5 of us were the Lego Village People (I even made a Lego block stereo that played YMCA all night – its in the pics). Nobody else even came close to our awesomeness. We’re planning to re-use them some other time. We each spent over 20 hours (I’ve got 4 more in the stereo) for a grand total of 100+ hours. Totally worth it. Thanks for the awesome instructions.

-Luke

Hello BLOCKGuys,

Every year at Halloween my company has a department costume contest. Every year is also a challenge, as we can never agree on what to be as a group. While searching on the Internet, we came across your website and were instantly inspired. We each decided on the Lego character that we wanted to be and our individual month-long journeys began.

I decided to be a Storm Trooper after I found a round piece of styrofoam that would make a great helmet bottom. I took my son’s tiny Lego Storm Trooper toy and photo copied it to get the proportions and the detail for the body and the gun. I have various photos showing each part of the body as I was making it. I especially have photos showing how the big gun was born. For the helmet, which is by far my favorite part, a mostly rectangular chunk of glued pieces of Styrofoam took shape into the final product. It was a tough journey: working full time, 2 kids, a household to maintain, a few hours here and there everyday. My wife was not so happy I was using her sharp kitchen knives to carve my helmet and my gun, but it was worth it. At show time, we were larger than life! We had a Storm Trooper, Superman, a witch, a baker, and the Toy Story alien.

We won our department contest and after working so hard on this I had to wear it again. So 2 of us wore our costumes again on Halloween night and were an instant hit. We were stopped many times for kids and adults to take pictures with us. People were in awe at the fact that they were homemade. It was hard to walk as long as we did, so our wives helped us out part of the night and wore them also. It was a great night!

Thanks for the inspiration and I hope you enjoy the photos!!

-Alex G.

Alex also took the time to compose a video slideshow of his construction process…

-Nate N.

Thanks!

Doug T.

Check out my photo! I wasn’t quite as artistic as you guys with the hair so I came up with an alternative. Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed your costumes!

Cindy

I’m a huge football fan and was trying to find a fun and unique costume idea. That’s when I found your website and great step by step instructions! The costume was a huge hit and I took best costume. Thanks Lego Guys for keeping your great costume idea alive and delivering it to the masses. Soon the world will be filled with Legos!

- Brian B.

My fellow Legos and I want to thank you for the info and the opportunity to be Legos. We took first place on Friday night and Second place Saturday (we got robbed on that one!!). Here is a pic of our hard work and your genius idea! Thank you!!!

Sincerely,

Bernadette and her Legos!

We couldn’t take ten steps without people mobbing us and telling us how great our costumes were and how much they loved them…we told them…BLOCKGuys.com!

I got the idea from one of my son’s lego guys, but I am very glad you did it first. My husband and I were sitting around trying to figure out how the heck we would go about making a lego man, when I found your costumes online. The instructions were awesome.

One note for your instructions you might be interested in, I found posterboard that won’t wrinkle. It’s called Terraskin and it’s actually made from stone granules and doesn’t absorb water. We used this paper only for the heads and front of the bodies as it is about 4.00/sheet (the sheets were extra large too).

Anyway, it was great. We felt like movie stars. I actually had to close my eyes when people were taking pictures because of the constant camera flashes lol.

Pics attached

Jeff and Cindy J.
Alberta, Canada

“Well this is what we came up with…LOL…most fun we ever had and we made the local paper! Great idea!” – Chad P.

Great job Chad on making these LEGO Guys! They turned out looking great and it is good to see your creativity and personalization on each LEGO Guy!