#meca one

[driver270]

Braves VS Bots

I mean, Aloy isn't wrong. The Striking Venom wouldn't even make up a third of the size of a Horus.

[bricked-system]

Rebuilt the Bridge Walker into the Raven Attacker and here's my review:

Cons:

There isn't much space to hold the thing, no handle beneath, so it's not incredibly swooshable.

There is some cheating involved, requiring you to source 4 pieces from White Lightning, those being two 2L pins for the nose guns and more crucially 2 3L pin/axle hole parts to attach the long cannons on the wingtips.

I did omit these in my reconstruction as to keep the build "pure" and leave White Lightning intact; Additionally as the longer pieces are required for White Lightning's own alternate build.

One minor gripe may be that the pilot, a monochrome Devastator, is legless as well, and even sacrifices parts of his fellow robots to the build.

Pros:

This is a quite sizeable alternate model. I had been holding off on its construction as I was under the impression it would not hold up to the presence of Bridge Walker, and I was pleasantly surprised to find otherwise.

Indeed, the leftover parts is a rather small pool:

As is a very common issue with Exo-Force alternate builds, stability comes into question, and is very happily answered: Yes! It is one of the most stable Exo-Force alternate builds I have done, the only questionable portions being the wingtips' alignment during construction, as there is no proper spacers to keep the Technic beams from flexing.

It sounds like I have more gripes than praise, but I absolutely think this alternate build is well worth the time and effort to slap together.

Solid 8/10.

[driver270]

Exo-Force Friday: Striking Venom

I have a story to share about this set. Despite an image on the original box of a Meca One minifigure having legs, he actually was never supposed to come with them. This was reinforced on the parts list pages in the instructions. I actually called Lego's customer support line about this back in the day and they were already aware of this problem at the time and shipped me a pair of shiny golden legs for him at no cost. I think this was the most hassle-free experience I've ever had dealing with any kind of customer service problem. Does Lego even do this kind of stuff for customers nowadays?

[driver270]

10 to 1 odds on the Mech to win. Any takers?

[snimbusjavy]

Some random LEGO drawings to satiate your needs ;)

Here we have in order: Ronin, Pippin Reed, The Meca One, Rogue (Series 16 Minifigs), Mallock the Malign and the Banshee (S14)

Yes, still working on a lotta stuff.