Morgan19 Posted April 1, 2011 Posted April 1, 2011 I'd found this awesome little super-deformed Mr. Freeze character from a Fisher Price toy, and immediately yanked the helmet off and chopped the head apart to use on LEGO. It's slightly larger than a normal figure's head so I needed to bulk up the body somehow, which is when I discovered that the new BrickForge arched pauldrons snap nicely into place under the LEGO shoulder armor piece. Added a couple BrickForge horns around the neck to finish it off, et voila! Instant vampire. m19 Quote
Scorpiox Posted April 1, 2011 Posted April 1, 2011 Good resourcefullness, turning something ghastly into LEGO, win win! Was it hard to make the head though, and could you do it for other toys? Quote
Morgan19 Posted April 1, 2011 Author Posted April 1, 2011 (edited) Was it hard to make the head though, and could you do it for other toys? I wouldn't say it was hard, but the conversion took a few steps. The clear helmet piece was a pain to get off his head because it was such a tight fit. Once that came off though, it was just a matter of carefully cutting the head off the torso, gluing its two pieces together (the front and back head pieces are separate), and drilling an appropriately-sized hole in the underside for the LEGO neck peg. As for doing it with other toys, sure you can, and I have before using action figure parts, erasers, cheap plastic vending machine toys, etc. to work with LEGO figures-- just check out the rest of my Flickr stream for examples. It's really just a matter of finding a non-LEGO part you want to convert and then figuring out how to do it to make it work. Here are some other examples: Playmobil helmet Eraser heads Action figure heads etc. m19 Edited April 1, 2011 by Morgan19 Quote
XimenaPaulina Posted April 2, 2011 Posted April 2, 2011 Excellent custom morgan! Your knack for effectively combining non-LEGO elements with LEGO and other custom parts is really impressive and this one is clearly a testament of that. Quote
Ro87n Posted April 2, 2011 Posted April 2, 2011 (edited) Nice 'resurrection' I realy like the overall look and great use of parts. Edited April 2, 2011 by Ro87n Quote
alanboar HK Posted April 2, 2011 Posted April 2, 2011 Good demo for combining non-LEGO parts! It bring my deep virtual image for the Fisher Price toy which I dunno Quote
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