Monthly Archives: April 2007

I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.

Kelly McKiernan puts the Exo-Force light-up brick to good use as HAL 9000’s evil red eye:

(Via LegOficina dos Baixinhos. What, you don’t peruse LEGO blogs in English, German, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, and Portuguese too? Hey, LEGO is the common language for fans worldwide. :-D )

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Anti-Aircraft Artillery by Jehkay

Beautiful use of dark green, with wonderful details like the mouth and toes, on this bug-like mecha from Jehkay:

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News: Harry Potter 5378 Hogwarts Castle Photos

Millionaire Playboy has wonderfully detailed pictures of the new 5378 Hogwarts Castle set. Head on over there for the video podcast, but here are the highlights for me — the minifigs!

Dolores Umbridge and Hermione Granger both sport new hair:

The weirdest, coolest LEGO head ever on a mystery character (another Deatheater?), and a new Draco Malfoy:

And my favorite, Hermione holding a mandrake root:

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Nnenn’s Evolved X-wing

The X-wing Evolution contest over at FBTB Forums is yielding some interesing takes on what a hypothetical future version of the X-wing would be, not least of which is Nnenn’s entry:

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I have been trained in your Jedi arts...

Erik Cruz improves on the official General Grievous minifig with longer limbs and a bigger (custom) cape by MMCB:

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SnoOps

And be sure to check out Zook360’s Stikfas — not LEGO, but still pretty cool if you like good customization.

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Kratos, God of War

Okay, last one of my own, I promise. ;-) Here’s Kratos from the PS2 game God of war:

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Real men (and T-800s) wear black!

Decent weather afforded me the opportunity to photograph lots of the minifigs that have been waiting in piles around our living room. I’m too impatient to dole them out slowly, so I uploaded them all at once, which obligates me to blog ’em all, I suppose. ;-) Anyway…

Here are Agent J and Agent K from Men in Black:

T-800 Model 101 (as played by the Governor of California) from The Terminator (with weapons by BrickArms):

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Violent delights have violent ends...

surfininsf presents the cast of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet:

(I can see your belly button, Juliet!)

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Heavy Metal Minifigs

I love building musical minifigs, but my taste in music generally runs to indie and alternative rock, and those bands pretty much all look alike in minifig form (white guys in T-shirts and blue jeans). Thankfully, I was chatting with Nelson Yrizarry and he suggested using Voldemort’s face for Alice Cooper. Hurray! :twisted:

How could I build a heavy metal rocker like Alice Cooper without building the quintessential artist of the genre? I couldn’t, so here’s Ozzy Osbourne (with an animal friend):

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Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water

I built these elemental mages for BrickFest but I’m just getting around to posting them.

From left to right:
Wind mage Vilhelmina
Fire mage Shihab
Earth mage Dumisa
Water mage Glimbert

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Every army needs a cyborg shark!

Danny Rice puts Viktor Krum’s shark head to good use:

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