What’s this thread for, you may ask?
I made it to share all my sorta-unspectacular MOCs that I make. This classifies as a build that is interesting enough to be shared with you, but not outstanding enough to warrant its own topic. These inlcude tablescraps, WIPs, small models and just generally the things that aren’t special but deserve to be shared. It’s not strictly Bionicle, I’ll also include other stuff. My better MOCs will continue getting their own topics as usual.
Starting the thread we’ve got this one I disassembled very recently, it’s a loose recreation of the Engine-Oh from Go-Onger (respectively the High Octane Megazord from Power Rangers RPM, whichever you prefer).
You might have seen this one before. A fairly simple and generic Toa, I had posted him to Reddit back then and someone suggested he looked like Sarda (Matoran from the Karzahni set). That’s what he ended up being, a non-canon Toa form of Sarda. He can fly and the wings can be repurposed as swords for short-range combat.
Here’s a group of 4 MOCs from a few years back. The pictures are bad, which is because of their origin: a literal screenshot of my Lego Life profile.
I had posted the photos to LL back then, the originals seem to have been deleted from my photo gallery and the Lego Life posts were removed during my absence (along with many other posts, like half of my profile was wiped due to moderation lol). Yet I still had this screenshot of my profile from back then, so enjoy the super sharp images. I present…
Robotic fella, this was the longest surviving one who still sat on my shelf like what, earlier this year? He got a considerable amount of upgrades over time and looked quite cool, curse myself for not taking a picture before disassembly.
All things considered, these are probably better than what I was building when I was this old. The ratchet hinges are a neat touch, kids often just build static models but yours have joints instead.
Guess I’ll throw these here. This was supposed to be a rescue-based Toa team with specialized rescue Toa for medicals, air, water and ground. I probably spent 2 months working on these, was really unhappy with the end result and only realized how crappy they look while taking these photos. Into the scrap heap they go.
Therapist: Keetongblue isn’t real, he can’t hurt you
Keetongblue:
The ideas were there, but gotta agree, they don’t look very good. Maybe with some more love they could be something special. Keetongblue has a nice torso but the rest of him kind of petered out.
Yeah, I was really tired of this project in the end so I kinda just gave up, it dragged on forever without really going anywhere. Air guy is my favorite, that one’s alright-ish. Like you said, the medic’s torso is probably the best part of the whole group, I’ll keep its construction in mind for future builds.
In similar vein to the one that started this topic, here’s another vehicle combiner robot. It’s actually much older and predates the first robo by quite a bit, I’m only just getting around to posting it now.
Doesn’t have much articulation nor is it particularily pretty, but it was more of an experiment rather than a full-fledged MOC and I was pretty happy with how it came out.
Finally managed to make something decent with CCBS parts! This guy isn’t much, but it feels like a milestone since I never before managed to make anything worthwhile with the system.
Tan and black with gold is a decent combo if you ask me. The cape is removable, though I feel like it’s a vital part of the figure, looks rather odd without it.
I’m digging the integration of the Star Wars CCBS parts. Hero Factory sets would often look very thin around the waist (which may have helped Breez sometimes but often hurt the others) but the construction you have here looks pretty smooth. Colors are great too!
Consider adding some stuff to the backs of the lower legs. I think the Star Wars Poe Dameron buildable figure had a good solution with some arched slope pieces.
