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[Takanuinuva]

This is the beginning of what I called Stars week. Every day of the week I will post one of my Revamps of the Bionicle Stars sets.
Sunday is Tahu
Monday is Nektann
Tuesday is Takanuva
Wednesday is Rahkshi
Thursday is Gresh
Friday is Skrall
Saturday we end on Golden Armored Tahu

 

Gallery When Public
http://www.brickshel...ry.cgi?f=518186

 

With that out of the way I present Tahu Leader of the Toa Mata/Nuva.

Front


Right Side


Back


Left Side


Finding the Golden Hau


Action Pose (Acting as Tahu after recieving his Golden Kanohi)

See you tomorrow for Nektann

 

Its day two of Stars Week. With that I give you Nektann the Skakdi overload

 

Front

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/007.jpg

 

Right Side

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/008.jpg

Back (Yes there is a cut Vezok spine in there. But I did that way before I made Nektann. When I bought a Piraka I cut the head from the spine so the head would pose better. But with it cut it lines up with Nektann's spine piece perfectly)

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/009.jpg

 

Left Side

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/010.jpg

 

Finding one of the Golden Armor pieces

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/011.jpg

Action pose

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/012.jpg

 

Bonus Pic Tahu Vs Nektann

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/037.jpg

See you tomorrow for Takanuva

 

Day 3 of Stars Week.

 

Here is Takanuva the Toa of Light

 

Front (I consider Takanuva the weakest in terms of design among the Stars since he shares a similar build to Tahu. But it makes sense since Takanuva and Tahu had similar builds in 2003

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/013.jpg

 

Right Side

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/014.jpg

 

Back

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/015.jpg

 

Left Side

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/016.jpg

 

Finding one of the Golden Armor pieces

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/017.jpg

 

Action Pose

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/018.jpg

 

See you tomorrow for Rahkshi

 

We've reached Day 4 of Stars week. We're halfway done

 

With that I present the Rahkshi of Heat Vision

 

Front

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/019.jpg

 

Right Side (Forgive the slight blurryness. But if you look closely you can see a little bit of orange. I put an actual Kraata of heat vision into this creation. The gap has to be there for the Kraata to fit in the spine.)

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/020.jpg

 

Back

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/021.jpg

 

Left Side

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/022.jpg

 

Finding the Golden Shield

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/023.jpg

 

Action Pose

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/024.jpg

 

Bonus Pic Takanuva Vs Rahkshi

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/038.jpg

See you tomorrow for Gresh

 

 

Now on Day 5 of Stars week

Here is the air elemental Glatorian Gresh

Front
http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/025.jpg

Right Side
http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/026.jpg

Back
http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/027.jpg

Left Side
http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/028.jpg

Finding one of the Golden Armor pieces (Originally Gresh had rubber bands holding some of his armor pieces on. But I considered that cheating, plus some of the bands broke so I attached the armor properly. It sitcks out a bit more but its a proper connection.)
http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/029.jpg

Action Pose
http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/030.jpg

Bonus pic of the 3 Stars Heroes
http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/044.jpg

See you tomorrow for Skrall


Time for Day 6 of Stars week. We're nearly done

Here is Skrall. Malicious soldier of Tuma's army

Front
http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/031.jpg

Right Side
http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/032.jpg

Back
http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/033.jpg

Left Side
http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/034.jpg

Finding the Golden Sword Base
http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/035.jpg

Action Pose (I had considered Using an original Skrall shield and painting the red parts green. But I decided that these creations wouldn't use painted parts)
http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/036.jpg

Bonus Pic Gresh Vs Skrall
http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/039.jpg

Bonus Pic of the 3 Stars Villians
http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/045.jpg

See you tomorrow for the last day. Golden Armored Tahu

 

 

Its the final day of Stars week. We've reached the end.

 

Now I present Golden Armored Tahu

 

The 3 Stars Heroes bringing together the 6 pieces

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/040.jpg

 

The 6 Pieces of Golden Armor surrounding Tahu

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/041.jpg

 

Tahu Wearing the 6 Pieces

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/042.jpg

 

Tahu Transforming into the Golden Toa

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/043.jpg

 

Golden Armored Tahu (This form is a completely seperate creation from normal Tahu)

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/046.jpg

 

Right Side (This was the first of the Stars Revamps I made)

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/047.jpg

 

Back (He has a Jetpack akin to his Mistika form)

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/048.jpg

 

Left Side (His shield is shaped like the 3 Virtues Symbol)

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/049.jpg

 

Action Pose

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/050.jpg

 

Bonus Pic of all 6 Stars

http://www.brickshel...a/Stars/051.jpg

 

That is the end of Stars week. Comments and Critisim apriciated

 

 

Edited by Takanuinuva, Dec 15 2012 - 01:52 PM.

[Chro]

Interesting project you've got here. Tahu is mediocre overall, but the torso armoring is creative.

