Firefly Serenity

Custom Project - prior to June 2017

I'm a huge Firefly fan, so one of the first custom minifig sets I wanted to make was the Firefly cast. I decided to use different kinds of minifigs/dolls, to get the best fig for each character. Which means regular Lego minifigs for Wash, Kaylee, and River, a fleshy one for Mal, and a dark-skinned fig for Book. Minidolls for Zoe, Inara, and Simon, and a MegaBlok Assassin's Creed figure for Jayne.

Now, I would eventually like to get the Firefly set of minifigs from minifig.me, but I haven't gotten to those yet. And I think these have some charm for being self-assembled.


Here's the command crew. Fleshy Mal - I think his body might have come from a Lord of the Rings set? Tall beautiful Zoe from the Friends/Elves collection - annoyingly, almost all the Friends girls have skirts, so one of the boys minidolls got parted out to make Zoe. And Wash. He has one of the reversible faces - I think it was Emmett's from the Lego Movie.

Inara is another Friends minidoll - actually, I think that body's a Lego-compatible minidoll that was supposed to be a Disney Princess? Jayne is an Assassin's Creed figure. I couldn't get him a cunning hat, but I found a reasonable substitute for Vera. The hardest thing to find has been hair for Book - there aren't many white or grey hair pieces, especially with buns. This one is a higher bun than I want, but it's good enough.

For River, I used the short legs to make her smaller, and gave her a couple of sharp things to play with. This one was harder to customize any to look like the character. But Simon wasn't difficult. I think that head is from the Flynn Rider minidoll, and the medical bag is also a Friends piece. And Kaylee was pretty easy, once I found green overalls and a wrench for her.

And then, of course, in the back, we have the ship herself. Now, I've seen a minifig-scale Serenity built, but I though a micro-build would work fine for my purposes.

I looked up several other micro Serenity builds around the internet, and used parts from each, then  adjusted it to my wishes. I find her pretty cunning.

Here's the view of the tail-end. The angled pieces are on a hinge so they could be opened. It was a lot of fun trying to figure out how to A) make it look like the reactor end, and B) stay connected to the rest of the ship.