Random set of the day: Toa Hordika Vakama
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Today's random set is 8736 Toa Hordika Vakama, released in 2005. It's one of 46 Bionicle sets produced that year. It contains 48 pieces, and its retail price was US$8.99/£5.99.
It's owned by 2267 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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Hat Trick! Hat Trick! Bionicle Hat Trick!
Everyone chuck your masks in celebration!
Haha the Bionicle streak continues!
Ah the Hordika, such strange obtuse sets.
Here’s our chance at Bionicle getting the longest RSotD streak!
Okay, now this is getting ridiculous.
And welcome to Bioncle Week here at Brickset...
One more, and it will be the first time a theme NOT named town gets a 4-peat!
@xccj said:
"Haha the Bionicle streak continues!
Ah the Hordika, such strange obtuse sets."
Ah yes, the Toa Metru's emo beast phase.
I secretly enjoy reading the funky stories and lore stuff people post on here. As someone who doesn’t know thing one about Bionicle I sometimes can’t believe how far down the rabbit hole the tales that accompany these things can go...
@Royweeezy said:
"I secretly enjoy reading the funky stories and lore stuff people post on here. As someone who doesn’t know thing one about Bionicle I sometimes can’t believe how far down the rabbit hole the tales that accompany these things can go..."
Haha, just wait until you get into the side-stories Greg Farshtey wrote during the later years of Bionicle. Some of the most random obscure characters have entire novels written about them.
Huwbot has moved on from Clikits... Onward to Bionicle!
@Royweeezy said:
"I secretly enjoy reading the funky stories and lore stuff people post on here. As someone who doesn’t know thing one about Bionicle I sometimes can’t believe how far down the rabbit hole the tales that accompany these things can go..."
That was part of the appeal, especially as a kid. If you met another Bionicle fan who really knew the lore in the school lunch room or on the playground you could really dive into the rabbit hole with them because they "get it." There was almost a game aspect to trying to make sense of the various lore coming in since Bionicle was always a multimedia franchise, so it required hunting down the movies, playing the video games, reading the regular comics, digging through corners of the official Bionicle.com website to find new factoids and finding the Bionicle books in Scholastic Book Fairs when they visited the school. Yes the novels gave you the main story, but not all of it; the movies gave you the general story but not the fine details, etc. I'd go to about every Scholastic Book Fair when they came to the school to make sure I found the latest Bionicle books, and if not I begged my parents to go to Barnes and Noble or Wal-Mart so I could find them there.
Now its a little different, Biosector01, BioMediaProject, WallOfHistory etc. have consolidated all the lore post-mortem and its much easier now to find it all in one place. But as a kid there was a hunt to trackdown the lore, and hype every year when in December or November the final comic of the year would have a vague teaser of the upcoming year's sets by showcasing a figure often in silhouette with some vague slogan about "New Power awaits our heroes!" or something like that. It was that kind of marketing, while demanding the audience participate and be patient in finding the story themselves, it was also incredibly engaging for kids. Its why the reboot 2015-2016 Bionicle has been called "shallow" in story terms, since it really lacked the multipronged media approach.
Hi, one thing which always fascinated myself with the Bionicle Sets was the discovery of combiner Sets. Since i was collecting them, it looked like that there was never an end to the load of Bionicle Sets.
Once i had all Toa Hordikas, i discovered in the building instructions a 2x Set instruction combiner (8736 & 8738) - called "Cable Crawler" or there was the 3x Set instruction combiner which you had to find as i didn't get the Bionicle Magazines as they were not available to me, so looked in the internet for them, (8736, 8738 & 8740) - called "Protocairn.
https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Cable_Crawler
https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Protocairn
What my issue is as a Bionicle collector, or previously was a Bionicle collector, that there is not any mentioning of those alternative Lego Bionicle Sets from those building instructions. All i can do is to select the tick box that i own those Lego Bionicle Sets, but in multiple versions of them, even though that i used their parts to build those Bionicle combiner/alternative sets.
I still enjoyed building those creatures. Sometimes they were flimsy builds, but still enjoyable.
There are some complex Bionicle sets that I like. But some simplistic sets seems like throw away sets, put together with different colors just to make a few bukcs more.
Oh man.
Too. much. bonkle.
I’m getting lore’d out.
