As those of you involved with the larger Lego community may know, Nate Nielson, AKA nnenn, recently died. Many kind words have been said (most of them true), and many creations have been made in tribute to him (most of them good), so I'll let everyone else carry on with that and simply showcase some of this unique and creative builder's Bionicle and Technic-using creations.

His Sishliva Fighter may not look like it at first glance, but balls and sockets form an integral part of the rear construction:


These green ships each have Bionicle pieces forming a large part of them:


Finally, his Jula Mobile Defense Platform (one of my all-time favorites) uses Technic panels to create a deliciously curved body:

Chris Edwards has made a spaceship that makes good use of Bionicle pieces in several places. The black and yellorange make for a simple but striking color scheme.

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.

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.

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MOCs recently, I have decided to throw patience to the winds and post pictures of some of the peculiarly and deplorably unpublished(?)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...

Pigs fly in mysterious ways

It's always nice to be reminded that Mark Stafford and I aren't the only ones who experiment with using Bionicle pieces in MOCs that would otherwise only have the standard complement of System and Technic pieces, and Opallix's Khawizzer does just that.

2009 Summer Sets

A picture's worth a thousand words, so I'm just going to say: 'Nuff said! On second thought, I'm also going to say that the formatting here is off for some reason, but you can just click through to the full picture.

Monowheeliosis

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

Keep walking...

LOVEJOINT's WalkerMachine features a unique blend of System and Bionicle. The upper legs are a little skinny, but whatever.

I believe I can fly...

For the first time ever comes a MOC found via another blog (The Brothers Brick to be precise), Mark Stafford's Iron Hawk:

Those Kopaka Nuva wings are perfect for spacey MOCs, as Mr. Stafford proves. The Vakama Hordika headpiece looks great too. Be sure to check out the gallery as well!

We r0x0r your b0x0r

Seranikai has an excellent Boxor Revamp:

Here's the original set: