I built something!
Few years ago I was handed some printouts of very rough LEGO cars built digitally for the LEGO BATMAN MOVIE with the words ‘do something about it’. I was given a short brief, and at least two of these cars (the cop car and a taxi), should be treated like a regular product, meaning they had to be designed in such fashion that if so desired, they would withstand all the tests LEGO has for new products (in case people would pause the movie and reverse engeneer these things, which happened quite a bit), and they had to obey all the LEGO rules.
I built a bunch of different cars, all on a similar and rugged chassis that I initially invented for the Batmobile that is in 76052 Batcave, only tweaked a bit for the different cars.
I built probably something like ten? Maybe Fifteen passenger cars in many variations, plus the taxi that was inspired by a Checker and which could have almost infinite number of different versions by changing hubcaps, trim, position of the numberplates, adding or loosing bumperguards and whatnot.
To my surprise all of my designs were in some way incorporated in the movie, and if you watch carefully you can make out the different builds.
The most prominent is the taxi of course (people were joking back then that I was responsible for 80% of LEGO Gotham’s traffic just because I came up with the taxi), but this is also the one I can’t show, because it’s using one piece that was moulded only for me at the time when I was designing it.
I can however show the Dodge Monaco/Ford LTD flavoured cop car that is all over the net anyway because people keep reverse engeenering it (it was also printed on several promo items), I can show the Gremlin which was shown in the ‘making of’ book and which is parked in the Arkham lot in the movie, and I can show Axel Foley’s (Beverly Hills Cop) Nova.
All of these cars use painted bits and pieces here and there, plus Foley’s Nova got a weathering straight from a spray can (in the movie it’s of course all unicolored), but they can be built and played with (which my kid does alot when he visits me at the office). No new elements there, no glue, no other cheats...
I built something!
Few years ago I was handed some printouts of very rough LEGO cars built digitally for the LEGO BATMAN MOVIE with the words ‘do something about it’. I was given a short brief, and at least two of these cars (the cop car and a taxi), should be treated like a regular product, meaning they had to be designed in such fashion that if so desired, they would withstand all the tests LEGO has for new products (in case people would pause the movie and reverse engeneer these things, which happened quite a bit), and they had to obey all the LEGO rules.
I built a bunch of different cars, all on a similar and rugged chassis that I initially invented for the Batmobile that is in 76052 Batcave, only tweaked a bit for the different cars.
I built probably something like ten? Maybe Fifteen passenger cars in many variations, plus the taxi that was inspired by a Checker and which could have almost infinite number of different versions by changing hubcaps, trim, position of the numberplates, adding or loosing bumperguards and whatnot.
To my surprise all of my designs were in some way incorporated in the movie, and if you watch carefully you can make out the different builds.
The most prominent is the taxi of course (people were joking back then that I was responsible for 80% of LEGO Gotham’s traffic just because I came up with the taxi), but this is also the one I can’t show, because it’s using one piece that was moulded only for me at the time when I was designing it.
I can however show the Dodge Monaco/Ford LTD flavoured cop car that is all over the net anyway because people keep reverse engeenering it (it was also printed on several promo items), I can show the Gremlin which was shown in the ‘making of’ book and which is parked in the Arkham lot in the movie, and I can show Axel Foley’s (Beverly Hills Cop) Nova.
All of these cars use painted bits and pieces here and there, plus Foley’s Nova got a weathering straight from a spray can (in the movie it’s of course all unicolored), but they can be built and played with (which my kid does alot when he visits me at the office). No new elements there, no glue, no other cheats...