Did Huwbot and Clikits have a falling out?
Oh, another Hakuna Matata!
I think the release of the Toa Hordika was the first time BIONICLE collecting became perfunctory to me. After the excitement of Metru Nui and the tales of how the Toa Metru defeated Makuta after the Great Spirit was cast asleep, it seemed a bit blase to find out the delivery of the Matoran to the island of Mata Nui wasn't the end of this particular side-story. With the Makuta defeated and the heroes seemingly successful, what compelling foe or obstacle was there to face?
The answer was a horde of spider-like Rahi called Visorak with a powerful mutagenic bite, some mutated Toa Hagah, and some lanky militaristic types, one of which happened to have dual allegiances to both Visorak horde and to Makuta's Brotherhood, and all manner of random monsters and organizations. In essence, it was a mess, but before I knew all of that, I had images of six Toa Hordika to go off of. Vakama, being the fire Toa, was the first one I got a good look at, and while different that what came before, there was definitely a lackluster sheen to him. Asymmetrical, no actual Kanohi mask, interesting half-plastic, half-rubber tools, and the last instance of a gear function in his right arm. He certainly looked like he was half-Rahi, but I was dismayed to see that all the Toa Hordika were mutating into seemingly the same Rahi instead of ones that more accurately reflected the natures and skillsets of the Toa. The clones struck BIONICLE again, and in a way just as damning as the Vahki and Bohrok before them.
Additionally, Vakama and the rest had "Rhotuka spinners", or ripcord launchers, to hurl these tri-bladed spinners in no certain direction. A bit of a downgrade from the Kanoka disk launchers of 2004, so again, nothing to really excite me for BIONICLE in 2005.
Vakama's actual personality that year took some interesting, if cliched, turns. Emboldened by his successes in crafting the Mask of Time, defeating the Makuta, and rescuing some Matoran, Vakama led the Toa Metru back to Metru Nui to get the rest of the dormant population. Charging into the abandoned city, he ignored the obviously-creepy webs everywhere only to have himself and the other Toa Metru ambushed by Visorak.
When they came to, they were wrapped in cocoons high above the city, Visorak chittering and nattering all around them. The Visorak king, Sidorak, ordered the Toa be dropped to their deaths, but not before Roodaka had them injected with Visorak venom, triggered a slow mental and physical change into Toa Hordika. Though rescued by Rahaga, the Toa Hordika had to come to grips with their own bodies and personalities now partially dominated by a feral side.
Vakama...didn't take this so well. Already something of an insecure visionary, Vakama took the change hard, leaving the Toa Hordika behind to take on the Visorak alone. He was easily recaptured by Roodaka, the aspiring queen of the Visorak, who had other plans for Vakama. Taking him under her wing, she encouraged Vakama's anger, stoking his jealousy and pride until he saw himself above leading the Toa, and instead worthy of commanding the Visorak armies. Working for Roodaka, Vakama captured the Rahaga from the Toa Hordika and began conspiring with Roodaka to eliminate Sidorak.
With all the Visorak gathered, the Toa Hordika and their Rahi and Rahaga allies stormed the Coliseum. Badly outnumbered, Toa Matau tried to reason with Vakama and bring him back to their side, but this only angered Vakama more, to the point where he almost killed his former Toa brother. At the last minute, Matau brought Vakama back from the brink, apologizing for how harsh he was with the Toa of Fire and reminding him of his duty to rescue all the Matoran held captive under the Coliseum. Rejecting Roodaka's lies and his growing Rahi nature, Vakama sided with his Toa once more.
Though Sidorak was killed, Roodaka confronted the Toa herself. Using their elemental powers in their Rhotuka spinners, the Toa attacked Roodaka. Strangely, she seemed pleased with their attack. You see, Roodaka's ultimate loyalty was to Makuta, and she had kept a shard of his protodermic cage on her person at all times. By allowing herself to be hit by the combined elemental energies of the Toa Hordika, she unlocked the protodermic cage and thereby caused herself to be teleported to Makuta.
Vakama, though, was strangely unbothered by accidentally playing into Roodaka's claws one last time, and instead commanded the Visorak to disband and leave Metru Nui. After being healed by the Rahi Keetongu, Vakama and the others went on to continue their rescue mission of the Matoran.
