Legoman ha construido un rinoceronte blanco y azul. Nos gustan especialmente los colores y la configuración de la parte superior. Él escribe que "no es difícil de comprender." Estamos de acuerdo.

Dear readers, normally we look much more favorably on cows as a result of a steady diet of Far Side comics and hamburgers when we were children, but this horse by retinence is just too cool to pass up. The only things that could improve it would be a horn and rainbows shooting out its arse.

Arkov initiates Operation Fuzzy Dice with his renditions of snarky robots Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot from Mystery Science Theater 3000:

Crow looks a little weird, but let's just blame Lego for the dearth of yellow Technic parts and call it good.

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:

Okay, so after the highly in-depth and scientific poll I took, the only things that clearly emerged were that people hate lime green and want to see more MOCs, both of which I happily ignored during the month of December. I could whine ad nauseam about real life and enumerate all the things that have been keeping me busy and stressed over the last few months, but that's not what you're here for and I'd feel like an egotistical prat for loading you with them anyway. So! The reredesign has been done, now to the creations.

Reader BCii submits Blue Diamond's latest creation, Chrome:
In addition to the excellent presentation, the robot itself has a delightfully offbeat, steampunkish vibe to it.

Brickthing has built a really excellent Sweepod:

And Kohaku has made a stark, simplistic vignette of windmills in a post-apocalyptic world, definitely a first for the Bionicle/Technic medium. Regrettably, I cannot find further pictures nor his Flickr account.

Yeah, I've been terrible about blogging recently. Not that I normally post frequently, but there have been some good creations lately that deserve the bloggage. All of these are entries for BZPower's 56th BBC Contest, which asks entrants to build things using the often loathed red axles and blue axlepins prominently.

Also, I've put up a poll for you to give feedback on things you might like to see more of on here. Please vote!

Kakaru's MOCer's Medication uses lots of those inside his pill bottle, but the pills themselves are also worthy of notice. They are easily the best use for Thornax fruit that I have yet seen:


Shannara enters with + and -, a pair of roboty creatures using flex tubing to make rings of pins and axlepins:


Finally, MeWithoutYou has undertaken an ambitious project: Building the island of Metru-Nui out of Bionicle pieces! With the prerequisite pieces only showing up in Ga-Metru and Ta-Metru, it doesn't fit the theme as well as some others, but it's still quite an original creation. Chutes crisscross the different Metru city sections, and pieces like Cordak bullets are used as small towers. The overall shape of the island is done well too:

Brought to you by a vague feeling that I should be blogging more and at the expense of mangling a Harry Potter paraphrase, the Bioniblog presents Distorted's Train. It's rather cute and chibified and has a "NPU," as the kiddies say, in the form of a Power Functions motor.

BZPower's latest BBC (Bionicle-Based Creations) Contest requires entrants to build one of the site's administrators. Many of the entries (my own included) are fairly banal humanoids, but as with any contest, there are some standouts. You've already seen BCii's rendition of Tufi Piyufi. Here is a version of former admin Ninjo by Shannara:

The use of the wheel technique pioneered by Primus is notable, and the general spiky robotic look is just plain cool.

Puffins are the animal to style your entry after if you're building Tufi Piyufi and don't want to take the humanoid route. Bundalings has done just that, and added a comically oversized weapon for good measure with his majik puffin:

Fair Bricks

BrickFair 2009 took place recently, and there having been a peculiar and deplorable lack of good Bionicle MOCs recently, I have decided to throw patience to the winds and post pictures of some of the peculiarly and deplorably unpublished(?) MOCs that made their appearances there.

First up is an unattributed MOC, possibly black fantasy. Note the use of stingrays as ears.

Next, Bundalings's Packbot.

Perhaps most impressive, at least in terms of technical skill, is ToM's Autobot Jazz. Yes, it really transforms.


And because I'm a sucker for small cute MOCs, a model of the beetle Click from the upcoming Bionicle movie.

For more pictures, see here and here. BrickFair 2010 is August 5-8th of next year. Be there or be an oblong rectangularish sort of thing?

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'!

Dablackcat has a pretty spiffy submarine-excavator-type thing here. I'm digging the Lehvak faceshields as seaweed, as well as the landscape in general. The scrubber-wheel hands are nice too.Via YSAB, not that they need further traffic after getting featured on Gizmodo. Someday...

Rawr rawr rawr

Never mind that Kraata are little more than invertebrates (though admittedly superpowered ones), Distorted's Kraata skeleton is great regardless. The curvature and parts use combine to create a bit of a menacing aura about the thing.
Additionally, Peguo's "Cypris-Morpho" has a nice look, as well as an interesting hand technique.

Scuttle'n'shoot!

I enjoy the juxtaposition between the spindly legs and giant ray gun on Primus's Iron Wolf. The use of the rotated Miru Nuva as a head works well for this robot, too.

Moar MOCs!

First up is Johnny-Dai's Ironman Silver Centurion:

Also, Breann Sledge's Thraxian Death Blossom uses radial symmetry for a nice addition to the Black Fantasy subtheme:

Shades of grey..gray..grey...

Today we present a couple more BBCC #49 entries in all their monochromatic glory.

First off is Tumsy/TheAchilles's B.O.B., evidently inspired by a character from that Super Smash Bros. Brawl game I keep hearing about:

And for those of you nostalgic for the early days of Disney, here's Mr. Mord/mordashira's Steamboat Willie:

Check out What?/Rojaz's entry for the Unofficial BBCC #47:
It features an excellent use of canisters, as well as an excellent idea and execution.

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: