>>9984410>>9984560I grew up with Bionicle and technic, then later CCBS in my teenage years, but I'm personally more interested in the creative aspects and the building system of Bionicle and Lego in general. I never cared too much for things that are only display pieces, it's pretty rare when I don't take apart the sets I bought after a few days to start MOCing with the pieces, sometimes I also straight up just get pieces separately from bricklink and sometimes other places. I still build action figures and Bionicle-styled stuff, but my MOCs tend to be built of a mixture of technic and system parts that are still in production and a few Bionicle and CCBS parts here and there if they have the shape I want.
I'd be happy too if Bionicle came back, but I'm okay without it. And in a sense I don't think it necessarily "needs" to come back for us to be able to make Bionicle MOCs. There's a lot of technic panel pieces and system pieces (they mostly use them in Ninjago) now that can be used as armor, and those different types of rounded slope pieces (mostly used in Speed Champions sets) can be used give more shape and details to MOCs and fill out empty spaces, so they won't look to blocky and "system-ish", you can use system rods to imitate the pistons of Bionicle pieces, there are some parts that look like vents, etc.
It's also interesting how they're trying to integrate constraction into system now, like those Ninjago EVO sets and Spiderman figures this year for example, granted those mostly still look too bland and blocky.
But I also get it that some people don't care much about MOCing, or that the style of Bionicle imitated with technic and system pieces doesn't look close enough to actual Bionicle, or they care more about the story and the media than the sets themselves.
