The Mighty Megazord

    The Mighty Megazord 1.0

    Holy crap that is AMAZING! Any chance you'll ever be bored enough to take a swing at Voltron?
    Star-Boy
    Star-Boy
    Probably not. I'm not playing much Starmade these days and this project took a few months back when I was playing Starmade almost every day. If someone else wants to build Voltron I'd be glad to lend a hand with rails/logic but I don't want to build the whole thing myself.
    this is a really amazing work i just see him now and for me is the best use of logic system i have ever seem in starmade !! great impressiv work starboy ^^
    I love it! While I can't say that I'll ever fly around in it, it is show-accurate on the exterior (as much as starmade allows) and rail-shenanigans are a harsh, harsh mistress, so excellent work.
    Star-Boy
    Star-Boy
    Glad you like it. The rails and everything were definitely a challenge on this build. The worst part was I built this during a period when there was a bug which could cause all docked entities on a ship to become locked up permanently so I'd often lose an entire day's work. It was maddening but once it was all finished and I got to see it form the Megazord the payoff was more than worth the grief.
    Great ! More than great ! i wish i had half your talent with rails and logic and a quarter of your tenacity for keeping at it 6 months...
    Star-Boy
    Star-Boy
    Honestly, the rails and logic weren't the hardest part. Getting everything to fit together properly was trickier since docked entities can't clip through each other when they move. The hardest part by far was figuring out how to move the mastodon's head to become the shield. The toy had joints in all the same places as I have rails except the head was just plucked off and then placed in the hand. It took me about a week to find a solution.
    freaking awesome dude... thats a championship winner rail master piece of all times! you can say it louder but not more clear... you have beat the game GJ
    Star-Boy
    Star-Boy
    Thank you. The great reviews I've gotten so far have made the months of work I put into this all worth it. I can't believe I still only have the silver rail badge though. If anyone knows where I go to demand my gold badge let me know.
    I am grinning so hard right now, i cannot wait to play around in it! epic build dude!
    Star-Boy
    Star-Boy
    I'm glad you like it. While morphing into the Megazord is the most amazing thing these ships can do, having the five separate dinozrods fight some pirates as a fleet is also quite fun to watch.
    Bruh, just bruh. The inner child in me is running around losing it when it morphs...
    Star-Boy
    Star-Boy
    When it was finished I did the full morphing sequence like 50 times to make sure it was 100% perfect. It made my inner child smile every time. My inner engineer still can't believe I got this thing to finally work.
    That Thing makes me appriciate the original Megazord i have layinjg around somewhere, thank you.
    Also, Dragonzord next?
    Star-Boy
    Star-Boy
    I actually based this on the toy. I wanted everything to fit together properly so the toy worked better as a model than pics from the show would have. I'm planning on working on some more traditional ships for the next little while but I want to do the Dragonzord eventually. I'll probably lose some sanity trying to figure out how to move the Dragonzord's tail and chest plate to form his spear but it can't be much worse than figuring out the mastadon's head. One thing I will be doing in the near future is rebuilding the entire Megazord onto a single core and posting it as an empty hull. It won't split into five ships or transform but it'll be lighter and have more room for shields and weapons making it a proper match for other ships of roughly the same size.
    Great job, congrats! - I appreciate both the engineering efforts that you put into this project to make it all work properly, and you also seem to be one of those builders who puts in some extra effort to keep things all clean / tidy / neat / orderly / elegant, and that is something I value very highly. I always aim to achieve that in my own projects, because I have some OCD and everything that avoids chaos and messyiness is on the top notch for me. Good job :-)
    Star-Boy
    Star-Boy
    Thank you. Building this required every ounce of my OCD and mild autism. There was a ton of trial and error involved in this and it went through several prototype phases to get everything to move properly and fit together. The hardest part was figuring out how to move the mastodon's head to where it becomes the shield. Once I had everything figured out I redid all the logic to make it as streamlined and glitch resistant as I could manage. I still need to redo the logic room on the mastodon to add button controls instead of toggling WiFi blocks and to hide the timers but I'm going to put that off until the new power system when all the zords will need an update.
    This... This is awesome!
    Star-Boy
    Star-Boy
    Thanks. This is definitely my best build to date in Starmade and I'm really glad people like it.
    Another great mech. Amazing work!
    Star-Boy
    Star-Boy
    Thank you. I was so glad when fleets and pickup rails were added because I almost immediately realized it meant I could build something like this. I was originally going to build Voltron but decided on the Megazord because someone else was already building Voltron. It turns out his doesn't transform or split apart and he only ever got arround to finishing one of the feet.
    You did... you did just win the game.
    Star-Boy
    Star-Boy
    I've never felt as satisfied in Starmade as I did the first time I hit the carrier recall button and watched the Megazord form all by itself.