You want to see some cool Lego figures of 70s and 80s baseball players
Feb 22, 2013, 10:31 AM EDT
Craig Robinson — in addition to being tastefully named and wearing very cool Shuron horned-rim glasses like all the other cool Craigs wear — is a genius. I’ve long enjoyed his work at Flip Flop Fly Ball, but his latest project may be my favorite yet: Lego figures of 1970s-80s baseball greats.
Craig lives in Mexico and doesn’t have the full panoply of Lego colors available to him that he might have here, but he’s done a fantastic job with Fernando Valenzuela, Andre Dawson, Pete Rose, Mark Fidrych, Randy Johnson, Barry Bonds and Dennis Eckserlsey. I think Fidrych is my favorite so far.
Only sad part: because Legos are expensive and he has a limited supply, he has to take each figure apart before building the next one. Which is preventing me from offering him my children’s college funds in exchange for the collection.
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- The Dangerous Mabry - Feb 22, 2013 at 10:53 AM
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I love this project, but I still say his Randy Johnson looks more like Dottie Hinson.
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- tycobb420 - Feb 22, 2013 at 11:24 AM
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Brilliant!
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- Old Gator - Feb 22, 2013 at 11:56 AM
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These figures deserve to be enshrined in LegoLand.
Along with a lego model of Macondo Banana Massacre Field in the world cities section.
It just kills me that they came up with the idea for LegoLand so many years after I stopped taking acid and mescaline. Ah well. I still have my hallucinations of Disneyland to comfort me in my second childhood.
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- albertmn - Feb 22, 2013 at 12:03 PM
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The head on the Barry Bonds should have been bigger.
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- Old Gator - Feb 22, 2013 at 3:16 PM
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So should the balls.
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- cur68 - Feb 22, 2013 at 1:14 PM
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I heart Lego. Don’t judge me.
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- Old Gator - Feb 22, 2013 at 3:18 PM
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Gowachin guilty!
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- kopy - Feb 22, 2013 at 1:47 PM
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It’s pretty neat, but it’d be even neater if it was the Craig Robinson that plays Darryl on The Office (U.S.)
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- El Bravo - Feb 22, 2013 at 5:04 PM
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legoes and baseball….im gonna cry.
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- jwbiii - Feb 22, 2013 at 11:51 PM
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Yeah, I miss Bat Grrrl too.
And Sergio Romo still looks illegal.
