Well that is a nightmare and a half, and very appropriately named.

Bionicle set, yay!
I find it kind of weird that this guy's death was shown in a guide book instead of in the main story, seems Kinda important but it was relegated to a small bit of trivia.

Nocturn my beloved... The best colour combination Bionicle ever had. Relatively cheap for a titan/warriors set too, a great introduction to post-cannister price points.

Another sufferer of foot-as-mouth disease.

Sooo, no piraka rap for this one?

@Yooha said:
"Sooo, no piraka rap for this one?"

he uses a piraka foot for the mouth, if that counts

"General Kanohi! You are a bold one..."

@MeisterDad said:
"Another sufferer of foot-as-mouth disease."

44009 Dragon Bolt is even worse. Noctum looks really cool even with the foot for mouth. Dragon Bolt has a shoe as a mouth, if you look at the mouth the wrong way it looks funny.

@MCLegoboy:
I actually did make a Bionicle Grievous, complete with four lightsabers. But due to the spindly nature of his body, there really weren't that many Bionicle parts used in the construction. Mostly he's just Technic parts, like the Ep1 Battle Droids I made as well.

Also, I could imagine this fighting some AQ-series Battle Droids in the deep ocean on Naboo. Man, I wish they'd make an AQ minifig.

Lore time! (Waits for Lore Guy)

"Nocturn" by Wolfgang Amadeus Walmart.

I picked up Nocturn while I was out of state for college. I found him surprisingly at a TJ Maxx in Pittsburgh for $7. I thought that was a shockingly good deal for 2007, and it was small enough to smuggle back home in my luggage at the end of the semester. No, I still haven't built him, because even back then, it was apparent his role in the storyline would be minor.

You see, Nocturn was just some brute locked up in the undersea prison simply known as The Pit (LEGO had long moved past using interesting, made-up words to name every BIONICLE location, so it is just "The Pit"). When the Mask of Life floated down into the dark waters surrounding Mahri Nui (the undersea village for trapped Matoran) and the Pit beneath it, the Barraki and other prisoners of the Pit escaped. Many were drawn to the mask for reasons good and ill, but the Barraki and their armies saw the Mask of Life as their ticket to reversing their mutated forms and returning to the surface world. The Barraki had been warlords in the distant past, conquering much of the Matoran Universe before the Makuta put them down (they were good people back then) and imprisoned them.

Anyway, so Nocturn was exiled to the Pit because in his rage (he was a warrior of his species), he broke a whole island in half. Once freed from his cell, he came under the influence of the Barraki named Takadox. Not the brightest bulb to begin with, Takadox's constant mind-control powers exercised on the physically-powerful Nocturn left him little more than a moronic slave to the Barraki. In fact, once the the Mask of Life entered the waters of the Pit, Takadox used Nocturn to seek it out before the other Barraki. Eventually, the Barraki obtained the mask and it was held for "safekeeping" by Nocturn. However, he lost it after coming across the resurrected Hydraxon, the old jailer of the Pit. Hydraxon defeated Nocturn and took the mask, almost destroying it. Only the timely appearance of the Toa Mahri underwater and the power of the mask itself spared it.

Nocturn survived and continued to serve the Barraki in their battles with the Toa Mahri. However, I can't recall anything else important about him. The set is cool for the single fact he has a lot of glow-in-the-dark pieces. If you like that, I recommend tracking the set down!

Not the biggest Bionicle set, or the most important Bionicle set, but possibly my favorite, and a lot of others seem to agree, too. Transparent parts, so many glow in the dark pieces, and a unique light blue and lime color scheme that avoids having any brittle lime joints. It helps that I've always had a fascination with 4-armed characters and Octopi.

Fun fact! The Barakki are one of the biggest contributors to my hydrophobia.

I did not like that one section of the lego website with the jump scare. Or the animation having that Matoran likely being killed off screen. I was not a brave kid.

My brother got all of them. I just got one figure from that year, and that was Hahli. Hahli is my favorite Toa. I still have her on my shelf. If anyone could fight those sea monsters, it would definitely be her.

Weirdest ammunition with those crossbows shooting rubber "fish"

Seriously, can we have a Random Bionicle Set of the Day category?

@ICAbricks said:
"This must be the only Bionicle who doesn't have a confusing name"

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To be fair, they aren't really canon. But still, there's always Lord of the Skull Spiders, Skull Warrior, Skull Slicer etc from Gen 2.

Come to think of it, Carapar is a crab man. Ehlek is an elec-tric eel etc. Bitil looks like a beetle. The later years had less than imaginative names (as in, not Maori used as names).

@Binnekamp said:
" @ICAbricks said:
"This must be the only Bionicle who doesn't have a confusing name"

*Good Guy joined the chat
*Duracel Bad Guy wants to know your location
*[Function] is also there

To be fair, they aren't really canon. But still, there's always Lord of the Skull Spiders, Skull Warrior, Skull Slicer etc from Gen 2.

Come to think of it, Carapar is a crab man. Ehlek is an elec-tric eel etc. Bitil looks like a beetle. The later years had less than imaginative names (as in, not Maori used as names)."

Kalmah, Mantax, and Vamprah are pretty self-explanatory, too.

I could've sworn I checked last night, but I almost missed a bonk!

I'll keep Nocturn's lore short, cause it actually kind of is.

Nocturn was a four armed amphibious warrior who lived in a far off land. Long ago, in a fit of rage, he struck his homeland in just the right spot and split it cleanly in two. As punishment for his crimes he was sent to The Pit, a prison for the Matoran Universe's most dangerous people.

During the Great Cataclysm the roof of The Pit caved in, flooding it with mutagenic waters. Nocturn was largely unaffected, but others like the six Barraki Warlords were mutated into hideous fish-creatures. Among these Barraki was the eel like Ehlek, who recruited Nocturn as a lieutenant in his new underwater army. The escaped convicts went on to live in the black waters of Aqua Magna.

At once point Nocturn enraged the Barraki leader Pridak. Pridak severed Nocturn's top right arm. While it eventually grew back, it now lacked the powerful tentacle at its end.

1,000 years later and the Mask of Life found its way into The Pit. The Barraki believed the mask could undo their mutations and let them breathe air again, but they also didn't trust each other with it. When they eventually got their hands on the mask, they gave it to Nocturn for safe keeping.

The Mask of Life had a tendency to curse anyone unworthy who touched it. It's curse on Nocturn made any living creature he touched instantly die. While distracted by this power, the Mask also mutated a tiny Gadunka creature into a giant monster.

Nocturn soon lost the mask (and by extension his killing powers) at the hands of the Pit's jailor, Hydraxon (well technically a clone of Hydraxon but that's a whole thing.) Eventually Hydraxon managed to recapture and jail Nocturn and all the Barraki. Nocturn was killed in an escape attempt, but was revived on the Red Star where he remains trapped to this day.

One thing I always thought odd about Nocturn is that his box art AND depiction in the comics don't match his actual toy at all. The action figure has this vibrant blue armor, while most art depicts him as a sickly greenish-yellow. This is probably because those blue armor pieces are glow-in-the-dark elements, but the shade of green they glow also doesn't match the box art, and the set Takadox uses the exact same type of glow-in-the-dark plastic and is always depicted as blue. It's extra odd because, at least in my opinion, the blue armor looks way better, he's too washed out with the yellow.