Tag Archives: Minifigs

Everybody loves LEGO minifigures — well, almost everybody. Minifigs are often the stars of the LEGO models we feature here on The Brothers Brick, but we also feature some amazing custom minifigs you’d never expect to see in an official LEGO set.

Eurobricks Wizard’s Challenge Contest

Eurobricks member The Brickster is running a minifig building contest called Wizard’s Challenge. In addition to the wizard minifig, you can also build the interior of the wizard’s workshop.

There are three categories:

Overall Best Wizard
Most Creative Wizard
Best Wizard’s Workshop

The contest began with the first entry on April 25, and runs for one week, so you have just four more days. There are already some strong entries from a couple EB members, such as Aves Hawthorne by SirNadroj:

And Mapones the Druid by Alex54:

So, four days to go. Get building!

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A deal with the devils of fame

Classic-Castler Maedhros may not listen to the same music I listen to, but the minifig versions of his favorite bands are really rather cool.

The mohawk on this guy in Diary of Dreams is awesome:

Goth rockers Bauhaus:

Fields of the Nephilim:

And finally, Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes:

See all of Maedhros’ musical minifigs in his Brickshelf gallery.

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:

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:

SnoOps

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

Kratos, God of War

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

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):

Violent delights have violent ends...

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

(I can see your belly button, Juliet!)

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):

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

Every army needs a cyborg shark!

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

Louie Louie!

Jared Burks collaborates with another great customizer, NickGreat, to create the Devaronian Mos Eisley Cantina denizen Labria (nicknamed “Louie” during production):