Just don't forget, the year 2021 is Lego Bionicle's 20th anniversary. All i remember i was able to get the Toa Mata in mid December 2000 in Germany already as a promotional sale in a Supermarket.
Looks like Huwbot has become stuck, does someone want to try turning him off and back on again? :)
The first Bionicle wave since my Dark Age and hence I did not collect at all (I was in the process of winding down as the Vahki came out and hence only own 8614 Nuurakh and 8615 Bordakh, all the original Toa Metru, 10202 Ultimate Dume with exclusive mask, and none of the Metru Nui Matoran).
It's a shame; I still had a fear of spiders at the time and so the Visorak arc would've proven too close to the horror genre for me. But I love spiders now and would enjoy the arc today, even if the Rahi were from the Makuta.
In my observation as a Bionicle collector, i found that Lego did promote its Bionicle line far better in the US, secondly in the UK and very poorly with all specials on the European Continent and absolute below in Australia. Most of special Sets, limited Sets, promotional Polybags and other Bionicle merchandise was far from accessible to Bionicle Fans in the rest of the world than anywhere between US and UK, which got smashed with all that special Bionicle genre. My whole collection has been put together by finding those Sets on ebay.US and ebay.UK as on ebay Australia there was nothing what i already had.
I thought Lego could have done better with a Lego Bionicle platform, but never happened.
@Royweeezy said:
"I secretly enjoy reading the funky stories and lore stuff people post on here. As someone who doesn’t know thing one about Bionicle I sometimes can’t believe how far down the rabbit hole the tales that accompany these things can go..."
Same here.
As someone who has always hated the whole Bionicle line (and still do), I love reading those completely ludicrous backstories and secretly shaking my head at how someone older than about eight or nine can be so into this fluff.
I mean, I also loved Masters of the Universe, Transformers, M.A.S.K, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the like back in the day. But that was like in third grade or so.
Huwbot, can we please get back to proper themes for RSOTD? Like Scala, Clikits, Belville, or Galidor.
Strangely I think I prefer the Hordika over the Metru. There’s just something about their absurd proportions and brighter colour scheme that makes then feel a bit more fun.
@Lego_Lord_Mayorca said:
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With all the Visorak gathered, the Toa Hordika and their Rahi and Rahaga allies stormed the Coliseum... Matau brought Vakama back from the brink, apologizing for how harsh he was with the Toa of Fire and reminding him of his duty to rescue all the Matoran held captive under the Coliseum."
Well, I guess that Huwbot might have been inspired to choose Vakama by a recently revealed huge set...
Sorry, I don't know what's got into Huwbot. Perhaps someone offended him?
Should I tweak his algorithm?
^ I don't mind occasional repetition of a certain theme, as long as it is a proper set, not a personal accessory...
@Legobub74 said:
"In my observation as a Bionicle collector, i found that Lego did promote its Bionicle line far better in the US, secondly in the UK and very poorly with all specials on the European Continent and absolute below in Australia. Most of special Sets, limited Sets, promotional Polybags and other Bionicle merchandise was far from accessible to Bionicle Fans in the rest of the world than anywhere between US and UK, which got smashed with all that special Bionicle genre. My whole collection has been put together by finding those Sets on ebay.US and ebay.UK as on ebay Australia there was nothing what i already had.
I thought Lego could have done better with a Lego Bionicle platform, but never happened.
"
Wait so those larger sets really were just not available in Australia? I'd always wondered that, since I have no memory of ever seeing them in stores before the 2006 wave.
Was looking through some of my collection the other day and found I own a single bionicle, 8726 - Dalu. I imagine the character is completely unrelated to today's random set but if one of the bionicle lore experts could fill me in on who she is and the lore surrounding her it would be greatly appreciated.
@Huw said:
"Sorry, I don't know what's got into Huwbot. Perhaps someone offended him?
Should I tweak his algorithm?"
It's true randomness. Spurts like this prove things are random, let things stay random.
@AustinPowers said:
" @Royweeezy said:
"I secretly enjoy reading the funky stories and lore stuff people post on here. As someone who doesn’t know thing one about Bionicle I sometimes can’t believe how far down the rabbit hole the tales that accompany these things can go..."
Same here.
As someone who has always hated the whole Bionicle line (and still do), I love reading those completely ludicrous backstories and secretly shaking my head at how someone older than about eight or nine can be so into this fluff.
