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.

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$100k

[Anonymous Coward]

That's like, what, 20 sets?

Re:$100k

[Master Moose]

Agreed. A great, yet shockingly expensive toy

Re:$100k

[gl4ss]

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.

Re:$100k

[RavenLrD20k]

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.

Did daughter build a Unix system?!

[Anonymous Coward]

I know this! It's a fsn!

LEGO$

[Dutchmaan]

"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.

Re:LEGO$

[thegarbz]

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.

Re:LEGO$

[thesupraman]

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.

Neat, but where are the 100K in Legos?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:$100k - and..

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Waste of good blocks...

[msobkow]

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*

Dad, daughter, and a bunch of professional help...

[jpellino]

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

Re:Waste of good blocks...

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

$100k astroturf

[OrangeTide]

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.

Re:$100k astroturf

[dywolf]

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

Re:$100k astroturf

[OrangeTide]

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.

Re:What a waste..

[OrangeTide]

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.

Re:Imagine...

[Barny]

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.

Let's all Jurassic Park

[wonkey_monkey]

decided to Jurassic Park

I can't wait to see them Godzilla.

Re:Let's all Jurassic Park

[oodaloop]

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

Re:Waste of good blocks...

[LaurenCates]

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

Re:Umm

[LaurenCates]

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.

Re:Wow

[LaurenCates]

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.

I accidentally the DMCA

[tepples]

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

Re:$100,000? wtf.

[avandesande]

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

repost of a repost

[allo]

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