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.

Darkness went with them, and they cried with the voices of death...

Classic-Castler Jens (Schlimps on Brickshelf) presents another cool creation that uses rare-colored parts — a Nazgul, or Ringwraith, from The Lord of the Rings:

Nazgul

According to several members of my local LEGO club (SEALUG), rare-colored parts are likely the result of a quality control step in the manufacturing process known as a “color test.”

When The LEGO Company performs a color test, they create a limited run of a LEGO piece in a specific color to help determine what kinds of stresses the acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) can endure in that particular color. For example, a clear minifig was created some time ago, and the speculation at our recent meeting was that this better revealed the kinds of discoloration (due to friction or stress) that might occur where parts are joined together.

If you’re more familiar with the LEGO manufacturing process and I’ve gotten something wrong, feel free to correct me in a comment!

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The Hordesman Joins the Fray

Classic-Castler The Hordesman has just posted an interesting soldier that demonstrates another approach to Michael Jasper’s use of visors as neckwear:

But here’s another, even cooler minifig that I missed when The Hordesman first posted it — a “Hussar”:

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Life Aquatic Minifigs

Okay, another batch of minifigs I made a while ago that I never posted here and just uploaded to Flickr. :-)

From Wes Anderson’s film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, here’s Steve:

LEGO Life Aquatic Steve Zissou minifig

(Click the image for the full photoset on Flickr.)

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X-Men Minifigs

For today’s batch of minifigs, I present the X-Men:

X-Men

And here’s Magneto:

Magneto

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SwordKirby64’s Space Minifigs

New Brickshelf user SwordKirby64 has posted some cool spaceish minifigs with several interesting weapon designs:

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Alan Saunders’ Family Tree

Alan Saunders (aka Kaptain Kobold) presents a portrait of our relatives and ancestors:

That’s good old Chuck in the hat, a Neanderthal with the spear, Lucy, and a monkey.

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Merkal’s Aladdin Minifigs

Merkal Kahil has recreated several characters from the Disney movie Aladdin. Here’s my favorite, Jafar with Iago:

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Nahoa

Nahoa

Name: Nahoa
Mission: Covering the surface of the earth in flaming rivers of lava.
Origin: Magma demon from the dawn of time.
Evil superpowers: Controlling tectonic activity. Yeah, that pretty much covers it.

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Odji

Odji

Name: Odji
Mission: Spreading plague and sowing discord.
Origin: Corrupted, reanimated mummy of Egyptian pharaoh Nephrotep III.
Evil superpowers: Summoning bubonic plague, anthrax, sleeping sickness, dysentery, cholera, etc.

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Shapeless in the Dark Again

Chris Doyle presents Robert Smith of The Cure:

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Josh Wedin’s Castley Minifigs

Classic Castler Josh Wedin has posted some additions to his minifig gallery.

Here’s his new Dark Knight (I have to get a couple Batman sets now):

An old woman:

And a war wizard (go, fighting monkeys, go!!!):

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Black Jack Minifigs

Black Jack (「ブラックジャック」) is an animated series aired on TV in Japan between 2004 and 2005. The title character is a mysterious doctor with white and black hair. Naturally, after getting her hands on the new Two-Face minifig from the Batman theme, mumu’s wife saw the similarity and made Jack, along with his sidekick, Pinoko:

You can find more info on Black Jack on Anime News Network.

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