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Medieval Fantasy meets LEGO Again
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."
I am proud to annouce that these guys have won this week's "Too Much Time On Your Hands" award.
If they really come through on a sequel, I may just rename the award after them.
~Philly
Here: The Brick Testament
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
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."
I dont feel the site reaches the same level of artistic expression that something like the brick testament does
THIS
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.
;-)
The guy's definitely an unemployed ex-DotCom'er
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
I bet they do this to impress the ladies.
i propose a new corrolary to Godwin's Law:
As the number of posts on a LEGO-related thread increase, the probability of a slashdot effect goes to one.
filter: +3. Hey, look! all the trolls went away!
...I can suspend disbelief enough to get over the lego knights, but pink armour?
[desparately tries to hold in the "pink-helmet" jokes]
Same goes for the brick testament stuff - that one didn't take any writing talent at all (although the pictures, admittedly, are pretty cool in most cases.)
Anyways, better writing or maybe just more nudity. Lego-porn would be great, and would make up for bad scripts.
Except the girls are all pretty flat-chested.
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"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" --George W. Bush, in Jan. 2000
I doubt you guys would want to see any of my fantasies in LEGO =X
I just love how they used the Lego of Chewbacca from the Star Wars sets as a monster.What's even better is that they used Gungans as one and the bio states that they have little intelligence and are very aggressive.Well one out of two isn't bad.
Two thing I really want from Lego corp.:
>Medieval Fantasy meets LEGO Again
Medieval Fanatic fails to impress girls with LEGOs. Again.
sweet jesus my eyes!!!
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Merlin: He who draws the sword from the lego block, he shall be king. Arthur, you're the one!
great idea, and I applaud the effort.
but, somebody, please...buy them a camera with macro!
Some people said that CG actors would replace real actors... maybe actors should be worried about Lego actors now! They are easier to decapitate, for one thing, and they are less extravagant.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
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?
webserver containing lego themed webpages go up in smoke again
"Now, make your own version of the scene using your LEGOs!
h allenges/challenges2.asp
http://www.lego.com/studios/filmschool/workshop/c
It seems the people at Lego don't have a problem with the plural "Legos"
It's "damn", not "sodding".
You know where you are? You're in the $PATH, baby. You're gonna get executed!
Only 45 comments and already its been slashdoted; though I appreciate the fact that is the actual server message =)
I refer you here and here (last page).
Both clearly state that "legos" is wrong. I was wrong by calling it Lego, it is LEGO. So?
I stand corrected; my face is red.
Somehow he manages too misspell something in a post he doesn't even directly comment on.
You know where you are? You're in the $PATH, baby. You're gonna get executed!
I have the two flash files, they're great. Just no where to put them that my friends or I don't pay the bandwidth bill for. So if someone else wants to host them:
-rw------- 1 jmd 1066099 Feb 2 12:45 GaraltMovie.swf
-rw------- 1 jmd 1409809 Feb 2 12:46 IkrosMovie.swf
Medieval Fanatic fails to impress girls with LEGOs. Again.
Guy wasting day posting to criticize Medieval Fanatic also fails to impress girls.
6/10 for Lego. 1/10 for writing.
Unless the concept was something like 'let's write the Eye of Argon again, only not funny'.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
There have been several official Lego sets containing the shuttle. One is of the Shuttle riding piggy-back on the airliner - another is a model launch pad.
www.sjbaker.org
Is anyone else finding the choice of name for the evil lord disturbing?
In a word, YES.
Set 8480 was available several years ago.
Karma? Karma? I don't need no stinkin' karma.
The whole of Europe, where it was invented, call them LEGO bricks. It's the way it is. On slashdot, people pick holes in comments and stories all the time. This one comes up again and again and again. I thought I would point it out.
No, I don't use aspirin, because I am alergic to it. Band Aids, no, hardly anyone calls it that, they are plasters, and no, if a cut is so small you can use one, it doesn't need it. And we photocopy things over here, not xerox them.
And it's "arsehole" not asshole.
Can you not come up with a better insult than "sepia toothed". It's lame. Dental care has a less big impact on general health than being overweight, and that's something you lot have a big problem with.
It's so funny how annoyed you lot get. And most of you are too chicken to actually post with a real name.
Damn...
I wonder if anyone's tried posted some complete asshole's sites on /., just to crash their server...
Wait, the spam-king... nm....
Content is as follows:
"Sorry, This site has been slashdotted and can not handle the connections, try back later."
Jeez, the things aren't supposed to heal wounds. they're to keep those tiny yet gushing wounds from bleeding disproportionately, all over your clothes/model airplanes/term paper.
For the record, I suspect that on the average, Americans have about the same level of dental health as Europeans. Austin Powers notwithstanding.
Freedom: "I won't!"
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.
I remember buiding that kit! I played "Challenger" with it. ;)
In mathematics, one does not understand things, one merely gets used to them.
--VonNeumann
I think I may have annoyed you. Heh.
Why does this junk get posted on Slashdot? The writing is horrible, and the models are not much better. I'm not trying to troll here; this is ano honest question. Are "nerds" only interested in fantasy and sci fi (most of which is pretty bad, in my opinion), or do they ever read decent literature? Is there something about the stupid lego models that's attractive?
It is not like me to be overly critical of someone who has obviously worked very hard on a creative project, but for the sake of the writer (and his future efforts), I feel compelled to comment on the quality of the writing. It's pretty bad. I realize that the lego models probably consumed most of his time and energy, but in many spots the writing wasn't even grammatically correct (and I think that there is a difference between breaking grammatical rules purposefully, and simply not knowing them from the outset). Out of curiosity, does anyone know how old the author is? The models were great! But the author could do with some more reading. Good luck with your next project!
...THIS!
"Jexious! I am desperate your knowledge of magical weapon smithy!"
I remember buiding that kit! I played "Challenger" with it. ;)
It always appealed to my twisted sense of humour that to build the alternative model meant breaking the shuttle into lots of little pieces and turning it into a submarine...