>>23685641
lol dumbass your thread will be taken over by bioniclefags

>>23685645
how the fuck are those mechs? arent they like sentient automaton if anything bionicle fags are the dumb fucks for not knowing what mechs mean

>>23685647
there's lots of actual mechs in bionicle

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Throwbots > Bionicle
Throwbots as a name > Slizers

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While the Mixel towball joint is now ubiquitous, Japanese builders long before its introduction favored the pneumatic T-piece bar connector as a useful joint for mecha builds. It is still used on occasion by some today.

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All three of these builds are by the same fellow; this one uses a combination of modern mixel towball joints and T-piece bar joints.
This new captcha sure is annoying.

>>23687096
Throwbots had better lore and actual character names than Slizers.

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>>23685641
But what about KNEES!??!?!?!

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well these are good and all but check this one out, look at how slim yet western it looks actual kino shit

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Does it have to be Lego?

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>>23687531
Enjoy your sausage arm fingers!

>>23687794
I don't know man, how much /toy/ can we lean before Mods get uppity?

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>>23685641
I guess I can post some older stuff.

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>>23688053

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I'm surprised nobody here has mentioned Mobile Frame Zero yet ...

>>23687531
Western? It's Japanese as hell, just grunt-style
I WISH Western mecha designs followed these principles instead of weebs copying them on surface

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>>23687794
>>23687831
Posting toy robots is not a problem regardless of brand. If they are mecha, it ought to be /m/ related.

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Modern builders who utilize pneumatic T-bar piece joints have come to frequently use 1x2 rounded plates with pins or the 1x2 technic double axle plate for joints.

>>23685691

this is sick, the rest are ass

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Some great (imo) SNOT work here while also keeping space for the minifig pilot, which is a hallmark of this guy's work alongside being 98% gray

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This particular builder has done a shitton of excellently posable, accurate Mobile Suit builds, though I can't remember his handle right now.

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Aha, found him

https://x.com/christophsis2

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Play well.

>>23689083
my god this looks incredible. did you build it anon if you did can you explain the process and your mindset while building

>>23688925
can you explain the difference between western and japanese mechs

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>>23689076
You're ASS!

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>>23689116
No, all of the builds made in all-gray are I've posted ITT by a Japanese builder, DSK3.
https://x.com/DSK_3

He is quite prolific and excellent at what he does. He's made a shitton of minifig-rideable mecha, transforming mecha, all sorts of stuff.

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I will say at the least, from personal experience, if you are patient, have good parts knowledge, and are willing to try, a shitton of Lego builds can be reverse-engineered by eyeball. Eventually in trying to achieve the shapes others made, you will achieve something relatively similar, and then that experience you can apply to builds of your own. The build itself is loaded with visual information as to how any given thing was achieved, and anything you can't see you can try to kludge into being visually accurate. If you try to reverse-engineer others' builds, I recommend you familiarize yourself with Bricklink and stud.io.

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>>23689289
As the /m/asters do...

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WE NEVER APPROVE YOUR INDEPENDENCE FROM OUR FEDERATION

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This build is quite old-fashioned in many ways but that doesn't detract from it in the least. I think a lot of modern Lego fans make a good point when they say that there's a bit too much SNOT in official sets.

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Same concept, different outcomes. A more modern build. I can't remember whether or not these two construction robot builds are by the same guy.

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I will say at this point reverse image search also tends to work okay on Lego and all that.

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>>23689289
thank you so much anon i really appreciate it, also i found this guy on Twitter his builds are incredible https://x.com/cts820/

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>>23689368
Oh yes, I was already following that fellow, indeed his stuff is excellent. I hope you too can produce builds you are proud of sometime.

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>>23689429
thank you my friend i wish the same for you

>>23689429
also if you wanna talk about all thing lego and mechs here is my discord deadfella0315

>>23685645
Fucking GOOD then

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>>23689454
I will not add you, anon, but I do really appreciae the gesture. It is nice you are so open, I hope you find kindred spirits.

>>23689521
i see anon totally understandable, i wish you the best

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WIP.
I feel like I'm gonna run out of pieces before it's completed so I ordered another copy of the butthole tiger set.

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I played in Lego Digital Designer a lot in my college years, think this was the peak of my work back then. I could improve it further with towball joints if I redid it today, but I still like the aesthetic.

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>>23685647
wait until you learn what mecha means in Japan

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>>23689759

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>>23689759
peak i love the design
>>23689429
check this out

>>23689711
that's why digital is better

>>23689119
One word: substructures

>>23689302
I agree and IMO it's better to trace/redraw/analyze to understand the shapes, angles, volumes, proportions first

>>23691012
I tried stud.io but it's just not the same. The tactile feeling of snapping pieces together, feeling how sturdy your build is and just the problem-solving aspect of having to to make things work with the pieces you have available is all part of the fun.

>>23691078
hmm when i think about it that's actually valid anon

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love the gun

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first quadruple lego mech i have ever seen ..... pretty cool!

>>23685641
Cool Lego.

