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Would you like to see a official LEGO® Oscar set?
At the 87th Academy Awards, the song “Everything is Awesome” from “The LEGO®
Movie” was perform. During the performance LEGO versions of the Oscar statue
were given out to few celebrities. The LEGO version of the Oscar was designed by
Nathan Sawaya known as ‘Brick Artist’ in the LEGO fan world.
Video: “Everything is Awesome” from the 87th Academy Awards,
YouTube.com
The LEGO designed of the
Oscar was created in
March 2002 by Nathan Sawaya.
Nathan Sawaya’s has posted his LEGO Oscar statue on
LEGO Ideas.
Enjoy!
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Hi all,
I should visit LUGNET more often (like David Koudys suggests) to show my latest
creations... A few mosaics, a new puzzle, and my very first GBC module.
In the
mean time I also created my own
YouTube-chanel, so
that you can watch the GBC module in action.
(pics are links)
And last but
not least: the GBC module
grtz,
Maarten
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In lugnet.general, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Abner Finley wrote:
A truly gorgeous set, with tons of incredible detail and character.
Congratulations to all involved!
Dave!
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At first I wasn’t too sure about this one...
I think this one will be the first to get multiple copies (I most likely will
get 2) just to enlarge the detective’s office, the pool hall, the barbershop,
and the appartments upstairs... they are too cramped for one 32x32 baseplate.
:)
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Abner Finley wrote:
A truly gorgeous set, with tons of incredible detail and character.
Congratulations to all involved!
Dave!
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LEGO plans Reality TV Show
Toy company’s foray into TV would build on success of Warner Bros’ The LEGO
Movie and development of Batman spin-off film.
After The LEGO Movie, watch out for the LEGO reality TV show. The Danish
toymaker is following the global success of its foray into Hollywood films with
a move into TV next year.
LEGO is developing reality competition formats and will be launching a TV
series in 2015. A senior executive hinted on Tuesday that one idea LEGO is
exploring revolves around Master Builders – the name given to the designers of
its toy bricks sets and theme parks, and to characters in its movie.
The company is aiming to drive further into the entertainment and content
sectors following the runaway success of The LEGO Movie – which has racked up
nearly $500m in global box office receipts – and associated merchandising, which
helped it overtake Barbie-maker Mattel as the world’s biggest toy maker.
Jill Wilfert, LEGO vice-president of global licensing and distribution, said
that the Danish company is “exploring some reality competition show formats,
which is new for us: the idea of becoming a Master Builder is something we think
could be quite resonating”.
Wilfert, speaking at the Mipcom TV conference in Cannes on Tuesday, said that
over the next few years the company will increase its focus on TV and digital
entertainment.
“You will continue to see us in this entertainment and content space,” she said.
“We are working on a new property that will launch with a TV series in 2015, and
we are focusing on having real interactivity.”
She added that the it would be something designed for digital natives, with apps
integrated into the experience.
Wilfert said that there is also a LEGO documentary set to air next year.
Fans can expect a sequel to the first LEGO movie, with reports earlier this
month that it was likely to focus on the Batman character voiced by Will Arnett.
“The audience has responded, they love our content,” she said. “There is a lot
of speculation about future LEGO movies. I’m pretty confident that we’ll be
seeing additional LEGO movies in the future.”
Source:
TheGuardian.com
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Ushuaia Beach Hotel IBIZA - Built In LEGO
Ushuaïa Beach Hotel has over 28,000 LEGO pieces and took 135 construction days.
The Ushuaïa Beach Hotel, is the most detailed masterpiece by Kevin Deelay, who
is from Sweden.
Kevin Deelay Video: YouTube.com
KevinDeelay.com
If you like to dance to rave/house/trance/dance music and party until dawn.
Ibiza is the place to be at. According to people who have traveled there.
I am assuming Kevin Deelay is a DJ and a AFOL. :-)
Enjoy!
-Abner
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LEGO set 10245 Santa’s Workshop
Press Release
Set Year: 2014
Ages 12+
883 Pieces
US $69.99 – CA $89.99 – AU $119.99 – DE 69.99€ – UK £59.99 – DK 649.00 DKK
- Euro pricing varies by country. Please visit shop.LEGO.com for regional pricing.
Have festive family fun building Santa’s Workshop!
