Silent Nomad

I'd love to see what you have here, but the image displays are broken.

Does anyone have any ideas for shortening the fins on the yellow lion? They’re too tall for my liking.

I make alterations to minifigures sometimes, but a lot of the time, I simply find myself adding accessories that the characters didn't originally have in their sets. I've tried mentioning them in topics aimed at general minifigure customization, but I've gotten little to no response there, so I thought I'd make a place dedicated to that idea. Below are some examples of my own accessory additions, or images that inspired me to alter the accessories. When I saw the Green Lantern lantern that Sheldon is holding in the image below, I thought that it was much closer to the scale of minifigures than the one offered in the Green Lantern set, itself. I also became curious if I could make that same design in any other colors with existing pieces, so I looked up the four pieces used to make it, and I discovered that I could also make red, blue, yellow, black, and white lanterns. My Hal Jordan now has a much smaller personal lantern battery, and I made one in yellow for my Sinestro as well. I also gave Hal and Sinestro translucent studs on their hands in their respective colors to represent glowing rings. When I saw the Teen Titans Robin from the Jokerland set, and I saw what they gave him for his bo staff (a black lightsaber blade), I was unsatisfied with both the length and color. I wondered if the old longer rod with narrower stop came in the newer version of grey, and I found it, so I'm using that now, and it works perfectly. I don't like the ADU guns used for the Super Heroes themes whenever a non-space-based minifigure needs a gun, and I liked the old black guns used in the Indiana Jones theme, so I was very excited when Lego brought them back for use with Sabine from Rebels, so I bought a bunch of those from B&P and I use them with my Avengers Black Widow, my USM Nick Fury, and I'll give one to any normal human character in the future to whom Lego gives an ADU gun. Speaking of Black Widow and ADU guns, that's what they give her in the Age of Ultron sets, though her shock sticks are arguably more iconic to that movie, so I wonder why they didn't give her those. I got the idea to give her trans light blue lightsaber blades for them, because that's the color normally used to represent electricity, and then I see this image on the Marvel Super Heroes minisite, which shows that piece used for that purpose. That made me more confident about that choice. The Winter Soldier minifigure doesn't come with any weapons in his package, but I wanted him to have a sniper rifle of some sort, so I gave him a blaster rifle that's used in Star Wars sets. None of the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade sets have the Holy Grail, which is what they're hunting in that movie, so I gave my Indiana Jones minifigure a gold goblet piece for that, along with the other two small pieces I gave him to represent the other movies in the trilogy (I gave a crystal skull piece to my Mutt Williams minifigure, if anyone's curious). I'd love to see what other ideas anyone else came up with. Please share, but focus on the accessories here. There are other places to post the minifigures, themselves.

You have to call for the cats and bears? That explains it. I'll definitely be getting a cougar, tiger, and bear added to my next order.

I was hoping it was that color. Has anyone tried swapping out her leg pieces yet like was discussed when she was first leaked/revealed?

What color is the new Cheetah's torso, arms, and head?

It was an order that over $50 of which was B&P, but I added something from the regular shop to get free shipping, as I normally do. I was waiting for the black Friday free shipping deal, so I could maybe take off the extra thing, but I don't think that worked. Edit: I still needed a regular shop item for the free shipping, but I got the VIP points to show up again. Thanks for all your help.

Is it just a glitch on my cart, or are B&P orders not receiving VIP points this weekend?

I don't know about the second part of your "mystery game," but I solved the first mystery by just calling my local store.

Thanks. I don't think I'd seen them side-by-side like that before.

Is the printing quality really better on the old version, like I've heard? I'm trying to decide if I should get a second copy of the old torso for my GotGv2 Drax, or if I should just use the new version.

I have Ronan, and a bunch of those pieces are on their way to me. That'll be my second villain, I think, with an infinity stone in his staff.

I recently got the idea to use this piece to make a version of Ronan's staff that can have the power stone on it. The original version couldn't have anything attached on the sides. The power stone I'm thinking of would just be a translucent purple stud piece.

I just watched a review of the Old Fishing Store set, and I noticed that there's a white nipple piece used in it. I'm really looking forward to when that becomes available, and have been ever since it was used in the SDCC Captain America BrickHeadz model.

is the tiger available through the online ordering system now, or just over the phone still?

That's interesting, because they eventually released the Disney book from the castle set. I was expecting the Silent Mary book to be released eventually because of that precedent.

I'm waiting for all the pieces of the book from the Silent Mary set to be available, because I've kind of taken to collecting that style of book.

For the new Cheetah, I'm thinking to replace the legs on her hips with the legs I took off my Wolverine figure when I saw how well Catman's legs went with him. That'd give her more of a barefoot-with-bikini look, and less of a top-with-pants look.

Has anyone else noticed that B&P gives VIP points now? I don't think that used to be the case.

I didn't say the actor's name or previous movie because I didn't want to spoil the reveal for anyone who sees this and hasn't seen WW, but that's the head I was talking about. That snake head is a good suggestion, but I'm not sure the movie helmet looks like the skull helmet in the set. I was gonna try to perfect the set's Ares when I get the set, but after seeing the movie I'm not gonna keep him built unless I make a figure version of him.

Thanks for showing how the Flash looks with those legs. I'm planning on doing the same thing with my Flash, and I believe it's been talked about on here before, but I think you're the first one to show how it looks, and it looks really good.

Has anyone tried making a Wonder Woman movie Ares figure with the head of a character that actor previously portrayed, maybe with the facial hair besides the mustache removed? I was specifically wondering if such a helmet as is used in the movie, or something similar, even exists in Lego.

When the Guardians of the Galaxy movie came out, and the sets were revealed, I was really hoping they'd include a mini version of the main vehicle (the Milano, in this case), as they had with so many other movies, and I was disappointed that they didn't. When I saw the mini Milano for Guardians vol. 2, one of the first things that came into my mind was wondering if I could alter it to make it look like the large version that we got for Guardians 1. I've gotten a few ideas on how to alter the new mini set to make it look like the big one from the first movie, and I'm interested in hearing yours. So far, I color-swapped the orange pieces to "keetorange," made the canopy piece trans. light blue, and made all the fins on the edges of the wings grey instead of having four of them blue. Does anyone have any other ideas? I'm not only interested in ideas to change the front, either, the more I can make this one look like the original big one, the better.

Are there any updates on if the final MoUP is up on Shapeways or not?

Is anyone besides me thinking of using Retro Spaceman's cape on Vision and possibly a Robin as well? It's been years since we've gotten a yellow cape like that, and I believe the last one was on a Robin figure.