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Dad and Daughter Recreate Jurassic Park With $100,000 In Lego Pieces
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.
play good is getting some competition, it has to be creative to not become irrelevant.
wanna do something people will read on slashdot besides this waste of time? should have used that 100k toward apts for homeless vets. i would have appreciated reading that, rather than seeing this garbage on my twat timeline.
That's like, what, 20 sets?
I know this! It's a fsn!
Thanks for all the plastic, the world sure is a better place.
"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.
What an absolutely retarded waste of Lego. I could find a better use by shoving them up my butt.
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.
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.
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.
Fun to watch. It looks like they put a lot of time into it.
Ok $1000 worth of lego i could understand, $2000 maybe.
$100,000!!!!!
They do know you can put it apart and reuse it right?
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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decided to Jurassic Park
I don't even
How many less fortunate people could have been educated with that $100k? Or starving people could have been fed..
What's wrong with you people?
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.
Imagine that this money, and all the rest of the money that is spent on garbage-producing attention whoring, went to do something actually useful. We'd have colonized the Solar system by now, at least. Without waiting for rich people with a Mars fetish to pluck government programs and get even richer subcontracting for the same government programs, too.
And this is /. news how?
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.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
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.
decided to Jurassic Park
I can't wait to see them Godzilla.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
That depends on whether the Crichton estate or Amblin/Universal decides to "accidentally" this project.
With master builders involved I think it is likely that Lego provided the legos for the project at no cost.
love is just extroverted narcissism
The description on the "making of" video says:
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.
An article linking to an article, which embeds an youtube video. omg