Minifigs.me releases 'Brick Flicks' range
Posted by Huw,
Custom minifig-maker Minifigs.me has been busy creating a range of film stars for the book Brick Flicks by Warren Elsmore, where they're used to recreate iconic scenes and posters from films spanning almost every genre. You can now buy many of them from their website.
I've been provided with two minifigs, based on characters from a popular Disney film, to review. See pictures after the break.
Both minifigs feature a custom-printed head and a full body print across torso and dress, which have been printed together to ensure a seamless pattern. The designs are great, there's an impressive level of detail in the dresses, and they are well printed.
They both also have custom capes which are very high quality, better than those from LEGO in fact. The dark red one is made of a much thicker material that won't get creased as easily as a LEGO one does. The light blue one is translucent and sparkly.
They are not cheap (£12 each or £23 the pair) but you are buying high-quality hand-made pieces of art so on that basis I would say the price is reasonable.
There's not much more to say about them, really, other than to reiterate that they are very attractive and well made. Head on over to Minifigs.me to buy a set.
Here are more images of their Brick Flicks characters:
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I'm impressed with the head printing. I remember back in the day, that was one of the things they said was hardest to do smoothly.
Shame they couldn't think of a more appealing design for the tin man's helmet/head; that one is an eye-sore. The Austin Powers minifigure with sleeves that don't match the suit is also hideous, although I see a few gems in there. Overall not bad.
Brick Flicks by Warren Elsmore. Somehow, I missed out on that one. I'm sure it will be as good as his last two Lego books.
The Frozen characters do a good job of capturing the faces, something the minidolls consistently fail to do. Otherwise, these guys are okay, but not fantastic. They're cute, but some aspects could be much better. But with all existing parts, they're really nice.
Some cool figs in there and piece usage is good too. Something about the printing bothers me however. Seems ink jettish...the simpler prints are not bad but the more detailed items suffer from what look more like water slide decals (because decals are ususally ink jet). Since there is so much competition with custom printed figs these days, you have to look at price VS quality. If there is a premium on the price, IMHO I think good pad printing is the better buy.
Figures are great but the "quiz" of working out the film title is a much better game.
Why would anyone want a Hellraiser or Evil Dead minifigure?!!
They seem to have 'a bit of a thing' for Johnny Depp too?!
I have bought quite a few items from Minifig.me and can't fault them
Not bad :)
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Perhaps my self given title of Lego purist is going to far when I feel the way I do. For the record I like the prints and I think many of the prints these days are getting better and better.
But..
I fear the days when I go to buy figures and have to inspect every aspect to insure it is an original. When I see prints this good and the lego community supporting them I think of how easy it is to print a "i heart newyork" on a white torso plop a yoda head on it and sell it for 300$ as original. Where do we draw the line on our support of "adapted" lego figures. Yes, its an art form in itself and yes it stretches the imagination of the creator but is it not in effect taking away from supporting Lego to make new figures and surprise the consumer with new launches of themes we have never seen or wanted to see.
It seemed so much easier 15 years back when I went to a garage sale saw a tub of lego and bought it outright because everything was non adapted pure lego brand through and through.
I say let Lego do the toy making and printing... Let us to the building...
just my two cents... wait.. here in Canada we got rid of the penny so perhaps that too is passe.
Am I the only one slightly creeped out by the eyes on not-Elsa and not-Anna? The remind me of Clone Wars heads, and not in a good way.
I feel like if people are going to make a busness out of this (ie, as opposed to just a one-off for personal use), that they ought to create their own and get proper licenses, rather than just cribbing off of others. In this case, since the distinctiveness of both 'Frozen' and the Minifigure are so fiercely protected, I doubt it will be long before they get a cease and desist notice or two. In the meantime, shame on Brickset for promoting such obvious copyright infringement.
The print quality looked pretty good on some and downright terrible on others. I find that odd.
I try to be purist as much as I can. Some knock offs are getting to be better quality, which is scary. LEGO should really do something about that, but nothing seems to happen. I assume their patents ran out on a lot of things??
Either way, I'd prefer to give TLG my money, even though the quality has been going downhill for some time.
I guess if there is a point where the knock offs become better quality, then I may have to consider jumping ship. And I'm not one to do that. I'm loyal, through and through. But this is getting out of hand with the constant customizing and selling for profit.
I agree I don't want to have to inspect every piece/figure I buy to make sure it is genuine LEGO. And with a lot of LEGO customizers using official LEGO pieces, how am I to know if that SDCC figure is legit or not...
omg here we go with spys
I for one, love their custom work. I don't understand all the hate when there are plenty other custom printing small businesses too. These folks are nice people and from what I've read, they do maintain communication with TLG.
So far as I know Minifigs.me have never duplicated an official Lego minifigure--even the characters from Frozen were Lego minidolls, not minifigures. (I wonder if they would make minifigure equivalents of some of the Friends minidolls? :-) ) I find their minifig prices a little more expensive than I like but I've sprung for some of their printed tiles and been extremely pleased with the results--including the shipping costs to the U.S. I agree with Nynja--very nice people.
And I don't see why we need to be doing Lego's corporate enforcement, either.