Finally got the last of the parts for this guy. Kopaka was always my favourite toa as a kid, and his mata form remains one of my top 3 bionicle sets of all time.
As you can see the build sticks loosely to the colour scheme and proportions of the original, but with a much denser build that adds knees, elbows, a surprising range of neck movement, a lot more articulation at the hips, and an ab crunch. His weapons are all stored right now, so let’s get to them:
The shield slides easily onto either the fake gear assembly on the back or the open axle on the left arm, and the sword stores on the hip.
And before anyone asks, if you remove the nuva weapons, then yes he absolutely can:
Now, let’s get to that nuva stuff. Y’all have probably noticed the familiar extra parts on the feet by now, so I’m just gonna go ahead and show off everything at once.
As for why his nuva weapons are present at all, it’s because my goal with this MOC (and the other 5 I have renders of) to recreate the toa mata in this body type, while at the same time referencing the assorted other forms they’ve taken over the years. (Gali gets a couple of the orange pieces from her uniter form, onua gets some CCBS parts and bulkier, G2-style shoulders, tahu gets his stars sword and armour, lewa gets a phantoka jetpack, and pohatu gets a kohlii stick to acknowledge the movies).
Sooner or later I’m hopefully gonna pick up the parts for the whole team, but the other 5 are gonna be a long time coming, so for now the island of mata nui will have to make do with only one guardian.
If anyone wants the stud.io files for this or the others, by all means ask. (And if anyone is curious I can post the renders of the other 5 to give y’all an idea of what they’ll eventually look like).
EDIT: new-ish user here. How do I fix the images??
EDIT 2: think I got it.