From Izzo we’ve had a Ninja Mecha. I’ve made a Robot Ninja and Lukas W.P. built a Space Ninja.
Well, Linus Bohman has taken ninja mashup LEGO to a new, cranium-exploding level with … Steampunk Ninja!!! Woo hoo! Behold the awesomeness:
Here’s a closeup of the ninja, with his steam-power enhanced bow:
The ninja’s soon-to-be-dead target (dirty foreign [...]
I sure hope we never see the end of ninja LEGO creations. Here’s Nelson Yrizarry’s “Ninja Training Camp.” Natually, it’s totally sweet, with a secret entrance, lookout holes, and everything else a ninja clan needs to get ready for their next mission.
Be sure to check out all the pictures in the Brickshelf gallery, which includes [...]
Those of you looking for a LEGO Katie Holmes might be disappointed, but Brickshelf user Jimmy Lai has posted a cool minifig version of Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai:
And check out Jimmy’s awesome movie poster:
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Space ninjas are both awesome and totally sweet (after all, they’re the second-most powerful entity in the universe). Here’s Linus Bohman’s awesome and totally sweet space ninja dojo:
In addition to a cool “Asian space” aesthetic for the architecture, Bohman has included some really cool minifigs.
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Well, I promised more mecha, so here’s a totally sweet ninja power suit from DB and PPB regular Izzo:
And just for fun, Harry Potter’s Quidditch power suit!
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If you’re ever confused about the choices you should make in your life, you can just ask yourself, “What would a ninja do?”
A friend of mine was recently given a “What would a ninja do?” spinny folder at work (buy your own). We began consulting the folder for all of our business decisions. Unfortunately, this [...]
If a pirate and a ninja fought, who would win?
To find out, click the photo below and check out the full photoset on Flickr:
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Name: Katou Danzou (加藤段藏 かとうだんぞう)Dates: 1503-1569Biography: Nicknamed “Flying Katou” (「飛び加藤」), this legendary ninja is shrouded in mystery. One legend says that he swallowed a bull in front of a crowd of people.Further reading: Wikipedia (Japanese only).
For those of you just joining us (welcome, BoingBoingers!), my other blog, Pan-Pacific Bricks, features cool LEGO creations from the many LEGO builders in Japan, along with a few of my own Japanese-themed creations. (I was born and raised in Japan.)
NOTE (2/25/06): Although I’m in the process of migrating my images to Flickr, there are [...]
Name: Hattori Hanzou (服部半蔵 はっとりはんぞう)Dates: 1541-1596Biography: Member of the famous Iga Ninja clan, little is known about this mysterious man.Further reading: Wikipedia (English), Wikipedia (日本語), Real Ultimate Power, Ninja Village
Joe discovers that there are grave consequences for foreigners who fail to remove their shoes upon entering a Japanese home.
(The image is a link to the gallery, when public. “Gaijin” means “foreigner” in Japanese.)
Japanese LEGO blogger Sumi-Handy posts his own LEGO creations, along with those of his kids. He recently posted a kago (which means “box”), an enclosed sedan chair in which important people were carried around during the Edo period (1603-1867):
The sedan chair is by Sumi-Handy’s son, but what struck me about this creation is the fantastic [...]
Thanks to my graphic designer friend Sky, Pan-Pacific Bricks now has a cool new header graphic.
For a blog about breaking down barriers between LEGO cultures across the Pacific Ocean, I thought a minifig from each of the uniquely American and Japanese themes would be appropriate. Thus the cowboy and the samurai, from the Wild West [...]
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