>>10283146We all know what happened to G2, and it was largely sabotage.
it was planned to have a much bigger focus in 2015 when it got its big reveal, but Lego suddenly changed their mind and put all of their eggs in Ninjago, which pretty much yeeted Bionicle G2's advertising budget.
From there, Disney wanted Starwars CCBS sets, which created self-competition in Lego sets, causing both lines to crash and burn in 2015. Not to mention that Retailers had so little faith in Bionicle that the sets launched on *clearance*. No joke. the sets didn't even get a chance to make sales simply for the fact that there weren't enough to go around.
Retailers are also fucking stupid and will refuse to restock products unless they sell *all* of their stock and not a moment sooner, which means this fucking thing shelfwarmed because it was a shit set, none of the good sets ever saw a restock.
Skeleton Theme drops, Everything launches on clearance again, and the Scorpion Shelfwarms because its shit.
2016 launches, the Animal buddies shelfwarm, Fuck.
by then, the Beasts were just...collectively shit because the budget to make something cool just wasn't there (they blew the budget on a Netflix show that was borderline unwatchable), so the line as a whole was given the ol' yeller treatment.