Nick's Mods Ep.23- Branar The Skrall -- LEGO Bionicle Revamp!
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still disappointed that "The Legend Reborn" treated the Skrall as mindless monster-minions and not as actual characters.
imagine Mata Nui facing off against Branar... this could've been a pretty great character-study for both of them!
You'd have liked the cancelled 5th movie then; one of the characters was a lost Skrall that joined the heores as a spy for the tribe but eventually turned around and became a genuine ally. He even got a name from the heroes (the concept wasn't finalized, only that it was some sort of mild insult like "Buckethead" which he earnestly responded he would wear with honor)
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if Ignition 3 is finished, the Bionicle community NEEDS to make this movie a reality!
I love how comically long the original Skrall's arms were.
They aren't any longer than the standard Inika arms, but the torso setup is much shorter. making the limbs look longer by proportion.
Weird thing but I thought they had four arms
Rock and stone
ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE!
You've made me appreciate the 2009 canisters much more with this series. The builds and character designs are actually interesting, which I hadn't noticed before.
I love how simple yet effective your mods are! I usually make really parts-dense mocs that eat away at my inventory. You've inspired me to take a simpler approach, saving myself and my wallet quite a bit of trouble!
I didn't even know they retconned Skrall's look to just Branar. I thought only red highlights on his helmet were his distinguishing feature.
However, that concept of no uniform look for Skrall warriors is something that will help me contextualize why Stronius' body build was so different from his companions'.
You could’ve said “that’s all for Skrall” instead of “that’s all for today”
I like to think Branar would’ve been the defector Skrall who joined Mata Nui & friends in the cancelled Bionicle 5 plot leaks. He seemed a lot more humble compared to the rest of his tribe.
Also, Female tuma would go hard.
It would be a pretty big ret-con, but but tribe of violent sand bandits lead by matriarch of whole clan does sounds pretty interesting. That, and making female skralls green and black would look pretty cool
The normal version compared to the mod looks how the stars version looks to the normal one
The side skirting adds prett nice bulk to otherwise a little bit too slender waist. It adds a little bit of thickness to a character that most likely spends a lot of time traversing through hard to travel sandy terrain.
Ah yes, Bernard, my favorite skrall
These are so amazing! I love the work you did with this one, the skirt technique is fantastic. Would love to see a Tuma mod in the future!
When I found out the Bara Magna residents were not the same type cyborgs as the Bionicles I began to imagine the Skrall excessively modifying their bodies in attempts to become more efficient killing machines, kind of like General Grievous. In addition, Strakk began to modify himself after the Skrall in a desire to best them in the arena.
I like the inclusion of female Skrall in one of the podcasts, but it sounded like they had no, or very limited, mechanical bits. Probably looking like whatever a full organic Gladitorian would.
I guess you can say this is another “solid” Bionicle revamp.
Ba dum tssss
This one came out extra great👌
It looks massive but still vicious and agile
I also like how the thumbnails have a similar style to the artwork of this line
This was my first Bionicle❤
Super Nice
Frankly, I think the Skrall appearance depends on how you interpret their class system: if it's something biological like eusocial insects, they'd be expected to be uniform; if it's purely social, the more varied, scrapped look is more fitting.
Also can't wait to see your take on a female Skrall!
Okay. Stronius looks big and intimidating. The skrall looks kinda horrifying actually XD like a xenomorph almost
Holy kanoly this might be my favorite mod.
This might be my favorite of your mods yet. So good.
Damn i love your opening theme
i love seeing these builds, its what got me back into bionicke recently, and 2009 was when i was most into bionicle as a kid
whenever i use the skrall sheild i connect it with an axle wuth stud and put something on the end like a trans red tike or stud, it can really top it all off if you ever decide you dont like the tan from the spinner pin showing through. you can also use a grey one instead, it fits just a littke bit better
Such good mods, always love them
Would love to see a Skrall MOC of one of those concept art Skralls you showed briefly. You could do other original Glatorian designs too :o
0:44 Wait, WHAT?! I've been following the lore/news as closely as one could for a long time now, and I have never heard anybody make this claim. Both Skrall and Vorox are species names, and I imagine that was meant not just for world-building purposes, but also to harken back to the classic days of army building (Bohrok, Vahki, etc).