I mean, I also loved Masters of the Universe, Transformers, M.A.S.K, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the like back in the day. But that was like in third grade or so.
Huwbot, can we please get back to proper themes for RSOTD? Like Scala, Clikits, Belville, or Galidor."
Wow, what a stance to take on a site where literally everyone here is interested in playing with children's toys. Yes, people still enjoy BIONICLE, and they don't take kindly to other AFOLs telling them it's "not real LEGO" or that it's somehow more childish than being into LEGO as an adult in the first place.
The Toa Hordika are in my opinion some of the most underrated Bionicle sets. A lot of people seem to dislike their weird proportions and abnormal masks, but personally I quite like their uniqueness. I actually prefer them over the Toa Metru, which came out a year prior.
@Jack_Rizzo : I thought the last few lines of my comment would have been a dead giveaway, but apparently some people just don't know the concept of irony...
;-)
I remember reading somewhere, probably on BZPower back in the day, that the Toa Hordika's wacky proportions were intentional; the powerful, disproportionate right arm was those of a rahi beast, while the smaller left arm was that of a Toa, visually reinforcing the imbalance between their beast and hero sides that they struggled with all through the year.
The 2005 BIONICLE wave was a weird one in terms of distribution; for some reason, Lego decided to try something different and, instead of releasing the same sets worldwide at roughly the same time, they released the Toa Hordika as the winter wave in the US, and the Visorak as the summer wave... while doing the *exact opposite* in Europe, where we got the Visorak in winter and the Hordika in summer.
I suppose this was because the story needed both groups to be introduced at the beginning of the year, and this was the only way they could see to make that happen, but... it also effectively meant that, aside from the two limited edition Toa Hagah (8762 and 8763) and the playsets, there was no big summer set reveal that year - because if you were willing to pay international shipping, you could have got all the other sets in the first quarter of the year.
(I *didn't*, I got lost in the Revenge of the Sith hype for most of the middle of 2005 and have very few Bionicle-related memories of that time. But still, it was certainly possible.)
It also makes for an odd discrepancy in the European release: the Toa Hordika were clearly designed before the Visorak, they follow the same design language as the previous year's Toa Metru and Vahki - almost identical builds, predominance of grey as a secondary colour - while the Visorak started the pattern that would be continued into the following year of more variety in the colour schemes, and at least some difference in design appearance, even if said differences were only cosmetic: i.e. using different limb pieces for different sets instead of each of the six having the exact same ones. It makes, from a European perspective, the Hordika feel like even more of a massive step backwards, to get them only *after* the Visorak.
That said, I had nothing against the Hordika, personally, and I did particularly like the design of their dual-moulded weapons and animalistic faces. Still, in hindsight... I would be hard-pressed to find much to appreciate about the very simple build displayed here *besides* those two points xD
I got Vakama here as my Easter present in 2006; it was kind of a thing for me to get a toy for Easter as well as the traditional chocolate egg, ever since 2000 when Disney had, for a few years, made themed chocolate eggs that came with a beanie-toy of a character from one of their recent films - respectively, Toy Story 2, Dinosaur and Monsters, Inc. Even though they dropped the idea after that, we continued it in our own way for a while, and every Easter I would get a Bionicle set along with the chocolate egg.
Not very thematic, I will grant! But it made me happy, at the time xD
@AustinPowers said:
" @Jack_Rizzo : I thought the last few lines of my comment would have been a dead giveaway, but apparently some people just don't know the concept of irony...
;-) "
Ah, my bad. Missed that line. I'm just so used to other LEGO fans looking down their nose at the line and by extension at me for liking it.
HUW bot is lovin' his Bionicles.
Only managed to get Matau and Onewa, unfortunately. Had all the Visorak though. The comics for this year were great.
I am glad to see a few others who like the Toa Hordika. I also thought they were better than the Toa Metru because of the more unique alien look (especially the dynamic masks) and the more vibrant colors. As a child I was also intrigued by their asymmetry. Too bad they were all literally clone builds without even the slightest bit of variation.
Vakama and Matau were my favorites. Whenua's working jackhammer pieces were also great.
@magmafrost said:
" @Legobub74 said:
"In my observation as a Bionicle collector, i found that Lego did promote its Bionicle line far better in the US, secondly in the UK and very poorly with all specials on the European Continent and absolute below in Australia. Most of special Sets, limited Sets, promotional Polybags and other Bionicle merchandise was far from accessible to Bionicle Fans in the rest of the world than anywhere between US and UK, which got smashed with all that special Bionicle genre. My whole collection has been put together by finding those Sets on ebay.US and ebay.UK as on ebay Australia there was nothing what i already had.
I thought Lego could have done better with a Lego Bionicle platform, but never happened.
"
Wait so those larger sets really were just not available in Australia? I'd always wondered that, since I have no memory of ever seeing them in stores before the 2006 wave."
Hi, my apologies, i think i didn't explain it properly as i was too generic.
Here are some examples:
Bohrok-Kal Sets came with some special Krana Mask bags, there were Sterling Silver Masks
have a guess, you could only get them in the US or UK
Rahkshi Sets, there were the Standard Set boxes and there was also those with the Shadow Kraata, guess where those were available.
Those 6 variation of these Lego Bionicle Tubs were not available for the rest of the world, most were in the US and UK, sometimes in Legoland Parks or in Toy Stores.
8942: Jetrax T6 - in Yellow, i was able to get it twice from the US as it wasn't in Target-Australia available for sale.
8624: Race for the Mask of Life - this Piraka/Toa Inika Playset was also only available in the US for me to get, not in the shops in Australia
65757: Special Edition Guardian Toa - this special double pack, was super hard to find in the US from an ebay.seller, most of the time they are stating to US buyers only.
Special exclusive Bionicle Masks, only available at the ComicCon in SanDiego/US only
Then there is the variation of Bionicle Merchandise, like Trading Cards, some series didn't even get mentioned like the To Nuva and Bohrok trading cards, not those starter packs, those extra packs.
Then the time it took to collect a whole Set of Kanohi, Krana, Krana-Va, Krana-Kal and Rahi Masks, even those Kraata slugs, not even those are mentioned here in the Brickset listing as Lego got just too messy with this stuff.
The LEGO Bionicle Aera must have been really big promoted in the US and UK than were i was, totally un-important.
Don't forget the Bionicle Storyline got poor as Lego dealt with the law-suit from the Maori's in New Zealand
Maoris win Lego battle
Andrew Osborn in Brussels
Wed 31 Oct 2001 14.11 AEDT
The Danish toy maker Lego said yesterday that it would not loot ethnic cultures for exotic new product names after Maori tribes in New Zealand challenged its right to use Polynesian names in a new game called Bionicle.
Lego has admitted that it did "borrow" names from the Maori culture and has pledged to draw up a code of conduct to govern the way it uses folklore to spice up its toys.
"Future launches of Bionicle sets will not incorporate names from any original culture," it said yesterday. "The Lego company will seek to develop a code of conduct for cultural expressions of traditional knowledge.".......
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/31/andrewosborn
That's another reason, but for me it wasn't so much the Storyline that attracted me, it was that combination of those boring Lego Technic parts with normal Lego parts and making somewhat a robotic/android/mechanical creature/figure from Lego pieces.
The limitation what Lego Bricks did have was suddenly in a different Dimension to look from. If Bionicle wouldn't be, maybe Lego Technic wouldn't have developed further.
This set was my first BIONICLE set back in the day. It launched my passion for BIONICLE that still endures today. :P Glad to see it highlighted in RSotD! :D
@BionicleJedi said:
"(I *didn't*, I got lost in the Revenge of the Sith hype for most of the middle of 2005 and have very few Bionicle-related memories of that time. But still, it was certainly possible.)
"
There was actually a nod to Revenge of the Sith in the final 2005 Bionicle novel "Time Trap" were The Shadowed One mentions "we have lost to many hands this year already" a wink at Star Wars Ep III's love of lightsaber dismemberment.
Speaking of Lego, that 2005 Star Wars wave was wild. Light up lightsabers anyone?
I made a four post long rundown of Vakama's lore on his Turaga RSotD https://brickset.com/article/53875/random-set-of-the-day-vakama
So read it if you want more info on this guy
@xboxtravis7992 said:
" @BionicleJedi said:
"(I *didn't*, I got lost in the Revenge of the Sith hype for most of the middle of 2005 and have very few Bionicle-related memories of that time. But still, it was certainly possible.)
