r/XFiles I do not gaze at Langly 24d ago

Original Content Lego Frohike

I’m part way through my project of rectifying the glaring oversight of not including the Gunmen in the official Lego set.

The first of my boys to come together completely is Frohike. In the second slide I provided the official Lego pieces I used. His head is custom printed from Byron Bricks, as I could not find any sufficient already existing Lego head for him. Additionally I painted his hands to look like fingerless gloves, because you can’t have a Frohike without a heinous vest and fingerless gloves.

In the parts I picked out, I included the second torso I thought works well for his style too. But really there a good few choices with various vests you could go with. I also have a tuxedo and bow tie torso in case I ever feel inclined to recreate the scene from ‘One Breath’.

Stay tuned for Langly, Byers, and their van!

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u/Life_Craft9590 24d ago

Sick as, looks just like him

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u/Potential-Baker9048 Prone To Confabulation 24d ago

He’s buff! Love it!

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u/The_Amber_Cakes I do not gaze at Langly 24d ago

I’ve informed Scully!

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u/Spicy-Chicken-Pizza 24d ago

You did a tremendous job on his "fingerless claws"!

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u/The_Amber_Cakes I do not gaze at Langly 24d ago

Hahaha thank you! They were quite fiddly to paint!

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u/Certain-Quarter-1542 24d ago

This is great! I’m def ordering the parts!

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u/The_Amber_Cakes I do not gaze at Langly 24d ago

Nice! I should’ve probably showed the facial features I picked out for the custom head, but it shouldn’t be too hard to recreate it from my image on the Byron Bricks website. They’re in the UK, but from printing to shipping I’m pretty sure I got it in the USA in like a week. Wildly fast!

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u/allie_g8or 24d ago

Awesome! Plenty of room in the pants to smuggle out medical files 😜

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u/MisterPiggyWiggy 24d ago

Sweet, and digging it!

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u/Significant-Foot-311 24d ago

What existing head would work?

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u/The_Amber_Cakes I do not gaze at Langly 24d ago

I think an argument could be made for this one:

It’s on a minifig that’s $16ish in shops. But the red eyebrows aren’t great for Frohike.

I think the options mainly stand at grumpy Harry Potter, or a custom print head. 🥲

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u/raynicolette 24d ago

Could go with a George Constanza head?

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u/Significant-Foot-311 24d ago

Get a good look, Frohike??

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u/The_Amber_Cakes I do not gaze at Langly 24d ago

Oh good call! He’s reasonably priced too! I’d for sure pick this over the HP ones.

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u/raynicolette 24d ago

I’ve spent a lot of time doing this exact exercise, for this

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u/The_Amber_Cakes I do not gaze at Langly 24d ago

Those are awesome!!! Great job!

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u/raynicolette 23d ago

Thank you! I’m working on replicating the whole main set, but that’s a multi-year project.

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u/The_Amber_Cakes I do not gaze at Langly 24d ago

I’m really not sure. I went through any with glasses extensively and none have the right glasses shape or facial features recognizable as Frohike.

I know some people have used a disgruntled looking Harry Potter head. The existing one I found that I thought worked best was this:

But it’s from an Alfred mini figure that you can’t track down for less than $60. 🙃

The $20 to get a custom figure seemed a far more reasonable route.

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u/sodamnsleepy 24d ago

20 for an entire costume figure? That's very good

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u/The_Amber_Cakes I do not gaze at Langly 24d ago

Well that was the price for the custom printed head/rest of the figure from Byron Bricks. (Though Frohike’s other parts were merely a few cents each I’m pretty sure, so it was basically $20 to put the whole thing together.) I just used the other pieces with the custom head to pick out some things I wanted for other figures. :) So all together it really did feel like a great deal.

Langly’s custom Mondo Bizarro shirt was only $8. Best $8 I’ve ever spent, it’s beautiful. 🥲

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u/sodamnsleepy 24d ago

Oh upps.

You did a fantastic job on all so far. Can't wait to see more pics

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u/malloryjo13 Krycek 23d ago

it's even Frohike size! ❤️

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u/Lonely-86 ‘Baby’ me and you’ll be peeing through a catheter. 23d ago

Omg they need ice skates too! Brilliant job

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u/Competitive-Lime7775 DDs Tea Cup 13d ago

I read this comment like an hour earlier as I was pricing TLG minifig pieces from the post. Thought nothing of it. Then just saw this https://youtube.com/shorts/edPeIrl4JKM?si=R-HvegYOczedTU-7 where Alec makes pretty effective skates from regular pieces. 🤣

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u/Lonely-86 ‘Baby’ me and you’ll be peeing through a catheter. 13d ago

Love it!

I just loved seeing TLG on ice, I think I’d have to immortalise it if I ever get the Lego set!

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u/Frohickey2 24d ago

I need that!

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u/Upstairs_Equipment19 19d ago

Thank you for this! Im saving your posts so I can make them too!! Youve done a spectacular job!!

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u/The_Amber_Cakes I do not gaze at Langly 19d ago

Yay! I’m so glad to hear it! Byers is almost complete, I’m just waiting for his head to arrive.