LEGO'ing without a license
Monday, August 9, 2010 There's a lot of Lego worship going on in the Lin household. And we've done some pretty cool things with them here on this blog. We've experienced the thrill of completion and the agony of subsequent gravity. We've used the Lego Minifigure to replicate bloggers and perpetuate cultural stereotypes (flashing my rice paddy pass). We've played bartender and even nightclub mogul with them.
But this past weekend, we achieved the epic. We colored outside the lines. We went rogue. We went to Michael's.
And bought paints. Paints that I hadn't seen in at least 25 years. Remember when you could go to any drugstore and buy model kit Camaros and F-15s? And you had to glue them together and paint them yourself with those cool little bottles of Tester's model paints? They still exist!!
Combine those with a healthy disrespect for merchandise licensing agreements, and you've got yourself a recipe for fun:
Step 1: find two Lego minifigures you're willing to sacrifice for the greater good. In other words, not the Star Wars ones! Give them a good base coat.
Step 2: let them dry overnight, then apply your outlines.
Step 3: use child labor to fill in those outlines.
Step 4: finish the job once child becomes bored.
Step 5: revel in your awesomeness.
The unofficial offical Venom and Iron Man minifiguresStep 6: Introduce your child to the wonders of stop motion animation.
Reader Comments (21)
Classic fun - my girls would love that. More likely to be done with fairy princesses, although the dinosaur eating part at the end would still be on the cards!
This is so crazy awesome that I can't wait to show it to my son -- especially today as he's recovering from a lot of stitches and needs something fun to do himself.
Great job with the inspiration, detail work and animation! Truly a magnificent production if there ever was one. Funny, though... I don't recall a Rancor being part of the Marvel universe... I must have missed that series.
Awesome. And, you, my friend, are a braver man than my husband (you know, the gun-toting badass). He gags every time we walk past our local Michaels. Unfortunately, it's right next to PetSmart, so we kind of can't avoid it.
Brilliant!! The video was great and the photo to prove the breaking of child labor laws was perfect. Also, it's nice to know we aren't the only ones who take over on projects when the kids get tired. At least that's what we claim when we know we could do a better job than them and we shove them
out of the way. Wait ~did I say that?!? "Paint in the lines or you will be replaced!!"
Anyway, this was worth waiting for. Thank you for sharing your LEGO awesomeness with all of us.
Awesome animation, love the lego makeovers too!
That was made of win.
I especially liked the RAWWWWAAAGHRRR.
you are killing me over here. I felt so bad for my son I made him waffles with robot faces. I am sending him to hang with yall over next school break.
Yeah, my 2-year-old is still in the stage where he's building towers. You've got some complicated stuff there. I like the animation, I'll definitely have to try that with Matthew when he gets older.
SO AWESOME!!! love the burp too. *EGH!* I hope rancor pooped out the lego dudes or you'll have to make them again. :) Great job fury!
Truly epic guys!! Venom and Ironman look awesome, top notch animation. Jim, you're an inspiration to dads everywhere.
Nice web! That sealed it for me.
Now there's an awesome way to get the kids creating their own media... Whose ideas was that web? Nice.
Awesome stop action animation! Better than the originals. Who needs Robert Downey Jr. when you have Legos and modeling paint?
Whoa. That was beyond awesome.
Now the kid wants to know why I don't make lego stop action movies for him.
Thanks.
That Venom Lego rocks! So does iron man but I especailly like venom!
They came out great! They should be featured in Fury's History of Lego book.
We've been following your blog for quite some time and enjoy it very much. But this video has my 6 year old mesmerized. He's seen it a trillion times and keeps watching and watching. Now he's acting it out on his own and wants to go paint all the legos. :) You do awesome work.
I'm so psyched they still make Tester's paints. Those were a staple at summer camp building models and model rockets. I figured they would have been run off with all of the other fun things we used to have as children in the name of "safety" :)
nicely done...
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