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I have decided to make a mostly canon revamp of the 2001 story, but with more fleshing out. Most of these chapters are premade. If it seems to be overly explanatory in some respects, please bear in mind that this was once a school project, so it was written for an audience with no previous knowledge of Bionicle. So without further ado...Chapter 1: The ArrivalA long, thin canister floated aimlessly on the great ocean. Someone was inside, sleeping. That was how it was for a thousand years. Land was not so far away. But that land would never meet the canister. Until on that island, a villager gathered six stones, causing a flash of light and a signal. The canister suddenly sped to the land.“Tahu...my name.”The being inside the canister stood up. He knew only his name. Nothing else at all, not even his powers or where he came from.“My name...is Tahu!”He saw his canister on the beach. Inside were a sword in the shape of a flame, and a mask. Both were red. Tahu looked at himself. He was a mixture of organic and mechanical parts. He felt stronger than most, but...wrong. Like his power was halved.“These things...they were with me. And...I should be red like they are...why am I gray?” He looked at his reflection in the water. His red eyes glowed, and all of him was gray. His arms were strange, mismatched, but felt right. He picked up the sword and swung it around. It did nothing, but he knew there was supposed to be more to it than that.“Work!”He shook it more, but it did nothing. It was, however, sharp, as proven when he cut a rock in half with one good swing. It still did nothing more, and in frustration he put it away. But he somehow, put it in a compartment in his back. Those compartments were common. He somehow remembered that. Picking up the mask, he felt power inside it. He turned it around in his hands. He stared at the inside for a moment. He put on the mask.“Wha--”He turned red and orange, with little bits of black. His eyes remained red, and only his face was still gray, hidden behind the red mask. He felt energy flood his body. It seemed to him that a part of him was in the mask, and it had returned to him. Now he felt a strange calling to take out the sword.“Will it work now?”He took it out and stared at it.. The shape of the flame ignited in his hand, and he was surprised so much that he dropped it. The fire stopped. When he picked it up again, it did nothing. But when he tried to make it ignite again, it did. He stretched out his left hand, and fire came out.“What? How? Oh no!”It was burning the beach, turning sand into glass. The moment he tried to stop it, it flew at him.“Noooooooo!”But he was never burned. He remembered in a split second that before, once, he had absorbed fire, and did it again. He made more fire, and caused it to fly where he wanted, and change into shapes. “Haha. This shape looks like a fish. And now—huh?”He suddenly remembered five other masks, and the fire made outlines of them. He immediately formed it into a ball, not knowing where the memory of those masks came from. He burned down a palm tree as a test, and then absorbed the fire back.“It seems to work...”He pointed his sword, and shot a focused blast of fire out the end. It incinerated a tree in the distance. “I...have power...over fire? And this sword can focus it...what?”He put it away, wondering where to find people. When he turned around, there were charred rocks and a volcano. Cooled lava formed walkways, and blazing lava flowed around them. He absorbed the heat from some lava, making a path. He made jets of fire rise out of the lava by pointing his sword at them, and when he lowered his sword, they died down. He walked down into a forest, charred with fire that wasn't from the lava streams.“No...This isn't right! This place...THIS should not be burned.”He shoved his sword into the ground. He tried absorbing heat from it, but all it made was cold ground. He found the cold uncomfortable, and returned the heat. “Lifeless trees...charred soil...this volcano did not do this.”Looking more carefully, he saw markings on the trees. He took a few steps toward them. In another direction was a sign with a picture of a volcano on it. He took a few steps to the center of a forest, and ended up caught...in an animal trap! Twigs tied together fell around him, and he drew his sword. Five small beings came. One had a mask like his, but yellow.