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).
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.
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.
Name: Jupol Sulvat
Mission: Protecting unsuspecting earthlings from the likes of Desmodus, Invidia, and Cerebrus.
Origin: A mechanically enhanced alien from the planet Rothinius Prime.
Superpowers & gadgets: Super strength, telepathy, argon rebreather, the Crystal Rod of Galactic Justice.
Brickshelf user Legokinsfolk presents the stars of the 1989 Hong Kong action movie God of Gamblers, Chow Yun Fat and Andy Lau:
Michael Jasper never ceases to amuse and amaze me. Today’s update to his Characters gallery includes Jean-Peal Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir:
I was also recently struggling with a way to make a LEGO bagpipe for one of my Canterbury Tales minifigs. Michael saves the day with this wonderful Scotsman:
The latest updates to marakoeschtra’s castle characters include a king, his son, a beggar, and the beggar’s dog:
Here be pirates fictional and legendary — Captain Jack Sparrow, Captain Barbossa, and the cook Long John Silver.
Captain Jack Sparrow:
Captain Barbossa:
Long John Silver:
Here be pirates historical — he of the black beard, Edward Teach; Bartholomew Roberts, also of the name “Black Bart”; and Captain Henry Morgan, rum-fiend (not really).
Edward “Blackbeard” Teach (1680-1718):
Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts (1682-1722):
Captain Henry Morgan (1635-1688):
Cyin is never one to rely on standard minifig legs (as he showed with Radagast and Tom Bombadil). He demonstrates this again with his new Gandalf:
Here’s Gandalf with a cart full of fireworks:
Today’s batch of literary minifigs includes several more 20th-century writers.
Ezra Pound (1885-1971):
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940):
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961):
See Pillars of 20th-Century Liturature and More Writerly Minifigs as well.
