jeric

I always imagined Mata-Nui clad in shining armor. Glad you liked it! Thanks! I know, but with the amount of free time I have and my other sets scattered about, this is the best I could do. Thanks bro, really appreciate it. I feel like grey/silver have been overused to depict Mata-Nui. With the g2 sets having a wealth of silver and gold parts, I couldn't pass up the chance to tinker with the new armor pieces and show off their versatility. I always disliked the old bare heads by themselves and although the g2 skulls are more pleasant to look at, it doesn't fit in with the rest of the moc, and more importantly the g1 heads don't match the theme of this contest. Thank you! Best of luck! Thanks for the in depth review! The hau really is the most royal looking mask so far imo. The other masks either don't suit this moc's body style or won't allow the silver horn piece to be attached. As for the self-imposed set restriction I felt that it helped in terms of this contest's theme. This forced me to showcase the g2 style and feel, including the messy looking backside. I could have used onua's large silver torso shell to cover it up better now that I think about it. Excuses aside, I'm glad you like the armor placement. The skull spider masks had the perfect round shape to use as biceps and I'm happy someone noticed the feet as a shoutout to g1 pohatu. One thing I forgot to mention in the op was that the gear can be slid forwards to engage the gear function. A tad useless considering there are no weapons but just a "feature" I wanted to include.

I forgot how long b-shelf takes to upload photos, it's been too long. I originally had it so that the entire legs were silver but ran out of the armor pieces. The thighs being gold added just the right amount of contrast I think. Thanks for the reply! Thanks! I was thinking of inserting a fist piece on the bottom of the armor as toes but couldn't think of a way to connect them. It would look like he's wearing sandals that way but would have made the feet look more solid. If you have all the g2 sets you could definitely remake this guy (along with a couple of other common pieces). Thank you! I was originally going to name it Akamai but I couldn't make good weapons in time. Mata Nui was my second choice I really dislike how the thumb is molded on fist pieces so I settled on this to make it more realistic and less flat. It does look strange in some poses I admit but in others I think it looks decent. I used the T beam found in LoSS to connect the standard foot piece to the armor. I used way more pieces than I thought I would to connect the heel shell to the rest of the foot. Thanks for your reply!

Glad to see Bionicle is back. I took apart my entire g2 collection with the goal of making some sort of combiner and this is what I came up with. However, I had to use 6 pieces that weren't from those sets, notably the t-connectors attaching the thumbs to the hero factory fists. It's essentially a toa base in terms of using the ccbs torso and gearbox to fit the theme of this contest. I'm satisfied with the result considering my parts restriction and this being my first go with ccbs parts, and my first moc in a really long time. Entry pic Front Gallery (when public)