This can be considered the first “titan Moc”for my island of Rapahu Nui (even though he’s actually Toa Ignika sized). He is a robot that was originally a fail safe should the island’s Bohrok queens go out of control, but has since been been reprogrammed to guard then instead.
He is very much a throw back to those 2000 technic Star Wars figures and those 2002 technic ice hockey figures. He has an arm gimmick that was inspired be skull basher from 2015, this allows him to swing his arms side to side. With enough force his arms will flick into a jab before springing back into position, but unfortunately this part of his fiction is finicky as the ball joints on his shoulders sag, making the flicker motion not work correctly. Luckily for posing purposes, I can Easley remove the rubber bands and change out the grey pins to black ones.
It was important to me that he was taller than my Toa Rapahu, I also wanted him to be a boxer so he could rival my toa of stone. I think he came out pretty well, with the helmet and pecs giving him an imposing rock’em sock’em robot look.
Kaitiaki is a Māori word that means either guardian or custodian, which is very fitting for his character
@Bioman Thank you! Unfortunately the function isn’t as solid as I’d like but I’m glad you found it cool. Also yea, this whole moc is built around trying to use that hockey mask for something. The sunglasses on it looked really cool and I wanted to do them justice by putting them on a cool robot.
@Ghid So this feature is actually a bit inconsistent. What is supposed to happen is that the button is pulled out and then pushed to the side. The rubber band is loose enough that with a hard push forward the tricep will flick out and then snap back in.
There are two problems I’ve run into however. First, even though the band is loose, it’ll still hold the tricep back if the arm is straight flush with the body. Even in motion. So the arm has to be tilted a bit, with the elbow pointing in, to work. The second issue is the ball joints connecting the arms to the function. They like to droop if the arms move around too much, leading to me only getting two punches out at best.
So yeah, the function is a bit finicky. It dose work, just not all the time. The picture taken is actually a bit of camera trickery (I did try to get in on camera but it wouldn’t happen). I’m not completely happy with it, but at the same time it’s enough that I’ll keep it as it is for a while.