“What is this? Who are you?!”The yellow-masked one said to his company, “Be ready!”Tahu set his sword on fire and burned up all the twigs to ashes in seconds, then extended his hand to trap the company of midgets in a circle of fire.One wearing a gray mask that looked elderly spoke in a young voice, “What? Fire? How?!”The yellow-masked one said, “Oh no. I don't know.” He tried to jump over the circle, but the flames rose up at Tahu's will and burned him. “AAAAAAA!” He rolled on the ground until the flames were gone, and threw a bamboo disk at Tahu. The others did the same, and the ground under them erupted in flames.Tahu yelled, “Why are you fighting me!? Grr!” He stuck out his sword and incinerated all the disks. The five short beings escaped the flames and rolled on the ground. They were too injured to fight. One with a black mask that Tahu had made the outline of looked up with angry, but scared eyes. He said, “You...if we were not from Ta-Koro, we would not have had the heat resistance to survive. Who...are you?”Tahu looked at those he had defeated. It felt wrong to hurt them so much. “I am Tahu. I have power over fire. And you?”This time, the yellow-masked being spoke. “I am Jala, captain of the Ta-Koro guard. That trap was meant for a wild Rahi, a beast of the land. Wait, did you say...TAHU?!”Tahu was bewildered. “Yes, I did. Why? He sheathed his sword.”Jala answered, “We have been waiting for you! It was foretold you would come, and protect us, the Matoran! You are a Toa. There are five others!”Tahu said, “You definitely need protection, my...friend. But why now? If I am not the only one that can harm you...”“Come, Turaga Vakama will explain.”“Turaga Vakama?”“Each vilage, or Koro, has a Turaga. The Turaga are wise leaders with knowledge of many things. Talk to Vakama, and you will have your answers.”Jala guided Tahu to a village surrounded by a moat of lava. Jala said, “The captain of the guard approaches! Raise the bridge and the gate!”Tahu saw a Matoran pull a lever and cause gears to rotate. Pillars of cooled lava came up from the blazing lake below. The gate opened, and Jala ran in.“Follow me!” Jala said.Tahu ran after him. He noted that the Matoran were average, seeing so many. And he was much bigger. It made sense that he was one of their protectors. Jala broke his thoughts. “Hey, wake up! He's here, in this hut!”Tahu laughed a bit. “You're a bit excited.”Tahu saw that all the huts were made of cooled lava. He could make his own later, with the right tool.Jala broke the silence of his thoughts once again. “So, Toa Tahu, this is Turaga Vakama.”Tahu answered, “I could say I need some answers.”Vakama looked him up and down. “Ah yes. You are a...Toa. This is the island of Mata Nui, named after the Great Spirit himself. But his brother, Makuta, put him to sleep. Without him, this island is unprotected. We have no way of stopping this dark spirit, Makuta. We can defend against the Rahi to some degree, however. They are the wild beasts of this land. But some are very destructive, and he controls their minds with masks, so he can put them to use as his servants. These masks are scarred and pitted, but otherwise are the same as ours. Each Toa can use any mask power they want. Turaga can use only the powers of the Noble Masks. We Turaga have the elements of our village's Toa, but to a much lower degree.” Vakama shot a small jet of flame from his staff, scorching the wall. “The elements are: Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Stone, and Ice. The Matoran are weak, but have great courage and skill in building. They cannot use their mask powers or their elements at all, but without a mask, if they don't get one in time, they will pass out. We Turaga and you Toa have our strength halved when not wearing a mask. The same does not go for the Rahi, who have infected masks. You six Toa can combine your powers to cleanse a mask. The Toa have these elements and names. Tahu: Fire. Gali: Water. Lewa: Air. Pohatu: Stone. Onua: Earth. Kopaka: Ice. Each of you have one element and one mask. Your masks are like this. Tahu: Shielding, but only for yourself, and only when you know you will be attacked. Gali: Water Breathing, but only for a limited time. Lewa: Levitation, but only on himself. Pohatu: So much speed that he can run from Koro to Koro in a minute. Onua: Incredible strength. Kopaka: Telescopic and X-Ray vision.”Vakama continued, “I am a Turaga, a village leader. We Turaga have these elements. Vakama: Fire. Nokama: Water.Matau: Air.Onewa: Stone.Whenua: EarthNuju: Ice.Nuju is a strange one. He speaks only in bird language, and it is translated by Matoro. He believes it will teach patience and good listening. Anyway, the masks of the Turaga are these. Vakama: Invisibility, but I cast a shadow still. Nokama: Translation of writing. Matau: Illusions. Onewa: Mind control, but it is hard to maintain on non-animals. Whenua: Night vision. Nuju: Telekinesis. We each have a spare of our own mask, and a copy of each Turaga mask in our color. These masks are for you Toa. Each Toa has a Suva, which teleports a mask to them if they want it. You have to collect