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Here’s a little political cartoon I created a couple weeks ago.
“The president responds to one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history…by staying on vacation for a couple more days.”
In the last week, this has started circulating:
The similarity is striking, no?
I just uploaded twenty more literary minifigs. Here’s a sampling:
John Thornton and Buck from Jack London’s The Call of the Wild:
Mr. Hyde from Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
And links to the rest:
1984, Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World — anybody see a pattern in my favorite books? Heh heh…
I’ve been focusing on vignettes for a while, but this weekend I thought I’d try building a bunch of new minifigs.
Here’s the crew of the Pequod from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick:
(A note on Captain Ahab: This minifig is an essentially unmodified Hovercraft Pilot from 7045 Hovercraft Hideout. The head even has a scar that spans his face, just as Melville describes. I almost think the designer at LEGO had Captain Ahab in mind when developing this minifig.)
Here’s the title character from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe:
And links to several more:
More to come soon.
Brickshelf user Michael Jasper is a master of using minifig-hands in unusual ways. I’m not quite sure what he updated in his sundries folder, but these jumped out at me today:
I especially like his beach scene (note the bikini top):
I’ve just added a bunch of LEGO blogs to my “Blocklogroll.” (I still don’t know if I like “blocklog,” since most people call ‘em bricks — myself included, but I suppose I’m committed at this point. Oh well…)
I’d just like to highlight klasbricks. Go ahead, click the link.
You back? A DUPLO blog? DUPLO?! Yes, that’s right.