Enjoy the magic of Christmas with Santa’s Workshop, a festive addition to the
LEGO® Winter Village Series! Gather your family around the Christmas tree to
build this enchanting winter wonderland. Help the elves make the toys, feed the
reindeer and help Santa load up his magical sleigh. Santa’s wife has baked
cookies and the clock tower shows it’s nearly time for Santa to deliver the
presents—all at the most wonderful time of the year! Includes 6 minifigures:
Santa with red gift sack, Mrs. Claus with cookie tray and 4 elves with pointy
ears and hats.
The enchanting LEGO® Creator Santa’s Workshop model is full of festive magic and
includes a beautiful sleigh, reindeer and a Christmas tree.
•Includes 6 minifigures: Santa with red gift sack, Mrs. Claus with cookie tray
and 4 elves with pointy ears and hats.
•Features beautiful sleigh with red and gold detail and dark green padding, 4
reindeer and a baby reindeer, building with detailed interior, clock tower and
Christmas tree.
•Building features stained glass window and Christmas lights on roof.
•Accessories include: 4 wrapped presents in assorted sizes and 4 toys including
a blue classic spaceship, yellow car and a pink wand.
•Also includes North Pole sign, Santa’s Workshop sign and a summer holiday
picture of Santa and his wife.
•Gather everyone around the Christmas tree!
•Help Santa take off in his sleigh!
•Family dual-building experience: includes separate brick sets with instructions
for adults and children aged 8 and over.
•Santa’s Workshop measures over 6” (16cm) high, 3” (8cm) deep and 9” (24cm)
wide.
YouTube Video: LEGO set 10245
Santa’s Workshop
Note: Rudolph is a trademarked character, however there’s a spare round
transparent red plate in the set.
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It’s the Sirocco. And not the forgettable Volkswagen, either.
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Something I’ve been tinkering with for a few days. Aside from the joints, it’s
made entirely from pieces found in (two copies of) 6817 Light Armor Firebase
from Mega Bloks’ Call of Duty line.
Thanks for looking. Enjoy!
Dave!
See more at The Bloks Forum
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Just spreading the good news! If you haven’t heard about it yet.
The Theed Hangar Battle is featured in the new DK Lego Star Wars The Visual
Dictionary. Turn to page 127 to view it along with other fan creations...
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Genius at work
Shopping spree
Maggie’s Cribs
Rhythm & Blues
Getting some air
Lucky to get them all in one trip
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
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I built a simple tree just from 2×2 and 2×4 bricks a few days ago:
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Nice, but I can’t help wondering….. how the “purists” would feel about the color
lime green! 
JOHN
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I’ve tried to improve my mosaic of Lea a bit:
I’m not quite happy with the nose, but are there other details I should work on
too?
Play well,
Jacob
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I built a simple tree just from 2×2 and 2×4 bricks a few days ago:
(follow the link to see a bigger picture)
Play well,
Jacob
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We’ve had a “Christmas mosaic” competition in Byggepladen (the Danish LUG). My
contribution to the competition is this portrait of my daughter Lea:
Play well,
Jacob
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50 States of LEGO
Sometimes inspiration strikes when you’re out in the wild, climbing mountains
and taking in breathtaking vistas. Other times, it happens when you’re looking
after your 7-year-old daughter and playing LEGO. You can probably guess how
photographer Jeff Friesen’s 50 States of LEGO series came about.
Friesen hails from Halifax, Nova Scotia, so it’s only appropriate that he turn
the “poke fun of Canada” table on its head and stereotype the US of A for a
change (although he did tell The Phoblographer that the project started by
depicting the 10 Canadian provinces before moving on to the states).
Each of the dioramas in the series is made with the LEGO pieces he has on hand
and some construction paper. Whatever little Photoshop goes into the project is
usually there to remove strings used to hold certain pieces in the right spot
(the Kansas house, for example) or make minor color corrections.
Speaking with Wired, the professional photographer explains that this funny
little project is a great way for him to blow off some steam while keeping his
daughter entertained. “I’m quite serious in my other work — this project sorta
gives me an outlet,” he told the magazine. “And I always like to keep that time
with her productive.”
Images of the 50 States of LEGO. Jeff-Friesen.com
PetaPixel.com
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In lugnet.general, Abner Finley wrote:
Oh, man, that is wicked cool!!
