Alanyuppie's LEGO Transformers: Video Tutorial: Transformer "The Ark" from LEGO Creator set 31112: Wild Lion

This LEGO creation here by far is the fastest sprint I've ever done. What is a sprint? Well...

A sprint is where I build a LEGO Transformer from scratch and getting them almost completed within a day or two. In many cases involving just one LEGO set , I averaged about 50% completion rate in day one and 80% about a week later. For this project, however.... it's 95% done within a day, reaching a stage I call "there's nothing left to improve". Usually at this point I will take a break from there and return to the project days or weeks later when I usually found something to tweak !

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

As shown in the image below, I tried to replicate the recently released official Transformer toy of The Ark under Kingdom toyline .

In the original G1 Transformers cartoon series, the ark is a shuttle carrying the Autobots , that crash landed on earth millions of years ago, setting up their adventures on earth in episode 1

In various Transformers cartoons and comics , the Ark was depicted as just a space shuttle. The recently released Titan Class Kingdom Ark comes with a robot mode too!

During prototyping, inverted curved slopes were applied on the side of the ship. However.. I found them better suited on the middle front instead.

Instead of 4 big propulsion engines in the official Ark, this one has 8 smaller ones placed strategically at the rear.

The icing on the cake is the tower at the rear of the ship, made possible by the one and only piece of "tooth" from set 31112.

ACTIVATING TRANSFORMATION PROTOCOL

TRANSFORMATION PROTOCOL COMPLETED

The panels on the legs are flexible enough to reposition itself to adapt to the pose. You can even fold them to show fuller legs when viewed from the front.