If you're allowing silver tools, you could make an ice Matau; his staff comes in silver on an old racers set

Tahu turning becoming so hot he turns blue in an intense battle would actually have been a great story moment.

Tahu: Toa of Propane - -Mmmhm, that's a clean-burnin Toa.

This was such a cool video, I like that you even recreated the canister art with the color switched ones! It would be awesome if you tried creating your own Toa Mata team that utilise the secondary elements such as: Gravity, Lightning, Plantlife, Magnetism etc!

@crushedcan5378

10 ай бұрын

there is already a channel on youtube that has been doing toa mata builds of various elements dood

@freddoesvox9033

10 ай бұрын

@@crushedcan5378 I know, Im subbed to him. It doesn’t mean that other channeks aren’t allowed to do it though

@yeth797

10 ай бұрын

@@freddoesvox9033 Whats the channel name? im interested

@freddoesvox9033

10 ай бұрын

@@yeth797 Nuparu’s Workshop, he hasn’t uploaded in a couple of months though :(

If this was a 2000s/early 2010s youtube channel Pohaut would start coming back as a comical nemesis for how he/his element got slighted here lul

This feels like an iconic moment for the series from an alternate universe where G1 Bionicle had a TV show lol

@SueDonym-qx7or

Ай бұрын

Maybe an episode where some Weird Magic Stuff (tm) shuffles around their elements?

Kopaka got that n word pass

For the Fire Lewa at 11:01, the 6M Technic axles in Mata red at first only appeared in two sets (3544 and 3545) from the short-lived Hockey subtheme of "Sports" from 2003 and two Bionicle parts tubs in 2005 (8715), and '06 (6620) respectively. Ten years later, they were brought back in three Technic sets (42049, 42050, and 42052) in January of 2016, and are still in use today, having appeared in roughly 147 sets overall.

Would love to see a sequel to this making color swapped Toa Nuva

@G_Gr00v3

3 ай бұрын

It would definitely be a lot easier with the silver armor and tools regardless of Toa, so we can see each Toa in every color easily. I bet they would look awesome!

I was just thinking about something similar this morning- would love to see Gali with the Hahli mahri color scheme using Lewa parts, Kopaka with light blue instead of grey, and Onewa with Tahu's orange parts etc. Alternate color schemes while still trying to fit the element would be cool

@brickthumb

10 ай бұрын

Oh, that's a good one! Adding to the list, thanks :)

Blue Tahu is DEFINITELY Toa of gas. Such simple, yet genius idea!

@ToaOfFusion

10 ай бұрын

He's the Toa of Propane and Propane Accessories

@G1Arcee

7 ай бұрын

Mhm! Great idea.

@TheFaceSoap

7 ай бұрын

Toa of Steam. hot air, as they say

@Finthesharkguy5555

Ай бұрын

I thought it would have been Tahu, Toa currents

There are alternative universes in Bionicle, so it’s not that far of a stretch to say this could be a possibility. In my opinion, if there were a “Shiny Toa Universe” Tahu would be the Toa of Water, Gali would be the Toa of Fire, Onua would be the Toa of Ice, and Kopaka would be the Toa of Earth

I had thought all about these possibilities. I had thought about possibly making a Fire Gali when I was a kid and knew that if I got the Master Builder set, I would have two orange weapon arms. Although I didn't have the red Kaukau until years later. It's interesting to see I am not the only one who thought of this idea.

I really like these sorts of videos you've been doing, you've come up with some really cool re-imaginings of characters while staying faithful to their original builds.

glacier onua is my new favourite Toa 😁

YES! I've been waiting for this video! You pulled it off even better than I imagined. Such a shame we didn't get recolors of everything, especially Pohatu.. oh well. I currently have an Onua of Ice and a Gali of Fire, so those are definitely my favourites.

@brickthumb

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it :) Gotta confess, my fingers were pretty sore by the end of it!

@NaveSutlef

10 ай бұрын

@@brickthumbWe all appreciate your sacrifices haha. Looking forward to your next video!

ice pohatu definitely takes the win for me. but in all fairhood his shoes were never essential enough to warrant worrying. coz all he needs is his stoneball which comes in many and can be even be approximated via regular system bricks allowing all six color variants possible. but yeah i would love to see toa voriki reviewed someday.

The Kanohi Kaukau being transparent will always make Gali stand out.

Love it when you do the imposable with these builds

10:13, idk if this was the case elsewhere, but I remember Legoland California having a Bionicle/Hero Factory room where you could build stuff. And for whatever reason, they had specific recolors of the 2001 Toa masks, where the red Akuka was one of them. And I definitely, absolutely did not take the recolors with me out of the park…

hm, this video makes me imagine the Toa being ambushed by a Rahi of some kind that rearranges their elements, and they must learn how to properly use their new elemental powers from each other so that they can defeat the Rahi and set things right.

