User blog comment:LhikanRULES95/Do you remeber...(Inspired by a video from shadowgear6335)/@comment-4759442-20100727161527

I remember making Tanuva pretty well...his name was inspired by something I had made a month before out of Bionicles. It was the name of a first-class Glatorian fighter that lived in the mountains. His name was Takan.

The actual building of the MOC happened sometime in October 2009, when I was experimenting with some Bionicle parts. I was due to leave to eat at a restaurant in an hour, and it was getting dark outside. I had connected a bunch of pieces together and decided I wanted to make someone with gold plating.

As I came across Brutaka's mask laying on the floor, I decided how to make the MOC. Some of the pieces felt mismatched as I was finishing up with his construction, so I revised a bit and came up with the final design. I renamed him "Tanuva" because it sounded better than what his original name was going to be.

When I was done making the MOC, I brought him to a place where I could take pictures of him. From that day on, I knew Tanuva was a MOC that I wouldn't ever forget.

And later, I feasted on awesome Mongolian barbecue...yum! XD