LEGO Chocobos were a bit of a fad a few years ago, but they were all based on the same design. Carl Merriam takes these key Final Fantasy characters to new LEGO heights, though it’s unclear why the big yellow guy isn’t allowed to roam free.
Via The Living Brick.
It’s always nice to welcome new LEGO fans to Brickshelf or Flickr. So far, Kakurelegositan’s gallery consists 100% of creations inspired by Final Fantasy. Hurray!
Perennial boss and/or summon Bahamut:
Bartz and a chocobo from the cover art for Final Fantasy V:
Kakurelegositan has other cool Final Fantasy creations on Brickshelf, so be sure to check out the full gallery!
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Jonesy (aka Kevin Heckel) is an inspiration to us all! In addition to the first floating rocks, he created the first LEGO chocobo.
Now, with instructions from Kevin, he and Fradel Gonzales are running a Chocobo Roundup for Brickfest 2006 later this week. Here are my favorite chocobos so far…
Mark Sandlin’s Classic Space chocobo:
Duane Hess’ Blacktron chocobo:
Chris Giddens barbeques a poor chocobo:
Chris McGrath’s Ice Planet chocobo:
Adrian Drake’s chocoborg:
Gary McIntire’s tan chocobo (love the rider!):
Danny Rice’s undead chocobo:
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Moko wraps up his cast of playable characters from Final Fantasy VII with Vincent and Yuffie:
Vincent:
Yuffie:
For a creative approach to making Final Fantasy VII characters, I didn’t think Moko could top his banana-coiffed Cloud, but here’s Barret:
And Aeris rounds out Moko’s latest pair of figs:
Moko continues his series of Final Fantasy VII characters with Cid and Tifa (check out Cloud and Sephiroth):
Here’s Cid:
And here’s Tifa:
Moko says he’s been playing Final Fantasy VII recently.
Here are his versions of Cloud (with awesomely spiky banana hair!!!):
And Sephiroth:
Each minifigure you get in a LEGO set usually consists of six components:
Arms, hands, and the torso always ship as one piece, as do the leg and hip parts. LEGO usually also includes headgear of some sort — a hat, helmet, hair, bandanna — something to cover that little bald stud! Finally, no minifig would be complete without accessories — tools, weapons, and so on. The old construction worker from the 1980’s is an excellent example:
But by taking apart the “default” minifig, you can do nearly anything. Here’s one of my recent favorites:
That’s Cloud Strife from the game Final Fantasy VII, as he appears in Kingdom Hearts. To create Cloud, I used Gilderoy Lockhart’s hair, Draco Malfoy’s head, and a purple cape from the Harry Potter line; Han Solo’s legs and Bib Fortuna’s torso from the Star Wars line (with Bib’s arms replaced with yellow arms and brown hands); a custom wing assembly I borrowed from my own flying Fury design; and a Buster Sword I created using three very basic parts.
Here’s the game art I used as the basis for my design:
I was fairly pleased.