Nothing stops a collector from calling their Skrall set Branar since his only visual distinction is red accents on his helmet, but never in the past 15 years have I heard someone say that the set signified a specific Skrall. That's what we have Stronius for, and even that I would argue you could army build if you took off the thorned club for some of them.
I don’t have the energy to argue with people online rn… we’ll just say you’re right and I’m wrong, whatever.
@@NickonPlanetRipple See, now I just feel bad because I genuinely wasn't trying to pick a fight. It simply just took me aback because that was something I never heard before, and it's on me because I should have realized, from one person on the spectrum to another, how text can be interpreted or misinterpreted online. I have been watching you for years now and I enjoy your work, I just needed you to know that.
You've certainly made him look most Aggressive! ROCK SOLID! I never did get the Skrall figure from 2009 myself, but I do however plan to do so sometime in the future for use in upgrading my own Moc of the Warrior-Class. Branar here looks very much like Hunched Berserker!
I think the red bulb part pokes out just a little too much, I would have used a red, flat, 1x1 round tile. But this still looks amazing!
I’d really like to see your version of Tume.
I think he’d work really well with a torso based off of Maxilos’ but with either Stonius’ helmet or the black spikey bit fro Von Nebula in place of Vezon’s mask
I'm not a fan of the use of Piraka feet in that way. Something about the way the ankle sticks out, or how you can kinda see how it tapers to a 1 stud wide connection, or maybe even how flat the ankle looks. But otherwise (including the look of the foot piece itself) this guy looks crazy good, I'm always amazed by how well you mix the Inika builds with CCBS
It was getting hard to balance him with smaller feet.
I hope we can get more chima Mocs because I have been thinking of turning some of the ninjago dragons into a lost tribe
You will. I’ve just been getting these out of the way.
I wonder how a tail would look on this one.
Skrall
I'm going to be honest, even after watching your retrospective on Bionicle, I still don't really know much about the lore. Still I find these mod videos quite enjoyable because the modded figures you make do look quite good, even if these names go straight over my head
Would you say his legs are double jointed or curved?
What is the neck connected to?
So nick. I already know you are a Sonic the hedgehog enjoyer. As am I.
So what is you opinion on the new sonic sets.
I think they are neat and faitful to the games.
I’ll talk about them in the 2023 special,
That’s ok
I gotta' be honest;
I don't like the idea that the Glatorian [and Agori] are apparently just glorified non-human humanoids with minor cybernetics that just wear armor.
I only learned about this apparent fact very recently, that apparently Greg had canonized it as far back as 2009 [in a forum that I never saw, at the time]; but to be honest, it just doesn't sit right.
Not just because I've always liked the idea that the [Bionicles] were a naturally cyborg-like species, and that adds such variety to fictional alien species, and challenges our very ideas of what even constitutes as 'living' and 'organic';
But also because this fact was never that apparent to begin with. NOTHING about the people of Bara Magna visually suggest they're actually different from Toa and Matoran, especially not in any officially licensed Bionicle media. They don't appear to be any less mechanical than any Toa or even Maxillos; yet I'm supposed to believe that, underneath their armor; these guys wear clothes, have hair, and apparently don't look that different from humans?
Its just a very hard pill for me to swallow.
Then again; I'm also REALLY not a fan of the Great Beings just being Glatorian... oh... and apparently the entirety of Bionicle's history could not have happened without Annona. She is literally the reason everything in canon even happened. This being who appeared in a side story, who has no set, nor canon visual appearance, and whom none of the main heroes ever encounter; is impossibly important to the entire saga's history, to the point where, without her; none of it happens. Yes, that is apparently canon.
Oh, oh, right; I went off track... No, um, I'm not personally a fan of Glatorian being far more organic than beings in the Matoran Universe.
