If you’re a fan of the post-Bionicle LEGO character scene, you might have noticed a spike in monochrome silver creations that look like liquid metal exiles from a Cyberspace graveyard vibing to Nine Inch Nails as they hack the planet.

They’re rad. I poked the building beast who started the trend, Djokson, to find out more about this collab called “Silverpuke.”

Originally, this started with a few of my builds: Psychopomp Alloy, Sinew and Silver Fog. In an attempt to revisit the aesthetic of metallic Y2K renders (metalheart stuff in particular) I used the often maligned palette of silver pieces from Bionicle to achieve that feeling.

The term silverpuke itself used to be a derogatory phrase thrown around on certain fan forums to refer to builds utilizing an overabundance of such parts. The aim with the collab title was to reclaim it. For the longest time, Bionicle builders bemoaned the excessive usage of silver blade pieces in sets, and many called them unusable outside of weapons. So it also serves as a fun challenge when building.

From there, some of my friends were inspired to make their own, and it sorta snowballed into a recurring collab. The builds tend to come together very quickly when inspiration strikes.

A selection of models from of the growing collab follows:

Psychopomp Alloy by Djokson

Butcherotto by Djokson

Chrome Chimera by Toni A

Septer Auger Argent by alex_mocs

Cetacean Chrome by The Underscored Double

WLFGRL2.0 by Ryan Z

zzzz by The Maestro

vis by terrorthebuilder

Puppy by Cement Addiction

Strigoi by Ivan Martynov

Parasitoid by stereodd

HYDROXYCUT by Katsuki

Concrete Urchin by az leviathan

You can find more MOCs from the Silverpuke collab here.