Quake Beast

I picked up the Quake Beast a week before it was officially released at a Toys'R'Us, and I was not disappointed at all. I picked it mainly due to the lack of symmetry in the design and the Crystallized Arm. The build was wonderful and fast, I quite like the boxing function on it's crystal arm as I never thought of using the 2015 Gearboxes for that. The colors are very nice, the corrupted Unity mask of Earth looks great place into the Quake Beast's shoulder shadow trap. The set looks great in a cave/mine environment made out of Legos fighting Onua. Overall I wouldn't mind getting another one or several more actually, it's a wonderful kit that has a great amount of posing options and movement. I highly recommend this to anyone who is a fan of Earth Bionicles and has Onua and Terak. more less

Quake beast has his ups and downs. If you want an interesting and creative build, he's a great set to pick up. However, if you aren't fond of the function, it does take over quite a bit of this set's aesthetic and I feel some sacrifices were made to the overall look of the figure to make way for this function. more less

Quake Beast has his certain charm, with his purple and green color scheme, unusual arm swinging action feature, and crazy asymmetry. I wouldn't say Quake Beast is the best CCBS out there this summer, but he's still a worthy monster to face off against the Toa. And he can throw a really mean punch! more less

I have a hard time faulting QB on a basic level; his function is innovative and the armor design works when you put it in terms of what it was probably supposed to be. But ultimately he just feels like a rough draft of what he could have been. The feature doesn't feel fully fleshed out, and there's ideas they use elsewhere (i.e. free-range of motion arms) that didn't seem to make their way here. A little more effort (and a few recolors) could have gone a long way; maybe it was budget constraints, but in the end it looks like not enough attention was paid to QB after the prototype phase, and he remains unpolished. more less

I've seen a lot of negativity about these Beast sets. This seems to be a bit of a trend with Bionicle, which tends to get more weird and experimental with its monstrous villains at the expense of the solid, well-covered builds typical for more heroic sets. Ultimately, however, I do enjoy these sets for what they are. They have very unique looks and functions, which, while not all consistently effective, offer fantastic variety. As for their parts selection, while I do think last year's villain sets offered a better spread of new parts with slightly more versatility, these Beast sets still hold their own, including their fair share of interesting new molds and recolors as well as a few very useful rare parts. All in all, while I would not consider these sets as essential as the Creatures and Toa from earlier this year, they're still a great choice for constraction fans looking to expand their selection of parts, or Bionicle fans who want to bring their 2016 collection to completion. more less

While I like the concept and certain areas of the model, the amount of aesthetic flaws the model has makes it fall short of my expectations, which is a shame as I was prepared to really like this model. more less