Nelson Yrizarry has done it again. Tremble in fear and awe at his Planet of the Exo-Apes vignette. Check out those awesome Exo-Apes made out of Exoforce bots. He’s also made a exo-scorpian out of the bot parts.
Tag Archives: Minifigs
Lara Croft vs. T. Rex!
It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than ten years since eager computer gamers first began controlling the increasingly curvaceous (hurray for higher polygon counts!) Lara Croft in Tomb Raider games.
As always, Lara takes on a Tyrannosaurus Rex, utilizing her run & gun technique:
LEGO Gears of War minifigs
Characters from the Xbox 360 game Gears of War:
From left to right, Pvt. Damon Baird, Pvt. Augustus Cole, Sgt. Marcus Fenix, and Pvt. Dominic Santiago.
(I’m not as happy with these four as I am with the FFIII characters or Lara Croft, but I was dying to use my new BrickArms weapons again. :D)
Final Fantasy III Characters
To welcome all of you clicking through from Kotaku (and taking down our server for a couple hours yesterday — sorry!), I whipped together another batch of minifigs inspired by video game characters. This is the first of three posts.
Without further ado, here are the characters from Final Fantasy III for Nintendo DS:
From left to right, that’s Ingus, Luneth (as a black mage), Arc (ranger), and Refia (geomancer with bell).
New Weapons from BrickArms [Review]
BrickArms manufactures injection-molded ABS accessories compatible with LEGO. Now, I’m what most LEGO fans call a “purist“; I don’t cut, paint, glue, or otherwise harm LEGO, and I don’t generally use non-LEGO parts in my creations. After I attended a presentation at NWBrickCon last October, though, I couldn’t help but pick up a few BrickArms weapons, including the AK-47 and rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) wielded by Rambo:
As Josh wrote earlier this week, BrickArms has released 13 new weapons. (See BrickArms.com for the full list of 21 weapons.) My weapons arrived on Thursday, and I’ve been building furiously ever since. Each photo in my Flickr photoset includes descriptions with links to the specific weapons I’ve used, like the Navy SEALs and Galactic Marines below:
My favorite new weapon by far is the M41A “Xeno” Pulse Rifle. I ordered two (shown above), and plan on ordering several more soon. Here’s a closeup on a futuristic S.W.A.T. officer:
One great thing about BrickArms is that the product line spans nearly all the classic and famous weapons from World War I through the present. Here are a trio of World War II soldiers from both sides of the conflict:
Other favorites include the Uzi and shotgun (go Lara Croft, go!):
In addition to looking very realistic, many weapons are designed with several points that fit into minifig hands. The shotgun’s pump fits in minifig hands, as do the barrels and stocks on several other guns.
BrickArms has also released several custom minifigs. I didn’t purchase any of the figs myself, but BrickArms was kind enough to send along one of the custom parts only available with “Spy Bond” — an ingenious suitcase with a hidden Uzi and spare clip. Typically, 007 blows something up as Q tries to show him his latest gadget:
Purchased individually at $1 each, BrickArms weapons are comparable to BrickLink prices for the newest Batman and Star Wars weapons. (Depending on the combination of weapons you want, you can also buy weapons packs at a discount.)
No, BrickArms weapons aren’t cheap, but that’s because they’re not cheap! Ultimately, I measure the success of any “custom” (non-LEGO) part by how well it integrates with my LEGO collection. BrickArms weapons look and feel like “real” LEGO, which is why a self-proclaimed purist like me can use them without guilt. ;-)
Metroid by graznador
There seems to be a fairly standard way of making the bounty hunter Samus from the Metroid series of Nintendo video games, and graznador doesn’t deviate too far from that approach, but I’ve never seen a metroid this cool:
BrickArms does it again!
This week BrickArms announced brand-new weaponery for that special minifig in your life!
BrickArms, famous for being the only custom pieces that Andrew owns, previously brought us 8 incredible custom weapons. I know because I bought way too many of them at NWBrickCon last year. Also my Vikings really love ’em (yes, my Vikings).
This new offering is even better! Mr. Chapman (and his family I presume) will be selling their new hardware at BrickFest PDX, if you want to meet them in person. I am going to be so broke after Brickfest …
Smcginnis Delivers Death
Lots of people have built LEGO necromancers, the Grim Reaper, and other minions of evil, but Classic Castler smcginnis has created quite the helmet for his version of Death:
Arrr!!! redux
I can’t get enough of pirates. (And ninjas, of course. Simmer down, Hattori. You’re still Da Man.) Anyway, Brickshelfer amanda100101 (aka Classic-Castler Lamanda2) presents a jaunty pirate with a colorful parrot:
Arrr!!! *beep* *boop*
The creatures contest is coming along nicely, but two little dudes caught my eye among the awesome critters in Arpy 2.0’s Flickr photostream. Behold a Pirate and Islander Pantsbot!
YOUR FACE
Classic-Castler TsoAutTmo has discovered some unlikely parts contain faces when flipped upside down:
Speaking of science — and drooling...
Alan Saunders adds another scientist to his minifig ranks with “Ivan Petrovich Pavlov”:
Ding-a-long! *drool* (Via VignetteBricks.)