I posted some “Eastern Block” minifigs a while ago, intending to follow up with minifigs from other fan-created Space factions, such as “3vil,” “Pre-Classic Space,” and “Jade Empire.” I never got around to it, but Flickrite and LEGO blogger Lukas has posted some cool Jade Empire minifigs.
Here’s an officer:
And the officer with some troops, including a sweet space ninja:
It’s been a while, but marakoeschtra has updated his castle characters with a pair of “gold carriers” and a “bush robber”:
“Meh” pretty much sums up my current feelings toward Superman. Smallville has been less than entertaining for a couple seasons now, I’m not especially stoked about the upcoming movie, and then there’s this. So, Superman = “Meh.”
In that spirit, here’s my Superman minifig, about which I feel pretty “Meh” (he’s missing something fairly important, after all):
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:
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!
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”:
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:
(Click the image for the full photoset on Flickr.)
For today’s batch of minifigs, I present the X-Men:
And here’s Magneto:
New Brickshelf user SwordKirby64 has posted some cool spaceish minifigs with several interesting weapon designs:
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.
Merkal Kahil has recreated several characters from the Disney movie Aladdin. Here’s my favorite, Jafar with Iago:
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.
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.