a life in plastic

a german girls childhood revival in fanarts and lego

[precision-instrument]

Tumblr user, even if your fixation fades, do not delete your sideblog. Someone out there just as obsessive as you is going to be deeply sad about losing that archive of material

[anonymous-force]

Scriblem cop... for your new years...

[my-obsession-is-impressive]

REBLOG IF YOU’RE STILL IN THE LEGO MOVIE FANDOM

[scrollsnsketchbooks]

Space Between Us

Another part of my ongoing Lego Movie archiving project! This is a copy of Space Between Us by cleversnail, with a few related oneshots by cleversnail and gaylegohell.

[Originally posted on April 17 2023]

[legocitysspf]

Croissants are always in my feed on FB 😫 this's art block...

[thegoodthebadandthescribbly-blog]

Good Cop prefers a rolling suitcase.

[scrollsnsketchbooks]

Prizes, Plunder, and Adventure

A unique copy of a Lego Movie fic that I bound for a friend way back in 2020.

I made the bookcloth for the cover myself, out of some scrap fabric I found at a secondhand store years ago, and the endpapers are screenprinted lokta paper. I'm hoping to still have enough of both to finally make my own copy, as I've had no luck finding more of either.

[Originally published on December 28 2020]

[sporesgalaxy]

remember lego movie smear frames. remember how beautiful and genius lego movie smear frames were . are you listening to me. they used only real bricks. so it would look like stop motion. they used real bricks to make smear frames for minifigures doing gestures and stuff isnt that crazy. the lego movie smear frames

[sporesgalaxy]

do you remember the fucking lighting they used in the lego batman movie. did you fucking see that shit. fuck

[sporesgalaxy]

they put scratches on the digitally animated legos man.

[wobblebees]

[tiggyloo]

A few examples of different LEGO movie smear frames from Google

[peopleeeater]

theyre so... yeah..

[dankmemeuniversity]

[explorerrowan]

They’re also shooting for 100% renewable plastic sources by 2030! All of the soft plant/leaf elements in sets right now and going forward are made out of bioplastic made from sugarcane, and they’re working on getting the regular hard plastic bricks out of that, too.

[lynnafred]

They’ve done it, actually! The full bricks are in the prototype stage now, and are expected to be 100% biodegradable without the need for a commercial compost facility. It’s very cool. Right now they’re testing the durability and playability of the bricks and seeing what needs to be revised/reworked on their final model.

[friedgengarz]

[fullhalalalchemist]

So its that easy huh

[sushinfood]

Of course it is

[ultranos]

Actually, this isn’t “easy” and is huge news. You see, Lego is absolutely meticulous about their quality control. Their standards for manufacturing are stupidly high, as are their safety requirements. You know that distinctive “click” when you pop two Lego bricks apart? They engineered that. That sound is so distinctive that it can be used to tell genuine Lego bricks from counterfeits and it’s a sound that would be based on shape and material.

Furthermore, one of the hard requirements for a Lego brick is that it must be compatible with any other Lego brick. If I buy a set today and pull a set from the 1980s? Those bricks would fit together perfectly. This requires a huge amount of precision engineering and controls on manufacturing quality. (I can’t remember the source, but I’ve at least heard that once the brick molds wear to a certain point, they’re pulled from the line and either melted down or turned into construction material for Lego HQ. Point being, no one is getting their hands on a worn Lego mold)

Recycled and non-petroleum plastics are different from other plastic. The chemistry is different. The timing and process to use them is different. This has been a reason why more companies haven’t moved to them, because there’s a drop in quality for material (so they claim).

What Lego just did is completely obliterate that argument. The corporation with some of the strictest quality control requirements for plastic just kicked the basic foundation of the “bad quality” argument out from under it, because if they feel confident enough to guarantee the same experience as using a brick from over 40 years ago, if they are confident enough that they can meet their own metrics at a huge industrial scale….

Nobody else has any excuse.

[justalurkr]

GLORIOUS NERDERY Lego edition

[crocodi1e]

did you know only 1 in 10,000 gar are golden colored? and that i love them sosososososo much? and its my dream pet?

[a-book-of-creatures]

A gar of gold… 42 garats…

[greenheart-anon]

"This must be the cookie for when you descend into psychosis"

[bregottski]

Sillies

[gaylegohell]

Benny and B at the thrift shop

“Ben. Ben look at this wee ceramic kitten,” B holds his treasure delicately in his hands, a small orange kitten with a ribbon around its neck.

“Ohh he’s cute,” Benny agrees. “What’s his name?” He likes to be supportive of B’s interests regardless how varied they are.

B thinks a minute. Furrows his brow. 

“Robert,” he decides. 

Benny nods. “That’s a great name. Do you love him?”

“I do, Ben.”

“Cool, let’s take him home.”

——-

“B CHECK THIS SHIT OUT!!”

Benny’s managed to squeeze himself into a neon yellow and pink ski jacket from the 90s he found in the ladies’ section. It’s tapered at the waist and actually makes him look pretty good.

“You look like a cool dude Ben,” B says.

“I’m gonna wear it all winter,” Benny says. He wears it out of the store.

“Ok, Ben.”

[freaquin]

well

[peopleeeater]

coppernauts make your comeback in 2023 i beg

[alifeinplastic]

OMG I MISSED U

q w q thank you! But I sadly rarely feel like drawing legos anymore. I still love them! thats not it! I just lack motivation due to a fulltime job and personal projects.

[djsadboy-deactivated20210329]

small look into my jim spaceborn museum…. 3 copies of the first book in different languages (still hunting for all languages, i found an online version of the dutch edition last night), second book in german (still desperately trying to find it in english), scanned materials (animation cels) of the unfinished pilot cartoon episode, lego space building the future (uses characters from the comics), bricks culture magazine issue 7 that has an interview with frank madsen, bricks journal volume 2 issue 2, another interview, and some minifigs i build of jim and keko :-) (not shown is my kazak minifig bcus im just embarrassed its kind of old) (also not pictured are emails and forum posts that i have printed out and keep in a folder for reference…)

if anyone out there knows of any fans of jim spaceborn and has stuff to share pls let me know!!! i want to meet other fans so badly!!!