LEGO: Kill Bill

Hi. Here's a small LEGO diorama I built last week.

Despite never having played with LEGO as a child, I know find that as a child-like adult, I enjoy it a lot.

For slightly less than a year now, I have begun building LEGO dioramas inspired by feudal Japan. You can click on the links immediately below to see some of my Ozymandias-like work:

LEGO DIORAMA 1
LEGO DIORAMA 2
LEGO DIORAMA 3
LEGO DIORAMA 4

This diorama is obviously a departure from that.

Originally, it was just going to be a quiet Japanese style room with a bed, chair, bookcase and shoji doors (rice paper screen doors). The bed was tricky, in that I wanted to make it look like it had a bit of a ruffled quilt from use, but it was just supposed to be an empty bedroom. Quiet, serene and as Japanese as I could muster. I started it and completed it in 20 minutes last Thursday.

But late this past Friday night, I thought it might be fun to add a Japanese high school girl with a backpack I made using a Japanese sailor upper body and a cheerleader skirted lower body... and then I said, what the heck... let's mess it up.

I gave my high school LEGO minifig (mini-figure) a pair of sai blades and a geisha-faced female combatant in a judo gi (suit) using a kusarigama (chain-sickle).

If they were fighting in a bedroom, I had to have a shoji door blown off its hinges, right?

I know, I know... I'm sick. Anyhow, the scene reminded me of a cross between the fight scene between Go-Go Yubari, the Japanese schoolgirl killer (read HERE for a nice story on the cutey-pie actress who played Go-Go) in Kill Bill Volume II, and the battle in Kill Bill Volume I between Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman) and Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox) at Vernita's home.

It's not either of those scenes, but the diorama is certainly inspired by Kill Bill.

Enjoy:

 

by Andrew Joseph
PS: I'm now thinking of a nice Feudal Japan diorama featuring seven samurai riding horses down a tree-lined path, past an ox-cart laden with rice barrels, in front of a temple.
Idle hands are the devil's workshop.
Along with learning how to better focus a digital camera with my astigmatism, I also think I need to get laid.