--Todd
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Winning a Job at LEGO
Aspiring Designers Build Sets Under Pressure
By Jens Hansegard
Nov. 13, 2013
BILLUND, Denmark.
James Colmer, 46 years old, had a reason for spending two days building Legos in
Denmark, leaving behind his kids in Australia. He was applying for a job.
Mr. Colmer was one of 21 men and women who came from around the globe to the
small town of Billund last month to compete for a job as a LEGO designer. The
Danish company has an unusual method of filling this position. Rather than
conducting formal interviews, Lego invites the most promising applicants to its
headquarters to sketch and build Lego sets in front of a panel of senior
designers.
LEGO is the world’s No. 2 toy maker by revenue, behind Mattel. It has built its
success in recent years on a string of product lines based on hit movies, such
as “Harry Potter,” “The Hobbit” and “The Avengers.” Vital to its fortunes is a
steady flow of new play sets—themed kits of LEGO bricks meant to build specific,
sometimes ambitious, designs, step by step, such as a 996-piece “King’s Castle”
released earlier this year.
That means the company needs to continually build its design staff. Its 200
designers include people who sketch characters and people “who literally just
sit and build Lego models,” LEGO Design Director Will Thorogood says. By asking
recruits to design, “we get to see people in a much more relaxed way than they
would be in a standard interview process,” he says.
LEGO has run these two-day recruit workshops for seven years, but until now,
they have been kept under wraps. Aspiring designers apply online to take part in
the recruiting workshop, which Lego says takes place at least once a year,
depending on the company’s needs. Legitimate candidates are identified via Skype
conversations and tests. Participants who are selected are sent a bag of LEGO
and told to show up in Billund with a creation that represents a direction that
LEGO should go.
When the candidates entered a conference room at Hotel LEGOLAND on a rainy
October day, the first order of business was to show off the homework. Among
their ideas: remote-controlled scorpion models, magical tree houses and a
high-tech music player.
“It’s an icebreaker, a way to introduce the recruits to each other and to us,
and to see what they would make out of the bricks,” said Caroline Hansen,
director of the recruiting program.
Many of the hopefuls, flocking to Billund from countries including New Zealand,
Brazil, Taiwan, Indonesia and Germany, were seasoned designers. Mr. Colmer, a
46-year-old Englishman living in Australia, has worked in the entertainment
industry since 1988, designing the look of sets and other elements for movies
such as “Superman Returns.” He says, “My son suggested to me that he wanted to
be a LEGO designer when he grows up and I thought, “Hey, that would be a great
idea.”
York Bleyer, a 49-year-old military veteran from Los Angeles, worked for several
years as a Mattel designer. Allan Faulkner, 48, of Inverness, Scotland, has
worked for Hasbro and as a designer in the medical industry.
Design degrees and experience aren’t required. Kurt Kristiansen, a 40-year-old
designer on LEGO Star Wars team, creating some of the most popular toys the
company sells, was a tractor mechanic before he joined LEGO in the 1990s.
Mr. Bleyer was surprised to find himself competing alongside men and women fresh
out of college. “First, I thought, ‘what the heck?’ ” Mr. Bleyer says. “I’ve
worked for years and you’re making me go up against these kids?’ But then I
thought it was a really good idea. You bring your skill and show what you’ve
got.”
Most candidates were nervous when they arrived. “I haven’t slept all night,”
Daniel Sudarsono, a 33-year-old furniture designer from Indonesia, said. As his
homework, Mr. Sudarsono had built a complete magical-garden concept including a
water-breathing dragon who watered the garden and an evil wizard in the nearby
dark woods.
After the designers showed off their homemade creations, the real fun began. The
recruits were put through a series of challenges over two days, such as
sketching designs, designing minifigures, and creating a set for an
8-to-10-year-old. The challenges were timed.
Mr. Bleyer, the ex-military man, called the design challenges “brutal.”
In one exercise—creating a set that combines medieval- and space-themed LEGO
sets—plastic bags of LEGO bricks and minifigures were distributed—and quickly
ripped apart—as participants got to work sitting at tables or spreading out on
the blue-carpeted floor. Some began by sketching with colored pens, while others
immediately started clicking together the plastic bricks, trying out their ideas
as they worked.
