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:
Andrew Horvatits just posted a wonderful Chocobo warrior (based on this design by Kevin Heckel, aka Jonesy over at Golden Shpleem):
I might’ve chosen a different minifig (let’s say something like one of these), but the color scheme on the Chocobo is great — especially the black levers as claws on the yellow feet. Good photography is also a huge plus.
Brickshelf user cbolego has posted a cool series of scenes based on the video game Metal Slug 5. Here’s the latest:
(Click the image for the full gallery.)
Flickr users are posting some really great LEGO creations lately. Brickshelf has some serious functional and technical limitations (folder descriptions can’t even include apostrophes, for example), and I’m starting to think that it might be worth posting on Flickr as well as Brickshelf (as several LEGO fans I know of currently do) — or even switching completely to Flickr. Anyway, that’s a discussion for another day.
Flickr user skinny coder has posted some totally sweet LEGO recreations of video games, including my current favorite game, Katamari Damacy for the PS2:
My wife and I have been playing nothing but the two Katamari games for the last three months or so. You know what’s funny (and a bit frustrating)? I have a King of All Cosmos minifig sitting next to a Prince minifig among my LEGO, waiting for me to create exactly what skinny coder made. Oh well…
In Japanese, the word for “part-time job” is arubaito, which comes from the German word for “work,” arbeit. Arubaito is often shortened to baito. There’s a Japanese PSP game called “Beit Heller 2000,” which apparently includes a minigame called “Ballpoint Factory.”
This guy has figured out an ingenious method of getting the high score:
Click the image to view the full series of hilarious pictures. Thanks to mumu for finding this!
(Yes, this is LEGO-related!)
With my Final Fantasy VII characters done, the next logical step was to move on to Final Fantasy VIII. (Classic-Castle and FBTB user boses’ post of his gunblade also spurred me on.) Without further ado, here’s my Squall Leonhart minifig with brick-built gunblade:
My gunblade is by no means perfect, but I like its smallness. The perfect gunblade would attach the sabre blade directly to the end of the pistol, but that would require cutting and glue.
Last summer I made several characters from Final Fantasy VII — Barrett, Cid, Sephiroth, Vincent, and of course Cloud. (Well, actually I made the version of Cloud that appears in Kingdom Hearts. I just liked the purple cape and demon wing.)
But where were the ladies — Aeris (sometimes spelled Aerith), Tifa, and everyone’s least-favorite perky ninja, Yuffie? So I set about trying to make the non-male characters. Thank goodness my wife has one of the only two Paradisa set that includes pink legs!
From left to right: Cid (with awesome new goggles!), Vincent, Yuffie, Cloud (proper FF7 version), Aeris, Barrett, Tifa, and Sephiroth.
Check out the Brickshelf gallery for full-size pictures of each character.
Brickshelf user comic has posted a robot walker based on Hayao Miyazaki’s first film, Conan, the Boy of the Future:
Of course, Robonoid also looks a lot like “Steve” the ride-pod from Dark Cloud 2 for the PS2. I’d love to make a version of this that looks more like Steve and put an improved version of my Maximilian minifig in it.
Incidentally, “comic” also runs a blog called LEGO INC where (as “Ichigou”) he regularly posts stop-motion LEGO Star Wars movies. Cool stuff — and a blog I’ll be highlighting over on Pan-Pacific Bricks soon. ;-)
Blizzard Entertainment develops many of my favorite games — games in the WarCraft, StarCraft and Diablo “universes.” Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on minifigs based on Diablo II:
This week, I also added Terran units from StarCraft:
To be honest, I’ve seen better Terran Marines and Firebats on Brickshelf, but all of them use bricks instead of minifig parts. This is my attempt to build StarCraft minifigs using “normal” minifig parts.
Each minifigure you get in a LEGO set usually consists of six components:
Arms, hands, and the torso always ship as one piece, as do the leg and hip parts. LEGO usually also includes headgear of some sort — a hat, helmet, hair, bandanna — something to cover that little bald stud! Finally, no minifig would be complete without accessories — tools, weapons, and so on. The old construction worker from the 1980’s is an excellent example:
But by taking apart the “default” minifig, you can do nearly anything. Here’s one of my recent favorites:
That’s Cloud Strife from the game Final Fantasy VII, as he appears in Kingdom Hearts. To create Cloud, I used Gilderoy Lockhart’s hair, Draco Malfoy’s head, and a purple cape from the Harry Potter line; Han Solo’s legs and Bib Fortuna’s torso from the Star Wars line (with Bib’s arms replaced with yellow arms and brown hands); a custom wing assembly I borrowed from my own flying Fury design; and a Buster Sword I created using three very basic parts.
Here’s the game art I used as the basis for my design:
I was fairly pleased.
