Exo-Toa

Exo-Toa were special suits of powered armor that Toa could wear. They could also be programmed to act on their own. Each Exo-Toa was equipped with a claw arm, an Electro rocket, and could enhance the strength of the Toa wearing it by several times. However, it also blocked the Elemental powers of its wearer.

In the time of the Toa Hagah, the Brotherhood of Makuta used Exo-Toa as part of their army, which included Visorak and the Dark Hunters. Thousands of years later, six Exo-Toa were found in the Bohrok nest by the Toa Mata. The Toa tried to use the armor to defeat the Bohrok Queens, the Bahrag, but found the lack of elemental powers too much of a liability. When the Bohrok-Kal later tried to free the Bahrag, these six Exo-Toa were reduced to scrap metal trying to stop them. Nuparu then salvaged the scrap, intending to study it, but had little time to do so before becoming a Toa Inika. Makuta Chirox took over an Exo-Toa to 'demonstrate' to Mutran the new powers being made entirely out of antidermis exhibited. Exo-Toa are one of the kinds of things makuta can posses along with other robots, such as pit guard robots and 'empty shells'. Also, when Mata Nui fell into his deep sleep, the ground shook, cracking the armor of a Makuta, but that Makuta was placed inside an Exo-Toa suit to keep him alive. The Exo-Toa had two functions, one was an auto-pilot mode where the suit could drive itself if there was no Toa rider. In this mode, a robotic head would be flipped up over the place where the Toas head would be. The other function is the mode that is driven by Toa.

Set Information

 * The Exo-Toa was a 2002 titan set; it's set number was 8557.
 * The Exo-Toa consisted of 378 pieces.
 * The Exo-Toa set would actually allow a Toa Mata set to fit into it, but because of Pohatu's upside-down torso, he couldn't fit in one due to an error on LEGO's part. (Bionicle fans later discovered a way to modify the set for it to fit Pohatu.) Onua was unable to fit as well, concerning his "head placement" on his set.
 * The set had a mechanical head that could be put up by twisting a cog.

Trivia

 * The Exo-Toa were designed by the Nynrah Ghosts.