[KlakWest]

The armor of Tahu is definitely creative, and I like the set overall, though the chest is rather strange for my tastes (there seems to be a gap in the middle). Also, his arms seem skinny. Still, it's a great Stars revamp. Looking forward to the rest.

[Constructman: Black Knight]

His head seems a bit small compared to the rest of his body.

[DARKSIDERZ]

Where's Nektann? IMO Tahu looks too standard, but the armoring is creative enough to make me post feedback  Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think your intention here was not to come up with something completely unique, but rather to revamp an already existing set on a different scale. Am I right? Because if the case were so, it would make much more sense.

 

[Takanuinuva]

All pics and descriptions have been moved to my first post.

Edited by Takanuinuva, Dec 15 2012 - 01:59 AM.

[Dual Matrix]

I look forward to see how you're going to make takanuva I how he has his 2003 style weapon back.

 

I like the Nektann maybe a bit to large tough?

 

His feet are way too small for his body.

[DARKSIDERZ]

Looks good... And I like how you made the feet...But the upper arms are a tad too short. And giving him symmetrical weapons kinda ruins it for me. It might have been better if you upscaled his weapon a bit and left him with just one. But overall, not too bad.

[Chro]

Interesting. The feet are a great idea. But I feel like the legs are a bit too long...

[KlakWest]

Epic remake. The chest seems a little plain, but the weapons (along with the rest of the body) to me are fantastic, as well as his height. This really is what Stars Nektann would look like if he was released as a normal set. Well done, this is excellent.

Edited by KlakWest, Dec 10 2012 - 07:00 PM.

[Takanuinuva]

All pics and descriptions have been moved to my first post.

Edited by Takanuinuva, Dec 15 2012 - 01:59 AM.

[Takanuinuva]

All pics and descriptions have been moved to my first post.

Edited by Takanuinuva, Dec 15 2012 - 01:59 AM.

[torchdude99]

Those are awesome and if I may ask, what sets did you use to make the Rahkshi other than the original Stars set?

[Chro]

Well, the torso and upper arms are very nice. I feel like the legs should be digitigrade, but that's just me.

[KlakWest]

Wow, that Rahkshi sure looks buff. It's fantastic, though a little bulky (then again, that can be seen as a good thing). His armor is great. Well done!

[Takanuinuva]

All pics and descriptions have been moved to my first post.

Edited by Takanuinuva, Dec 15 2012 - 02:00 AM.

[Dual Matrix]

Were is the Tahu you promised us found him

Well this is a little late but i really liked the fact you gave that poor rahksii a fitted kraata

Edited by Dual Matrix, Dec 15 2012 - 05:27 PM.

[ShadowBionics]

Very unique take on revamping the Stars sets. Now they are all the size of the standard 2009 Glatorian sets from the old days, which is greatly appreciated. 

 

The design for Tahu is very unique and looks very nice. I almost wish we could have seen that over the small little Stars set. You've made him true to the original while armoring him up and making him look taller. My only complaint would be the feet looking too small, but then again there aren't really many other feet in Mata red... aside from the Toa Mata feet. Or HF 2.0 feet, but of course nothing bad if you don't have those. That's probably my only complaint, although I know you tried to stay true to the original.

 

Nektann: This is probably one of the more unique versions of Nektann I've ever seen. I like the custom design of the legs, making him taller than the standard Skakdi, which is how he was described as being in Destiny War. The "chicken leg" look is a bit unexpected, yet I like it. I also like the unique feet design as well. And it's amazing how you managed to get the Vezok spine and Nektann head to look like one piece... or close to one piece, anyway. It all works together so well. The torso design is also pretty nicely done as well. My only complaint here would be the weapons. The crescent scythes look too small for him. The weapon was fine for his small derpy Stars form, but here it looks a bit out of scale for him. I don't know, that's just how I feel looking at him. The Piraka had larger weapons that that length-wise, so maybe it's just me and my feelings towards how much I liked the Piraka sets.

 

Takanuva is my least favorite of the stars... well, I'll get to that in a little bit. So unfortunately a lot of my opinion is kind of based off how much I didn't like how the original turned out and how not white and gold he was. So in staying true to the original, it's because I don't like the original I might not like him a whole lot. I do like how you've made his staves and the torso, even if it's similar to Tahu. For some reason though he doesn't look as well-armored as Tahu, but that could be me. I do like this Toa torso design and I do wish we could have seen something more like this over the derpy little stars sets.

 

Rahkshi is probably one of my favorites from this bunch. I like how well you've replicated the original 2003 Rahkshi build while using some of the more newer pieces. He looks great and again, I so wish we could have seen something like this in 2010. I like even more how you managed to put a Kraata in him, fully making him like an original Rahkshi. A very great job with the torso design. I wished they could have made yellow Rahkshi feet to go along with him. Then again, I liked those pieces and wish we had more of them overall.

