The newest video game character to be made of of Lego!

[Jumpman Jr.]

Hey everybody,
A while ago, I made three characters out of Lego which seemed to have spawned some sort of Lego building craze around here.
After seeing other peoples creations, I never saw any Yoshi's. So I wondered; What's with that? Is it to hard or something.
Either way, I was up for the challange (if it was a challenge).
I spent most of my day today looking at various Yoshi pictures and eventually made something out of them.
Here's what I got:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/Yoshi.jpg

I really didn't know what to do about the colors. I was experimenting with just green and white, but I realized that it wouldn't be enough of a contrast, so I had to add some yella in there.
Complete with egg and all.

Now he sits proudly among my other creations:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/YoshiMarioLuigiToad.jpg

Your move, boatofcar ;)

[Mr.FoodMonster]

While I always love this and wish I were capable of doing them, this is probably my least favorite out of the bunch, just because to correctly do it there needs to be a lot of different 'pixels' that is hard to replicate in real life. It just dosn't look 'right' to me, but I still love the idea behind them (I think I've seen megaman before, that was sweet)

[pacmanhat]

My fiancee, who loves Yoshi more than almost anything, heartily approves. As do I. Good show, sir.

[Aussie2B]

Very cool. :) Toad doesn't seem so pleased to have Yoshi's tongue in his face, though, hehe.

[Richter]

my room's been needing some of those. Do they sells blocks in indivisual colors?

[VG_Maniac]

The Yoshi looks really good, and so do the others. I copied your Mario (without the ears and tail) and Toad, and I made a goomba based off the sprite from the original SMB.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/Hero_of_Hyrule/HPIM0387.jpg

I want to make a Mega Man really bad, I just need a some more blocks for it that I don't have.

[Austin]

Wow, that takes some talent. All of the figures above look great.

[Jumpman Jr.]

This is probably my least favorite out of the bunch

I agree with you. This one actually took me the longest to create. The real hard part was the fact that I couldn't actually find an 8-bit Yoshi picture where he was just standing on his side. Either way, I think it looks good enough to put on my shelf ;)

[johno590]

Very cool...

I have a bunch of lego's somewhere in storage, I should take them all apart and make a few of these characters... but I'm lazy

[Nirvana]

I know I'm trying to steal your guys' ideas, but are there directions on how to make these? They're pretty cool. I'd also like to know if there's a specific Lego set I'd need to get for the colors and stuff.

[keiblerfan69]

Well here are my 2:

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/2567/dsc001521sh.jpg

[2Dskillz]

DO you all just do this free handed, or is there a method for getting them to look so darn good.

I can kind of see what is going on, but I would not know where to start. I guess I should have played with legos more as a child...

[nationgamesdepot]

I have got to make some of these. I have a ton of legos, I just have to find them. I want to see a Samus Aran to, that would rule. I think the Mario with the raccon tail is the best by far, but they all rock. Great idea man, I am going to theive it.
~~NGD

[Jumpman Jr.]

DO you all just do this free handed, or is there a method for getting them to look so darn good.


I took the Mario design off of somebody on the internet. He's a member here but I can't remember his name. He had the Mario built, and all you have to do is go line-by-line the same way that it is built in the picture. It takes a long time, but in the end, its worth it. Just don't get frustrated.

Luigi was based on Mario, so that was easy.

Toad was incredibly hard. I took an 8-bit sprte of him and tested out colors and pieces until they worked. I am glad to see that other people have been building Toads cause I know that they all stem from my origional design.

Yoshi was the hardest one I've ever done. I had to do the same thing with Toad, but this time there was no 8-bit sprite to go by. Just some 3 dimensional pictures of him.

[keiblerfan69]

I want to do Samus but I couldn't find a good sprite.

[unbroken]

my question is: where in the world do you find the perfect color legos to do this? All the legos in the store arnt like the original ones.

[boatofcar]

my question is: where in the world do you find the perfect color legos to do this? All the legos in the store arnt like the original ones.

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[Jumpman Jr.]

my question is: where in the world do you find the perfect color legos to do this? All the legos in the store arnt like the original ones.

I played with Lego a lot when I was a kid. I have a couple tubs worth of assorted colors and shapes. It was all a matter of finding them in those tubs for me.
I would be making a hell of a lot more characters if I had more pieces. I'm currently completely out of black, yellow and red. :(