LEGO will soon be venturing into the Marvel Spider-verse for the next line of Collectible Minifigs, but you don’t need to wait until August to find weird and wonderful fig creations of the arachnid (and arachnid adjacent) variety. Today on Minifig Monday we’re catching a bevy of bug and spider flavored figs and mini builds in our web!
Kicking off this week’s lineup is The Seamstress by Brennan (brickbot_studio). Animation fans might recognize this wicked weaver from the film the post-apoc “stitch-punk” film 9. Brennan has made some incredible mini character builds but this might be my favorite thing he’s ever shared. Excellent use of the Samukai minifig head from Ninjago.
Keeping to the spinstress theme, we have the Song Weaver by Aris (bricks.for_bricks). This arachnid character brings an aristocratic air to the spider theme, with One Ring bangles and an impressive headress mixing cloth, plastic feathers, and rubber bands.
Eight limbs? Ha! This Friendly centipede from Dicken Liu has arms to spare! Who would have guessed that minidoll toros make such grotesquely perfect bug segments? I haven’t been able to unsee this amazing creation since Dicken shared it a few months back, and if it’s new to you, you’re welcome.
Digging further back in the vault, we have a pair of builds from Jack McKeen‘s faction of elves-turned-arachnids. First is The Keeper of the Bound who toys with the food she keeps bound in Spider-man webbing, rubber bands and bones.
Next is the Thread Stalker, who hunts her play with a smile. Scary!
Calling this fellow arachnid-inspired is a stretch, but Django, The Double Arrow by Ramon (bigbuildnerd), also has two many limbs and a knack for archery. Four arms, two legs, can’t loose.
Necrus of the Obsidian Expanse by Fool’s Figures packs two arms and four arms, but it’s hard to keep count with the elaborate Hela headpiece and double-pronged sword. This brings us into the cyber-infused portion of the round-up.
Here we see Kaito “the Scorpion” Ishikawa, a cybernetically modified Ronin from Bambus Brick Customs. Bambus has a knack for finding just the right tiny elements to add ornate cybernetic detail at minifig scale.
Evoking Tron, in skitter Raijin, the Cybernetic Arcstrider, and Stingerbyte, his scorpion-class combat droid. Builder Amorphous Bricks makes us of an impressive assortment of translucent blue accessories to bring the pair to life.
Sticking to the scorpion tail theme, Sword Bricks presents Zar’Vok the Pale, a demonic being from the Umbral Fold, where time trembles and form is not fixed. The builder makes excellent use of one of the GOAT minifig headpieces – the antelope mask from Black Panther.
Meanwhile, legonerdphotos shares this fly guy. He’s just a fly, you know? Doin’ some painting. Now buzz off.
Towering over most of our minifig creations is this Ice Stygian Stalwart from Builds and Guilds. The creator won the third round of our Dungeon Crossing contest with incredible skeletal creatures.
Finally, I don’t know if this build counts as arachnid, but there are far too many limbs and I would definitely jump on a chair and squeal if this guy showed up in my room. Argoth, Sovereign Of Thorns, Chancelor of Misery is an occult masterpiece from Zakar.ion. It’s nice to see Baron Harkonnen’s insane robes finding work!
That’s it for this week’s round-up. Be kind to spiders. They have powerful friends.