>>23691284
Absolutely fucking sick. Would pay $10,000.

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>>23685647
>>23687082
Specifically, the Bohrok bodies are entirely mechanical and nonsentient, piloted by their organic Krana brains. Some defeated Bohrok are rebuilt into Boxor mechs, piloted by Matoran. Turns out Bohrok bodies are made from a special group of Matoran, who get the random luck of "guess what, your destiny is to transform into a mindless maintenance robot that is usually kept in storage. Sucks to be you."
There's also the Exo-Toa suits, which can be worn or operate on their own.
The Rahkshi are biomechanical mechs. One Kraata slug gets turned into a large mindless suit, another crawls into its spine and controls it.

>>23691873
thas what i am saying bro the guy who built it is actually cracked at building lego mechs

>>23687794
>>23687831
great brand, plus they're dirt cheap now
>>23688053
>>23688057
how buzz lightyear looked in my child mind
still mad how badly they trashed his movie
>>23689314
based
>>23689429
exploriens were always my favorite

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look at those hands, chef's kiss

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peak mech design

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check this out

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>>23695439
more of his work , this one looks cursed asf

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>>23695443
that's his twitter for anyone interested /x.com/bonsuka555/

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>>23685641

>>23689090
I remember always wanting to build a Gouf out of Legos. Never had the pieces for it though. There's probably a lot of new ones now that would make it better then back then.

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>>23696393

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>>23685641
some titan fall mocs since no one posted any

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Got a few saved, sorry if any of these have already been posted

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>>23696530
These ones are from /tg/, they had a whole build your own lego mech army tabletop system.

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>>23696533
I like the leader suit's variation on the base model in this group

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>>23696532
>These ones are from /tg/, they had a whole build your own lego mech army tabletop system.
Mobile Frame Zero was already mentioned >>23688584 here.

Never really liked it myself since it seemed to boil down to like, two range systems and a spotting one would be the optimal build while the game would mostly be decided by deployment.

>>23689314
I would suck so much dick for a roundfacer kit.

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>>23696797
how many anon

>>23689101
I remember Exo-Force

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>>23696632
I had completely forgotten the name so it's mention passed me by. Still, there's some pretty fun mech designs people made out of it.

>>23697349
i like how small yet detailed they are

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war hammer slop

>>23698269
I hate nu-dreadnought design so fucking much. They turned imposing walking sarcophagus into pregnant generic western mech.

>>23685645
Not /m/.

Those old 2000s era LEGO CREATORS sets with the robots in them were peak soul if you ask me. did you guys like any of those? Kinda thinking of getting some again for nostalgia

>>23685647
>he thinks it's "mechs" and that there are "mechs"

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>>23707003
That Titan XP one was on sale back then for chump change (like 20 bucks each) at a local store and I ended up buying four of them for moccing.

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you know you are deep into the lego mech rabbit hole when you recognize this guys mocs (animations too)

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>>23709417

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>>23709417
I like Dawn's work but he breaks a lot of parts to do them these days. Breaking parts has never been necessary to make a solidly built, stable, and shapely lady build, but that's just my autism.

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>>23709480

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>>23709484
I miss Hugebricks but I hope he's doing alright nowadays. He had a wife and kids but decided to quit lego a long time ago.

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>>23709500
>>23709503

I cannot remember this builder's twitter handle but he also draws his MOC ladies and has a Pixiv and so on. He's pretty neat.

>>23707278
das a gunbustah

>>23698269
>Primaris
Fuck this shit with a nuke.

So much good stuff in this thread.
However. I'm not at all a fan of T piece hinge joints. I much prefer mixel joints. And I prefer powersuits over mecha.

>>23689101
It's been twenty years, an updated Exo-Force with modern construction techniques would sell like crazy. Also, it's a damn shame Exo-Force came out right before Lego started doing shows, it could've easily rivaled or even supplanted Ninjago in popularity.

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Never got released because McCree was molesting his coworkers.

>>23715783
that's interesting, anon do you have examples of mocs which use mixel joints i would love to see some.
>I prefer powersuits over mecha.
yea i definitely get what you mean anon they can be cooler sometimes

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>>23716850
NTA but mixel joints are extremely common nowadays, they're the towball joints that are now commonplace in sets across tons of current Lego sets and many many modern builds. Numerous examples ITT use them, even if they're mixed with other joint types. They're extremely ubiquitous and flexible, and it's a sweet bonus they're really an evolution of preexisting towball parts which'd been around with Lego for decades beforehand, even if those parts aren't usually as useful save for the little technic towball pins and axles.

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Humorously perhaps this specific example was, if I understand correctly, an entrant in a Japanese contest specifically meant to have its contestants use a premade inner frame which, of course, mostly uses mixel joints for articulation.

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I personally don't have a horse in the power suits vs. mecha race and think this falls under the VOTOM small mecha category, but eh.

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Aforementioned premade inner frame. If anyone is interested I can dump the instruction images to build this frame.

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Another entrant using the same frame.

