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    I agree that integrating System into constraction is the way to go. In theory, replacing CCBS armour with System slopes and plates would be cheaper, less dependent on new moulds, much more versatile and might even draw in System fans, if only for the parts. While CCBS bought some critical changes and has some of the best constraction figures that Lego has ever made, I believe it peaked with Hero Factory (i.e. simple cartoonish robots) and is now way past its due date and needs to go.
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    Yeah, I guess I was thinking of the krika in particular who only has 40 pieces. I just assumed that the others had low piece counts too, probably because of how bare the mistika look - Tahu and Gali have unarmoured piraka torsos, Tahu and Onua are very lanky and all the makuta use av-matoran limbs/torsos rather than full inika builds. Not to say they look bad though; the mistika are probably my favourite wave of canister sets. The comment about them being overpriced is probably just a relative thing since the price was bumped from $15 AUD for the phantoka to $20 for the mistika where I live.
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    They had some of the worst price to part ratios but I think they were some of the coolest G1 canister sets. I particularly like Tahu, Gali, Krika and Gorest. Even if the toa have little resemblance to their old forms they still look good in their own right. I'd go as far as saying that they are a nicer looking evolution than the toa nuva. I thought the excessive use of silver, using dark red and blue for Tahu and Gali and the revamped mask style gave the toa a more serious, matured look to match how grave the story was at that time, since the story was coming to an end . The inika build and those fragile joints don't age very well though, and Onua could do with a melee weapon.
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    At first I didn't even recognise the big F1 set as the Mercedes team because the colors were so far off. And what's with the "anteater" noses on the cars?
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    I think 2016 is a slight let-down in terms of cohesion and the design of new parts (e.g. Uniter torso). The action features improve upon 2015 but particularly for the small sets they come at the cost of aesthetics. In terms of looks alone, I think 2012 was the peak of Lego constraction with sets like Evo, Core Hunter and Splitface. With Titan sets, both Umaraks are generally better than the Hydraxons of CCBS (Black Phantom and Fire Lord) but aren't as good as Witch Doctor in build or colour distribution.
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    The physique is quite good and I like how the cloths provide smooth contrast to stop her from looking greebly all over. The thighs and hip section look a bit too cluttered though.
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    HF continuation/reboot or another generic robot theme.
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    Yeah, it's pretty hard to create a short G1 MOC. Maybe you could try a custom shin design?
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    By "safer" designs, I meant designing masks without any extra vents (holes) in the first place. I though that designing the masks with small vents was a risk, because the designers would have known that half of the masks last year had to resort to the compromise of "fake vents", but I guess it wasn't much of an "unsafe" decision because Lego and most people are fine with fake vents. Still, getting a design feature right the first time is better than wasting more time and effort trying to develop a compromise. Maybe the type of plastic used in the masks is harder to work with than the soft plastics of the old masks/helmets?
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    So Kopaka's new mask has fake vents, like 3 of the 2015 masks. Do any of the other 2016 masks have fake vents? If Lego couldn't manufacture the masks properly, why didn't they change the design or just make safer designs?
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    The 'hand' piece on the back creates great shaping and from behind the silhouette looks pretty healthy. The SW shoulder add-ons stand out a bit due to how round and curved they are compared to basic CCBS pieces and the type 2 HF foot (as usual) doesn't match well due to the odd texture and shaping which strongly contrasts with the smoothness of the curved SW shin piece. Maybe the type 1 foot would look better.
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    Lewa's upper arms are 5 modules long, so his arms is the standard length for G2 toa. They only end 1 module higher than they should due to the raised shoulders.
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    The legs of the 2016 sets are in decent proportion with the torso. With the 2015 sets the arms and legs were longer than usual for the torso.
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    How about trying a narrower version of Tahu's shoulder design? It would not only widen her shoulders but make them lower so her arms don't appear too short.
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    What makes the proportions such a let down? Were you expecting more exaggerated/heroic/Inika proportions?
