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Tag Archives: Minifigs
Moko’s Little Sister Gets in on the Action
Apparently, great minifig-building runs in Moko’s family. Here’s a little “Demon Child” Moko’s little sister put together:
Oh, and check out this cool gun Moko himself made recently:
Both of these show great uses for the new pieces in the Batman sets.
Minifig Arm Swap How-To from Darth Zamma
I expect the “great builders” of the world to provide the rest of us with innovative building techniques now and then. But it’s also nice to find interesting techniques in unexpected places. “Darth Zamma” is a new LEGO blogger who sent me a link to his blog a little while ago, along with a link to his friend “Darth Malum’s” blog.
Here’s a minifig Darth Zamma posted recently:
Responding to one of his e-mails, I asked Darth Zamma how he attached that Exo-Force robot arm to the regular minifig torso, and he kindly posted a short pictorial how-to. It’s an interesting technique. Here’s a preview:
Little Plastic Geeks!
Immersed recently in O’Reilly books, I’ve been inspired to build some geek luminaries.
Steve Jobs (with a big first-generation iPod):
Larry Wall, creator of Perl:
Steve Wozniak, Charles Babbage, and Tim Berners-Lee (click for full-size versions):
Linus Torvalds (with a Penguin designed by Adam Silcott):
Jeff Bezos (on a Segway):
The full photoset on Flickr.
By the way, why do nearly all geeks — myself included — seem to have brown hair and glasses? I couldn’t make as many geeks as I would have liked because they all started to look like Linus Torvalds, who looks remarkably like my minifig representation up in the header. Oh well…
Technorati tags: LEGO Minifigs Technology Computers Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak Bill Gates Larry Wall Tim Berners-Lee Linus Torvalds Jeff Bezos Charles Babbage Flickr
Dellta’s Shadows
Brickshelf user dellta has created several minifigs that correspond to the elements “Dark,” “Aqua,” “Wood,” and “Fire.” These creations were recently featured over on VignetteBricks, but they’re worth pointing out here as well, from a minifig perspective. What’s cool is that Dellta has paired up normal minifigs with their elemental counterparts or avatars.
My favorites are Aqua, a seafaring pirate:
And Wood, a Forestman:
Boktai Vampire Hunter Creations by Inhert
Brickshelf user Inhert has been building quite the collection of vampire hunter creations based on the Game Boy Advance game Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django.
I like Inhert’s “Tools of the Trade” (ignoring the chopped up Castle spear for the moment; but hey, it does make a good stake):
Check out the vampire hunter himself, using Moko’s articulated legs:
Brick-Built Star Wars Minifigs
Star Wars minifigures these days are all about cutting, gluing, Sculpey, and painting. Well, more specifically, they’re all about the infinite variations of clone troopers in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Fun! So it’s refreshing to see something other than another Commander Gree or Captain Typho.
Here’s Moko’s Darth Vader:
And Dillon’s RIC-920 droid:
Run away!!!
Nathan Cunningham has fallen under the spell of us minifig builders. Mu ha ha ha ha haaaa!
Behold his Fright Knight Shaman, and tremble in fear!
That’s the new Batman minifig’s cowl, along with Killer Croc’s head. Very nice, unexpected combination. And the totem in the shaman’s hand is fantastic. (Click the image to see Nathan’s Fright Knight Champion as well.)
Moko’s Kamen Rider 555 Minifigs
Kamen Rider (“Masked Rider”) is a long-running superhero series on TV in Japan, with many many incarnations. I remember watching the show at friends’ houses in the late 70’s and early 80’s (my missionary parents weren’t especially keen on bug-faced motorcyclists duking it out with hell-spawn).
A recent incarnation is Kamen Rider 555 (「仮面ライダー555」). Moko has recently posted several minifigs based on the series, including the masked rider himself and several of his adversaries, called “Orphnochs:”
For those interested in what an “Orphnoch” is, here’s the show’s synopsis from Anime News Network (even more series info here):
Young biker Takumi Inui trails a girl named Mari Sonoda, whom he suspects has his stolen gym bag. When he encounters Mari, he finds out that the bag she carries is not his and that she possesses some top-secret items developed by the Smart Brain Corporation. He also discovers that she’s being hunted down by Orphnochs – enhanced humanoid beings sent by Smart Brain to recover the items. Takumi reluctantly uses two of the items – a cell phone and a belt – and becomes Kamen Rider Faiz to combat the Orphnoch threat.
Israel Hands
Name: Israel Hands
Mission: Plundering space cruisers and cargo barges; evading the Galactic Royal Navy.
Origin: The reanimated corpse of Blackbeard’s second-in-command.
Evil superpowers: Peg-leg beam cannon, spinning pirate hat of death, x-ray vision (for seeing treasure).
Der Falkner
Secret identity: Der Falkner
Real name: Swenja Beizjäger
Mission: Preventing crime in Stuttgart. (No wonder it’s the German city with the lowest crime rate!)
Superpowers: Eagle vision, flight, ability to call forth birds of prey to assist in defeating evildoers.
Desmodus
Name: Desmodus
Mission: To rule the night.
Origin: A criminally insane “subject” was injected with the irradiated saliva of the vampire bat.
Evil superpowers: Flight, invisibility, drawing strength from the blood of his victims.