Unitron MOC designs

Hold up, I thought I posted this one years ago.  Quickly leaving in a sense of the era... (Early to late 2020) I spent Summer and Fall not doing much of anything, so these MOCs are from right around the time I got home internet... aka... before I dropped everything and went doomscrolling for most of 6 months.  I Didn't build anything in the interim; It's been a trying time for a lot of us, and I've been a janitor through it all, soo... y'know... I've developed cramps in my hands from wiping off surfaces with a bottle and rag.  But you're here to read about my photos and ideas and I can still type!  (In the modern day... but he forgot to post)

I started 2020 off with a bang by collecting a lot of Lego sets, and among those Lego sets I picked up three Unitron sets.  Which I have not reviewed here yet, I am missing 6991, and due to its price being astronomical, I probably will not go after that one. 

I had a cockpit idea for the Space panel walls bricklink2466 that can double as windows.  I thought I'd have a cockpit split side to side to get at the minifigure from the top.  It's a rather rudimentary assembly employing the chunky 2x4x2 multistud/tube bricks Brick Modified 2x4x2 with holes on sides and Brick, Modified 2 x 4 x 2 with Studs on Sides that had shown up around the early 90's timeframe.

I chose Unitron colors for it so I could enjoy my newly added Unitron minifigures.

The parts I used to assemble my cool cockpit setup are as follows.

1 Bricklink 2434 in back with 2 hinges on the windows, 1 BL 6061 in front with 2 hinges on the windows, and 4 BL 2429c01 as the chosen hinges in case you want to try and replicate it.  

So this is what it looked like when opened... pretty nice, pretty good, there was a fair bit of room in there, so I took all of it.

Behold... hidden dual laser blasters on a raising and lowering platform.

I took inspiration from such fines models as 6671 Utility Repair Lift and etc.  My cousin had this when I was a kid and I was soo jealous that he had it, and that he had enough hinges to make the lift... I eventually got enough to do it in Highschool... and shortly after I got a suitable supply the company changed to click hinges, and my ambitions for rising platforms became a relic of KFOL history.  Until now...!  (well, then... 2020 so to speak.)

Finally, I pulled apart all of the Classic Space sets I'de been collecting since 2010 and borrowed elements from 6985 Cosmic Fleet Voyager... particularly the blue Space canopy, the grey console brick/robot body, and the V stripe Nose piece with lots of studs wrapping around it... as I look at this MOC, I realize it's crawling with Cosmic Fleet Voyager pieces... I hadn't disassembled it since I got it in 2015...14, gosh it's been a while... (and even more so) I guess I wanted to make disassembling it worth my while.

Anyways, there's a simple scooter that falls out of the back.  

and yes, that small ship I've been ignoring is a Classic Space recolor of 1557 Scooter... also using blue camera bricks from... Cosmic Fleet Voyager, although I might have gotten them off the other 2 Classic Space sets that have them... it's all the same pile, so who knows?

The Truck has quite a wide footprint given the 8 wide body and 4x2 wide wheels.  It's way too wide, but I love the cockpit and hidden weapons platform I cooked up, so I might try this method again for something else.

Before I go I will also share some more Unitron Moc designs I built in the time spanning 2020 to now.

This pair of trucks were... hmm, well, let's focus on the big one.  THe large truck was designed to merge the Space Police II stacked canopy design with a very ostentatious assembly of drum wheels as one might see done small on the Robo Guardian from Spyrius.  I have to tell you, they're not engineered to easily touch each other.  But scroll to the bottom and I'll have the cross section opened up for you to see what you need to do.

I was struggling to give the back a useful design and ended up creating a trailer that could be a kind of Space work truck in its own right.

The claw truck has a removeable hover chair for the Unitron Commander.  I really like the Futuron trick of small vehicles in big vehicles... I realize that wasn't Unitron's theme scheme... but I didn't follow the theme scheme with this MOC.

I built this small truck just because I'd acquired my very own small blue tipper bucket and wanted to make it be useful.  

As promised, here's the hidden placement for the drum wheel pin assembly so you can redo it without a lot of trial and error.

But wait, there's more. Before you go, please enjoy a Unitron recolor for Blacktron: Future Generation 6981 Aerial Intruder.

These were designed to fit within the Unitron Theme scheme... all removeable cockpits on all Unitron sets were able to ride on the monorail.  

That's all I have for today, I hope you enjoyed seeing these MOCs and I especially hope I could inspire you with your own collection of pieces.

Before I go, I just wanted to note that the Futuron of My Youth Facebook page will be deactivating February 1st, I had switched to sharing my designs on the Facebook groups I frequent alongside other great Legoland Space enthusiasts, As I'm leaving the platform, I have rescued my photos from that site and plan to upload them over here.  This post was a mere opportunistic grab to finish up a post I'd left unfinished so I could add in and upload some additional designs I had posted elsewhere.

Sincerely, The Cure-all Pill