Toy Story LEGO
Woo! WOOOOO!!! WOooooOOOOOoooOooOoooooOOOO!!!
We Need These Stinking Badges
Russell’s sash badges from Up:
Thanks, Super Robot Monster!
2010 Toy Story LEGO
Coming in 2010! See more here! Woo-hoo!!!
Hat tip to FBTB!
Pixar Loves Apple (and LEGOs)
I went and saw Up over the weekend and was just bowled over. Wow! Probably my favorite Pixar flick since The Incredibles!
But apparently I left just a smidge too early:
By the time we were at the end of the film, I was beginning to think that there weren't going to be any love letters to Apple in Up. The credits, featuring Russell's Wilderness Explorer merit badges floating by on a typed page, began to look somewhat promising. Sure enough, I spied a stylized and stationary "Spinning Pizza of Death," the dreaded Mac OS X wait cursor, on a merit badge just about at the end of the credits.
Dang!
However I did see a new trailer with some old Pixar friends and some familiar plastic bricks:
Hat tips to TUAW and The Brothers Brick
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Pixar “Stiff-arms… Children”
A really nice article over at Newsweek about Pixar's "Up" with a great short history of animation:
The little animation studio that could, Pixar was established in 1986 not as a cartoon factory but as a computer manufacturer. Many on the skeleton staff were cartoonists at heart, but the shorts they produced on company time were designed to promote the company hardware. When Toy Story, their pilot feature, was greenlighted in 1991, they rushed out to a screenwriting seminar. They were amateurs.
(BTW, Newsweek, love the new paper.)
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1988 Apple Pencil Test
Stumbled on this a way back:
Beyond the fact that this is just cool, and an impressive display of 1988 computer power, there's some cool people involved.
Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E) is listed as both "Storyteller" and "Illustrator." John Lasseter (Toy Story, Cars) is credited as "Coach."
And there's a thanks at the end to "Chronical Features" for usage of a Gary Larson cartoon on the coffee cup:
It's hard to tell which cartoon it is, but that's a nice touch.
What a nice little piece of cartoony history!
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Wall-E In Wood
OK, that’s just really cool!
Thanks, Geekologie!
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Buy n Large Site
Haven’t seen Wall-E yet, but if Pixar’s Buy n Large site is any indication, it deserves all the praise it’s getting.
Thanks YBNBY!
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Lego Wall-E
There’s a great interview with Pixar animator, Angus MacLane over at The Brothers Brick, and some fun pics of his Lego creations!
My favorite question?
TBB: Okay, we have to ask this.
Why aren’t any of the main characters in Toy Story or Toy Story 2 built from LEGO?
Everybody has toys from their childhood that are very special and meaningful to them. For me personally that would be Classic Space LEGO, Fisher-Price Adventure People, Original Star Wars 4″ line and the first 3 years of the small GI Joe line. You’ll notice that the toys of the Toy Story world are loosely based on or inspired by toys that are pre-LEGO. So I don’t actually know the answer to your question, but I’m guessing it’s because the original character designers did not happen to grow up with LEGO as a major influence. As to why there hasn’t been many Buzz Lightyear LEGO MOCs that would be due to the relatively new arrival of lime green and the shortage of purple.
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Taste Visualization for Pixar’s Ratatouille
I haven’t seen Ratatouille yet, but my anticipation is just about to a full boil.
Especially when I see stuff like Michel Gagne’s “abstract representations of what the character was tasting” at his site. Don’t miss this amazing inside look!
Thanks to whoever hipped me to this over at the Wisen (and apologies for not remembering who you are).
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