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Monty Python and The Matrix LEGO
Senor-D writes "Shigeyuki Sandou, a LEGO minifig creator from japan, has built multiple scenes from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" using LEGO minifigures. it can be found here in English or here in Japanese. He also did scenes from "The Matrix", they can be found here."
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I was greatly excited when I first heard of this new and innovative way of celebrating such a truly wonderful film, however the models themselves bear very little resemblance to the Monty Python team. Quite how one is meant to recognise such charicature persons as those who comprised such a wonderful team is beyond me. My fond anticipation of seeing the Life of Brian reinacted by lego- another favourite of mine, was met with disappointment that such a feeble effort could have made slashdot news. Admittedly the combination of the two great films, and the use of lego does lend itself to this community, but such a failing attempt to combine the two together only results in it being insulting to both the Monty Python team, and lego, and ultimately to the slashdot readers who were expecting something slightly more worth while after clicking on the link.
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excuse me.. but..
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don't you guys sometimes need a break from the regular
"politics", "vote recount", "mp3-napster-hell", and "perl/linux/bsd/the same old stuff is cool".
somebody just did a cool thing.. admire it
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Japanese movie special effects have come so far since the Toho Films days (Godzilla, Rodan et. al), haven't they?
Compared to them, these are absolutely stellar. Two thumbs up!
--- Jump!! Fire!! Bullet time!! - Lego version of the Matrix
yes, but the lego neo is probably smarter than the real keanu....
I believe sex is highly over rated... unless it involves me
And then the lego master suffered a massive heart attack and Lego King Aurthur were no longer in peril.
managers...why god invented purgatory
It's karmic payback for what we did to Godzilla when we did an American remake...
--- Jump!! Fire!! Bullet time!! - Lego version of the Matrix
I'm thinking more along the lines of what Cartoon Network got the Lego company to do in constructing a life-size version of Scooby Doo out of Lego bricks. Plus, the jokes in the commercials didn't hurt.
"Guys, I don't think that's the right kind of brown." Lego technicians then look up, after laying the Scooby Doo groundwork of what seems like 1,000 bricks. "Some kid is going to be lucky. Really lucky." The guy who's designing the dog looks down into his coffee cup. Obviously he doesn't want to give away a creation that's taken them weeks to build.
- I don't care if they globalize against free speech. All my best free thoughts are done in my head.
Those crazy Japanese ...
When will the domino retellings be coming out?
He is the 1x1.
It's there! Left column, second from bottom.
"It's overkill, of course. But you can never have too much overkill." - Anonymous Slashdot Coward
No way! You mean you've seen Indiana Jones, too?
-ted
I'm also disipointed cause when I first saw it I thought it wouldnt just be plain figures, I was thinking more of a legoland scale
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Build a bridge out of her!
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*look* at the picture...there is herring!
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...there are no black leggo-people! Hence no Morpheus.
Of course, there are no white leggo-people either. They're all yellow, which we might take for Asian, except that...let's face it, Asians aren't really yellow.
So I guess that means that leggo people are actually humanoid aliens. I guess that explains all their advanced space travel technology.
I think with all the heads and torsos they have for Legoland figs(there's even one of a thong: black waist/crotch & skin colored legs), I could probably make Lego CounterStrike skins in a few minutes.
Take a look at this:
b aiku-f/kanedabaiku-f1.htm
http://www.force-x.com/~inosuke/lego-kei/kaneda
Is this the motorbike from Akira?
Then I submit we begin a discussion of the mating habits of the extinct Banana Slug of California. Banana slugs are hermaphrodites and usually cross fertilize. Banana slugs often eat each other's slime before mating. They begin to circle each other and may bite each other's right side. They spend hours mating and then try to separate. Since banana slugs have such large male organs, it is difficult to separate. At times, it is impossible, in which case the banana slugs take advantage of their ability to apophallate, or gnaw off the stuck organ. The banana slug's mating rituals are very unusual.
I'm not Japanese you pin-head! I just live here.
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Jak Din
"As I always say, why jack-off when you can jack-in!" - Plughead from "Circuitry Man" (1990)
As people have mentioned, you have to consider location and context. Jesus was not rich. Plus, a lot of the people back then didn't have golden cups. Maybe it was made of pottery, or maybe just wood. I don't know.
But, going back to your catholic reference... surely you don't think that just because the Catholics think it's gold (or show it as such), it is so. They have no hold on the truth of the past, no more than you or I.
