On one end of the belief spectrum, we have my Aztec, Norse, and Greek minifigs. On the other end, we have a bunch of communists.
First up, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin:
Next, Leon Trotsky, Maxim Gorky, and Joseph Stalin:
Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and Kim Jong Il:
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels:
Finally, Ernesto “Che” Guevarra:
Name: Timmy Kennedy Classified.
Occupation: Special Agent.
Interests: Fragging exobiotic lifeforms, escorting non-Terran diplomats, monitoring the activities of super-intelligent molds and fungi, protecting the earth from Gthulinian invasion, providing security for Moonbase 4. Classified.
Working for a demolition company, Joe Vig takes his lunch break in the wrong place at the wrong time. Look out, Joe!
Name: Timmy Kennedy
Occcupation: Third-grader.
Interests: Candy and cowboys and ninjas and Legos and Star Wars and pizza pockets and Bionicle and Coca-Cola and Grand Theft Auto and peanut butter and Yu-Gi-Oh and…
Once you let it slip that you build stuff with “Legos,” the floodgates open for “Oh, oh, can you make a minifig of me?” So I finally broke down and did so. The resulting minifigs were all pretty boring, so I made alternate versions that give each person a little more personality.
First up, Joe, who’s always annoyed about something, and likes Audis:
Next, Melissa, who’s a contractor and is therefore my henchman (as opposed to a minion; thus the Oddjob outfit):
Pete, whose Greek heritage is a point of pride (of course, Pete’s family comes from a mountain village, not an island — something much harder to represent in a LEGO minifig):
Paul has a podcast (RSS), in which he plays really cool music and interacts with a mechanical entity named Weasel_bot:
(Paul gets a full-size picture only because both of his figs appear in the same pic; everybody else is like Superman and Clark Kent — they can’t both be in the same picture at the same time.)
Finally, just when you thought you couldn’t look at any more minifigs of my coworkers, BAM!!! NINJAS! Here’s Sky as himself, and as a totally awesome ninja:
To welcome the figure-skating fans referred here to see my Michelle Kwan vignette, here’s Johnny Weir:
Johnny is wearing his unique swan outfit, and he apparently named the red glove on his right hand “Camille” (presumably after Camille Saint-Saens, who composed “The Swan”).
Too bad Johnny didn’t even medal…
These aren’t brand new, but Mike Psiaki recently updated his P-38 Lightning, so that gives me an excuse to post these — two of my favorite World War II fighter planes in LEGO form.
The Lockheed P-38 Lighting:
The Vought F4U Corsair:
(Click each image for the full gallery.)
And just for fun, check out Brenden Wilson’s Corsair Light Fighter — a space-worthy version of the F4U.
A good friend asked me to make a minifigure of Michelle Kwan, who recently withdrew from the 2006 Olympics. Unsatisfied with the minifig on its own, I hauled out my white bricks and whipped together this vignette — my first non-minifig creation in several months:
Those are supposed to be my friend and her husband in the background. For a better representation of skates, check out Uda-san’s Mao Asada (and for good measure, the obligatory PPB cross-link).
Brickshelf user nias, whose wheelchair and Ferrari Knight I featured previously, recently posted another minifig-scale vehicle — the Giant Revive bicycle:
Click the image to see the full gallery, along with a picture of a real-life Giant Revive bike.
Names: Charles and Judy Chen
Occupation: Artists.
Notes: An eccentric son of a New York real estate developer, Charles met and married Judy while attending Burning Man. At the age of forty, Charles grew a Fu Manchu mustache and began wearing traditional Chinese clothing to “get in touch with my roots.” Of course, Charles doesn’t speak either Mandarin or Cantonese, and the furthest east he’s been is Taos, New Mexico.
The photography is bad and the picture is way too big (sorry Tupperfan). And what sets this minifig apart isn’t even a LEGO piece, but this is just too good to pass up:
If I’m not mistaken, that’s an earbud cover. Nice.
EDIT (3/8/06): Tupperfan has taken updated pictures. Thanks dude!
Name: Guildford Postlethwait
Occupation: Ethnographer, best-selling author, popular lecturer. Charlatan.
Published works: Reflections on Fieldwork Among the Tuba. The Purple Snows of Kashmir. Life with the Yak-Herders of Samoa. Tanganyikan Tiger-Hunting Rituals. In Marco Polo’s Footsteps: Retracing a Spaniard’s Discovery of the West Indies.
