Joel Johnson (the Boing Boing correspondent who toured and filmed my museum) has alerted me to the mention and actual work of Mike Stimpson, involving LEGO photography and various classic photographs that Stimpson has recreated.

One of the greatest new images that Stimpson uploaded this week is an amazing Lego recreation of that famed frame from the Patterson-Gimlin footage. You know which one I’m talking about. It is “Frame 352″ from the film, showing the apparent female Bigfoot, today nicknamed “Patty.”

Stimpson’s intriguing recreation…

…was based on this:

Of course, who could have ever known? Discovering Stimpson’s Lego recreation of this classic Sasquatch scene has opened the door to an entire unseen (and unknown to me) world of replica Lego magic and more. After all, I sure didn’t know that there was an Indiana Jones Lego, did you? Ah, popular culture.

But back to the Bluff Creek Bigfoot scene: Stimpson is so detailed, he reveals his photo set-up for the shoot:

This Lego recreation of the Patterson-Gimlin film frame had to have a central character, and since there are no Sasquatch Lego figures, Stimpson used the Star Wars Lego’s Chewbacca. Here he is, front and back.

Considering all of the recent talk of Bigfoot massacres and what really happened at the “shoot-out” at Bluff Creek in 1967, it seems rather appropriate to discover this recreation shows an unknown hairy hominoid carrying a belt of ammo across its torso!

Of course, Lego, indeed, has not forgotten real cryptids of the hairy bipedal kind.

When Joel Johnson was here, he noticed I had on display the Lego Yeti’s Hideout Building Set (UPC Code : 6-73419-01762-6).

This white hairy hominoid item is a rarely seen relic of what shall go down in history as the “Snowman Wars,” between Lego’s Yetis and Star Wars’ Wampas, built by other companies. Don’t tell me there’s not fierce competition between toy manufacturing corporations.

I soon found evidence that a few people had even used this Lego Yeti for the Wampa in recreations of the Star Wars movie scene called “Luke in the Wampa Cave.”

Steve Bishop, for example, constructed this scene, from The Empire Strikes Back –”Luke in the Wampa Cave,” using the Lego Yeti.

For those frustrated that there are no actual Wampa pieces in Lego, now there are virtual stories and scenarios online of Lego Wampa battles, with related visuals.

What other LEGO cryptids exist that I don’t know about? Giant squids? Nessies? Rocs? Thunderbirds? Sea Serpents? Merbeings? Saber-toothed Cats?