Then again, I realize you were really just mentioning it for reference's sake, and to show the flip side of the coin, but now you know where I'm coming from.
Insert mind here.
Offtopic, I'll show you Offtopic! You don't know what Offtopic is Mr. Trask! I'd show you but I'm too old, I'm too tired, and I'm too fucking blind. If I were the man I was five years ago I'd take a flame-thrower to this place. Offtopic, who the hell do you think you're talking to? I've been around you know? There was a time I could see. And I have seen boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there isn't nothing like the sight of an amputated spirit, there is no prosthetic for that. You think you're merely sending this splendid foot-soldier back home to Oregon with his tail between his legs but I say that you are executing his soul. And why? Because he's not a Baird man. Baird men, you hurt this boy, you're going to be Baird Bums, the lot of ya. And Harry, Jimmy, Trent, wherever you are out there, fuck you too.! .
To build the holy hand grenade, you will need a piece with three pips. Two is too few, and four is too many. Five is completely out of the question.
Now I'm forced to ask the question, what do others call the little sticky up bits that cause lego to stick together?
It may look like I'm doing nothing, but I'm actively waiting for my problems to go away.
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Legos will own the world! Now the matrix and monty python, tomorrow america, and then, THE WORLD!! Seriously, those things are more addictive than caffeine (i should know, my blood/caffeine levels are throught the roof)
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I am !amused.
Where's the moose from scene 54? My sister was bitten by a moose once...
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Honest to god... Plays!" Homer Simpson
http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~mbsf/sworde.htm
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I saw this one last year, and it is actually animated. It is the cool and smart!!
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You must check it!!
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There go the Japanese again. First the Star Wars now the Monty Python Holy Grail movie and the Matrix. This is a strange trend, but not suprising for the Japenese!
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This is quite unlike the Star Wars Lego project that was posted last week. Rather than building scenes out of legos, this artist mostly uses pre-built pieces to lay out suggestive tableus. Which is not to say it isn't a creative or amusing re-interpretation, but it's not such a show of mad devotion and arete. I am, however, reminded of the Screenshots project that depicted historical scenes in a Sims-like CG style...
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It's Lego not Legos, get a life will ya?
The irony of the above statement needs no further punchline.
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-The Reverend (I am not a Nazi nor a Troll)
-The Reverend (I am not a Nazi nor a Troll)
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I thought the Japanese would say, "Tlinity"
No. The r sound in Japanese is somewhere between an L and an R. Words taken from English that have an L or R sound get translated into the same "letter" in Japanese, one of the following syllables: ra, ri, ru, re, ro, rya, ryu, ryo.
(pronounce the consonants like they are in spanish, "a" is English short A, "i" is long E, "u" is long U, "e" is long A, "o" is long O. ah, ee, oo (as in "too"), eh, oh. A consonant can be one of the vowels by itself, or it can have a consonant in from of it: ka-ki-ku-ke-ko. ta-chi-tsu-te-to (as you can see, some consonants have irregular pronunciations). Some consonants can have a "y"-consonant blended into it, rya, ryu, ryo, kya, kyu, kyo, etc. "n" can be a consonant by itself after a regular syllable. Also, some consonants are doubled. And vowels can be made twice as long. to-o-kyo-o (in hiragana, a long o is indicated with a U, other vowels by adding that vowel. in katakana, you can indicate a long vowel with a straight line.) So what can we conclude from this?
Trinity in japanese is probably something like "TO RI N I TI" but the RI could sound somelike like "LI", it is 4 syllables long, and is written with 5 characters. The usual romanization of "ri" is with an R instead of an L.
Thank you.
Ribaasu Donarudo.
The Matrix title lego...
The one with the four guys in it...
That would explain how the guy on goatse.cx got the way he did, wouldn't it?
--- Jump!! Fire!! Bullet time!! - Lego version of the Matrix
Sure. What part of "foolish" doesn't describe most of the scenes from that particular movie? Besides, common usage of the word includes meanings which are entirely appropriate when describing silly things.
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
to-ri-na-ti or to-ri-ni-ti
the r in ri is voiced kinda halfway between r and l in english
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No mod points here, but that was fucking funny.
Pete
The sole purpose of the Internet is to get porn and bomb making plans into the hands of children.
Feh, this guy's in larval stage. The really l33t Japanese model otakus mold their creations in metal or plastic, and then paint them. For real.
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
I fail to see the coolness in this...except maybe the machine thing in the matrix. This doesn't seem like a slashdot-worthy feat.
