Lego Bionicle Review: Shadow Toa Nuva. Tahu, Lewa, Kopaka, Gali, Onua and Pohatu...but evil!
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2023
- It's time for the shadow Toa Nuva! Evil versions of Tahu, Kopaka, Lewa and co, all built using black pieces...with the help of a little bit of plastic dye to fill in the gaps!
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I have never seen someone dye Lego before
Someone used to dye white kaukaus purple
@@ApologeticPyrothats exactly what immediately thought of when watching this video. idye in „250 violet“ looks very promissing. I am looking forward to receive purple hau and miru from socketball preorder later this year, but maybe ill give that a try anyway.
Me too apparently it's a thing. I thought a good spray paint job always did it, I've never had one flake at the ball joint
@@Flammberger Nice! Always wanted to get a socketball mask
Rest in peace gold Mata Nui...it was nice knowing you
Seeing you throw a pearl gold ignika into the black dye gave me an aneurysm.
Luckily, the Ignika is made of that very same dye-resistant plastic, but holy shit the absolute agony of watching someone possibly butcher a $200 mask.
7:17 - watching the world burn: throwing in the black dye Pearl Gold Ignika, Silver Miru Nuva and... Black Pakari Nuva? Now he's just pulling our leg 🤣
@@SuperSecretBricksdon’t forget the gold Miru mata
"The undisputed king of thigh gap" omfg lol
7:17 gave me a heart attack
Same here buddy
That mask is like 400 dollars
@@user-nv4qf1jk1l It’s not it depends on the seller on eBay. I got it for 50 bucks last year.
For real tho, I think that while all other toa would probably fight to the death with their evil counterparts Pohatu would just play a deadly-friendly match of soccer with his dark twin
At 6:20, the 8x8 radar dish in black first appeared in a Blacktron set (6987) from 1988, and appeared in an "M-Tron" set (6989) in 1990, and a Blacktron II set (6988) the following year. It wasn't seen again for twenty years until it appeared in a Creator set (5770) in 2011, and another eleven years before it was seen after that. Its most recent appearance is in a mini Star Wars Death Star II (40591) from this year. It is fortunate that the "Slizer limbs" in black on Pohatu Nuva are so common, appearing in twelve sets between 1999 and 2010.
This is honestly a gamechanger for BIONICLE parts. Imagine doing this with other parts, like Barraki armor, Ackar's ankleguards, or Kanohi masks. I'll definitely be picking this up and trying it myself! Thank you so much for demonstrating the entire process, even the failed first attempt. It's always so entertaining to watch your content and I look forward to all your videos!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the vid. Make sure you let us know how you get on, especially if you try other colours!
There is a noticeable difference between the dyed parts and the regular ones. Dyed ones look more matted instead of glossy, light just doesnt bounce off of them the same. Plus the shade is a bit less darker.
Yeah, the Nuva leg pieces are a bit more matt to start with, which doesnt help. But the texture of the dyed plastic is much closer to original than the painted ones.
I think the two-tone look is actually quite tasteful. It would be really boring if everything was gloss black. The silver armor and weapons make sense and look good too, in my opinion.
apparently you can increase the color strength by cooking it longer. Also the nuva legs are supposed to be matt, it's just less apearent when they're colored
@@brickthumb thanks a lot for the tip, I'll be cooking up some Ruru's
The fact that you can't spraypaint the parts with ball joints without chipping the paint off when using the ball joints is why I made my custom 2003-style Tamaru have a dark green body instead of giving him a teal body as he should have.
Oh, a dark green Matoran body? Is that off one of the Vahki?
@@brickthumb Yes.
When u put the inika in the dye I almost started crying
I think the silver works really well with the black
Yeah. I think it helps them stand out just enough.
Prior to today, I didn't actually know dyeing was a thing you could do to LEGO parts. That's good to know for uh.. future purposes.
I was just thinking about this earlier, I think the Nuva armour from the Makuta titan could work well!
Oh you did that!
Didn't expect dyeing lego parts to work that well, but I might have to give it a go at some point! I doubt you take suggestions, but even so I'd like to suggest the idea of more 'alternate' shadow Toa - imagine what black-dyed versions of the Toa Metru /Hordika might look like?
Hey, I take suggestions :p Although I think the Metru masks are that same softer plastic as the Nuva armour, so it might not be possible to dye them. Gonna give it a go though!
It would be interesting to see if you could make an alt-universe light toa doppelganger group, or a shadow Takanuva to match the rest of the shadow toa.
Wouldn’t a shadow Takanuva wee the kraaken?