They had two and a half hours to come up with a LEGO toy concept. Nobody spoke,
and, aside from the clicking of plastic bricks and the sound of the occasional
airplane taking off from the nearby airport, the group operated in silence.
Senior LEGO designers observed them and scribbled notes.
Candidates were judged not only on the concept but also on elements such as the
designs’ color schemes and buildability. Not to mention the elusive element of
fun. “You need to think in a way that adds a little bit of humor to a product or
a character or a story, and that’s very important for us,” says Mr. Thorogood.
The way contestants interacted with each other was also noted.
During breaks, LEGO informed the recruits about the practicalities of relocating
to Billund, a small town on the windswept peninsula of Jutland. The town has
6,500 inhabitants, and night life is limited to an Irish pub, the Highlander,
that is well-known for its “Thirsty Thursdays.”
LEGO also told candidates about Denmark’s forbiddingly high tax system. The
company assured them that its wages are competitive enough to compensate.
Candidates put on a wide-ranging display of technical ingenuity. One applicant
created a car that could transform into a killer robot, with the tires becoming
shoulders.
LEGO doesn’t look to produce these sets. It takes training for a designer to
create a set that is properly priced, targets the right age group and fits in
the LEGO portfolio, among other considerations. Typically, new hires will work
alongside a LEGO designer for a year before being charged with creating a small
set.
Late last week, LEGO said it had decided to hire eight of the 21 candidates. It
didn’t disclose who would get an offer; a Lego spokesman says it hadn’t informed
some candidates yet. But recruits who are offered a job, LEGO says, will be
expected to start work as soon as possible, preferably the next day.
Source: WSJ.
WSJ.com
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LEGO® set 10243 Parisian Restaurant
Ages 16+. 2,469 pieces.
Have an unforgettable evening at the amazing Parisian Restaurant!
US $159.99
CA $189.99
DE 149.99 €
UK 132.99 £
DK 1299.00 DKK
It’s very busy in the Parisian Restaurant. As a scooter zips by, inside the
waiter rushes between the tables as the nervous young man gets ready to propose
with the ring! It’s just as hectic behind the scenes, with the chef busily
preparing the food. This beautifully detailed building is the setting for so
many stories and is a great addition to the modular building series. The
Parisian Restaurant has a fully-stocked, blue and white tiled kitchen with
tableware as well as a cozy apartment with pull-down bed, kitchenette and
fireplace. On the top floor is the artist’s room with a studio that includes a
cast iron heater, easel, paintbrush and two works of art by the aspiring artist.
Outside, stairs lead down to the roof terrace lined with hanging lanterns and
flowers where the diners eat alfresco-style. This amazing Parisian Restaurant
model even includes a facade with croissants, clams and feather details that
recapture the feel of Paris. Includes 5 minifigures: chef, waiter, girl and a
romantic couple.
• Includes 5 minifigures: chef, waiter, girl and a romantic couple
• Also includes a rat, seagull and 2 clams
• Kitchen features blue and white tiled floor, lots of kitchen units and a
variety of utensils
• Second-floor apartment features a pull-down bed,
kitchenette and fireplace
• Top floor features an opening roof revealing an
artist’s studio with heater, easel, paintbrush, palette and artwork
• Includes
lots of food items for the customers including croissants, a pie, 2 cupcakes, 2
grapes, 2 hotdogs, turkey, cheese wedges, milk carton and colored bottles
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Also includes hard-to-find white croissants and bricks in olive green, dark blue
and dark red
• Intricate exterior details include facade with croissant
detailing, bus stop, sidewalk, scooter and even a dumpster and trash can at the
back
• Put up the printed restaurant sign and menu to entice the customers in
• Collect and build an entire town with the LEGO® Modular Buildings collection:
10224 Town Hall and 10232 Palace Cinema!
• Measures over 11” (30cm) high, 9”
(25cm) long and 9” (25cm) wide
Available for sale directly through LEGO® beginning
January 2014 via shop.LEGO.com, LEGO® Stores or via phone.
From LEGO YouTube channel.YouTube.com
Source: LEGO
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I love how you can tip it on end, and it looks like a space station tower. Nice
work!