I had actually gotten the black Tahu sword in one of those barrels of random pieces from 04-05, and I didn’t get my hands on Tahu mats until 2021 so there’s always been a weird nostalgia for me surrounding that version of the piece.

My favourite would have to be the white Toa Mata Onua, the Toa of Mountains, if that sounds cool. Since earth and ice make mountains. Or maybe the green Toa Mata Onua, the Toa of Dirt? Since plants and earth make dirt. Or maybe the black Toa Mata Kopaka, the Toa of Mountains type 2? Since earth and ice make mountains. Or maybe the white Toa Mata Pohatu, the Toa of Quartz? Since ice and stone make quartz. The white Toa Mata Pohatu would look really cool in his silver Mask of Speed! Or maybe the red Toa Mata Lewa, The Toa of Fire Tornadoes? Since wind and fire make fire tornadoes.

@Green24152

Ай бұрын

Bit jank having the air guys be jungle-themed, huh?

This was really entertaining! especially learing what other sets used alternate color pieces. I remember finding alternate uses for bionicle pieces in other sets and always thinking it was kind of neat.

Seeing all these sets again brings back some strong nostalgia

Personally, I feel like you could get away with using a black hand connector piece for Ice Lewa. It's a neutral color used for the Toa's shoulders and hips, and I don't think it breaks away too far from the established color palette. Maybe replace his finger parts with white to compensate?

In the original books the gray on Kopaka is described as silver, and Pohatu’s brown as bronze. So the silver feet for Ice Pohatu absolutely work

Great vid, appreciate you matching classic promo poses with the shinies

The 7L axle does actually exist in brown, although perhaps it would be a bit too long for Lewa's axe. It is also quite rare as it only came in set 4195 Queen Anne's Revenge.

@brickthumb

10 ай бұрын

Oh wow, can't believe I missed that! Could be trimmed down to a more suitable length...I guess there's hope for Stone Lewa yet!

@SyntaxTsundere

7 ай бұрын

@@brickthumbthe tan arm piece still isn’t a thing, though… Lewa requires one. Adventures with Dye may yield better results for a stone Lewa.

I had some ideas for future "stone-swaps", that is if you arent a stickler for era accurate pieces, you could easily fill in the missing gaps with parts from Zesk, the stone bohrok, and Humungosaur. For example, on a stone onua you could use those humungosaur fists in place of the standard arms and add on humungosaur's feet just to spice things up. If you arent a fan of that look you could use Zesk's limbs and pop balljoints into the open sockets to hold weapons and shields. Hero Factory's Ogrum came with brown piraka feet so there is another option for "Stonua". On a stone kopaka for instance you could have that stone bohrok's shield stand in the place of that system shield he usually wields and pair that ensemble with his sword in silver. For Lewa, Tahu, and Gali silver weapons seems like the only "good" option give the avalible pieces, unless ofcourse you're willing to use a humungosaur tail as a whip 😂

interesting idea, they look cool in these different colors

Very cool video. I especially like how you show what sets the pieces come from and how rare they are!

Always love these recolour / rebuild videos! Seeing some of these really messed with my brain haha.

This video made me realise that all the G1 Toa names include their region prefix. If you take that concept, you can kinda give each of these MOCs a canon name. For example, blue Tahu would be called Gahu. Or white Pohatu would be called Kohatu.

I would love to see a dyed pieces video but pohatu really is the only problem unless you go full custom for his weapon like you did with the shadow toa

I really enjoyed the idea for this video! I've also been binge watching your other videos and love them. Can't wait to see what other ideas you come up with in the future!

@brickthumb

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching, plenty more planned :)

Love your ideas for MOCs and it also inspire me to make my own, keep sharing great content.

@brickthumb

10 ай бұрын

Thank you :)

Great video! Very fun to watch 😄

I actually *did* find Kopaka's ice shield in translucent Mata red, but, it was only available in the Space Force Lego City set from 2001. But, this *does* remind me of the Toa Mata Piraka Returns sets that I did in 2007! Really cool! Unfortunately, I got rid of all of my BIONICLE sets in 2007.

@DanielFleiss

5 ай бұрын

The only Toa Mata Piraka Returns set were only doable for Toa Mata Tahu, and Toa Mata Kopaka. The other ones just looked silly.

Kopaka actually fits the toa of earth look. Plus he has the best mask power for the job being the mask of x-ray vision.

love em. also the photo edits r super good

This was such a satisfying and relaxing video

Tahu original sword design works as waves for the water element hehe

Man this was awesome, your content is so dope

This is just awesome!!! And love the commentary

@brickthumb

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it :)

Him: * mentions toa of gass * Me: *breathes shakily sweating* ....I'm better than this..

If you can find a way to recreate the toa body, you can branch out into even crazier, rarer colours. I was able to design a functional replacement with slizer body parts that supported all the used connections for upright toa and the gear box, unlocking support for yellow, dark grey, and almost purple (sadly, the technic arm bits didn't come in classic purple or magenta)

Nice job posing the Toa like their original boxart! They look perfect, but my favorites are the Onua variants. The claws sharing the color of his arms works really well.

