Here's a new version with vertical thumbs attachments, suggested by a friend from BIONIFIGS :

The part around the crosshole and the two beams is too think, I doubt this part would be the best option from a molding standpoint.

You're lucky, someone else told me that it would / could be better with three fingers. So I guess I had to do it :

I might modify it a bit, I'm not totally satisfied with the design of the part : I find it kinda "ugly".

Haha, thank you !

But thanks to your drawing I didn't have to start from scratch, which helped me a lot. x)

Great work there!

One thing I think we need is a soft rubber armor or add-on for organic parts and characters, with a hard plastic core to maintain shape and allow connections.

Here's a new version with vertical thumbs attachments, suggested by a friend from BIONIFIGS :

The part around the crosshole and the two beams is too think, I doubt this part would be the best option from a molding standpoint.

This thing, you should seriously consider it for Lego Ideas. I really want to see what happens when a new mold Idea gets 10K votes.

This thing, you should seriously consider it for Lego Ideas. I really want to see what happens when a new mold Idea gets 10K votes.

Two things to note:

1- I really doubt any constraction thing on IDEAS could get the necessary votes.

2- Lego has already disallowed Ideas Projects that simply to ask to create a new part.

The best route to have a new part like this (which, btw, is a great idea) would be to 3D print it, as Leewan as done before for some other parts of his own design.

Edited February 17, 201510 yr by TheDesuComplex

Personally, what I would want is a combination of the two designs, with a vertical bar on one side and a horizontal one on the other. Perfect for making human-esque hands. That would probably be ridiculously complicated to make, though.

Edited February 17, 201510 yr by DraikNova

Y'know, I've been thinking about feet lately. CCBS feet, I mean. What if we had something like the small Protector foot... But instead of the clawed area, we had something like the 3M beam with the ball in the center? Y'know, so the toe area could be plated up with an armour shell or addon? 3M and 4M shells would work great for this, I think.

Edited February 17, 201510 yr by LewiMOC

Thanks for your comments guys. As TDC explained, it's impossible to put this on Ideas, so all we have to do is cross our fingers and wait for Lego to produce something similar.

Personally, what I would want is a combination of the two designs, with a vertical bar on one side and a horizontal one on the other. Perfect for making human-esque hands. That would probably be ridiculously complicated to make, though.

Use this, and tadaaa, you have your horizontal bar. :D

Y'know, I've been thinking about feet lately. CCBS feet, I mean. What if we had something like the small Protector foot... But instead of the clawed area, we had something like the 3M beam with the ball in the center? Y'know, so the toe area could be plated up with an armour shell or addon? 3M and 4M shells would work great for this, I think.

Like this ? :P

Like this ? :P

Well, yeah, sort of. Although that design uses a single ball, not the "ball beam". I'll take better pics of that foot tonight, maybe.

I've said this elsewhere multiple times, but I think one of the greatest things that could happen to CCBS would be to introduce shells with studs on them where the connection points for cladding are. (Hollow studs, so you can still put stuff on them and everything). It would be a fantastic way to add some nice detailing on CCBS figures (some simple cheese slopes could do so much good to a lot of designs) and it would even allow CCBS to work with and be implemented into system sets better. I dream about this all the dang time.

Edited February 18, 201510 yr by barnstench fartface

I've had dreams of pieces which are basically bricks, but with a CCBS shell socket underneath instead of stud inlets.

What about a CCBS version of the AppBrick, so LEGO could get into the "Skylanders copycat" business?

In case you're wondering, I'm kidding. But is that piece even possible?

What about a CCBS version of the AppBrick, so LEGO could get into the "Skylanders copycat" business?

In case you're wondering, I'm kidding. But is that piece even possible?

That would be interesting. What kind of part would such a piece be, and how would it be integrated into sets? If anything, to go with Bionicle, there could be a mask that can be used like a stylus.

That would be interesting. What kind of part would such a piece be, and how would it be integrated into sets? If anything, to go with Bionicle, there could be a mask that can be used like a stylus.

I was thinking more along the line of something that would allow a CCBS set or MOC to be fully scanned into a tablet by pressing it against the screen, like Grumpy Sparrows Telepods, amiibo figures and AppBrick builds. But like I said, I'm not sure that's even possible.

EDIT: don't know why, this changed "the game with birds against pigs you know" into Grumpy Sparrows. Weird

Edited March 2, 201510 yr by The Outsider

You wouldn't even need a special brick for that, just something like the LEGO Fusion scanner.

You wouldn't even need a special brick for that, just something like the LEGO Fusion scanner.

The thing is that the Lego Fusion "scanner" is really just a grid to take photos against. It's non-immersive and only allows interactivity insofar as simple, two-dimensional builds can be scanned into the software. I can't see any way that that would be able to function with CCBS builds, at least not with current technology.

The app bricks, on the other hand, are conductive and thus allow Lego objects to interact with multitouch screens. The Ultra Agents app, the first such app to use this, uses small builds with multiple app bricks to control the game itself (for instance, at Nuremberg Toy Fair a Lego employee demonstrated a game that allowed you to use a build with two app bricks as a "paddle" that could be dragged along the screen in a pinball-like game). I'm not sure exactly how this could best be integrated into CCBS sets, but it could be done—imagine physical masks or weapons that could be tapped to the screen as in-game power ups. If there was to be any such integration, it'd make more sense to have a single new "app brick"-like element that can be attached to Technic connections, and have that year's masks or weapons feature connection points for that particular element in a variety of configurations.

Maybe if it uses multiple scans and some complicated software to figure out the build, it could work. But more in the line of app pieces, I would love to be able to buy a mask pack and tap the G2 version of the mask of elemental replenishment against a scanner. It just fits, as an idea.

Idea for torso that allows articulation from two different points + attachment of gearbox.

Needs three new different shellpieces though that two of can be used as armor/shell for limbs.

Edited June 7, 20159 yr by GK733

Interesting. I'd either remove the lower joint or make the lower joint resemble the kind used for upper-to-lower limb connections.

Cool concept, but those joints had better be pretty damn strong to be able to support not only a gearbox, but also CCBS limbs and Technic-heavy weapons. I have a feeling this would flop about like nobody's business.

Edited June 8, 20159 yr by LewiMOC

I'd remove the lower joint too.

What I like with your concept is that thanks to the cross holes, you can still build a torso without the gearbox. The gearboxes are cool, but we need something that can also work without them.

Interesting. I'd either remove the lower joint or make the lower joint resemble the kind used for upper-to-lower limb connections.

Agreed, and that kind of joint offers a modest swivel too, while not being as prone to becoming misaligned as the lower-to-lower limb connections are.

Made this, based on your concept, GK733, and an idea I had a few days ago :

The orange bits are "placeholers" for armors, I still have to make them.

http://i.imgur.com/bSkRu0N.png?1

Idea for torso that allows articulation from two different points + attachment of gearbox.

Needs three new different shellpieces though that two of can be used as armor/shell for limbs.

Honestly I don't know if that upper torso beam piece would even be possible to mold. Certainly it'd be a lot harder to mold than any of the current ball cup pieces, since it has pin holes all around the ball cup (most parts, by comparison, don't have ANY pin holes or axle holes directly adjacent to a ball cup). I don't know how you'd be able to produce the hollow cavity for the ball cup when you can't slide a rod through horizontally.

I've come up with my own concepts for how a CCBS torso with waist articulation could be designed, but I've eventually come to the conclusion that it may not be practical to do this at all at the size of a typical Toa (G1 or G2). Most solutions that seem practical from a molding standpoint end up needing several new molds, reduces compatibility with current shell pieces, and greatly reduces the number of available connection points.

Made this, based on your concept, GK733, and an idea I had a few days ago :

I kinda just thought the weight problem and others afterwards and I agree that it would had been impractical. Your version looks great, could imagine the lower part be spammed on titans. Do you have some kind of idea of how to manage attaching hands there for characters such as SW that won't use gearbox? Rather eager to see how far your project goes.

Anyways, articulated torso is what we really need the most, or at least torso that is built from two parts minus the gearbox. Tahu and Kopaka suffer from this the most, their torsos are far too short and a torso with such articulation and attachment of just one friction joint would make miracles to them.

Edited June 8, 20159 yr by GK733

Made this, based on your concept, GK733, and an idea I had a few days ago :

The orange bits are "placeholers" for armors, I still have to make them.

If I may make a suggestion, rather than use a t-shaped piece with balls at all ends, perhaps a bar piece with three balls on it attached to one of the already existing bones. It'd lend itself to customization a bit better, I think.

Edited June 8, 20159 yr by CabooseBM