You were clearly too young to enjoy them when they first came out.
Also, Bionicle from 2001-2002 = Great.
Rest = not great.
2007 was the only other good year in my opinion.
Bionicle had its days man,I still have a huge box full of them.
Lego has changed allot too, remember the plastic swords used to be pointy and sharp, now lego makes their plastic swords out of some bendy soft plastic, I have to agree when lego started Hero Factory I was upset, the 1.0 had weapons that worked on only one side if you know what I mean, and most people like bionicles because they had allot of building in them with all the small technic pieces and their buildable weapons, now lego meant to make the hero factory series to be less building more playing, so they made building easy, most people hate this, I however dont give a forget about what lego comes up with next, the new
Hero Factory : Break Out sets are coming out in a couple of weeks if Im correct...