>>10771611It really is the marketing that sold it as mysterious, I'm 95's kid and can attest to that. But if you look at the data, Bionicle was at it's most succesful when it was more of a toy and less of an action figure. the reported sales peak was 2003, and from then it was on slow stagnation till the end.
You are right about the colors still, but kids today also just have different sensibilities. Lego wouldn't be making ninja mechs if those didn't sell, and as the catalog is now swamped with those it's reasonable to assume they do pretty damn well. Pearl gold sucks and it has always sucked at everything aside Brutaka and one can only hope kids start getting bored of it was well.
were G3 to happen it would probably meet somewhere inbetween G1 and G2
As much as focus groups matter, they must have also realized by now that if they want to sell any Tahu to the "I had the red one",That has to also reasonably look like Tahu.
+Really, people who worked on G2 had barely reportedly experienced G1 themselves. Most of their exposure was from the story bible. Probably only reason it was even recognizable to a single fan was Faber giving it backbone to build their nonexistent story on. But what you now got is someone who was long time fan pretty much heading the entire mech development process and skilled bionicle mocers have consistently joined the ranks over the past few years. The situation in the company couldn't be internally different at the development level. If people who got into the company thanks to Bionicle don't know what made it popular then we truly are in dire straits.
When it comes to leaks, what we have is the words of a prominent leaker, but sure even taken at face value all of it is just speculation as much many would want to paint him as trustworthy, you never know what's really happening.
There's plenty of reasons to be optimistic, but the pessimistc reason is still indeed Lego's reluctancy to greenlight what the designers and story team may need.
