Bionicle Stars. The somewhat awful final wave of bionicle.
Skrall: Arguably the worst Stars set.
What do I do? I feel the final Skrall isn’t living up to its potential so I build a new one in the same-ish scale.
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Nothing on this Skrall is the stock build (except for the head, which is quite literally a helmet and a glatorian head). Also, this is my first build attempting custom build hands, arms, and legs. This is not my first custom torso build, but I feel it is my best. The reason for the utterly ridiculous and ludicrous amount of photos is due to the fact that I show each thing from 4 angles in an attempt to also make this a tutorial on how to build this Skrall revamp. This Skrall has shoulder articulation, and 3 fingers that are also articulated. With this build, I kinda shied away from the canon “organic creatures in a mechanical exoskeleton” thing that Farshtey created. In the Backstory for this Skrall, he is 100% mechanical. The legs were the hardest part of the build to design. The original design had them 3 lift-arms thick, which would have scaled the build upwards to Glatorian Skrall size, a problem that happened with my first attempt at this build. The first thing I built on this figure was the hands. I was sitting and staring at a 2008 hand piece and wondering if I could turn it into a better looking hand. Then I got the idea to add the claws. Getting the hand to be able to hold an accessory was a challenge, and the original hand had two thumbs. The Color scheme for the first attempt was more red, didn’t have the green highlights, and used brick-built armor addon pieces.
I also wanted to preserve the sword from the Stars set, and that was a huge problem. Obviously the hand design wouldn’t be able to hold a pin one lift arm thick. So I widened the grip by adding connectors until it was five lift arms thick. I tipped the handle by adding another claw piece (the larger type that was used on the Ninjago Scythe of Quakes) The Thornax Launcher was an afterthought. It is a black connector in the middle and a Thornax Launcher piece on both ends.
The Armored Av-Toran indirectly inspired the Skrall Revamp.
A Perk of having the Gadunka foot for a shield is poses like the above.
A few weeks ago, I was looking at my Mazeka figure standing beside my Solek figure after I disassembled my swamp strider set, and I said to myself, I should do something, anything really with this figure besides leave it sitting beside the Solek figure on my shelf. So, about a week ago, I decided to put armor on the figure. For the shield I used a Gadunka foot, I proceeded to just put various silver bits on the Matoran until he had a full suit of armor and two wings on his back.
I wouldn’t consider it a moc or a revamp per-say, but I would have loved if this had been the type of stock sets that the Av-Toran and Agori were.
I am going to end this post by saying that I am personally happy with how the Revamp and the Set idea look, and that is all that matters to me, so I probably won’t change anything about either one if I get any constructive criticism, but I am likely to try it out on future builds, so please, tell me what would look good next time I do a moc like either one. I am also going to end this post with one final picture of Mazeka and Skrall fighting.
I have noticed after posting that it didn’t upload the photos in the right order, sorry, but if you want to build one of these, try to use the photos anyway, they just aren’t in order, so you will need to do a lot of scrolling, The arms, legs, and hands are mirror images of each other. Keep that in mind while building.
