Tenuous LEGOLAND Based Blog Of The Week - Halloween Edition
October 28th, 2008 by Jonathan DudleyI know I big up Tenuous LEGOLAND® Based Blog of the Week whenever I write one. I know I promise you great things once a week, but this week I have a super special version of the internet’s favourite LEGO® based blog (OK, perhaps not the WHOLE internet’s favourite). As the title may have given away this instalment is a Halloween LEGO special edition, a seasonal bonanza of all things plastic, bricky and scary.
1) LEGO Zombie
Halloween is not Halloween without zombies, lots and lots of brain-munching, groaning, decaying zombies. Perhaps you thought that LEGO zombies don’t exist, that they are the product of my fevered imagination. Well, allow me to introduce you to Cecil, the LEGO zombie. Cecil lived in an abandoned box of LEGO in a scientist’s attic, he lived a happy and care-free life in his little plastic world. One day, the scientist put some plutonium in his attic for storage, the nuclear radiation mutated Cecil and eventually he was well and truly zombified. Ok, that WAS the product of my fevered imagination, but still…spooookyyyyyy LEGGGGOOO.
2)LEGO Minifig Costume
Perhaps the best possible use for what appears to be a pair of buckets sprayed yellow, these LEGO minifig costumes are obviously pretty damn cool. I googled long and hard to bring you these little gems and let me tell you, there were some seriously heinous minifig costumes on the internet. One appeared to be a tramp with an actual bucket on his head with a smiley face burned out. I may not sleep for a week because that horrifying image is burned forever into my fragile little mind. Back to the point at hand though, these guys deserve some kudos mainly for their costumes realistic LEGO hands. Impressive, impractical, but impressive nonetheless.
3)LEGO Brick Costume
Look how happy that child is, he’s as happy as a kid can be when he’s wearing cardboard. Normally, home-made Halloween costumes are embarrassing affairs involving a truly tragic amount of bin bags and Poundland “witches hats”. One Halloween I tried to make myself a Transformers costume. In the end, I had several brown cardboard boxes strapped to my body and one on my head. I essentially looked like somebody’s recycling.
An obvious big bonus of this LEGO brick costume is the amount of storage space wearing a box lends you. I’m sure that gleeful looking child is packing some serious heat under that box. Silly string, eggs, flour and all manner of other mess making materials undoubtedly lay hidden under that outfit, mark my words. Something to consider though, if you came across a group of children dressed as LEGO would you try and build something out of them? How much trouble would that result in?
4)LEGO Headless Horseman
Fiendishly clever in its simplicity, this LEGO minifig was converted by a blogger called ‘Evil Mad Scientist’. I must say, it does not really take a full on mad scientist to put an LED in a minifig’s head but still, it’s impressive. Interestingly, a minifig’s head cavity (for want of a better word) is the exact size of a LED, it’s as if the LEGO people WANTED people to do this. This clever little project really got me thinking, how many other LEGO creations could be improved with the addition of simple LEDs? Imagine your favourite LEGO castle with light-up flaming torches, LEGO cars with working headlights. The possibilities are endless, well perhaps not endless, after all there are only so many places you can jam an LED.
5)LEGO Pumpkin
The only one of our Halloween line-up that is actually endorsed by the good people at LEGO. The LEGO pumpkin is available in kit form from the official LEGO website but only to our upstart cousins across the pond (Americans). It’s simple, it’s Halloweeny but does it leave you a bit cold? I was far more impressed by literally everything else on our little list. I just can’t work out what’s wrong with the LEGO pumpkin. It might be the fact it’s obviously not going to respond well to having a candle popped inside, but that’s easily overcome with good old LEDs. Maybe it’s the fact it looks deformed, LEGO and round things have never really been good friends. I don’t know why it feels so wrong but one thing I do know…I’ll be using a traditional pumpkin this year. That way I won’t mind so much when it gets either stolen from my doorstep or kicked to smithereens by ASBO trick or treaters.
LEGOLAND® are not doing a dedicated Halloween event this year, but they are putting on a very intriguing looking LEGO® Star Wars™ fireworks event. I’ve had dreams of a life-sized LEGO Millennium Falcon sweeping through the sky dodging red and green fireworks. Of course I also have dreams involving being made of bacon, so take what you will from that.
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