Bioman's unspectacular MOC topic

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).

As I said it’s a loose recreation or “inspired”, I didn’t go for all the details. It transforms from the 3 individual vehicles.

The chassis for yellow attaches to the back or can be held as a shield (not pictured) like the original.

Pretty fun and robust model, but I needed the parts for something else.

And that’s a good example of what you might see in this thread!

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This seems like it will be an interesting topic…

The transformer is cool, and while I’m no connoisseur I think using those Knights Kingdom hands is a good touch that fits in pretty well.

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Might as well post my Rahkshi-Toa while I’m at it, I’m planning to completely overhaul him soon.

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Here’s a fun one, Tahu on a motorized surfboard!

surfing-tahu

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This is something I didn’t know I needed until now. Unfortunately, all of my train tracks have been packed up…

What kind of train motor is that? I see it doesn’t have a battery box car like other Lego trains.

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Literally my first reaction as well. You have no idea how fun it is to see a Bionicle figure zoom around in circles until you actually experience it.

The motor is a Lego 12V train motor that was made from the late 60s throughout the 70s. It draws electricity directly from the metal rail in the middle of the track, thus not needing a battery box.
Here’s its Bricklink entry:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=x550a#T=S&C=11&O={“color”:11,“iconly”:0}

The specific set I got mine from is 725, which was released in 1974.

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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…

the silly goober gang

Starting with a fox, I felt like a genius for using the fence as glasses… Not realizing how dorky it actually looked.

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.

I guess this was a bad guy? Don’t remember.

There’s also this w i d e guy, poor thing didn’t even get a standalone picture.

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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.

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Would you look at that, I just found a photo of the fox and robot! No trace of the other guys so far, but I’ll keep digging.

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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.

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I like the red dude’s helicopter hand

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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.

From left to right: some kind of jeep, race car, offroader, regular car, tractor.

Combination:

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.

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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.

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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.

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Color swapped Nocturn recreation that didn’t really go anywhere.

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I think he should be named Noctapar

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I think Noctaparaxonkii would be a fitting name! Arms come from Hewkii and the upper legs were taken from Hydraxon.

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I can’t believe I didn’t notice Hydraxon’s defaced corpse in the background

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Scrapped revamp of my selfmoc. Only while taking these photos did I realize I’m really not happy with how it looks - the torso is too wide from the front and too flat from the side, the legs don’t really fit in with the rest, and the color scheme is a bit too drab.

That said, I really like how the head came out! I’ll definitely keep it around for when I eventually tackle this project again. The hands are quite nice, too.

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At the very least, I like the silhouette. Very buff.

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