Lets Brick Bionicle - 8921 PRIDAK 

Rounding out the Barraki-as well as serving as the team's leader, Pridak commands an army of sharks, as evidenced by his three "Shark Tooth Blades" in a melding of white and Mata red. Even though this could be interpreted in a different manner in itself. This part would appear recolored in silver later in the year in two larger sets as well. For unknown reasons, some promotional artwork of Pridak depicts him with transparent red eyes, instead of the transparent blue ones his set actually comes with. But despite his status as the leader of the Barraki, set-wise it is difficult for me to determine what date I obtained Pridak as my fourth member of the team. Except for how it was after May 2007 when I obtained Takadox (8916), but before obtaining Mantax (8919) and Carapar (8918) during the beginning of that Summer. It is equally difficult to remember if I obtained this set, or them before or after obtaining my first member of the Toa Mahri (8910-8915) for my 10th birthday in July of 2007. In addition, Pridak is comprised out of the fewest pieces (47) out of all of the Barraki, which is still higher than the part counts of the "standard" Piraka (8900-8905) and the Inika forms of Jaller (8727), Hahli (8728), Kongu (8931) and Matoro (8932) from the year before, but just one part fewer than the Toa Hordika (8736-8741) and Visorak (8742-8747) from 2005. Even at the time of the Barraki's release, no set of a standalone canister-size character had had fewer than 40 pieces since the Toa Nuva forms of Lewa (8567) and Tahu (8572) from back in 2002. Pridak having the fewest parts of the Barraki could be owed in part to him not having as many pins or spikes as the others, or even to not having a Piraka or Inika style of torso, even as Takadox (8916), and Ehlek (8920) also didn't have such. Despite both of those sets having more parts overall. Pridak features a new style of feet, the Toa Metru style of double socket joints, and "Electro Blades" recolored in white, with the first two of these being exclusive to this set. In addition to being the smallest set to have Rahkshi legs in black, Pridak's arms mark the third and final appearance of the style of limbs introduced with Toa Nuva in white, as they also appeared in a "Parts tub" (6620) from May 2006 between their origin in Takanuva (8596) and here. As such, this set also marks the last appearance of the Toa Nuva limbs all together. While I didn't mention this in the previous five entries, each of the Barraki store their Sea Squid mounted on their back, shoulder or one hand via "stick holders" part in black. This part first appeared in April 2004 in dark stone gray as part of Doc Ock in several sets (4854, 4855, 4856 and 4857)from the Spider Man 2 theme. This part first appeared in Bionicle in transparent fluorescent reddish-orange as part of the eyes of Roodaka (8761), and later debuted in black in a Harry Potter set (4766) in Fall 2005 in the runup to the release of the film of "Goblet of Fire" on November 18 of that year. They also came in dark stone gray in the four minifigure-scale Bionicle sets (8624, 8892, 8893 and 8894) in 2006. They would continue to appear in both of these colors in Bionicle during 2007, but not after that year. This would also happen for the Barraki pincers being recolored in white for one set of that category (8927) but nowhere else after.