Tag Archives: Vignettes

Vignettes are like the haiku of the LEGO world. Usually built on a base 8 studs wide by 8 studs deep, vignettes show a little scene or a moment in time. But like written poetry, there’s plenty of variation on the basic theme.

Home Alone house + X-Files bonus

This microscale version of the McCallister house from Home Alone by Rob H. (rh1985moc) evokes cold Northeast winters and warm nights by the fireplace.

Like several of his previous creations, Rob has added LEDs to the windows so it lights up in the dark.

Of course, this also a good excuse to highlight Rob’s older microscale J. Edgar Hoover FBI headquarters building.

It’s a really nice building, but the same photoset yields Special Agent Fox Mulder at his desk in the basement office relegated to the X-Files.

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Mark Kelso is kung fu fighting

And his kicks will split you in half. Mark Kelso (Amhakia) made this vignette using lots of brilliant techniques and 100% unmodified Lego parts. Did you know that stickers can be used to connect pieces? Find out how he used them and more in the descriptions!

Vader finds a washing machine

Find out what happens next in this scene by Michael Jasper.

Since he’s dead, he can take off his head

Proximity to Valentine’s Day seems appropriate enough for the Halloween/Christmas hybrid that is The Nightmare Before Christmas.

This vignette by Stefan (brainbikerider) featuring Jack Skellington singing beneath the full moon won a recent vignette contest among Austrian LEGO fans.

Titolian drops into enemy territory

It’s always nice to see something completely new. Today, Théo (Titolian) brings us a truly new use for the white version of canopies — a parachute:

Anyone home?

This fetching little scene, by Bart De Dobbelaer, is packed with lots of fun little details. It truly gives new meaning to “Catch of the Day”!

Adventures in Atlantis with Clumsy Pete

Bart De Dobbelaer is currently making a series of vignettes depicting a minifig called Pete’s encounters in the world of LEGO Atlantis. In this scene below, Pete learns that sushi may contain mermaids.

You can see the other scenes on Flickr.

Blood in the Snow

Carter Baldwin posted a creation a few days ago that’s feeling pretty relevant to me right now. Here in DC, we’re expecting a snowfall of up to two feet.

While stuck inside, I’ve been splitting my time between building, and looking for things to blog here. Carter’s creation hit just the right cord for me. The fact that it’s well built helps too. This is a great looking cliff face, and the icicles (using some sort of aftermarket part) are a very nice touch.

It’s also the trophy for a contest!

Frank finds Jesus

Shannon Young, who just announced the winners of his Vig/orama Contest, illustrates the potential answer to a question that someone might ask you on a street corner: “Have you found Jesus?”

Why yes, in fact, Frank has found Jesus.

You have to admit, it’s pretty funny. Via GodBricks, where Bruce has an excellent theological point about the fallacy of the question that Shannon is poking fun at.

Lone Ranger and Tonto will have to wait ’til heaven for their inevitable fistfight

This little scene by Craig Lyons (LegoLyons) highlights an excellent pair of Lone Ranger and Tonto minifigs. Tonto doesn’t look too happy. Reid better watch his back.

Okay, that’ll be my last Wild West creation for the night. Hi-ho, Silver, away!

The control freak

This vignette by Larry Lars is full of knobs, lever, sliders and all sorts of control devices. The use of levers in grill tiles to make sliders is an ingenious technique, something I’ll have to steal for an upcoming creation.

The brick-built world of Pandora

Avatar movie poster While I enjoyed the discussion about Avatar on the post featuring Harvey Cu’s Bionicle Thanator beast, I can’t say that it really convinced me to go see the movie. Nevertheless, we plunked down $15.50 each yesterday to go see the move in IMAX 3D, and I’ll grudgingly admit that it was well worth it — not for the story, which had the audience laughing in several places, but for the sheer spectacle.

Naturally, a major blockbuster movie like this wouldn’t be complete without the LEGO fan community cranking out creations inspired by the film. Here’s our round-up.

Imagine Rigney (imagine’s brickzone) gets us started with a great vertically oriented diorama complete with a Na’vi flying an Ikran, AMP suit on the ground, and Aerospatiale SA-2 Samson hovering in the air:

Harrison (corran101) uses the new Woody legs from the Toy Story sets for the 12-foot-tall Na’vi in the background of his vignette:

JasBrick (Flickr) takes a rather different approach with this pair of highly customized figs. The Na’vi minifig is actually an old Jack Stone figure!

Finally, Colonel Quaritch stomps around in his AMP suit in this vignette by MasterChief 1:

For more LEGO Avatar, there’s already a Flickr group, of course. (As much as I enjoyed the movie and like the LEGO creations I’ve featured here, here’s hoping Avatar isn’t the next Halo…)