Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Medieval Fantasy meets LEGO Again

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the to-much-spare-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "At over two years in the making, The Kingdom of Ikros provides viewers with a 40-chapter novel, graphically illustrated entirely by LEGO models and Photoshop effects. Apparently the author isn't stopping there, either, a link off the main page takes you to another website which will host the sequel. The Kingdom of Ikros website also contains a pair of flash movies and pictures of the models used in the story, as well as biographies of the characters involved."

3 of 112 comments (clear)

  1. Legos as history material? by StriderA · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder if anybody ever considered using lego's in school. Back as a child, I remember having time to play with various toys in school, but how about recreating battles or something to try and teach children. They remember the names and tatics used in children TV Shows, but nobody ever takes the time to teach real history. Your kids will come home and set up their legos and gi joes and you'll ask them what they're playing and they'll start telling you how their playing Cival War or something...

    Either way, it couldn't hurt... to them it'll still be a game.

    --
    "When will this FP stuff stop?" "After the great growing..." "The great growing?" "Yea, when people grow up."
  2. Legal Issues? by AltImage · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This reminds me a bit of the Barbi issues brought up by Mattel. Mattel didn't appreciate the ways in which Barbi was being (mis)used in certain situations and successfully sued to have it stopped. Is there any potential for copyright violation here since the author is including the legos in a published work? I know legos has had a generally positive outlook on users hacking their products so it's probable that Legos wouldn't sue, but is it potentially within thir rights?

  3. Legos in Robotics by Tseran · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We used Legos in my Robotics Programming classes. It sounds strange, but considering the standards and exactness that Lego is manufactured with, you have to have exacting controls of the Robotics to make sure that one piece is going to fit on top of the other. Lego has a lot of educational value. They are also good for building construction, as you can use it to show where a load bearing wall is, as well as being able to re-arrange the way a house is laid out.

    --
    .sig: It's what's for dinner.