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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Foldabots Remix



Introduction

You already heard of Foldabots MegaMix, my Fan Fiction, then here on this blog, I’ll cover the Foldabots of my upcoming new sequel called “Foldabots Remix”.

Technically, it takes place in early 2055, where Sergio Iyoso was still a bad guy, and just as Vanessa Flordeluna mentioned in Episode 44, there were three mercenaries of Lu-Sho, the two mentioned and an old friend named Jack Spam Tandang.

The Foldabots I made for the story are very unique to each other. As a matter of fact these Foldabots are also homage to some characters.

DOBLETRON

At first glance, you would’ve thought this is a certain robot from Brave King GaoGaiGar, and second is why there are flash drives like in Masked Rider W (Double) which actually is a part of the Foldabots.

This is where I got the idea for this combiner, which is like my other works Kaliwa and Kanan who would combine side by side.

There are six characters under this series, take note their designs are almost similar to those from GaoGaiGar, but with a bit of alterations.

Below are the patterns for the Agimat Sticks. The Agimat Sticks are flash drives which reminds you of that Rider with his Gaia Memories. The Agimat Sticks form the heads of each unit, and the combined forms as well. I also added in an additional part for its super combiner form Dobletron Extreme.


Here are the patterns for the bodies of each.


With these, you can make three full combiners and nine different combinations for each.

EXCELDRONE, EXCELTOR, and EXCELVER

Originally, he was going to be just Exceldrone with the concept of Masked Rider OOO (Pronounced “O’s”) where he is formed from three different animals which became a faded memory to me because I kept away the patterns for the original Exceldrone. There were a lot of animals I came up for each of the combinations; I came up with 15 animals split into 5 categories, and 3 more which I never made in the end.

The new idea I came up is a more simplified one. It all started when I saw this video review on YouTube about Transformers Generations Minicon Assault Team, and then I saw this classic Super Robot called Saikyo Robo Daioja where I was inspired and came up with this particular combination concept for a Foldabot.

Although the designs are like Daioja, the concept is like the Minicons from that review, where I put the first one as the head and chest of the combiner, the second forms the waist and the arms, and the last one forms the hips and the legs just like the Minicons. Also, the wings and noses form as individual weapons for the three and it can be combined into a shield. I also included a sword which is very simple, anyway, on with the pattern.




SANDIGAN

No one has ever thought of making this kind of Foldabot that has two separate alt modes rather than one. In fact, this is also considered a combiner in a way, but since the two alt modes each don’t have its own Foldabot forms, they combine as one Foldabot and turn back as two, vise versa.

Sandigan is almost like Overlord from Transformers G1 which has two vehicle forms and one robot form. In this case, the two forms are a jet which forms the top half, and a car forming the bottom half.

Here are the patterns for the Foldabot.



BARKOTRON

Barkotron is a ship very similar to Alon and Agos, and two of the Stormicons. There are similar gimmicks to some known Foldabots, like his feet is very Elementron-like, and the head attached like in Komyutatron.

Here are the patterns.


HAKOTAR

Originally, he was named ‘Hakotron’, but since Lester made one before I made this pattern, I decided to change the name to ‘Hakotar’. The idea is a Game Boy with a cartridge; the cart forms the head and chest while the console forms the rest of the body. Below is the pattern.


PIYESANATOR

As the name implies, he breaks down into several parts which can also attach onto Hakotar as different accessories. Its alt form is a weird looking bird, if you ask me. I already made some designs back then, but the worst is I totally forgot how I came up with these old patterns. Another thing why I decided to make these patterns is that I don’t have anymore ideas for new characters. I also remade some of my older works and gave them some new gimmicks, which most of them are my old X-Overs. Now, below are the patterns for Piyesanator.



Conclusion

Foldabots Remix has a lot of fresh, unique, and new characters which are all made by yours truly. I basically improved the concept of Kanan and Kaliwa by making Dobletron, re-imagined the way Sandigan and Hakotar use their gimmicks, revamped Exceldrone, and added a new character called Barkotron. And of course, I’ll be doing a fresh new script which will be new project from then on.

Well, I’ll be seeing you on the next blog which I could show you some of my old and new Foldabots X-Overs. And of course, I’ll still be covering some of my other  Likastron real soon.

Bonus!

This is just one of the another mischievous artworks of mine done on the computer. Lacks extra details though, so if you tried adding some more details on this and the other one, this picture is free to use, and don't forget to give credits to Erwin Imagin Fourze (That's me).
Here's the same picture but with the colors altered. Note I copied this color scheme from another picture to resemble her.

Free to edit this picture, but give credit to the creator Erwin Imagin Fourze.
Here's the person...
You know who she is right? She's the girl I based Cynthia Tetico off. Edited for some copyright purposes.

Anyway, what am I doing? See you then...

