That's 2 Bonkles in a row now. Does anyone know what the longest one theme streak on RSotD was?

He supplies the Nuhvok hordes with Japanese candy so they operate at peak efficiency.

Huwbot you have blessed us once again with the best Lego theme, thank you

@SpoonTree said:
"That's 2 Bonkles in a row now. Does anyone know what the longest one theme streak on RSotD was?"

Town x4 twice (both in 2018)

Friends might have a chance to get there in a few years.

This is the Kabaya Sweets version of Nuhvok Va, a Japanese candy company tie-in that perhaps in Japan is as synonymous with the 2000s as BIONICLE is elsewhere (seriously, is Kabaya still a candy powerhouse, cross-promoting with toy brands?). For the rest of us, Nuhvok Va came in the standard small box that the Turaga came in the year before.

I don't own a Nuhvok Va. A battle between curiosity regarding its build and its expected silliness that resulted was waged in my mind. You see, the box art shows a Technic ball holding the "head", or hand shield, in place. This, however, meant the neck was locked down by the axle hole on the unseen opposite end. As a result, only the head shield would spin around ridiculously. For comparison, the other Bohrok Va got it right with the Technic ball seated on the neck axle to give full head articulation. But 13 year-old me was not too proud to think maybe I was missing something. In the end, my doubts and the passage of time won out, and I never got a Nuhvok Va.

Years later, I saw instruction scans of this set and realized the box art was wrong. In the instructions, the Nuhvok Va ball piece is placed on the neck as hoped for. At this point in time, though, the extremely minor role of the Nuhvok Va in the larger BIONICLE mythos puts my collecting of BIONICLE in perspective, and it is unlikely I will ever attempt to get it or any of the other Bohrok Va I am missing unless an insane opportunity collided with me.

If you are expecting a story dump from me regarding the Nuhvok Va, I'm just simply not going to bother this time, as aside from an appearance in the background of some comics or flash videos, no Nuhvok Va seems to do anything of significance, and if you want to know more about the Bohrok Va in general, comments I wrote on previous Bohrok Va in the RSotD articles should suffice. You can go back and look for them. You've got time!

The Bohrok were a series of bug like drones buried beneath the island of Mata Nui with the goal of "clean it all, it must be clean." During the 2002 and this part of the story exactly what that meant was unknown and they were treated like villains, but in 2008 it was reveled they were cleaning away the island of Mata Nui because the god Mata Nui was beneath it and needed to be free once awakened by the Toa.

Nuhvok were the Earth Bohrok, who exceled at tunneling and causing structures to collapse. Nuhvok Va are smaller side units who provide the Nuhvok with new Krana. Krana are the "brains" of Bohrok and are needed for them to operate, and can provide the host Bohrok with new powers, making the Va double as both medics and power swappers.

Also, Nuhvok had the best Bohrok color scheme imo.

Bionicle, The Anime! (?) :P

Nuhvok Va is the only Va I have yet to get. I bought the other 5 this year second hand, never had them as a kid but always wanted them.

Add a bit of white, and you got yourself a Blacktron 2 Bohrok!

I’ve got about 100 of this guy (the regular version, not the one that probably comes with gum that has about two seconds of flavor). Can anyone here beat that?

Sometime after the Bohrok Va came out, a discount toy store that was called either Kay*Bee (if it was in a mall), or KayBee Toys (if it was outside), got in trouble for price-fixing. They would regularly raise prices on new stuff above MSRP and then mark them with “reduced” prices that were just MSRP. This made them look cheaper when everyone else was selling at the same price. Then they started preprinting the price tags with the red line and a “handwritten” price that was heavily pixelated. Now, you can mark stuff down from MSRP, and that’s your business. You can sell it for more than MSRP (like TRU), and while AFOLs may curse your name, they can’t stop you. You can even sell it above MSRP and discount it, but what you can’t do is mark it above MSRP and immediately reduce the price before anyone has a chance to buy it at full price. So they got caught, lost a lawsuit, and were forced to run an unannounced one-day sale. These guys got marked 3/$5, and I cleaned the store out. About 100 were this guy, but I also got a handful on other flavors. Each one comes with three black friction axle-pins, which now cost about twice as much as the set they came in.

@Saffroth said:
"Fun fact, the standard version (8555) was Random Set of the Day on 25 June 2018."

Oh gosh the first comment on the 2018 one... was myself pointing out I'd yet to get any Bohrok Va but maybe someday would get them on Bricklink... now my comment earlier here was me saying this is the only Va I haven't chased down on Bricklink... starting to think RsOTD is dangerous to my wallet!

Best Bohrok Va in my opinion. Look at his hugging arms!