Video ideas: Toa mata built in the Inika build format. The matoran form of the toa inika built in the Inika (or mata) build format. Toa mata as turaga Turaga as toa mata Good side Karzhani and evil Artakha builds? 👀 Inika/ mahri into phantoka theme? Vici versa?

I was not ready for that power rangers reference for blue Tahu 😂 the toa of aquatar.

Excellent video! Hope to see more!

Wow! I’m pretty impressed with how these “shiny” Toa turned out. Nice job on the video!

I once made a Shadow Toa Tahu (like the representation of his silhouette on the advertisement etc)..basically in black with yellow eyes and the same mask which came from another set and had a rusted affect and made a non elemental Bohrok in white and dark silver with glowing eye pieces which I called nest guardian or queens royal guard. I actually have the unique Bohrok on display..and shadow Toa Tahu is in a box somewhere.

Great video!!!! I hope you do the same video Toa Nuva. I feel like it will be easier since their tools are all in silver!!

Epic pokemon refrence!

Bionicle: Into the Toa-verse.

never realized that there were different part's for the leg's and arms till now ;w;

awesome video man

Loved this!!

It's be cool if we got a silver toa, like a toa of iron tahu or pohatu

@Xynam0

7 ай бұрын

It's ironic because Bionicle was made to be Legos contender against the popularity of Pokemania in the 2000s

that black kopaka looks sick as hell

So cool to make the same thing in so many different ways

My original toa ocs (do not steal!)

These look awesome!

A white Pohatu remindes me of the white stones at the beaches where I live

Hmmm... The multiverse lore possibilities of an entire Toa Mata team of just one character in each element and/or teams of all six characters of a single element are interesting to say the least.

You can not tell me these don't exist in an alternate Universe. In-canon that is. Since Takanuva has jumped Around the multiverse, so who's to say they don't appear in an alternate World.

If you want to use the shadow pohatu build, you can make a water, fire, and earth ones too.

Ice Gali is so good, I am mildly tempted to make one.

Loved it!)

The fire gali reminds me of the episode of my life as a teenage robot where Jenny gets a hot rod paint job

2:43 the toa of steam! Hot. Air. As they say

you can kinda make brown toa with one of the other brown colored arms like light and normal brown, but there is only 2 normal brown arms on bricklink. ;right brown comes from he set Vahki Zadakh. but even though there are 2, I think they are knock off/custom lego pieces because they don't come in any sets.

Idea: more "shiny" Toa, but this time using the secondary element colors

3:26 That’s a Knights Kingdom piece

New names: Tahu: Onuhu/Gahu Gali: Tali/Onuli/Koli/Leli Onua: Koa/Taa/Lea Kopaka: Onupaka/Gapaka/Tapaka Lewa: Onuwa/Tawa/Kowa Pohatu: Kohatu Nokama: Onukama

koblacka? konigga!

You could use metru brown for limbs

Nice!

Tahu IS a surfer after all

this is awesome

Cool element color cooler awesome

Dude this video was awesome, I've always been obsessed with shiny pokemon and seeing you incorporating the color changes into Bioinicle was super cool, also amazing photo editing! Where'd you get the backgrounds from?

@brickthumb

10 ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you liked it! The background files, I think Lego released them ages back, I had them deep in my PC.

that was nice

1:59 hey actually do you know where i can get one of those orange red swords? It looks absolutely amazing

It's a shame that there isn't that white mata hand, to make an ice tahu

why have i never thought of this before?

Would be nice to see thr other toa yeams next

dam i rly wana build those white toa 😍

Should do them all with the silver pieces too

Actually this is more akin to the Bootleg system from Cassette Beasts. Id love to see all six in all six elements.

I need fire/lava gali !!

ok, so today I was able to find the fist and third bionicle movies at a garage sale and I'm super existed! the bionicle movies came out before i was old enough to know what bionicle was, so I never got the chance to watch the original 3 movies until now. If there is a video on youtube video that you guys recommend to help me better understand whats going on in the movies, let me know. I'm not entirely up to speed on all the bionicle lore yet, but I'm getting there.

@ravenpowell9312

10 ай бұрын

all 3 of the first films can actually be found here on youtube :3 heres the second one: kzread.info/dash/bejne/paVo1Nukhtepmqw.html

@timberfox104

10 ай бұрын

awesome! thanks for the info. i might just end up watching all 3 on youtube so I don't have to break out the old dvd player. lol@@ravenpowell9312

damn i thought it was a new bionicle set getting released

I want to see a full team of shadow Toas

result: a brown color in Bionicle is the most rare color

Looks cool, do the same for the Toa Nuva.

I kinda of think I’d prefer the fire sword for the red kopaka

8:38 what set does Kopaka’s sword come in silver?

Can we get the same thing but for the nav toa