>>9520660Bionicle by-and-large is the product of young guys with big imaginations. It’s the perfect example of science fantasy
>inb4 talking shit on post 03 stuffMy point is that it allows technical imagination with “how can I build this?” To fantasy imagination with “what world do these characters live in?”
I won’t link it but that one art of the Toa Hagah recently annoys me because it’s the same generic art style that every “popular” bionicle artist makes these days. We talked about a certain group of people last thread, and yeah I hate them too, but the problem is bigger imo. The real problem is too many mainstream, consumer, and worst of all, UNIMAGINATIVE people seem to be making themselves known as bionicle fans. They want the official LEGO authority to legitimize their own imagination, they want to define everything, they want to have everything explained, when that just reveals they probably never owned a lot of sets as kids not because they were poor but because they preferred to just read world-building and lore shit online.
It’s these people that I would say are “ruining” the bionicle fan base. Loud, unimaginative consumers.
Overall I’d say the average bionicle fan is a mid-twenties guy who goes “bionicle? Oh yeah I had some of those as a kid. They were so cool!” And then would talk to you for a few minutes as his memories come back to him and he’s happy to relive his childhood thoughts and experiences with bionicle. Those other annoying people are just a loud minority amplified by the totalitarian control over the internet by their authority figure mods n sheeeeit
