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Nov 11

Cadwell’s Thought Bubble Lego Hunt!

In my pre-Thought Bubble blog post I mentioned that I would be holding a Lego Hunt where people had to search the show for 10 Lego versions of comic creators. The hunt went down really well with over 20 people claiming the prize pack of comics, a print and badges. Seeing groups of kids running toward my table waving their camera phones aloft brought me many a smile throughout the weekend.

I didn’t get chance to photograph them all before the show so I’ve collected photos from the day by eager Lego hunters to present all 10 comic creators in their Lego minifigure incarnations:

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Nov 11

LEGO Shortlist

Back in January I was thrilled to have my Lego Mad Men featured on Shortlist Magazine’s website. Not long after, the guys there told me the feature had gone down really well and they’d like to commission me to see what else I could do with my minifigure collection. Perhaps recreate some of their covers in Lego? Okay!

I’ve recreated 7 of their past covers using only official Lego minifigures featuring the “uncanny” likenesses of Simon Pegg, Richard Branson, John Hamm, Martin Scorsese, Christian Bale, Paul McCartney and (the one I’m most pleased with) Jimi Hendrix.

See them all over on Shortlist.com, where they say very nice things about me (cheers, guys!) and there’s some extra photos in this Flickr set too.

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20
Apr 11

LEGO Ramones

HEY! HO! LEGO!

I’ve been waiting on the Punk Rocker to be released in series 4 of LEGO’s Collectible Minifigures for these awesome LEGO electric guitars and to complete my idea for recreating the legendary Ramones in LEGO form.

There’s a full set of photos on my Flickr.

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26
Jan 11

Lego Mad Men

Lego Mad Men

Just another day at Sterling Cooper.

 

Pretending to myself that I didn’t have enough work to do at the moment, I recently undertook a little Lego side project; to create a set of Lego minifigures based on the TV show Mad Men. I have long been a fan of Lego, particularly the minifigures, and I’m particularly tickled by the range of little Lego suits that are available, so the idea to do something with them came while watching Mad Men, one of my favourite TV shows right now (I’m currently making my way through season 4).

I have never seriously designed and made my own Lego creation before but from seeing the wide range of possibilities from other Lego fans on Flickr, I decided to have a go myself. All the parts I have used are official Lego pieces, I haven’t customised anything in any way.

I’d say I’m most pleased with how Don, Pete and Joan came out and I’m quite chuffed with the little Sterling Cooper set I made to house them.

There’s a full set of photographs on my Flickr.

Please feel free to leave a comment either here or on Flickr.

UPDATE (28/01/11):

Today my Lego Mad Men are on the homepage of Shortlist.com showing up before an interview with Elton John does! That’s just crazy. Here’s the full feature.