Antak
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The only ccbs I've ever had break was a joint that was strained from being stored badly, and I have every Hero factory and G2 bionicle set. But late Bionicle G1 sets snapped as you put them together... The joints were too thin on the sides and the material was too brittle
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I like them both, but I love not having joints break left an d right with ccbs. ccbs is a little more user friendly, but doesn't look as unique. I hope future lines use a blend of ccbs' versatility with bionicle's personality.
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yeah, marketing was a big part of g1's success. G2 was a confusing mess, marketing was sparse and aimed at adults while story and content was made (poorly) for kids. The action figure market has kind of died down in general, so getting a new theme of the ground is actually a risky investment. even the star wars constraction is selling poorly in my area. I collect other action figures as well, and I've watched as the shelf space for them has gone from entire aisles to tiny strips hidden off to the side.Lego also barely marketed the last year of hero factory despite a radical change in play style, which in part led to bad sales. As someone responsible for ordering and stocking, I remove things from my set that don't move (I manage a dairy). So bionicle G2 comes on the scene, and no one wants to carry it because of all the slow moving hero factory sets from the year before. Unfortunately, a new theme within the next year or two would likely have exactly the same problem from retail. Lego needs to wait, and come back with a theme they're willing to actually market, after retailers forget about that one lego line that didn't sell.
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Clever foot design, and nice hammer. If there was one good thing that came out of g2's cancellation, It was the fantastic makuta mocs it gave rise to.
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Thanks! I need to stop being lazy and take some more outdoor shots. They're really fun to do
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See! Someone else used tiny feet for a rahkshi model! Vindicated! Lol. Nice build, simple and clean, fits g2 style. Your head build is weird but works well for a rahkshi.
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Also depends on the specific mask. early mask pack kanohi are pretty common, masks included with smaller sets are common. Later masks like the Nuva are a little harder to find, the silver Nuva masks are almost impossible to find. Buying a lot is probably the way to go, I got half my g1 mask collection knocked out by buying a lot with about 30 masks and the old toysrus collector book.
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Probably one of the hardest ways to get masks... and probably more expensive than bricklink and ebay. Sorry, not very helpful. Which masks are you looking for?
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I wish I had a pearl gold kraahkan, but sadly that Alternate universe teridax contest happened and an already rare mask became disgustingly expensive. same with the mask of life. Ah well, there's always auric gold...
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its a paint designed to be used as a layer, so it works best if you spray paint the mask gold first. this will further help smooth it down too.
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Awesome. I need to get some more shapeways masks, been meaning to get the higher res achryllic MoUP and cyberhands mask of Time. They look so good in auric gold
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Nice, Love seeing a straightforward G1 style moc that isn't an overly complicated mass of parts. Reminds me of the Toa Kaita. Use of the hockey torso piece is impressive too. I'm not a huge fan of the split color scheme, but I can tell that was a deliberate choice. Good work!
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On 4/7/2017 at 11:08 AM, Master_Data said:I'm blown away. These are amazing!
I loved the original Rahkshi (even the one from Stars), so I didn't think anything could top them. I didn't realize how many flaws the originals had - yours bring out the best I always remembered of them. Amazing work!
Thank you! The frame I came up with is pretty flexible, I'd do more but I got sick of ordering the CCBS ballsocket in trans orange...
Anyway, was at the park during a rainstorm the other day (no one there to see some weirdo taking pictures of legos) and got some awesome photos. I've been trying to do this with each of my bionicle mocs, I was inspired by the cool art in the G1 instructions and packaging.
The dim lighting made Gurahk look really menacing.
A fun shot of Gali vs Gurahk
Precariously balanced The rahkshi of gravity on a fallen tree trunk
And an exceptionally cool flight picture. Also, The only justification I have for the tiny feet, they interlock with the head.
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I like the shape and proportions, color is pretty good too.The regular hands are throwing me off though, Maybe try using the hero factory 2.0 shield piece, its nice and modular for different functions
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Everything looks pretty straightforward, except that torso. I bet it uses the Bohrok head frame, rather than the toa or bohrok torso parts.
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Honestly, hard to say, they got makuta's voice down, but I disliked the matoran sounding like children, and the toa were hit and miss. I think the movies got batter as they went on though, the only voice acting I couldn't stand from the last one was kiina. So I think there's good and bad in all of them.
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Isn't that a komau? Akaku was kopaka's mask with the eyepiece. Either way, its one of the only masks missing from my collection due to the painfully high price, even 5 years ago I couldn't find one for less than 40
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Awesome use of the Movie kraahkan, Lots of clever techniques here,
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Thank you! My goal was to make them look like sets, and I'm not a big fan of the huge complicated look. If my mocs are tied to a certain theme, I like to keep the general look of that theme as much as possible.
