For this one, I went back to my childhood years, when the idea of buying additional bricks in the color or the shape that one needed, simply did not exist, and I had to do with what I had. This meant that I had to improvise, improvise and improvise to get somewhere near to what I wanted to make. That was usually a space ship, or a car or a robot. And boy did I try to make the colors look as if they were planned that way. For example, if the model had symmetry in shape, the colors would have it as well. If that was not possible, the shape would change. Or, if I wanted to make something in blue ( there was only blue at that time, no light blue, dark blue, or medium azure ) and I only had the required bricks in red, then the thing would be red.

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With this troll, I started out the same way, but the Creative Ocean Fun box ( 11018, of which this is an alternate build ) does not have the necessary bricks to keep up my color strategy. Moreover, it just started looking weird, even those parts that had color symmetry. So I decided to go the other way: just make the colors as random as possible, and call it a ‘feature’. This is how the design got its name, and how for example one foot is green and the other yellow, even though there are two green and two yellow slopes in the box.

After feedback from my sister, I had to make one exception. She didn’t recognize an ear. So the essential parts of the face – The ears, the mouth, the eyes and the eyebrows – have color symmetry on purpose.

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My sister and my partner’s feedback on the first version made all the difference to the design. As you can see in the photos, the mouth, the tail with a more shapely butt, the hunchback and the slouch would otherwise not have existed. If it hadn’t been for all that, I would not have digitized the troll. Many thanks, ladies!

Hopefully, you like it.

26 April 2024