User blog comment:BobTheDoctor27/New MOCs: 03/@comment-1221909-20130615132832/@comment-958607-20130615221221

I'm glad that you took the time to write this comment. It was deeply touching and just made my day. :D Thank you very much for all this feedback.

Well, I definitely wanted to draw upon a nostalgic element in Zero Hour, which was 100% inpired by Uprising, but Vorred. :P Until I read that comic I'd thought the old Mata builds to be obsolete and worthless but they are evocative of so many memories and it's great fun to pick and mix between all those different bright, stimulative colours. I've always loved the blue and light blue combination, and the old Mata green is a colour that I now subconsciously associate with summer and childhood. :P Progress of the comic is hindered by the state of my garden and the fact that the cows from the field next to my house keep stampeding towards me to see what I'm doing every time I try to film, but it's getting there, and it certainly feels like Zero Hour is taking on an appealing shape. :P Sonitous is a fantastic character to write for and I hope that you'll be pleased with the way that I handled the character when the graphic novel is released.

I'm glad you like Leontes too. :D He's something of a personal favourite in terms of character. My younger brother had a large hand in building him but I think that the Sanok adds a great deal of presence to the character and really conveys the muscular, skillful characteristic that I wanted to capture in the character.

It's no bother at all. :P The building style I created for Inrye was a tablescrap that I'd been working on for a while and was eager to put to use. I really should have uploaded something sooner seeing as I actually lost the creation in my room twice. XD Of course, like our agreement with Sonitous, I'll be happy to take as many pictures of the revamp as you want. :P I plan on taking some more serious ones and I'll even take him outside into my garden to capture him doing something out in the open, like this. :P

Between you and I... and anyone else reading this comment, that was actually the reason I included the Calix in the image. ;) It was partly to tease the possible creation of Varian, which is something I will definitely attempt in my next MOCs Blog, even if she doesn't appear in my story. :P Who knows. It's very unlikely, but someone might come along and make it canon. XD

Regarding the Kaitas, I whole-heatedly agree. :P In one of my early drafts of Whispers in the Dark I'd planned on making an Orkahm/Vhisola/Lhikan Kaita but I scrapped the idea because there was no real threat for them to overcome together and therefore no feasible reason for them to do so in the first place. The VoyaToran builds had so many alternate combinations and hidden possibilities that I wish LEGO had tapped into once again instead of constantly switching Matoran/Agori building styles to the point where Av-Matoran were taller than Toa Mata. Plus the Adaptive Armored-Toa Kaita would've been a nice to see again in 2008, I agree. :P I supposed Jovan and Trinuma were the last semi-Kaita models, which were both something of a missed opportunity but, ah well, I wouldn't change anything about the way the BIONICLE storyline unfolded in hindsight. :P

That spider leg suggestion is an interesting one indeed. :P I'll look into developing a new form of lower-section of Bohrok X and I'll get rid of the Dalek-esque weapon systems... I'm just not sure how to do that. XD I've planned the ending of Falling in the Black since 2011 and it's quite integral that Bohrok X has a robotic appearance. I'm tempted to give him a pair of mechanical legs now that so many people have voiced their disapproval of the design but that may change the entire dynamic of the finale and I run the risk of merging a Dalek with a Cyberman that way. XD I'll give the spider legs a shot though. The Bohrok were supposedly insect-like (or at least they were supposed to be, I believe) so maybe I should alter Bohrok X to resemble something more along those lines. :P

Thank you very much for your kind words, Mr Bond. :D As always your comments are extremely valuable to me and continue to give me inspiration to keep on changing the Fractures Universe. :D