Ok....all of you people who are 'trying' to guess at how the hell to pronounce "TRINITY" in Japanese; quite guessing at it, unless you know how to speak Japanese, read it, or write it....you will never be able to 'guess' correctly.....got it?
It goes a little somthin' like this: TO RI NI TI@(when spelled in KATAKANA, it has 5 characters and 4 syllables)
It would do you all a lot of good in the future if you would actually LEARN something about another culture instead of posting your own thoughts about it, and making yourselves look like stupid apes......
thanks for listening,
Jak Din
"As I always say, why jack-off when you can jack-in!" - Plughead from "Circuitry Man" (1990)
What! no herring!
"one treats others with courtesy not because they are gentlemen or gentlewomen, but because you are" --G. Henrichs
There is no.... SHRUBBERY!
Bloody stupid lameness filter!
Ahh - My eye!
The doctor said I'm not supposed to get Slashdot in it!
How do the Japanese pronounce "pedantic bastard"?
I don't think anyone cares about Star Wars since The Jar Jar Menace appeared =[
I'm a little segfault, short and stout.
If you went to the site, clicked the "DOVERMANN" link, you'd have noticed that the text above the images read:
"DOVERMANN"
This is very cool French "BAKA" movie.
If you go to the IMBD (internet movie database), you can find out more about it.
The IMDB is a great place to find out info on moives you know and don't know!
Jak Din
"As I always say, why jack-off when you can jack-in!" - Plughead from "Circuitry Man" (1990)
"We found them!"
"You can't find them! They don't come with the lego set!"
This could go on forever.
luckman
luckman
I don't involve myself with flames, much less know how to bait one.
DOH!
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
There is no
baka in japanese i mean.
I thought the Japanese would say, "Tlinity"
Hey, whats the plural form of Lego? Oh wait, only a thousand other shithead know nothings have already chimed in. Save it fucknut.
It's that wacky language the brits came up with, you know, the one with colours, and going 'on holiday' and my friend who says "I hope you got your mathS right"
Help me O-Block-Wan Kenobi, you're my only Hope
Tony
I can't believe how many brain cells I've dedicated to this movie...
Lego Monty Python & The Holy Grail???
You know what I say to that...
It's only a model!
(Sssshhhhhh!)
http://www.gimbo.org.uk/
You know , I mayh like those two movies , but this isnt GEEK NEWS, its geekofolia .
Perhaps slash needs two areas, geek news, and geek tabloid crap, kinda like magazines which have
multi areas...
sigh
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
There is no
Here's some links for you interested:
;)
Assembly demoparty
tAAt demogroup (the authors of LeGorso)
General demoscene news and stuff
Site dedicated to scenenews and game/demo development
Those should keep you guys busy for a while
- Mik\tAAt
This is the place where you write something that will make you seem like a complete idiot.
Here is another guy with a Lego movie making project Click
most cool.
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If only Keanu "whoa" Reaves had massive indentations on the bottom of his feet that handily latched onto the floor, bullet time special effects would have been a dime a dozen :)
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And the dioramas are "the cool and smart". Japanese-translated-to-English seems to be an excellent summarizing method! Where did he get the White Rabbit LEGO?
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Actually, according to the moderators, he is funny.
But you can sell used underwear that has been worn by young women in vending machines.
--- Jump!! Fire!! Bullet time!! - Lego version of the Matrix
"baka" translates to "idiot" or "idiotic", you find it a lot in anime.
How will Sir Lancelot figure this one out?
"one treats others with courtesy not because they are gentlemen or gentlewomen, but because you are" --G. Henrichs
What's that Doverman Movie he's got lego figure scenes from?
Oh, please forgive me, yer highness, for not pronouncing the Sacred Plural of Lego correctly.
Now let me go on a tangent here and offer you a tip -- not everyone who reads and posts on Slashdot is an American. I, for one, am not. As shocking as it may seem, I'm Canadian.
Now, I'm sure you'll reply with something as remarkably witty as your last anonymous post, undoubtedly with something like, "I hope you die sooner, then, Mr. Canadian" or whatever. Or maybe point out that instead of "your" I used "yer" in the first sentence of this post.
Please don't disappoint. I've come to expect so much out of Anonymous Cowards.
J
No tenticle rape? Come on, what comes out of Japan these days that doesn't involve tenticle rape?
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There is no Duplo Neo, only the truth... She's got 'uge buckets of bricks... E.
