Toa Kynos, Miraka Nui

[Imatron]

The star of the Interactive MoC story, who along with Gannai and some of the other characters has recieved some of his aspects from members of MoD.

Kynos is an ice elemental toa who came from another island where he participated in thier equivelant of sports as a matoran. The sport is simply a take on combat excercises and using the area and whatever you can scrounge up to your advantage. Where he came from, Toa were only legends. While digging a tunnel for one of the island's inventors to make a launch rail out of the seaside, they uncovered a creature that attached them. While defending his work crew, he was badly injured and fell out the end of the tunnel into the ocean below as a matoran.

When he awoke, he was a toa, and on a doctor's table in Miraka Nui. Kova had fixed his wounds and practicaly brought him back to life, through means of a rare kraata breed, which now lives in his prostetic arm. After some time on the island, another doctor of sorts refined Kova's work on Kyno's damaged arm and torso. Kynos is actualy disturbed and afraid of the Kraata, but seems to be calm when it's out of site. The kraata uses it's ability to make the arm feel like a real arm and not some lifeless replacment, and enables him to quickly swap different hands and tools on the prostetic arm that would normally require a power source. His unique construction enables him to switch elemental powers by removing and replacing the chest gear with another elemental crystal, but he doesnt know that yet in the story.

Front
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Side
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Back
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His little "friend"
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Torso "open"
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Construction 1
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Construction 2
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That's right, he's got a gear powered arm. It's very stable, and part of his uniqueness. The arm sorta locks itself shut at the back, but Im thinking of seeing if I can put some sort of locking mechanism on the hand socket to secure it in place there too. The Skadki leg and the rahkshi shell almost fit together just right to make a cavity for the kraata, but theres a wee bit of a gap where the hand socket/chainsaw plugs into.

His torso's gear mechanism is pretty simple, and I used an odd part from a lego hockey guy to cover up the ball joint on the right shoulder, which is more or less visable on the back. Id does put a little bit of frition on the axel but it doesnt seem to be enough to warp or strain the arm's movement. The rest of what you see is mostly decorration, and there to hold his head on. The front Levahk kal plate can fold down if you remove the locking axel in the back, and from there you can snap out the cyrstal gear thingy that holds his ice elemental powers, which is really just a couple gear parts around a white plus peg. The two gears have a groovein them that lets them fit just right with that axel right above them, and acts to snap the gear in place a little better.
The rest of Kynos is just a basic Toa inika, if I get the right parts Ill probably custom build his other arm and legs, so Im particularly up for suggestions in that area.

[Xero Storm]

Oh yeah, I remember this. The old design used the whole awkward rahkshi carapace mechanism as I recall; this is a great aesthetic improvement, although he probably loses some of his characteristic height.

[DEATH PANDA]

EPIC

[Luke]

The gear powered arm and the mask make me very happy Imatron.

Nice job.

[VBBN]

Great work. I love the use of the inika body on him. I am a little unsure about the mata feet and inika lower leg combination like on Matoro, I just don't think it looks right together. But other than that, this is a great MOC.

[Imatron]

Thanks everyone, On his heght, he does stand about a head or more taller than most of the "Miraka" Toa residents I have built up, probably thanks to the extra long double sockets. The legs I do want to change, but I havent found a good design to borrow from a forum member or come up with a good match for this newer incarnation, plus those new straight necks haven't done up in white yet (And THANK YOU lego, thats my second dream part come true, the last one being the new tech balls).

...Maybe if half my parts weren't unsorted and stuck in the garage from our move, I'd be able to get some of these simple MoCs done >_<

[Xero Storm]

Got the new Takanuva? you could whip up a longer set of shins from that easily.

[Imatron]

Hmm..I just might, I wont tear apart my Takanuva, but in theory I should have some more of those around somewhere, thanks for the suggestion. Might be tricky to make a good one with the part for his size.

[UnityDutyDestiny]

Really realy cool!!! but I've got 2 questions

First: how did you get the cog wheel at the back? and the mask?

Second: I didn't understood what this mechanism does so if you can show on vid ok? ;D

And I must say it is really awesome!

[Imatron]

I wont be able to get it on youtube for a while. The mechanism I speak of is that the larger spiked arm moves up and down when you turn the gear on his back. I don't remember where I got the gear, but I got the mask out of one of the two pack mask boxes back when they were selling those. They're nearlly immposible to find now, and you can often find masks at a better price on ebay or in garage sales.

[UnityDutyDestiny]

Cool! the back wheel cog is really cool and I hope you'll soon be able to upload a video ! I want very much to see how it works in real time ;D