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LEGO Competition Selects Three New Master Builders
H0NGK0NGPH00EY writes "The nationwide LEGO Master Builder search (covered here previously) came to a completion last week. At the last minute, LEGO surprised the competitors by announcing that they would select not one, but three Master Builders."
Klein, 28 ... built an octopus' aquatic garden. Sawaya ... built a model of two men sitting opposite each other cutting a log in half with a long, two-handled saw.
Master builders my ass!
Real Men build lego figurines of Han Solo in Carbonite. They build miniature Death Stars with friggin' lasers on them! Not octopus aquatic gardens.
"I'm a master model builder," he said breathlessly into her ear.
And hear the cries of thousands of losing Lego Master contestants, who cried out and then were suddenly silenced... by my backhand.
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wowsa, 3 new masters, i wonder if they're going to release any new sets of cool legos!
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Google is suing LEGO over their search engine legoogle.com.
You seem rather obsessed with a 70's sci fi movie.
I recommend lots of fresh air and sunlight. Try taking off those boba fett undies too.
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
Uh, dude, the guy that did the Solo figure was one of the winners ... RTFA.
The guy who constructed the Han Solo and Deathstar is actually one of the selected contestants (mr. Sawaya, IIRC).
Okay... I'll do the stupid things first, then you shy people follow.
[Zappa]
Here are the Journal entries from the Slashdot candidate, Jamie. Classy guy, and I sure hope the Slashdot story didn't nix his chances.
Jan. 21st, 2004
03:37 am
Alas, my journey soon comes to an end...or possibly to a new beginning.
In just a few hours, I leave for San Diego. I can't sleep. I can't relax. I can't think. I'm a giddy/nervous/excited mess. The best way I can describe it is like sitting blindfolded on a chair with my hands and feet bound tight as others around me sing and dance and celebrate. Oh, how I can't wait to open my eyes and see all the wonderment that awaits me.
I thank you all for the outrageous support you've given me and hope I don't let you down. This whole experience has truly been remarkable.
Jan. 25th, 2004
10:07 pm
I made it home safe and sound tonight. I'm so lucky to have had my friends Matt, Tim & Howie along with me. Seriously, I really am not sure how the whole trip would have turned out had you not been there for me.
I didn't get the job, but I sure did have fun trying for it. I'll need a little while to compose my thoughts, but you'll be sure to hear from me with all the details soon. Congratulations to Nathan, Kristi and Aaron. I'm quite fortunate to have been surrounded by such talented and fun people during the competition. I will have fond memories of all the contestants and will smile many times as I think of them in the future.
I'll try to post pics of all the final creations from all the contestants on my website within a few days.
Thank you again to everyone for their encouragement and enthusiasm. I hope to see many of you over the coming weeks.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
How will this help us build Space Elevators?
What is the largest cube that can be constructed out of Lego before it collapsed under its own weight?
I have been pwned because my
...when LEGO had laid offs recently.
Trolls lurk everywhere. Mod them down.
Should we begin the construction of Lego sanitoria?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
"I'm a master model builder," he said breathlessly into her ear.
"Master Model Builder?" Jeez, this elitism doesn't seem like it matches the spirit of legos.
Eric Harshbarger's LEGO(R) Website
I mean, c'mon, that's half the difficulty in building these things.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
If you've been following this story and wishing that you had been able to participate, there are a number of different LEGO clubs around the country. And if you can't find a group in your area, what better time to start one! Check LUGnet and do some searching on Google--that's how I found NELUG.
I'd go outside, but the green green grass, the fresh air, and the pretty scenery will only remind me of SW: Episode 2.
And I don't want to be reminded of Episode 2.
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This site always cracks me up.
This "news" had already been pointed out by Kris pointed out in this post in the recent Han Solo in Lego Carbonite story.
Are we now going to see a flood of other posts from older stories reposted to the front page as "news"?
I know I'm going to get flamed to hell and back for this, but do any of the editors read the site or research the articles that they are about to post at all?
We've had this, the domain naming patent dupe, the BBC buying Google News keywords story (which had a completely inaccurate story summary and which was put in the censorship category - censorship how?), and the Defcon convention that took place "last weekend" (read, several weekends ago, last summer) all in the last few days.
Can someone please tell me what the editors actually do? Cos I'm buggered if I know.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
They need to build a Lego porn site. Just a bunch of lego whores and pimps getting it on in their Lego world.
Could God lose a needed piece of Lego so badly that even He could not find it?
That's not a fair comparison. The competitors only had an hour to build. With Lego CAD software you can make much more complex models, but the fact that they came up with such interesting ideas off the tops of their heads and actually implemented them in such a short time is pretty impressive in my books.
I wonder what the Duplo Master Builders think of all this Lego media bias.
The lego builder in LegoLand is a genetically engineered replica placed by Vorgoxians in order to win the Lego Tournament. They're not very happy about there being three winners, so expect the other two to be assassinated shortly.
The *real* Nathan Sawaya is in a government research center trapped in carbonite. Pretty ironic huh? Maybe Harrison Ford will go rescue him.
