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Llortor β The Protector of Ice (redone)
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Published: 2015-07-01 03:14:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 7291; Favourites: 152; Downloads: 31
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Hypothermic buzzsaw, check. 'Snowblower' vulcan cannon, check. Blizzard lights working, ice-walking talons sharpened. The Protector of the ice region of Okoto is ready to brave the drifts of his homeland and exterminate the heretical spiders of his homeland in the name of the Mask Maker Ekimu.Finally I've uploaded the sixth and final Protector, and it's about time. This one was undoubtedly the craziest in terms of tools and weapons, involving much more thought in the equipment than the Protectors before him. I can safely credit Dragonlife11 for her swooty birdy art giving me the idea for avian talons to help him walk across frozen lakes, and then more practical ideas flowed from there.
Who knew one could make the Protectors of all characters look all Warhammer Space Mariney? Also, his gun does shoot even with two blasters stacked on top of each other. I just decided not to put the yellow thing in one of them
(White/ice has got to be my most favorite color for the new sets, probably because Kopaka Mata was my first Bionicle ever)
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Quick question, howd you do the cannon? Ive got some of it built, but i can't figure out how you built it.....
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These sets are addictive.Β You start tinkering cause you don't like the stock design, and then next thing you know you're digging through a box of Bionicle parts, swearing you have just the right piece, that you really don't need to throw on some pants and shoes and run to the nearest store to pick up another Protector or two, or a few Masters and Villains if they're in stock, to use for parts...
-pauses and slaps for head-Β Duh, I should be using the Mask Maker's mostly intact torso as my base, not the PoI's.
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We've all been there.
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One of these days I suspect I'll snap and spend a few hundred dollars on BrickLink on parts.
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Most likely. I'll probably snap and buy a whole bunch of LEGO models as well, building and modifying them is half the fun, heck, I'm currently trying to Golden Toa-ify the new Tahu, by replacing the color of all his armor by golde ones, it's not easy since I don't think there even IS a golden version of the chestplate. Or his knee things.
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Bricklink lets you search by part, then by color.
My problem is I don't have the room to build like I used to, so my desk is currently full of Bionicle figures, loose parts, and transformers.
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Is Bricklink a site or something?
I know that feeling all too well.
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Sadly, the diversity of color is greater than I thought, so it's not quite so easy to find the color I'm looking for, or even the part if it even exists.
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Run a search for the SET you know has the part you want to swap, no matter the color.Β I'll use the plate Tahu uses as his lower torso/shins as an example.
That will bring up the set page: alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clon⦠{%22ii%22:1}
Click on the link under "Item consists of" which brings up the parts list.
Tahu's parts list: www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIβ¦
Locate the part you want an alternate color on, click the product number next to it
You get a page like this:Β alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clonβ¦
Click the link under "item Appears in" and scroll down to where it's marked in the color you want and buy one of the sets that contains it if you want to buy a bunch of spar parts.
If you want to just get the part you need you instead select the "Color Info" tab, find the color you want on the listΒ ( "Pearl Gold" seems to be the Gold they're using for the new sets) Click on that link and it brings up sellers offering that part.
alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clon⦠{%22color%22:115,%22ii%22:1}
Many steps, but not that hard.
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I actually found exactly the parts I needed, I only needed 3 of them, but I can get a pack of 4 pearl gold chestplates for less than what the price would probably be at an official LEGO store. Which means I'll have made every piece of the new Toa Tahu, except his fire swords, which doesn't bother me much, and his inner workings and stuff, golden. *evil laugh complete with organ and dramatic thunder*
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WE NEED INSTRUCTIONS FOR ALL OF YOUR PROTECTORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oh crap they've been long taken apart
But I probably could redo them all for instructions if I really had to =ΓΎ
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howd you do the arms, chainsaw attachment, as well as the cannon?
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PLEASE OH PLEASE!!!! I'D LOVE TO MAKE THESE!!!!
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You could say he's the Duke Nukem of the Protectors.
DAAAAAAAMN
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Hail to the Protector, baby.
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I like this one best out of them all. Great little collection of mocs, keep it up!
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I noticed you also liked Ekimu, bow that I finally got him :3
Thank you for the support dude, it makes me happy when I can make a whole set well
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Very nice. I love the mist around the canon, it's a nice touch :3
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I refuse to believe that the Protectors don't have some partial control over their element
Plus it couldn't be called the Snowblower if it doesn't blow snow lol
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"Cool party, isn't it? Why don't you chill over there!"
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I love the back chainsaw, but the blaster's a little much for one hand to hold.
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Don't get me wrong, I really wanted him to be able to hold it twin-handed like a Heavy Bolter from the Warhammer series I took inspiration for his design from, but it took me until my Protector of Light to figure out how to do that lol
I think it's because this guy is too beefy to wrap his arms around his body like that tbh
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I definitely like the heft he's got to him, but the weapons... I mean,I know everyone else loves 'em, but I myself just... I dunno, they just don't look right to me.
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It's certainly a different direction to have taken them, going for something more modernly mechanical -- which is probably clashing with the ambiguously primitive society Okoto seems to have.
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I mean, I see where it was going, and I do like where it was going, but to me the end result of them just looks... uh... what's the word... clunky, I guess?
It's not even the fact that it's beefy and mechanical, I think for me it's because the placement is weird and off-kilter from my perspective. The saw blade in particular just invokes the same feeling that kibble does in Transformers figures.
It's not bad, but it just seems off to me is all. Not that I'd imagine anybody else thinks the same way, heh
But yeah, overall good effort. Other Protector revamps were better IMO, but this one's still got stuff goin' for him.
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Once I set myself to redoing all the Protectors, I really intensely desired to have the PoI because this build is really just an exaggeration of the concepts the original set presented: a giant ice buzzsaw, and a minigun. All I could do was think about the ways I could make them more elaborate and Twisted Metal-level crazy, but perhaps I went a little too crazy lol
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