I’ve always liked MOCs that made use of the cannisters, and thought it was a shame whenever The LEGO Group neglected to include building points on the packaging. The Piraka canisters did not have attachment points, instead they came with a light up demo, showing off their glowing eyes through a unique snap-in faceplate on the lid. This faceplate was never intended to be removed, although you could with some effort. I remember detaching the Thok faceplate from his canister and trying to figure out how to build with it, although never actually implemented it in a creation.

eclipse_caller had a similar idea, except they used the face while it was still attached to the lid! Standing about twice the height and double the width of a skakdi, it doesn’t look as absurd as it might sound in description.

With the tittle of this MOC being “Slave of the Scorned”, I imagine this is not intended to look like an ornate headpiece. Although no story was provided alongside the creation on it’s flickr page, I imagine it is a combination of restraint and punishment. As formidable as the character looks, it may also be a control mechanism, used to prevent him from turning his strength against his captors.

If I were to try improving the design, I would focus on the clawed hands. Although I do like them, I feel like some of the underlying technic components take away from an otherwise perfect design. While the revised head is what caught my attention in the first place, the original cyclops head didn’t look too bad either. I might have tried my hand at building a wide collar around the original head, with chains connecting it to the body. I would also love to know how eclipse_caller attached the canister lid, assuming it’s technically attached at all.

You can see more of eclipse_caller‘s work here on instagram and flickr. Most of their work has a style that I would call “sculpted”, often using many tiny details and pieces fit so well together that they look like they look like they might have been molded out of clay rather than assembled. They’ve also used numerous unusual parts, like cloth elements, entire Toa Nuva cannisters, even the Battle Of Metru Nui mask!