MOC Chima Crocodile Clan Railway Assault Wagon.

[Hrw-Amen]

I built this one over the last few days with a view to the Wacky railway Challenge, but also as I have been messing about with Chima stuff and building some MOCS.

Anyhow, the idea is the same as those WWII & WWI photos you see of railway locomotives and in front of the train they have a modified wagon with a gun being pushed along. The Crocodile Clan from the land of Chima have somehow opened a dimensional portal into LEGO CITY and have started a take over. They have seized control of the CITY Railway and to put their mark on it are running specially converted Croc Wagons at the front of each train.

Converted from the standard coal wagons these still retain the original coal wagon chasis and wheels, the rear of the wagon also folds down in the same way as it does on a coal wagon. But the front has been heavily converted to have rotating blades as well as the standard Crocodile Snapping mouth full of teeth! As the train rolls along out in the front the blades spin faster and faster and the Crocodile jaws open and close at ever more alarming rates making sure no Chima enemy tribes try and muscle their way into the LEGO CITY.

Some things though never change. The Crocodiles may think they are in control, but even they have to obey railway regulations and wear their High Visibility Vests whilst riding in the wagon.

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I would have preferred to use the three bladed head for the rotating bit but I did not have any of them left so had to improvise with what i had, still they do rotate in the same manner as on the Chima Croc tank. The mouth moves up and down as the train rolls along which is going one better than the tank. I have only used a simple mechanism to do this in the same way as the Chima Wolf vehicle. Nonetheless it gets a bit wild as the train goes faster and faster bouncing wildly up and down in true Crocodile Snapping Action. I constructed the base of the wagon in the same way as I have nearly all of my short wheelbase wagons the only difference being that I used the technic axle wheels )Like the ones that come with the train motor.) rather than normal wheels. This is because I wanted to use them to turn the blades and operate the mouth so needed access to the technic axle to do that. I would have liked to have hidden all of those gears out of the way so that they were not seen, but that would have made it huge and ungainly, not to mention that I did not have that many Olive Green parts, just having a few left over from my Chima MOCs.

[Werlu Ulcur]

I can only imagine the ruckus of that thing running around a track .

[Electricsteam]

That is awesome!!! I have been waiing so long for some one to build a Chima Train! I have been wanting to build a Horizion Exspress Wolf Tribe Coach!

[Cirkit]

I like it!

It's simple, but fits the whole Croc-motif with the snapping jaw and olive green.

Given the technology seen in the Chima sets already, I wouldn't be surprised if a Railway of some sort did find its way into the Chima world(as opposed to opening a dimensional gate to LEGO City), like for a mine or something.

Nice work!

[Locomotive Annie]

A railway war wagon! That certainly fits the bill for the weird and wacky railway challenge.

[Hey Joe]

It's great, I like it a lot!

Joe

[zephyr1934]

That does a good job of capturing the essence of Chima and the old war wagons all at the same time. The gears up the side could easily slip into a steam punk design. Maybe the gorilla's will come riding in on a train (I don't follow Chima, but in checking out the parts I've noticed that the floating island that often appears in the background has a gorilla face on it that looks like the gorilla suit guy).

[Hrw-Amen]

I think there will be Gorillas in a later wave along with bears and skunks. I watched the DVD that came with our club magazine this time and included the first two episodes of a Chima TV series, (Where on earth is that broadcast, I have never seen it listed in any UK channels?) and they seemed to have all those tribes as well as the normal lions, crocs, wolves and eagles. I think there was a rhino or hippo or something like that as well?

Anyway, glad you like the wagon.