The Brothers Brick

Name: Miyamoto Musashi (宮本武蔵 みやもとむさし)Dates: ca. 1584-1645Biography: Musashi was a famous swordsman of the Edo period. He is said to have won sixty duels, the first at age 13. According to legend, he arrived late at his last battle, with another famous swordsman named Sasaki Kojiro. Kojiro was so angry that he threw away his [...]

Name: Timmy Kennedy Classified.Occupation: Special Agent.Interests: Fragging exobiotic lifeforms, escorting non-Terran diplomats, monitoring the activities of super-intelligent molds and fungi, protecting the earth from Gthulinian invasion, providing security for Moonbase 4. Classified.

Name: Minamoto no Yorimitsu (源頼光 みなもとのよりみつ)Dates: 944-1021Biography: Yorimitsu was a legendary warrior from the Heian period of Japanese history. Although famous for many real-life exploits, he appears in several legends, including one in which he defeats the ogre (oni) Shuten Doji, disguised as an ascetic Buddhist monk, or yamabushi.Further reading: Wikipedia (English), Wikipedia (日本語).

Working for a demolition company, Joe Vig takes his lunch break in the wrong place at the wrong time. Look out, Joe!

As if taming a lizard weren’t enough, Sugegasa goes a step further and tames a Dino Attack raptor:

Can’t wait to see a tamed T-Rex!

Name: Timmy KennedyOcccupation: Third-grader.Interests: Candy and cowboys and ninjas and Legos and Star Wars and pizza pockets and Bionicle and Coca-Cola and Grand Theft Auto and peanut butter and Yu-Gi-Oh and…

Once you let it slip that you build stuff with “Legos,” the floodgates open for “Oh, oh, can you make a minifig of me?” So I finally broke down and did so. The resulting minifigs were all pretty boring, so I made alternate versions that give each person a little more personality.
First up, Joe, who’s [...]

This is just too funny to pass up. A couple weeks before Girl’s Day (Hina-Matsuri) on March 3, families with young girls display a multi-tiered stand of dolls (picture). You can see a minifig-scale version in Nelson Yrizarry’s recent vignette in this picture.
Izzo has turned this idea on its head with his Star Wars Hinamatsuri:

Note [...]

To welcome the figure-skating fans referred here to see my Michelle Kwan vignette, here’s Johnny Weir:

Johnny is wearing his unique swan outfit, and he apparently named the red glove on his right hand “Camille” (presumably after Camille Saint-Saens, who composed “The Swan”).
Too bad Johnny didn’t even medal…

MisterZumbi brings us a couple more interesting characters.
The Predator:
And the invisible man (visible on the left, invisible on the right):

These aren’t brand new, but Mike Psiaki recently updated his P-38 Lightning, so that gives me an excuse to post these — two of my favorite World War II fighter planes in LEGO form.
The Lockheed P-38 Lighting:
The Vought F4U Corsair:
(Click each image for the full gallery.)
And just for fun, check out Brenden Wilson’s Corsair Light [...]

A good friend asked me to make a minifigure of Michelle Kwan, who recently withdrew from the 2006 Olympics. Unsatisfied with the minifig on its own, I hauled out my white bricks and whipped together this vignette — my first non-minifig creation in several months:

Those are supposed to be my friend and her husband in [...]

Brickshelf user nias, whose wheelchair and Ferrari Knight I featured previously, recently posted another minifig-scale vehicle — the Giant Revive bicycle:

Click the image to see the full gallery, along with a picture of a real-life Giant Revive bike.

I’ve been waiting for Moko to post this on Brickshelf, but it’s too cool to wait any more:

Nice use of the new Viking horns, helmet, and axe heads, as well as the Harry Potter Deatheater face and black wings.

Bruce just posted a Valentine’s Day vignette by mumu, so why am I posting about it here on Pan-Pacific Bricks? Isn’t Valentine’s Day common to both the U.S. and Japan? Look closely at the minifigs in this vignette:

In Japan, girls are the ones expected to give chocolate to boys — not the other way around. [...]

Names: Charles and Judy ChenOccupation: Artists.Notes: An eccentric son of a New York real estate developer, Charles met and married Judy while attending Burning Man. At the age of forty, Charles grew a Fu Manchu mustache and began wearing traditional Chinese clothing to “get in touch with my roots.” Of course, Charles doesn’t speak either [...]

Following up on his Hina-Matsuri vignette (previous PPB post), Nelson Yrizarry presents a vignette based on celebrations of Tango no Sekku, or Boy’s Day (now celebrated as “Children’s Day”).

Here’s what Nelson has to say:
Now known as “Children’s Day” in Japan (a National holiday), this is the day when sons are traditionally honored. Most notable are [...]