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Matoro, Guardian of Life! (BBC #69)


Banana Gunz

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MATORO, GUARDIAN of LIFE!

 


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This is the first Bionicle MOC I've made that I'm really proud of! I chose Matoro because he's honestly my favorite character of all time from Bionicle and if anyone deserved a tribute MOC, it's him.

 

While designing him, I had two goals in mind: make him look as gen 2 as possible, and make him look as much as Matoro as possible.

 

Despite me only using four (head, eyestalk, armor piece, mask) gen 2 parts, I feel that I managed to capture him in a look that looks very gen 2, but still looks like him. The torso gives the same bulky look that the new sets give, providing a sort of chest armor piece on top of a regular torso. It captures the same lanky look as his Inika form, but still uses the same general appearance as the new 2015 sets. Something I saw with many entries to the contest so far, is that they took it in such a way that you can only use CCBS, but I attempted to match the look while using older parts and more complex techniques to get a better build.

 

As to making it look like Matoro, I chose to add brown cape pieces to his shoulders because Matoro was shown always mountain climbing in Mata-Nui, so it would symbolize some slight protection of the cold. He also always used red flags in MNOG to find his way back to Ko-Koro, so I also added one to the top of his back. I also ran into the problem of which mask to use. I went with the new Mask of Ice since it's like the Akaku that his matoran form used, except it looks less stern which fits his character even more in my eyes. I went along with the trans limbs that his Inika form had, since spirit symbolism was always used with him, and this was a partial call-back to that. I tried to make his forelegs look similar to his original Inika model as well. I used the same sword that he used in Bionicle: Hero's and gave him a single shot zamor launcher that I designed myself (check my photostream to see it!).

 

Excuse the mis-colored pieces. I built this using only the pieces I had, so there are more grey's and such that I would have gone without if I could order more parts.

 

I also made it so that the sword can attach to his back for storage use! Hey... kinda like the new gen 2 sets!

 

Oh, and I originally planned on calling him the "Master of Life", on the recent trend that many have been on but I realized Matoro was a noble guardian of it, and never needed to be a master of any sort of power to be a hero. The true power was always in his heart, so I instead called him the "Guardian of Life".

 

I hope you like him! Please leave comments and criticism if you like, I always appreciate it and would love to hear what you have to say!

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I love this entry! The body build is very sturdy looking, and really captures the gen 2 appearance! I also very much enjoy all the symbolism attached to him!

 

I like it! Recognizably Matoro and Gen 2 despite being made more of Kopaka and having substantial G1 parts.

 

Thanks fellows! :D

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