Amongst the play sets this year (and please note I haven’t received PIRAKA OUTPOST and haven’t opened RACE FOR THE MASK OF LIFE yet) LAVA CHAMBER GATE has to be my favorite. It does feel a little pricey at about $40.00 USD but considering oil and gas prices we as the customer are getting the break.

This set has it’s ups and it’s downs, the first you will notice is you get four out of the six characters from each side, unlike how every BIONICLE® play set had at least the full set of six, plus a couple extra on the VISORAK side. For the set we receive HEWKII, HAHLI, MATORO, and NUPARU, amongst the PIRAKA we have HAKANN, VEZOK, ZAKTAN, and ol’ hamster cheeks, (better known as AVAK). I don’t know if it’s a storyline reason that there are only the four, but I would have loved the idea of a complete set, thus allowing us to not buy the biggest one to get the full set. With any luck some of the other smaller sets have the other two.