#maxilos and spinax

[azazelleviathan]

Maxilos

[ordheist]

here’s that maxilos-spinax piece as a standalone, cos I know tumblr has some bonkleheads

[voidaspects]

Slowly but surely building out my full Order of Mata Nui collection.

My remaining checklist is as follows:

1. Get the remaining pieces for Tobduk

2. Get the remaining pieces for Krakua

3. Think about how only Johmak specifically is entirely absent

4. Cry

5. Take solace in the fact that I already own Jerbraz

[wjbs-bonkle-au]

Random Human-AU character-design notes, some of which probably won't make sense to anyone else since I haven't actually properly designed them yet.

Whenua is bald, even before becoming a Turaga.

Vezon looks basically the same as Vezok but thinner and younger. The Ignika is fused to his mechanical skeleton (since the MU inhabitants are actually extremely humanlike robots).

Masks are replaced with geometric, "artificial"-looking face markings that roughly resemble the canon mask designs, sometimes supplemented with other things (e.g Onua has a series of horizontal lines on his cheeks, along with two beads threaded into his beard that match up with the small circular holes on the Pakari's chin); the markings glow when the characters use their mask powers. The Inika's are smoother and more natural-looking.

Nidhiki, the Hordika, the Rahaga, the Barraki and the Mistika Makuta are all animal-human hybrids with varying degrees of (semi-technological) body-horror. Pre-mutation they just look like the rest of the MU's highly-humanlike beings. The eel-mode Piraka also look more fishlike rather than just being disembodied heads and spines. Since the Magnans are actual humans, the Vorox and Zesk are fully organic and have some actual body-horror going on, with insectoid mandibles made of bone, arm-like tails, and extra eyes with uneven sockets and distorted pupils.

Spinax looks like a wolf made out of crustacean parts.

The VNRT have stitched together, decayed "skin" that leaves their endoskeletons partially exposed, with outsized limb-sockets visibly attached with crude weld-trails and irregularly-placed rivets. Their weapons are attached to their wrist-sockets. Also their eyes are pitch-black, as a reference to their set-forms' lack of eyestalks and also partially due to author-appeal.

The Inika have glowing lines extending back from their fingertips, all the way up to their wrists; the lines' shapes match with their respective elements (Jaller's are curved like flames; Hahli's flow like waves, with bubble-like circles mixed in; Nuparu's resemble crystalline facets; Kongu's look like stylised clouds, with lots of swirls and spirals; Hewkii's resemble cracked stone; Matoro's are long and jagged, with small points that branch off). Upon becoming the Mahri, the lines stop glowing, becoming markings that are slightly lighter than their regular skin tone.

While wearing the Adaptive Armour, the Toa Nuva look like more solid versions of their 2008 set forms, with different proportions.

The Vahki look like their LOMN designs; the Maxilos robots look like their set-forms, but slightly more "filled in" and with extra details like a glowing mouth-grille in their "mouth", and bioluminescent barnacles growing on parts of them.

Roodaka wears the Makuta-stone fragment as a necklace.

Tuyet's hair is based on Galva's original Mask of Intangibility design. Her Toa Empire counterpart has it tied back.

Av-Matoran (and, by extension, Shadow Matoran) have exotic hair-colours, as opposed to everyone else whose hair is more realistically-coloured (with a few exceptions who explicitly have dyed hair, e.g Dalu). Shadow Matoran have darker hair that fades to dark-grey towards the tips. Takua's hair changes from teal to literally-golden when he becomes Takanuva.

Toa Tools that "replace" the arm/hand of a character (e.g Hewkii's Cordak Blaster, Pohatu's propeller things) are either just handheld or take the form of gauntlets (in terms of the examples, the former is handheld and the latter become gauntlets).

Toa Ignika looks a lot more artificial than everyone else, with a wood-like texture on his body and frame, visible joints on his hands and limbs, and no face underneath his mask.

Mata Nui's form while on Spherus Magna looks like an animate sandstone statue with faded paint.

Shapeshifted Makuta retain some element of their main form (e.g Antroz's vehicle-piloting form (which, in this AU, is his default form) looks like his main '08 form but smaller and without the additional vampire-y bits; Miserix has feathers resembling his main form's hair).

