Custom pineapple for Green Grocer... any ideas?

y2josh · March 2012

So... thanks to Psych... I have a long-standing obsession with pineapples and I was trying to create one to add to the Green Grocer. My solution for the moment is to drop a carrot top into a yellow 1x1 round brick... but this seems lacking... especially the 'leaves.' So I was wondering if anyone on here had happened to create a minifig scale pineapple that perhaps would work much better than what I have.

Si_Dorking_Surrey_UK · March 2012

you could maybe use a bunch of these to make one, might be too big though

jonboy2000 · March 2012

you could make the holes of yellow flowers bigger and thread them onto the carrot stalk. Stagger them slightly for a better effect.

y2josh · March 2012

^I may just try that. Thanks for the idea!

murphquake · March 2012

aren't pineapples brown/green on the outside? The 'meat' is yellow but a plain uncut pineapple shows none... I'd think a brown semi-circular design with a yellow plate would be a better representation?

y2josh · March 2012

They are brown and green, but I didn't like the way mine looked when I did it in brown (either shade). Yellow and orange seem to be the go-to colors when making cartoon or balloon animal pineapples, and I don't mind how the yellow looks here. The flowers could solve the texturing dilemma... but that still doesn't help me with the 'spiky' leaves I desire.

Yellowcastle · March 2012

Throw a couple swiveled flower stems on top for the spikes?

y2josh · March 2012

^I may try this as well. I'll post back here with all the different variations I try. Had to order the flowerheads and stems, though, so it could be awhile.

sidersdd · March 2012

How about this?

It's essentially three bright-light orange colored round 1x1 plates with flowered edges (from Emma's Splash Pool), with a dark green plume (from Dragon Knight). I don't have my lightbox and camera setup right now so the photo isn't the greatest.

Another option is to use a trans-green flame. I didn't have trans-green, but when I tried with a trans-orange, it looked a little long for the pineapple. Plus it's transparent, so that's a little weird. But it's nice in that it sticks straight up, more like the pineapple leaves do.

This tiara might work in trans-green:

Or this piece looks nice as leaves - but they are only in white:

y2josh · March 2012

^I don't care for the plume, but I REALLY like the way the body turned out. I think I'm going to try that with two clipped flower stems on top and see how they turn out. Off the top of your head do you know the 'official' LEGO name for those pieces and if they're available on PaB?

sidersdd · March 2012

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=229

LEGO color code is 4624184 for the bright light orange.
Looks like they might call it "Bracelet Upper Part":
http://us.service.lego.com/en-US/replacementparts/showBrick.aspx?item=4624184

samiam391 · March 2012

You could take one of these:
http://www.bricklink.com/PL/4733.gif?0

Add brown 1x1 tiles to each side, and then stick one of those green "leaf" pieces on the top. If it's not large enough just take another http://www.bricklink.com/PL/4733.gif?0 and stick it on the bottom of the other, and add brown 1x1 tiles to those sides too.

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