About

Good Guy is a Lego Bionicle promotional ploybag set. While initially highly criticized for it's lack of much building and having a very creative name, it along with other Bionicle polybag sets have since gained an ironic fandom.

Origin

On August 9th 2006, the Bionicle News Site BZPower posted a news article about a promotion Lego was doing with the Danish Donald Duck Magazine, which was of a small Bionicle set officially named "Good Guy" ^[2]. The next day, BZPower posted an article about a similar set that was also a promotion with the same magazine, who was officially called "Bad Guy" ^[3]. They also noted that the set resembled a similar promotional set whose partnership was unknown at the time.^[4] This one would often be dubbed "Duracell Bad Guy" due to being packaged with Duracell batteries.

Spread

These sets were initially widely mocked due to the small part count and near comical proportions, with the only good thing about them being that they came free with promotions. They were often considered the worst Bionicle sets. ^[4][5] At some point after the cancellation of Bionicle's first generation, however, there began to be an ironic fandom around Good Guy, as well as the other Bionicle Polybags, especially around 2014 given the increased activity of the Bionicle fandom due to rumors of of the line's return in 2015. It was also helped in part due to "good guy" showing up in the Bionicle Fan Film series "Reviving Bionicle"^[6][7]

Various Examples

External References