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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."
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!
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
>Medieval Fantasy meets LEGO Again
Medieval Fanatic fails to impress girls with LEGOs. Again.
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?
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!
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.
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.
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.