Black Night
Arms of Toil
KING OF LEGOS BOOM INTRODUCES US TO HIS CREATIONS (AND THE DRAMA) IN THE BASEMENT Rieknight (RY-nite) used to be the second in command, but, after the first Mega War, the king was somehow destroyed. Then I decided to throw Rieknight in the blue bin. Then I couldn’t find his arm, but I found his head. And I found this cape in the blue bin for some random reason, so I decided to put it on him. I made this sword for him. I call it the Blade of Fire. When he was away, Spider Knight was in command, and he used the Line Blade. And he used Rieknight’s old mech, which he renamed. It was RieBot, but he called it Big Spider. Almost all of my army is based on Lego videos, but I usually get some ideas from the Lego Ideas Book or the Lego Adventure Book. I usually look at the steampunk chapter. There are not enough robots in Lego Ideas. Adventure gives step-by-step instructions. Arms of Toil is from Lego Adventure. It was supposed to be a lifting bot, but then I made it into a lifting mech, but then I turned it into a full on robot. (Boom was all about mechs before robots.) I really wanted to build the Iron Legs, but I couldn’t. Then I upgraded Reiknight’s Freedom Staff with two of these axe blades. This was after another Mega War. Now there’s a corruption that seeks on robots, trying to destroy them to rebuild its body. Here’s a little piece of the infection in a bottle. This is how much it’s built up now. Now that Rieknight came back, he decided to put Spider Knight second in command. He was the supreme leader, but now he’s the king of all of Legoland because he destroyed the two leaders of Kal’s army. But not the mech that one of them had. It’s literally a rip-off of the spider bot! Just a full on rip-off! Like, why rip off me? I’m going to try to make something based on a boss, the God Tamer, from Hollow Knight. I’ll build a robot version of the Tamer—not the beast because the beast would be way too hard. It curls into a ball and spits acid. Six arms, a whole bunch of eyes, and surprisingly two legs. And one giant sword!
Rieknight (RY-nite)
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Art Department Weekly • September 8, 2020
