which in lore isn't accurate at all but what did I know.
4.Lewa, I loved the axe and the two tone green.
3. Pohatu. Love the speedster concept and love how he gave a carefree mood to fighting evil.
2.Tahu. loved the fire motif and he was neat and all. I always imagined him butting heads with Kopaka.
1.Kopaka. my first bionicle set. As a kid who didn't talk much, I always found myself attaching myself to moody, quiet characters
Love these descriptions. Amazing how we all interpreted these characters a bit differently. Imagination took charge!
My fav was always the green one
A worthy choice indeed.
Onua was also my favorite, such a unique design and awesome color scheme! And I also mispronounced Lewa, thought I always said Leewa
Onua was the man!! Glad to see there were others who appreciated him. And I guess Lewa was just a hard one to get right. LOL.
Great intro on this! Kopaka and Lewa were and always will be my favorites. Though - when considering all the Bionicle theme - Matoro as a Toa Mahri has to be my absolute singular favorite character, though mostly due to his sacrifice in the context of the story, with Vezon being a close second for overall coolness.
Plans to go any further in the Bionicle theme as a part of the series? Admittedly, they pretty quickly became not-very-retro.
Thank you! This is probably about as far as I’ll go for Bionicle in this particular series, since the other releases get to be pretty recent. But I definitely plan to make more Bionicle content on the channel as a whole!
Do more retro lego videos! You should rank the Orient Expedition line!
New episode coming tomorrow!
Kopaka Nuva was my first Bionicle, and he always struck me as the distant one of the group. He keeps a cool head usually tries to stay detached so that the Toa can always approach a situation rationally. Onua is more about wisdom, but Kopaka is about strategy.
I love how we all had different personalities that we projected on these characters. It made the BIONICLE world our own! It’s so fun to hear all your perspectives.
Lego sure does enjoy making elemental-themed heroes eh?
They sure do! I suppose it’s an easy idea to turn into collectible figures/sets. I’m planning a Throwbots episode for the future!
I hope you also consider talking about the Lego Knights Kingdom figure sets.
Definitely in the list!
@@keltondavisLEGOAwesome. Not only was I a big Bionicle fan (specifically the 2001 - 2003 era) but also the Knights figures. I had all three waves. I even played with my Toa and Knights together and I would have them team up.
Love seeing Bionicle get some respect! I can't believe I've been mispronouncing Lewa for the past 20+ years
@willryan9607 Were you a “LOO-UH” person too!? Now I don’t feel so alone! 😂
My favourite toa mata is... All of them. I can't pick 😭.
I had all six of them as a teen, I had no exposure to the "canonical lore", all I knew is that I just loved them. Also, for some weird reason to me they were like Gundams (I suppose I was into a mech fixation at the time). I'd build what were effectively back packs for them out of bricks and plates, so that minifigs could pilot them 😅.
There just was something intriguing about bionicle, a call to explore their strange and mysterious world...
I was vaguely aware of the lore myself, but I most often played out my own stories. That’s what’s great about LEGO. It can be whatever you want it to be!
@@keltondavisLEGO I really knew nothing at all, like, I didn't even know Gali was a girl! I was aware each toa had elemental power, because their design makes it pretty clear, but didn't know the masks had powers (though I had figured that they "powered" them in some way, a bit like medals in medabots).
I can see you lost the sleeve of your cannister -- I don't know what it is about them, but it seems like that's the case for lots of people 😅. Its really hard to find those cannisters now, even more with the sleeve! (Not even going to mention the lid)
@@SuperSecretBricks I'm ashamed to admit that I really wanted Gali as a kid, until I found out she was a girl. Booo.
And yes, I'm not sure where the sleeve went on mine. I actually had to buy Kopaka second-hand from someone else, because my brother is the one who had Kopaka as a kid. Finding him with the canister was a minor miracle, but I do wish the sleeve was still on there.
Bro, I have voice envy. Mine has too little gravitas and too much "kermit"
Haha! Thank you. 🙏 Kermit is way more famous than me, though, so you’ve got a good thing going! 😉
@@keltondavisLEGO yeah, but his voice attracts pigs 😂😂
awesome video keep up the good work
Thank you! I appreciate that 👍
For me it's Blue > Green > Black > White > Red > Brown
Interesting! I love hearing everyone's take on this. At least we agree on brown! Haha.
Can you make a similar video of the Slizers/Throwbots :)
It’s definitely on my list! I loved those!
@@keltondavisLEGO Glad to hear! I loved them too! I don't know why a lot of people seem to see them negatively. Maybe it's just that they were a precursor to Bionicle and maybe not as cool as them, but I don't see anything wrong with them. Me and my friends all had those and would play with them and swap them around. Lots of good memories.
@@mkaali Throwbots learned to walk so that BIONICLE could fly.
@@keltondavisLEGO Yes!
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1. Lewa
2. Tahu
3. Gali
4. Pohatu
5. Onua
6. Kopaka
(my opinion)
Love it! I rarely see Lewa at the very top. Good to see him get some love!