The amount of work you went through to do this is extremely admirable and the results are absolutely worth it! Bravo!
the dyed pieces look super convincing, i wouldnt be able to tell the difference
I'm still working on shadow Kopaka after your last video. Currently his head and shield have been replaced by the spider rahi combo model, so he's kind of a weird spider golem mock at the moment. Not sure how I feel about dying pieces, but damn they turned out great. So happy to see another video from you! Keep it up man.
Hordika Kopaka? I like it :p
Thanks for watching :)
These look SO COOL! 😱🤩 I'd love to see each of their weapons and armor pieces slightly smoked with black as well. It could picture their shadow selves always taking over any remaining light in them.
(7:20) *AUSTIC SCREAMING*
Me too
I almost had a heart-attack at 7:18, but then I noticed that the dye is not boiling.
Great video! While it's sad to lose original parts, it's cool to see new MOCs come from it. The reason why the RIT dye did not work was because the limb pieces were made of ABS plastic. RIT dye is used commonly in the Transformers fandom to dye 'unpaintable' plastics such as POM or PA for customizing. It's more flexible with more durability than normal ABS, so the 'softer' plastic can actually take to the dye.
I actually recoiled when you dumped that protodermis mask in the black dye.
Great work imo, these would have been the coolest thing 20 years ago on the sandlot, but I won't lie - this makes me wanna go search my old ones out. First one I had was Toa Lewa
I'd consider these models cannon because you can never truly destroy your dark side. No matter how hard you try, there will always be a moment where fear overwhelms you, anger consumes you, and hate can eventually control you.
Only by accepting the fact that your darkside exists can you truly begin to conquer it with resisting the urge to do evil.
What happened to Bionicle's design during 2003 that made all the masks more "gooey" looking? I feel like Bionicle somehow never went back to the crispness of 2001's designs.
Dude, I love your gunpla videos, nice to know you're into Bionicle as well.
@@cheesemoon6319 thanks! Before gunpla, I had Bionicle
Modeling clay, they would literally grab old masks and use clay to change them
@@quote6013 weren't the og masks originally clay as well?
@@citrusjuicebox yes, but it's a difference between making a base and adding to one, a lot of the additions on the nuva masks can be made by simple sculpting tools/finger pinching
These look amazing! Great job
Will you go back and dye Lewa's axe and pohatus feet from the mata set with this dye technique?
I tried, even had them cleaned and ready to dye. But they're that same soft plastic as the armour, and the dye didnt work at all :(
@@brickthumb Oh dang. Thanks for the reply!
Now do everyone in every color.
Working on it :p
this is truly awesome dude
I literally screamed when I saw you just dump the gold mask of life into the dye lmao
Thank you very much for sharing your experience. I tried dyeing several pieces purple using „violett“ dye from the same brand yesterday with some success. (White pieces worked the best.) Got myself a purple Mahiki, Akaku and some McToran food (Onepu very rare in EU). Also dyeing light and sand blue resulted in a darker shade but not bad tho. You can polish them with some microfiber clothing and a lot of rubbing afterwards to make them more shiny again.
Oh wow! Thanks for sharing. I've been looking at the violet, how well does it match up?
Your commentary makes the video so much more enjoyable. Great jokes :) Bionicle was my childhood. It's nice to re-live something through these videos without having to own a bunch of bionicle (that's past me by choice).
Liked and subbed, hope you keep up the reviews of old sets and do these shadow builds! Maybe do the bad guys too if possible?
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the vid :) Definitely got plenty more reviews and rebuilds on the way, and I'm planning to do some more with dye as well. Thanks for watching!
when the ignika hit the dye a part of my soul died
This is amazing man, WOW
This video came out at the right time thanks, not looking to make Shadow Toa Nuva for myself but I was however wanting to make a Voriki Nuva of my own design to go alongside my current Toa Nuva and Takanuva shelf, I switch out the Nuva Toa masks and weapons with their original 2001 Toa counterparts with the exception of Takunuva who still wears the mask of light.
My planned Voriki will use shapeways for the torso, weapon and mask (which will of course fit the 2001 mask on Toa Nuva body style I'm going for) however the lack of black pieces for Nuva legs was a problem indeed, I didn't want to reuse Onua's dark grey since I wanted Voriki to not share any exact colors with the other Toa, the other 2 colors for Nuva legs (Metru Red and Green) didn't match Voriki, I couldn't find any non articulated Nuva Legs on shapeways or any other site and I don't have my own 3D printer, but I did find this chromebricks website that did offer the legs in several metallic colors such as silver, gold, red but black wasn't an option, until I found this video I was considering making my Voriki's limbs to be metallic silver instead since it was the best alternative, but now thanks to the vid I know how to get me some black Nuva legs thank you!