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Hacking your favorite computer into a Lego (TM) case, such as this Apple Powerbook should be the real test of a master builder.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Green grass?
You obviously haven't been outside in months!
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
Sounds French.
OHHH OHHH OHHH, oui oui, zee le Google, she iz fine, like zee wine! OHH OHHH OHHH, zee American search engines are STUPID! PTUI! I speet on zem! Filthy swine! [takes long drag on cigarette]
THe idea of lego's is simple. Even building large, cool things, is easy on paper. I have to give it to these guys... after my "object" grows above about 1' in size, I have to use elmers glue to keep it from crumbling on me.
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
Is there any pictures of the 3 winning entries? Shall be nice & interesting to see. :)
Ok, so three new masters.
And who are the apprentices?
Always two there are, master and apprentice.
Visit CryptoGnome in his home.
I suppose everyone already knows about this.
I skipped to here from the second posting down. Maybe we can get Lego to create Boson and Fermion Legos. If there was one to match each subatomic particle, would it help us understand how they all work together? And more important, what colors would they be?
To a politician, one email equals one voter.
Everyone's a winner!
Now take out your circles of paper.
I recommend lots of fresh air and sunlight. Try taking off those boba fett undies too.
Not at the same time, please.
The who was the source of the original story has the following pics of the finals
Actually, I'm not a star trek fan either.
:)
Seems to be a thin line between troll and funny, and I done stepped over it
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
The clatter and clacking sound of Legos..."
Call yourselves geeks? Pah, poncy wannabes :)
<grammar nazi>FFS, the plural is Lego!</grammar nazi>
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cLive ;-)
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>>The lego builder in LegoLand is a genetically engineered replica placed by Vorgoxians in order to win the Lego Tournament
;)
Who are those guys? Myself, I only use Geonosian engineered clones.
wbs.
Huh?
*I gould build my self a posh little pad with all the trimmings. An indoor pool, filled with "lego-effect" water. Legoized plants, and pets. Ohh and don't forget the food too.* Man, I need to get rid of my legos now. -_-
-Kids in the back seat causes accidents.- -Accidents in the back seat causes kids.-
yes and the han-solo in carbonite builder is one of the 3 masters as was stated in the article published a week a go
You're a hack. Stop stealing jokes. Be original. How sad you are.
Here are pics (courtesy of /.'s fav candidate, Jamie) of the three winning entries:
Aaron Sneary
Kristi Klein
Nathan Sawaya
P.S. (Nathan Sawaya's creations have been featured on Slashdot before.)
You probably shouldn't click this.
Oh poor Aaron, same fate as poor poor Zak. The Maniac.
I'm not impressed with the winning entries much. The loggers are the best of the three, but it doesn't make any sense to have them sitting down while sawing a log. But I could se ehow if he put some more time into it and glued to together so they could be standing it would look pretty good.
But those other two entries... Those don't seem good at all to me.
How in the world is that octopus garden a good use of color? It sure isn't designed well. That orange ocotpus looks more like a space ship.
And that one with all the people standing around... It's clunky. If I went to legoland I wouldn't want to see that.
If they were serious about this whole thing they should have given them 10 hours to contruct something bigger, and let them go back for as many legos as they needed. What's with the two hour time limit? Am I supposed to believe that those big lego sculptures they have at the park were designed and built in two hours? Sheesh.
The contestants only had 2 hours to design and complete their works, so they wouldn't have been going all out, otherwise they wouldn't have finished it in time.
I imagine that the Han Solo in Carbonite took a *lot* longer than 2 hours to design and complete.
Well, duh! The dude that built the "Han Solo in Carbonite" was the dude that did the two men sawing the log. It's amazing the difference that having a bit more tima and a few more bricks can make, too!!
It's nice to see expertise in something totally frivolous like building things out of Legos being rewarded.
myke
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It's LEGO. Not Lego.
And just where do you live? In much of California and probably in many other western states, grass gets green only in the rainy season.
"Lego" is almost there.
Kristi Klein's creation is currently on display at the Art Institute of Los Angeles. The pictures don't really do it justice, its smaller then you might think, but quite elegant.
$13 an hour? That level pay in that part of California qualifies this job for submission to Fuck That Job!.
Then we realised that Darth Bane (the guy who started system) had probably patented the Sith
Wouldn't that have run out after 20 years? Or had the Galactic Republic had one too many Cher Acts?
Surely you mean Duplo!
That some of the really large constructs use a steel inner skeleton for support...
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
See the results: brickfilms
I wonder how much collaboration really occurs? The article talks about how having three now lets them build a team, but I wonder if that means a team that collaborates and really works on projects together, or a team that divides up the tasks, and then it all comes together after everyone has done their part.
I imagine the builders generally build by themselves, so I wonder how a team-build would work . . .
Sawaya is an attorney at my firm. Quite a cool character, I understand... Apparently a bunch of people from the NY office (where he works) went out to the West Coast to cheer him on.