Bionicle? Never heard of it. Looks like the poor man’s version of Clikits.

The system works! Vindication! Also, even though it's a good guy, but not THE Good Guy...

HAIL DENMARK!

No, 6934 is THE Good Guy. :)

^ Honestly, I think some of the Bionicle characters were created out of spare parts, that Lego staff found lying around the factory floor.

And then there's 7216 Gold Good Guy that comes with AA Duracell batteries

i thought huwbot doesnt do constraction sets?

Arch-enemy: Bad Guy 07.

*Dramatic music*

@Zordboy: In the case of the polybag sets with basic names like "good guy"/"bad guy"/"function", they pretty much were. I believe most of these were produced as freebies packaged with magazines or other products (Duracell batteries in the case of at least one such set, as @TheWizardReborn alludes to).

So not much consideration went into designing them with any sort of unique identity or story role — they were more or less just to offer a minimal taste of the sort of building experience, parts, and play features you could expect to find in other Bionicle sets. Even among Bionicle fans, the ludicrous names and designs of impulse sets like this one tend to be sort of a running joke.

The small/impulse-sized Bionicle sets available as normal retail products tended to have much less wonky-looking colors and proportions… just compare this guy to 8929-1 or 8931-1 from the same year. Whether or not you care for the Bionicle design language (it's certainly understandable if you don't), retail sets like those tended to have more purposeful-looking designs even at a $5 price point.

Part of me - a controversial part, to be sure - isn't sure about Bionicle's status as LEGO, but I do love when they come up as RSotD; someone will always go into incomprehensible but wonderful detail about the character's backstory and their role in the Bionicle world.
(Thanks for obliging as far as is possible in this case, Aanchir)

I once bought a bunch of Bionicle parts dirt cheap on Bricklink out of curiosity, hoping I might be able to integrate them as interesting greebling in a space themed MOC some day. Up to now they are still lying in a box waiting to be used.

You know, I was just thinking the other day that we hadn't seen a BIONICLE random set of the day for ages, and wondering if they'd been removed from Huwbot's algorithm.

Though honestly, I think we could have done better than *this* one xD Kind of looks like he's supposed to be Axonn's baby...

@Huw FABULAND! Hooray - looking forward to one of those as a RSOTD.

@Huw - Oh, cool! Thanks for including them again :D

I don't trust him. "Good guy 07?" That's way too on the nose, he's up to no good.

Wait, Fabuland wasn't already in rotation? Why on earth not?!?

^ No.

I'm a little bit psyched that we're likely to get some Fabuland sets popping up, though. If Galidor and Clikits can pop up occasionally (more than just occasionally, as the stats proved, with Clikits), then we can handle some Fabuland and Jack Stone every now and then. I mean, it's all still Lego.

Any chance we'll getting Duplo?