You could argue this is a larger-than-life size set depending how you interpret Bionicle's height scales in-universe.

Bionicle × Clickits = the horror, the horror. (mumbles meaningfully to himself)

if the hercules beetle from 21342 had a robotic endoskeleton...

The only Bionicle set I own

So if this image being on the homepage made you access this article, does that mean it was successful in being clickbait?

Weirdest Clikits set, ever.

I got this a couple years ago. Still need to acquire it's compatriot "Klack"

And no, I'm not making this up. Also, neon green eyes, very Blacktron. Replace that dark blue limb part with a white, and you have a wonderful giant bug monster for your Blacktron.

@Vladtheb said:
"I’m gonna need some lore"

Click is a scarabax beetle, an insect species native to the planet of Spherus Magna. After the planet was split into three pieces by the Shattering, a number of them came to inhabit the deserts of Bara Magna. Click was part of a swarm that investigated the arrival of the Kanohi Ignika on the planet. After Mata Nui fashioned a body for himself, he narrowly avoided stepping on Click. Click promptly clambered up him and touched the Ignika which, in typical fashion, “cursed” Click so that he gained the ability to turn into a shield.

Click would become Mata Nui’s unlikely companion/tool, initially unnerving the new friends he made on the planet. However, they all eventually warmed up to the beetle, except for Metus. Presumably this was meant as an indication of just how evil he was. Click assisted Mata Nui in a number of battles. Notably, he rallied a massive number of fellow beetles during the Battle of Roxtus, which formed a massive figure resembling the disgraced Glatorian Malum.

Eventually, Mata Nui left Click in the care of his Bara Magna friends while he assumed control of a new giant robot body.

Inspired by the legendary Adam Sandler film.

@TheBrickPal:
I can’t recall if I ever bought that. I know I’ve watched the first movie (I even got to interview Nathan Furst), and I believe I bought two more but probably never opened them. One was Web of Shadows, but I can’t remember the third title.

@Meadius said:
"Inspired by the legendary Adam Sandler film."

Oh? Is he planning on releasing one someday?

Scarabax Beetles were small and pest like creatures on the planet of Bara Magna. As adults their shells were rock hard making them hard to squash or smash. On their own they weren't much of a problem, but in swarms they could consume unwary travelers.

Mata Nui was once the guiding AI of the Great Spirit Robot, a titanic spaceship that housed the Matoran "Universe." But Mata Nui ignored the goings-on of his own body, and took the lives of those who maintained him for granted. Eventually Mata Nui's inattention led to him being overthrown by a particularly unruly underling, Makuta Teridax. As a part of his grand scheme that involved putting Mata Nui on the brink of death, Makuta ended up stealing Mata Nui's body as his soul left, and then trapped Mata Nui's own soul to seal it inside of the Legendary Mask of Life. He expelled the mask from his new giant body, so that neither Mata Nui could seek revenge, or the Mask be used as a failsafe to kill Makuta.

Eventually this Mask of Life landed on the desert world of Bara Magna, where a swarm of curious Scarabax surrounded it. It used its powers to create life to forge a new (much smaller) body for Mata Nui. This swirl of light and sand scared all but one particularly brave Scarabax who remained to watch. During his first steps Mata Nui nearly stepped on the creature, but stopped himself. Not willing to ignore those smaller than him again, Mata Nui greeted the creature as a dear friend, and it attempted to approach his glowing mask.

When the beetle touched the Mask of Life, the Mask activated its power to "curse" the unworthy, altered by Mata Nui's newfound empathy, and granted the beetle the power to transform to a giant shield (and back) at will! Mata Nui soon found himself helping the people of Bara Magna fend off an impending war from the Skrall army. During his travels the warrior Kiina joked about calling the beetle "Click" after the chittering noises he made, and Mata Nui agreed.

