Name: Hatena-gumi
Occupation: Charitable organization.
Interests: Security, international trade, banking, real estate, shipping, pharmaceuticals, construction, heavy industry, government, agriculture.
Tag Archives: Town
Giancarlo Verrecchia
Name: Giancarlo Verrecchia
Occupation: Taxi driver in Rome.
Interests: Freestyle skiing. Winning a gold medal in the Torino 2006 Olympics. Viva Italia!
Melinda Tottinghouse
Name: Melinda Tottinghouse
Occupation: Debutante.
Interests: Ponies. Show-jumping. Sparkly things. Unicorns. Rainbows. And uh, debuting? (Sheesh, I have no idea what a debutante’s interests are!)
MisterZumbi’s LEGO Unimog
One of my favorite vehicles is the Mercedes Unimog. I’ve seen two of them in real-life. One was in Nagano Prefecture, in Japan. That one was all tricked out for Arctic explorations or something (it was white and it had lots of compartments; I was ten; I made assumptions). The other one was on the Microsoft campus when I interviewed there back in 2001. It was dark green and orange (hand-painted, for some reason — very distinctive). I saw it again at the apartment complex we lived in a few months later.
Aaaaanyway, Brickshelf user MisterZumbi has made a really cool LEGO Unimog:
It looks a lot like the one I saw at Microsoft. Given how many configurations this vehicle is available in, how coincidental is that?
Note how he used the steering wheel as the Mercedes symbol. Very nice.
Brett Carmichael
Name: Brett Carmichael
Occupation: Daredevil.
Interests: Strapping himself to rockets! Crawling on the outside of an F-18 fighter jet! Jumping between helicopters! Outrunning a freight train in a tunnel! Leaping tall buildings in a hot rod! Riding to the grocery store on a motorcycle!
Jacko, a Tramp, and a Monk by Michael Jasper
Joe Kent
Name: Joe Kent
Occupation: Unemployed Boeing machinist.
Interests: The Sonics, the Sounders, the Mariners, the Storm, the Thunderbirds, and the SEAHAWKS!!!
Notes: Currently worried that the Sonics will leave Seattle (that jersey he’s wearing was expensive!), and the fact that the Hawks get no respect.
Edit (2/6/06): Stupid refs. That is all I have to say. Harumph.
Patrick J. Robertscum
Name: Patrick J. Robertscum
Occupation: Televangelist and paragon of moral outrage.
Interests: Blaming hurricanes on gays. Blaming terrorist acts on Hollywood. Bilking old ladies of their life savings. Railing against miscegenation. Spreading God’s love to people everywhere.
The Crew of the Pequod II
Names: Bartholemew O’Hurlahey and Mario Fratelli
Occupation: Captain and first mate of the fishing vessel Pequod II
Notes: Capt. Bart fancies himself the long-lost descendent of Herman Melville’s Capt. Ahab. He insists on carrying around a harpoon, even though they mainly catch herring, with a little cod and pollack thrown in. He also affects a limp, despite being in peak physical condition. Whenever he spots another boat on the horizon, he screams at Mario that it’s “the white whale!!!” and forces him to haul in the empty nets and give chase. Mario just sighs and rolls his eyes, muttering under his breath that Huckleberry Finn is a better candidate for canonization as the Great American Novel anyway… Sometimes when Mario is drunk, he gets angry at Capt. Bart and reminds him that Capt. Ahab is “fictional, you crazy coot!” He then breaks down sobbing that he misses his long-lost brother, who dresses in green instead of red.
Casey Lundquist
Name: Casey Lundquist
Occupation: Beach bum.
Interests: Backdooring a gnarly tube. Catching air. Hanging with the brahs. Trying not to cluck. Going off.
Pet peeves: The meatball flag. Squids. Poser gremmies. Wannabes. Getting worked.
Bobo the Clown
Stage name: Bobo the Clown
Real name: Thanh Nguyen
Occupation: Professional clown.
Interests: Juggling, miming, prancing, ventriloquism, prestidigitation. Giant shoes, lollypops, baggy pants, flowers that shoot water. Amusing children, frightening adults.
New Minifigs from Michael Jasper
I seem to have missed the last couple updates Michael Jasper has made to his wonderful Characters gallery, so let’s get caught up. First off, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (in honor of his 250th birthday today):
Next, St. Francis of Assisi (with some birds) and Oskar Matzerath (from Günther Grass’ novel The Tin Drum):
