pocketmego

Not bad. I'd add some more sky blue elements, if you have them. Other than that I think clawed fingers and (MAYBE) a bit more bulk around the waist. Between the Blue Mask and the orange crotch. It needs....something.

This is a GREAT mix of Bionicle and HF. I love the "H" for Hewki logo on the pelvic area...very clever. The addition of his signature chain looks even better on such a massive figure.

:D Yeah, I've been wanting to post this for days. But, I was waiting for more fingers to show up from Brick Link. :D I wasn't sure plugging an INika Torso onto an HF torso was going to work. But, I wanted size and bulk, without a lot of excess armor on the back. It did the trick.

Well to be fair, I don't think I was here when this came up, originally.

Robert Rodriguez? Of Desperado, Spy Kids, Sin City, From Dusk Till Dawn Fame? If this is true he might be a REALLY good choice. He's solid building interesting characters, has done successful kids movies, and is possibly one of the single GREATEST action directors of ALL TIME.

Bay would be THE WORST choice for an HF movie. A Hero Factory film would HAVE to be character based to have any chance of success. Bay has proven very incapable of giving any Transformers beyond Prime, Bumblebee, and the racist minstrel bots any real character. If there had to be humans in an HF MOVIE (yuk), they couldn't and shouldn't be better developed characters than the heroes. Bay's humans were horrid one note characters, but they were at least better developed than 80% of his robots.

And this is where I am striving to get. It's a lot easier for me to get away 2001-2003, because I followed Bionicle less actively after that and those characters don't mean much to me. I actually found the Hordika concept completely stupid. (I'M sorry, but having the TOA upset because they have become mis-shapen monstrosities that look...not much different than their usual mis-shapen in-human forms was idiotic. Even the movie had to fudge on their "deformities" because the toys didn't seem all that worse than normal TOA forms, and the INIKA were even scarier looking, LOL) Sorry, tangent, anywho... The farther into the line, the more MOC potential I see. For HF, it harder to determine. Since its the same characters over and over, the masks loose versatility much faster. Villain masks, not so much.

Not mine. However, this guy touches on some interesting points. It doesn't really apply to most of this community. Near as I can tell, we are all about CONSTRACTION figures and less about sub-branding. Probably because of the HUGE MOCing community here and the desire for new and fresh parts. But, I know a lot of you (in some cases myself included) dig the HF sets as intended. I don't know much about BZ POWER, I remember it being active back in the day. But, I came here, because that place was dead the last bunch of times I checked in. I can understand some old school Bionicle fans never wanting to support HF. The fear makes perfect sense. "If we support HF, it will get popular and LEGO will never bring Bionicle back." Is there validity in that? if we support the Constraction Figure as an over-all popular concept , do we sign away Bionicle forever? Or Is this guy's argument far more valid? (I am in this camp actually. I like the exploration of concepts that might grow from the Constraction Figure concept as a whole. The Chima figures prove to me just how versatile this can get.) Thoughts?

Bay signed on for another one. Lebouf is out and Mark Walberg is in.

I can respect that point of view. I live in New Orleans and lot of big movies are getting made here lately.

I certainly appreciate all the suggestions and input from people doing this a lot longer than I have been. It would appear that I have simply stumbled on to an age old Bionicle/HF MOC pitfall. A big step towards a solution would be for LEGO to sell individual armor and masks in a customizable order fashion. But, since the whole build a hero thing proved to be considered "not profitable enough", I doubt we'll see that happening.

Oh, cool. I see it. I was used to the big black clown nose.

No, I was being specific for a reason. TF 1 AND 2... BAD, but not unwatchable. Transformers 3 is a situation of disaster so abhorrent, insurance companies should cover people for it. The only reason it isn't higher on my list of worst movies of all time...is because GI JOE: Rise of Cobra was somehow...INCONCIEVABLY...worse. In that it was barely even a movie.

I'd put the cannon from the Exo Toa on the end of that tail. Beyond that, it looks good. Big, solid and nasty.

Good idea. Thanks Still, you did a lot to cover that. Very solid model. I suspect the already tough difficulty of creating a lithe figure at standard size for a female would be all but TRIPLED at XL size. When I first got into HF, I bought BREEZE with no idea it was a female until I learned about her later. In a line that has always basically said, "Its female because we say it is", this problem may well be forever. I know that currently no one has suffered more from this than Chi ERIS, who looks like Sam Eagle.

I just chalked it up tons digital display surface, like a tablet. Anyone who pilots it would have their name appear in the same place.

As a MOCCer, I've given up on the confines of established story and lines. I have decided to just mix and match everything and make whatever I find amusing and set in no real time or place. Thus, I've begun throwing out specific terms like TOA and Hero Core. Fine, lots of people choose to do this...nothing special. But, I am running across a bit of an odd problem. Do any of you have problems seperating a MASK from a particular character? It isn't too hard for later stuff. I just can't call that red thing from the Mistica line, Tahu. He looks like a 1948 Buick Skylark. Never mind that orange thing they were claiming was Pohatu. But, case in point. I used most of Breakout EVO and made a really BULKED up, much bigger character with a lot more GUN metal armor. The problem is, even with bulking up and dropping the hero core, it would be hard for anyone not to identify that as EVO. Which is a problem, because that awesome very HEAVY looking mask is why I opted to turn him into a real TANK. I was just curious as to how you guys as MOC makers approach this mask = certain character thing? I mean, besides the mask in a different color (obviously that doesn't count). I know I've seen some people just STRAIGHT UP ignore the personality associated with a MASK. While other have incorporated the character built from as part of the MOC. I think someone here used a STORMER and kept the Stormer name as part of the MOCS name. So, thoughts?

How hard they push to get the rights might be determined by Transformers 4's success. The whole point of trying to an HF film franchise of the ground is to get some of that tasty robot, money pie. Shame, really, because even the worst HF episode hasn't been nearly as INCREDIBLY STUPIDLY AWFUL as Transformers 3.

Thanks. Those gaps have been the bane of this model since I began. :)

Yeah, thus I didn't really call it a custom technic build, because its most a custom torso and custom knees.

My first, and admittedly weak attempt to build body parts instead of using system parts. in this case the torso and parts of the legs and arms are utilizing Bionicle and HF parts. Obviously I'm no where near your level, but I'm trying to grow.

Its a first try. I hope to refine thee build and improve my skills.

Don't even have a name for it. My first attempt at a scratch build. Mostly Torso and some parts arms and legs... http://www.brickshel...0528_090930.jpg