Prototypes
I was surfing through Brickshelf as per usual, and I came across Refuteku's folder of prototype sets. Some of them were vaguely interesting, so lets take a little stroll down the Road That Could Have Been...
This is quite intriguing...I wonder if the colour scheme was actually meant to be grey and blue, or whether those just happened to be parts that were lying around when they made the prototype? The wings on his legs look pretty cool, but look - torso armour! The set designers actually tried to come up with some new armour designs! So perhaps we shouldn't be blaming the designers for the sets looking awful, but the people who simplified the sets? Hmm.
Now some of these are just awesome. The top left looks neat, very helmet-like, which would've been a nice change. And number four on the second row looks brilliant, like some sort of spacey mecha head. Thing. Shame they didn't use those designs, really.
You know, that's actually pretty amazing. The gun in the chest is a bit much, granted, but the colour scheme is cool, and that mask just screams 'make an evil alien MOC please'. Just look at it. Wow. And new leg armour? Why can't the final sets be as awesome as this?
Now this is just silly. Ages ago, when we first saw Axonn and Brutaka, I was convinced that their weapons and masks had to belong to the Toa, because Lego hardly ever made new masks and weapons for the Titans, right? Just look at it. Axonn's mask used to be Hewkii's! I was right! And his axe - I was sure that Hewkii would use one of Axonn's blades for his own weapon, and again, I was sort of right - the designs are obviously related, as the prototype has those same incisions along the side of the blade. You know what the sad thing is? Again, that prototype looks far better than the final set. Amazing the difference a proper head, cool spiky mask, and shiny axe will do...
Here endeth the lesson, you may go in peace.
-Seran
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