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X-Pod Walker
LEGO X-Pod Walker
I think I knew about www.flickr.com/photos/legoloverman Peter Reid before his LEGO Ideas set 21109 Exo-Suit came out. Either way, the Exo-Suit got me hooked on his work in the Classic Space genre. His book, "LEGO Space; Building the Future" is probably my favorite LEGO-related book. You can sit down and read it with your kids (it is a storybook, after all); or, you can just go page-by-page and devour its delightfully futuristic ships, robots, and interiors--all illustrated in LEGO.
One of my favorite ships of his is the LL-142 Interceptor, posted way back in 2007. It utilizes an X-Pod as a cockpit, and Pete even reveals its marvelous interior here: www.flickr.com/photos/legoloverman/2112234803/in/datetaken/
I was so inspired by this use of the X-Pod as a cockpit that I set about creating one of my own, and was determined to incorporate it into a mech. In this case, the cockpit is the control center and central 'armature' of a four-legged walker/tank. It had to have the right pilot, and after I had determined the white/orange color scheme, the CMF Series 9 'Mecha' seemed like a good candidate. A mech piloting a mech--why not?
Rather than a 'conventional' control system of levers, gauges, touch screens, etc.; I wanted this craft to be controlled similarly to the Umbaran star fighters depicted in Star Wars: The Clone Wars series. In one of the episodes, clone troopers Fives and Hardcase commandeer a couple of the ships, whose high-tech, touch sensitive cockpits respond to the slightest hand motions of the pilots. Here, the trans-orange Barraki eye serves as the hand and foot controls. Rather than sitting in a seat, the mecha pilot is physically attached and uplinked into the X-Pod Walker's systems.
Two machines become one.
X-Pod Walker
LEGO X-Pod Walker
I think I knew about www.flickr.com/photos/legoloverman Peter Reid before his LEGO Ideas set 21109 Exo-Suit came out. Either way, the Exo-Suit got me hooked on his work in the Classic Space genre. His book, "LEGO Space; Building the Future" is probably my favorite LEGO-related book. You can sit down and read it with your kids (it is a storybook, after all); or, you can just go page-by-page and devour its delightfully futuristic ships, robots, and interiors--all illustrated in LEGO.
One of my favorite ships of his is the LL-142 Interceptor, posted way back in 2007. It utilizes an X-Pod as a cockpit, and Pete even reveals its marvelous interior here: www.flickr.com/photos/legoloverman/2112234803/in/datetaken/
I was so inspired by this use of the X-Pod as a cockpit that I set about creating one of my own, and was determined to incorporate it into a mech. In this case, the cockpit is the control center and central 'armature' of a four-legged walker/tank. It had to have the right pilot, and after I had determined the white/orange color scheme, the CMF Series 9 'Mecha' seemed like a good candidate. A mech piloting a mech--why not?
Rather than a 'conventional' control system of levers, gauges, touch screens, etc.; I wanted this craft to be controlled similarly to the Umbaran star fighters depicted in Star Wars: The Clone Wars series. In one of the episodes, clone troopers Fives and Hardcase commandeer a couple of the ships, whose high-tech, touch sensitive cockpits respond to the slightest hand motions of the pilots. Here, the trans-orange Barraki eye serves as the hand and foot controls. Rather than sitting in a seat, the mecha pilot is physically attached and uplinked into the X-Pod Walker's systems.
Two machines become one.