My immediate idea was to do a Gundam fighter based on the stone statues of Easter Island, the Moa. I suppose it was a subliminal idea since Bandai subsidiary Emotion's logo is a Moa and they always splash their logo before Sunrise videos.

As you can see, it would be a transforming MS, from the Mobile head mode to Mobile suit. Although they are rarely seen on the surviving Moa, they all originally had eyes made from white stone or sea shell. I thought it would be cool to have the eyes be beam weapons and have them end up on the shoulders of the MS in Suit mode. It was pointed out to me that in Hobby Japan's G-gundam contest, there was a transforming Moa entry, so I quit work on my design.

I like the design, transforming mecha are always fun to design. Still I knew it wasn't creative enough for me. The Moa Gundam was just getting me warmed up for the next ideas.