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Hello All,
This is a MOC I did a few months ago while working at the Lego Outlet in
Atlanta (for a short time). I started out with a few sets with the
intention of seeing what I could come up with. The main idea was to try and
understand what it was about Bionicle that made it so popular. By far,
Bionicle was and probably still is the number one item purchased at the
store. Well, after a week or so and a nice dent in my credit card this is
what I came up with.
Front View:
http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=310700
Front/Right Head View:
http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=310701
Front/Right High View:
http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=310702
Parts:
http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=310710
Biopede was built using some parts from (2) 8558 Cahdok/Gahdok, (12) 8572
Tahu Nuva, (12) 8534 Tahu, (6) 8563 Tahnok, (1)8448 Super Car II (mostly
just the panels and ribbed hoses), and several BrickLink orders for
additional ribbed hoses and a bunch of black Throwbot heads. Other than the
BrickLink stuff, the only item not purchased at the Outlet was the 8448.
All in all I was pretty happy with the end result. I did however have a
couple issues that were difficult to work around. The number one problem
was with the ball joints used on the legs in the head area of the model. It
was extremely difficult to get them strong enough to hold the weight of all
those parts. I should have used the click hinges that came in the 8558's,
but after trying several variations I just didn't care for the end result.
The only other major issue was with some of the Bionicle specific parts. I
found that more times than not, I spent a lot of time working around the
limitations of the angles or locations of the axle holes in them. I would
say that working with this problem encompassed more than half of the overall
build time.
So, the bottom line is I am still a much bigger fan of traditional Lego over
the newer style of building that seems to be more and more common in the set
s released by Lego. However, I can see potential for these types of models,
but man they get expensive fast. I wonder how many youngsters out there get
frustrated with the fact that they never seem to have enough of a particular
part when building their MOC's (but I guess this applies to all types of
Lego from one time or another).
I would be interested to hear from others on their opinions of this topic
and any different perspective to what I have said here. In particular,
anyone with kids that love Bionicle.
BTW, I have started another large Bionicle project thanks to great clearance
sales at walmart.com. as of yesterday the latest was Bohrok three packs for
only $4.
PLMKWYT
Greg
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