Lego ’s Friends line has been met with plenty of success , but it come under a batch of fervidness when it launched for conform to female stereotype . Artist Jon Lazar settle to change that with his Lego Super Friends projection , taking theseshopping - know , cute - animate being - crazydolls and turning them into amusing book Heron .
For the calendar month of July , Jon do himself the challenge of make a Modern ‘ super friend ’ figure a day , pulling from the pantheons of both Marvel and DC ’s Hero , famous and dark , to stop with a aggregate of 31 amazing - looking usage minifigures . Here are some of the best :
X - Men ’s tempest – and not just any Storm , but of course the mythologic ( and superior , in my Good Book ! ) Mohawked version of Ororo Munroe .
Zatanna , complete with magician ’s chapeau and baton !
Although she ’s an Icon eccentric , she ’s technically a Marvel - owned heroine – it ’s Hit - Girl , specifically the look take up by Chloë Grace Moretz in the Kickass pic .
The Teen Titans cartoon had a lot of expectant things going for it , including this awesome rendering of Raven ’s costume – it ’s just as great in minifigure variant !
She ’s had a few normal minifigures of her own thanks to appearance in Lego ’s Marvel Superheroes business line , but this Black Widow appear fantastic in her ‘ friend ’ reading .
Then there ’s of course this gorgeous variant of Kate Kane , Batwoman herself , in her mint New 52 costume .
Although Jon ’s month - long challenge is over , he ’s not ending his raid into challenging the sterotypes place by the Friends dolls – not only is he selling some of the original 31 figures in hisEtsy computer memory , but he ’s contrive to extend the serial publication ’ send back even wider , using them as the basis for even more superheroines , video biz and TV characters , and even manlike characters .
you may check out the full gallery of superheroes over at Jon ’s web log .
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