That's all
I personally relish the opportunities it creates for culture clashes. To the mostly organic Bara Magnans, Toa and Matoran are WEIRD. Like, "Wait, so you were just nanomachines originally, but you're.... people now? Why? How does that work?" One of the last serials had a bit where a Bara Magnan was taken aback seeing that the electronic screens MU beings have for eyes... feature blinking animations when that's completely unnecessary for something without eyelids, and even the recent chapter of "The Powers That Be" (an unofficial continuation, but with help from Greg and as close as we're going to get) where Gelu has to explain to Toa Orde, a biomechanical being, what biomechanical means. You also have to wonder how cyborgs like Toa and Matoran view naturally organic creatures. Like, are we not "really" people in their electronic eyes? Is this a Megatron thing, where Tuyet only sees gears and pistons as truly alive, and meat-based beings as the soulless, crude imitation of their mechanical greatness?
I was... greatly irritated by The Legend Reborn. I understand that the toys couldn't make the characters look organic without a ton of new pieces, but part of the fun of the first three movies was seeing what Tahu, Vakama and the rest would look like if they were REAL, with bits of muscle and other tissues peaking through the gaps in their armor. And yet the characters in TLR, the Bara Magnans, look MORE mechanical than any Toa. It just felt so wrong and backwards to me. I just don't care much for toy accuracy when the toys have limitations built in.
@@NickonPlanetRipple I mean, I guess, but... aren't there other reasons for culture clashes? Like, I mean, the Toa all have literal SUPERPOWERS, and masks that give them secondary powers, too, not to mention the breadth of different species already in the MU who must now live among the Glatorian, while also having their own conflicts amongst each other still unresolved.
I mean, do the MUs need to be more biomechanical in order for the BMs to have have reservations about them?
Can the Shadowed One just as easily recruit rogue Glatorian and Skrall into his new Dark Hunter organization, instead calling them 'disgusting' for being more fleshy? Or would he more likely reject them for not being as useful as prior and surviving DHs? Or would he go so far as to mutate them so they would serve his purposes?
Wouldn't the Glatorian and Agori be far more likely to reject the Toa because of superpowers they are unable to possess, and even Matoran, as they still hold the potential to become powerful Toa?
Don't even get me started on the madness the Skakdi would bring to this new status quo. They have superpowers too, y'know.
I just think the more organic factor seems like the least interesting one to focus on, and doesn't really add much to ty he story potential.
Also, I'm a little hung up on the fact that a BM would have a better understanding of the biomechanical concept than beings who spent their entire lives in a realm where science and technology thrived, while the BMs had only scraps of machines to work off of.
Its kinda' like a guy from the 70s having a better understanding of what an iPhone is than a zoomed. Possible? Sure, but unlikely.
I don't actually mind the Glatorian seeming more mechanical than the MUs; the scene where Berix fixes Gresh strongly suggests that the BMs regularly have maintain and fix themselves, but only have the previously mentioned scraps to work with. Almost like some of them are just barely holding themselves together in this hostile desert planet wasteland.
I never really saw 'flesh peeking out from between the armor' in the previous movies; what I saw was just flexible metal that connected the stiffer units, and the organic still was all held safe within, like an exoskeleton
@@TorridPrime217I fail to see how your suggestions become impossible with the current canon. You are effectively trying to cut the narrative opportunities in half, how is that better?
While I don’t agree with your stance on whether or not the Glatorian and Agori should be primarily biological in makeup, I do take issue with them being described as mammalian. I would prefer that they not be placed in any taxonomical group. Why limit their form like that when we could go ham and have bug-like Glatorian who are technically still the same species? When looking for inspiration for my Sister of the Skrall MOC I was extremely irritated by how many people seemed to apply female = mammaries to their design philosophies.
As for the Legend Reborn, yeah, my biggest issue with that movie is how the characters are designed. Mata Nui is mostly fine, though I’d rather they either never showed his mouth or made it look more like the rounded jaws of the Miramax trilogy. Regarding everyone else, they could have at least not had the spinning axles/pins and maybe had hair/skin visible through the pin holes if they wanted to emphasize their biological makeup. There are actually a few elements of their design in the movie that I did interpret as uncovered patches of hair (most visible on the Agori’s arms).
Gresh was specifically wounded in that scene. Unless a Bara Magnan’s implants are particularly extensive and invasive I don’t think they will need regular maintenance. Considering the scarcity of materials making it necessary to repair their bodies regularly does not make sense, even if they were more biomechanical like the Matoran.