My Metru Monster moc that I made a while ago was like the Great Beings’ prototype for Marendar so I expanded upon the designs of that moc here.
Some of you may remember my little scene of the aftermath of Marendar’s Rampage from a few months ago now here’s a picture of Iruini being killed by him in pic 2.
Like how Malware has a cannon and a sword from Rook’s Prototool I incorporated those two as weapons that you can add onto Marendar by removing the fingers, moving the socket connectors around then attaching either one of the weapons via a pin connection to the hand. You can see this with pics 3 and 4.
This is a great MOC, but, like I mentioned on Discord, I don’t think this is right for the canon contest, and the reason why is in the topic name. Marendar means “salvation”. It’s the salvation of Spherus Magna. So why is it so scary? An Agori who saw this coming over the hill would probably crap in his armor, not rejoice that he’s been saved from the Toa menace. Again, the MOC is absolutely amazing, and I can’t find a single flaw with it (okay, I don’t like that one CCBS shell poking out over its back). But I, personally, don’t feel that this MOC best represents how Marendar likely looks. Like, darn, it’d be cool if it looked like this, and the community seems to universally agree that he’s an imposing killing machine, but Agori would run screaming if this were the case. He’s “Salvation”, not “Terminator”. (The same applies to Synnova’s MOC.)
I can see the both sides of the argument. Marendar=salvation= heroic character. I also understand the side that says The name Savior is misleading/ironic similar how some revolvers were named as “peace maker”.
Hmmm. Someone has changed their opininion after a year.
Good point.
One could draw a similar comparison concerning characters like The Thing: on the outside, he may look like a rock monster, but when you get to know him, he’s actually the most caring-hearted member of the Fantastic Four; or Hulk, who the public at large (at least in the comics, anyway) perceived as a rampaging monster they had to run for their lives from, when in reality, he’s just another super-hero there to stop an even more destructive threat.
Appearances and Titles can sometimes be misleading.
??? Not at all. Quite the opposite.
This checks out everything I recently restated:
Once the Marendar contest comes around in a couple of years, each entrant should have a very clear idea of how their own Marendar functions, how he deals with the Toa, what inspired them to make it that way, etc. I wish to see entrants put a lot of thought into their creations - not just make a random mech and call it a day.
We name our conventional weapons in the military ironic names like Little Boy for a nuclear bomb. I think some artistic interpretation is well within our right for something that means salvation. Something that despite its meaning, is designed to do the exact opposite thing and kill
I would ordinarily agree with this but we don’t have precedent for that with other things the Great Beings have named. This can totally be entered, and, while I think it is a good MOC, I wouldn’t vote for it.