"
There was actually a nod to Revenge of the Sith in the final 2005 Bionicle novel "Time Trap" were The Shadowed One mentions "we have lost to many hands this year already" a wink at Star Wars Ep III's love of lightsaber dismemberment.
Speaking of Lego, that 2005 Star Wars wave was wild. Light up lightsabers anyone?
"
Oh yeah, I blame Revenge of the Sith for why I never finished my Visorak collection that summer. Too many cool sets from that theme, although I personally was not a fan of the light-up lightsaber minifigures. For that reason, I avoided the Clone Turbo Tank, Wookiee Catamaran, and TIE Fighter re-release. But those Phase II clone troopers were awesome! I wish they stuck with that design.
@xboxtravis7992:
Rob Hendrix did it first. And much better if you’re an adult collector who prefers to display minifigs over playing with them.
@bnic99 said:
"Was looking through some of my collection the other day and found I own a single bionicle, 8726 - Dalu. I imagine the character is completely unrelated to today's random set but if one of the bionicle lore experts could fill me in on who she is and the lore surrounding her it would be greatly appreciated."
To belatedly answer your question, Dalu was a warrior, and a member of the Matoran resistance on the island of Voya Nui. A seemingly unremarkable island where life was harsh, Voya Nui had one great secret: it was actually home to the legendary Mask of Life which, as its name implies, held the fate of the entire universe - it's purpose was to be used to restore the life of the Great Spirit (SPOILERS: the giant robot in which the entire universe was contained) if he started to die, but was also capable of extinguishing all life in the universe.
In any case, Dalu and her fellow villagers were unaware of this. Then, one day, six being landed on the shore of Voya Nui. Claiming to be heroic Toa, they were really Piraka villains who were looking to steal the Mask of Life for themselves. It didn't take the villagers long to start doubting that these 'heroes' were really who they said they were, for their behaviour gave them away: but the ruse still gave the Piraka enough time to execute their plan. Using the essence of the evil Makuta (8593), that they had taken from his shattered armour after his defeat, they enslaved all the island's inhabitants, and set them to work digging up the slopes of the island's volcano in search of the mask that they sought. Only six Matoran escaped this fate, including Dalu, and they formed the Matoran Resistance, dedicated to freeing their friends and getting rid of the Piraka.
Eventually, the Toa Inika - real Toa, this time - arrived on the island, and mostly took over the job of dealing with the Piraka; though they were still aided by the Matoran resistance; and Dalu was involved in helping Toa Jaller (8727) and Toa Hahli (8728) to free her friends, encouraging the two Toa to shoot the Matoran with spheres of energized protodermis which would cleanse them of the enslaving essence.
(The Toa Inika would go on to defeat the Piraka, and would try to take the Mask of Life themselves in order to save the Great Spirit; though the mask, being sentient, sensed that its time to be used had not yet come and slipped away from them, plunging into the sea, where the Toa would have to journey after it. Dalu and her friends fell out of relevance to the story beyond this point, though.)
@MrBob said:
" @Royweeezy said:
"I secretly enjoy reading the funky stories and lore stuff people post on here. As someone who doesn’t know thing one about Bionicle I sometimes can’t believe how far down the rabbit hole the tales that accompany these things can go..."
Haha, just wait until you get into the side-stories Greg Farshtey wrote during the later years of Bionicle. Some of the most random obscure characters have entire novels written about them."
I asked Greg Farshtey about that one time. He said that Lego makes the sets, and it was basically his job to work them into some story material if possible. Hence why, for example, the combined form of the three main Titan sets from 2005 ended up being a form of Makuta, whereas the combined form of the equivalent sets from 2006 was relegated to a role in a chapter book.
On the subject of Vakama Hordika, I believe he is the only one of the Hordika to have his face/mask and weapon pieces released in alternate colors. His weapon was released on yellow with a black flame the same year, in 8758 Tower of Toa. A couple years later, his mask piece reappeared in green in 8940 Karzahni, serving as the kneepads of the big bruiser himself. A far cry from the days when you could get every Bionicle mask in at least six different colors...
As a side note, I was bummed that we never got a Karzahni set that reflected his debut appearance from the novel Dark Destiny. I found him a fascinating villain, and was bummed that he got curbstomped by Makuta before he really had a chance to shine.