He is on a parts-pack binge at the moment, isn't he?

C'mon. Where's the Bonkle lore? It's what we live for! :)

This is the quality Bionicle I pushed for when I campaigned for Constraction to be added to the hat Huwbot draws from. You're welcome. XD

@Zordboy said:
"He is on a parts-pack binge at the moment, isn't he?

C'mon. Where's the Bonkle lore? It's what we live for! :)"

I mean a lot of the parts are from whole sets, so if you know what parts are in the bin you can build several canon figures... sooo its lots of lore if you know what all the sets are!

I once won this tub by entering a “create your own BIONICLE character” contest TLG put up on their website back in the day. Should still have it floating around somewhere!

I always wanted one of these as a kid and never got my hands on any.

While I'm not sure it's this specific tub, some of these tubs came with exclusive Disks of Time. I actually have a couple them from a McToran lot I got of eBay back in the day.

You know what, while on that tangent, here's the lore: !!!

In Metru Nui one of the chief items used in combat where Kanoka Disks. In addition to having different effects when they hit their target, Kanoka could be sculpted by Mask Makers into Masks of power. Most Kanoka Disks had a power level of 1-8, but legend told of six powerful Great Disks hidden around the city with a power level of 9.

Vakama was the most skilled Mask Maker in Metru Nui, and one day he was approached by the city's leader, Turaga Dume and tasked with crafting the Legendary Mask of Time. Vakama toiled for months and could never finish the mask. One day he was approached by the city's guardian, Toa Lhikan, who gave Vakama a Toa Stone. The Stone transformed Vakama, and five other Matoran, into full fledged Toa.

Thanks to a vision, Vakama decided to lead the Toa on a quest to find the Six Great Disks. In order to do so they had to track down six Matoran who had discovered their locations. These Matoran where all people the Toa had known before, and each had some sort of jealousy or beef with the Toa that they had to overcome.

Eventually the Toa managed to collect all Six Great Disks, and went through several other trials and tribulations on the island. Eventually, while trying to rescue some of the other Toa from a prison, Vakama discovered the Great Disks could be merged together to combine powers like your typical Kanoka. While racing to the final duel with the legendary Maktua Teridax, Vakama stayed in the back of their vehicle and merged all Six Great Disks into the Legendary Disk of Time, and with that he crafted the Kanohi Vahi!

These random photos are fun. It kinda makes you curious if it's something so rare or random that it doesn't even have a proper picture. That being said, it's good to see that Brickset has as many pictures as possible.

This tub doesn't include random pieces. They do include some pieces that can only be found here, or rather recolours that can only be found here. I've bought several sealed ones from Ebay over the years, all of them for £40 or less, and they all had the same inventory. They still come up now and again but far less often and for much more.

There are 3 or 4 versions of these large tubs and in my experience none of them come with random parts - each set follows its own inventory. A couple of them didn't used to have inventory lists on BL which is perhaps what made people think the contents were random. I personally think they were Lego's way of getting rid of inventory they had produced for a wave of sets that ultimately got pulled.

There are a couple of smaller tubs which may have included random pieces, I've never managed to snag one because they only ever seem to come up for sale in the US - may have been a region or store exclusive.

So, looking at the Bricklink inventory doesn't show any complete sets that can be built from this; though it's also still pending approval over there, so not 100% guaranteed to be completely accurate:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=8713-1

Still, based off that listing, there seems to be a distinct lack of, you know... basic torsos pieces in there, with only three Toa torsos and seven tiny McDonald's Matoran ones.

Along with... *NINETY-FIVE* limb pieces, if I'm counting correctly; thirty-six masks (plus eight Krana) but only four heads for them, and a decent selection of weapons, including a couple of recolours that had never been seen in Bionicle sets: medium-blue Nuhvok shields from 8012 Technic Super Battle Droid and black Pahrak shields that were otherwise seen only in one Spybotics set 3806 and one hockey set 3544.

So, an interesting selection! Though I am not completely sure how easy it would have been to build something coherent out of this... it definitely does look like Lego was getting rid of an overstock of these pieces, particularly things like the tan-coloured Bohrok arms of which there were apparently forty-nine (!) per single tub. I'm just not sure why they would have had so many leftovers of these specific pieces, and not the rest of the parts that came from the same sets...

I know another one of these type of tubs specifically had the right pieces in to build, like, five of the then-current canister-sized sets ( 6637 ), but this one seems to have had no such rhyme nor reason. If there's a story behind how they decided which parts to assign to this tub, and why, I'd love to hear what it is :o