In which I share The Minifigure Collection

 

A while ago a lovely commenter on my blog said they would like to see how my lego people are set-up and it inspired me to capture the house-party of minifigures. This is not the full collection of Lego minifigs I own, because there are others dotted around my house everywhere. There is a whole other area for monster-types which I have shared pictures of before. A section for super-heroes. A small arrangement of Lord of the Rings, and the wedding figures. A the abandoned and unloved guys in the bottom of the box of bricks. However, these here the majority and shares the party-set up I've got going on with them at the moment. It used to be in neat perfect rows but I have too many of them now for that to really show them off well.

All the party guests are arranged my theme. Here we have twins at the beach and a few other seaside figures are nearby.

Yes, the cheerleader is more important than all the olympic athletes behind her. She outclasses them all with her acrobatics.

Typical tennis player, always angry grunting.

A toast! To Marilyn Monroe!

The battle-prepared minifigs.

Space training from Susan, my Lego marine.

The new spy team. (Scientist, agent and the technician)

I love having one of my very first figures ever, the builder next to the plumber. It really shows the development of design in Lego figures, from the old dungarees to the new. And the increase in stubble.

Angry professionals.

Musical rivalry. Entertaining the party, at the same time. They are meant to be playing together but it does clash a little.

So these guys were part of a Doctor Who set up I made. They were inspired by the villains from the end of the last series, being one person copying himself.

The agent is taking those Doctor Who villains down!

Sherlock Holmes in Lego form

Peg leg pirate!

The space team. I once made a Firefly counterparts set up. Pink haired girl is the parallel universe Kayley, the ship's engineer.

 Hope you enjoyed looking at my minifigure collection! Which one is your favourite? Do you have a favourite Lego figure of old.

In which there is a minifigure update

The decorator is my new favourite figure. I love the splattered trousers, the roller, the happy smile and the potential to make a scene from She's All That.

My Lego minifigure collection just keeps growing. It has now spead beyond the neat row on my windowsill to a wild costume party with many carrying drinks and snapping photos of each other. I love being able to build new people and swap all their heads around. I am trying to document them all, with a photo of every new figure as it comes in, but then eventually photos of all the new ones too - and showing where their parts came from. I love making characters and backgrounds and stories out of the people as much as I love making spaceships and funfairs with the bricks. I will say that lately Lego as a company has not been winning many points with me. I am severely disappointed by the direction they are going in and as such I am holding off buying any more until my rage has subsided a little. So this may be my last set of new minifig updates in a while, especially as I just can't find the Lego Medusa no matter how many packets I open!

I bought so many sets in the goal of winning the Warrior Woman eventually.

A random lucky stop in a service station recently found me some more of these limited edition London 2012 Olympics mini figs. These guys had no idea what value they were holding onto.

In which the camera is back

We moved locations to just down the road to hide from the neighbours... by standing somewhere more public. Not the best logic!

After my previous post which now feels a very long time ago when I apologised for not blogging due to playing Final Fantasy X-2 in all my spare time the trend has very much continued. Only I could have blogged these last few days in the times I wasn't on the PS2, but I lost my camera cord for uploading photos. I looked everywhere for it, going pretty mad teating the house down looking for it. Naturally it actually was in the cable box which I had gone through at the start. Fail.
Anyway I am here now! I've included some random photos from recent life events along with my outfit post. See the little captions for explanation of the odd images.

I haven't worn the dress in these photos for about a year until now because it needed hand washing. Yep. That's how lazy I am. Hand washed clothes just NEVER get done. I didn't even hand wash this! I just put it in the main wash accidentally and nothing bad seemed to happen so I'm going to do it again. Maybe now I'll actually wear the dress. Which would be nice as it is so soft and comfortable.
Also, when I was wearing this dress and taking photos in our back yard our neighbour stuck her head out her window and told us she was now convinced we were crazy for standing around in the cold without sleeves. Yay, *insert super self-consciousness here*. I always feel a little embarassed taking photos, but I at least have my fiance as a kind of shame shield. With two people doing something together it's not quite so odd is it? How do all of you who take photos with a tripod and a clicker cope when people stare at you?  Or are you just so confident that it isnt an issue? Or do you live somewhere where people are too polite to stare?

This is from a visit to my sister's house. We are rather alike in our love of children's toys so we got out all her Lego people and mixed them up into strange new concoctions. The genie surgeon had to be the best though! Look how cool she is. Just what you want on an adventure.

We then tried to make a J-pop band who you can see in the back. I particularly liked swapping Einstein and Pink's hair round. Now they both look like punk rockers! Sorry for the awful light in these photos. I wasn't really trying here, concentrating more on the Lego than the photos.

My latest figure in the minifigure collection! I totally want to build a Lego sumo ring now and get two of them.

This was at Hyper-Japan. A set of four statues depicting characters from one of my favourite computer games  of all. Chrono Trigger. We did not buy them though.

Sorry for the serious face here. I guess I was a bit cold.

In which it is about time I did a Lego update

I used to predominantly post about Playmobil when I was doing my toy posts, but in the last year I have given over a great deal of my love to Lego. Despite anger about the sexism in their marketing, or the fact that Playmobil is the stuff I have boxes and boxes of, the little single minifigure sets have been something great to grab on a trip into town and so I have slowly built up a little collection of them. I have done these posts many times before when I've got some new figures so I've got some photos of the latest few guys and the full collection!

The little bagpiper is up there in my favourites. It is probably the eyebrows that do it for me.

Snowboarding guy. Wins because I used to do snowboarding at uni.

Cause of it being Thanksgiving time I thought I would honour by American friends by putting the Statue of Liberty at the front. She does look rather stern. :)

I always think of this one as being Pink. I love Pink's stuff no matter how pop-y it may be compared to the rest of my music collection. She is awesome.

Aah! Looks like cave man is sneaking up on Susan.

Dancing Lego guys!

Andy bought me this on his way home from work the other day. Aren't the Lego pom poms incredible? I need to do a Lego Heroes scene now! ("save the cheerleader, save the world.")

And it's Hamlet!

I've also bought a couple of proper Lego sets recently! Despite thinking I have lots of Lego, what I have are lots of figures and LOTs of Lego board games. We have Creationary, Hogwarts, Pyramid, Pirate Ship and two different Heroica games. All board games made of Lego. But the Monster Fighter series, where I got the first set for my birthday won me over. I love comic books so this swamp figure set was just screaming for me to buy it! Look at the poor swamp thing, being attacked by the nasty bully. What did he ever do? Just living peacefully in his swamp! So Ann Lee comes to the rescue! I had to have my favourite figures team up against the bad guys. Yes, the story is humans v monsters but I think it is obvious that the swamp catcher guy is just a prat with some guns. Ann Lee now rides a skeletal horse and is just the best.