>>7299418>We got only two out of the promised three years. We never got a set of the promised big bad and the mask the entire story was about>Most of the shoelace budget went in making literal golden masks for a competition in the first year>Eventually we get pictures of prototypes and concept art and discover the designers had their plausible ideas that would had made a good product turned down or overly simplified. Nexo Knights suffered a similar fatePlus there was some fandom drama. Also
>Masks are a big deal in Bionicle>LEGO releases mask packs (masks in non-set colours) for the first three years of G1>Fans are making petitions for LEGO to bring back mask pascks for the following six years to no avail>LEGO can't produce Space Sets because they might take sales away from Star Wars>Releases Nexo Knights, Castle and Space mixed together, but not in space>Nexo Knights get shield pack right off the bat but nobody buys them>Nexo Knights get cancelled >Mixels are fun and cheap part packs that sell great>LEGO cancels them>Bionicle fans expect the last year of G1 to be a commemorative series>They get an infamous line of non-commemorative six small barebones sets with little articulation called STARS>Ninjago got a movie and is now getting a commemorative series called LegacyBionicle saved LEGO, and LEGO shat on it's early shallow grave.
