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Thanks to DuckBricks, who is hosting the Saturday, 6/14 Ninjago panel at Brickworld Chicago (11:00 AM CDT) we know that Ninjago Legends: Monstrosity will be released on Sunday. I know there’s been talk about it premiering on a Chinese online video site on Sunday — I think, based on this tweet, that it’s safe to assume that it will release globally then (why else release the premiere footage/designer presentation from Thursday?)

my entry for Christian Faber's and Duckbrick's Rebel Nature WaveBuilt contest:

Seafloor Geothermal Energy plant Coral Reef

"A relic from the old world, this facility was built to pump up magma to the sea floor and use the temperature difference with the surrounding ocean to generate electricity. The largely self-sufficient plant has kept on running even without maintenance but something has changed.

Over time, the warmth emanating from the magma tubes have attracted life not usually seen in this part of the ocean and the geothermal plant has now become a colorful coral reef. The once abandoned facility is now teeming with life."

I built this in Stud.io with a lot of intersecting pieces, rendered it in a few separate passes and then assembled the final image using those renders and some more drawing.

Toa Chiara, for the Duckbricks fanon contest.

Edit: Wanted to add some info abt the build!

First off, with the exclusion of the mask, every piece on her exists, and in that color!* I used as much dark azure as I could, cuz I liked the idea that lightning has a totally different shade of blue than water and psionics.

I'm especially proud of her spear! I wanted the tip to look almost like a taser, while also still looking spearhead-esque. I also tried to use a lot of the shape and color language of real electronics - like the red and black block near the head of the spear, which I wanted to look almost like a car battery. Her spear has multiple ridged axle-axle connectors designed as easy grip points, so she can hold it in a number of places along the handle.

Toa Chiara for the duckbricks contest!!!

she was really fun to make, and im pretty happy with how she turned out, i wanted her to be around toa metru sized and i gave her a big bolt of lightning and big pointy fingers, but i need to work up on my photos....

please go vote for your favorite!!! i would appreciate a vote for sure, but there are a ton of talented builders in this contest!!

here are the instruction images

Toa Chiara - Duckbricks Yesterday Quest Fanon Competition

This is my design of Toa Chiara, from Bionicle's last unfinished serial the Yesterday Quest, for Duckbricks' latest Fanon Design Competition.

This concept of Chiara plays up her personality and role as a lone hunter - I wanted her to come off aloof and fleet of foot. Her feet have hinge cylinders allow her toes to flex back and forth - I imagine her having a digitigrade gait by default. Her torso is my own original design, but generally speaking I went for design cues from the Glatorian era of Bionicle - the era in which her story is set. That said, I did give her a 2001-style hand with taser elements, mainly because I thought it was cool. The spear lightning would ideally be the transparent-purple version of the part, but white works too. Most notable among Chiara's design is the manica arm-guard on her right arm, made from stolen Vorox armour pieces - I envision this as her triumphant escape from captivity, claiming the armour of her erstwhile captors as a trophy.

All parts are canon-compliant, though I did need to get custom models for the Stud.io renders of some parts.

Duckbricks' contest announcement video:

Link to Google Drive with Stud.io file, instructions pdf, and renders: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rDF6dtXcUWlGDRGdY0uGNcR_3tSOip6m