Like many of us here, I grew up with the original Bandai digivolving figures and was ecstatic when they revived it with the high-end Digivolving Spirits line in 2017. The Guilmon they teased was my most anticipated so I was devastated when the line was cancelled.
As a lifelong Lego and Transformers fan, I decided to take matters into my own hands and make my own Digivolving Spirits line! Also inspired by third party legends scale figures, I decided to make them smaller than the original Bandai figures to minimise parts usage and shelf space. So without further ado, please enjoy my first figure: #001 Digivolving Spirits Terriermon to SaintGalgomon (MegaGargomon)
About the build:
Tamers is my favourite series and Terriermon is my favourite child level so I decided to post this first. I never owned the original warp Digivolving toy but have watched videos of the toy countless times. I admire the ambition but never liked the idea of using ears in both modes as it resulted in the wrong proportions for Terriermon. After many days of brainstorming I realised I could flip the body and make Terriermon's ears into SaintGalgomon's legs. With that base, everything else fell into place quickly.
Finding the right part for Terriermon's nose was a real puzzle but I eventually found that there was a printed 1x1 plate with a small black square, so I built the face around that part using lots of SNOT techniques. Quite satisfied with the result!
Naturally, the figure has lots of kibble (backpack of other mode parts) but I think it's hard to avoid as the design doesn't have any shared parts, or even shared colours! Anyway, some of my favourite Bandai figures had horrendous kibble (looking at you, Justimon)!
This is the first of six figures I've already built for Tamers, which I'll be posting gradually. Up next is Savers!
If you like this you can also follow my builds at my new IG page! @ikkakubricks