@shakar; completely forgot about those parts, stars foot was pretty good. thought about the metru foot or the 1.0 hero foot too. I'll dig some stars feet out and give it a try.
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Did some photos up in the canyon today, with Voltrahk and Pohatu. Also just realized the powerlines in the first one, oh well. Note that I replaced my pohatu's awkward staff with a pair of nifty hooked weapons, so he can rock climb like Pohatu Nuva could.
Didn't help him much though
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I kept finding mostly complete rahkshi at thrift stores, and started looking for things to do with them. I eventually realized that Greg Farshtey's Kraata chart included a number of color combos that could actually be done. after figuring out which kraata was which, I built this army. All the wild Rahkshi that can physically be built. (and heat vision rahkshi) no painted parts, custom parts, or pieces that deviate from the original rahkshi build (except heat vision rahkshi). Each rahkshi has the correct kraata, and canonical colors. (except fire resistance rahkshi). between the 12 of them, each original rahkshi spine is used twice, with a unique staff for each one.
Genrahk, Quick heal rahkshi
Cryorahk, Stasis field rahkshi
Agirak, Dodge rahkshi
Cerahk, Fire resistant rahkshi (should be turquoise, but no rahkshi parts in that color and it seemed a shame to waste an all dark green set of rahkshi parts)
Transrahk, teleportation Rahkshi
Thermrahk, heat vision Rahkshi. Trimmed head for mobility, and obviously a moc instead of a color swapped rahkshi.
Voltrahk, Electricity
Botarahk, Plant control Rahkshi
Spectrahk, Density control Rahkshi
Typhrahk, Cyclone Rahkshi
Umbrahk, darkness rahkshi
My favorite, Thorahk, Chain Lightning rahkshi
Group shot with the original 6 rahkshi. Sadly because of the way the wild kraata chart is written, a lot of these are just color swapped between 2 rahkshi. I tried to make them distinct with my staff and spine choices, and managed to do a few solid color ones. Thanks for looking, apologies for the long post
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15 hours ago, LEGOshibainu said:I just watched Mask of Light for the first time and then saw this on here, it's brilliant!
The movie has so many flaws, but holy crap they did a great job making the rahkshi menacing. Thank you!
I went outside and got a good picture of my kurahk in the snow
I really want to get pictures of all my rahkshi out in their respective elements, but I need to wait for winter to end...
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These are some mods to Exoforce set 7721-1, Combat crawler x2. This was a set almost no one bought, It was gappy, weird, hard to find, and expensive. I managed to get a sealed one for less than 30 dollars after the series was cancelled in 2009, and rather liked the idea of the model.
All legs are now jointed, canopy added to the front for the main pilot. the cannon at the top has been adjusted to fit the gunner better, The middle pair of legs has been connected differently both to accomodate the joint an so they line up with the front and back pairs of legs. Extra armor has been added to the chasis as well, though its not too noticeable, this set was actually pretty beefy for an exoforce model
Combat crawler now has a retractable frame on the front that covers the secondary cockpit. the connection between the 2 models has also been fixed so it doesn't fall apart from use.
I love that it has stabilizers for its giant artillery piece.
Added a roof to the prison so the pilot couldn't easily climb out
The drone has a reasonably well defended seat up here. the controls were on the original set, but it only came with the 2 robots. Also, the original gun hinge caused it to smack the robot in the head if you decided to pivot it, and had an ugly connection with a bionicle piston
The Viper x2 (as I so named it) recieved a lot of attention. It had a neat leg design, but the execution was really sloppy, Gaps have been filled in everywhere, and I added an actual cockpit. Feet were shortened
I removed the technic plates on its legs to get rid of the holes, The connection on its back was heavily reinforced and can no longer slide off. All parts on the back have been swapped out for black, including the technic bushing.
The Combat crawler showing off its rudimentary leg joints. Thanks for looking! any comments or feedback welcome.
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Okay, here's the Blazing Falcon (The extremely crappy orange and white pile of parts you get with the mobile devastator)
I removed a lot of unnecessary colors, stripped most dark gray, light gray and black, and got rid of the stupid engine blocks and clips everywhere. ugly ehlek claws were replaced with Inika Claws, and armor was reinforced and smoothed down
Thrusters were moved to the back, leg armor was redesigned. The feet were stripped down as well,
The biggest change, though, is the cockpit being replaced with the shorter canopy piece, and the torso being shortened to fit it. no more horrendous gaps! I mean, there's still a gap, but you can't fit a robot minifigure through it anymore
I've gone from hating this model to loving it. It took a lot of work to get it looking nice.
Original Bionicle vs CCBS discussion
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some break, some don't, most g1 joints were fine up until they introduced the longer double socket with the visorak. My 2008 takanuva's joints are still undamaged, my toa Ignika went through 3 sets of joints before I gave up and gave him the older style. 2007-2009 was the worst of it.