Hydraxon's helmet covers his entire head and face, and has opaque lenses. Dekar!Hydraxon looks exactly the same underneath the helmet, but without a beard and with red eyes instead of green.

After being possessed by a Krana, Lewa has a marking on his face where it was; this vanishes when he becomes a Toa Nuva.

Annona is still a horrifying eldritch monstrosity.

Marendar looks like a heavily mutated human with mechanical parts sticking out of its body.

Prior to going to Karzahni, Velika's Matoran form looked almost exactly like he did as a Great Being, but shorter.

Helryx's "skin" has mostly disintegrated, with her face and some of her torso being the most intact parts; her upper arms and thighs have their exposed endoskeletons wrapped in cloth and leather, and strange hoses connect from her abdomen into her face. Her hair is mostly missing.

Pohatu's sideburns turn into a full beard when he becomes a Toa Nuva.

While Onua is technically one of the tallest Toa Nuva, he's hunched over so he looks a lot shorter.

Scopes are attached like eyepatches; when Nuju becomes a Hordika, his scope fuses into his head. Instead of losing the scope when he becomes a Turaga, he accidentally drops it in the ocean while taking the Matoran Spheres to Mata Nui and doesn't notice until he gets there.

Sidorak is balding and has a large beard.

Keetongu is a big bug.

Krakua is old.

This isn't a design note, but love is canon and Axonn X Brutaka not only happened, but they're also canonically divorced.

[joompheart]

All my extras!

GADUNKA and Arcee looking badass! Mutran and Vican and the Bohrok and the Bohrok-Kal! Makuta posessed Maxilos Robot and Spinax! Puppies (Visorak)!!!

You can even see my Makuta's Guide to the Universe and the Dark Hunters books, and my spare boxes and canisters that I got while collecting these. I keep all my spare parts in Vezok's canister.

Now that I have these pictures of them all set up and shiny I think I'll reorganize them at some point to get all the sets I actually like to play with at my fingertips.

[radioshackraider]

Sets I need to rebuild

Full Sets Ackar Stronius Kiina Gelu Malum Zesk Tarduk Raanu Mazeka Takanuva 08 Toa Mata Nui Axonn Vezon (Kardas Dragon) Lewa Phantoka Kopaka Phantoka Pohatu Phantoka Antroz Vamprah Chiroz Krikka Gorast Onua Mistika Tahu Mistika Axalara T9 Jetrax T6 Boxor Tahu G2 1 Onua G2 1 Fire Protector Water Protector Earth Protector Stone Protector Ice Protector Jungle Protector Vultraz Gavla Kirop Radiak Hewkii Inika Kalmah Pridak Garan Balta Delu Kazi Norrik Rahaga Iruni Rahaga Pouks Rahaga Vezon and Fenrahk

Incomplete Sets Berix Skrall Tarix Vorox Onua Mata Pohatu Mata Kopaka Mata Gali Mata Lewa Mata Tahu Nuva Jaller Inika Hahli Inika Thok Zaktan Reidak Avak Nokama Hordika Takadox Carapar Roodaka Sidorak Umbra Takua and Pewku Missing Sets All Matoran pre 2004 All Turaga (Not Dume) All 01 Rahi Exo Toa Tahnok Gahlok Bohrok Queens Tahnok Kal (May have parts) Nuhvok Kal (May have parts) Jaller and Guuko Lhikan and Kikanalo Matau Hordika Kongu Inika All Toa Mahri Ehlek Nocturn Lesovik Karzahni Hydraxon Gadunka Maxilos and Spinax Dekar Icarax Mutran Toa Ignika Rockoh T3 Bitil Gresh Vastus Strakk Tuma Fero and Skirmax Skrall Agori Metus Rahkshi Stars Takanuva Stars Gresh Stars Piraka Stars Skrall Stars Built Sets: Tahu Mata Gali Nuva Onua Nuva Pohatu Nuva Lewa Nuva Kopaka Nuva Lehvak Pahrak Kohrak Nuhvok Lehvak Kal Pahrak Kal Kohrak Kal Gahlok Kal All 6 Rahski Makuta Teridax Takanuva All 6 Toa Metru All 6 Vahki Le Matoran Ko Matoran Nivawk and Dume Krekka Nidihki All 6 Visorak Vakama Hordika Whenua Hordika Nuju Hordik Onewa Hordika Keetongu Bomonga Rahaga Gaaki Rahaga Kualus Rahaga Norrik Hagah Iruni Hagah Velika Piruk Matoro Inika Nuparu Inika Vezok Haakan Brutaka Kardas Dragon Mantax Defilak Tanma Photok Solek Gali Mistika Mata Nui (Glatorian) I might be missing sets on any given list, and haven't included any duplicates I haven't got built/won't build

