Lego Black Canary Custom Minifigure

Here is the newest addition to my Lego custom DC Superhero ranks: Black Canary!

Black Canary is made up of the head of Lois Lane (from one of the recent Man of Steel sets), the hair from a blind-bagged mermaid from a couple series back, the torso of Western Wyldstyle from the most recent Lego Movie themed blind-bag series, and some random legs I had lying around (most likely from an old knight themed set.)

Black Canary is a true hodge-podge of parts, but I think she turned out pretty slick! It can be tough coming up with these customs for DC Comics characters, since Lego gives the official ones a Caucasian skin tone, yet most Lego minifigures are yellow skinned. But I'm trying to maintain consistency at least with this bunch, so Lois had to be sacrificed. She was a boring Lois anyways. As for Wyldstyle's torso...well there is some yellow...cleavage...?...but that could just be part of Canary's bustier or something. Regardless, it works for this character so I'm happy with it!

Finally, I gave her the motorcycle that came with the Vampire Hearse set so she can get over to the Lex Luthor melee post haste!

By the way, I saw the Lego Movie with my kids today and thoroughly enjoyed it! They loved it too. I highly recommend you go check it out.

I know why the caged bird sings...

...it's because I finally got a DCUC Black Canary!

Black Canary is from DC Universe Classics wave 9 - a wave that somehow completely avoided landing anywhere near me. With reports coming in that people are already finding wave 12, I figured my chances of getting any wave 9 figures was pretty much nil. Not surprisingly it is also a wave with an abundance of characters I want: Wildcat, Deadshot, Guardian, Green Arrow and of course, Dinah Lance. Fortunately I was able to make a trade with a friend of mine and I just got Dinah in the mail today!

Black Canary's fishnets are real cloth, which is a nice touch and really stands out in person. Her leg articulation is more limited than most DCUC female characters in order to allow for actual fishnets, but I feel that the aesthetic trade-off is well worth it.

Black Canary really is a stand-out DCUC figure. Her head sculpt is exceptional, and her design is straight out of the comic books.

She has all the articulation and sculpting pros and cons of all DC Universe Classics figures, so you should all know what you are getting in that department by now. At this point if you are still with DCUC as a collector, it merely comes down to character selection and availability. Who do you like, and who can you find?

It's a real shame that distribution is an unmitigated mess for these figures. If it were otherwise, I would glady give Mattel a lot more money. For instance, not counting the cool characters in wave 9, Dinah's Collect and Connect piece is for Chemo, a fun looking character who would be really neat to build. But the pickings are ridiculously slim for DC Universe Classics in my locale, so I don't have the luxury of "team" or "C-n-C" building without adding a level of collector strain to my already heart-disease-prone ticker that just isn't worth it. Thank goodness I have been able to build a decent community of fellow collectors who can help each other out on occasion! Now that is a REAL Collect-and-Connect!