LEGO MOC/Remix 70611 Water Strider

Water Strider becomes Water Spider



I really like the new LEGO Ninjago Movie sets and my sons got a couple of set 70611 for Christmas. I thought it was a very fun build watching them put them together with some very nice parts, and especially strong leg joints for a LEGO Mech.



After Christmas I saw the store had the set on clearance for less than $25 which was a great price-per-part deal, so I snagged one. As I was walking around the store I was struck by a thought...Four legs...Water Strider. Eight legs...Water..Spider?



So I snagged two instead.



The result is this beast of a Mech. I used several elements from the instructions and MOCed together the rest in order to create something that was much larger than the original, using most of the parts of both sets in addition to pieces of my own.



Were I to do this again, I'd use strong hip joints. Unfortunately I didn't have any more of the 44224/44225 combination which the set uses in its knees. Using them mounted horizontally would have allowed me to build a larger model with more weight. As it stands right now, its just about at the limit of the hip joints before the legs are in danger of buckling. So I had to stop building. :)

