I’ve loved Lego my whole life but was especially into Bionicle when I was younger. Now, finally, I’ve really put my all into a proper custom figure!

I had no idea what I wanted to make when I started, but after sorting through bionicle parts and disassembling some Star Wars figures I didn’t want displayed anymore, I was drawn to a very small hero factory body piece. I figured for my first go I might as well start small with something small and simple. I ended up spending 6 hours on this before I was satisfied with the result

After glancing through my masks and head molds, nothing really spoke to me so I went for a fully built from scratch head. I’ve always liked the face-like appearance of the armor piece I used so decided it was time to finally use it as one. When experimenting with adding more expressive eyes in the hollow triangles, the skeleton legs were a happy accident as I just grabbed the first piece I thought I could attach some studs to, but I immediately fell in love with the wide eye, eyelashed gaze

I knew I wanted to make to make a female bionicle figure but it proved challenging to do so with my limited parts selection, especially as many of those parts are very masculine, “muscle-y” pieces. Once I started looking past prefab armor and body pieces, I really wanted to capture an unmistakably feminine shape. I started with very exaggerated proportions just as a ground work, prepare to modify and adjust to something less extreme. However as soon as I finished the general shaping, it just fit with the eyelash eyes and I committed to this hyper femme character! Then I started playing with some elongated proportions it the neck to make her feel more alien, I’m really pleased with the striking silhouette

The last thing I added was the “hair”. I had everything else fully completed but felt I needed one big accent feature to really call her done. I was just picking through pieces looking for inspiration before I framed her face with two claws and it looked great. Actually attaching the pieces, as well as some additional locks, proved to be very challenging and very much not a legal connection lol, but I’m very happy with the end result

And now I have my weird, peppy, anime girl meets alien from predator figure! She’s very fun to pose, only thing I wish I could include is a neck with more range but the piece I used for the bottom jaw was already a major hurdle to connect securely so I can live with it. Now all she needs is a name! Any suggestions?