Free Shirt

today i received this awesome free shirt in the mail courtesy of Lego. unfortunately, other then to pose for this shot, i'm unsure if i will be wearing this shirt. ya see... it is a large. i wear a medium comfortably. maybe i'll cut out the characters and make a custom piece of clothing instead with it...

Unclear film shorts, need to slow down

Up until the last two films, all of my films took nearly a month of planning to create and make. altho i may not take a month to film, i DO come up with the storyline nearly a month in advance. and during that month, when i have time, inside my mind i 3dimensionally put the cogs and gears of the film together, and puzzle over how certain parts are filmed and built.

my last two films, are 19 hour films. 19 hours... meaning i come up with the film idea in a few minutes, i figure out the storyline in twenty....then i have to wait 10 hours before i can even get around to doing them (due to life and its priorities). i do the film without much thought other then the idea at hand, instead of pondering the idea and how to expand on it.

so lil parts about the last two films...in case people DID miss it, and get confused.
first off- indy jones hates snakes. second of all, the older ninjago sets had old ninja hood pieces, which carried a weapon on the hood, so that once removed, the weapon or tool was no longer accessible. the newer versions... the mask and the back weapon holder are separate from each other.

finally, the dinosaur known as REX has movable arms and legs. the similiar sized DINO from the new DINO sets do not. i have just recently picked up a set with a much larger t-rex (5886). from the images on the box, it would appear those do have moving legs and arms...PLUS a movable jaw. SWEET! i will have to look into that later once i have more free time.

star wars notes- mace windu is played by an actor named Samuel Jackson. 'nuff said. whats' the deal with anakin and asoka? its not told about in the clone wars series...but fans do make up stories and wonder about the relationship of those two. han and leia seem to get along "well."

the most ridiculous thing that happened today was my attempt at being a "hardcore lego enthusiast." trying to build a set by feel only in the dark, and only remembering the box art as reference for putting the set together! luckily, the set had only 87 pieces, and it took me nearly 90 minutes (while on a car ride home from tonight's escapades) to do so.


-most recent new sets_ **sorry for the bad quality, webcam**

Han Solo and the mistle TOE

Decided to make a holiday themed short using grab bag pieces + Star wars minifigs....wee early hours. which may be a bad idea. Short's direction and storyling took about a few minutes, filming took a couple hours...but at the wee morning hours... i think my hands weren't steady, and i wasn't fully coherent.

my last short... i felt like i didn't have enough time to make a decent film due to lack of time. but that's actually not an excuse as this more recent took less time, and came out much better quality. (unless you put the indy and zane skit to comparison, then no, as thats nearly double the fps.) having a direction in mind makes a HUGE difference.

I didnt realize it until i scanned my shelf of minifigs....that the Lego Star Wars females were not as plentiful as the males. So pairing up wasnt as easy as i had hoped.

i thought about adding voices to the video. i wanted mace/jules to say. "hey baby" and anakin to say, "what the-" and "whoa!" Maybe even a "come here, snips." Leia saying "hey you" or "hey there stranger" in sequences that needed it, add giggling all around. some live audience "awwws." and social chatter. but i didn't, mostly because i felt that while these added things would make the film more easy to understand, and more interesting, it also bumped up the 'G' rating to perhaps a suggestive 'PG.' if a younger audience was watching this, or someone unfamiliar with American culture/tradition, i won't mind thinking that this party was about finding "dance partners" while at the party over "hooking up."

maybe i'll go back and add those sometime. (yes...sometime. echo.)

as i write this, i'm not sure if i'm coherent as well. maybe i should blog in the morning instead. i'm not a huge huge fan of ninjago. but i saw the transforming sets today. still can't understand why ninjas needs jets and helicopters. a motorcycle makes sense. ninja 250. indy's not going to be too happy, but they have guys in snake suits and white snakes.

Happy Turkey Day!

(apologize for not the best... filmed, edited, and added sound in just under 4 hours.)

you may need to own the old ninjago sets to understand whats going on. (to compare to the new ninjago sets) =P

No Pugsy, Animated Avi?

I got excited this morning when i loaded up the Lego site on my computer....i spotted Pugsy the bear for sale! or so.... i thought... my region had been switched, and pugsy the bear is only available for UK customers. =[ ( i like the BBC narrations on the planet earth blue rays... sure beats oprah's narrations, thats for sure.)

meanwhile, is the VW van worth getting? i can recall when one point in my childhood that such a toy would have been perfect for me and my brother's cherished figurines. We had used them for everything, altho where they originated from was far from a toy store.

mini modular....oooooo. looking forward to that one. I'm not sure if i should be excited yet for the new DC sets to come. superman? pffffft. boyscout. new batman, has a back graphic. gonna score at least one of those. dont NEED a wonder woman, but should get at least one. I'm hoping the new catwoman looks somewhat different then the last one. New marvel sets should be heaps of fun. i'm looking forward to that new Hulk mold. =D

I recently received an email asking how i can improve on the Lego site. its a fun quirky site as it is.....so there isn't much to improve on the Lego site right now, but won't it be great if~

in my VIP top right corner, be able to customize an animated AVATAR that greets me whenever i log into the site, and when i surf the site, it sits in the corner and makes comments on things i am looking at. if i'm unsure, i can click on him, and he will say things like "yeah! a good choice!" "don't look at me!" "wow! look at that one!" "i think you already have that one..." and "yay!!"