 

Gresh... what can I say? He is probably my least favorite of the actual stars set, seeing as the 2009 one was so much better and looked cooler, so unfortunately that might affect my opinion a little bit.  A good job of making a nice torso design. I feel your pain with using rubber bands, since a MOC I made once used a rubber band for an armor piece. Sometimes it helps, but I guess it would be "cheating" a little bit. Unfortunately the actual stars set isn't too memorable to me, so I can't really give a whole-hearted review. He's definitely an improvement over the stars set, that I will say. 

 

Skrall is definitely an improvement over the stars set. He looks fearsome and like an actual threat. Like a more elite, muscular version of the original Skrall set from 2009 with improved weapons. You have done this set great justice in making him go from an Atakus clone (well, modified clone) to something that looks awesome. One thing I didn't like about the stars set was his lack of a shield, and you've given him a good one here. His sword also looks more in proportion with the set as well, versus the actual version that had this small sword and then these giant blades on the shoulders that clunked into each other due to poor attachment and spacing. 

 

Overall, you have done the stars good justice in revamping them into something much better and awesome. If only the stars were more like this and less like chibi versions of characters. 

[Takanuinuva]

Very unique take on revamping the Stars sets. Now they are all the size of the standard 2009 Glatorian sets from the old days, which is greatly appreciated. 

 

The design for Tahu is very unique and looks very nice. I almost wish we could have seen that over the small little Stars set. You've made him true to the original while armoring him up and making him look taller. My only complaint would be the feet looking too small, but then again there aren't really many other feet in Mata red... aside from the Toa Mata feet. Or HF 2.0 feet, but of course nothing bad if you don't have those. That's probably my only complaint, although I know you tried to stay true to the original.

 

Nektann: This is probably one of the more unique versions of Nektann I've ever seen. I like the custom design of the legs, making him taller than the standard Skakdi, which is how he was described as being in Destiny War. The "chicken leg" look is a bit unexpected, yet I like it. I also like the unique feet design as well. And it's amazing how you managed to get the Vezok spine and Nektann head to look like one piece... or close to one piece, anyway. It all works together so well. The torso design is also pretty nicely done as well. My only complaint here would be the weapons. The crescent scythes look too small for him. The weapon was fine for his small derpy Stars form, but here it looks a bit out of scale for him. I don't know, that's just how I feel looking at him. The Piraka had larger weapons that that length-wise, so maybe it's just me and my feelings towards how much I liked the Piraka sets.

 

Takanuva is my least favorite of the stars... well, I'll get to that in a little bit. So unfortunately a lot of my opinion is kind of based off how much I didn't like how the original turned out and how not white and gold he was. So in staying true to the original, it's because I don't like the original I might not like him a whole lot. I do like how you've made his staves and the torso, even if it's similar to Tahu. For some reason though he doesn't look as well-armored as Tahu, but that could be me. I do like this Toa torso design and I do wish we could have seen something more like this over the derpy little stars sets.

 

Rahkshi is probably one of my favorites from this bunch. I like how well you've replicated the original 2003 Rahkshi build while using some of the more newer pieces. He looks great and again, I so wish we could have seen something like this in 2010. I like even more how you managed to put a Kraata in him, fully making him like an original Rahkshi. A very great job with the torso design. I wished they could have made yellow Rahkshi feet to go along with him. Then again, I liked those pieces and wish we had more of them overall.

 

Gresh... what can I say? He is probably my least favorite of the actual stars set, seeing as the 2009 one was so much better and looked cooler, so unfortunately that might affect my opinion a little bit.  A good job of making a nice torso design. I feel your pain with using rubber bands, since a MOC I made once used a rubber band for an armor piece. Sometimes it helps, but I guess it would be "cheating" a little bit. Unfortunately the actual stars set isn't too memorable to me, so I can't really give a whole-hearted review. He's definitely an improvement over the stars set, that I will say. 

 

Skrall is definitely an improvement over the stars set. He looks fearsome and like an actual threat. Like a more elite, muscular version of the original Skrall set from 2009 with improved weapons. You have done this set great justice in making him go from an Atakus clone (well, modified clone) to something that looks awesome. One thing I didn't like about the stars set was his lack of a shield, and you've given him a good one here. His sword also looks more in proportion with the set as well, versus the actual version that had this small sword and then these giant blades on the shoulders that clunked into each other due to poor attachment and spacing. 

 

Overall, you have done the stars good justice in revamping them into something much better and awesome. If only the stars were more like this and less like chibi versions of characters. 

Thanks. What do you think of Golden armored Tahu.

[Toatapio Nuva]

Amazing. Those would've made a great last line for Bionicle (although I still would've ditched Gresh and Skrall). They all have something in common too, so I can imagine them as a canister set line. Great job!

[Velge Co]

Wow, these really turned out to be great! I love what you did to the Toa and Rahkshi especially!

[Jacks]

Tahu and the Rahkshi are my favorites here -- the colour schemes on both are impeccably balanced, so neither hue seems more prominent than the other, and the layering of the colours works well also.

I do have to say, though, that I love what you did with Nektann's feet.