Lego Kirby Is An Adorable Ball Of Plastic Bricks

Kirby is the type of squishy, malleable being that seems nearly impossible to translate into Lego bricks; Nintendo’s pink ball of joy doesn’t have a lot of hard edges or angles that would be easily recreated with square pieces of plastic. Luckily, the difficulty of translating Kirby into a Lego sculpture didn’t stop Flickr user Swan Dutchman from trying.

Though simple-looking from the outside, the sculpture employs a deceptively complex building technique to reproduce Kirby’s spherical form. The Bram Sphere technique, which involves creating a ball of Lego around a core structure, is so complex that someone created a program specifically to generate 3D models of it for the Lego-based modeling program LDraw. 

Aside from his spot on Kirby, Swan Dutchman’s Flickr profile is full of sculptures like the Ford Anglia from Harry Potter and a gingerbread house that’s currently eligible to be made into a real Lego set.

The next time we'll be able to see Kirby in video game form, he will be made of clay instead of Lego bricks in Kirby & The Rainbow Curse, which releases February 20 on Wii U and will be a discounted $39.99.

[Source: Flickr via The Brick Brothers]