#damn dude did i really just infodump about lego percy jackson?

[just-someone-online]

So, I’ve been getting into Lego recently (Understatement of the year) and at some point, I began brainstorming ideas for Percy Jackson mocs. At first it was typical stuff like the Princess Andromeda, or some cabins, or Festus. But as I began rereading the Camp Half-Blood series, I noticed that Percy had a habit of making giant fists out of water (Actually, I can’t remember if he did that in PJO or if it was exclusively a HoO thing) so I thought ‘Why doesn’t he just make a giant dude out of water?’. So I started thinking about how that would work.

Then I started getting back into Spider-Man and forgot I was reading ToA and noticed how there were a lot of mechs and vehicles for him in the Lego line despite Spidey never needing anything like that (Not that I mind it, giant spider mechs are cool). I think you can see where this is going.

So, uh, I started thinking about mechs and shit for the Seven (Plus some other characters). I want to go through each of them and the ideas I had for them. And I know that it wouldn’t make sense in canon and the closest we’ll get to actual mechs are automatons and Festus, but this is mostly for fun.

All right, ready? Let’s go!

Percy - Okay, so Percy was the first character I thinking up designs for. Obviously, I went for a design based around water, so it would mainly be cyan. I debated going for a horse or a pegasus at first since, y’know, Poseidon. But after a bit of hemming and hawing, I decided to go for a traditional giant robotic dude. It would have a gold trident for a weapon and a cockpit in the chest for a minifig to sit. It’s kinda basic, but I’d like to try and add more to it at a later point. If I had to come up with a piece count, it would ideally be around 600-700 pieces.

Annabeth - Annabeth was one of the hardest to come up with something for. I wanted to do something based around each of the Seven’s powersets, but Annabeth’s abilities comprise mostly of her brain. Eventually, I decided that she’d have a smaller, lithe mech designed for easy stabbing (Of course, it would have a big dagger as a weapon). Kinda like the smaller Spider-Man mechs. It would be gray in color, y’know, cos Athena, and would probably be about 150-200 pieces.

Jason - Bit of backstory before we begin. At first, I was only doing the Seven, and decided that Jason would have a lightning jet, then I got distracted thinking what Nico, Meg, and Thalia would have, and decided to switch it up for the Zeus babies. Since Jason is able to control the winds, I decided he’d get a wind vehicle and Thalia would have something lightning based. Eventually, I decided Jason would get a either a jet or a flying mech armed with air cannons. I couldn’t decide if it would be purple or electric blue in color. Ideally, it would be 500-600 pieces.

Piper - Another smaller mech. It’s not as small as Annabeth’s, but not as big Jason’s. At first, I was gonna make it pink, since I associated the color with Aphrodite, but I honestly can’t see Piper rocking a pink mech, so the color remains undetermined. It would have large speakers on its back to allow Piper to charmspeak from a distance, as well as cannons to loosely represent that fucking cornucopia. I’d say it would be, ehh, 300-450 pieces.

Leo - At first, I was gonna give Leo Festus and be done with him, but I wanted each character to have something that complimented their powers (And in hindsight, the giant fire-breathing dragon that spoke in morse code did that pretty well). Leo’s would be a fiery orange tank, although I’d also like it to have an air form. It’d be 500-600 pieces.

Frank - Ngl, I’m stumped with Frank. I was thinking of having it be large mech that could transform into a dragon, but that just wasn’t clicking for me for some reason. All I can say for certain at the moment is that it’s predominantly red and 600-700 pieces.

Hazel - Given Hazel’s control over the underground, it only made sense to give her a tunneling vehicle. It’d be either golden or purple in color with little jewels all over it. I wanted to do something that reflected her control over the Mist, but the best I could come up with was making half of it out of translucent pieces. 350-450 pieces.

Nico - Ooh, our first non Seven character. Giant black skeleton mech, without a doubt. There’s this set from Monkie Kid called the Bone Demon Mech and it’s almost exactly how I would envision Nico’s mech. It’d be considerably smaller than the MK set, so about 700-800 pieces.

Thalia - As stated when I talked about Jason’s, Thalia would have a lightning mech. Bright blue with some traces of gray/white to represent Artemis, Thalia’s mech would be armed with an electrified lance and cannons that shoot arrows. It’d be 600-700 pieces.

Meg - Unless I’ve forgotten someone, this is the last one I came up with. Of course, she’d have a green mech with a plant motif. It would have plants growing out of its hands to represent Meg using her abilities against her enemies. It’d be on the smaller side at about 200-300 pieces.

I wanted to make one for Reyna but literally the only thing I could come up with was ‘purple’.

Feel free to come up with your own ideas, or hell, tell me how you feel about mine or how you’d improve them.