I'll still probably use that chromebrick website to get the Toa feet since they offer those in purple, and like with the Nuva legs I couldn't find any options for non-articulated Toa feet that I could have in purple which sucks because purple is like the one color that those feet pieces don't come in, I plan to have an orange (plasma or time) and yellow (lightning or life) Toa Mata/Nuva as well eventually but first Voriki.
Hey, is that Chrome Block City or a different website? I've been waiting for them to restock the chrome Mata Masks so I can get an order in. And do you have any experience with using Shapeways or is it your first time? Anyway, thanks for watching, and I hope you're gonna share your Voriki when finished :)
@@brickthumb Not sure if I didn't finish the comment or if my first reply somehow got deleted by youtube so I'll keep this one shorter but yeah Chrome Block City is the site, as far as Shapeways goes I haven't used it for Bionicle parts but I have ordered a couple blasters for Transformers which were fine quality but they were simple parts and probably only scratching the surface for Shapeways stuff, I'll be sure to post Voriki on my channel if I get to it, I prefer image uploading but I'm sure I can make a video too.
If you can dye these, I would love to see this series continue
I made an audible gasp when you just chucked in the gold ignika in 7:15
You could also make a 200 dollar injection molding machine and a 3d printed mold and just make new parts with plastic pellets
Watching this again, was that the pearl-gold Ignika going into the dye?! You're a madman. Mad, I say!
Shadow Tahu goes hard🔥 I approve
7:17 rip gold mask of life
The gasp I made when you threw a golden Ignika in the black water
Quality Bionicle review in 2023.... Bless you o7
7:17 *Pain, agony even!*
Awesome. What about a Shadow Takanuva in the future? Will you do one based on Set:8596 and/or Set:7135?
Also, will you be able to dye the old Toa Mata weapons black as you have done with the leg pieces, or are they made of the same material as the silver Toa Nuva pieces?
Takanuva, definitely! I forgot about him this time, but he's on the to-do list.
And yeah, Lewa's axe and Pohatu's feet are that same damn soft plastic. I did try dying them along with the armour, but they didnt change colour at all. Super annoying. Anyway, thanks for watching!
amazing video, I think you could give Shadow Pohatu Black Claws, I don't remember the set but still have one and used it for some time on Makutas back, I think I should try to complete the Toa Nuva too now
Whoa, I didnt realize that piece came in black. And there's one in the same set as the black flame sword for Shadow Tahu! Thanks for pointing it out, gonna have to get some on order.
Cool video! I was going to suggest red would look more evil than orange, but then I just looked and saw the red eyes only came with Orkahm, so they are like 3 times the price of the other colors
You should give painting or dying some kanohi a go, I'd really like to see Gali's Kaukau be painted a solid color around the eyepiece, kinda like it's design in the online game.
Yeah, I'd love to do Kaukau...unfortunately I think the regular one is a bit too dark to dye effectively. The clear one would be amazing, but I don't have that (yet!) and I'm not sure I would want to ruin one! Might try dying some of the 2002 gold or silver ones, just to see how they look.
2:52 Bill Doran from Punished Props Academy used it for Adam Savage space helmet
I’d love to see you do shadow Toa for every team
Cool, even though I made mention of this very idea in the Shadow Toa Mata video, I never considered the possibility of dying the Nuva legs to achieve this lol though I am a bit weary of attempting the dying process myself
Haha, honestly if you can get past the smell and the mess it's super easy. At least with the I-dye brand, anyway!
I think the Makuta set had a dark grey version of the Silver chest pieces
Great video! It's awesome to see the upgraded forms of the shadow toa. Do you have any plans to dye Lewa and Pohatu Mata's weapons black or make one of the Shadow Takanuva regular Takanuva and Melding Teridax fight?
Thanks! I planned to do Pohatu's feet and Lewa's axe (you can even see them in the bowl with the other parts) and I was super excited to share the results. Unfortunately they're the same soft plastic, and the dye didnt work at all. Gonna have to stick with brickbuilt accessories for those two, at least for the time being. As for Takanuva, i completely forgot about him! I'll have to get him built, maybe a black Ussanui too. And Melding Teridax at some point too!
Thry also be called 'Toa Nega'
Nega = Negative/opposite.
They do this in Japnese media alot.
Toa Nega...I like it!
To a nega? Im not sure, sounds like.....
@@modelviews Wow, yeah, now that you point it out...maybe not such a good name after all!
It's like Shattered glass.
