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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.

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  1. $100k by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's like, what, 20 sets?

    1. 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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  2. 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 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.

  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. $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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  5. 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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  6. 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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