Chicken Mech

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's neither and it's both - it's a chicken mech!

This MOC was being built for the Mashup Madness challenge. At first I was going to build a robotic dragon, but it wasn't quite coming together, so I decided to make something goofier and more original instead - hence the chicken mech!

A bit of the initial dragon idea lives on in how the legs are structured (mainly the teardrop-shaped thighs), though the design has gone through a major overhaul on the way to the finished model.

Halfway through the building process I thought it'd be cool to include some play features, like a simple transformation or foldable weapons, so I did that as well.

The legs have an extra support beam assembly for additional stability. The support assembly can be easily removed or re-anchored to an alternative attachment point on the leg.

The chicken mech straddles the line between cool and silly with its mechanical and futuristic, but still very much chicken-shaped appearance. Besides making for a fun display piece, it also packs several play features:

The chest of the mech opens up, revealing a minifigure piloting it.

The mech can convert from walk mode to flight mode by spreading its wings, folding legs and flipping around neck and tail.

The mech is armed with flick-fire egg missiles. The 2 launchers can fold into the mech's back or deploy to the sides for battle, in either walk or flight mode.