>>23716889
>>23716888
That’s Airman

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>>23717500
That's exactly right. Can't beat Airman.
How the fuck do you not beat Airman? Just bumrush him with a minimum of dodging and he goes down easy.

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>>23717902
WE'RE NOT GENIUSES LIKE YOU HENYA!!!

>>23716874
interesting! i never knew these were mixel joints.
when i think about it these are used everywhere in mocs these days

>>23716362
ninjago is basically a spiritual successor to exo force

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>>23718957
The nickname of sorts comes from the line they were first roughly introduced with en-masse, Mixels, at least if my memory serves me right. Their popularity and ubiquity is well earned and was, IIRC, pretty much immediate years back when they first appeared owing to their sheer flexibility. They're among the single most small but strong and reliable small joint parts one can get with modern Lego, and when used alongside the medley of other articulation and building methods and parts available they let you build a lot of cool stuff.

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I have a number of mechs and suits alike, I'll start with my gayest one.

Years back they made a party llama minifig and so I made this one meant to be for parades. Rollerskate attachments to come soon

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>>23719523
another is a suit for mojo jojo, with a small play feature where his ray guns fit on his shoulders

>>23719523
LEMONADE

>>23719523
I don't even like minifig integrated mechs, but this one is clean

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>>23685641
don't know how know one posted this moc yet

>>23721979
does anyone have any mocs of berserk mechs with abit of body horror

>>23717902
This one is pretty cool.

>>23719523
>>23719527
Post more.

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>>23725496
Sure

Another I have is this shark mech meant to be a reference to the aquasharks

>>23695905
Holy shit, Nova.

>>23725841
I really like those colors.

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>>23728746
Thanks. I really took a liking to the newer coral pink they got now, I'm planning on upgrading this guy later on since the initial construction is a bit flimsy. Was pretty happy with it initially though

>>23729175
were you making these mocs for something big i.e a series or a project or just for the love of the game

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>>23729183
Kinda both I think. I collected a bunch of minifigs from their short lived vidiyo line and made a series of mechs for my favorites

>>23685691 roof tile used as covid robomask
yo sick af

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>>23729352
Maybe just a semantics thing but IMO it's not so much a mask as the face altogether. I've used roof tile parts of that type in some builds of my own, it can make for very good two-stud wide heads.

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MATILDA-SAAAAAAN

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Not for the faint of heart.

>>23729414
my god this looks amazing

>>23729414 no youre 100 percent right, i was being flippant due to my unfamiliarity with this topic
thanks for sharing your perspective/take with me

(ps all of these creations are way cool btw!)

>>23729414
Is this ROM the Space Knight?

>>23729542
some times i dont believe we are on 4chan good bless polite people fr gotta be my favorite typa niggas

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>>23729635
Nah, it's a japanese guy's MOC. If someone wanted to make ROM I am certain they could do way more to get something more accurate to his appearance.

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>>23729542
It's no worry at all man, just my two cents.

>>23730755
Life is better when you treat people well.

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Junkbot my beloved.

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I would I could post more but I mostly used instagram now so saving pictures is annoying

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Sand red mech

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My MOC. It would be way too expensive to buy all the parts for it so its just stud.io for me. I'll let you guys guess what mech it's based on.

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>>23731795
Neat stuff anon. Run any cost estimates?

>>23731735
looks straight out of titanfall2

>>23731740
tile supremacy

>>23731795
holy peak! best one i have seen till now, incredible work anon your moc is indeed great

>>23731795
>>23731812
Very Timber Wolf esque, especially the arms, but
>angled ears
or
>lurm ears + quad flamers schizo loadout
don't feel right.

>>23731835
Over $1300 with all the weapons.

>>23731973
Thank you so much anon.

>>23732281
lol, my internal lore says that the missiles for the flamer loadout are short range thermite missiles. The whole loadout is supposed to just be set shit on fire.

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i need to install studio, haven't been bricking since LDD was discontinued.

>>23716362
Exo-force did have a movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QM5sC8y2S0
Not that it looked good

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AliExpres has MechWarrior/Battletech 'MOC' kits for sale, seems they send you the bricks and you get a link for the instructions. About €100,- for the catapult and €135,- for the king crab

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>>23732450

I saw a not-Rifleman and not-Flea on Temu. Wonder if these are "leading-brand compatible" or those weird 3/4-size bricks.

>>23732461
Yeah, there is multiple designs, I'm phone posting but I did also see an urban mech and locust. The AliExpress ads state the bricks are compatible with lego, but some suppliers seem to have mediocre QC for sending all the parts. Never bought bricks on there but Aliexpress itself has great customer service so in case there is a complaint and the seller does not reply/cooperate you just get a refund. I don't have experience with temu and their policies/scam ads to watch out for.

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This is the only one I had lol

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Another moc ive been modifying on and of over the years. there's still a lot of flaws in its construction but I'm pretty happy wit how it shaped up so far

>>23733729
dihrill

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>>23685641
The die hard MFZ fans with their tiny shrunken down scale is always my fave. They even invented power armor (pic related) and vehicles at this scale to spice the game up.

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omg it looks so cute