Giant Steps (Narnia Vignette)

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Giant Steps (Narnia Vignette)

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Bruce's suggestion to create Puddleglum was so intriguing that I skipped a few books ahead and created a vignette to showcase my attempt to capture that silly old swamp-dweller:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=140987

This is a scene from The Silver Chair in which Puddleglum, Eustace, and Jill climb a series of ledges (which turn out to be stairs built by giants) up to a ruined city and the castle Harfang.

(I have so many Harry Potter owls that I think a "Parliament of Owls" vignette from this book is also inevitable. :D )
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This is your best Narnia vig yet!

The main thing I want to comment on is the background. Alone, this vig is great, but your choice of background (no matter how simple) brought it to life for me.
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I like it. It really looks good and has the Narnian feel, but I would like to see puddleglum up a little closer...


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I dont know much about the books but that vig looks great and now I feel I know a little more and I believe I have an idea of the mood of the scene. Great vig.

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Awesome. I think, though, Puddleglum would look better in sandgreen. IIRC, he was described as having a 'muddy' complexion, and also he was the perpetual pessimist. I think this head would make an excellent Puddleglum. Still, I really like it, and the hat is great. :D

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I like the hat too. :D However, I suspend any other analysis of Puddleglum until we can see him better. The way he's positioned in the vig his features are very shadowed.

Aside from that, the vig is very well done. I'm looking forward to seeing more in the future...
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Hey,

I like the Frankenstein head as Puddleglum. For some reason I always thought of him as kind of reptilian, so I might have chosen this one:

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Thanks for the compliments, and I really appreciate the feedback -- especially Cm2 and Bruce's suggestions for possible Puddleglum heads!

I've been dying to get my hands on the Studios Monster minifigs for a while now, and I finally got Vampire's Crypt (with Dracula and Igor) this weekend from BrickLink. (I only paid $0.50 over the original MSRP, including shipping. Woot!)

Unfortunately, I don't have the Scary Laboratory (yet), so using Frankenstein's Monster is out. :( I had my Zam Wessell head in my girl-heads bin, so I'd missed the other face. I'll try it out, but I think I'm pretty much sold on old Bolt-in-the-Neck! :D

Duke_Dave and Azaghal, I'll create a folder with pictures of just the minifigs. I'm building quite the cast of characters so far, and I know I won't use all of them in vignettes.

EDIT: Sigh... I couldn't help myself. I found a great BrickLink store that had good prices on all three Studios figs I want (Mad Scientist, Frankenstein's Monster, and the Mummy), so you'll be seeing a Cm2-inspired version of Puddleglum soon. :wink:
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I like it. Puddleglum is my second favorite character... after Edmund. I agree he needs to be more reptilian/amphibous, but other than that, it is great.

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Okee dokee. I finally got my BrickLink order for Frankenstein's Monster, so I updated this vignette with an improved Puddleglum:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Dunec ... airs.1.jpg

Close-up of Athos' second-favorite character:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Dunec ... leglum.jpg

Credit goes to porschecm2 for the suggestion to use that head. Very much obliged, good sir! (I'd needed a good excuse to get the rest of the monster minifigs, so double-thanks!)
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Post by Azaghal »

Hmmm....

On one hand, I can certainly sympathyse with those who wanted Puddleglum to be green, he looks good that way. However, the Frankenstien head just looks too...happy. Are there any other heads colored Sand Green? If not, then this may be the definitive LEGO Puddleglum. :)
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Oh no Puddleglum is Frakenstien! :shock:

Just kidding, cool fig, even though I don't know who he is.

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