LEGO Bionicle MOC: Self-created Makuta?

This 24" creation is my tallest Bionicle MOC.  I was originally going to write a full story for it on Zeyek's Bionicle: Untold, but it never came together.  The general idea is that when the Great Beings were doing their early creationary experiments, they were going through many revisions, making prototypes of new beings and casting them off or recycling their materials until they got it all "just right."  One day they retired to rest after failing to create a viable Makuta prototype.  In the protodermis pool they were working from, the spirit of one of their prototypes did not fully dissolve as planned, and it gathered bits of intelligence and designs from other prototype beings that had been experimented with from the same pool.  By night, this being was able to form a rudimentary body for itself, and as it witnessed the glory of its success in creating its own physical self, it grew in confidence and strength and began to add more & more material to itself, eventually becoming a hulking, skeletal, robotic giant.  As it was not part of any plan, the Great Beings decided this early Makuta could not be trusted, and could not be allowed to continue its life.  They deactivated it, melted its body back into the protodermis pool, then froze and sealed the pool to ensure that nothing contained within it would ever be used or have a chance to escape again.

For transportation, this MOC could be fairly easily taken apart.  I think it's funny that the head has feet.

LEGO Bionicle MOC: Bohrok-Kal Titan

The Krana carried by the original Bohrok could be very powerful indeed, but when not under the control of the Baharag, most had little to no motivation.  Not so with the Krana-Kal.  This Krana Bo-Kal's bearer was damaged in battle, but it will was so strong that it managed to assemble parts from the battlefield and regain function as a larger, stronger than ever Bohrok-Kal Titan!

LEGO Bionicle MOC: Takanuva MEGA-Titan

The Lego Bionicle creations I've published up to now have all ranged in size from sub-chibi to mid-sized titan.  Oh, how things can change!

This Toa Takanuva MOC started its life as, well, a titan Takanuva set.  I looked at the chest armor and saw that it could be used as the basis of an enormous mask with its two large eye-like holes, and soon I found myself building up some semblance of a head to see how big the rest of the model would have to be.

"Really, really big" was the answer, and the MOC ended up standing over 22 inches tall.  Not my tallest Bionicle creation, but close.  I built both the head and the body to be as light in weight as possible without looking too stringy, to try to minimize problems with load-bearing joints and posability.  I wanted to make sure that even though it was a big model, it would still be able to pose halfway decently.

The whole thing was built at home, but for display somewhere else, so I needed to be able to break it down into smaller parts for easier transportation.  The arms are attached by nothing more than a single-length bit of axle each, and the legs can be removed fairly easily as well.  You can some of the high-level details of the construction in the video below.  Please be sure to subscribe to my Lego YouTube channel!



LEGO Hero Factory MOC: Xarath

In the LEGO Hero Factory universe, two names are feared more than any other:  Von Nebula, and Xarath.  Each time he appears, he wreaks horrific destruction and causes a major disruption to life in the region he targets.  The last time he visited the outskirts of Makuhero City, he surgically disrupted a key fiber optic communications hub by fusing several fiber bundles together with his shoulder-mounted Modulated Fusion Cannon (MFC), scrambling the flow of data and causing overloads at dozens of regional routing stations.  Over 240,000 citizens were left without connectivity to the Ultranet for over a week.  After repairs were completed, the entire Ultranet infrastructure was audited, and only the one physical location Xarath attacked was found to have been able to create such a devastating chain reaction.  Xarath knew exactly where and how to strike.

Xarath's ultimate motivations are not yet clear, but it is believed that he is a rival of Von Nebula and looking to usurp the power of our most well-known super-foe.

Xarath also carries a double-tipped lance, and by removing the blade head it becomes a tripod for the MFC, allowing more precise long-ranged attacks.

LEGO Bionicle MOC: Taroah

Taroah was a Rock Tribe agori in the Bionicle world of Bara Magna.  He vehemently opposed Tuma's rule, and paid the price in the form of a viscious nighttime ambush that damaged one of his legs and one of his arms beyond repair.  Abandoned in his crippled state far from any village or trading route, Taroah was astonishingly rescued by none other than Zeyek himself.  Why Zeyek chose to intervene on this lone agori's behalf remains a mystery. 

Taroah was flown to a far, distant, highly advanced planet, where he was given free medical attention and fully robotic replacements for his damaged limbs.  He found work on the planet and saved up his money to purchase custom-fitted weapons, including a double-barrelled blaster that would attatch directly to his right arm, as well as a rocket-propelled mortar launcher.  A patron at a tavern he began to frequent has said that Taroah was preparing to journey back to Bara Magna, just days before the planet was reunited into Spherus Magna.

He has not been heard of since.

LEGO Bionicle MOCs video preview

Here's a quick camera pass over all of my Lego Bionicle MOCs (and Hero Factory too!) as of September 9, 2010.  Most of them have been published here and on Zeyek's site, but some remain to be fully revealed.  No worries, as I continue to transition to doing purely Hero Factory work, I'm in a hurry to finally publicize all of the remainder of my Bionicle creations.  Slow video overviews of each shelf worth of MOCs will be coming, along with some spotlight videos on individual creations I particularly like.

LEGO Hero Factory MOC: Narec monster

Now this is one ugly creature.  Its composition is estimated to be 70% organic, 30% inorganic.  It does not appear to possess the ability to communicate in any way.  Its main food source?  Tree roots.  Bizarre, to say the least.  For some reason, there is something about the way decorative trees are grown in cities that makes them more appetizing to the Narec monster, and it has been making ever deeper incursions into populated areas, terrorizing citizens.  It must be captured and taken back to the wild, far away from developed zones!



LEGO Hero Factory MOC: Ryan Fissure

Fissure is a rookie who's being trained to handle an experimental extended-range melee weapon currently called the the WPL-45H.  The weapon features a bladed "stinger" on a tether that connects to a fuel-cell charged crystal capacitor on the wielder's back.  The stinger is whirled in a circular motion on a short length of tether to build up kinetic energy, then it is released directly at the target.  On impact, the tip triggers a pulsed electrical discharge down the tether and directly into the point of impact.  This can almost instantly disable a robotic target, stun a biological one without causing any actual injury, or disrupt an inorganic surface or structure at the molecular level, causing it to weaken and crack along the lines of electrical discharge.

LEGO Hero Factory villain set review videos

You've seen my LEGO Hero Factory heroes videos, and because of your requests, I've now gone ahead and reviewed the villains as well:

• LEGO Hero Factory -- Meltdown review
• LEGO Hero Factory -- Corroder review
• LEGO Hero Factory -- Rotor review (see also the important addendum)
• LEGO Hero Factory -- Thunder review
• LEGO Hero Factory -- Xplode review
• LEGO Hero Factory -- Von Nebula review
• LEGO Hero Factory -- Vapor & Bulk Limited Edition set review

Please be sure to subscribe to my LEGO YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/LEGOJANG for future Hero Factory and Bionicle MOC videos!

Speaking of MOCs, it's been too long since I posted some.  Time to change that!

LEGO Bionicle Moc: Green and white

Green and white!  That's all I can really say about this Lego Bionicle MOC!  I wanted to make something Toa-like that was green and white.  So I did.  Yay.