the masks of the other Toa, in your own color. The same goes for all of them. Then we Turaga will place our Noble Masks on your Suvas, and you will exchange your collected masks in a shrine for Golden Masks. These contain all the powers of the Toa Masks, and the powers can be used at the same time. In addition, the Suvas will have all the Noble Masks, giving each of you 12 mask powers at the end of your quest. On the way you will have to defeat Rahi, and avoid getting infected masks placed on your faces. These will make you serve Makuta! Also, you MUST work together.”Tahu had faint memories of that being hard. “If it will save you from the darkness of this...Makuta, I will do it, and anything else needed!” He knew that being a protector was always his duty now.Vakama smiled. “Good, then. We can trust you, Toa Tahu. There are legends of Golden Masks being fused in groups of three as well, causing the powers of each Toa Mask used to be 3 times as powerful! This will aid you when, at the end of your quest, you face Makuta. Together. There is no other way it can be done. Take this.” Vakama handed Tahu a map of Mata Nui.Tahu looked over the map. “The villages. Ta-Koro, of Fire. Ga-Koro, of Water. Le-Koro, of Air. Po-Koro, of Stone. Onu-Koro, of Earth. Ko-Koro, of Ice.”Vakama said, “Yes. Each Toa guards their own village. In Ga-Koro all are female, and in the others, all are male. This is how it has been since the beginning of time. However, each Toa must not hesitate to help the others or their villages. Otherwise, success will NEVER come. Now go, Toa Tahu. Our brave and noble Guardsmen will protect us! Go, find the other Toa, and find the Great Masks!”Tahu put away the map. “Yes, Turaga Vakama. I will!”Vakama stopped him. “You are to lead them. I assume they have been told that by the other Turaga. And just for a test...Jala, HIT HIM WITH A DISK!”Tahu jumped in surprise. What was it Vakama had said? His mask—shielding! He activated it out of instinct, a shield formed around him like a dome, and the disk bounced off. “What? Yes!” He lowered his shield.Vakama looked at him confidently. “Now you know the power of the Masks. Go now! And waste no time!”Tahu ran off in the distance. Vakama walked to a Ta-Matoran with a blue mask. “You summoned the Toa, Takua. You are a hero.”Takua smiled. As soon as Turaga Vakama left, he ran out to wander again.
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Hello, BZPower! Ballom here, back on the MOCing scene after a fairly long hiatus! Today's special is a couple of MOCs that I built over the Christmas break using my recently-acquired Hero Factory sets. Basically, because Waspix and Scorpio were pretty bad sets, I made better scorpion and wasp versions. Although, admittedly, the scorpion is mostly HF, being based on Witch Doctor's parts, while the wasp has a lot more Bionicle elements. Also, the more astute or stalker-ish of you may realize that the pictures of these have been on my Maj for about a month now, but I kept forgetting to post the topic. Anyway, to the pictures! Wasp ^Link to Gallery^ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Scorpion ^Link to Gallery^ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 And yes, the wasp does have those awesome transparent wings first seen on Gorast, but alas, they almost completely vanished from the photos, although you can see them moderately clearly in the third image. Well, enjoy! ~B~
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I had this moc on the old forums. But since then I've made changes to make him more movie styledWith that I give you the picturesFronthttp://upload.bricks.../Whenua/039.jpgRighthttp://upload.bricks.../Whenua/040.jpgBackhttp://upload.bricks.../Whenua/041.jpgLefthttp://upload.bricks.../Whenua/042.jpgWeapon right armhttp://upload.bricks.../Whenua/043.jpgHand left arm (I would replace the gunmetal fingers with black ones. I'd do that but I'd have to take new photos)http://upload.bricks.../Whenua/044.jpgBack showing how the rhotuka launcher connects. Rhotuka can still be launchedhttp://upload.bricks.../Whenua/045.jpgPreparing to launch the rhotuka like in the moviehttp://upload.bricks.../Whenua/046.jpgGallery (When Publichttp://upload.bricks...ry.cgi?f=498962Comments and critisim appriciated.
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Mutran is awesome. I built this a little while ago, so I don't exactly remember what my inspiration was, but I think it came out pretty well. ----- ----- Front Back Arm ----- Let's see now...Changes: [*]Added more lime green[*]Added armor to lower legs[*]Added armor to torso and replaced Tridax pod with armor[*]Replaced left forearm with arm cannon[*]Replaced other weapons with sword[*]Added Icarax-style wings[*]Added cape and back armorThoughts?
