It’s always a pleasure when I encounter a connection between two of my great interests — LEGO and literature. Remember Norman Mailer and Douglas Coupland?
Writer Heidi W. Durrow contacted the blog this morning with a link to her beautiful, touching story Ethnic Lego Girls Carry Spears. Here’s an excerpt:
“You be Pocahantas,” Jimmy says. “I’ll be the cowboy on the horse.”
The horses come in shades of brown and black. Jimmy’s horse is black like me. His cowboy’s Lego yellow. He’s white like Jimmy is.
Read the rest of Heidi W. Durrow’s story online in SmokeLong Quarterly, along with an insightful interview about ethnicity and The Brick.
We don’t see a lot of Wild West MOCs these days and anything this good is rare indeed!
Definitely a neat little fort by The Brickster…
The Brickster continues populating his Wild West ghost town, Gravestone, with new and interesting creations:
Reader submissions are keeping me busy, and that’s great! (Apologies if I don’t get to everybody.) This batch is from The Brickster.
Fort Jacinto:
Spring Valley Ranch:
Some builders are especially brilliant at continuing an existing theme when LEGO stops producing it, as Steve Bishop has with Adventurers. The Brickster keeps the Wild West theme alive, in a manner of speaking, with an excellent ghost town called “Grave Stone”:
I’m a huge fan of Serenity and Firefly. It’s always nice to see minifigs, vehicles, and vessels from the ‘verse, so (low lighting aside) I was pleased to run across Alex Peacock’s hover mule:
That reminded me of some other great mules and ‘verse LEGO creations I’ve seen on Brickshelf and elsewhere. Here’s a beautiful, larger-than-minifig-scale mule by Will Vale:
Another mule by Brickshelfer theReflexx:
The final mule of the day, by Brickshelf user Lord-Thrawn:
And last but most certainly not least, Christopher Doyle’s not-quite-minifig-scale Serenity:
Thanks to my graphic designer friend Sky, Pan-Pacific Bricks now has a cool new header graphic.
For a blog about breaking down barriers between LEGO cultures across the Pacific Ocean, I thought a minifig from each of the uniquely American and Japanese themes would be appropriate. Thus the cowboy and the samurai, from the Wild West and Ninjas themes.
I like the slightly faded background behind the minifigs, and how the horns on the samurai’s helmet overlap the frame at the top of the original image.
Thanks Sky, you make good graphics!
