fallentomato Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 A couple years ago i was playing around with the remnants of Graveyard Duel and wondering what I was ever going to do with with 12 of these. A little while later I had 6 of these little robots. As far as robots go they aren't very threatening: they couldn't really do much, and they are smaller than an average minifig. I thought it would be funny if they tried to invade a town, only to be defeated by children and dogs. I also thought that after the invasion a toy company might make a (slightly) smaller version and sell it. Thus was born the Mini-Pinchbot (I couldn't think of a way to make this any smaller and still retain its Pinchbot-ness, but if any one has suggestions I'm all ears. ) These two things sat around in my collection for a while (I was separated from the main part of it during college, so there were many things like this that I forgot about) and then last summer I brought them out again and decided to build their leader-bot: Grabbor. He is more or less just a 2X version of the standard Pinchbot. I used those crazy eyes instead of standard 2x2 radar disks because everyone i asked agreed that the crazy eyes were better. I do love those crazy eyes. I'm not entirely crazy about his pinchers, but I still can't think of a better solution. At the time I build Grabbor, I also started building the head and arms for a landing vehicle for the Pinchbots. Again, i used the principles of scaling and made it a 6X version of the standard Pinchbot. I finally got around to making legs and a body and putting it all together last week. Here's the Pinchbot Landingbot. I need to put through a bricklink order to get enough trans neon green pieces for the booster feet, right now they have some placeholder parts. The panel on the front folds down and acts as a boarding/deployment ramp for the Pinchbots inside. It only stores 4 Pinchbots, but that's okay, I can always pretend it stores more than it actually does. Here is a picture that shows the relative sizes of all of the Pinchbots. I've got a 4X one stared as well, although i'm not sure what purpose it will fulfill, the most important roles are already filled. I also have 4 of these in trans-neon green and while I think making a 20X Pinchbot would be a little excessive i was thinking I could use it to make a microscale Pinchbot mothership. Rather than look like a Pinchbot it would be a giant neon green circle with 8 big Pinchbot arms jutting out, or something like that. Anyway, I hope you enjoy my growing Pinchbot army, let me know what you think. Quote
Brickthing Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 They're so cute! Looking at the eyes of the Pinchbot Lander, do you think that you could make them dual cockpits? It would be a neat way to store 2 more pinchbots as well as give the Lander a stronger vehicular feeling. For the Mini-Pinch Bot, I recommend you try making a custom sticker to put of the front so that it retains the Pinchbot control panel. As for Grabbor, have you tried using this piece as claws? Quote
fallentomato Posted February 16, 2009 Author Posted February 16, 2009 They're so cute! Looking at the eyes of the Pinchbot Lander, do you think that you could make them dual cockpits? It would be a neat way to store 2 more pinchbots as well as give the Lander a stronger vehicular feeling. For the Mini-Pinch Bot, I recommend you try making a custom sticker to put of the front so that it retains the Pinchbot control panel. As for Grabbor, have you tried using this piece as claws? The eyes are just the right size to fit a Picnhbot each. However if I want to make them into cockpits I'm going to have to redesign the entire head. Right now they are just Pinchbot pods. I think you're right though, this is definitely the way to go. It's just going to take me a while to figure out how I want to do the cockpits/control bridge. i think the pichbots might look even more adorable if that had levers to pull. I'll look into the sticker idea. You know I think that might have been the first arm I tried, but then I dismissed it because I didn't have any of these in black. That's a much better solution. It also gives him the ability to flap his arms up and down. That will be useful in giving him some character while animating. Thanks for the great suggestions! Quote
Asuka Posted February 19, 2009 Posted February 19, 2009 They all look very comic-like and funny, and I like especially that king-sized one! Invasion on, pinch-pinch! Quote
Oky Posted February 19, 2009 Posted February 19, 2009 "Oh No! Here come the Pinchbots to pinch us to death!" Very cute design and an interesting project. This goes to show that the most creative and fun projects come from random moments. I like how your different pinchbot models have a consistent design. My favorite is the landing bot because he resembles the original pinchbot so well, especially its pinchers. It's not much of an army though. How about showing us the army of original pinchbots you promised us with the title of this thread? Quote
fallentomato Posted February 19, 2009 Author Posted February 19, 2009 It's not much of an army though. How about showing us the army of original pinchbots you promised us with the title of this thread? Here's a picture I took of a bunch of them coming out of the LandingBot And here's a picture i took of them a while back when they were on my Star Destroyer. You can also see the Toymaster General holding up one of the mini pinchbots. Being next to those two Belville figs makes them look even tinier Quote
Oky Posted February 19, 2009 Posted February 19, 2009 Hehe, nice pics! Thanks! Are those pinchbots attacking the people or partying with them? Cause judging from the happy faces and dance-like poses of the figs around them, I'd say the latter is the case. Quote
fallentomato Posted February 19, 2009 Author Posted February 19, 2009 Hehe, nice pics! Thanks!Are those pinchbots attacking the people or partying with them? Cause judging from the happy faces and dance-like poses of the figs around them, I'd say the latter is the case. They are planning their attack, looking for the best places to pinch. Quote
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