These guys are inspired by the the concept art for Voodoo Heads and the prototypes shown off by Christian Faber. I wanted to re-imagen early Toa with these mocs. Like a reimaged version of Bionicle where the Mata torso didn’t exist and Toa where built like Slizers. As such, I not only wanted to keep the gear operated pivot in the torso from the Slizers, I also wanted to ad an action function into each toa, so that they can knock each others masks off. And lastly, I wanted each toa to also fold into themselves to fit into their canisters, again just like the Slizers did.
Since part of the idea behind these mocs is Toa but Slizers, I wanted to tackle their lore with the same mind set. With a bit of Bera Magna mixed in. On an island called Motu Kanohi (which roughly means “Mask Island” in Maori), robotic beings fight for survival. The island itself is a volatile mixture of extreme biomes. Running rivers of lava, stormy deserts, raging shores, wild jungles and raging blizzards plague the island on a daily basis. On this land, robotic beings known as Toa fight the elements, animalistic robots known as Rahi and each other for fuel. Wild lightning, Bio fuel, Thermal energy, Hdyro fuel, Wind energy, Hyper coal, Cryo fission and Solar energy. These are the resources that Toa fight to posses, for themselves and their villages. When a dispute between villages occurs, all parties involved go to the arena in the center of the island. There, the Toas of the village involved will compete in battle, the winner of the fight will also be the winner of the dispute.
For the name of these Toa, I wanted to give them the names of Slizers but with a twist. All the Slizer names will be roughly translated into Maori. So, The yellow toa is named Pupuhi (Blaster). The Green toa is named Ngaherehere (Jungle). The red toa is named Rama (Torch). The Purple toa is named Korakora (Spark). The White toa is named Haupapa (Frost). And lastly, the blue toa is named Waka Moana (Submarine/Seaboat for Scuba).
I also thought that these guys scaled well with my Rahi mocs, being small enough to be legitimately threated by them (unlike with my 2001 style Toa mocs). So, here are pictures with them together.
This is gonna sound like a backhanded compliment, but I actually really like how clunky and odd-looking they all are. It really reminds me of Slizers, which I guess was the point, after all. Also, where did you get the yellow Mahiki on Pupuhi and purple Hau on Korakora? I know Ziontyro sells multicolored Haus, but that Mahiki is a total mystery.
This is Kiriweti (Granite in Maori), a Voodoo Toa version of Granite from throwbots. It has a fuction where if you pull a ball joint on its back, its tail slams down like a hammer!
Granite is literally the only Slizer I own, so I’m glad to see a Toa-fication. The design is very unique, but is there any particular reason for the black left feet? Not a problem, just curious.
I was missing some pieces. The feet are supposed to be tan and grey, the black parts are substitutes. I’ve ordered the pieces on bricklink, I just didn’t want to wait so I took the pictures before it got here.
Some matoran for these Toa. I wanted them all to be different sizes from each other while still being shorter than the (Pocket) Toa Kanohi. Also yes, dispite their build these are not Turaga. I wanted to build them this way to differentiate them from the Mctoran of 01, while also filling out the requirements I set in the earlier sentences above.
Also, the Turaga build allows them to have play fuctions.
The Matoran villagers of Motu Kanohi are usually safegaurded in their village walls, hiding from the elements outside. However, there are a few brave matoran that traverse the wilderness with their village toa. They assist their Toa in seeking fuel for their village.
New one. This is Kaieke Wa (name roughly translates to time rider in Maori). He is a Toa that can transform into a car, his car mode inspired by Throwbot’s Turbo. With his transfomation gimick and Vahi on his face, you could say that he is a toa from out of Time.
These toa intergrate a side gear that I just discovered that the slizer torso can hold. Shout out to Tributron for introducing this consept to me with his moc (Post here). I’m not sure how I didn’t noticed this functionality before but I am glad I know now. Anyway, this has allowed me to make their arms move ford and back. These gear fuctions that are controled by the worm gear in the torso.
The gray toa is named Keri, which means dig in Maori. He is the most similar to Tributron’s gear function, with both arms bashing into eachother. With how he turn out, he is like a miniture throwbot version of Onua. So I think he turned out looking pretty cool.
The teal toa is named Rere, which means to fly/glide in Maori. Rere was a bit of an experiment, in that I wanted to see what an asemetric arm layout looked like with this gear function. I think it works out really well. The function swivels his arm inwards and his torso forward, which makes him lunge in a satisfying matter.
This is the new line up for the Voodoo pocket toa team. I decided that this team has a better design consistency between them and cohesive part count (if there was a part budget, some of the toa mocs I made would of well exceeded it).
Next is a White and Grey toa of plasma. I have named him Pungao, which means energy in Maori (which might be a new word added to the Maori dictionary, not sure). His gimmick is that he swings his sword horizontally.
