Dad Joke CCXXVII - special Lego edition

Did you hear about the Lego truck that crashed on the highway?   The authorities are still trying to piece everything together.

The Theodosian Walls of Constantinople in Lego

 This intersects my love of Lego and my Roman history Nerd.  Go check it out here.

Best war movies of all time

Aesop corrects the list posted by Art Of Manliness.  His is a good list.  I offer these quibbles because, well, you know how I am ...

Glory.  What I think is best about this film is how the Fort Wagner scene captures the how the troops knew they were likely doomed, but fought anyway.  This scene transcends the obvious "racism bad, mkay?" that hits you between the eyes all through the film - and for once the black soldiers were just soldiers.  And yeah, Denzel was pretty awesome.

Stripes.  Comedy doesn't get any respect in Hollywood (scan through the list of Bet Picture winners if you don't believe me).  But the Queen Anne's Drill scene in this film makes it the best military comedy filk ever made.

Band Of Brothers.  Not a film, but made for TV - but simply the best made for TV military show ever made.  It's so epic that people make Lego stop action scenes from it.  Srlsy:

And if we are talking "epic", we need a shout out to John Banner for his portrayal of Sgt. Schultz in Hogan's Heroes which has become part of the modern vernacular.  Sure, it's TV and it's comedy, but it's still epic.

As I said, these are quibbles and you should go read Aesop's list.  I agree 100% with his choice of Zulu as #1 - and ASM826 posted a great review of that film last year.

Go, read.

UPDATE 30 May 2021 15:01:  Dwight weighs in.  Well worth a read.

UPDATE 30 May 2021 23:09: Adam Piggott also weighs in, and brings in some films that others hadn't.  I have to agree that Ran should be on the list.  And comedy gets if not respect, then at least a head nod from him with Kelly's Heroes.

Lego wars

Get ready to rumble!

A Lego-mad fisherman spent three years building the world's biggest model of a US warship - only to find an American rival had beaten him by inches. Jim McDonough painstakingly built a 24ft scale model of the 890ft USS Missouri with thousands of toy bricks in Redford, near Arbroath in Angus. When he embarked on the model in his garage three years ago, his research told him it was going to be the biggest Lego ship in the world. 

Here's a picture of Our Hero with his creation:

Alas, it was not to be:

But it seems his effort was in vain - after he was been pipped at the post by Minneapolis-based enthusiast Dan Siskind, whose creation is 25.5ft long.

Mr Siskind used more than one million Lego bricks to recreate the 1:35 scale of the USS Missouri.

Here's the undisputed world champion Lego battleship:

Pretty cool, in a scary sort of way.

Damn. I knew things were bad, but not this bad

Forecast: shortage of Lego for Christmas:

According to London's Evening Standard, Lego has warned "it is once again facing difficulty supplying the demand for its products in Europe as the festive season looms".

A spokesman told the paper: "There will be a lot of Lego products out there but you cannot guarantee that people will be able to find a specific product."

Oh, the humanity!  I blame George W. Bush.  And Global Warming.

Does your Christmas Tree have a secure perimeter?

Does it?  DOES IT??!??



Tagged "Lego" because those are the only stop action ones I've posted but this is crazy good.

We can build it better ... out of Lego

James emails to point to this which is not just fiendishly clever, but has exceedingly high production values.

Iconic photographs recreated in Lego

This is pretty cool:

Lunch atop a skyscraper:

Times Square, V-J Day:

Tank Guy:

That one needs a lot more legos if you want to do it justice:

Lots more iconic recreations at the link.

Blues Brothers mall chase scene in Lego

You're welcome.

The bat cave

Made from 20,000 Lego bricks.

BAG Day in Chicago, Boston, and Washington D.C.

Here's the self defense weaponry allowed people trapped in the bluest of Blue Cities.



Just cut that magazine down to ten rounds ...

I went to the Symphony and a Light Saber duel broke out ...

First Person Shooter: Some assembly required

Win:



Because it's been too long since I've posted stop action Lego® shooty goodness.  This is so good that it has 11 Million views and a commercial (!).  Yeah, it really is that good.

Lego guns, of course, are provided by the indispensable Brick Arms.

Lego Gears Of War fully automatic Lancer rifle

With working chainsaw attachment, because those zombies won't cut themselves in two ...



Make sure you watch it all the way through, to see how the mechanisms work.   The music, of course, is Gustav Holst, Mars the bringer of war, from The Planets.

You, too can make Bad-Ass Lego guns.  There's a book that describes how; unsurprisingly, it's called Bad-Ass Lego Guns:



Via The Register.

Lego, turned up to eleven

This man - magnificently - has no life

He built a scale model of the Barad-dur tower from 50,000 Lego blocks:

Detail:

It took him almost three months, and it was a communal effort of sorts, with fifteen people involved.  So perhaps he has a life after all.  In any case, it was magnificent.

Zombieland top 5 rules

Done in Lego.



Just because I haven't posted much lego stuff lately.

Lego: is there anything it can't do?

Well, it can go together to build a working Super-8 film projector:

A fully functional Super 8 Movie Projector I built with Kalle using Lego Technic. The only non-Lego parts are the lens, the reel spindles and the lamp.

The projector uses just two engines and is fully featured with automatic feeding, 24 fps, fast rewind and 120m reel capabilities. A decent LED flashlight makes it pretty amazingly bright.

He has, err, film of the working contraption.  Cool.

April Fool's Day silliness

But such great silliness.  Plus, it's been ages since I've posted a lego animation.

UPDATE 1 April 2011 11:30: Bah. Can't get the dumb embed to work. Why on earth does everyone give you embed codes that use iframes?  Don't they realize that this doesn't work on blogspot?  Maybe they just don't want anyone to embed anything there.  OK, then.

But Bluesun has an awesome video for you.

If you outlaw Lego Crossbow Guns, only outlaws will have Lego Crossbow Guns