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Re: LEGO in movies
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Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:18:51 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Olof Dahlberg wrote:
> A machinery, made from LEGO Technic, has a prominent role in the swedish movie
> "Varning for Jönssonligan" (1981) Link: <http://www.imdb.com/Title?0083276>. The
> movie is a family comedy about a criminal "mastermind" and his two partners in
> crime.
> The device is used to open a locked door from the inside, is built on the inside
> through a small vent and is wire controlled with at least five electric motors.
> This is a rather complicated device, but I will try to describe it:
> The main structure of it looks like a bit like a movable drilling rig, with a
> machinery for movement with another device carried at the front, which is sort
> of separate.
> The main movement device has both wheels and link treads and also two pairs of
> small wheels on extendable arms to enable it to climb steps.
> The second device is offloaded on the top step, walks on a lot of legs to the
> door, extens an arm up to the lock, turns the lock and the door is unlocked.
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> In the movie this sequence is mixed with the action on other places, so it
> occupies several minutes, and the device is quite clearly seen to move about and
> do all of these things (except for the building of it through a small hole part)
> on film.
> This is my favourite LEGO movie moment.
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> Now I have the DVD, and will try to build the device. I can get pictures from
> the movie if anyone is interested.
>
> Olof Dahlberg, Sweden
Here are some pictures, at last!
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=98622
Olof
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| Wow, neat! This kind of reminds me of the movie, "Manhattan Project" with John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Jill Eikenberry, a teenage Cynthia Nixon.. You know, the one where the kid (Collet) builds the nuclear bomb and enters it in a science fair? (...) (20 years ago, 15-Sep-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| A machinery, made from LEGO Technic, has a prominent role in the swedish movie "Varning for Jönssonligan" (1981) Link: (URL). The movie is a family comedy about a criminal "mastermind" and his two partners in crime. The device is used to open a (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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