Shadow tahu hits different
I've been eagerly awaiting this video! Do you think you will do any more shadow builds?
People seem to be enjoying them so I'm definitely up for a few more!
I feel that the masks should look molten or slightly different almost like corruption or something like that...
Surprised I haven't seen this idea in physical form yet. My only critique with both the first and nuva forms is that I like the idea the shadow versions having more aggressive weaponry. As if Makuta doesn't quite want just shadows of them but to push the fight into his favor a bit more. So shadow Lewa with a huge axe for example is a bit more interesting story wise for myself. Pretty cool overall.
Does anyone know where i can get tahu nuvas swords cus i have one with no sword
Do you know if the dye can affect printing on lego part?
The ultimate weapons created by Makuta Teridax infused with dna blood of the Rahkshi sons.
Just an quick question, how hot was the water when you dyed the Bionicle parts?
Very nice, I do think the silver parts should be painted at least imo
Did the gold pieces you tossed in the pot change color at all? Given how the metallic purple masks came out, I'm curious how the gold ABS masks like the Pakari turned out. Would be interesting if it turned them a darker shade of gold, similar to the one Takamuva uses!
Oh, wait. The water wasn't even boiling. And I'm not sure that's even a pot of dye. xD
Could be an interesting experiment, if you ever want to sacrifice a gold mask for the sake of science... Though I don't blame you if not. Maybe try some more common Pearl Gold abs pieces first before any of the Bionicle Gold masks?
Haha, no, they didnt change (as you spotted, the dye wasn't boiling and it was very diluted). I suspect the 2001 gold masks would take the dye, but the Ignika is soft plastic like Nuva weapons, and you know how that went.
One of a kind
This dye.
Can it work on technic pieces like throwbot pieces?
Can you make the evil once to be the same color like the hero
I think you may have been using the wrong kind of rit dye. The one I've seen people use is specifically for synthetic fabrics, which is different from their regular fabric dye
Did you just dump a gold inika mask in the dye?
Wow that actually hurt me a tiny bit. 7:17
Hello AJ, I have a question, did you notice the joints getting more stiff or stable? I'd imagine that paint would affect that! Thanks for the awesome video!
They seemed about the same after dying, maybe a tiny bit tighter.
The dye lools amazing and i didn't know that is a thing! I hope you don't have to worry about food safety though 🤞Is the axe of Lewa also made out of ABS? Otherwise it might be the way to get it in black! Resin 3d printing could probably be able to print nearly indistinguishable Lego parts. A mid-range resin printer manages a resolution of 0.01mm. I read resin printing needs good ventilation because of the fumes tho. Anyway, great video!
Haha, yeah, food safety is part of why I used a different saucepan the second time. Didnt want to ruin the best saucepan! As for the axe, yeah its that soft plastic, so dye was a no-go. Honestly I think I'm gonna have to give in and buy a 3d printer at some point, just to give it a try!
@@brickthumb Maybe there is a 3d printing service near you available! It could save you from a lot of tinkering to get it to work. I have an fdm printer (the one with a spool) and I've spent so much time troubleshooting 😄 Plus you wouldn't "waste" a lot of money if the quality isn't as good as hoped
Was the speech set up in the beginning of the video? It felt a bit off to me.
Besides that, great video as always. Thanks to you I made a shadow Toa Mata too ^^
Which bit? I had to re-record part of it because the neighbour's dog was barking. But I'm happy to hear that you're now a Shadow Toa convert :p
Will this work for the mask Inika with a Pearl Gold Dye?
nope, same soft plastic as the armor. you can always spray paint it though
Why are galis legs used upside down?
Hold up. What if He dyed The Lewa Mata Axe in black
There were actually Shadow Toa?
Spec ops Bionicle
THE MASK OF LIVE WORT OVER 900 US DOLARS!!
there's no way you just dropped a gold ignika in boiling sludge 😭😭😭
you did not put a gold ignika in there......
Join me Tahu, and I shall make your face the greatest in Mata Nui, or else you will DYE
They sat in the sun for too long
7:18 no!😢 not the mask of life that thing is like 400 dollars
make Shadow Takanuva
Why not make a shadow takanuva?
lego already did
I think these could be improved if you used Makuta’s gunmetal Nuva armor for the shadow Nuva… can you post a photo of that?
He literally used those at a point in the vídeo...
Onua looks like...
Onua...
yeah.... i tried the rit to dye a orange hero factory mask and it didnt work and wow, that other brand was super effective
thats not darker and thats not pink... WTF PAINT DOES WORK, I BEEN DOING IT WITH ALL MY MOCS, YOU'RE BULLSHITTING