And again, more 'droids

These new fellers are brand new, and frankly they creep me out.

The LEGO construction seems to follow a couple of strands: copying existing models with increasing fidelity and "the original works". The latter we're seeing more of. They may have been inspired by some of the baddies in the now-defunct Lego Universe. 

There's a distinct Edwardian meme floating around; obviously LEGO themselves could be part of it through what figurines they produce. However witness the recent Doctor Who stylings and Sherlock Holmes reboots among others.

This dude looks pretty serious, and I'm told he's a General!

Something different for a change

There is admittedly a strong theme of the highly marketed memes in here.

But Lego is so much more than that; here's some ideas that were sparked when the "class cuddly"* came to us for the day.
You can make many things with Lego: cake and animals too. The odd looking lump in item #2 is the contribution from the Creator's sister. You may have to squint. 

Mr Otter gets a Lego birthday cake.

And here are several Lego Otters

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The Influence of 'Potter makes itself felt

Before the happy day when some gen-yoo-ine actual Harry Potter Lego arrived, there was nevertheless a pressing need to express some Dementor related scenarios. So, something got done.

This is put together from some Star Wars lego, with You-Know-Who* getting the "Battle Damage Darth Vader" head.

I particularly like the re-purposing of the Ewok flying machine stand ...

Scene of great ersatz drama.

*Voldemort

Occasionally, out of the maelstrom of smaller items, cobbled together to fit the whim or the theme of the current drama, a bit more time is spent to get a more detailed creation together.

Maybe later I'll pull something together on the key place that the "special pieces" play in the whole enterprise. Nothing though that the marketing bods hadn't already considered, I'm sure...

Quite a complicated number: yes, there is a co-pilot in there.
And I don't know why there's a small racing car on the back.

Troopers, Troopers, Troopers

Arguably the array of Troopers in the Star Wars universe is "pre-bewildered" to borrow from Major Quimby.

They come in the varieties: Storm, Shadow, Clone (Early/Late variants), Snow, Senate, Rocket, Heavy and the list goes on.

Nevertheless, the opportunities are rarely overlooked by the Creator to make the bewildering array even more so.

It's a cop: a StormTrooper cop with an "enhanced" gun.

Handy for getting at those "hard to reach" rebels.

Actually, I'm not sure what purpose the re-breather is serving...

Never caught out by attacks from above.

May have been inspired by the "Bounty Hunter Rockets" red brick.

A Buzz Trooper.

A Skeleton StormTrooper and "Darth Skeleton"

... And yet more 'Droids

Some more strange 'Droids: the flow has only slowed, not stopped.

This one was an ad-hoc creation today: pound for pound, it has quite a high outlandishness rating.

This poor fellow needed quite a lot of help standing up...

And another victim of the rampant Gun inflation; I fear a similar fate as the Sabre toothed tiger awaits.

Though in the event of enemies needing shooting and spearing with a little help this fellow is your man.

I  just can't do this!