Tahu, Master of Fire (2.0 version)

[MrBT]

NOTE:

I know that I post it here far late, and I know that I have uploaded pics to flickr and submitted to BZPower group in flickr long ago. This is not the most sensible way to do it, post it here late. The reason why I haven't post it here for 3-1 week(s) is that I have been drained and have been busy at college. Most of a time I have time to upload the images to flickr and dA, uploading video takes some time, but posting to the forums takes a lot of time, so my apologies for that. I'm posting now rest of my revamped Toa Okoto, that being, Lewa, Onua and Tahu. I know this may be spamming, but I want post them so that I have my own time to do something else than sitting here and writing stuff.

 

Hello people!

I'm very sorry that this came far late. Originally I wanted to post it her a week ago, but turned out that I have been tired and the college also. Well, anyways, I'm going to show you ladies and gentlemen, last but not least, The Leader of Toa Okoto himself, Tahu, Master of Fire (2.0 version)!

 

 

More pics: https://www.flickr.com/photos/114946327@N08/sets/72157651207928040/

 

Video review: 

 

Okay, so obviously, he's radically different than the pre-redesign version of him. Mainly the upper torso area is dramatically different, There are no more smoke stacks (god I miss them), the reason why I removed them, because I wanted originally to keep smoke stacks, angled approximately 45-50 degree angle. But it turned out into impossible challenge due to the new torso look. 

 

There are only three pieces that are painted in red, 3-armor part and two beast feet in red color. Yes I know that it is kinda cheating, but honestly it was the cheapest way to do it. I could order 3-armor part in red from bricklink, but I have no experience about it.
I know that those red beast feet are available one of the chima sets, something like a bird flying plane thingy (yeah I can't remember the name of it because I'm lazy to search the name for it), unfortunately it is kinda expensive set, and allow me to explain. 
I live in Scandinavia country, in Finland, so let's compare here that set costs $20 and that is in euro ~18.50€. How about oppositely, here, it costs 25€ and it converts into about $27, $7 expensive here!

 

Now, in a conclusion, I'm pretty happy that I revamped Tahu from pre-redesign into much better looking Toa. The whole point was to give more leader-ish personality and look, the previous version was okay, but it wasn't leader-ish enough. 
Well, I'll soon post protectors, but they just have just a minor revamp, two of them has revamped torso while the rest of them has revamped weapons. But, that's about it! 

[Cirkitree]

You should just rename him to 'Tahu- Master of Swords'. Two lava-board blades, two golden blades, AND a very cool interpretation of the classic fire-blade from G1, all together, all Tahu, all awesome, all the time.

Like Onua, he looks very solidly put-together. Very few gaps, and those that are there are essential to the MOC's movement. I'm not sure if I like his double- jointed elbows, but then again, the movement with that extra bone certainly looks more natural than I imagine it would without it, especially with how he's holding his swords in the photo here. I like that you've given these swords proper handles, by the way.

 

And despite the painting of the feet, I like how they turned out. Very cool mate

[Prowl Nightwolf]

ok, I have seen both of these(Onua / Tahu) and already I've notice a theme going on here. first off they both have the same crotch build and each have a chain necklace. So I guess I am going to ask, will these be continued to the other four?