Valentine's Day Blog: CELTRON 2.0 vs. LOBATICA

It’s (only a few days ‘til) Valentine’s Day and I decided to write another post. Now, remember CELTRON, my Foldabot Combiner made of cell phones? I decided to give them a big makeover due to the fact that the old version has a bit of failures in it.

MEET CELTRON 2.0

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. This is what I mean about recreating one of my old combiners again. The one thing I hated about the old version is you’ll have to compress some parts to fit them and the parts seemed to be complicated. These problems were solved. First, the new patterns are now in a new design, basically, the name of the Foldabot is on the upper-right corner with the corresponding color primarily used in the design. It can either be in black or white lettering. Instructions are on the other side providing step-by-step guides in building your 2-in-1 toy. Alt mode, combiner guide, and specs are just below the name. The size of the pattern area is virtually almost the same size as with those come in K-Zone. It’s precisely 8 ½ by 5 ½ inches. There are also some Foldabots I designed recently having a bigger pattern like VEYROTICAL by Nai Tañon Manalus, not his real name, and BASAANATOR by yours truly.

Here below are the new patterns…

Alterations

Alteration wise (Homage to Ranger Review), the design is more improved, they seemed to be a lot bigger in length from front to back, and the proportions are a lot better than before. BUKA and DULAS lost a bit of height, and the phone gimmick is more refined. I also simplified DULAS’ top panel to a single piece. The colors on PINDOT’S phone mode were altered a bit just to say that it would come out white when combined into CELTRON. TURO is now thick enough to fit the heads of the two who will form the legs. I also dropped the top-bottom swapping gimmick and decided to split out only when combining. What’s also nice is I also dropped ANLI’S leg slits as well.

HERE COMES LOBATICA!

Oh, did I just mention LOBATICA? Yes, I did. Since it’s going to be a long blog post, I decided to throw in CELTRON’S rival as well.

LOBATICA comes from the term ‘Low Batt’. It is used usually with older generation of cellular phones where there is not much space to fit more than 12 symbols per row. Some of the models use 1 to 2 rows depending on the spec. The screens are commonly black and white with usually yellowish green backlight (like those in the very first Game Boy).

Below are the patterns for each LOBATICON.

TEXTARA’S phone mode is a Nokia 6110. Note I designed it too roughly to imitate the actual design.

MS. CALL’S phone mode is a Nokia 5110. The colors I used are not the actual colors used in these phones. Sir Jomike, if you insist on making them official in the future, I suggest you use the original colors of the phones I used for the combiner.

REPLYA is a Motorola MicroTAC 9800x.

LOADBAK is an Ericsson GA628.

And lastly, RINGTONA is modeled after the ever-popular Nokia 3310.

Basically, the colors of these Lutabots are almost the inverse of the colors I used for the CELBOTS.

Anyway, that wraps up my blog for now, and be sure to check out The Foldabots Blog every now and then because I’ll be throwing in a new blog sooner than you think!

And since it is VALENTINE'S DAY, I'll be posting something that can shock you or make you laugh!

Although fictional, but I just made it for fun. (The picture after the one below is not for the weak of heart.)

Souvenir Picture from Toy Book 6 Launch last November...

This is what I did with a little bit of Photoshop, a nice picture of T*** M****, and guts to make this fantasy come true. Sorry if I hurt someone's heart and made this weird yet sweet chemistry, because I can't help it... Take note of the hashtag #InYourDreams!

This is also where I got the idea of making a love team in my fan fiction "Foldabots MegaMix."

Now, Sergio Iyoso is a guy in purple half-frame glasses and a wicked hairstyle. Well, there is a bit of resemblance of me and that's my protagonist persona. Cynthia Tetico, is well, based on the girl you see in the picture above. Her name is basically the pun of her name (I don't want to say it but you'll get the idea) and if you haven't seen her, you can find that picture on my older blog below...

http://ejsotto.blogspot.com/2012/12/another-original-combiner-celtron.html

Their love story is almost true to life actually, but I decided to not make it really accurate to what really happened in reality. Their friends also resemble TV personalities who I also liked.

Anyway, I hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day, and I'll be back soon with another blog!