Ah! Hello everyone! Welcome once again to one of my MOC threads! I have felt really inspired these last couple of days with BIONICLE and thus I decided to create more MOC’s! Hope you like them!
CONCEPT OF GARAN
Okay, so in the Lore, Garan is the leader of the VNRT (Voya-Nui Resistance Team) and he wields artillery to let him blast through doors much like Kazi can do. He is also a Matoran (in this case Toa) of Earth and he weilds dark colors such as black or gray. I wanted to spice things up a little with 2 colored trans pieces to represent crystal intrusions (and to lighten up the black colored piece usage for this MOC) and make him look formal as well.
MY IDEA BEHIND THE VOYA-NUI RESISTANCE TEAM
I want every Toa in the VNRT to have different torsos and overall feels to them. After all, they are matoran from different places born out of Karzahni’s screw ups and put into Voya-Nui, and I want them to feel like that while also making them feel someone more repaired since the transformation to a Toa would have fixed most of the issues Karzahni did to their bodies. (Much like a healed scar, it still is there, but it’s repaired and closed up)
THE RESULT
The result is well… a Toa with 2 Blasters representing different types of primal destructive energy that were obtained after a long quest which every toa did for their new weapons. The long piece protuding out of his back is supposed to represent a banner for the VNRT, making him show that he is the leader. This piece is supposed to appear and dissapear depending on the situation to avoid annoyance to Garan. This banner also provides him with extra fire-power, so in the midst of battle he pulls it off and becomes empowered. Much of this power becomes from a hero-core looking orange piece on the back, made from the same primal destructive energy in his blasters.
CONCLUSION
I know my MOC’s are not the best (my version of the Protocairn is a perfect illustration of that alongside my Phase Dragon) Or the most complex looking pieces of craft in this site. I don’t want stuff like a MOC Spotlight or something because I am not a creator that deserves it, but I just want to throw it out there that a lot of the concepts for my MOC’s come from the Bionicle Lore itself, and I adore making stuff for this board. Personally, my motto is “As long as it is not a rainbow and it has a solid design, it’s a piece of art to me”. I just want to say this because a lot of people have put constructive criticism for my creations and I adore them for that, and have made me improve over the last year, so this is a thank you to all of you that have commented over my last threads. hopefully you guys keep on helping me improve. Because my creations may stay like they are mostly forever because they fit to me, but future MOC’s are supposed to come from what I have learned, not from what I have gathered piece-wise. Thank you.
(That is not a goodbye, I just felt a bit of protodermis spilling out of my eye, I will keep on creating stuff)