[MOC] Legend of Zelda TotK Flux Construct

[The_Fiery_Rooster]

I've been playing Tears of the Kingdom over the entire month and a half that the game has been out, and felt very inspired to render one of the game's mini bosses in Lego form:

I built this first in mecabricks and then exported it into blender for rendering. I also exported other parts from Studio 2.0 to make up for some of the parts I needed that weren't in mecabricks, and then slotted them into place in blender. I'm very happy with the end results.

The final model has a total of 652 parts, including all the spares needed for one of the features. I really wanted to capture a lot of the functionality this thing has in game.

This included being able to swap out the weak point and placing it on various parts of the construct's body. However, those are not the only parts that can be reconfigured...

https://bricksafe.com/files/The_Fiery_Rooster/moc/totk-flux-construct/Reconfiguration Video Final.mp4

(I know it's not embedded, brick safe isn't made for videos, but it still uploaded and functions. Click the link to watch)

The model can be fully reconfigured into the main 3 forms you fight in game! I don't think this model is stable enough to be released as a Lego set, but it's definitely strong enough for display! There's also a chest included, which has a large zonai charge inside as well as an old map, which is the typical loot you might expect from defeating the boss.

You can also remove the Flux core from inside the weak point and attach it to Link's stick to create a fused weapon! This was actually the first thing I built for this model. There's also a small terrain piece to capture a bit of the sky islands where these bosses are mostly located.

Ideally, the 4x4 tiles would have a print replicating the in-game design, but I'm not a good graphic artist so I couldn't add that detail. Same goes for the Minifigure.

I started building this at the beginning of the month, then rendered the images around mid June and finished the animation this past week. If you want to see the mecabricks model, you can find it in my Instagram bio, which is linked in my signature. I hope you guys enjoy it!

Edited June 25, 2023 by The_Fiery_Rooster

[Meaf]

Oh wow, this is really cool. Love how you can reconfigure it into the alternate forms too.  I could totally see Lego doing something along the lines of this at some point if we ever get a proper Zelda theme, although at this point I am not very confident in that ever happening. 

[The_Fiery_Rooster]

Yeah, the more I think about it the more potential I see in this game getting a full wave of sets. There's so much of a focus on creativity in the game that, much like minecraft, a Lego form just seems logical. Who knows if we'll ever see that though.

[Karalora]

I love this! I just fought several of these guys in this evening's game session (I was collecting Sage's Wills). You've covered the essentials, certainly.