David Gregory
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First ever official LEGO® Model of the UN completed by Ban Ki-moon
UN Secretary-General puts finishing touch to LEGO model of UN Headquarters
NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon today added the last LEGO element to a large scale LEGO model of the
United Nations’ Headquarters, as part of the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit
focused on “Architects of a Better World.” The Leaders Summit is the flagship
event of the world’s largest sustainability initiative, designed to bring
business and civil societies together in support of UN goals.
The completion of the 1.65m tall model followed a series of exercises in which
global CEOs used specially-designed creativity kits of LEGO bricks to build
their vision of a stronger future for education, human rights and the
environment. The Secretary-General finalized the UN model with the Chairman of
the LEGO Foundation, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, and Foundation CEO, Dr. Randa
Grob-Zakhary by his side.
“Inspiring and helping children to develop is at the heart of everything the
LEGO Foundation does,” said Mr. Kirk Kristiansen. “I’d like to thank the
Secretary-General for all of his efforts to bring focus to the importance of
global education and the value of quality learning experiences. Quality
learning, like quality play, has an absolutely fundamental role in inspiring
children and helping them to develop the vital skills that they need for today’s
world.”
“Just as the UN is a symbol of how we can come together to try and build a
better world, I hope that this model will serve as a symbol of the LEGO
Foundation’s commitment to unlocking every child’s potential,” said Mr. Kirk
Kristiansen.
Following the ceremony, the LEGO Foundation signed the UN Global Compact, a
policy initiative that commits businesses to align their strategies and
operations with 10 universally accepted principles.
“The UN Global Compact represents the LEGO Foundation’s shared ambition of
ensuring that learning environments foster the creative and critical thinking
skills needed to empower our builders of a better tomorrow, and we look forward
to exploring with the UN ways of collaborating in reaching this mission,” said
LEGO Foundation CEO, Dr. Randa Grob-Zakhary of the signing.
About LEGO Foundation
The LEGO Foundation, endowed by the LEGO Group’s founding family, is dedicated
to inspiring and developing the builders of tomorrow. Its work is about changing
the perception of play and increasing awareness about its transformational role
in learning across our lifespan. Through redefining play and reimagining
learning, the Foundation is demonstrating the link between play, creativity and
learning in the eyes of thought leaders, influencers, educators and parents with
a focus to equip, inspire and activate champions for play. Learn more at
LEGOFoundation.
SOURCE LEGO Foundation
Prenewswire.com
Video of the event on:
Chipchick.com
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The Nazgul mounted on a hideous flying beast visits the Lego store!
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The Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World shows
created by William Frederick Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, can be credited
with helping to create and preserve the dramatic myth of the Rough Riders and
the American Old West.
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The British soldiers shore up their formidable beach defenses ready to repel any
invaders. The artillery crew man the cannons from their firing positions as more
soldiers beef up the shore line.
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The Making Of LEGO Marvel Iron Man
From Spike.com website. Video link:
Spike.com
Standing at 6 feet and 5 inches tall, the LEGO Marvel Iron Man is simply a
masterpiece. Erik Varszegi, the model designer/master builder behind the magic
dishes out the details on what it took to build this tribute to Tony Stark.
The LEGO model displayed to the public at San Diego Comic Con SDCC 2013.
Enjoy!
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Inside the power plant, Ahsoka and Barriss make their way to the factory reactor
through the Battle Droid foundry, but their approach has been spotted by a
Geonosian drone.
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The Republic attack dropships swoop into battle to deploy troopers. These
compact fighters are armed with cannons and chin guns to drill deep into battle
zones. The pilot briefly lands with the ship’s cockpit rotated into deploy
position to drop up to two troopers onto the field before flying back into the
air and providing close ground support.
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Mobile infantry combat just got a whole lot more fabulous!
This mighty mech can duke it out in style, standing up to anything that the
enemy can throw at it.
Twin shoulder-mounted rocket launchers can lead the assault from a distance,
while the starboard plasma jet and port beam cannon will finish off anyone who
gets too close.
Thanks for looking!
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All winter long the Akai Dojo training grounds thrive with activity.
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In lugnet.build, Jean-Marc Détraz wrote:
> Hello gang,
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> Here is finally the result of my work.
> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=524784>
> I build it from 2 sets. I was short of 2 16x16 tan plates as well as 2 8x16 tan
> plates, and 6 seat back seat.
> I made quite a few MODs, can you guess? I still have a full bag of leftovers.
> The piano was the BrickFair 2010 set. The popcorn machine required pieces from
> my inventory.
