LEGO Halloween III Minifigures

I made these figures as a tribute to Halloween III: Season Of The Witch. It's not even a very good movie, but there are a bunch of little things I love about it. For example, the three masks.



Happy Happy Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. 
Happy Happy Halloween, Silver Shamrock.

LEGO Daniel has a space helmet.

For anyone wondering just how authentic the cracked helmet is on the 1980's-something space guy in The LEGO Movie, I found this helmet the other day when looking through my collection.

LEGO Daniel gave himself a mohawk.

After seeing the mohawk I recently gave myself, LEGO Daniel decided he wanted one too. He mostly did it himself, but it was kinda difficult to do the back, so LEGO Edward Scissorhands helped out.

This is LEGO Carter.

He knocked on my door to ask if he could have a banana, then left.

Sometimes I make LEGO minifigures that amuse me.

Although I guess all minifigures amuse me at some level. This one is simple. It's the statue of liberty with a fish for a torch.

I made some LEGO movie minifigures.

But not The LEGO Movie. These are characters from movies.



Gwynplaine from the 1928 silent movie The Man Who Laughs, and Edward from the 1990 Tim Burton movie Edward Scissorhands.

LEGO Daniel is a little bit cold.

LEGO Daniel is all bundled up for the cold winter weather.

And he's been building snow sculptures, such as this classic minifigure!



He also built this snow owl! (Not to be confused with the snowy owl.)



Then there's this Classic Space snowman who rocks the snow guitar!

All Hallows' Eve is over. So I built this LEGO vignette.

It was inspired by another vignette I saw recently created by a friend of a friend. It featured the two of them and another friend drinking tea in their living room.

LEGO Skeleton Bunny Minifigure

I made this creepy minifigure. He's a glow-in-the-dark skeleton in a bunny suit. He kind of looks like Frank the rabbit from Donnie Darko.

LEGO Daniel is dressed up as a pirate for Halloween!

And he used his cutlass to carve that pumpkin into a Jack-O-Lantern!

Halloween Mood Table 2013

I wasn't sure Matt from Dinosaur Dracula was going to put together or post about a Halloween mood table this year, but I'm really glad he did. It has become an important tradition for me, even though I have only been doing it for a few years. So last night while listening to music that I consider to be seasonal and sipping apple cider, I put my Halloween mood table together as well.



Not a lot has changed. Same scarf and table I always use. There are speakers under the table again, so I can plug in my iPod anytime and blast the aforementioned music. This was probably the most exciting improvement last year, and it's still just as exciting. Trick Or Treat, Chickadee.

The werewolf figure is back weirding everyone out (or turning them on) with his tight, unbuttoned shorts.

Behind the werewolf is a half-eaten bag of Starburst candy corn. I really dislike regular candy corn, but it's such an iconic Halloween candy that I always feel like I'm missing out. This year, Starburst gave me another chance! I was afraid I still wouldn't like them, but they're not bad. But that's probably obvious from the fact that I ate half of them before October even started.

The LEGO minifigures are back, including last year's LEGO Dinosaur Dracula. But hold on, a new horrifying minifigure moved into Table Town. A glow in the dark ghost! It's such a classic figure, and it's from one of my favorite sets when I was a kid, Black Monarch's Ghost.



One obvious new addition is the adorable paper lantern. I actually got that last year late in the Halloween season and neglected to post about it. My sister bought three of them from a dollar store, kept one, and gave the other two to our cousin and me. Lantern buddies!



My sister's is the jack-o-lantern, our cousin's is the ghost, and of course mine is Frankenstein's monster.

Another new addition is two scented candles in jars that the same cousin mentioned above gave me. They're merchandise from the very Halloweeny movie The Nightmate Before Christmas, and each candle has different art on its label, which is very cool. The scents are Mountain Berry and Black Cherry.

Unlike some people he overhears in restaurants...

LEGO Daniel's very interested in the mating habits of the pink flamingo.



I know it's huge and kind of ostrich-esque, but I think that's a little bit revealing about said mating habits, isn't it?

And yes, I cheated by connecting the neck to the body using tape. Go ahead and call the LEGO police. They'll never take me alive!

Happy Birthday, Lava Lamp!

The lava lamp (also known as the astro lamp) was invented 50 years ago today in 1963. Fun Fact: I have a lava lamp on my desk.

To celebrate, LEGO Daniel is hanging out with his lava lamp all day.

Fun Fact: When I was a kid, the LEGO town I had in my room had a few lava lamps in it, and I built them the exact same way, using a goblet as the base. Then years later, LEGO released a VW bus set with the same exact lava lamp in it.

LEGO sets based on The LEGO Movie!

I recently talked a little bit about The LEGO Movie that is coming out early next year, as well as the possibility of sets being based on the movie. If you haven't done so yet, you should check out the trailer for the movie, and then read that post I did. I guess I'll get a chance to get that cowlick hairpiece after all! It was announced today that they'll be making LEGO sets based on the movie.

Part of the press release also said that there will be a new line of 16 collectible minifigures based on new and "new again" characters from the movie. I don't want to get my hopes up, but between the sets and the 16 collectable minifigures, maybe we'll get to see one of my favorite characters from the trailer...

Bring on that 1980's-something space guy!

My Custom Classic Space Minifigure

Using my flea market LEGO minifigures and photoshop, I made this Classic Space figure in the style of the original minifigures.

