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.

Papercraft Star Wars Minifigs

I noticed a cool papercraft stormtrooper in Brickshelf user Obi-Wan-Stefen’s gallery, who kindly provided enough info to get to i like toys, which linked to Japanese site Piro model with instructions and templates for creating your own papercraft Star Wars minifigs:

Click the pictures above to go to instruction pages on Piro model. The instructions will be in Japanese, but they’re numbered and easy enough to follow visually.

Here’s what the templates look like:

Have fun, and let us know if you try making any of these.

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Joe Braun’s LEGO Spacemen Adventures

Photographer Joe Braun has created a series of photographs that incorporate classic Space minifigs into real-world environments. The result is other-worldy:

Check out the full gallery on Joe Braun’s Web site.

(Via (un)social-commentary.)

Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007

Author Kurt Vonnegut died today in New York (BBC story).

Here’s my Billy Pilgrim minifig from Slaughterhouse Five, a book inspired by Vonnegut’s experience as a prisoner of war in Dresden during World War II:

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But Flickr user baby_elephant has a funny batch of minifigs inspired by Arrested Development (with the Bluth company vehicle, naturally):

BrickFest 2007 Highlights from Andrew

BrickFest 2007 wrapped up on Sunday, but I’ve been so busy I haven’t had a chance to sit down and reflect. Well, here goes.

Highlights for me:

Hanging out with all the great people in the extended LEGO community — both from The LEGO Company and fellow fans.
The ride down with Caylin. I think I left my sunglasses in your glove box.
MAX, Chinatown, and House of Louie with TBB’s very own Josh, world-famous Mike, and aforementioned Caylin.
Having a minion.
The new UCS Millenium Falcon in person.
The singlest largest LEGO Castle display in North America, ever.
Sessions standouts for me were LEGO Quality with Bjarke Schoenwandt and the future of LEGOfan.org with Kelly McKiernan.
Lunch at Wendy’s with Steve Witt and The Usual Suspects.
$1 minifigs from Bob Kojima and Paul Hetherington.
MINDSTORMS NXT Sumo!
Sharing a Mountain High Mudd Pie between two tables at Red Robin.
Scratched and dented LEGO sets (no damage to LEGO inside) for 50% off at the Washington Square LEGO Store!
Breann Sledge’s Bionicle creations.
Nathan Proudlove’s completed Blacktron II
The ride back to Seattle and post-BrickFest dinner at I Love Sushi with Dan Sabath and Dan Boger. Best sushi ever! Sorry you couldn’t join us, Pamela.
Seeing all the great photos in the BrickFest group pool on Flickr — more than 2,700 photos so far!

Phew. That was all so fun I’m now miserably sick. :-D

Still, I can’t wait for the next major LEGO event I’ll be attending, NWBrickCon. See you all there! (You can read more about what NWBrickCon was like last year right here on The Brothers Brick.)

Agent oo7 wishes us all a Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah!

Agent oo7 demonstrates that it’s never too early (or late?) to show off your holiday-themed minifigs.

First up, S. Claws:

And the Grinch:

Finally, on a more positive note, Yehudah Hamakabi:

My LEGO figure has dated more girls than I have!

See for yourself:

At least Ginny doesn’t have an RPG like last time. Oh, wait…

Holy %&*#!@.

Don’t forget to check out Caylin’s post on Classic-Castle.

Nute Gunray by Moko

Though nearly everybody has used the head from Frankenstein’s Monster as Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray’s head, everyone seems to struggle with his headdress/hat. Moko also says he struggled, but I think Nute’s pointy hat thingie turned out rather well:

And a bonus Episode I minifig — a Naboo Security Force soldier:

See all of Moko’s Star Wars minifigs in his Brickshelf gallery.

Lego, Lego me do. You know I Lego you!

Digger Digger Dogstar does it again! Here’s his version of Please Please Me:

Bith and Ithorian Minifigs by Moko

Looks like Moko’s officially working on a series. This time, it’s some of the most challenging characters from the Star Wars universe — the aliens.

His latest minifigs include a Bith musician from the Mos Eisley Cantina (not yet on Brickshelf):

And the Ithorian Momaw Nadon, also from the Cantina scene in A New Hope:

Jedi Master Shaak Ti by Moko

I always thought Shaak Ti was a pretty cool-looking Jedi, but never figured out how to make a brick-built version of her. Trust Moko to figure it out:

Plastic soul, man, plastic soul!

Thus said Paul McCartney on take 1 of “I’m Down” — the phrase that inspired the album title Rubber Soul, here recreated through the genius that is Digger Digger Dogstar:

Plastic soul indeed.