>
> Enjoy, Jean-Marc
Hi Jean-Marc.... I love what you did!!! (What so many views and no comments?!)
The stretched out long building is PERFECT... movie palaces (what movie
theatre's of the 1920's and early 1930s of this type ) were long large
buildings... not just some store front with a few seats.
However, I'm going to critique you just a little bit, partly because I am
(besides a LEGO historian) also a movie theatre historian, and know all there is
to know about movie theatres (from Procenium, Mezzanine, Loge, Balcony, Grand
Foyer, Lobby, etc).
Movie palaces of the golden era had large 2 story auditoriums. It wasn't until
the 60s/70s that single story multiplexes first came out.
I saw an example from Eurobricks that got the 1920s movie palace look
perfectly... First of all... back then there were no concession stands... these
did not come into being until the 1940s (that's why old movie houses have so few
bathrooms... no "big gulps" available to have to make you "go").
What I would do is make it a movie palace type theatre, by having a main floor
seating (eliminate concession and piano)... and just have a small vestibule and
mainfloor seating (with stairs going up to the balcony). Between the first
floor and balcony (which are both tall spaces)... you should add a small
mezzanine projection booth that is mostly hidden, except for some headlight
bricks showing where the projection goes (as in real movie theatres).
And in the 2nd floor, make that only a 1/2 floor with a steeper slope for
balcony seating... the front half (towards the screen) would look down on the
main floor section of the theatre.
As for the procenium (the arch framing the stage/screen)... make it about 1 1/2
stories tall, more prominent, and with some kind of decoration alonge the side
and especially top.
This way you would have seating for over 25 seats.
Again, this is just a suggestion, go Google "Movie Palaces" for other ideas that
you might like.
The model for this original theatre was the 1927 Grauman's Chinese Theatre in
Hollywood, which also had a shelf (short) balcony.
You don't have to make any changes at all, since from the outside, your theatre
is much more to real scale than ANY I have seen.
Great Job and happy building!
Cheers,
Gary Istok
P.S. I give theatre tours in Detroit (which has America's 2nd largest Theatre
District).
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Hello gang,
Here is finally the result of my work.
<http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=524784>
I build it from 2 sets. I was short of 2 16x16 tan plates as well as 2 8x16 tan
plates, and 6 seat back seat.
I made quite a few MODs, can you guess? I still have a full bag of leftovers.
The piano was the BrickFair 2010 set. The popcorn machine required pieces from
my inventory.
Enjoy, Jean-Marc
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I posted this LDD MOC well over a year ago but I finally got around to taking
pictures of the final product! Also attached a pic of the old girl underway for
reference.
click the pic for brickshelf when moderated)
Enjoy, drc
Some info about the S.S. Lane Victory:
Victory class merchant ship launched May 31, 1945. One of 531 hulls built, she
sailed as a cargo vessel during WWII, Korean War, and Vietnam War. She
participated in the amphibious evacuation of Wonson and Hungnam during the
Korean war, rescuing over 7000 Korean refugees in one trip.
She is currently a museum ship moored today in San Pedro, California and a
memorial honoring all merchant seamen. Today the S.S. Lane Victory conducts
annual summer “Victory at Sea” cruises enabling today’s generations experience
what life at sea was like during the war.
Link to www.lanevictory.org for more information
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In lugnet.build.arch, Jean-Marc Détraz wrote:
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Hey Folks
I was working on a project back in 2011.
I presented it at our Crystal Palace Show in 2012
I was inspired with some pictures on the net.
I tried to be as thorough as possible, respecting the dimensions,
and of course the details of the corner stones, and dishes, and more.
I finally took the time to take some pictures.
You can view them in my brickshelf folder:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=522669
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I got to see this ‘live’ when I was out there for the LEGO show in NB and I
lived it! The pedestal looks exactly like the real one!
Very nice build!
Dave K
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The temple entrance where four statues of unnamed Jedi masters who’ve protected
the temple from the Sith wars is the location for the scene that precedes all of
the activity inside the temple...
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I present the all-apocryphal UNSC Gopher, a all-purpose light combat mech chock
full of armaments.Â
Technical specifications to follow as soon as I make them
up. About 9 points of articulation plus the windscreen, I can tell you that
much.
Enjoy!
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