YouTube is a great place to find some wicked LEGOmation or "brickfilms" with many fans using the colorful little bricks and minifig characters to create tributes to their favorite movies. Here we've drawn up a list of ten great examples of film scenes, trailers and clips recreated in LEGO — although, perhaps controversially, we've deliberately left out any Star Wars-themed efforts as these could easily fill up a top ten list in their own right. So, following up the fantastic LEGO music video roundup we recently brought you, here is the film-themed equivalent, and as always, do let us know what we've missed (politely please, we're people too) in the comments below. 1. LEGO Matrix Trinity Help If you didn't think the awesome special effects from the bullet dodge scene in The Matrix would translate well in the medium of stop motion then you need to see this clip which took a staggering 440 hours (18 days!) to create. Time well spent, we say. With the special bonus of a surprise happy ending, here Steven Spielberg's classic don't-go-into-the-water horror gets a decidedly blocky makeover.
3. Crocodile Dundee - That's A Knife Very possibly the only funny line in Eighties outback flick Crocodile Dundee is immortalized here in LEGO as Mick whips out his Bowie and flashes it at an unsuspecting would-be mugger. 4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail in LEGO High-kicking knights and dancing skellingtons await you in this professional LEGO-backed clip that reveals Camelot to be a very silly place indeed. 5. The Battle of Wits in LEGO Vizzini and the Dread Pirate Roberts fight it out over iocane-spiked goblets in this great revamp of the classic scene from The Princess Bride. 6. Shaun of the Dead LEGO Trailer If you thought the line "Ooooh, he's got an arm off" from this Brit zombie film could not be more funny (and if so, you're not alone) then wait 'til you see it delivered by a little LEGO man. 7. LEGO Indiana Jones With official Indiana Jones minifigs available, the rugged adventurer was ripe for a brick film — and this is a great one.
Stick around for the surprise ending that Harrison Ford fans will surely appreciate. 8. Blade Runner - Tears in Rain (in LEGO) It's amazing to see how the emotion still comes through in this short clip that swaps Rutger Hauer's Batty for an animated lump of plastic. 9. Napoleon Dynamite Bike Jump Scene In Lego Somehow the slightly amateur quality of this LEGOmation (no offense intended to the creator, we sure as heck could not do any better) juxtaposes really well with the slightly amateur Napoleon Dynamite not quite managing that sweet jump. 10. A Little Going Away Present This perfectly captures the fax-bashing scene from geek fave Office Space. Be sure to mute it, or don't press play, if you don't want to hear any swears. Or if you really like fax machines. BONUS: The Simpsons Intro LEGO Style Not technically a film, hence the "bonus" clip status, but this brilliant LEGOmation that emulates the opening sequence of the The Simpsons to near perfection was done by a then 13-year-old.
For more web video coverage, follow Mashable Web Video on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook More YouTube resources from Mashable: - Top 10 LEGO Music Videos on YouTube- Top 10 Funny Cat Videos on YouTube- Top 10 Recut Movie Trailers on YouTube [VIDEOS]- Top 10 Funny Dog Videos on YouTubeThe newest addition to the grand list of Coolest Things Ever is being unveiled in New York today: the Lego X-Wing, the largest Lego model ever built. The model of the classic Star Wars fighter being unveiled in Times Square has a wingspan of 44 feet and comes complete with R2-D2 and a full range of sound effects. It’s a super-duper-sized version of Star Wars Lego starfighter set #9493 and was made with 5,335,200 Lego bricks. That, according to Lego, makes it the largest model ever built, eclipsing the Lego robot at the Mall of America by some 2 million bricks. This replica of the Rebel Alliance dogfighter is 42 times the size of the Lego version we’ve all built and a bit bigger than a real X-Wing.
(Yes, yes, we know they’re not real. Just go with it.) The X-Wing Luke Skywalker and his fellow rebels flew was about 41 feet long, 2 feet shorter than this Lego masterpiece. The X-Wing was built at the Lego Model Shop at the company’s facility in Kladno, Czech Republic. It took 32 “master builders” (Note: This is a real job, and we’re preparing our resumés.) 17,336 man-hours to construct the X-Wing. Plans for the model were created using Lego’s proprietary 3-D design software, and the construction team had to work with a team of structural engineers to ensure that the model was safe, master builder Erik Varszegi told Wired. “This has been a wild and exciting project for us, and it’s taken an international team of designers, engineers, structural consultants, model builders, and logistics personal over a year to bring this model from a conception to reality,” Varszegi said in an email. “In one respect, designing it was the ‘easy’ part, as we were creating a scaled version of an actual toy construction set.”
Once completed, the model — which weighs 45,980 pounds — was broken down into 34 pieces to be shipped to New York by boat (the voyage took two boats two months to complete). Lest the West Coast feel left out, the starfighter is coming to Legoland California after its tenure in Times Square and will remain there until the end of the year. Twenty-three tons is a whole lot of anything, especially Lego bricks, but much of the model’s weight lies in the model’s steel skeleton, which it needed in order to withstand the vibrations from the subway that runs beneath Duffy Square in Manhattan and any seismic activity it could face in Southern California. While a slightly larger-than-lifesize Lego X-Wing would be awesome even if were made for no particular reason at all, the model was built to celebrate the forthcoming premiere of the latest Lego Star Wars series The Yoda Chronicles — a three-part animated miniseries launching on Cartoon Network next Wednesday. That’s the official reason this was built, but we wouldn’t be surprised if Lego made this thing just for the thrill.