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Side Back (Engine) Back (Upperbody) Underneath (Engine Detail) Engine Detail Body Detail Other Angle Rocks can't stop him Brickshelf Gallery (when public) MOCpages (for those who want to see all of the above linked pictures together) A new take on the roborider concept of LEGO "A new take on the Roborider concept of LEGO. "They've got the brains of a human. The body of a motor bike and special powers that make them unstoppable". So I left out that special power thing (launching wheels) and redid the body of a motor bike and this was the result. I call this one "Crasher", his speed and strength is enormous compared to the original roboriders. Unstoppable in the terrain of rocks and sand. His favourite terrrain is the industry.Normally the first in a series of three. A little project I like to call "Roborider: Evolution"*If you notice some similarities in this MOC and my Breez X.0 (mainly the arms), that's because I was working on this MOC when I builded Breez X.0. Made this thing in about two weeks
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Breez Unedited version Angle Side Back With Energized Boomerangs I was working on an other lime MOC when I made the body. But it was too small for the MOC. But I liked it anyway so I changed it slightly and made this. I really like the color sheme/layering on this one. This is also my third revamp of Breez but I like this version the most. Edit: Image linked due to file size. Please keep images in BBC to 100 kB or less.-Wind-
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This is the last part of the versus trilogy, this time featuring Furno, and Behemoth. Face OffFurnoand BehemothBackstory:After capturing Jawblade, Furno was sent back to another watery planet, Aqurius Magnus a large planet of just water, to apprehend another fishy breakout; Behemoth. While Behemoth looks slow, he isn't, on land nor in water. To combat this new adversary, Furno has been given an underwater jet-pack with a detachable Mini-Sub, and a new harpoon stun gun. Lets hope this large new criminal isn't too much for Hero Factory's golden boy.Gallery
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I'm sure not too many people have seen my original version of Widget (On BZP, my guess would be no one). So here is a quick look at the first version of Widget. Now that you've seen that atrocity, here is the newer and with no doubt WAY better version of him.A little backstory:I made this MOC originally for a silly little contest that had a theme. Gears. So I decided to make Widget, I updated him a few times, realized I didn't really like him much after a while, and took him apart. Then two years later (Now) I just randomly got in the mood to use all my gears again and tried making him better than before.Here are more views and poses:Side/poseBackRandomly standing on one legLooking up...?Yet another side and pose Nifty 360 spin:You Spin Me Right 'Round
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GalleryOr rather, revamp the trigger. Turned out nicely with compatibility with Hero Factory 2.0.
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I decided to alter Faybos' appearance. As he gets further involved into the story, his armour changes, his mask changes. Even new personality traits are born. This is Future Faybos. He mask has become streamlined, his mask does not reach down as far as it used to, more detail has been implemented as well as thinner eyebrows. He has a new scar added to his face. Enjoy!
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Brickshelf | MOCpages | Flickr *ALERT**During the chaos Black Phantom created one of Hero Factory's most wanted criminals also escaped. Meltdown is back with improved Radioactive Sludge Shooters and more radioactive materials. *Do not come in direct contact with Meltdown, if you see this criminal please contact Hero Factory. *
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A revamp of set #7079-1 , 'Drawbridge Defense'. 1234567So as stated, this is a revamp. Sorta. I like this one, as old as it is, but I will admit that I left the back kinda...untouched. I was gracious enough to give it those doors. The whole drawbridge mechanism I had to rework (if you know me then you know I hate gears; well if this MOC taught me anything, it was that I hate gears), but it was pleasant in the end. Also, this was before I had my hundred-something grass/flower stem pieces (seen here on my Clock Tower MOC), otherwise I definitely would've just smothered this thing in them.
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Well, since the forums have been revamped, I figured I might follow the theme and give my blog a revamp as well. Plus, I don't like its theme now. Any suggestions? I'll probably disregard them all, but it wouldn't hurt. EDIT: I've decided to keep the blog the same. -CM
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Repost shtuffs. Just for fun. Having some trouble with the coding for some reason, so bear with me if stuff is lacking. "It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker's claws close to its oily reptilian chest. Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior. Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh. And from the great breathing cage of the upper body those two delicate arms dangled out front, arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys, while the snake neck coiled. And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily upon the sky. Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers. Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger. It closed its mouth in a death grin. It ran, its pelvic bones crushing aside trees and bushes, its taloned feet clawing damp earth, leaving prints six inches deep wherever it settled its weight." Good story, btw. Highly recommend it if you haven't read it. Anyway. Unfortunately, I didn't have the most time in the world for this contest, so I finished something that had been partially assembled for a while. Its a revamp of an ooold MOC of mine from a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. And the original seemed to be quite a fan favorite, although in retrospect I think it was rather hideous, but in any case hopefully this one will be well received as well. Oh, yeah, also: brief backstory. It's a flying dinosaur. It also goes rawr and OM NOM NOMs people/heroes. Its babies are fluffy and adorable. That's the gist of it. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] Previous Version Full front images can be seen on image numbers 1-4, 10-12 for easy reference. A few important points, also. Yes, it does have more than enough Hero Factory pieces for the contest requirement. At least ten can be seen in the front images, and various other ones are on different parts of the body. Credit to Elzy for the awesome claw design.
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