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Dad and Daughter Recreate Jurassic Park With $100,000 In Lego Pieces

Posted by samzenpus on from the play-time dept.

mpicpp writes Animator Paul Hollingsworth and his daughter Hailee, along with some help from a few "master builders" — decided to Jurassic Park using only Lego pieces. More than $100,000 in Lego were used, according to the video's description. The result is a surprisingly stunning and hilarious version of the 1993 dino-thriller. The team behind the film also released an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at the production.

52 comments

  1. whole GB in minecraft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    play good is getting some competition, it has to be creative to not become irrelevant.

  2. $100k by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's like, what, 20 sets?

    1. Re:$100k by Master+Moose · · Score: 1

      Agreed. A great, yet shockingly expensive toy

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    2. Re: $100k by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's what I came to say, well done :)

    3. Re:$100k by gl4ss · · Score: 3, Interesting

      100.

      but.. tfa legos are "very useful for creating dinosaurs from scratch." shows a bit where they use a premade t-rex.

      anyways, i would think it's just not 100k of lego but 100k of professional time.

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    4. Re:$100k by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Must be a very expensive import in the US. I got a lot more bricks than they have used and I didn't spent €5k yet. What did they do? Order each brick as its own order and included shipping? Bought no longer available bricks from ebay?

    5. Re:$100k by RavenLrD20k · · Score: 1

      The most efficient way to get a large amount of Legos in the US is if one went with a large creative block set that's 760 pieces for $60. It would take 1667 sets to break the $100k mark which would get 1,266,920 pieces, but this does not include figurines, which even with a cast of hundreds (that JP never had) would be a relatively small chunk of that 100k (a set of 7 is $2-3). Also these sets include colors that would not necessarily be used very often in a scene, and colors that would need to be abundant in the nature scene (such as green and brown) would require a lot of sets as each set only has about 30 bricks of each color (extrudes to a total of about 50k spread per color between those 1667 sets). Also, I've not figured in any prop or themed sets that would include things like Palm Leaves (tropical Island), vehicles, or specialty blocks that wouldn't be included in the base set that would make the scenes more complete.

  3. Did daughter build a Unix system?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I know this! It's a fsn!

    1. Re:Did daughter build a Unix system?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "It's a Duplo system! I know this!"

  4. So cute! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Thanks for all the plastic, the world sure is a better place.

  5. LEGO$ by Dutchmaan · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Dad and Daughter Recreate Jurassic Park With $100,000 In Lego Pieces" it always amazes me what people can pull off with such limited resources.

    1. Re:LEGO$ by thegarbz · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This. Well sort of. At least they are still putting personal effort in, but it does kind of remind me of the gigapixel war of a few years ago.

      The first gigapixel photo was made by amateurs who used their own cameras built their own motorised tripod, wrote a lot of custom software to handle the stitching, let their PCs slave away for weeks on the processing and were hailed as pioneers.
      The second significantly larger gigapixel photo was made by amateurs using camera gear gifted by Sony, off the shelf software, and processed on computers gifted by Microsoft in return for displaying the result in a Silverlight web app that ran from Microsoft's servers. Then they proclaimed how awesome they were.

      It's a good effort they've gone to, but I don't see the $100000 investment in the result and somehow I get the feeling they could probably have achieved similar with less, or quite possibly even did achieve it with less and the money is just the book value.

    2. Re:LEGO$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Dad and Daughter Recreate Jurassic Park With $100,000 In Lego Pieces" it always amazes me what people can pull off with such limited resources.

      Exactly. $100k isn't even the director's cocaine budget for a Hollywood movie.

    3. Re:LEGO$ by thesupraman · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Dont forget that 'Dad' is part of a professional group who is seems do this for a living, and this is one of many such videos they have made.

      Still, got to turf the media.. after all, mentioning the daughter makes it a human interest story, right?
      Sigh.

    4. Re:LEGO$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Dad and Daughter Recreate Jurassic Park With $100,000 In Lego Pieces"

      it always amazes me what people can pull off with such limited resources.

      I'm surprised they could afford more than a starter bucket!

  6. Waste of good blocks... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What an absolutely retarded waste of Lego. I could find a better use by shoving them up my butt.

    1. Re:Waste of good blocks... by msobkow · · Score: 2

      Kinky. But, hey, if making Lego dildos and shoving them up your ass is your thing, knock yourself out.

      You can probably even find a website where like-minded freaks share their pictures of their escapades. *LMAO*

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    2. Re:Waste of good blocks... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Kinky. But, hey, if making Lego dildos and shoving them up your ass is your thing, knock yourself out.

      You can probably even find a website where like-minded freaks share their pictures of their escapades. *LMAO*

      Would not recommend lego dildos...

    3. Re:Waste of good blocks... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      You can probably even find a website where like-minded freaks share their pictures of their escapades. *LMAO*

      Would not recommend lego dildos...

      Concur. Last person I knew to try a lego dildo was shitting bricks for days. Very traumatic.

    4. Re:Waste of good blocks... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hey, that's what makes the internet great. No matter how freaky you think you are, no matter how strange you think your tastes run, you can always find friends. You can say, hey internet, I like to have sex with goats that are on fire. The internet will ask back "What kind of goat?"