[hollowknight10110]

Wow....its been a few years since I've posted anything here....welp Im back here to try and promote my GoFundMe! Any donations would be appreciated! 🥲

https://gofund.me/235987a1

Hey there! I'm so close to completing my Toa Mahri and Titans collection and just need Maxilos and Spinax, Hydraxon, and Karzahni. Every little bit helps, so if you could click the link below to donate or share, I'd be incredibly grateful!

[wjbs-bonkle-au]

Actually, they used it 7 more times (alongside the original set, it appears in dark-red in 8990 (Fero and Skirmix), 8979 (Malum) and 8926 (Toa Undersea Attack), and in gunmetal in 8994 (Baranus V7), 8924 (Maxilos and Spinax), 8954 (Mazeka) and 8995 (Thornatus V9))

i like remembering that not only does kalmah have a weird, squid themed variant of an existing bionicle foot part, but that they used the weird, squid themed variant three additional times.

[tiredspacedragon]

Ya boy has been gettin' real lucky with Value Village lately. Guess who found an almost complete Nidhiki just over a week ago and an almost complete Maxilos just yesterday?

[teridax467smocs]

STILL COLLECTING. STILL BUILDING. STILL CREATING.

Built for the official lego 90 anniversary contest.

I can still remember my granpa teasing me on Christmas 2007, after getting Maxilos & Spinax, saying something along the lines of "what a waste of plastic, for it all to end up collecting dust in the attic in a few years". Okay so he was wrong on this one, the fire never left me and this entry is trying to represent that. Here's me in 10ish years (taking into account the probable trajectory of both my hairline and eyesight) still completing my kanohi collection, still building mocs, and hopefully having access to my own little workshop to 3d print, mold or cast life size kanohi masks among other creations!

[bioniclechicken]

Max and Spin

[azazelleviathan]

what is your header from?

blood colossus from thor (reign of blood #11 iirc?)

aka maxilos with spinax's head.

[ordheist]

working on a maxilos and spinax commission, injecting more 'bio' into bionicle

[voidaspects]

I’ve shown this a little bit before, but I just realized I never actually posted the full collection on here since then, so have the full display!

My full collection of every single Order of Mata Nui member! (minus the ones that physically can’t be owned in a canon capacity (I’m sorry Johmak ;-;))

I don't know what else to say other than this was really really fun to collect and aaaah I love them all sm I'm so happy!!!

Sorry the photo isn’t great, it’s like impossible to get good photo lighting where they’re displayed.

So have these instead!

[wjbs-bonkle-au]

Dekar!Hydraxon is his apprentice, Maxilos is some piece of boring business software and Spinax is Hydraxon's pet dog.

Earth-based Human AU where Hydraxon is Axonn and Brutaka's adoptive son, and also a lawyer.

He was involved with his parents' divorce proceedings.

[carnelianfoxx]

Any good recommendations for someone trying to get back into collecting Bionicle? I lost most of my old sets thanks to my parents divorce and want to refill my collection. I’m looking to get sets with hopefully the containers and instructions in tact and Brinklink has like, zero sets listed...

bricklink has a shit ton of sets listed, are you sure? try ebay or mercari as well

anyway get some of the bigger ones for extra dopamine. takanuva 2008, axalara t9, maxilos and spinax, etc. you will fall back in love immediately.

or, if you just want to collect and vibe, go for canister sets. any. go crazy go stupid. they’re still fun builds and great to put on an office desk or something

there are definitely offers out there that include canisters and instructions. what are you looking for?