Before you can vote for cool new LEGO sets, or submit your own you'll need to sign in with or register for a LEGO ID: You're currently signed in to LEGO ID as . Would you like to sign in to LEGO Ideas with this LEGO ID? LEGO Ideas is designed for older builders. We’re sorry, but based on the birth date we have on file for you, this means we can't let you have an account here. Create and Share Galleries as a place to share your models with other LEGO builders like you. Are you sure you want to log out of LEGO Ideas? Emmet's Apartment from The LEGO Movie Official LEGO Comments 1 Last Updated 2 years ago. Click "Updates" above to see the latest. It might almost seem obvious, but one of the most appealing aspects of The LEGO Movie was the care and detail that went into the less action-oriented sets, like Emmet's Apartment. This was where he actually lived,and it is the perfect backdrop for all sorts of additional creativity and play. My son and I carefully took pictures of the paused movie when it came out on DVD, counted out bricks to get dimensions, and drew floor-plans to figure out how it all worked.
We feel this version is about 90% accurate, though some details were not clearly shown in the movie (like the sink and toilet in his bathroom). We added items or details that make his place more realistic to live in, like additional kitchen cabinets, a record player, etc. Some details were simplified, like the crown mould on the walls. Posters and wall pictures were approximated from movie stills. The front wall of the living room is removable to better see what is inside, as well as allowing one to change things around. Overall it was a lot of fun to build, was educational for my son to learn some more about architecture, and we feel so many others out there would love it too, especially since it would appeal to both boys and girls. Create a Just Bricks account and you'll: - Receive exclusive offers via email (no spam, promise) - Browse and Checkout much faster - Access your purchase history and change your detailsSimpsons Couch Gag Done Entirely With LEGO Bricks
Simpsons Couch Gag Done Entirely With LEGO Bricks While The Simpsons have been LEGO-fied in real life and will premiere a LEGO-themed episode in May, Homer and his family were not among the many branded characters that appeared in The LEGO Movie (Bart’s best friend, Milhouse, did make a brief, wordless cameo). But a creative fan, Monsieur Caron, has decided to bring the film and TV show’s main characters together with a blocky interpretation of the famous couch gag featuring Marge, Emmet, Wildstyle, and others. It’s a clever video that presumably took painstaking work to create in a relatively short amount of time—the elaborate Simpsons LEGO set didn’t officially go on sale to the public until Feb. 1 of this year. But as we’ve seen before, brickfilm auteurs like Monsieur Caron are a passionate bunch. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is unquestionably a memorable film. I’d call it one of the most iconic films of the 1980s. That said, it’s not the kind of movie that strikes me as being ideal for LEGO sets.
LEGO dioramas are usually reserved for spaceships and castles, right? Builder Etzel took the famous and painful to watch “You killed the car” scene and made it into a detailed diorama. And he picked the best expressions for the Cameron, Sloane, and Ferris minifigs as they watch the car slide out the window. Etzel made the nostalgic diorama for Swebrick’s annual “AFOL vs AFOL” building contest and took first place (AFOL stands for “adult fans of LEGO”). The theme for this year’s contest was “Plastics from the Past.” Members of the group could chose any scene from an ’80s movie or TV show that featured a vehicle. Even with the limit that a vehicle had to be part of the build, contest participants came up with plenty of awesome ideas including scenes from Blade Runner, Magnum, P.I., Spaceballs, and Blues Brothers. Related: why isn’t there a museum just for LEGO movie dioramas? I’d pay money to see that. Blade Runner diorama by Limpfittz Magnum P.I. diorama by dalle
Get a closer look at the LEGO Ferrari and death of said Ferrari in the below gallery: If you could re-create any scene from an ’80s television show or movie in LEGO, what would it be? Tell me about it in the comments. [HT: Fanboy, photos via Etzel87 and Swebrick]We're sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /2016/09/26/lego-shophomes-rogue-one-force-friday-deals/ on this server. An invalid request was received from your browser. This may be caused by a malfunctioning proxy server or browser privacy software. Your technical support key is: 2e89-c4ba-1756-6707 You can use this key to fix this problem yourself. and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.How Many Lego Pieces Were Used in 'The Lego Movie'?"According to filmmakers, that would have required 15,080,330 unique physical pieces of the plastic toys."Averaging new parts price in new sets gives around 100€ for 1000 pieces, 10 cents per piece.150,803,300€ But most likely more, as large parts and rare colours add a lot of cost.
As mentioned in Ricardo Marques's answer, the filmmakers quote 15,080,330 LEGO pieces that were used in the movie. 15 million sounds low to me. Take a look at this image of a giant Einstein head in Legoland California:That one's reportedly 1.1 million bricks.This guy's supposedly about 2 million.Legoland California said it took about 20 million bricks to make the entirety of its "Miniland" display (hard to show a single picture of that for scope). That's more than used the LEGO movie?If you ask me, I would guess in the 20-50 million ballpark for the LEGO movie. 15 million seems kinda low. So... something seems missing from this picture.I expect 15 million is how many individual elements were used for RENDERING, not how many you'd need for BUILDING it. For instance, there's a scene in the movie where a LEGO-built ocean surface has waves that rise and fall. But... they only show you the bricks that are on the top. In order to build it in reality, you couldn't have a piece at the top of a wave with nothing underneath it-- you'd have to attach it to something which wouldn't be seen in a rendered image.
So, that might give us at least a ballpark guess for how much raw LEGO material was needed. How much would that cost?In the USA, LEGO pieces usually go for ballpark $0.10 per piece retail, although it can vary greatly depending on many factors. For the LEGO Movie sets, for instance, it varies between about $0.08 per piece and $0.12 per piece, with an average of $0.09 per piece.But if you were building this, you could probably get a good bulk purcahse deal from LEGO. And if LEGO were "buying" them for the LEGO Movie production? It'd be even cheaper. Easily half price if buying externally, probably even less (a lot of the cost of a LEGO set isn't the cost of the pieces, but the very complex production chain).$0.10 per piece:15 million ==> $1,500,00020 million ==> $2,000,00050 million ==> $5,000,000$0.025 per piece:15 million ==> $375,00020 million ==> $500,00050 million ==> $1,250,000So, ok. You've got your pieces, and you've bought them. Now you have a big pile.Now you have to build them.
That takes time, which also costs money!I've clocked myself building sets from instructions between 3.4 to 5.4 seconds per piece, and I'm a pretty fast builder (That might actually sound slow, but a lot of that time is spent reading instructions and searching for the right piece). I expect most people build more slowly-- but then again, if you're repeating the same steps and filling in big chunks of a solid-color wall, it's faster. Let's assume 5 seconds per piece.Depending on which piece count we want to use, we get different estimates of the time needed to assemble them:15 million * 5 seconds => 20,833 person hours20 million * 5 seconds => 27,778 person hours50 million * 5 seconds => 55,556 person hoursNext, how much should we be paying these people? LEGO doesn't exactly pay big bucks for repetitive piece assembly, but I believe it's more than minimum wage. So, it'll cost you a ballpark guess of $200k - $550k to build, plus the cost of the bricks. That puts you between roughly $600k and $5.5M, depending on your assumptions.