Lego fans, meet your new friends: the good Gallifreyan Doctor and Pixar's adorable trash-bot, WALL-E.WALL-E was the winner of the second 2014 Lego Ideas challenge, a bi-annual competition of amateur designers to imagine the next Lego sets for collectors (assuming the product licensing can get worked out). WALL-E saw stiff competition from the Ghostbusters headquarters, the Xavier Institute / Jean Grey School for Higher Learning (headquarters to the X-Men), a replica of the Hubble Space Telescope, lightsaber handles, and Wayne Manor, home of Bruce Wayne. But the adorable robot scamp carried the day.The design originally came from Angus MacLane, who is a Pixar animator who originally created WALL-E. So he might know a thing or two about getting the details right. The design came from the Pixar animator who originally created Wall-EThe winner of 2014's first Ideas challenge was Doctor Who and Companions from user Andrew Clark. The multi-lived alien comes in a few iterations, including David Tennant, Tom Baker, and possibly Peter Capaldi.
The original proposal also called for a Cyberman, a Weeping Angel, and a Dalek to oppose the Doctor, with Rose, K-9 and maybe Sarah Jane (or possibly Clara) to join him, bridging the gaps between old and new Who. Oh, and there's a TARDIS, though the "bigger on the inside" part would be a separate set.Neither design is final, but for fans of either character, it's pretty awesome knowing these Lego sets are in the works. Watch This Short Prologue For the Next 'Alien' Film 'Arrival' Production Designer Explains the Film's Most Stunning Effects The Incredibly Special Effects Awards: Like the Oscars, But for Spaceships and Explosions Here's What Happens to Jar Jar Binks After the Prequels A Breakdown of the Best Visual Effects in 'Rogue One' Here Are "Mad Max: Fury Road" Rigs With Eyes From "Cars" Every Single Movie That Won the Oscar for Visual Effects, in One Video Here's When Disney's 'Star Wars Land' Will Open The Director Behind the New 'Blade Runner' Will Tackle 'Dune' Next
9 Must-Watch Movies That Expire From Netflix in February 2017 The Lego NXT wall-e transformable robot is fully self controlled It uses Lego Mindstorms programmingIt is for all I know the first Lego build look-alike wall-e which is capable to transform automated. This transformation is quite similar to the way the original wall-e does it. Self / Remote controlled Moves forward / backward Hides head & arms 5 RCX ® motors The speed of lifting the body is actual slower. This because the lifting shafts have to lift 1,8 kg with only one motor. This is achieved trough 3 worms in serial, which has the disadvantage of slow movement per second. The challenge is to speed it up. Ingrid & Elise, Willem, Jeroen, Pieter, Michiel for giving me their time My parents who showed me the power of the mind WALL-E ® for inspiring me Lego ® for making it a challenge Angus MacLane for showing the way Gyuta in Korea for building the first manually transformable
Mindsensors ® for providing the missing components "Philo"Hurbain for his research and practical tips and tricks BertycoX for the music "Robot in love" Two scenes which where not used, but show some extra movements Especially for builders I made an overview of the different parts from Nxtwallet. For building purposes I will release for each part a separate video with views from different angles I completed Nxtwallet today. I encountered problems when Nxtwallet transformed by himself (instead of me by remote controlling). I first worked with time controlled automation, but when the battery power At LEGO World in Zwolle (Netherlands) two important creations met. Both showed their capabilities to the audience. Nxtwallet which uses sound detection while transforming started beeping, because In this video you can see the raw video of the transformation. When you see this video, listen to the sound of the motors. When you hear no motor sound Showing posts 1 - 5 of 8.
Music Robot in loveLet’s talk about WALL-E for a minute. The widely-praised Pixar film was released in 2008, and stars a little trash-compacting robot who is seemingly the last “living” thing on earth. The bot toils away at his job, collecting trash into towers of cubes in some futile effort to clean the planet for future generations, though humans are nowhere to be found. And then he meets the girl. That’s it, really, a little robot love story, and then other things happen. A lot people focused on the environmental allegory and its comment on consumerism, and that’s all there, but really it’s a small, sweet romance story more than anything. If anyone is the target audience of a Pixar robot romance adventure, it’s me. I’m sort of a quiet, stubborn, perhaps nebbish loner by nature, and I’m also preoccupied with being industrious. So it’s little surprise that WALL-E, all alone on his planet (plus a friendly roach) and continuing his dutiful work was so appealing.
I practically am WALL-E! Cube with tank treads is my beach bod. Aside from the character traits, it’s also such a wonderful design: It actually makes sense as an autonomous trash-compactor, with its thick industrial metal painted yellow like a tractor, worn and faded at the edges from heavy labor. (Of course the hard-angled, brute force aspect of WALL-E acts a visual contrast to Eve’s more sophisticated and mysterious curved form—a blunt portrayal of masculinity and femininity.) And what makes it really work—what makes us care—are the large, expressive eyes. If I recall correctly, Stanton said it was a stroke of luck when he was watching one of this children play with binoculars at a baseball game. He noticed how expressive the center-pivot folding motion of binoculars can be. The first teaser (which was very inventive itself!) had me at hello. I mean, at “WaaaAAALL-E”. It’s just so charming, instantly. After the movie was released I wrote on my blogspot (lol) that it should be nominated for best picture.
Not best animated picture, just plain ol’ best picture. It knocked the wind out of me at the time. But I needed something more than simply rewatching it. I needed a WALL-E to call my own. Luckily, Disney was quick to enterprise upon a movie that’s critical of consumption and there were a range of wonderful toys available when the film was released. At first I just indulged in a small 2-inch figure, but I soon returned to the toy store for something more substantial: a talking, animated toy. That particular WALL-E toy had rudimentary voice-activation; you could yell “HEY WALL-E!” and the little bot would frantically look around and wave his arms. There were even higher end models that could roam around on working treads, but I was sensible enough to obtain a more humble option. Seven years after the film’s release, there’s a new WALL-E on the block. More like... made of blocks.Angus MacLane is a LEGO aficionado who happens to also have been the directing animator on the movie.
He tinkered with designing the robot in LEGO before the actual computer models were even finalized, and now almost a decade later, the LEGO kit has been made available through LEGO Ideas. Of course I bought one. It’s remarkably faithful to the actual design for something made entirely of LEGO bricks, complete with articulated arms and eyes, working plastic tank treads, and WALL-E’s front opening door. I’ve never been a huge collector of LEGO, but I like the appeal of an adorable blocky thing constructed from an adorable blocky medium. There’s a refined, tactile quality that is more satisfying than a mass-produced plastic toy that’s soft around the edges. And assembling it was relaxing for its own reasons. Maybe when I’m a little older and crazier I’ll aim to recreate a “life-size” WALL-E like some industrious hobbyists have been making for years. Disney has one too—but they’re a little afraid of running over children’s toes with it, apparently. Until then, I’ll continue to populate my desk with toy robot knickknacks and occasionally use WALL-E as an online avatar.