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Yesterday we announced the top MOCs from BZPower for the Battle for the Gold Mask competition. While there were a lot of great entries on BZP, the other five sites had some impressive creations as well! We've compiled a list of the announcements on all the other sites for you to check out:

Be sure to take a look at all the awesome creations and let us know in the Talkback who you think will win the gold mask!

 

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I think Hysleria is easily the best of the semifinalists, and probably my favorite entry in the whole contest, so I definitely hope it wins. Akutahn and Terror Bite are pretty cool too, as is Daitan. The other two entries don't seem particularly impressive, especially compared to the best entries from BZP. That's likely in part because those two sites barely had any entries (at least relative to the overall total).

 

May the best semifinalist win! I'm almost certain the winner will be Hysleria or Akutahn, though.

 

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Not to show favoritism towards my people or anything, but I think that Makuta Nakken from Rusbionicle is my favorite, due to the unconventional serpentine build. 

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Some great works of art in this one! Good luck to all. :)

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Alrighty, guess this is a more suitable place for my thoughts on the finalists. I'll start off by saying all are undeniably superb MOCs in their own rights and deserving of winning.

 

BZPower: I do feel there might have been definitely a bit of the size playing into this one. I'm not about to go check out all 800+ entries myself (more power to the judges for this heh), but even just second place looks phenomenal without being big. That said, it's soooo much better than our last officially sanctioned LEGO contest winner, Miserix, which also probably just won from being big. And that guy is a huge mess (doesn't help that our only picture is of incredibly poor quality and doesn't even show the full model...). Akutahn is definitely a lot better than that. Roa does the giant builds better than anyone, and the defined body and articulation of the final product are great. I love that head too. It just might not be my favorite.

 

ReBrick: This one confuses me solely for the judges' thoughts on it. It's "heroic" according to them. I'm sorry, but I thought this was a villain contest??? And it looks very heroic to me too. The layered armor does look great and I like it as an independent creation. But in the context of the contest, I'm not sure it fits.

 

RusBionicle: This is very unique. That is good. One itching negative in the back of my mind (and not just here, but its reoccurrence in a finalist is nagging me), though, is weren't we told that, while not a rule, to be original and designing things from outside properties or old BIONICLE might not be the best? Because there's an awful lot of Makutas here... (Or maybe it's just using the incredibly iconic Kraahkan of this particular model that has me thinking of that, when it doesn't fit into G2.) Oh well... Regardless, it is suitably evil-looking and I do love that sleek design. Like I said, it's undeniably unique amongst the finalists and still a cool MOC.

 

Bionifigs: I think the judges put this a lot better than I could. I like the shape language too - in the upper body anyways. And it's definitely evil. Fits the criteria of the contest well. Don't really have much else to say there. It looks pretty alright.

 

Pockyland: Speaking of unique... Wow. The oriental influences of the Dark Fang Warlord stand out a ton, but that's totally okay. It looks great. It might be a better Chima villain than a BIONICLE villain, but it looks great nonetheless. This one is a lot simpler than the others, but I don't think that's a detriment at all. Because what it does, it does great.

 

EuroBricks: Okay, Terror Bite may be my favorite. Although also has a bit of a Chima feel thanks to being an animal (as pretty much any anthropomorphized build will now thanks to its existence lol), its huge bulk and very aggressive look does also separate it from that and make it seem perfectly fine in BIONICLE. It looks powerful, it looks villainous, it looks feral, it looks solid. I can't think of anything I don't like.

 

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