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.