User blog:Eeneend/13: The Perfect Blaster!

Hey, I recently designed my own blaster, for I had made two Bionicle series of six canister sized sets, and I wanted them to have uniform blasters. I tought, what makes the perfect Bionicle-Blaster? I made a short list of things a blaster can be critized on from important to less important:


 * It has to look good.
 * It has to be easy to fire.
 * The projectile might not fall out too easy.
 * It has to be easy to use in consructions and models.
 * The projectiles have to be easy to find after they are lauched.
 * It might not be too heavy.
 * It has to fire far enough.
 * It must be easy to reload.

Now we know this, lets take an official blaster to the test. For example the Midak Skyblaster:


 * It looks pretty good, and has a nice black and silver colorscheme that doesnt disturb the sets' colorscheme.
 * Its easy to fire from the front of the blaster, which is good.
 * The projectile never falls out.
 * Its sometimes hard to build into a constrution, for its round, and long, at the other side, its usefull that it has and handle both on the upside and the downside.
 * Projectiles are hard to find back for they are round and easily roll away.
 * Its kinda heavy, which sometimes makes the arm which holds it fall down.
 * It doesn't fire really far, only a few feet.
 * It reloads atomatically, but if the blaster is empty, its sometimes hard to reload it again.

This way, you can critisize almost every blaster.