Gorast she's small and the blaster shots are bigger than I imagined... overall its a good set oh yes pros and cons
PROS:wings are cool
gun is cool

CONS:short limbs

she fuses with Radiak as well and I'm hoping that I can get more Mistika

I'm going to review another old set of mine today. Today it's my first Bionicle, 8695 Gorast.

Box/Instructions
The box is a canister with a lid vaguely resembling the Mask of Life. I remember getting really frustrated trying to open this thing. The instructions are small and have terrible color differentiation, as usual for a $13 Bionicle set of this era.

Parts
The parts are a varied bunch, with a rubber mask, super-rare wing pieces, and six claw pieces. We get an Inika-build torso and a whole bunch of angular limb pieces in lime. All the sockets are very, very fragile... I don't think a single ball cup has lasted the 6 1/2 years. Neither has the mask... both the nose and cross axle have snapped off over time. BOO.

The build
The build takes much longer than you'd expect, because I had one heck of a time squeezing the joints and axles together. Also, it had the feeling like the parts were going to snap and go flying across the room, which was very discouraging.

The completed model
At first glance, this is a very sweet figure, with four arms, claws, wings, and a firing blaster. Unfortunately, the arms don't have elbows, the wings are very flimsy, and the blaster is the stupidest gun I've ever seen in a LEGO set, squid launcher included. The air pump doesn't work at all and gets parts stuck inside and the ammo feels like a dollar-store knockoff.

Overall opinion
I don't know what I was thinking when I got this. Lesson re-learned... packaging can provide a very good sense of the set. Don't buy this set. Just... don't.

This set isn't a very good set. Its nynrah ghost blaster is like a midak skyblaster but you can only fire one dart at a time.

pros:
cool claws
nynrah ghost blaster really fires

cons:
nothing like a Makuta Phantoka
wings bend easily
mask is made of rubber
shortest limbs possible
the claws on its upper arms are silver

I think this set isn't very good 3/5