LEGO Bigfoot and Yeti
Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 14th, 2008
Joel Johnson (the Boing Boing correspondent who toured and filmed my museum) has alerted me to the mention and actual work of Mike Stimpson, involving LEGO photography and various classic photographs that Stimpson has recreated.
One of the greatest new images that Stimpson uploaded this week is an amazing Lego recreation of that famed frame from the Patterson-Gimlin footage. You know which one I’m talking about. It is “Frame 352” from the film, showing the apparent female Bigfoot, today nicknamed “Patty.”
Stimpson’s intriguing recreation…
…was based on this:
Of course, who could have ever known? Discovering Stimpson’s Lego recreation of this classic Sasquatch scene has opened the door to an entire unseen (and unknown to me) world of replica Lego magic and more. After all, I sure didn’t know that there was an Indiana Jones Lego, did you? Ah, popular culture.
But back to the Bluff Creek Bigfoot scene: Stimpson is so detailed, he reveals his photo set-up for the shoot:
This Lego recreation of the Patterson-Gimlin film frame had to have a central character, and since there are no Sasquatch Lego figures, Stimpson used the Star Wars Lego’s Chewbacca. Here he is, front and back.
Considering all of the recent talk of Bigfoot massacres and what really happened at the “shoot-out” at Bluff Creek in 1967, it seems rather appropriate to discover this recreation shows an unknown hairy hominoid carrying a belt of ammo across its torso!
Of course, Lego, indeed, has not forgotten real cryptids of the hairy bipedal kind.
When Joel Johnson was here, he noticed I had on display the Lego Yeti’s Hideout Building Set (UPC Code : 6-73419-01762-6).
This white hairy hominoid item is a rarely seen relic of what shall go down in history as the “Snowman Wars,” between Lego’s Yetis and Star Wars’ Wampas, built by other companies. Don’t tell me there’s not fierce competition between toy manufacturing corporations.
I soon found evidence that a few people had even used this Lego Yeti for the Wampa in recreations of the Star Wars movie scene called “Luke in the Wampa Cave.”
Steve Bishop, for example, constructed this scene, from The Empire Strikes Back –“Luke in the Wampa Cave,” using the Lego Yeti.
For those frustrated that there are no actual Wampa pieces in Lego, now there are virtual stories and scenarios online of Lego Wampa battles, with related visuals.
What other LEGO cryptids exist that I don’t know about? Giant squids? Nessies? Rocs? Thunderbirds? Sea Serpents? Merbeings? Saber-toothed Cats?
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Lego needs to make a Patty.
Speaking of this photograph though, there is another blog [in Spanish] with a post about this work.
However, they add at the end of the post, “En el mundo real, bajo la piel del monstruo se escondía Bob Hieronimus, un trabajador de Pepsi.” This says that in reality Bob Hieronimus, a worker at Pepsi, was hidden beneath the skin of this monster.
I’d like to see some casts of the Lego Sasquatch footprints to check for dermal ridges.
lol, Lego is so awesome. Brings back memories.
I think somebody’s toying with us.
Playmobile has a sea serpent (and a viking war ship), and Fisher Price has a sea serpent AND a giant octopus….Hot Wheels has an underwater submarine for the bathub and it comes with a giant octopus (they bill it as a squid, but it only has eight arms).
Hey, why are you all looking at me like that…I have a four year old. 🙂
He also pronounces Sasquatch as “Aasquatch”…that’s my boy!
Speaking of figurines: it would be useful in understanding the PGF to have a series of annotated photos of a 3D storyboard that included the positions of the three hominids involved, each represented by a little figurine. Chris Murphy’s film site model could supply the setting. A little post-it note book-flag with the frame number would be laid down on the model, and other post-it notes would give the distances between the camera, Gal Friday, and various landmarks. If this were an online slide-show, a text and/or spoken commentary could accompany each frame-image. A set of 30 such pictures would be a great help in understanding the sequence of events, and the location of the actors at each frame in relation to each other and to the setting.
“in reality Bob Heironimus, a worker at Pepsi, was hidden beneath the skin of this monster.”
And yet he, or his confederates, are unwilling to release the video of his re-created Patty-walk at Cow Camp in October of 2004. Greg Long & Kal Korff huffed and puffed beforehand about how it would blow our house down and show the world what fools or worse we all were.
But that was then. After, not so much. Why the silence? To be taken seriously, any hoax claimant must be willing to walk the talk–publicly. He’s got the guy who (supposedly) made his suit, and he’s stated, “I still have, I think, the old walk. I could do it again.” (Xzone radio interview, 8/23/07). So what’s the hang-up?
I suppose they could have a Lego set for Patty, complete with unknown gunmen, a backhoe, and braid. And there could be a stick in her little Lego Patty hand. Groan.
Anyway, cool recreation! Love the substitution of Chewbacca for a sasquatch. Awesome!
Legos: Because grown-up men deserve to keep playing with little plastic dolls 😉
And yes, I still keep my Star Wars Wampa in a box somewhere.
Like I said…