Brickonicle: Vahki Transport

[darkbrick999]

Vahki Transport
169 Pieces
12:99$

A view without Minifigs.

Detach the side speeders!

A closer look at a speeder.

Includes Nuurakh, Bordakh, Keerakh, and Rorzakh.

Official TTV MOC Contest #2: Brickonicle

If you’ve been listening to The TTV Podcast recently, you’ll know that a heavy topic of discussion has been whether BIONICLE would have been better off as a System theme, or whether it should stay constraction. Kahi even opened up a poll in order to gauge thoughts and opinions from you guys. And today, it’s time to put this discussion to the test. Your mission, should you choose to build it, is to create a feasible LEGO BIONICLE set… out of traditional System. This means a Set Name, Piece Count and Price. The goal here is to see what it would be like if BIONICLE had actual system sets outside of the ones released between 2005 and 2007. Let’s get into specifics. A set must be: -Made physically or in Lego Digital Designer/equivalent (i.e, Stud.I.O, LLDraw, etc) -Given a name -Given a p…

[ReeseEH]

I think the concept behind this is good; a small battlepack to build one’s collection of mini-vahki. However, I think that the vahki would look better with custom-built heads (though this could be a new mold) and a toa to combat them so you could have ‘combat-in-a-box’.

Also, giving the vahki staffs might look better than simply stud shooters.

[Omega_Tahu]

@ReeseEH

combat-in-a-box

Not really a good critique, if this is a battle pack. Battle packa consist of only basic troopers and a small vehicle, without anyone from the enemy side. This is so they can be bought in mass and not have a bunch of repeats of Tahu.

However, since this is much bigger than a battle pack, yeah, maybe add a Toa.

[ReeseEH]

Fair point, I could see not wanting lots and lots of the same figure.

TLBM sets really suffer from this… you only need one Batman.

EDIT: @HewksDKowlihad Fair enough, I can see that.

[HewksDKowlihad]

@ReeseEH

TLBM sets really suffer from this… you only need one Batman.

friendly reminder lego’s for kids
kids whose parents mostly likely only buy them a couple of sets a year
every set has batman so every kid can get a batman

[darkbrick999]

@ReeseEH, The staves took more pieces than the guns.
@Omega_Tahu, You’re half right, but I remember some Star Wars battle packs that include two figures from each side. Also, the largest battle pack I found had only a few parts less than this, and since this isn’t a licenced set, it would be cheaper anyway.

[Omega_Tahu]

@darkbrick999

@Omega_Tahu, You’re half right, but I remember some Star Wars battle packs that include two figures from each side

I don’t remember. Do you have any examples? Either way, I doubt that they would be important characters.[quote=“darkbrick999, post:6, topic:33418”]
Also, the largest battle pack I found had only a few parts less than this, and since this isn’t a licenced set, it would be cheaper anyway.
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Battle packs rarely have more than one small vehicle.

[darkbrick999]

Examples of packs with more than one faction and more than one faction.

[Plural]

@darkbrick999

Examples of packs with more than one faction and more than one faction.

But, in most cases, a battle pack only includes four minifigures of a similar allegiance. This specific set follows the traditional way of doing it and seeing how this is a contest to make a LEGO-like product, following TLG’s norms is more than a good thing.