Funwhole Newsstand and Monkie Kid Mashup?

 

Hmm,  I wonder if I should make a modular building out of the two sets?  On the lower level is the Funwhole Newsstand and on top of that is the Hotpot Restaurant from the King brand Monkie Kid City of Lanterns set.

Here are my reviews for both sets.

https://bricktoyreviews.blogspot.com/2023/11/i-got-to-preview-new-lego-compatible.html

https://its-not-lego.blogspot.com/2022/08/review-king-86999-monkie-kid-city-of.html

Here are some of my thoughts.  I'd have to build a staircase to access the second floor hotpot restaurant.  The front door would have to be moved to the back and filled in with another window.  I'd have to reduce the width of the Funwhole Newsstand by one or two studs.  Then I'd need to refit the whole thing onto a standard 16x32 baseplate.

Would need all new floors and walls to give this building some depth and furnish the interior of the restaurant.

Let me know if I should pursue this as a project or try something else instead?  Thanks for looking!

All Hands on Deck!

 

It's a fact that every time you buy a bootleg minifigure, they always give you an extra hand.  Why can't they give you an extra leg or torso or head?  Why just a hand?  Anybody have any ideas what one is to do with all these hands?

Happy Halloween 2023!

 

Hi There, fans of the brick!  Just sharing my pictures of my little display for Halloween in 2023.

I thought that the Funwhole Wood cabin makes a nice little haunted house.

Here's some creepy looking mini figures from my collection.  Do you recognize any of them?

In front of the veranda, there's some giant spiderwebs and a lot of scary pumpkin heads (from Temu). Ghost Rider makes a cameo on the front steps.

At the side of the house I have made a little cemetary with tombstones.

That's it, hope you have a very scary Halloween!  Bye!

Who's a good boy?

 

I was removing the JMBricklayer mechanical dinosaur set from my shelf to free up some space.  The dinosaur model attaches to a base comprised of tan coloured bricks.   I have plans to use the base as a desert island in other of my dioramas.  

So I flipped the dinosaur over on the floor to remove the base and what's funny was the legs were still sticking up in the air.   My first thought was that it looked like some fresh roadkill and I was thinking about taking a picture as it was with a caption of Dino Roadkill.

The flipped over dinosaur also looked like a bit like a dog when you pet its belly.  So then the idea came to me to use one of the JMBricklayer astronauts to mimic someone petting or playing with their pet dinosaur.   And that's how this picture came about.

Here's my review of the JMBricklayer 70001 Mechanical Dinosaur set:  https://bricktoyreviews.blogspot.com/2023/08/should-you-buy-latest-jmbricklayer.html

And here's my review of the JMBricklayer 70109 Mechanical Astronaut set: https://bricktoyreviews.blogspot.com/2023/05/jmbricklayer-space-astronaut-70109.html

If you want to see more sets, please visit the JMBricklayer store and get 15% off using my code itsnotlego15%.

Wonder Woman's Invisible Plane

Wonder Woman had her invisible plane pushed out of the hangar.  Here she is climbing into the cockpit.

You can't come in here!

 

"Sorry fellas, this is a restricted movie, therefore no miners allowed!"

I made this picture before I got my Palace cinema modular building set.

The miners are from Sheng Yuan's SY263 City mini figures. 

Free Giveaway at the Apple Store

Jeff and the gang lined up for hours at the Apple store but they weren't too happy about the free giveaway!

Want to see more of the Apple store Moc?  Check it out here: 

https://bricksandfigs.blogspot.com/2019/06/i-modded-my-hsanhe-brand-apple-store.html

These aren't the droids you're looking for

 

Hi brick fans!  Thought I'd have some fun with this popular scene from the Star Wars movie, A New Hope.

The two featured droids or robots came from the Monkie Kid set I recently built.  They are kind of clumsy looking, and was thinking of just taking them apart for my parts bin.  

But then I got this idea that it might be fun to make Star Wars scene but with these two robots taking the place of R2D2 and C3P0.  I knew I needed a landspeeder, a Luke Skywalker minifigure, and Obi Wan Kenobi minifigure, a bunch of stormtrooper minifigures and some kind of Tatooine-style background.

The landspeeder is a MOC set by Vostroyan:  Luke's X-34 SoroSuub Landspeeder  which I  bought from Aliexpress.

The building is listed on Aliexpress as the Desert Radar Base, but I searched Rebrickable and the Internet using Google Lens, but couldn't find the original creator of this MOC set.  It has 453 pieces and originally came on a 16x32 baseplate.  I swapped the 16x32 baseplate for a 32x32 stud baseplate in order to have some display space for the landspeeder.  Besides Aliexpress, there's a few online sellers that have this set.

I still have the replica Mos Eisley Cantina set to build, and maybe I will expand the setup to include this building and others in future.

Ambush at the Wood Cabin

Apparently, the rumours were true about Bob Brickman harbouring an illegal alien.

The FunWhole Wood Cabin serves as the backdrop for this picture.  The undercover minifigures are from a PUBG game series, I think.

Who wants Fried Chicken?

 Pictured here is Colonel Sanders holding on to some delicious fried chicken!  This minifigure is from Kopf.  Item number is KF949 and he came out in 2017.

He's got white hair and flesh toned with is signature glasses and mustache, wearing a red apron with the KFC logo on it.

Looks like he's no longer available on Aliexpress anymore.  I tried searching for KF949 and Mr. Kentucky, but no luck.  If you're lucky though, you might still find him for sale on the Internet somewhere.

Trying for the high score!

Daniel is the reigning Street Fighter champion in the neighbourhood!  The mobile arcade truck comes by everyday after school, so that the kids can play the latest arcade games.  The set is YC-QC009-3 from the Happy Build truck series.

Just arrived from Aliexpress: Bela 10871 Pickup and Caravan Set

Here's the latest set I got from Aliexpress!  It's the Bela 10871 Pickup and Caravan set which is a copy of the Lego set 60182 with the same name that was released in 2018.  It has approx. 344 pieces.  Will review this set soon!

Here are the search results for set 60182 on Aliexpress.

And here are the search results for 10871 on Aliexpress.

Sometimes you have to search both terms to find the best deals.  What was the best deal that you found?  Let me know in the comments below!

Don't Touch Anything!

Grogu (Baby Yoda) messing with the controls again!  The set backdrop is from the Pantasy Ling Cage Incarnation set.

How I created my custom Blade Runner minifigures

I really loved the Ridley Scott Blade Runner movie, so acquiring and building a MOC of the police spinner was a no-brainer.  It's too bad nobody created any Rick Deckard and Gaff minifigures because I would have bought them in a heartbeat. 

I decided to create them myself using pieces from my other minifigures.  For Gaff, I started out looking for a torso with a bow tie on it.  There's actually not that many that I had in my minifigure collection, so I had to use this black jacket with red bow tie and cumberbund combination.  For the hat and trenchcoat, I used them from my Spiderman Noir minifigure.  The head is from a Tony Stark/Iron man minifigure. To complete the look I gave Gaff a cane like he had in the movie.

For Deckard, I started with a torso and legs from a Breaking Bad minifigure, that of the lawyer.  I needed a torso with a brown jacket and tie.  For the head, I used one of the faces from a stormtrooper minifigure.  I found a hairpiece that looked accurate from my minifigure parts stash.  The only piece I didn't have was a brown trenchcoat for Deckard, but after a lot of searching I found a store on Aliexpress that had it.  I probably paid too much for that flimsy piece of material but in the end, I'm pleased with how my blade runner minifigures turned out.