Monday, April 21, 2014

John Dave Salazar's RAKISTATRON

Today, I'll be doing a special blog dedicated to the person who made this Lutabot team--none other than John Dave Salazar, and this is RAKISTATRON.

The main idea of this combiner is that they're made of musical instruments (well, not all) and the concept of it is they're a rock band on its own. Anyway, I'll be showing first the artworks of the Rakistabots and Rakistatron before the patterns, since I don't have much idea about them and I don't want to build them right now.

John Dave's illustrations were drawn on a ruled notebook due to the lines and colored them on Photoshop. I will be describing the output toys of each since I don't have the pictures of them in their finished products. Next up are the four patterns for the Rakistabots.

LAGPAK is a Drum Set and has the most unique design because it requires a toothpick to act as the cymbal's shaft and he has treads for his feet. Furthermore, Lagpak forms the torso of Rakistatron which the combiner's head is not in this pattern.
YANIG is a Electric Distortion Guitar and has a very simple pattern like you see here. His fret board or neck makes up his left arm and Yanig himself makes up the right leg of Rakistatron.
FORTE is a Synthesizer Keyboard. His pattern is a little complex due to the fact he has additional parts just like Malvin Roix Orense's Trosobots which I'll cover in Christmas. His gimmick is very similar to Wa-Sakk since he has side sleeves and the pattern also include Rakistatron's head which comes in three parts. Forte forms as the two arms of Rakistatron.
SIGAW is a set of a Tower Speaker and two microphone stands. Take note that I also renamed one of James Edward Salazar's Giyerabots, Sigaw due to the fact the original name was EXPLOSIYON and it's not a valid Filipino word. Rakistabot Sigaw requires curling the two mic stands to make the arms, in other words, she's a 'parts-former'. Rakistabot Sigaw forms the left leg of Rakistatron and in addition, her mic stands form the shaft of the combiner weapon along with Yanig's fret neck.
RAKISTATRON in his combined mode, requires a lot of analyzing before you get to build him. First, Lagpak's cymbal sits on top of Rakistatron's staff which you would need to make a slot for the toothpick to go in. The overall design of this guy is very unique since it is the very first fan-made combiner based on musical instruments. John Dave also made another one named Artiga which he's not a part of Rakistatron and an acoustic guitar. I don't have his pattern though.

There's also another reason why I posted this too soon, is because I wanted to post every single blog on my Word Document which I typed all of the blogs back at the time when I don't have time to go online, and this blog is supposed to be for Labor Day. And of course, don't forget there will be more blogs in the coming days including more of my works, in June, Likastron will be complete at that time.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

April Fool's Blog: SALAMANGKRUS’ Artwork and IPISTROOPER



On this blog, I’ll be showing you some of the stuff I haven’t featured in the previous blogs. Here are the illustrations for Salamangkrus in Lutabot and chimera modes. Technically, I’ve been offline for quite a while again and here I am in Singapore doing my first blog of this year’s vacation.
SALAMANGKRUS - His role is a Lutabot wizard that casts chaotic spells far beyond imagination. He changes into a chimera with five heads: lion, goat, dragon, eagle, and snake. They say he is somehow more powerful than Lu-Sho.

Intelligence:5; Endurance:3; Strength:3; Special Skill:4; Speed:5
 Another trivia, Salamangkrus is based from the Filipino words ‘Salamangka’ or ‘Salamangkero’ which you’ll get the idea why this Lutabot has a wizard’s hat, and ‘krus’ or cross. The chimera is the reason for the ‘krus’ in Salamangkrus, because I used five heads to represent the elements of air, earth, water, fire, and void.

Now, I got the inspiration of this from Masked Rider Beast with his phantom, a chimera made up of a lion with heads of falcon, chameleon, dolphin, and buffalo. Beast uses Wizard Rings like Wizard does, but only his are different and can be used with his Beast Driver. He also powers up by equipping on of the four heads I mentioned to his right shoulder to become a little cape to give him different abilities. In addition, Beast also has a ‘Hyper’ form where he uses the lion.

Have I got myself off the topic? Yes? Well then, let’s move on with Ipistrooper.

Here below are Ipistrooper’s artwork and pattern. But sadly, I forgot to take a picture of it yet, I might put it up on my Facebook page real soon, thankfully, I did and it's there.

This is the original color of my work.

This is the BLACK VERSION of IPISTROOPER. It's just the same pattern but with the colors altered.

Ipistrooper like I said is a Lutabot made for mass production, End of story. A lot of Folda-Fans around are kids and I’m sure they’re afraid of roaches, and of course, none of them had came up with this idea of using cockroaches as Lutabots, I hope if Jomike likes this idea and makes thie official, hope a lot of fans will change the way they think of these pests forever... especially COCKROACHES.

Well, I got a lot in store in the next blogs, including BUSNAKE and CABDRONES, X-OVERS, and probably some others which will be a part of my upcoming story which takes place in early 2055, entitled Foldabots Remix. SEE YOU NEXT TIME!