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So I was watching the Making of feature on Mask of Light and I noticed this fellow sitting on a table:

 

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He's a 2003 Matoran prototype (he's even got Throwbot arms like Jaller here), he's got a Pakari, and looks pretty gold and white to me (could be blue and black though?)

 

So it's Takua, right? But why would there be a set of Takua as a gold and white Matoran? Something wacky like Special Edition In-the-Process-of-Transformation Takua? I don't know. Maybe you have an idea?

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Pretty weird find, lol.

 

Wasn't Takua an Av-Matoran? This is what they would look like without using their color-changing abilities. 

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That's a good question indeed. I remember in the LOMN extras they showed off a bunch of prototype sets, but the only one that seemed to be a recolor was a white Whenua Hordika, which easily could have been Nuju with a white Whenua helmet.

 

It would only require recolors of the feet/leg pieces and the hands, unless the changed the shade of the mask from the 2002 variant. I'd say it's either something they messed around with for fun or they might have had a promotional set with him.

 

That also brings up the interesting bit with them using throwbot arms, and I feel a little dumb that I never realized that was Jaller in that picture. Ironically, it was the arms that threw me off...

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Could be brown and tan; it's hard to tell given the nature of the video. Definitely one of the gold masks from the mask packs, though.
 
The chances of it being Takua are increased given that it's a Pakari, so I'd be inclined to say that it is Takua as opposed to just another Pakari-wearing Matoran.
 
I'd imagine that this was never released because they had that "who's the seventh Toa" contest and they didn't want to give it away by set leaks or anything of that ilk.

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Oh yeah, the whole Av-Matoran bit was lost on me since it was introduced so much later. But assuming Greg is reliable on how developed the plot was at that point, they would've had that decided on the story team. So some earlier iteration of the film could've had Takua discovering his true identity as a Matoran, and then transforming into the Toa of Light.

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I think it could be a couple of things...

 

1. An early promotional set for the release of Mask of Light, maybe a "Golden Takua" set that May have been planned to be bundled with the DVD.

 

2. A prototype for the original Matoran to turn into the Seventh Toa. I don't know if LEGO always planned to turn Takua into the Toa of Light, but I bet that early on, they didn't; hence the gold-and-white Matoran.

 

3. A LEGO designer, inspired by Takanuva and the movie, built Takua in that color, because why not?

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Well it could be brown to me. But a lot of prototypes are rarely the set colors of the figure


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I'd say it's a prototype of some sort. I don't think it'd be a personal creation, seeing as it'd cost some money to get those pieces in gold and produce them.

 

Not if you'd just paint them. That's what Lego designers often do for prototypes.

 

Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. Either way, it's something that was far off from mass production. That's for sure.

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I think it'd be just a "transformation" Takua, as he's about to transform into Takanuva. Cool find, mate. 

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The feet look almost brown to me, because I've never seen a gold foot anywhere before. But it could very well be a recolor of the foot piece

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