The Great Kanohi Kraahkan Posted September 27, 2010 Posted September 27, 2010 (edited) In another place... Angonce, one of the Great Beings, had fought down his fear. It would do no good to panic at this stage. He had to be calm and go through the situation point by point. Maybe then he would find an answer. When the Great Beings created the Mata Nui robot, their plan was a simple one. Mata Nui would return when the time was right, heal the shattered remains of Spherus Magna, and then power down. Neither it, nor the beings inside who kept it running, would be needed anymore. Some Great Beings wanted to keep a few intact to study; others felt the materials could be better used in other projects. No one advocated letting Toa, Matoran, etc. run free on Spherus Magna. They weren't independent beings with a right to life and liberty, after all. They were tools to be used to keep the Mata Nui robot functioning... weren't they? Things had not gone quite as planned. There had evidently been glitches in the AI of Mata Nui, Makuta, and the Great Beings' other creations. Instead of a simple repairing of the planet, there had been a robot war and the bizarre sight of nanotech creations nobly sacrificing themselves in battle and, in many cases, dying to save others. That was not the behavior of bio-mechanical servitors. That was an actual, new species fighting and dying for its freedom. Ordinarily, this would have been a cause for celebration. But at the same time that the Great Beings had failed to predict the future, they had also planned a little too well. During the Core War, the Great Beings had unleashed a “doomsday weapon” that came to be called "baterra." Their role was to end the war by force by eliminating any armed combatant they encountered. Once it became inevitable that the Shattering would happen, the Great Beings tried to use their failsafe to shut the baterra down. It failed, and the baterra remained active to this day. That failure made them think about how much power each Toa would have. If something went wrong upon Mata Nui's return, and the Toa were unleashed, the Agori would stand no chance against them. Suppose the Toa went bad? Suppose they wanted to conquer this new world? If so, then once again Spherus Magna would be in mortal danger as a result of the Great Beings' actions. That could not be allowed to happen. They had little time, but they put it to good use, designing and building a new creation. It existed for one purpose, and one alone: to destroy Toa. The Great Beings believed no single Toa, or team of Toa, could hope to stand against it. It was christened Marendar, an Agori word meaning "salvation," and placed in a vault. Angonce knew the abrupt appearance of so many Toa on Spherus Magna might well activate Marendar. He hurried to the vault, but too late – the living weapon had already smashed its way through three feet of metallic protodermis and was gone. It would carry out its programming and kill any and every Toa on the planet. They think they have found a new world, the Great Being said to himself. How could they know nothing waits here for them... but death? That's an excerpt from 'The Yesterday Quest' featuring the Marender, a powerful war machine, programed to hunt Toa down, capable of smashing it's way threw five feet of Steel Protodermis, it is the Marender! So I made a Moc of it (see below) which took me an hour and a half to make. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0041.jpg http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0063.jpg There's those creepy claws able to slash threw solid protodermis! I used two Vorox blades, a Raanu's shield piece in silver, a Rock steed's tail and some various conector pieces. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0075.jpg This is the right hand consisting of two Raanu's shield pieces, one black and one silver, One of the Top pieces for Nektann's Sword, which Antroz also used as twin weapons, two of Mata-Nui's Shield Pieces in silver, Two black Mantax Claws and some other various connecting pieces. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0062.jpg That's it's tail, I wanted to use a thornax launcher on one of it's weapons but it would have gotten in the way of it's slashing and shreding, so I put a thornax launcher on it's tail, along with two Rackshi pieces and a Makuta Wing giving it the appearence of a stinger tail like the vorox. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0077.jpg This is the Marendor without it's weapons even though I think there attached to his body. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0081.jpg Excluding the weapons, I'll review it below. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0082.jpg That's it's head. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0083.jpg I used a normal glatorian head and turned it around, but just normal is the same thing... http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0084.jpg It's just a Zamour launcher... http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0085.jpg Tail http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0086.jpg Conector...no point in showing this... http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0087.jpg Top of the tail...not much point in showing this ether... http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0088.jpg Arms http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0089.jpg Here's a comparison, I used to diffrent pieces so one arm is slightly taller then the other... http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0090.jpg There's it's armor http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0091.jpg There's it's legs, diffrent color armor but unlike the arms their identical http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0093.jpg Diffrent? http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0095.jpg Torso http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone7/Marendor/pict0097.jpg It wielding it's blade And that's all...hope you like it. Those pictures are massive! I've converted them to links for now, but you can follow this tutorial to reduce their sizes to fit within the site's image guidelines. - 3D Brickthing Edited September 27, 2010 by 3D Brickthing Quote
prateek Posted September 27, 2010 Posted September 27, 2010 That thing is huge! I like it a lot. IMO, you should've entered this in the HF contest, but I guess it's too late now... Quote
Extreme Sadness. Posted September 28, 2010 Posted September 28, 2010 Erm, I never pictured Marendar looking so. . . . . . . . . .Bestial. And I think the hands are too messy, The assymetricality doesn't work IMO, and the Tail is just strange considering what it's supposed to be. Sorry, just doesn't cut it for me . -ES Quote
Zennia Jorra: Toa of Slush Posted October 1, 2010 Posted October 1, 2010 Not bad as an MOC, although not exactly how I envisioned Marander. Although the way I imagined it was kind of stupid, like a mobile wood-chipper or something. xD More of a Toa-killing machine--with emphasis on "machine"--than a bipedal hunter. Quote
Fikko3107 Posted December 12, 2012 Posted December 12, 2012 Considering the fact that there have never been a good physical description of Marendar, I suppose this is done pretty good and "Accurate". Quote
DraikNova Posted December 12, 2012 Posted December 12, 2012 I don't really like it. It looks like an inika build with a bunch of blades slapped onto the hands. Quote
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