Zaria, Toa of Iron

[Brickbot99]

The shield gun combo makes him come off as a pistoleer. Also that gun design is great.

[RiderBD]

@Zarian

It looks like you have been very inspired by Bukkeys Orde.

Right. use of system parts inspired me a lot.
As a result, bonkle, CCBS, and system bricks could all be used.

@TheJerminator

Blasters, on the other hand, would be harder, if not impossible, for him to conjure out of thin air, so carrying one permanently would fill that gap.

He made a gun to give him the image of a bad-■■■, but there was also this reason.

And I wanted to make a new one because there were not many toa tools for long-distance combat.
At best, only Kongu or Inika nuparu’s are in the shape of a gun.
Things like Cordak Blaster and Midak Sky Blaster. etc…looked like mass-produced products rather than dedicated weapons.

@Ghid

He needs thumbs.

If i give him a thumb, it’s hard for him to hold the gun.lol

@Sonus

Takua has been hit in the head enough, don’t you think.

He will lose his memory for the fourth time.

@THE_DOOR_OPENER

Man With No Name would drape his poncho over one shoulder. Was that intentional?

Actually, I didn’t think that far.lol
But it’s a good interpretation.

@Brickbot99

The shield gun combo makes him come off as a pistoleer. Also that gun design is great

I thought of his gun as a sawed-off shotgun and made it, but I think it could also be called a…hand gun lol

[Brickbot99]

@RiderBD

I thought of his gun as a sawed-off shotgun and made it, but I think it could also be called a…hand gun lol

Well given the fact the average Toa can lift about a ton with no issue, he could use it like a pistol without any issue.

[Biomechanical_Guy]

Wow, you got my vote

[Takutanuva]

Well thats amazing

[Ghid]

@RiderBD

If i give him a thumb, it’s hard for him to hold the gun.lol

Then use the connector that attaches the gun to the hand as the thumb.

Like so.

Of course I would also swap out the exo force robot arms for black ones so the finger colors match, which might be an issue since they would blend in with the gun. But at least that way he’d have a thumb.

[ToaKebaka]

Great job! I especially like the design of the blaster I always said Zaria shoud have a long range weapon of sort (like a blaster or launcher) instead of a melee weapon because as a Toa of Iron, he can create any weapon he wants mid-battle.

[Cordax]

@Eljay

4e. Your creation may not feature any contemporary war weapons. (I.e Tanks, fully automatic firearms, etc)

The moc might be fiddling with this rule, but because the gun isn’t based on an actual real world weapon (at least to my knowledge) I think it’ll be fine.

[RiderBD]

I didn’t think of that rules…

[Winger]

Heckin awesome build, love your interpretations for the canon characters.

I think the weapons are recognizably not based on modern ones.

[Rukah]

If you need to change the weapons you could just make them look less like modern firearms.

[RiderBD]

That’s a weapon that imitates the Star Wars large figure’s blasters, so I think I’m standing on the border.

[Bukkey]

@Cordax

@Eljay

4e. Your creation may not feature any contemporary war weapons. (I.e Tanks, fully automatic firearms, etc)

The moc might be fiddling with this rule, but because the gun isn’t based on an actual real world weapon (at least to my knowledge) I think it’ll be fine.

I agree to this!
This is Iron blaster, just a Elemental launcher just like Jovan’s Magnetic bolt launcher!

[Ghid]

That rule cites fully automatic firearms, and since it appears to be at best a sawed-off shotgun, which can only be considered semi-auto if it has slam fire, you should be good.

[Brickbot99]

If worse comes to worse you could attach it to a stick and claim it to be a war club/axe which just happens to shoot things.

[TheJerminator]

@RiderBD

If i give him a thumb, it’s hard for him to hold the gun

I actually like the two-fingered look. It’s reminiscent of the Toa Mata hand piece.

@Cordax

@Eljay

4e. Your creation may not feature any contemporary war weapons. (I.e Tanks, fully automatic firearms, etc)

The moc might be fiddling with this rule,

I don’t think this will be an issue; that rule is made more to prevent replicas of real-life weapons, not just the concept of “gun”. There have been plenty of blasters throughout Bionicle, at least one of which looks more like a “contemporary” weapon than this one.

Besides, I think it would be kind of ridiculous to ban a weapon that uses an official Lego blaster piece as-intended (more or less).

[ToaVidal]

The body looks like that of Toa Krakua, specially the upper arms and chest armor. I guess in your headcanon both could’ve been matoran from the Tren Krom peninsula. If that’s what you were trying to show, remember that Toa Nidhiki was from the TKP too, and at this point the theory that Krakua’s Toa body was inspired by him is very strong. Though I wouldn’t mind having three Krakua-build Toa in the lore, nowhere is stated that Zaria was from the TKP or the northern continent. If the winning Nidhiki already has that built that may cost you some votes in the contest. I recommend you recolor this MOC for a Nidhiki entry and use another built for Zaria, but keeping the shotgun, of course, it is really in character.

[RiderBD]

ahhh… I didn’t think of it at all.
I know that chest armor looks similar because I used a roborider head,
but I don’t understand that his arm looks like Krakua…

@ToaVidal

I recommend you recolor this MOC for a Nidhiki entry and use another built for Zaria

I already have my nidhiki.

so I think it’ll be too hard to consider that. =w=a;;

[Gigamesh]

This is probably one of my favourite Zaria’s I’ve seen, great work!

Quick question: any plans to add a staff given Greg’s answers on the weapons of TYQ Toa?

[Zarian]

Hmm i believe that Zaria could look even better if pin holes on his forearms were filled with something, they stand out compared to the rest of the moc body.