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Plague-Doc-Matteo — Lego System MOC: Grayskayl

Published: 2013-01-16 02:49:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 3491; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 0
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Description About the MOC
Grayskayl was a MOC I just kinda made randomly by experimenting with my system elements(in lamens terms regular Legos). I noticed I had an abundance of dark grey and light grey from all the star Wars Sets and Bionicle playsets, so that's how the gradient color scheme came about. Its not the first time a gradient color scheme has been done, but its a first for me, and another box on the list checked off. Grayskayl is partly inspired by old 1950's style robots and Iron Giant The more I got this MOC built the more interesting it got, I knew that it could very easily go in a few different directions. I thought about making it a sad robot, with droopy shoulders and a frowning face, but I decided to go more towards more neutral or slightly on the happier side of neutral "disposition." Either way, it all seemed kinda cliche, or like its been done. The iron Giant was happy and playful which was what inspired me to make Grayskayl that way to. Then there's Marvin Who was hilariously depressed. Then one simply needs to recal terminators, The Matrix, or Battlestar Galactica or any slew of other things to find evil robots. Either way I could have portrayed him, its been done before, so I went with the one that seemed most suitable for him.
Grayskayl also marks my third major system oriented build after Matteonette and Hyde/Autumnales

Bio
GraySkayl Is an adventurous rebellious robot. Built as an analytical and mechanical operations unit, he worked in dull boring laboratories, assisting with experiments and maintaining and repairing equipment. He never realized how boring and dull his existence was since he never knew anything else outside of the facility. Grayskayl diligently performed his tasks, listened to every command and was a good little robot worker, until one day while in his recharging cycle, his sensors detected unregistered movement. A small green crab like creature had burrowed its way through the outer wall into the laboratory. Grayskayl's inherently programmed curiosity told him to investigate further, so a small burrowed hole became a gaping hole in the wall. Grayskayl had set himself free. Not knowing any other life forms besides the professor that built him, Grayskayl quickly befriended the little crab who had shown him the way out. They became the best of friends to. The little crab, which Grayskayl affectionately dubbed as "snip" from the auditory signals its claws made would show him new and interesting things for him to collect data on, and Grayskayl would protect snip from harmful entities in the world.
It wasn't long before the professor wanted his very valuable, very unique robot back. At first it was just a few men, but when these men failed to retrieve the robot because it had a clever little friend to help it get away, soon the professor sent another robot. A large red and black robot, that shot fire from its hands. This Robot was not like Grayskayl, it had no curiosity, no interest in small living things being its friend, It was only interested in achieving its objective, which was to find Grayskayl and bring it back home...

Yeah, I was going for a kind of kid's story on that one. Meh. .

MOCs featured in this Deviation:
Snip
And a mysterious red fire robot.
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Comments: 61

Gale-OneOfMany In reply to ??? [2013-01-17 12:36:43 +0000 UTC]

Hey, it's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it. Yes, I can see how that would mess with it. Those things considered, it looks fine without the tire Lol

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Plague-Doc-Matteo In reply to Gale-OneOfMany [2013-01-24 00:56:27 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Gale.

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Taqresu650 In reply to ??? [2013-01-16 03:35:43 +0000 UTC]

I love the Iron Giant, You could have also made him crazy like that one robot in Treasure Planet.

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Gale-OneOfMany In reply to Taqresu650 [2013-01-16 13:14:20 +0000 UTC]

Just because I can, and I'm that much of a geek that I know, the robot you are thinking of was named Ben

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Taqresu650 In reply to Gale-OneOfMany [2013-01-17 02:27:33 +0000 UTC]

He was an interesting robot, you don't see many like him.

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Plague-Doc-Matteo In reply to Taqresu650 [2013-01-16 03:38:18 +0000 UTC]

True. Pretty much ever personality has been displayed in robots at some point or another. Making him crazy looking woulda been easy to. Give him "googly eyes" would do it, maybe some asymmetry or wires sticking out of who knows where.

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Taqresu650 In reply to Plague-Doc-Matteo [2013-01-16 03:46:11 +0000 UTC]

I was also thinking of doing something Kre-o thought up, lego Transformers. I could use some bionicle peices and some the Transformer heads from my current Kre-o sets (I only have Bumblebee, Sideswipe, and Mirage).

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Plague-Doc-Matteo In reply to Taqresu650 [2013-01-16 04:23:56 +0000 UTC]

Eh, I guess. If you could replicate the head using all lego, I think it'd be cooler. But I'm a purist. I wanna do everything under the confines of lego. If I gotta cheat and use non canon elements it just devalues the MOC for me. So maybe study the Kre-o sets, but do it all in lego(bionicle/technic/HF).

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Taqresu650 In reply to Plague-Doc-Matteo [2013-01-16 04:36:38 +0000 UTC]

Ok, Maybe I'll start with Starscream. I can use the wings from the Kopaka Phantoka set.

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Plague-Doc-Matteo In reply to Taqresu650 [2013-01-16 18:02:14 +0000 UTC]

Nice.

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