Green Fever

Think Big, Green Lantern., a photo by wingtorn on Flickr.

After all that work with the green this and that on my last and more recent film (see last post), i must have been influenced somehow by the color green.

i may have seen blue and pink and orange knives before, but for some reason i have never seen one this shade of green before.

maybe it was on impulse, but i do enjoy a nice knife now and then. So i picked it up.

Green Lantern here, helped me carry it home.

The BLADES of DOOM

i know. i havent updated my blog in a while. well... that's because i was working on this. =]

that's right! our FOUTH film is complete!

Filming took an unbelievable 26 hours over 6 days. Editing and piecing together the footage took about 3 hours. Sound was a lil tricky and took 7 hours. (it would have taken less time, but there was a power outage! not fun at all! =[ )

The green stuff was really hard to work with. Getting the right hardness proved to be a challenge by itself. i had to play with the batches for nearly three days before i could even start shooting. The problems that arose included stickiness, melting, and unstableness.

The original idea for this film was a throw around. It was something like a joke we talked about in the car while driving, stopped at a traffic light. i recall that night actually. i wrote it down. that was months ago. then less then two weeks ago, i dug it up, and came up with this lil short.

Its not for everyone, and i apologize if it doesnt make too much sense. in the end, it doesn't really have anything to do with GL. But, what if he did think about these things? >=]

non of the green stuff was wasted. it was probably a bad idea..but most of it was eaten by me. =P

Chalk Drawings

A 3D street painting at the chalkfestival in Sarasota, FL that caught my eye. From different angles, they look completely different. Amazing stuff!



meanwhile, the dino sets on close examination didn't have the same weapons as shown in the "confidential" toy release catalog. The rifles are merely SW rifles with a syringe mounted on top. No separate mold for a sniper rifle or shotgun in sight. Now i can only look forward and hope the new ninjago sets will look the same as the ones seen in the new toys to come catalog...

White Ninjas

So i set forth to find the new Dino sets at ToysRUs. i looked at the shelves, i talked to customer service, and i watched them punch in numbers into their systems. and nobody had any of these sets. but as this screen shot shows...these sets should be out. Somewhere, i suppose. The truck that comes with the triceratops set looks vaguely familiar. perhaps it was designed by the same guy that worked on the Alien Conquest sets? (Earth Defense set#7066)


meanwhile while looking to find a dishpan that fit my sink at home, i came across a bunch of these guys. The white ninja from the ninjago series in polybags. these sold for half price. Altho ninja's dont usually come in white, i am finding uses for the the pieces that come in this set. not a bad find! (i'm actually a lil confused as to what the contraption on his back is. wall climbing mystic legs or wings of a glider? i changed the pieces around enough to make it into some kind of dessert mount.)

(i also discovered that the elaborate pounding of the making of mochi is necessary. without that process, the mochi has a consistency very similar of mashed potatoes. not quite the bouncy stuff i am accustomed to...)

2012 Sets, already?

I'm itching to go to a Toys "R" Us and picking up some of those new dino themed sets. I just spotted them on their website. They arent supposed to come out until 2012....but apparently ToysRus has them already. I want to get a bunch of raptor sets, (ambush attack 5882), and have to decide which T-Rex set i should get (5886 or 5997). Those new dinosaurs are looking pretty sweet, kind of in the color scheme as playmobile's toys. (speaking of playmobile they started to sell blind series packs....very much similiar to that of the Lego CMF series...) they are also proportional to size to a minifig it seems... =]


I've never really been a fan of the racerz series. other then adding the parts onto the rc base racer, they never really did much for me. We did get a few sets...thinking that they would be great for maybe background cars, but that never worked out.

these new racerz look more fun as they now incorporate unseatbelted drivers that can get tossed out of their pimped out wheelz. i'm already thinking up what i can do with sets such as these. ;]


i'm on the fence about this one. i LOVE Lego batman sets as it is...but for some reason this set doesnt really sit with me well. its much too simplistic, and something about the half built structure of the batcave, altho makes it more playable for children, doesnt quite impress me as a good display piece, or prop. the old one was more dark and batty-like. i'm still not sure if i will get it.


I made this scene awhile ago. turns out that TLG has decided to make a mini Lego set alongside Anakin's Jedi Interceptor (9494). it will have an Anakin that has two faces. One side is sleep dereived Anakin, and the other side is a creepy emo anakin, along with the robot that they stepped on during the film and the platform that slowly melted, and Anakin got cocky, then messed up by Obi-wan.