Here’s another great koinobori, from Legokou:
Monthly Archives: May 2006
SwordKirby64’s Space Minifigs
New Brickshelf user SwordKirby64 has posted some cool spaceish minifigs with several interesting weapon designs:
Lord Sinister’s Half Track by Mark Stafford
In addition to his creations inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, Mark Stafford’s Adventurers folder includes several cool vehicles. Here’s a new one, a half-track for Sam “Lord” Sinister:
Be sure to check out his other vehicles:
Children’s Day Koinobori by Inago100
May 5th is Children’s Day in Japan. Although called “Children’s Day” today, this day was in the past Boy’s Day, so many Boy’s Day traditions continue to be celebrated on May 5th. One such tradition is to fly multi-colored carp streamers, or koinobori — one for each male child in the household.
Japanese blogger inago100 has posted a nice koinobori:
Alan Saunders’ Family Tree
Alan Saunders (aka Kaptain Kobold) presents a portrait of our relatives and ancestors:
That’s good old Chuck in the hat, a Neanderthal with the spear, Lucy, and a monkey.
Ninja + Mecha = Sweet!
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!
Merkal’s Aladdin Minifigs
Merkal Kahil has recreated several characters from the Disney movie Aladdin. Here’s my favorite, Jafar with Iago:
Nahoa
Name: Nahoa
Mission: Covering the surface of the earth in flaming rivers of lava.
Origin: Magma demon from the dawn of time.
Evil superpowers: Controlling tectonic activity. Yeah, that pretty much covers it.
Odji
Name: Odji
Mission: Spreading plague and sowing discord.
Origin: Corrupted, reanimated mummy of Egyptian pharaoh Nephrotep III.
Evil superpowers: Summoning bubonic plague, anthrax, sleeping sickness, dysentery, cholera, etc.
Shapeless in the Dark Again
Jojo’s Torii
Well, I never expected to be posting something by Classic-Castler Jojo here on PPB, but he’s just posted an exquisite torii in his “Things” gallery:
Jojo’s wonderful torii appears to be the famous “Floating Torii” at Itsukushima Shrine in Hiroshima prefecture:
Torii are found in or around Shinto shrines and other sacred places, most often serving as a gateway. (Although torii have been co-opted in western landscaping and architecture, torii are not generic gates, nor are they generically “Asian.” They have a specific religious significance and are distinctly Japanese, though similar structures do appear in other cultures. Using a torii as a gate in your “Asian-inspired” backyard rock garden would be like putting a Christian baptismal font in your TV room.)
Horace Cheng’s Patlabor Mecha
Horace Cheng recently sent me an e-mail to tell me he’d built an Exo-Force alternate model called “Van Force” based on some information I’d posted over on Pan-Pacific Bricks. I checked out Horace’s Photobucket and was struck by another mecha he’d built, based on the Japanese animated series Patlabor:
Pretty cool stuff. Horace says he mostly used pieces from two 7712 Supernova sets. Be sure to check out Horace’s Photobucket if you’re interested in seeing good pictures of Van Force as well.
(Hmmm… Second mecha-themed post of the day. So, does this mean I’ll be posting more mecha now? We’ll see. They are pretty cool…)