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8690-1 Toa Onua

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Toa Onua

Toa Onua is LEGO set 8690-1. It has a score of 78. This is average compared to all other sets. The set is recommended by 1 reviews, based on 3 scored reviews and 4 reviews total. It is ranked in the bottom 41.5% scored sets on Brick Insights. We know this set was released in 2008, and it is categorised in Bionicle.

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Average rating

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Recommendations

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Average PPP for Constraction in 2008 is 0.3. PPP for this set is 0.25, which is better.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as Constraction. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

PPP is a guide, not a rule, and affected by the type of parts included. A set containing small generic parts generally have better PPP than one containing larger specialized parts.

Price Per Minifig (PPM)

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We do not currently know how the average price per minifig for this set compares to other sets.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as Constraction. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

PPM only takes the number of minifigs into account and discards everything else. It's a guide, not a rule.

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Review breakdown

Scored reviews

amazon.com Recommendation: yes 5 / 5 → 100 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: meh 4 / 5 → 80 / 100

Lugnet Recommendation: no 55 / 100 → 55 / 100

Unscored reviews

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Set information

Set ID: 8690-1
Name: Toa Onua
Parts: 62

Retail price (USD):
Original: 12.99
Inflation adjusted: 15.42

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.21
Inflation adjusted: 0.25

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Recommendation: yes 5 / 5 from 4 reviews

Onua was my second favorite Toa, next to Tahu. I always thought of Onua as that super strong yet wise hero, and it looks like LEGO had that idea in mind when they designed this figure. Onua stands pretty tall (even taller if you switch out his silver arm and leg pieces for Gali's), and is a bulky figure with a large mask and an extra piece on his launcher to make it resemble a heavy weapon. He's even got a "proto-shield" on his left shoulder to block incoming attacks. He's pretty rare and hard to find now, but if you don't have him and a get a chance to pick him up, take it.

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 4 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.
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Recommendation: meh 4 / 5 from 7 reviews

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Recommendation: no 55 / 100 from 1 review

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BZPower

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by Andrew

I enjoyed building and playing with Onua, and one day I will take him apart and, guarenteed, enjoy MOCing with his pieces. But $12.99 is a very difficult price to swallow if you only sort of enjoy him. Something in the play or the parts have to really be worth it in order to feel good about shelling out almost as much as it would take to get, say, another Mutran and Vican for just one Toa.

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