I have this idea for a MOC scene floating around in my head, also involving the inside of Erebor. I wanted to use the chrome gold coins, but it would cost me hundreds of dollars... I wonder if the 1x1 round plates are drastically cheaper to acquire? Great inspiration!  Love em all!

I sketched out a trash compactor front view. Pretty satisfied with it. Now I need to mock up the scene using whatever I have on hand.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Here's my MOC passion project (pun intended):

My wife works for the University of Arizona Alumni Association. Her office had the idea two weeks ago to make a Valentine's Day video featuring the mascots (Wilbur and Wilma Wildcat) and the oldest and most iconic building on campus - Old Main - all made entirely out of Lego and photographed to create an animation video to post on the university website for Valentine's Day.

My wife asked me ("since you're so obsessed with Lego") if I could recreate Old Main. She said her office had some Lego imitation-brand figures to use for Wilbur and Wilma.  I accepted the challenge and started looking at photos.  

 

 

Overall it wasn't a complicated structure, but as always it wasn't without its challenges.  The real miracle was that I built everything you're about to see without placing a single bricklink order (we didn't have time since I got the project on a Wednesday night and it was due Monday). I used an extra large baseplate and once I got into it, it was great fun and probably took around 25-30 hours over five days by the time it was all said and done. The roof probably took the longest to recreate. The second photo below is what it all looked like when my wife took it in to work this past Monday. The director of photography/multimedia for the University was the one who did all the real work, taking thousands of photos and then narrowing it down to 15/second for the video.

 

This was my first "real" large-scale MOC and all it did was make me eager to start a new project. What you are about to see in the video has a lot of little changes and additions to suit the University's objectives in making their video. All I can really take credit for is the set (building, fountain, landscaping, etc).

So... here's the video. We are up to 48,000 views on Facebook since Friday afternoon when it was officially posted. I'm amazed at the number of views and how many people have inquired about how they can build this themselves. I think YouTube has over 2,000 views.  Thanks for watching and Happy Valentine's Day.

Two thumbs up!

On ‎2‎/‎13‎/‎2016 at 8:03 PM, brickcrazyhouse said:

Needs this guy!

40% larger than 10179 UCS Millennium Falcon, a team of people created this 10,000 parts minifigure-scale version of the ship:

http://lego.gizmodo.com/it-took-10-000-pieces-to-build-a-minifig-scale-lego-mil-1703579472

(link leads to several pics plus a vid)

40 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, The Shard, & the Houses of Parliament by Rocco Buttliere

All are built in 1:650 scale

Check out his Flickr loads more pictures and other excellent builds on there

 

Edited February 17, 20169 yr by TheGallows

On ‎4‎/‎7‎/‎2015 at 1:30 AM, TheOrcKing said:

Here is an amusement park MOC completely built out of LEGO with a Ferris wheel, bumper cars, jump & smile, pendulum, and some kind of swing ride all powered by motors. It also features an array of lights to brighten the lively scene during the night.

Bumper car movement is great! I wonder how was that done?

http://www.moc-pages.com/moc.php/422928

EV on steroids

the stairs are frick'n perfect

5 minutes ago, brickcrazyhouse said:

the stairs are frick'n perfect

About everything is frick'n perfect - the railings with the hundreds of droid arms, the tree trunks, the different shades of transparent blue/grey/clear making up the little brook on the forest floor, the canopy, the groundcover .... you name it.

I can taste the rainbow....

Rainbow Castle (main) by Simon Schweyer

Love the Shyguy!

On 2/14/2016 at 6:48 PM, brickcrazyhouse said:

 

 

This is awesome, do you know who the designer is? I could probably work it out but i would love a parts list if anyone has it? Save slightly wrong BL orders

 

21 minutes ago, bryn said:

This is awesome, do you know who the designer is? I could probably work it out but i would love a parts list if anyone has it? Save slightly wrong BL orders

 

this is where I found the pic

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/43699058860271974/

1 hour ago, bryn said:

This is awesome, do you know who the designer is? I could probably work it out but i would love a parts list if anyone has it? Save slightly wrong BL orders

 

If you can't contact the original designer, or they don't have a brick list.... I might suggest to download something like Lego Digital Designer. Reverse engineer the build until you're happy with it in digital form (might not be exact but you can get it pretty darn close). Then use the instructions feature to get a parts list. Order from your parts list.