Jul 27 2010When Good LEGOs Go Bad: Tattooed Minifigs
This is a series of ads designed by the Barcelona-based Grey Agency for Pilot's Extra-Fine tipped pens. In case you can't see straight because you drank from the cup clearly marked 'GW's Happy Juice', they all feature LEGO minifigs all tatted up. Unfortunately, it's entirely fake. Speaking from experience (I once had my name written on a grain of rice at the mall), there's no way a Pilot Extra-Fine pen is capable of that delicate a stroke. No, I suspect these are actually maxifigs made to look like minifigs. You ain't foolin' me! You hear me, chick I bought drinks for all night that I caught adjusting her penis? Scratching at crabs my ass, that was a wiener!
Hit the jumap for five more, including a pretty sweet looking tramp-stamp.
Strange But True: Tattooed LEGOS [flavorwire]
Thanks to Spikey DaPikey, who
Reader Comments
1. Justin - July 27, 2010 5:23 PM
If this was real, what would the point be of having a tip so fine that no one can read it?
2. Lily - July 27, 2010 5:24 PM
Avatar back dude needs to be made into a lego...so I can watch him melt in a fire
3. lol - July 27, 2010 5:24 PM
the shadows are all wrong. and obviously it was just art multiplied over the picture of the minifig. also, first.
4. Kristen - July 27, 2010 5:25 PM
Tramp Stamp!
5. Daisy - July 27, 2010 5:26 PM
FAKE!!!!!
This has been shopped because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is just like the scene in Never Back down when Max get tattoos. He then gets AIDS and dies a few years later.
6. (◕_◕)┌∩┐Closet Nerd - July 27, 2010 5:28 PM
Love the tramp stamp in the last pic.... just sayin
7. 7 - July 27, 2010 5:31 PM
first!!!
you all suck im first
8. Leftover - July 27, 2010 5:34 PM
Is the last one a scratch n sniff?
9. Dishy - July 27, 2010 6:00 PM
That chick in the last pic has some awesome leg piercings. 4 holes. Try em all!
10. Ryan - July 27, 2010 6:03 PM
I "hit the jumap".....and nothing happened.
11. @10 - July 27, 2010 6:16 PM
Because you have to "hit" it, with your fist preferably. Works for me every time.
12. (-.-) OJ's Mom (-.-) - July 27, 2010 6:19 PM
This would be cool if mini-figs weren't so fucking stupid. Lego Fan-boys are teh gaye.
13. naas=ε/̵͇̿̿/'̿'̿ ̿ ̿̿ ٩(๏̯͡๏)۶ <- you - July 27, 2010 6:28 PM
ggrrrrrrr
14. Cath - July 27, 2010 6:29 PM
Needs more fornicating dinosaur tats:
http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/tdomf/30163/Dinosaur%20Tattoo.jpg like this but with more secks
Also this is shopped, pixels etc.
15. Greens - July 27, 2010 6:56 PM
@5 - fave one yet Daisy!!
16. r k - July 28, 2010 3:31 AM
amazingly detailed. thanks for posting this.
17. I never back down - July 28, 2010 4:20 AM
Well I guess I am going out tomorrow To get myself a new pen.
18. Betta - July 28, 2010 9:15 AM
I love the tramp stamp! This will probably be the cutest thing I'll see all day.
19. Shelbon - July 28, 2010 12:57 PM
I want some lego-flavored booze or somethin
20. Bacon covered lego - July 28, 2010 1:52 PM
Or we can cover them in bacon.
21. blair - July 28, 2010 7:10 PM
hahaha, clearly none of you understand the advertising business. this is an *exaggeration* of the product's unique quality -- in this instance, a "super" fine point. of course you can't draw little tattoos like that on minifigs.
22. Katie - July 28, 2010 9:52 PM
I hate when people say its 'shopped b/c the shadows are all wrong' ala #3. And he wasn't first. 3, are u a photoshop wizard? Are u a graphic designer? do you professionally shade and ink things? then STFU. seriously. THE SHADOWS ARE FINE, that has no bearing on if its fake or not. It could still be fake with good shadows, damn.
On an aside, if they are really that fine point, then that would rock my socks for inking. <3
23. haha - July 29, 2010 12:17 AM
btw katie, i am a graphic designer. lol and i know exactly how it was done.. the art is good, just clearly not done on those lego people.
24. Tim - July 29, 2010 5:37 AM
@23 ... totally agree, f*&%ing losers like #24 just say generic bull like "shadows are wrong" or some other breeze ... If you have a case for making such a statement, point out where and how it would look if legit. @24 you useless spanner: They are probably fake, judging by the size of the grain on the spanner and the mold lines e.t.c. it sure looks like they are indeed minifigs (why bother making a big one when there's no need?) ... which means the tats were either 'shopped on or someone with a magnifying glass and suitable kind of pen/brush painted it. Both are entirely possible. Either way, the shadows are f-ing perfect you cretin, probably because they are real shadows from real pictures and if they photoshpped the tats on, they probably used a transparent layer so you wouldn't be able to tell, at all, dumbass (since you don't know the BDRF of whatever ink+process they may have used).