Obviously the logo is just put on there with photoshop, but I'd love to get a Classic Space sticker so I can actually make it. It would actually be even closer to authentic, because I think the original minifigures only had stickers instead of printing.

I'm off to see Man Of Steel this weekend!

The LEGO Movie, and some Flea Market LEGO!

I didn't expect to be that interested The LEGO Movie, but it looks pretty fun. I love that it resembles stop-motion, rather than having the blatant CGI look they usually use in LEGO movies. It's charming and actually has a LEGO feel. I also love that the "1980's-something space guy" has a cracked helmet and partially worn-off Classic Space logo. As probably anyone who ever owned those figures as a child knows, those details are so true to life. It would be pretty meta if they made sets based on the movie and had the space guy with a cracked helmet and partially worn-off logo. I don't know if that would be possible though. And the main character has a cowlick! As someone with a pretty unruly cowlick, if that piece exists, I want it! Anyway, this trailer really got through to this big old grump, and now I'm looking forward to seeing the movie.

I got some cool retro LEGO stuff from a flea market, including some very old minifigures that are in surprisingly good shape. I actually got these a while back, but hadn't gotten around to posting them. Seeing the trailer for The LEGO Movie motivated me to finally do so.

The first two of them are examples of the original minifigures, which were a precursor to the modern minifigures. I believe they were in sets from 1975 to 1978. They have arms and legs that don't move and a yellow head without a printed face. I never had any of these as a kid, probably because I wasn't born until the mid 80's. I was always aware of them, and found them appealing, so I thought it would be cool to own them now. And I was right! It is!

The other two figures are astronauts from the Classic Space line, which was sold from 1978 to 1987. They feature movable arms and legs, and they each have a simple smiley face. They're missing their air tanks, but that's fine. Other than that, and of course being in better condition, they're just like the space guy figure that's in The LEGO Movie. Also, the astronaut in white is just like the one on the shirt of LEGO Daniel!

I'm shocked by the condition these figures are in. Whereas my old LEGO toys were played with for over two decades, I'm guessing these figures were played with only a short time before being put away for maybe thirty years. The spacemen don't even have cracked chin straps! What kind of freak child owned these!?

I also bought a LEGO Idea Book, but from another vendor. It's pretty interesting that it's from around the same era as the figures I got. It was published in 1977, and it's also in pretty great condition. I have a LEGO Idea Book from 1990 and it is beat the hell up. So either this was also barely used, or it was owned by some other freak of a child who took ridiculously good care of his belongings. I bought it for $1, which is of course one penny more than it cost back in 1977.

I love LEGO Idea Books! They have so many fun little things to look at and make, and this one features those original minifigures. Here are a couple of examples of the things in this book:

This ferocious monster! That's how people unfairly see him anyway. But he's not hurting anyone. All he wants to do is dance!

There are also instructions to build what I can only assume is a man pushing a wheelbarrow filled with rolls of toilet paper.

Dancing monsters, toilet paper wheelbarrows... These scenarios could fuel a child's imagination for years!

I made a LEGO minifigure of myself!

I have built vignettes in the past that featured a LEGO minifigure of myself, but it has been several years. A lot of new LEGO elements have come out since then, and maybe my appearance has changed some, so when I was in the mood to play with LEGO yesterday, I decided to make an updated figure of myself.

He's a cool guy. He likes to hang out with LEGO Batman, LEGO Hip-Hop Troll, and LEGO Dinosaur Dracula.

Unfortunately I don't have the awesome Spaceman shirt that the LEGO minifigure of me is wearing, but he doesn't have a LEGO version of my guitar either, so he's forced to play that Flying V instead. We can't all have everything we want.

I used the head of LEGO Indiana Jones for him, but don't read into that at all. I don't think I look anything like the very handsome Harrison Ford. I just think the LEGO head somewhat resembles my own, with the crooked smile, and the facial hair that resembles the stubbly beard I often have as a result of my not liking to shave.

Dinosaur Dracula's Halloween Countdown

I wrote about the X-Entertainment Halloween Countdown two years ago. This past summer, the creator of X-Entertainment, Matt, launched a new website called Dinosaur Dracula. It's basically the spiritual successor to X-Entertainment, but is clearly an improvement due to the recently hatched vampiric Tyrannosaurus rex (I love that I know how to spell that without having to look it up or even think about it) that the site has for a mascot.

Since it's early September, any reasonable human being could have expected this... Dinosaur Dracula's Halloween Countdown started recently, and since the site is new, this is its first ever Halloween Countdown. That's something pretty special. It has the renewed energy and magic of the new site, but since there have been so many Halloween Countdowns on X-Entertainment, Matt has had plenty of practice. And you know what they say about practice.

After seeing the Dinosaur Dracula action figure that Matt made in his post about Matchbox Con-Nec-Tors and seeing that he compared the toys to LEGO, I was inspired to make this LEGO version of Dinosaur Dracula.

I combined parts from the Collectable Minifigure Lizard Man and Vampire, and had to find one extra piece to complete it: a black minifigure head to go under the dinosaur mask. Matt mentioned in the Con-Nec-Tors post that despite the fact that one of the figures is an obvious Dracula, they called it a Vampire. Well, you may have noticed that the same goes for that LEGO minifigure. He's called Vampire, but he's obviously Dracula. These toy companies can't fool us.

I hope you enjoyed my LEGO Dinosaur Dracula. I know I enjoy it. Check out Dinosaur Dracula's Halloween Countdown. At this point, you don't have too much catching up to do.