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If it didn't explicity say that it was "The Holy Grail", I would never have guessed. And what's with the Shell logos all over the place?- ---------------
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As fucked up as it is, it is taboo (if not outright illegal) in Japanese society to represent male genitals in art/photography/whatever, so porn "artists" get around this restriction by penetrating the little schoolgirls with tentacles, etc. Disgusting, eh?
I could be wrong, of course, since IANJ.
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Although I don't remember the three-headed knight being sponsored by a certain major oil company.
I see the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch made it in; even if it does look like a Lego man's head with the eyes rubbed off.
The wooden grail image was conjured by protestants - namely Lutherans - since it fits their belief that humility, regardless of position, is virtuous.
:)
The catholic image of the grail is generally more lavish, being made of gold and encrusted with gems and all.
So, yeah, it's kind of offtopic, but the grail's material isn't actually known
-CoG
"And with HIS stripes we are healed"
-CoG
"And with HIS stripes we are healed"
Handel's "Messiah"
WARNING: Jar Jar Binks makes an appearance.
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There is no lego! You take the blue lego and the story ends. You wake in your lego castle and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Legoland and I show you how deep the legos connect.
"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison
What is that Asm2K wild-demo thingie ?
Do you know where to find others movies like this one ?
The Melinium Falcon ....
http://www.force-x.com/~inosuke/index2.htm
"I'm The Bounty Bear. I will find him anywhere. I'm searching."
Toronity is toricky, toraining The One so that he may know the toruth while keeping her torue torystful, torite feelings hidden.
(Part Two Torailers now showing in Tronto.)
No, I'm sorry, that was a pile of crap.
+5 flamebait, redundant.
I thought that baka meant something like shitty or foolish!
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Speaking of which... I didn't check out the Star Wars Lego project the first time around, and it appears that the URL has changed (poor guy probably got kicked off his previous hosting after the beating /. gave their servers...). I tracked it down by backing up a directory.. the english version appears to be now available at
http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~mbsf/swo rde .htm.
Actually, Legos are very important in teaching children the creative and analytical skills they need to become productive geeks in society.
They are viewed as a toy, but unlike most toys, they don't promote they type of behaviour that plagues society's teens today. Instead, they prepare a child's mind to learn much more advanced skills such as programming, engineering and architecture.
I'll bet Linus Torvalds had Legos when he was a kid! So, don't go knocking one of the few true toys help kids develop their minds rather than teach violence and hatred!!!
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. - Tennessee Williams
The sentinels from the Matrix were really well done.
Try living here!
It is crazy as hell, but I love it!
It's a lot better than living in Los Angeles, now THAT's a fucking haven for wierdos....
Jak Din
"As I always say, why jack-off when you can jack-in!" - Plughead from "Circuitry Man" (1990)
Here! Here! I third the motion and all that!!! At the age of 4 I had built a Lego guitar with strings and it actually played (although it sounded horrible-even unamplified!). Then it was on to the old school metal Erector Sets. Then came electronics, then Architecture & Design. Some where I added computers to that list. Is there a progression there?
I think the guy who invented Legos should be up for an award for his contribution to the education of mankind in their youth (or adulthood, if ya still can't let the Lego thing go. Like me.)
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Did he use European Lego? or African lego?
At the risk of sounding like an AOLer... "Me too". They're not that impressive. I was pretty disappointed in them actually.
Although what can be done with a dozen or so pirates, a female diver, a Napoleonic soldier, a polieman, two coyboys, a red-indian with head-dress and a ghost?
Except reform the Village People, of course!
"Too much time on my hands....
I've got too much time on my hands...."
Sheesh.
Never by hatred has hatred been appeased, only by kindness - the Buddha
Is this news for nerds? Is this important to the open source community, or any other community for that matter outside Mrs. Balducci's 4th grade class in an unnamed Denver suburb? It amazes me what people find time to accomplish. Screw you guys, I'm going to Windows!
There is also a dobermann pardoy. I had no idea that this movie was know to anyone outside of France.
A nice piece of parody, mixed with delightfull stupididities and cliches. A Comics on screen. Loved it.
Cheers,
--fred
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This guy's been hitting the saki a little bit too hard...
From the "not funny" department: Surrender! No! Look you bastard I just chopped your bloody armor off! It's just a flesh wound... here, see, it clips right back on!
I'm a little segfault, short and stout.
While this is cool, how far will it go? Are we gonna see Terminator, Titanic, or Debbie does Dallas?
This is so unbelievably corny. What a waste of /. space.