BZPower's current building contest requires entrants to build something from a work of science fiction. As the deadline nears, some great entries have come in. First up is Blue Diamond's R2-Q5 astromech droid, which uses stickers and dome pieces quite well:

Kakaru has built a turret from the video game Portal:

I went old-school and did something from a book, or rather a series of books: A Formic Drone, or bugger, from the Ender's Game series:

The Final Frontier...

...A la Bionicle, purrhaps? Well, with Dablackcat's UFO Invader...

...Primus's Steel Falcon...

...and my own (admittedly rather old) Green and Orange....

...Bionicle/Technic building is definitely making inroads into the space scene as of late. It will be interesting to see if this trend continues. Qapla'!

Monowheeliosis

Well, I've got to blog something before the month is over. How about one of my own MOCs, Nuparu's Monowheel:

Can you do the can-can?

Another month, another BBC Contest over at BZP! This month's contest, #47, requires entrants to incorporate part or all of their Bionicle canisters into their entry.

Draxon/Jaller345 starts us off with a neat tripodal Scout Droid:

And here's my Craniopod NOD:

Love is like a red, plastic rose...

Easily the best Bionicle MOC I've seen in months, ToM's "The Rose" is an excellent example of what can be done with the right pieces and a little creativity. I suppose I should add that the current BBCC requires entrants to build non-humanoid, non-animalistic objects, hence the lack of the usual humanoids and Rahi in these last couple entries.

And what would a blog post from me be without some shameless self-promotion? Here's my Entry, In Which Learned Professor Arpy Examines a Bula Berry Through His Microscope

Bionicle at BrickCon 2007!

BrickCon 2007 was held in Seattle this last weekend, and Bionicle had an excellent showing:


BZP members from all over the country sent in their MOCs for display, and "that chick with all the Bionicles" came down from Alaska with a great deal of MOCage in tow:
The public hours on Saturday and Sunday saw lots of people ogling the MOCs, asking questions, and screaming things like "Those are so COOL!"
Judging took place Saturday evening, and here are the winners: There were four categories: Best Micro Bionicle, Best Small Bionicle, Best Medium Bionicle, and Best Large Bionicle.

And, most especially:

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Would Master prefer the savory stew, or else the Shameless Self-Promotion to which Master is so partial?

Here's my entry for BZP's latest BBC contest:

And here's Roa's entry. Check out that awesome staff!

Stay tuned for some form of coverage of this latest contest!

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

These MOCs sure don't. BZP's latest BBC asks builders to build an aquatic Rahi that might serve in a Barraki's army:

E-T's Kizimaki:

jaller 345's Kalmah's War Squid (yay for radially symmetrical Rahi!):

And my own entry, flying (or should that be swimming?) in the theme's face:

Acute case of cuteness

BZP's latest BBC (Bionicle Based Creations for those of you not in the know) contest asks members to build the cutest, most adorable MOC possible. So far most of the entries have been in the form of the standard extremely small MOC with ball joints or Barraki eyebulbs for eyes, but a couple entries have really stood out:

Shannara's Wabbit:

TO8's Horatio: (Yeah, it uses ball joints, but they're not just stuck on there with a couple axles)

And finally, my own Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (42..42!!)