Bionicle lore? :P

Peak 2003 Lego right there.

The ingenious Matoran who rebuilt downed Bohrok into the Boxor fighting vehicles also developed these goalie robots so that top Kholi ball players could practice on their own against a realistic opponent, instead of just slapping pucks into an empty goal. A few months later, the Matoran migrated to the newly rediscovered city of Metru Nui, where they were delighted to find much more advanced Kholi training robots in the storage areas beneath the Great Coliseum. Since the new-old training equipment was so much better, the crude robot goalies developed in the Bohrok war were never used again.

(I made that up. Lore masters, how did I do?)

Dear god, it looks like someone ripped out a Weakened Matoran's Skeleton and propped it up as some sort of sick and twisted art piece.

@iwybs As a lore master only gripe I have is Nuparu (inventor of the Boxor) wouldn't waste his talents on a thing like this. It'd more likely be a collab between another Onu-Koran engineer and Po-Koran Kohli player, though I guarantee Hewkii would go nuts for them and Ahkmou would try to sell you them at 3x suggested retail.

@Robot99 :
Hey, garbage as the sets may be, they also provided a source for a lot of recolors of early Bionicle parts that otherwise never would have appeared.

But yeah, that...wow.

Um.

What?

Can’t wait to see blue player and goal!

@SentientSam said:
"Can’t wait to see blue player and goal!"

3557

So when can we expect a UCS version of this?

This is actually pretty neat for such a tiny set. Just like the larger sets, when you ‘slam’ on the head of the player, the puck will be shot forward, although this one works by squeezing the puck from between the feet rather than hitting it with proper sports equipment. Nevertheless, you could create a fun setup for a very affordable price with these.

No, really. What am I looking at here?

@Monopoly:
While kicking the puck is allowed in hockey, scoring a goal by doing so is not.

Still has something to offer,

Unique:
5L hose, 3mm diameter in red x1
19L hose, 3mm diameter in red x1

Rare:
32175 3x3 Technic connector block in red x1

@CarolinaOnMyMind:
It's...hockey-adjacent. I mean, the little guy isn't even holding a hockey stick. I also don't see any fighting.

It's like a master builder on the Bionicle team had been re-assigned to another team and realized they had to make a hockey set the night before the deadline.

This is the REAL Ultimate Bionicle set

@ALEGOMan said:
"That looks incredibly lame, almost as bad as the football polybags"

This is just a polybag, what more would you expect? In my opinion, this is a pretty cute parts pack for 4$.

@TheWackyWookiee said:
"At least it also has a little goal."

It's good to have goals.

I had both this one and the matching blue guy, because I got them REALLY cheap in a clearance sale a few years later. That said, I never could figure out what to actually *do* with them, since I didn't have anyone to play the game with and they weren't a whole lot of use on their own. They just kinda sat at the bottom of my sets draw and didn't really get looked at until I eventually sold them on when I was thinning out my collection.

@Zordboy said:
"With the way the mask is designed, and held in front of those Technic axles ... it kinda looks like he's really angry."
Technically, it's a shoulder armour piece, not a mask. Hence why it looks really weird as a face... but yeah, I get what you mean!

For that matter, this particular recolour of that armour piece was unique to the Hockey line. In fact, a lot of the recolours of that piece never appeared outside of Hockey sets - black, red, blue, green, yellow and orange were all only ever found in this line. That was initially true for the white recolour too, but that one did make its way into Bionicle eventually on 7135.