User blog comment:BobTheDoctor27/New MOCs: 03/@comment-1221909-20130615132832

Yes… that Fusa is falling into an elaborate and deliciously convoluted machination of mine that will change the face of reality itself. I won't spoil the surprise, but I will reveal it involves Macku's plush doll of Hewkii, Takua's backpack, a Le-Matoran and the Great Sundial.

In all seriousness, however, there's so much to talk about in this blog that I had to wait until I could get some decent time to write this up. I’ll have to summarise my thoughts though. Personally, I really like what you’re doing with all this characters for Zero Hour. It feels like you recreating that old ’01 style, with a Matoran villages and Toa and Suvas (etc.), yet also applying your own spin on it.

I am really looking forward to Zero Hour and hope it does well, because it looks very good. Although they all share a variation of the same build (which isn’t a bad thing, since it’s a good build), you’ve definitely designed and written these Matoran in a way that makes them all feel unique and interesting, with a role to play in the story. They do not feel like empty ciphers or filler characters who are irrelevant to the overall plot, so bravo for making them stand out.

Your Cult of Darkness villains are also a very inventive and interesting lot, with Toa Leontes standing in particular for me. Oltrab is also a nice-looking villain; although it must be a burden, the black recolouring make him really interesting to look at, or at least for me.

As for Inrye, I honestly forgot I had requested him to be made and am surprised to the lengths you went when building him. At the time I asked you to make him, I was only really expecting a better version of him with the Metru Nui Matoran build. Thank you very much for going out of your way to make him… and have him face down a wild Fusa with a stick and clank fists with Sonitious. Seeing that blue Calix, though, makes me think you should try and build Toa Varian from the canon storyline; maybe she and Norik could find themselves as the sole survivors of their team during the war with the Brotherhood. But that’s your decision. :P

Onto the Toa, Salu, Merra and Jekkai, whilst fairly basic, seem like a very nice homage to the original Toa builds. Caliga has a very good build toowhilst Watak seems like a fully corrupted version of Takanuva during the ’08 years. They all look like worthy additions to your storyline, particularly Caliga. Ignika guardians are always cool in my books. As for Cathaka, I’m really glad to see a Kaita emerge on this wiki. There are not many of them here, unfortunately. The Kaita was a very creative idea for BIONICLE, which was sadly unacknowledged during the later years of BIONICLE. If you can, I’d say you should definitely try and make more of them.

Finally, Bohrok X. I saw the Doctor Who influence from the second I saw it, and whilst I see why people would want it to differentiate from its source material a bit more (even if the poll is in a tie right now), I’m personally fine with it. Maybe add a bit of armour or even some spider-like legs to the bottom. :P

As for Skorr, whilst I can’t wait to see a completed version, this ‘Turtle Skorr’ as I like to call it seems pretty funny to me. Maybe you could recreate that famous scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, where King Arthur faces the Black Knight. Overall, a fantastic MOC blog, and I look forward to seeing what else you may have in store for us in the future!