A Golden-Red Horizon

Yeah, i quite like the Nuva Mocs that have a decent colour scheme.

 

Lego does have the ability to design new peices.

I also made Pohatu...

BtB

Yeah, i quite like the Nuva Mocs that have a decent colour scheme.

 

Lego does have the ability to design new peices.

True. But, overall, people show an unwillingness to even limit themselves to a simple color scheme. Making a Tahu Nuva with red and dark red is rather easy, and I have seen such MOCs done effectively (A Brickshelf search for Tahu Nuva brings up possibly more MOCs of decent quality than a search for any other Nuva, for obvious reasons). Certainly Metru-and-primary is no simpler than the bley-and-primary or silver-and-primary color schemes of the Nuva sets, right? Really if the 2008 Nuva sets are as much of a sacrilege as some people act I'm surprised I haven't seen a more considerable effort to outdo them.

 

EDIT: You did, Bunda? Oh, right, for that one contest. That was totally awesome right there.

I was about to mention Bunda's Pohatu....

 

Meanwhile, LEGO proved that its talent with Toamods far surpassed that of MOCists, producing sets that not only looked good but also had some creativity, far surpassing the "improved version" Toamods with their excessive armor and the "series-imitation" Toamods with no premise beyond "Hey, let's put this dude's mask and tools on a Metru/Piraka body!"

And then there's us out there who don't think Piraka bodies should be used on Toa and that some things need to change. But I guess you're looking at things like Tahu's and Onua's shields or jets, so I can see where you are coming from, maybe. Maybe.

 

But I agree with the color scheme thing. That is key. Two maybe three colors mixed evenly is good. A touch of black if out of site, but bley is only partially acceptable with Hordika skulls. Maybe.

 

And if trans-neon-green is going to be used, make it like Seran's Nexensis, where it is distributed like everything else.

 

-CF

I was about to mention Bunda's Pohatu....

 

Meanwhile, LEGO proved that its talent with Toamods far surpassed that of MOCists, producing sets that not only looked good but also had some creativity, far surpassing the "improved version" Toamods with their excessive armor and the "series-imitation" Toamods with no premise beyond "Hey, let's put this dude's mask and tools on a Metru/Piraka body!"

And then there's us out there who don't think Piraka bodies should be used on Toa and that some things need to change. But I guess you're looking at things like Tahu's and Onua's shields or jets, so I can see where you are coming from, maybe. Maybe.

 

But I agree with the color scheme thing. That is key. Two maybe three colors mixed evenly is good. A touch of black if out of site, but bley is only partially acceptable with Hordika skulls. Maybe.

 

And if trans-neon-green is going to be used, make it like Seran's Nexensis, where it is distributed like everything else.

 

-CF

Alas, the Piraka bodies on Tahu and Gali didn't really impress me, either. While by now I'm used to the use of Piraka bodies on Toa, the Piraka torso still does not have as much of the smooth contours and isometric dot textures of many post-2005 torsos. One of the few things making it acceptable was the standard look established for the Nuva Mistika by Onua's armor, which was similarly framelike and piston-rich.

 

The Mistika tools were also not altogether exciting-- while they are still awesome (especially Onua's battering-ram attachment for his blaster), they lose that nostalgic buzz you get from the vaguely reminiscent tools of the Toa Nuva Phantoka (a blade, a sword, and some claw... things). On that note, let me get totally off-topic by stating that Kopaka's tool is awesome when wielded independently of the Skyblaster, even if it's smaller than the usual Toa tool. Of course, Gali's total lack of a primary tool was a bummer to say the least.

 

I don't mind bley. It seemed adequate as a secondary color among the Nuva, just as much as silver did, and had an altogether better effect than its dulling effect among the Toa Metru thanks to the vibrancy of the primary colors. That turned bley into a contribution to contrast, rather than just a boring neutral color. The brilliant silver on the Mistika did the same for the Metru tones-- suddenly they stood out as the colors they were, rather as watered-down versions of the colors they were supposed to be.

 

I agree on the point of trans. colors, at least when a part of the actual color scheme. Eye colors do not justify the use of the same color elsewhere on the color scheme unless you make it clear as an accent color or a well-distributed aspect of the color scheme. Kongu Mahri's head-bubble, bizarre as it is, makes at least some sense as a notable accent color. Sticking a pair of Bohrok eyes on the feet makes no sense as it is usually seen in MOCs unless there are similar transparent accents elsewhere on the set.

 

Meanwhile, if you've seen the new 2009 sets I'm sure you'll agree that the differentiation of good and evil among the new sets is key. With some it's obvious which side they would be on. With others it's not so clear, even this year. So much for beastly attributes making the distinctions totally obvious.

*searchs pohatu nuva on brickshelf*

*stares in disbelief*

*pukes brains out*

*dies due to lack of brain*