Alternative Toa Mistika/Phantoka

[Adam0n]

I'm not a moc builder but i find this idea interesting.

This is my interpretation of how Toa Nuva would look like if they keeped their old colours, and kanohi's on Karda Nui.

Pohatu:

Tahu:

Gali:

Lewa:

--Onua and Kopaka not needed to change their parts--

Onua:

Kopaka:

Sorry for my English. It's not my national language ;]

[Studs Not On Top]

That's a neat idea. I'm sure a lot of us would have liked the newer Bionicle pieces in old Mata colors.

[Aanchir]

Pretty good for the most part. Gali really bothers me, because she has a lot of light colors (medium blue and silver) without enough brighter or bolder colors to balance them out. Swapping out the Medium Blue for Bright Blue could help-- a version of the limb pieces exists in Bright Blue on Suukorak, although the same unfortunately can't be said for the lower body piece. Gali's mask also looks kind of ugly on her, but this was a problem with the original Toa Nuva version as well, to an extent.

Pohatu could maybe be improved by rotating the ankle joints 90 degrees, since his ankles are currently way too high. Lewa obviously feels sort of incomplete, but this is because of how there really aren't any good foot or armor pieces in his original green color.

I really liked the Toa Nuva from 2008 both in terms of their builds and their color schemes. But I also did a lot of odd experiments to explore the color scheme changes. For instance, here was an early, bad attempt at trying to give Pohatu a "brown" color scheme, while here is a later, better attempt at giving the classic Pohatu an "orange" color scheme. It was pretty easy in both cases since LEGO's classic brown is actually Earth Orange, a color near-identical in hue to Bright Orange but two shades darker.

Overall, one reason I really liked the Phantoka and Mistika color schemes was in terms of contrast. The Phantoka got vibrant primary colors with a dark stone grey secondary color, while the Mistika got deeper primary colors with a brilliant silver secondary color.

The similarities in the masks (pretty obvious in the case of the Phantoka, subtler in the case of the Mistika) also helped maintain continuity. And then the vehicle forms of the Miru Nuva and Kakama Nuva made the similarities even stronger, although annoyingly the center fin disappeared from the vehicle form of the Miru Nuva-- if it had stayed, then there would have still been five fins, just like in the original.

[Adam0n]

Yea. I totally forgot about these mata-blue parts from Suukorak.

Anyway. Here's my other two ideas about changing coulours:

Vahki's with different head parts

Three versions of Fikou spider

[toatyger]

Yea. I totally forgot about these mata-blue parts from Suukorak.

Anyway. Here's my other two ideas about changing coulours:

Vahki's with different head parts

Three versions of Fikou spider

You should have given the black one different colored eyes, maybe red or lime green.

[Vinyl Scratch]

I find that Onua rather... Disturbing.

Don't know, the mask doesn't go with that body.

But overall, decent "modifications". I dig Pohatu a bit.

[Tanma]

As noted above, Onua's third main mask looks a little...odd on his Mistika body. You do have a point about the colors though, Pohatu's orange is a little too...bold. Personally the biggest problem I had with the newer Nuva was Kopaka's weapons. To me Kopaka is only Kopaka if he has an awesome sword and a shield.