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    I think the new Tahu is a significant improvement over the 2015 form. The new torso build makes the exaggerated shoulder width look less odd because of the increased torso height, and it also makes the legs no longer look disproportionately long. He uses a lot of gold, but it doesn't bother me as there are no distinct colour clashes. Although he only has 3 solid red pieces, you could simply remove solid red from the colour scheme or add more red. I really appreciate the gold feet, but the transparent hands are weird. The clashing textures can be mostly fixed by switching or removing add ons, with the torso shell detailing being the biggest 'unfixable' issue. However, the detailing doesn't look too terrible in the review pictures. His weapons aren't the best, but they look less awkward than the gigantic swords of his 2015 form. The mask has improved shaping and no longer suffers from having a fake vent. I generally don't like blended parts, but both masks look good.
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    Very interesting, are the figure rules that you use suppose to be for a "heroic" build? I'm just basing proportions from what you get when you search for "human proportions", where Gali seems more realistic although her limbs and torso are a bit short for accurate head ratios. From the diagrams I looked at: - Tahu's torso misses 1 head of length. Gali's is missing 0.5 heads. - Tahu's legs are at the normal, Gali's are 0.5 heads shorter than usual. - Tahu's leg to torso ratio is at 8:16 (0.5) rather than the normal 3:4 (0.75). Gali is at 10:14 (0.71) - Tahu's legs make up 57% of his height (7% more than usual). Gali's legs make up 50% of her height. - Tahu's arms reach too low, Gali's reach 1 module too high. - Tahu's shoulder width (13M w/ CCBS shells) is a broader than an average heroic build. That's over a head broader than standard proportions. - Tahu's shoulder width is more than his torso height, at 13:8 (1.63) rather than 2:3 (0.67) Basically, I think Tahu looks weird because his torso is very short and wide. However, proportions can obviously vary, some would say that the toa should have "heroic" proportions rather than "normal " proportions, and I'm definitely not an anatomy expert.
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    I thought that Onua's gappy thighs were bad, but Gali's are next level. Tahu 2015 is not the best set to compare proportions with, as he pretty much has inika proportions. If anything, he is the one with major proportion issues while Gali is mostly fine.
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    The legs are short to the point where it is abnormal (from what I counted, 11M legs with a 13M torso+head). There isn't anything wrong with that, as Bionicle sets and MOCs tend to have odd/exaggerated proportions, but it's just unusual because most sets and MOCs have the legs being longer than normal.. It could just be the poses and bulk that makes it look odd
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    It could be to do with LEGO phasing out certain colours of parts. The grey bone on 2016 Onua's arm hasn't been made in black since 2013, and the 2015 SW action figures used the same bone as 2016 Tahu in grey as well. It's similar to how technic axles come in alternating colours with different lengths. If Onua used trans-purple bones in both arms, then the chance of the mixing up the bones could be easily reduced with a clarification in the instruction manual, but it isn't as foolproof.
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    I like the changes you made to the arm design, especially the use of the 5M shell for the lower arms. The custom torso definitely improves her proportions to be more realistic and reasonable, but the torso shell looks a but odd because it sticks out by a module. The upper leg design is also nice because it is less hollow and gappy than the original. The shoulder armour clutters her upper half a bit and might make posing more annoying, but I understand that it's one of the key features of the original set. I think one of the main reasons the set designer gave Gali huge, angled shoulder armour was to de-emphasise the broadness of the shoulders, but you've fixed the shoulder width.
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    When is a design "unnecessarily complicated"?
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    In my opinion, 2015 Onua has an extremely generic and cliqued physique used to signal strength, so the 2016 physique is better even if the use of angled technic connectors doesn't look that good.
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    So is the new brainstalk even worse?
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    iirc, the Inika torso had decent depth, but it was so ridiculously wide that it looked flat. I think the 2015 torso had too much depth because the arms were stuck back a lot, the back armour was sticking out more than intended, and the chest piece stuck out a lot. The 2016 torso design seems more versatile and the depth is better, but the lower half looks a bit thin when you look at images like this one. Still better than 2015, though.
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