Random set of the day: QUICK Good Guy White
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 7716 QUICK Good Guy White, released in 2006. It's one of 47 Bionicle sets produced that year. It contains 21 pieces.
It's owned by 95 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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Not one of the better ones-just a lame collection of leftovers, without even a rarer mask to make it interesting.
I love the names of some of these random guys.
^ QUICK Good Guy White has such a ring to it, doesn't it?
^ That was the nickname of a guy I knew back in high school!
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For those who don't know, Quick is a burger chain in Belgium (and France?). It's name is ironic, or at least it should be, as you can wait 20 minutes or more for your order, even if you're the only one there.
Good guy! woohooo
/\ /\ Yep you get them in France too
This set is so boring.
Cue LETHARGIC Bad Guy Black
For anyone expecting an extensive amount of BIONICLE *lore* in the comments: don't bother. However this a little bit of buisness side knowledge of the actual product I can give.
The Good Guy, Bad Guy, and Function collections are just promotional parts packs packaged with batteries or food and what not in order to make people want to buy the actual sets. With the exception of 7216 Gold Good Guy (who is actually the set version of Turaga Lihkan) they are completely non-cannonical and don't appear in the story. No names, no importance, and no exclusive masks to grab attention. But most (if not all of them) were technically free.
In the BIONICLE fan community however, these guys have built up quite an ironic/memey following (a so bad it's good kind of thing) especially with 6934 Good Guy. Given the fact they're made of such basic and common parts it's not uncommon to see fan made Good/Bad Guys who are just color swaps or crazy oversized weapons plopped on the original model. I've even seen people recreate 6934 at five times his original size to make "Big Good Guy" or string a bunch of his body together and pop the feet and arms at the very end to make "Long Boi" and a varriety of equally silly "MoCs."
Fun fact: McDonalds happy meal figures had extensive background lore and eventually even became main characters in later years. Many characters have been created that didn't have a physical set but at least had lore. And yet promotionals like this one are amongst the few bionicle sets that have zero lore about them. NO LORE AT ALL!
They're THAT wonderfully built!
I know it's not the right one, but...
HAIL DENMARK!