Kid

[Squeaker]

it's a kid

The torso is connected to the legs with a dowel, but it could also be done with a melting bead (a small cylandrical bead that is put on a plastic board and ironed to make them stick together creating a small mosaic)

I put this in GD because it's more a building technique than anything else...

If you like this and want to use it, give me credit, please?

hope you like it! ~Squeaker

[Siegfried]

I put this in GD because it's more a building technique than anything else...

I think it makes more sense in Minifig Customisation Workshop.... ;-)

[Asuka]

That´s a very charming and sweet looking work, the proportions of the torso and limbs to the head´re just brilliant. *y*

[MoonCheese]

How does it stand up? Can the hook on the bottom fit over a stud?

It's good otherwise though. The Lego world needs children too.

[SirNadroj]

Awwwww it's so cute! Very chibi too!

Good job! *sweet*

[Lt. Col. Thok]

Very good! *y*

[Opproperaar]

HAHAHAHA! That looks hilarious (in a positive way)

It reminds me of these cartoons where adults are depicted with adult heads and children's bodies.

Very clever and original btw, the hands make the arms look a bit ET like:-P

[Lt. Veers]

Very intresting, but the head seems a little big...... but still intresting none the less! *sweet*

[Squeaker]

Thanks for all these comments, guys!

He stands up by... balancing. He's on a white piece of paper in the photo, no adhesive or clay involved.

He does kind of look chibi and like a character in one of those cartoons, and he does have a large head,

but kids do have rather large heads for their size. Also, are you judging a LEGO figure on scale? Look

at the official minifig! I think LEGO sytem minifigs are based on somewhat of a cuteness scale...

do you think any of you guys might use this technique? I'd love to see a pirateor castle kid! :-P

[Corvus]

do you think any of you guys might use this technique?

He might be kind of cute in a town, better than the little legs TLC made for the yub-yubs. :-| It's all a matter of standing up. ;-)

[ExoBuilder]

Aww, he's so cute *wub* I wish there was a better way of doing the legs though.

*sweet*

[Squeaker]

Michael Jasper usedmy technique without giving mr credit. He made different legs, but that's not cool.

At least someone used it

[Squeaker]

Michael Jasper usedmy technique without giving mr credit. He made different legs, but that's not cool.

At least someone used it

[LegoLyons]

Michael Jasper usedmy technique without giving mr credit. He made different legs, but that's not cool.

At least someone used it

I agree its not cool to use somebodys technique and not mention it, but brickshelf does not have the capacity to write text, does it? or am i wrong??? I would be honored for people to use my techniques though.

I must admit his legs do look better though.

[Jipay]

You can write text on brickshelf.

Anyway this whole credit issue is just a dead end in the AFOL world. We are many and might get an idea on our own that someone else already had without knowing it. So let's not call it stealing.

Nice way to create a lego child, for both of you. I'm not sure about either legs though ; there might be some place for improvment there.

[BlueBard]

GOOD WORK!

It's very funny, because it really looks like a real little boy in holidays or something. Usually LEGO "kids" looks more like dwarves but you found the trick to do it really "childish". Congratulations!

[mijasper]

„... and they all lived happily ever after.“

Hello!

Michael Jasper usedmy technique without giving mr credit. He made different legs, but that's not cool.

YOUR technique?!?

Which one are we talking about? Using a dowel to connect two LEGO parts?! – Really clever.

The combination of minifig hand and technic brick?! – Well, many AFOLs all around the world are using this since

years (e.g. door handles).

And referring to figures: I want you to take a look at the following picture taken in February 2007 (!) – even long

before you have registered for an account here on EB:

(click to enlarge)

Did you realize the tiny fig at lower left? –

So, stop accusing me wrongly and don’t use the phrase my technique any longer, please!

Those toddlers are my own creations and design.

Michael

[SlyOwl]

Nice, but would have been better without the customization; as Michael showed, Scala bows and flowers work, but they're harder to find.

YOUR technique?!?

Which one are we talking about? Using a dowel to connect two LEGO parts?! – Really clever.

The combination of minifig hand and technic brick?! – Well, many AFOLs all around the world are using this since

years (e.g. door handles).

That was quite an introduction

Just remember that yours featured on the Brothers' Brick

As for "technique ownership", it's best not to claim a technique as your own (e.g. I could claim that I created the stud and tube technique ). However, if it's a previously unseen technique, I think that it's OK up until the point that someone proves they used it first, for example my thatched roof technique, and wizard's hat water pouring.

[Scouty]

Gotta love them kiddies!

Great work here

[Squeaker]

Whoah Michael! I hardly meant it that way! I'm sorry... It's just I whipped up that torso/head combination and couple days later I saw your toddlers and thought that you had seen my kid and used the idea when you got a post on TBB... I was wrong. And I said used, not stole. I wasn't really being as serious as you took me to be... Please don't let this make us have sour thoughts of each other. I like your creations, and you are a great builder, but you took my post a little bit seriously. And please don't go so hard on me, I'm very new to the whole online LEGO community and am still getting used to customs and traditions. Once again, I'm sorry.

[SlyOwl]

Stone Goblin has recently used this too, in his Funhouse Mirror vignette:

...

[Siegfried]

So, stop accusing me wrongly and don’t use the phrase my technique any longer, please!

Those toddlers are my own creations and design.

Michael

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