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.

News: Summer 2007 Set Pictures!

2007 catalog scans are available on 1000steine.de, with pictures of previously unseen summer-release City sets (click to go to the page on 1000steine.de and view full-size images):

Czech LEGO fan site Kostky also has a picture of the new Castle sets for 2007 (via Eurobricks):

I’m very excited about the undead horses, new skeletons (with non-floppy arms) and new accessories (curved swords, round shields, etc.). I can’t tell too much about the castles from this picture, but I like the bone cage on the undead fortress. Wicked!

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Classic Castle Chess Set by astronut1

In June of 2005, Classic-Castle.com held a contest to create castle-themed chess pieces and chess sets. It looks like Flickr user astronut1 took his pictures a few months later (and just posted them on Flickr), but these would have been great entries:

The pawns are classic Crusaders and Black Falcons minifigs, but astronut1 created unique pieces for the rest. I especially like the kings and queens:

The rooks and bishops are also great:

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Pegasus Knight by Yours Truly

Well, here I am, tooting my own horn. This is my attempt at a custom fig for the Colossal Castle Contest 4. Virtually all of it is customized, only the wings and plume are unaltered Lego. It was definitely a fun build. Hope you enjoy it!

Check out the airborne gallery.

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News: My minifigs on THE 9 on Yahoo!

My gallery of musical minifigs on Brickshelf was recently featured on THE 9 on Yahoo! (they’re at number 8):

Check out the gallery on Brickshelf, but I’ve been keeping the photoset on Flickr a bit more up to date. Sweet!

Thanks to Azaghal from Classic-Castle.com for letting me know! I totally missed this, and didn’t even notice that the Brickshelf folder had suddenly shot up to 150,000 hits.

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Snowed In

Here’s what things are like in Seattle right now:

…and in Bellevue, and Redmond, and Kirkland, and Mount Vernon, and Everett, and Sedro Woolley, and Shoreline, and — you get the picture.

Excellent minifig/mini-vig, Caylin!

It’s apparently going to be 18 degrees here in the city tonight — and that’s the warmest spot in the area. For a part of the country that doesn’t handle cold weather very well, this is very bad indeed.

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Featured Blog: American Comics LEGO Archive


I think I’ll start something new: Every so often, highlighting a blog I like.

Since I just blogged custom minifigs (the humanity!), it seems only natural that I highlight Xeuren’s American Comics Lego Archive. Back in December, I highlighted Xeuren’s blog on Pan-Pacific Bricks. And I quote:

You’ll never see modified minifigs on my other blog, but in the interest of objectivity, I absolutely must highlight Xueren’s American Comics Lego Archive blog.

Well, both Josh and I have blogged custom minifigs at this point, so that first bit no longer applies.

Xeuren updates his Brickshelf gallery irregularly, but if you want a near-daily dose of comic book-inspired custom minifigs, check out his blog.

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Colors of the Samurai by NickGreat

Cool enough to blog on a purist LEGO blog, customizer NickGreat’s “Colors of the Samurai” project is fantastic indeed.

Here’s Nick’s latest, the Black Samurai. I love all the kanji characters, the mask (a chopped-up Green Goblin mask), and the naginata spear:

Since I’m blogging his newest, I might as well blog his previous two samurai. Nick’s White Samurai has a shoulder decoration that also uses the Green Goblin head, and an excellent double-sword carrier thingie for her back:

Nick’s first color samurai was Red. I can’t get enough of that mask:

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Where Minifigs Come From

CNET Japan has a brief story (in Japanese) on how LEGO gets from the factory to our homes (via I Love Cute LEGO). The story’s not especially enlightening, but I thought this picture was pretty cool:

Obviously, the picture’s pretty old (Wolfpack is a theme from the early to mid-1990’s), but I hadn’t seen this before.

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Minifig’s so versatile...

I’m a huge fan of minifig. As if he didn’t already have the best user name ever, he makes awesome vignettes and, of course, minifigs.

It’s been a while since his last series of figs, but his latest includes the boys from New York, the Beastie Boys from their “Intergalactic” video:


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Happy Halloween 2006!

Zombie Andrew, Zombie Josh, pumpkin-head Eddie (aka the disembodied head of Linus Bohman), and Necromancer Nathan join classic monsters to wish all of our readers a very happy Halloween! Be safe, and have fun!

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Moko Goes Divine

Back to minifigs. Praise the lord! Speaking of which, Moko has posted an interesting “God-ish sort of minifig” (his words):

So much for the second commandment. Heh heh…

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It’s okay because he calls them abominations...

My path to the dark side assured, let’s get a head-start on Halloween with some great “abominations” from self-described “evil mad scientist” Windell Oskay:

Windell has written up a nice article on How to hack LEDs into Lego minifigures for Halloween, as well as a second article on his many Lego Abominations.

Here’s a hilarious example titled “Squid King Fu”:

Be sure to check out the full photoset on Flickr.

Thanks for sending this in, Windell! You’re such a bad influence… ;-)

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