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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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:
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!
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… ;-)
Continuing our autumnal theme, mumu’s wife presents a lovely scene with a persimmon tree, tea, a pair of cats, and a lady in a kimono:
Check out the beautiful obi (sash) on the woman:
With three other guys picking up some of the slack over on The Brothers Brick, I’m hoping I can get caught up on the Asian-themed LEGO creations I’ve missed this summer. Bruce gets me started with a great little food cart from Brickshelfer kobachan:
I’m not sure what all the letters on the carts sides are, but the first letter is O (お), so I’m thinking this is an oden stand. Oden is a hot pot or stew that includes ingredients such as daikon radish, potatoes, carrots, chikuwa (fish cakes), boiled eggs, and konnyaku (yam cakes). It’s popular in the autumn and winter, and even in modern Japan you might be able to find a street stall serving steaming hot oden to keep you warm.
MisterZumbi is at it again. I’ll leave a couple things for the other guys, but let’s kick this off with Mr. Z’s real-life version of Tim Gould’s Maschinen Krieger SAFS:
Plus several funny new minifigs, including Albert Einstein and a one-eyed, mad professor:
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