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kiddailey writes "What do you get when you combine standard Lego bricks with Lord of the Rings? A really cool version of Bag End that would make any LOTR and Lego geek as happy as Smeagol with a stomach full of fisheses. If only I could be so creative... or have so much spare time. Be sure to check out his whole gallery of cool lego builds."
Geeks in space? Methinks the halfling's weed has clouded your mind!
A few weeks ago I stumbled across this great site.
Lego Bible stories! Even for non-religious types, the cool photography and often hilarious captions make for hours of entertainment.
I clicked on the link, to see it, figuring that it wouldn't hurt it TOO bad this early. Nope. Well, the first row of pictures loaded up fine, but then it started getting slower and slower . . .I could almost feel the heat of the server melting on my face. The last two pictures have now died. And google has no cache, even if it would help. Sigh.
funny munging
These are mostly Harry Potter bricks.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
No-one even wants to touch this topic with their identity unmasked. :)
if you still liked playing with LEGOS and it was a computer case made out of legos by Paul Rea : "I then got the idea to make the entire case out of LEGOS. I had originally intended to make the drives on stilts of LEGOS but that did not work out as well as I had hoped. Over that first month I thought of several concepts and finally decided to build the case you now see in the attached photographs" - this won the mod contest organized by directron.com.
is that RMS?
Try here. Too bad HE hasn't built a LOTR set...although I figure some Slashdot reader has the money to commission such a project. Well...maybe not.
Someone should get this guy together with some stop-motion animators. I'd love to see a feature length Legos: LOTR production.
The angel in the oatmeal.
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Please! Won't somebody think of the children!?
fucking legos
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pants ahoy
These are cool....but this is cooler.
Mordor...a magical, mythical land where women are more rare than dragons--but where every man would rather find a dragon
..the character is too well groomed.
Age groups 4-10... I'm going down for this one :)
:)
No, seriously, I loved legos when I was small, and I still have a passion for them, but I am however sick of all the hype around LoTR, seems the second generation Tolkien or whomever owns the right sold out about as much as Geroge Lucas did, but this is getting offtopic, so I'll end this here.
Btw, Mindworks rule!
This site appears to be getting Slashdotted, so I'm in the process of mirroring it: http://ragnar.nilmop.com/kenn/www.thereverend.com/ brick_testament/
I metamoderate all Redundant and Offtopic moderations as Unfair.
...a Mosix cluster of these?
Denver Broncos in front of SF 49ers, 24-7 at the 2:00 warning in Candlestick Park
Right, taking all bets as to how much longer this server will stand up to the /.'ing.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Lego my Eggo! Erm, wait, wrong product. LEGO my Halfling's Weed!
Will it be marketed as a LEGOlas?
Now I have seen everthing. A pissed off Lego God. What gives with the angry eyebrows in the Genesis series?
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This must be a new use of the word "cool" with which I am not yet familiar. I also revel in my own geek-hood...but holy shite....
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just pics: crane pics
I always suspected that Legolas was from Legoland. :)
...to "Legolas"
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
DAMMIT 4 minutes of running to stop my dinner from burning and I'm -1 Redundant.
:-D
Oh well, props.
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
The following links are a necessity when a lego story is posted on /.
:)
brick testament
lego pr0n
Also check out Brick Tales, which has a lot of the trilogy storyboarded in Legos -- more than just locations.
LEGOS does not exist, LEGO and LEGO blocks and pieces of lego do exist - etc etc etc... The last article on /. said legos - it grates me like fingernails on a blackboard......
...can be found here.
I actually prefer this approach, because although some of the character design details aren't as well executed as in the posted article (this guy is using more generic legos), he's going much further overall, re-creating the story with approprately composed and lit photographs. Kick-ass!
Also, the humorous element of using legos is more apparent - the Moria "Watcher in the Water" is one of the funniest single images I saw on the web this year (yeah, I'm a Tolkien geek _and_ a lego geek. Watch out, ladies!)
BTW, this is part of a larger collection of fun lego pages, here's the main directory.
hm.. i thought that doorknobs on hobbit holes were in the center of the door... ;)
p r m t h s
After all, isn't it cooler when the lego creations actually do something ?
the most mysterious thing you'll see today
this is actually quite cool...I wonder if he'd build me a transforming Veritech VF-1S if I sent him the LEGO. Nice work man!
Hey, is it just me, or have Lego's gotten ever so 'gimmickey'.
I remember when I was a kid, getting a non cubic shaped lego out of the box was one of the biggest joys of my life.
Now all I see is parrots and sharks with only one 'lego hole' to attach them with. It takes away from all the interoperability of it...
Oh well... that's just a trend these days I guess.
If you like this, check out the Brick Testament (http://www.bricktestament.com)
Hey I made a set of LOTR lego figures once.. complete with LEGO-lass, the scottish elf girl.
The saddest thing I ever saw
What happened to this fab model?
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Since David W Thomas Jr's site seems to have disappeared all you can get is a peek here:
http://www.jqnweb.com/index.php?itemid=128
Where's all the bad Legolas puns? You all let me down.
someone has too much free time on their hands
Check this one out:
Monthy Python Lego Movie
Will work for bandwidth
It's probably just me. Don't get me wrong, I think both LOTR and Legos are fantasic. Surely both are examples of the highest art in both fiction and toymaking. I am not sure I like them together too much. It's the marketing aspect. It is a way for the marketers of LOTR to embed their mimes into an otherwise benign carrier in order to influence the behavior of the young so as to access the contents of the parents wallets. I wonder if the end-state of the information age is such that every conceivable object or bundle of information is packed with marketing memes designed to influence the buying behavior of the mass consumer market. It has been commonplace for many years to do product-placements in visual media, in which marketers pay money to have their message displayed within film or television show. How long before the marketing becomes the message? How long before advertisers start secretly paying scriptwriters, authors, and songwriters to create works containing the marketing message? Or has it already happened?
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hey, I've never been slash dotted before, I didn't even know this place existed! Anyways, just to clear up a few misperceptions, Lego does not make any type of tolkien related product. These are recombinations from existing parts from almost every Lego theme, from town to space to pirate etc. So the commercialisation of Tolkiens world does not include lego bricks (they are currently cramming harry potter down peoples throats!) Also, for those of you who feel that maybe this generation of fans is in someway inferior to those who grew up watching those abominable 1970's cartoon specials on TV, you are correct, I grew up watching those things, and boy can I say they built character! Something a casual movie watcher will be sorely lacking! If you are wondering about my loyalty to book over movie, you'll notice that there are almost more creations from The Two Towers (which will be released later this year)my favorite two books in the Novel! thanks for all of the web hits, and comments! - "Nerd of the Rings"
Each step more desperate than the last.
First we have an adult male (I think that's a fairly safe bet) with an unhealthy obsession with Tolkein.
Second, this person also still plays with Lego.
Third, he makes a hobbit hole out of Lego.
Next, he photographs it for his website.
Someone stumbles across said site, and thinks "Wow that's really cool! The guys on Slashdot will love this!" and he sends it in.
One of the Slashdot editors thinks "Wow! That is *so* cool! I'll put it on the front page!"
I spend five minutes of my life, that I can never have back, pointing this out.
This, people, is why computer geeks get laughed at.