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.

Favorites from the FBTB Star Wars Vignette Contest

If you’ve been following Bruce’s posts on VignetteBricks, you know that FBTB Forums have been hosting a Star Wars vignette contest. The contest has spawned many great vignettes, but here are a few of my favorites. (FBTB Forums admin Onions has kindly posted a photoset on Flickr with all of the entries.)

Two vigs from bwu that use micro vehicles and minifig heads in an interesting way:

Han Solo drops a toolchest on Chewbacca’s head in a vignette from Mark Stafford:

Another micro vehicle entry — this one from yellost:

Finally, my personal favorite, an explosive scene from Return of the Jedi by Big_X:

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Second Annual Joe Vig Contest on LUGNET

Nelson Yrizarry and Nathan Wells have announced the Second Annual Joe Vig Contest.

Head on over to LUGNET to read the full announcement, contest rules, and prize descriptions.

Good luck, everyone!

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Alan Saunders’ Family Tree

Alan Saunders (aka Kaptain Kobold) presents a portrait of our relatives and ancestors:

That’s good old Chuck in the hat, a Neanderthal with the spear, Lucy, and a monkey.

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Dellta’s Shadows

Brickshelf user dellta has created several minifigs that correspond to the elements “Dark,” “Aqua,” “Wood,” and “Fire.” These creations were recently featured over on VignetteBricks, but they’re worth pointing out here as well, from a minifig perspective. What’s cool is that Dellta has paired up normal minifigs with their elemental counterparts or avatars.

My favorites are Aqua, a seafaring pirate:

And Wood, a Forestman:

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I Do

I support marriage equality.

What would a ninja do?

If you’re ever confused about the choices you should make in your life, you can just ask yourself, “What would a ninja do?”

A friend of mine was recently given a “What would a ninja do?” spinny folder at work (buy your own). We began consulting the folder for all of our business decisions. Unfortunately, this approach didn’t work out, because we all got laid off yesterday. Cool folder, but bad business strategy.

I haven’t made all twelve ninja actions, but here are three from the first six I’ve made so far:

Escape on a motorcycle:

Smash something:

Hypnotize someone:

Be sure to check out the full photoset on Flickr (with three more ninja actions, and the rest coming soon)!

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Yeah baby, groovy!

Nathan Cunningham presents a cool little scene from Austin Powers:

Austin Powers isn’t perfect, but Dr. Evil is spot on. Nicely done.

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Taiko V-Pod by Hiro

I love a good taiko (Japanese drum) show. Here’s a nice one from Hiro:

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Pining for the Fjords

Here’s another one of my pre-blog creations that I just uploaded to Flickr — the dead parrot sketch (also called “Pet Shop”) from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”:

Click the image for the full photo set on Flickr.

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Shizuka Arakawa by Moko

The figure skating World Championships are apparently going on right now, and Moko was inspired to create 2006 Winter Olympic gold medalist Shizuka Arakawa as a LEGO minifig:

Nice skates!

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The New King of the Vignette Series?

A week or two ago, I posted about a small creation Ichigou made based on the long-running manga (Japanese comic book) series Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.

Well, Ichigou has been posting vignette after vignette to a Brickshelf gallery (as featured on VignetteBricks). It’s almost like Ichigou wants to dethrone Izzo as the king of the vignette series! ;-)

Anyway, Ichigou has kindly posted snippets of the scenes he’s recreated as vignettes. Here are a few rough translations:

Demon, Part 3
“Hey! Polnareff! I’m gonna bite that bauble of yers right off!”

High Priestess, Part 3
“It’s, it’s a stand!”
“It, it was disguising itself as the seafloor! It’s, it’s huge!”

Anubis, Part 3
“It’s under your chin, Polnareff!”
“What?!”
“It’s me, you idiot — the reminder of Anubis’ stand.”

This manga has a complicated storyline and deep mythology that’s unlikely to be meaningful unless you’ve read it. For example, “stands” are “manifestation of an individual’s innate power over the ‘ripple’ and represent the individual’s psyche.” Huh? If you’re interested, Wikipedia has an excellent overview of the storyline, characters, and terminology.

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