    5. Re:Waste of good blocks... by LaurenCates · · Score: 1

      If I had mod points I'd grant them in exchange for a new keyboard.

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  7. Umm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I love Jurassic Park but this is really lame. Also, 100k? Really? How about you use it to send your daughter to college instead? Or hell, anything else is a better use of money than this. Also, as soon as I saw the age of the daughter I knew this was basically daddy's project.

    1. Re:Umm by LaurenCates · · Score: 1

      This girl, in the task of helping her father, is probably no different that one of the Henson kids in terms of "apprenticeship".

      Jim Henson probably had his kids on set and working Muppets when they were tall enough to get them at proper height on the sound stage.

      If the $100K "investment" here is a resume item for the kid to use later in life, or just Daddy starting the kid early so that she competently takes over Daddy's business one day, well, that's fine. All kids should have fathers that take that much of an interest in their kids' futures.

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  8. Neat, but where are the 100K in Legos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    It's not even 3 minutes of video did they not reuse a single block? There's no way that's $100,000 in Lego blocks in that clip.

  9. Re:$100k - and.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Dads professional group who do this for a living it seems..
    https://www.youtube.com/user/digitalwizardz

    Still, nothing like a bit of free promotion.. the turf is deep with this one.
    Did he really have to use his daughter like this? their work is slick enough... but this type of promotion is just cheap.

  10. Great video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Fun to watch. It looks like they put a lot of time into it.

  11. Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ok $1000 worth of lego i could understand, $2000 maybe.

    $100,000!!!!!
    They do know you can put it apart and reuse it right?

    1. Re:Wow by LaurenCates · · Score: 1

      Not working behind the scenes, I don't know for sure, but considering how much time it takes to put these things together, I would imagine there was a lot of redundancy needed.

      That is, while one group was shooting, another group was working out/preparing the next scene for shooting.

      I agree that $100K seems like a large figure, but I'll grant that the outlay of cash may have contributed to a quicker finished product.

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  12. Dad, daughter, and a bunch of professional help... by jpellino · · Score: 2

    studio space, animators, etc. it is formidable and well done - but it's not like this was a two-person effort.

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  13. You forgot to Jurassic Park by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    decided to Jurassic Park

    I don't even

  14. Pah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's a beloved movie from my childhood, full of wonder, bravery and hubris. And they turned it into a cheesy attempt at ironic humour. Also, they got more than a few of the cues wrong (when the T. Rex attacked the Velociraptors, the music was sweeping and glorious, not tense. Also, the cup with the ripple was in the jeep, not on Nedry's workstation.)

    2/10, would not subscribe.

  15. And? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And this is /. news how?

  16. $100k astroturf by OrangeTide · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This $100k astroturf project was money well spent in that their effort got me to watch 5 minutes of it. The film is crap obviously, and it's only viral because of the media attention it received. (does that make it not really viral?)

    I wish the behind the scenes video covered how the PR campaign worked and how journalists were contacted, I would have found that level of detail very useful indeed.

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    1. Re:$100k astroturf by dywolf · · Score: 1

      I watched it, and they may have spent 100k on legos, but they didn't film 100k worth of legos.

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    2. Re:$100k astroturf by OrangeTide · · Score: 1

      I totally agree with you. I honestly don't know where the $100k number comes from or why it was mentioned. Other than maybe to convince all of us to watch the video.

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  17. Re:What a waste.. by OrangeTide · · Score: 3, Insightful

    well a war is $1T, so this $100k could have helped 0.00001% as many people as spending war money better could have.

    I think you have bigger fish to fry, so you can hop to it now if you actually give a shit.

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  18. Re:Imagine... by Barny · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, if all the nerds out there didn't sit on their arses and reply to slashdot stories, why, we might just be able to do anything... ahh fuck it, I am getting more doritos.

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  19. Re:really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why would all those vets be homeless? I hear the pet care industry has been growing steadily, they should be able to find a niche.

  20. $100,000? wtf. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So, basically you made a 3 minute and 30 second video with money that could have put a really good down payment on a house, or paid for your daughters entire education. Doing something like this with your kid is great and all, but there are plenty of things you can do that don't cost $100,000. That's just fucking stupid and entirely wasteful.

  21. Let's all Jurassic Park by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1

    decided to Jurassic Park

    I can't wait to see them Godzilla.

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    1. Re:Let's all Jurassic Park by oodaloop · · Score: 1

      Hey, we all accidentally a word now and then. Don't a cow!

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  22. I accidentally the DMCA by tepples · · Score: 1

    That depends on whether the Crichton estate or Amblin/Universal decides to "accidentally" this project.

  23. Re:$100,000? wtf. by avandesande · · Score: 1

    With master builders involved I think it is likely that Lego provided the legos for the project at no cost.

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  24. Re:$100,000? wtf. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The description on the "making of" video says:

    A combined collection of over $100,000 of LEGO bricks were accessed to create the sets and cars

    So, it doesn't say they spent $100k on Legos... or who actually owns them. My guess is they were probably lent for the project, or were accumulated by the animators (plus friends and family?) over the years.

  25. repost of a repost by allo · · Score: 1

    An article linking to an article, which embeds an youtube video. omg