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Discussion of custom parts made for the Castle Theme
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These legs are actually made by Lego. They come in sets with minifigs of the HP goblins, those little teddy bear things from Star Wars, Boba Fett young, Yoda, and a few other minifigs.
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Ewok Attack (Teddy Bear things XD) has one Tan and one Brown.
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Legoguy,

I don't know of any actual customized leg pieces, but I'll leave this in "customs" just in case someone actually makes these. The short legs you usually see are an official LEGO element that came out last year. Here's Peeron's summary of colors and sets:
http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/41879

Before these short legs were available, I used headlight bricks as legs for my hobbits:
http://www.ozbricks.com/bricktales/lotr ... ast01.html
I've seen others use bricks and plates to build short legs. E.g.:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=115526

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Both sets of mini legs are brown in that ewok set. Ewoks are a very cheap source of stubbies on BL if you are looking to pick up a good fig for parts. Brown hands, arms and torso and those stubbies.

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http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=41879

Brown Ewok
http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?inv ... &invType=F
Tan Ewok
http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?inv ... &invType=F

Good store to buy Ewoks
http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=Ni ... ID=1683905

Some excellent prices and fair shipping. I was very happy with my order from there. I have tan stubbies in my store, but this is not a Buy/Sell/Trade post.

People have also used 1 x 2 bricks, 1 x 1 Headlight bricks, 1 x 1 round bricks and 1 x 1 round plates stacked to get the short leg look. It is all how you want to do it.

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I bought two of the ewok attack sets and really enjoy the stubby legs give me. I would buy them off Bricklink if you want bulk though.
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The stubby legs are great, but I made my own long before LEGO made theirs. All it takes is a 1x2 plate, two 1x1 plates (or another 1x2 plate, if you don't care about the legs being separate) and two 1x1 round plates. You can see the result here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=821028
It's really simple, but I like it, and you can choose what colors you want to use.
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I think the brick made short legs are just as good as the ewok ones. Sometimes better because you can choose the color.

The offical short legs seem to only be available in a few colors.
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lil Jon wrote:I think the brick made short legs are just as good as the ewok ones. Sometimes better because you can choose the color.

The offical short legs seem to only be available in a few colors.
Yup. I have black, brown, tan, and sand blue. Any other colors?

Making your own is fine for set poses, but they aren't very sturdy, so I like the stubbies, though I hope to see more colors in the future.
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Well, you can use the hinge brick to do hoping dwarves.
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What you could do is cut off the feet, then cut off the middle of the normal lego leg, then sick the feet on. Then you would have a posable little lego guy.
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Lord Resta wrote:What you could do is cut off the feet, then cut off the middle of the normal lego leg, then sick the feet on. Then you would have a posable little lego guy.
Interesting... have you or anybody else here tried this? I would imagine that it would be difficult to get the cuts just right.
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I do remember someone saying they had donw it, but I have not. I only ever cut up broken pieces, and I don't break legs (not part of the mafia :wink: )
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