In Defense of: The Bohrok Kal

I imagine it freaking out like it had a spider crawl inside it’s ear, and worrying about it making a nest…

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Without the Bohrok Kal we couldn’t have gotten metallic krana, silver sockets, and six more recolors of the small limb piece, so they’re winners in my book. :+1:

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When they first came out, I liked the Kal simply because of their color schemes and powers (Gravity! Sonics!) but now that we know more about the Bohrok and their role in things, I also really like how, as @Rac said,

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I like the bohrok kal as sets and concept. They were menacing, powerful and brought a bunch of cool new elements to the bionicle universe (gravity is my favorite element in the series). Although I do think there is a problem with them story wise. One of their defining features was supposed to be their distinctness and sentient personality but to me they still come off as super drone like, and honestly kind of dumb contradicting that feature.

The thing about the bohrok is that usually they would be good guys, but in their first appearance they unintentional threaten the GSR by destroying mata nui. This works because they are mindless drones and and unlike the toa can be seen as the GSR’s natural immune system, emotionless and automatically attacking anything it considers a threat, even if in the current situation it ends up doing harm instead of good like how allergies are caused by an over active immune system.

But the Bohrok kal are supposed to be sentient and yet they still don’t realize they endanger the great spirit by cleaning mata nui, and the fact that their speech is rather deadpan to me they seem just as drone like as the normal bohrok even though I think that’s the opposite of what they wanted. Although honestly this is probably a nitpick more than anything, the bohrok kal are still cool, even if I like the standard bohrok more.

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I loved the Bohrok Kal. THey were the first line I ever got all six of.

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The Bohrok-Kal definitely took 2003 by storm in its time; they were even featured independently in a toy magazine! now all we need are those Toa Nuva solo albums

[insert obligatory “Bionicles” trigger here]

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And “Kranas” too…

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Not only did they call the characters “Bionicles”, but they even managed to get the name of the comic wrong. “DC’s BIONICLES comic…”

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I have a stone bohrok Cal disassembled in my Lego bin. I didn’t what it was back then. Now, I feel the need to rebuild it haha.

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Another cool thing about the Bohrok Kal; they are the only sets (plus the Takanuva set) that have the socket/hand pieces in silver. That recolour never saw the light of day again after 2003…I only have one silver socket in my collection :stuck_out_tongue:

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“Bio Badness”?

Oh Mata Nui, I can’t breath, laughing too hard at that!

~W12~

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This also shows how underrated brown sets are. There’s not even a diminute picture of Pahrak-Kal.

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Kal are awesome! Who could forget those mini CDs!

I love the Bohrok, and I also love how the Kal could speak. That would have been super creepy!

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The many people who never owned a mini-CD player.

Overall players of the sort were a corporate failure and died within a few years.

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But they worked wonderfully on personal computers, which were on the rise in 2003. Because PCs could read those kinda disks.

I’d know, I saw my brother use these on my dad’s computer when I was younger.

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Even then a lot of players particularly ones that are becoming popular of late aren’t compatible.

Ones that don’t use a rotating lock to hold the CD almost never work.

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I’m talking about computers from 2003 though, not current ones.

It’s obvious we can’t use them NOW but we certainly could back then. Even the Gamecube used small disks at the time. They weren’t uncommon. They’re just irrelevant by today’s technology, but that always happens with technology.

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Fair enough,[quote=“Chronicler, post:31, topic:11362”]
Even the Gamecube used small disks at the time.
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Video game consoles don’t really count because until the Xbox they never really were built to play disks that weren’t burned for the specific system. (Even the Xbox only did it because it was really just a highly modified computer being sold as a console)

Alas yes.

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Even so, there are machines which will let them work. I was just looking at the one for Tahnok-Kal today, actually.

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Sorry to necro, but I’d rather do this here than make a new topic. My main issue with the Kal, aside from being clone sets, is that the story feels disjointed. The Toa are sent on a repeat quest, the Kal being Bohrok adds next to nothing to the overall story. The arc of the Toa Nuva breaking up, then becoming a better team is good, but is somewhat pointless when MoL has them fighting again. It’s an awkward middle chapter, when the Bohrok story already provided a much better middle chapter.

Personally, I think the story would’ve been better had it been set concurrent with MoL. While Jaller and Takua journey across the island, the Toa are drained of their powers by Makuta’s forces, and have to go on a journey simultaneously with the MoL plot. This even could give the Nuva more to do at the finale, with the Vahi being used to seal the Kal as Takanuva fights Makuta.

Really, I think the reason for the story turning out this way was due to the movie’s development. It’s kinda noticeable in the ancillary media like the comics that not many others knew of how exactly the movie’s plot would go down. I don’t dislike 2003, but I think it could’ve been much better with more management.

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