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ever wonder how the boat in MNOG was constructed? me too. im still wondering but im wondering a little less now!

The insignia of the Raven's Blades, a faction in my lancer campaign setting dedicated to pursuing justice in an increasingly unjust world... no matter the cost.

This is a followup to my post about the apparent design revision to the Tarakava you can see in the cancelled game Bionicle, Legend of Mata Nui.

I mentioned wanting to get the parts to make it real, and thanks to them turning the post back on, I did!

Its....not great. Its much worse than I thought it would be.

If you flip the kickstand around you can get an okay roaring pose, but its very wobbly.

Since the Tarakava is so hunched forward the whole build is incredibly unstable.

Also click hinges just like...suck. Doing this reawakened a lot of traumatic memories of trying to use them back when I played with legoes, and they're just the worst. Too stiff to be used in smaller things without tearing the build apart, too weak to be used in larger builds.

I just knew right away that the hinges wouldn't hold up to the quite strong forces the Tarakava goes through in normal use, but I didn't really consider the whole...hinges+human skin thing until I actually messed around with it.

Ouch.

So in conclusion, I am firmly of the opinion that as a physical build, this sucks, but as it, or something similar, is used in LOMN, I think its a "cannon" option for people rigging the model digitally to try it to give it some more flexibility while not resorting to making the spine a noodle.