Bionicle head with heterochromic eyes

[Onepu the Protector]

It's my idea for a Bionicle head with two-pieces brain stalk, allowing to build characters with heterochromia which could be useful for making characters who are partially corrupted, for example.

Edited September 19, 2015 by Onepu the Protector

[GK733]

I doubt this will be a thing, but I gotta say you got me hyped for a dualinjected eyestalk if they ever touch this half corrupted idea!

[Mutant Orc]

this could've been something interesting to see on a character like HF's Splitface

[Logan McOwen]

Hey, this is a neat idea!

[Shakar]

It's a very cool idea but I fear each half would be too thin and fragile on its own.

[Logan McOwen]

Not necessarily. I mean, we have Technic beams that slim, don't we?

[gerejcvmn]

this could've been something interesting to see on a character like HF's Splitface

Edited September 8, 2015 by gerejcvmn

[Shakar]

Well, that is true. And it does seem that each half would be a bit thicker than the average liftarm. There should be a way to make sure the halves don't wobble inside the skull though.

[Logan McOwen]

Well, if they're connected using an axle connection as proposed in the diagram, they'd stay parallel :v

Just imagine them being like two different coloured (+ +) beams connected together, side by side, with one 2M axle at the one end. Of course they'd be specialised in shape so as to fill the need of a brain stalk, possibly even being mirrored moulds.

Edited September 8, 2015 by LewiMOC

[Shakar]

Argh silly me. I mixed up the O hole of the Toa skull with the axle hole of the brainstalk. Yeah, the halves would stay in place if the design is solid enough.

I guess it can work after all. I always wanted to do something like that for a character, not necessarily an evil one, something with a dual theme or someone insane (like Karzahni or Vezon, well yeah they are evil on top of that but you get what I'm saying).

[Onepu the Protector]

Is there any way to draw Lego's attention to this idea? Perhaps I should post it on Lego Ideas? I know they won't accept it since Lego Ideas doesn't allow new molds but it could help making the idea more well-known.

[Mandate]

Not necessarily. I mean, we have Technic beams that slim, don't we?

(apologies for late response)

We do, but I've found that those pieces disintegrate with age relatively quickly. Some just simply crack, others become unusable.

[Onepu the Protector]

And yet Lego keeps making them so I guess they're OK with that.

[Lyichir]

Is there any way to draw Lego's attention to this idea? Perhaps I should post it on Lego Ideas? I know they won't accept it since Lego Ideas doesn't allow new molds but it could help making the idea more well-known.

Posting it to Lego Ideas wouldn't achieve anything—Lego's designers aren't involved with Lego Ideas at all until a project reaches review stage. They might come across it just as users of the site, but that's really no different from coming across the idea here.

Anyway, I don't see this idea as practical in the first place. I can't see how it could result in a decent return on investment (or even a wide variety of eye colors) without being used across an entire line of sets, and an entire line of sets with heterochromatic eyes would be weird. It would not work with any existing head design, since every type of head with a separate eye stalk has the eyes more than one module wide (meaning that the left and right halves could not be interchangable). I don't even know how effective the look would be in practice, since it would seem that looking at or lighting the figure from an angle would result in the color from one eye being clouded by the color from the other (in other words, neither eye color would look reliably "pure").