Description
Half Mechanical Style
To adhere to the concept of mechanical creation, this octopus was designed to exhibit a half-natural, half-mechanized appearance, creating a unique and futuristic visual effect. The mechanized side goes beyond simple gears, rods, and axles, but features a simple representation of advanced mechanical components such as an energy engine on its head, a transmission system within its brain, and various electronic elements throughout its body. With intricate details and an overall design, one can almost feel the faint hum of machinery, and the joints of its tentacles begin to tremble slightly…
Overall Appearance
On the base with turbulent water waves, the octopus takes center stage, its presence awe-inspiring. Its head, a massive red transparent sac, gazes with wide, almost angered yellow eyes. Next to its eyeball, the siphon of the octopus stands out, forcefully expanding. Whether its red biological tentacles or the nimble mechanical ones, reach out in various directions into the air, each one asserting its power and dominance. One of the tentacles tightly captures a flying UFO, unable to escape the octopus’s grasp.
Graceful Tentacles
This octopus has a total of eight tentacles, four in its natural form and four mechanized. On the mechanical side, the tentacles are overall in a deep gray, with a bright green duct running along the sides. Adopting a multi-segment design allows each part to rotate freely.
On the natural side, you can better feel the tentacles’ robustness and strength. A small tentacle is hidden behind its brain, but the other three will quickly occupy your field of view, as if dancing in the air due to the rotating feature. The arrangement of red and beige colors distinguishes the inner and outer of tentacles, on the inner side, suckers tightly align and open naturally.
Glowing Brain
Inside the mechanical side of the octopus’s brain, the cerebral structure is exposed. The brainstem, tentacle nerves, and ocular nerves are revealed and appear more realistic with the help of detailed stickers. As the switch is turned, a soft azure glow emanates from the energy engine and cascades through the various brain structures, illuminating the inner workings with a mesmerizing radiance.
On the other side, through the transparent shell, glimpses of the internal structure can be seen. When the internal lights turn on, the glow travels along the conduits, you’ll see a distinct glowing line in a captivating way.
Futuristic UFO
The flying UFO, fixed at the edge of the base, is circular with a white body. Along the edges, fluorescent green ducts wind around it, adding a futuristic touch. At the center, there’s a deep blue cockpit, through its transparent cover, you can catch a tantalizing glimpse of the spacecraft’s inner workings and its simple yet efficient layout.
Inspirational Ideas
In the distant future, Earth faces an invasion from extraterrestrial beings, and humanity develops half-mechanical organisms to fight back. Amidst the turbulent waters of the sea, the half-mechanical octopus engages in a fierce battle against the UFO. It ended with the UFO being caught by tentacles, which attributes to the octopus’s biological intelligence and enhanced attack capabilities through mechanization.
Transparent Crystal Case
The mechanical design inside the octopus can be seen more clearly through the transparent crystal shell.
Vortex Quantum Brain Design
With a clever combination of space elements and octopuses, the Vortex quantum brain can help mechanical octopuses explore the mysteries of space.
Neon Light Design
Flip the switch and the neon lights light up. Making this semi-mechanical octopus building block even cooler in the dark.
Sensor Design
This simulated sensor makes the space octopus mechanical building block toys even more technological.
The Creative Home&Office Decorations
Sven Witt (verified owner) –
The chameleon was quickly joined in my mechanical collection by the octopus, which captivated me right from the start with its very special setting. Where else can you see a semi-mechanical, glowing octopus investigating a crashed UFO (sorry – UAP)? As with the chameleon, there are some fancy metallic parts and even two different colored light stones that can be activated as usual and then continue to glow until they are deactivated. The octopus makes quite an impression, even if it is not as eye-catching as the chameleon. In terms of stability, there are some weaknesses, especially on the tentacles. Contrary to what was initially assumed, these cannot really be moved and adjusted to any great extent, so real action is unfortunately not possible. But that’s not the aim of this set. It is a pure display set which not only looks stylish, but also has a unique look and setting in this form. This special theme world inspires me again and again and I look forward to many more half-Mecha’s 🙂
A little tip: Pay close attention to the lengths of the transparent neon green hoses. I meticulously and accurately cut them to exactly the size that was in the instructions, without paying attention to the fact that there are lengths of 8 and 9. In the end, one hose rarely fitted the outline of the UFO. So sort them out beforehand.