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Hayao Miyazaki's film adaptation of Howl's Moving Castle isn't mainstream enough to merit its own Lego set, so the engineering geniuses behind the Imagine Brickstone Flickr page made their own. Through some brilliant kit-bashing and probably an insane amount of time and work, they somehow managed to perfectly translate the film's sense of fractured whimsy to the construction block toy medium. You can see the rest of the pictures from this project (and others) here, but be warned that you are going to be overwhelmed with the urge to hug a monstrous ball of Legos and that can be painful and embarrassing. Take my word for it. (Via Japanator). • C.C. ​
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stewbacca said:
Impressive- except for the fact that he refers to himself in the third person with a name like Imagine in all those pictures-
s parker said:
If it were a mainstream set, it would probably have a whole bunch of those special-made bizarre-shaped pieces that only work when you're trying to build the one thing they come with. Individual creations are usually more interesting.
Atlas said:
It looks Orky.
Like WH40K Orky.
I approve of this.
cocacolaoso said:
*snif* Beautiful!
Gleeman said:
100% Win.
demoncat said:
seeing that thing the creators must be a real fan of howls moving castle to actully try something with that too bad a legitimate lego set like that would be one immpossible and too costly to make. not to mention not enough of a base to sell well
Nephilim of Sin said:
@Atlas:
No two ways about it, the exterior has to be modeled after a Stompa. Although, at least the interior is less Orky, and more 'Kustom'.
Still, needs more Dakka.
Dave said:
Okay, I'm rather conflicted about this post.
On the one hand it's anime (I had to look up the subject matter on wiki to know). And I will never, for the life of me, understand anime or people's obsession with it. But then again, someone somewhere thought Kirsten Dunst was a good actress and gave her work. So, clearly there's no accounting for taste in people.
On the other hand it's Legos. And I most definitely understand and love Legos.
In the end I think the anime subject matter is too much for the Legos to outweigh. So...FAIL: for spending so much time, money, and effort on what ever the crap this is.
Atlas said:
That's no more fail than the people buying and building the Star Worse(that was intentional by the way) crap Legos.
kenshiro said:
Poop on howl's moving castle. And also poop on Princess Monoke. I love anime, but poop on those two movies.
Charlie said:
Kensiro - you clearly have criticism down to a fine art, and here was me thinking those were two pretty good films. And it's Princess Mononoke.
Charlie said:
And another thing...
'And I will never, for the life of me, understand anime or people's obsession with it.'
This statement (the first part anyway) makes as little sense as me saying 'I will never undertstand music/cinema' - lumping every single type of anime into one homogeneous sludge is daft in the extreme.
DoctorSmashy said:
I've been waiting for a Lego Ghibli set, you know. No-Face and Totoro could be built together to make.... No-Face Totoro, Yubaba could battle the Witch of The Waste, and Princess Mononoke could team up with every badass character from the movies and fight Lego Star Wars characters.
Imagine said:
Thanks TR for the blog mention. If anyone wants to read about the build you can find more detailed info on my Moc Pages for this build at:
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/160560
I agree that some may not get it if they don't know the story. By the way, Howl's Moving Castle came from a book by Diana Wynne Jones before Miyazaki made it into a movie.
Oh and yeah, my mom uploaded the pics to Flickr for me. I'll have to get over there and change the name thing. My name really is Imagine though. Thanks for commenting.
