Onua Mistika
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Alright, the final Nuva set of the year, Onua. How does he stack up?
Well, first of all, Onua's tall. Yeah, TALL! I complained that Tahu and Gali were a little too short with their Piraka bodies, but Onua has the opposite problem. He probably could've pulled off a Piraka body, but his current design makes him tower above the other Toa... even the Phantoka. Well, not quite, but he's eye level with Lewa and Kopaka.
So you must think that I think his body is messed up. (Yes, I know what you think I think... I think...) Well, no... I really like the torso design, possibly the best since Jaller Mahri. Okay, so in basics its the same as everything else... same lower hips piece, Inika shoulders, blah blah blah. But the new chest armor fills him out rather nicely, especially when compared to the Inika torso armor pieces (both of them). It's a smaller piece, but it looks more useful than other armor pieces. And of course the silver Metru armor helps fill in the gaps. There's also room for adjustments... by moving a few pins I managed to pull his hip piece up a notch, in order to make him slightly shorter.
The legs are your basic Inika legs... except for the jets. I tried the leg mounted jets on one of my MOCs earlier, and totally messed it up. Now I realize that Lego figured it out with Onua (using one of those angled connectors... duh) It gets the jet piece out far enough from his leg to avoid contact problems and has a nice angle so that it looks... well, nice. It also has an interesting connection to the Rahkshi leg piece, which gives it a bit more black. However, the Rahkshi leg seemed too short, so I swapped it out with an Inika leg piece from Gali (as seen in the picture I took) Fortunately, the connection can still work.
The arms are a different story. The shield attachment on the shoulder is a nice touch, but the other shoulder looks lame with the loose Inika armor. It might have been better to have given him the shield piece on both shoulders... but that would've taken too much plastic, I guess. As you can probably guess, I ditched the whole shield on the shoulder thing and just put it in his hand, and then made the shoulders symmetrical with just the red fins (which are cool, BTW) The shield itself is a interesting new piece... doesn't have the same flair as Kopaka's former shields, but it has plenty of connections so that it can be used as many things. Shield, armor, wing, foot (I want to try that last one out on an MOC). And, if Onua is really in need, he could probably use it as a shovel too. The downside is that it is rather bulky.
Onua's Nynrah cover is much better than Gali's... it bulks out his gun and makes it look alot scarier. The Nynrah fits below it nicely, and the many connections let Onua hold it in various ways. I prefer it slightly under one arm, as seen above. This also lets him hold his extra ammo without problem, unlike Gali's connection. And, it worst comes to worst, I suppose he could just swing it around like a club. 
Onto the mask. Some people claim that it looks like the Kraahkan, while I believed it looked more like Whenua Hordika's face. Having neither of these pieces, I guess I can't accurately judge it based on them. However, now that I have the actual mask, I think it looks more like a battleship, or one of those old alien masks (somebody made a topic about it earlier, and now I must say I agree) It's got fins and a viewing port... this could easily be the cockpit for some spaceship MOC. I guess it could also be alot like a Fenrakk head. In the end, I sitll don't see anything saying "Pakari" on it, but I guess that's not the point. (Anyway, if it dd look like the horrid Pakari Nuva, then I'd be greatly displeased). Overall, a nice piece, although it's too wide, so that you can't see the eyes when you look head on at it. Onua now had a blind spot ahead of him.
The color scheme is... well, new. Black, silver, red, a bit of bley, and lime green eyes. Well, the silver and black blend together well enough, and the red does highlight it, but doesn't draw away too much attention. Overall, it works. Personally, looking over this set as a whole, I think it could be a Mistika form of Nuparu, who was a taller Toa with odd armor and all. But it doesn't destroy Onua's image... in fact, it is one of the cooler Mistika sets. So although he's too tall, lacking a real melee weapon (even taking the shield off doesn't make up for that) and he has a mask that could as well be leading a star fleet, he's good. If you have the money and the will, I see no reason not to buy him. He looks alot sleeker than either Tahu or Gali, (although Tahu's tool is much better). So, yeah...
My ramblings will end now.
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