This is where you train to become a Master Builder! Starting with the basics, you’ll face a series of building challenges in different locations. Before you know it, you'll be building complex magical worlds of your own.Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. We found 0 results for lego%20event. Please try another search or browse our recommendations below.Build with Chrome brings Lego to Google's maps and asks what would you build, and whereLast year we reported that Google and Lego had released a browser-based Lego building experience that sprawled over real-life geography – well kinda, if you didn’t mind only placing your models in Australia, where the location-based tool was first released. Build with Chrome has now been released everywhere, in honor of Lego’s anniversary yesterday of obtaining its first patent. With the newer version we have an extensive building academy with promotional tie-ins to the upcoming Lego movie, and you might see Lego models popping up all over your virtual Google map.
The build process is much as we described last year, with two piles of Lego bricks and different keyboard and mouse commands for controlling the layout. This time Lego and Google have added a detailed build academy to teach you the process of not only using the website, but to give tips on building with Lego. The “instructor” is a character from The Lego Movie and completing challenges will unlock additional bricks.Online Lego building experiences have existed in the past, so other interesting features are due to the Google connection. You’re initially asked to share your location and are assigned a geophysical plat of space which resembles a Lego baseplate upon zooming in, but you can also choose any geographic area in which to site your Lego model.You're also able to navigate the world map and look at local models. Browsing the physical location of my alma mater I discovered the school’s logo, while by the stadium in Colorado I found a logo for the local football team, the Denver Broncos.
Apparently even in Lego, location matters.Because you can pick and choose where to build your models, theoretically with enough builders your town could obtain a virtual Lego representation of its real-life architecture. Or a group of friends could choose an isolated area and collaborate on an imaginary town or installation sprawling over multiple assigned areas, keeping in mind that models can’t technically overlap pieces from one “baseplate” to the next, and each baseplate can only have one designer.You’re also able to share your own models or those of others through G+, and all models are public and can be “+1”ed. Bear in mind that creators’ G+ names are shared with their model along with the geographical address where the model was placed, in case you decide to build a model of your house ... where your house really is.Build With Chrome can be accessed on any browser enabled with WebGL, including Safari, Firefox, and mobile browsers. WebGL’s site will tell you if you if your choice of browser supports it.
In practice the tool was more responsive for me in Firefox, but if I tried to build after selecting a geographical space instead of just clicking “Start Building," I was told that I needed to download Chrome.The video below depicts Google's geographical imaginings of Lego.Review: 'The Lego Movie' Builds to Oscar Status (Photo credit: Warner Bros. Pictures/AP Photo) "The Lego Movie" will likely be one of the most surprising movies of the year. Of course, it's only February, so it's rare to get a film with Oscar potential this early.I'm not talking best picture here, but Warner Bros isn't going to need to build a Lego Dolby Theater with Lego Oscars and pretend to have a Lego Academy Awards to be recognized. This film is probably going to grab an Academy Award nomination for best animated picture - that's how good it is. "Parks and Recreation" star Chris Pratt, who's slowly transitioning from TV star to movie star, is the voice of Emmet Brickowski, a very average, kind of boring, unoriginal citizen of this Lego world.
He's conformist, following his instruction booklet, which tells him how to go about his daily routine. Like all the other conforming Lego citizens, he goes around singing the most popular song - and apparently, the only song - everybody listens to, which is titled "Everything Is Awesome." It's sung in the streets, it's sung at work, it's sung for hours at a time. All ABC News Movie Reviews Here On the flip side, there exist Master Builders, free-thinkers unshackled from the rules and instruction booklets that keep the citizens under the stealthy totalitarian rule of President Business, voiced by Will Ferrell. President Business has an evil plan to destroy the world with a weapon called the Kragle, and the only one who can stop him is The Special: the greatest Master Builder to ever live. How do we know this? It's the prophecy as seen by Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman), a character who's a mix of Morpheus and the Oracle from The Matrix. Spoiler Alert: guess who turns out to be The Special?
Will he be able to stop President Business? With the help of Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) and Vitruvius, he just might! The very idea of a Lego movie was to me perplexing and a bit annoying, but this particular creative team, headed by directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, 21 Jump Street) have made a hilarious parody of pop culture disguised as a kids' movie, replete with homage after brilliant homage to a plethora of classic sci-fi films and, of course, Lego toys. You'll leave the theater smiling and singing "Everything Is Awesome," because when it comes to The Lego Movie, everything is. Four-and-a-half out of five stars. Forget the plastic bins of bricks. Build with Chrome is a digital builder that allows you to build with LEGO bricks anywhere in the world right in your browser on your computer, phone and tablet. Build with Chrome is a collaboration that we fostered between Google and the LEGO Group, which originally began in 2012 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the LEGO brick.
After two years and over a quarter million published builds in Australia and New Zealand, we’re excited to introduce an all new Build with Chrome that has remarkably transformed from a campaign into a full fledge Google owned product. Today, Build with Chrome is open for the entire world to explore on top of Google Maps, and it’s even accessible on all WebGL enabled phones, tablets, and computers that allows anyone the opportunity to build something awesome. Our ambition was to create an experience with a minimal threshold that would be intuitive and fluid for all types of demographics. In order for this to be achieved, it was imperative that the different types of interactions remain relative to the appropriate task at hand. In result, ‘Build with Chrome’ was defined to have two types of modes, Explore and Build, which would help shape the project’s holistic experience. In order to cope with the number of future builds in the explore mode, we’ve added community functionality through Google+ integration that includes a categorization system to help manage all builds.
Additionally, we translated Build into 32 different languages to allow everyone around the world to participate in the Build with Chrome community. Now for all the LEGO building enthusiast in the world, we even created a Build Academy to help hone their LEGO skills and prepare them for the upcoming LEGO® MOVIE™. The Build Academy is a series of short tutorials and challenges that feature characters and structures from the film. This allowed us to address specific business objects and create awareness around specific themes and characters from the film, while helping users to improve their building skills while never crossing the advertising line. In order to preserve authentication of these LEGO structures, we worked closely with the LEGO Master Builders themselves from the film to ensure that all challenges respected LEGO’s building rules. In the end, we foresaw the Build Academy as a place where builders can learn new tips and tricks that would inspire people to push their imagination further within the Build world.
LEGO has fans from all ages, but naturally that includes a predominantly young audience. When working with a product such as this, it’s important that everything be handled with care in order to protect the brand and the public from potential misuse. "What many people may not see with the current Build with Chrome, or even the previous one is that it required a great deal of attention on how to balance censorship, security, and the client’s brand values. It’s easy to get caught up with what you can do with LEGO, but many people forget it’s a toy company aimed at children and the internet could be disturbing place if you are naive." This presented quite a tough challenge, especially when you want freedom and flexibility to be so central. The question is then, what steps can you take to effectively mitigate the potential negative impact on both sides? So, we set up Build with Chrome Global to require Google+ authentication for publishing builds. [This is] because it allowed us to directly associate builds with the builder’s name, allowed us to manage who is building, and ensure that the builder is 13 years and up because Google Accounts requires this to create an account.