A great combination of faces, torsos, and accessories:
The whole folder full of wonderful miscellany:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=140593
Tag Archives: Minifigs
Dark Knights by forrestman
Brickshelf user forrestman has just posted some interesting dark or undead knight minifigs:
Hmmm… Are those horns modded parts (they’re not the new Viking horns)? I guess we’ll let these slide…
“Kitarou” by mumu’s wife
In some families, the husband and wife build together. (Ahem! I said…) One such family is the mumu household. Mumu frequently posts creations by his wife, including several recent entries in the long-running shiritori word game.
Mumu’s wife’s most recent contribution is a group of three (four?) minifigs from the long-running Anime series Gegege no Kitarou. Sort of like the Japanese Scooby-Doo or an animated Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the series features a title character (Kitarou) who fights ghosts, monsters, and other nasties alongside his father, a disembodied human eye.
I like the tan hinge pieces as wooden sandals, the black turban as Kitarou’s hair, and the 1×1 white clip piece as tiny little feet on Medama Oyaji (“Pops the Eyeball”).
(I don’t actually know much about the show, since I wasn’t allowed to watch it growing up. Ghosts and monsters were just too close to the occult for my missionary parents.)
More shiritori entries comin’ right up!
Happy Year of the Dog!
The Bounty Hunter 4-LOM by Chris Deck
Chris Deck is a man after my own heart. Here’s a quote from his FBTB Forums post:
Same rules apply for him as for all my other minifigs, too: No saw, glue or paint.
Ah, sweet, sweet music to my purist ears! ;-) Oh, and here’s the alien Bounty Hunter 4-LOM himself:
I would not have thought to use binoculars on his face. Nice job, Chris!
Sugegasa’s “Fig-9”
“Cogitry Throckwood” by Mark Stafford
Mark Stafford, new Classic-Castler (aka Brickshelf user Nabii), recently posted a cool little “clockwork wizard:”
Great use of Technic parts, purple pieces, and the Doc Ock head. And boy! Those pneumatic T pieces sure do come in handy!
Has anybody else noticed the uptick in really awesome brick-built minifigures lately?
Martian by Count Blockula
Mike “Count Blockula” Crowley has made a Martian based on one of the best bad (you know what I mean) movies of the last ten years, Mars Attacks:
The ray gun is sweet!
Peladofigphobia
Felix Greco posted the following on LUGNET:
- Do you find the appearance of a minifig with no hat, hair, or helmet to be unsettling?
- Do you find your minifigs to be incomplete without something covering that top stud?
- When veiwing the creations of others, do you find the appearance of a minifig with an exposed stud on its head an indication of a poor builder?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then you are a
peladofigphobiac. You may wonder, what is a peladofigphobiac? Observe…peladophobia– fear of bald people
fig– contraction of the term minifigure for the AFOL, a yummy treat to the muggles
peladofigphobia– fear (or loathing) of minifigs with an exposed stud on thier head.
Hi, my name is Andrew and I’m a peladofigphobiac.
3vil Don King?
Ozumo by Nelson Yrizarry
Nelson’s new vignette Ozumo seems the perfect transition from posts over at Pan-Pacific Bricks back here to my original blog. He’s Photoshopped a very nice magazine cover to showcase his yokozuna:
Chiyonofuji (千代の富士) was one of the greatest yokozunas of recent history. (A yokozuna is the top-ranked wrestler, followed by ozeki.) Chiyonofuji was active throughout the 70’s and 80’s, along with the Hawaiian wrestler Konishiki (小錦), who became an ozeki and paved the way for many of the current wrestlers from outside Japan — including Akebono (曙), the first foreign-born yokozuna.
Nelson’s action scenes are also great:
Finally, another shot of the yokozuna without the magazine text, showing how he created the kesho-mawashi, or ceremonial belt:
Incidentally, the building technique Nelson uses for his sumo wrestlers is called BrickFa, a building style recently developed by Mike “Count Blockula” Crowley. Between this technique and the technique developed by Moko, we’re really starting to see some interesting designs that add additional posability to the traditional minifig.
Highland Berserker by Anthony Sava (with Moko’s Legs)
Moko recently posted pictures of a new idea for articulated legs on a minifig:
Classic-Castler Anthony Sava has combined this building technique with a Viking head and torso, Ron Weasley’s hair, and grill pieces in just the right colors to create a highly amusing Highland Berserker:
Well, he’s pretty small, so it would probably be fairly easy to take his life (just pull his head off with your fingers), but I imagine taking his freedom would be a bit more challenging…