Tapeke, a Ta-Matoran specializing in fire starting, sits and shares ghost stories by his newly created masterpiece. Galelo is the only matoran still listneing to his nonsense, and even she is more intrigued about he chooses to spin up these stories then anything he is actually saying.

Still, Galelo enjoys the company. It is not often Ga-Matoran can sit by an active fire out on their lily pads. And besides, travelling back to Ga-Koro at this time of night would be dangeruous. It seems more and more matoran disappear every night... What could be casuing such disappearances?

"And BOOM!" Tapeke snacks his rock, "They just reappeared. All of them. And not a scratch! Can you believe that?!"

"You're bonked in the head," responds Galelo unimpressed.

But then again, if matoran did start reappearing just like that, like Tapeke says, than Thank the Great Spirit. It would be a miracle.

This build resuses the large matoran head I initially created for the "Islanders of Mata Nui" build. The inspiriation behind this is taking the moment of a matoran sitting beneath this head by a campfire in that build and expanding on it.

With a much better designed fire, this model takes that single moment and creates it into a much larger single scene. The fire utilizes three BricksStuff flickering fire effect lights plugged into a transparent headlight brick and transparent 1x1 clip to add in additional flames. By refracting those flickers through multiple transparent elements, the light travels much further out, really giving off a powerful glow onto the two matoran and larger head beyond. Even some of the palm leaves catch the flickering fire! The base of the fire is surrounded with a variety of spherical light and dark bluish gray elements, with the most noteable being a variety of smooth minifigure hair. These allow for an intermediate sized stone to appear here, which works much better with the overall build being built to a larger than minifigure scale build.

The palm tree was also a fun experiment. Experiment in the sense that for its leaves it primarily utilizes the large single palm element (Element ID: 3565). with these being a bigger single leave, creating a larger canopy off of a technic frame become essential to capture that spherical plume of leaves at the tops of palm trees. By creating large ferns with sandwiching the single, large leaf blades between the 6x5 plant leaves (Element ID: 2417), I was able to expand out these single leaf blades as just that, blades. The blending of olive and sand green of that element also gave a nice sense of some leaves being healthier than others.

Even though it is a smaller and partially recycled build, this is one of those smaller scenes that really sparks joy for me!