Mata Nui and Click traveled the sands of Bara Magna together, few understanding how he could care so much for an insect. Together they defeated the Skrall Army, braved the Valley of the Maze, and found a new giant robot for Mata Nui to inhabit. At one point Click summoned his old swarm to form a mound that resembled a giant monster, dividing the Skrall long enough for our heroes to strike.

When Mata Nui took this new giant body (to fix the planet and save his old one, long story) he entrusted Click to Kiina's care.

Something interesting about Click (and all Scarabax) is his inconsistent appearance. In the comics he's black, in the set here he's dark blue, and in the movie he's iridescent purple. His shield form is even more inconsistent. In the set it's just two metal blades. In the film a full insectoid face is present as the hand-guard linking those blades. In the comics and books, the hand-guard is a single giant lime green eye.

Also, fun bit of lore, Click's shield form lacks "a nervous system" (Greg likely meant some nerve endings) meaning that he feels no pain. He can only see, blink, and think.

While it theoretically could've been more extreme, I love Click's role in the story. One of the central themes/philosophies of BIONICLE, especially Mata Nui's 09-10 arc, is that despite us humans perceiving ourselves as single entities, we're actually a complex network of interconnected cells and systems working in tandem toward something greater. Mata Nui's neglect of his own body is meant to parallel how many people abuse theirs, and how that can negatively effect ones health. While it obviously would've been impossible to have Mata Nui converse with a skin-cell or a shard of bone, the idea of an all powerful god being humbled to treat all life the same, even those perceived as "lesser" was cool.

@PurpleDave said:
" @TheBrickPal:
I can’t recall if I ever bought that. I know I’ve watched the first movie (I even got to interview Nathan Furst), and I believe I bought two more but probably never opened them. One was Web of Shadows, but I can’t remember the third title."

Mask of Light was the 2003 film.
Legends of Metru Nui was the 2004 film.
Web of Shadows was the 2005 film.
The Legend Reborn was the 2009 film.

Those first three are collectively known as "The Miramax Trilogy" and were marketed with things like "BIONICLE 2" and "BIONICLE 3." Legend Reborn was produced by a different studio, something under the Universal umbrella, and is treated as its own thing.

I seem to recall Click (and his fellow scarabax) being fairly sizeable in Legend Reborn, so this might be one of the few, if only, Bionicle sets that’s actually at a 1:1 scale

One of the few Bionicle sets I have. My mom wouldn't allow me to have the original sets when they were first coming out because she thought they were too violent looking for my 6 year old boy brain, so I just never really got any Bionicle sets growing up. I had 1388 Huki from a Happy Meal that I was allowed to keep, and when I received 8587 Panrahk for Christmas from a cousin, I was afraid he'd be taken away from me. Kept me from enjoying the theme despite thinking the sets still looked awesome in the Shop at Home catalogs, and it wasn't until 2007 when I finally felt it was safe enough to like Bionicle, but I still just never got the sets except for in the case of BrickMaster giving me 20005 Klakk (not sure why Brickset changed the name, it has a canonical name and it was on the packaging to my memory) and this guy 20012 Click. I don't remember what possessed me to get 8980 Gresh, and he was cool for about as long as I kept him together, the second I tried making something else with his parts, they broke. Same kind of went for the parts of Klakk and Click. Any ball socket wasn't going to stand a chance against any use past the initial building process. So maybe it was for the best I never got too heavily into Bionicle (Except I absolutely know the parts from 2001-2007 would have absolutely lasted! I cry every time thinking about how my childhood was a little less brighter without Bionicle being more heavily present. lol).

I got this for free when I bought the The Legend Reborn DVD in september of 2009. Because the beetle is out of scale with the other Bionicle characters, I used a mini Visorak Keelerak minifigure to represent Click when playing with Mata Nui.

@ICAbricks said:
"That's literally just a Technic rhinoceros beetle"

Honestly something Bionicle did bring to Technic that modern sets are lacking, unique animal builds.

Other than that one Forma Koi fish, must Technic sets these days feel like supercar after supercar.