With the cold temperatures and glacial transformer product releases this time of year I found myself experiencing a edgy-kind-of boredom that lead me to a creative plight...
While staring at some Lego Exoforce, I couldn't help but imagine some knee joints and arm joints being used to make a big lego Transformer...but who? I decided to make it easy on myself and make a BIG HUGE PRIME.
Okay, it's been done before...probably a billion times by other fans...but why not me? Why can't I make my own design? WTH, I figured...and I poured out my bricks...many of which are...um...ancient....like dating back to the 1970s....
The transformation design I was aiming for was something in between an MP Prime and the modern 'twist-abdomen' approach we've been seeing since Classics Prime and even the recent RTS Legends Prime. I had the wheels in mind and those set the scale for the remainder of the figure.
Here are the results. Let's start with the Alt-mode:
Okay, this a pretty standard-looking, flat-face cab. As I said my bricks are ancient, so I'm using an old technic windsheild. It rolls beautifully. Yep, that's a matrix of leadership in there...requested by none-other than my son.
Well my son kept asking "Where's the trailer, Dad" and I couldn't let him down. He had a good point, but I was really struggling with how to build it with so few grey bricks. In the end, I used a TON of flat grey panels....looks kind of like big pixels, doesn't it? I still ran short and ended up making the roof black. Oh well, it won't be perfect...
If I only had a few more bricks, I would have made the trailer bigger. Oh well, it still works. No, it doesn't transform...next time, maybe?
The trailer does have a kick-stand.
As soon as I finish the trailer, my son is checking things out again. "Make the little roller-guy, daddy". Hmph, bright kid. 4 years old. Hmph. "Okay, Ryan!"
This thing is HEAVY. Again, being short on bricks I had to layer and layer and layer. It was a riot building at this scale. As you can see, I added some Reprolabels to the flat bricks for a finishing touch.
Coming up next, I'll transform him!
