Little Coloured Bricks

South Park has fast gained its popularity since it was first aired in the 90’s.  It’s considered cartoons for a mature audience focusing on nasty humor amongst four kids.  Opening its upcoming 14^th season, it’s quite fitting to consider, where does Lego come in play?

Lego enthusiasts have begun exploring building South Park characters from their bricks.  Although Lego hasn’t come up of a South Park themed System, Lego enthusiasts are but excited to push the concept and share their talent.

Eric Cartman
Eric Cartman is considered the antagonist of the series.  He seems to be a sociopath behaving as if he’s against everything else outside of himself and he, Kyle, Stan and Kenny (the two other main characters in the series).  The article doesn’t say who built this Lego art but it seemed to be almost a life-size of Eric Cartman.  The pale colors of his hat and shirt was ultimately captured, as well as his pale skin color.  His obese body was obvious, as well as his big eyes and half-opened mouth.  The Lego piece, however, did not capture the plump cheeks that Eric has.  In a way, he looks malnourished but the display is nothing short of wonderful.

Kenny McCormick
“Oh my God, they killed Kenny! …You bastards!”  This is a phrase often associated to Kenny McCormick at the South Park series.  He seemed to have a habit of dying in almost all episodes but managing to return alive on the succeeding ones.  His deaths are usually gross and each time, Stan or Kyle manages to mention the phrase mentioned already.  After his death, rats suddenly appear to eat his corpse.  His deaths however, were cut short as another character was given more prime, Butters.

The Lego depicting Kenny captures the parka hood he wears as well as his partially covered face.  The Lego captured him with an axe piercing his skill and is in the process of dying because the rats are already gnawing his brain and his body.  It does look violent but this is exactly Kenny’s role in South Park, up until the 6^th episode at least.

Butters Scotch
In the South Park series, Butters, generally replaced Kenny’s character and has often become the subject of Eric’s exploits.  He rarely complains and maintains a mild temperament until he assumes another character later on.

The Lego piece captures everything about Butters Scotch, from the hair, eyes, clothes, shoes, even the skin color.  It was an amazing Lego piece standing 12 inches tall.  It looks even better than the plush toy.

Talk about how detailed the creations are and then give a background on who Cain and Abel are.

The good thing about the Bible is there is nothing malicious about what was being described.  There is just the natural course of events.  Adam and Eve was banished from Paradise and had to learn about life the hard way, they must have been really stressed with their situation.  It was indeed a blessing, they had each other.

Eve bore a son they named Cain.  The bricks captured a very detailed description.  It portrayed the closest home possible at that time.  It included fire which Adam and Even used to keep them warm and to cook food.  They had a horse, and a pet and the “house” seemed to be surrounded by trees and very near “running” water.  If we were to follow the story, the place is conducive to raise a child.  Their joy was even greater when they were blessed with another son, whom they named Abel.  But the joy was to be cut short.

The Brick Testament captured the story of Cain and Abel clearly without amiss.  The bricks were arranged delicately showing abundant crops and fruits as well as a flock of sheep with horses, a cow and a goat which shall help one see that Cain became a farmer or “tiller of the soil” and that Abel became a shepherd.  The bricks couldn’t portray the fire but the next scene depicted the brothers giving God their offering.  Even God was portrayed as a figure in the Brick Testament.  He favored Abel’s offering which caused Cain much distress – to the point that he killed his brother.

The Bricks were arranged in a storyboard display.  If it can be made into modern animation, it wouldn’t be short of scenes.  The picture where Cain has killed Abel was very animated though.  The axe on Cain’s hand and that expression on his face, with Abel on the floor face down with a little red around him to signify the blood was a perfect rendition of the scene.  The angle at which the pictures were taken adds focus to the characters depicted in the story.

Genesis Chapter 4 couldn’t be more clear and detailed than the way the Brick Testament presented it.

Genesis 6:11-12
The earth was corrupt before God and filled with crime. God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all living beings had perverted their ways on the earth.

If it were you, how will you “paint a picture” of “The Flood”?  The famous Bible story has been numerously portrayed as the “end of the world” or the “future” of the world.  Movies often focus on the repentance aspect, on making you feel guilty and on believing on the hope of life symbolized by Noah’s ark.  Inspiring as it may seem, it takes away the topic at hand – the flood.  With Lego however, a builder came up with something no less than extraordinary.

In the first few chapters of the Book of Genesis, you will read the part where Adam and Eve realized they were naked and they tried to hide from God. Of course God caught them and banished them from paradise, however, if you try to focus on the prior, where Adam and Eve realized something and they tried to hide it, you’ll realize now that the action is just human nature.  That action has become a human trait that was passed on to one person across history to us.  We must understand what Adam and Eve felt then, we wouldn’t want to be caught naked by our parents, much worse, naked in public.

Now, if God went away for a business trip and we were left alone, what will we do?  Stay home and do nothing?  I guess not.  And that was how it was like during the time of the flood.  Let’s say God focused on other matters and when the time came that He went back home to check on His children, what He saw was something too grave that he brought about the flood.  The Bible was a little figurative with its description.  The Lego creation however was literal -in a rather fun way.

The Lego creation captured critical elements that show people doing something against nature.  This includes drinking too much, gambling, fighting or killing each other (whatever reason that may be), cutting down trees, whatever was depicted as wrong between couples (girl-boy and boy-boy) and whatever that man is doing with the Lego sheep.

This is a camera moment you wouldn’t want to be part of, even if you are guilty.  This is like being part of a “you got busted” program.  And we all know what happened next, the flood came and we are alive.

King Solomon is a King of Israel and according to biblical accounts, he is the son of David –the guy who killed Goliath. In Legoland, King Solomon is still the same character, someone with great wisdom, power and wealth.

When Lego King Solomon became King of Israeli Legolandia, Zadok the priest, Benaiah the warrior, Nathan the prophet and the Pelethites and the Kerethites put the young Solomon on a mule and paraded him down to Gihon.

When they got to the river, Zadok anointed Solomon with oil. The sounds of the trumpets were heard and the Lego Solomon’s people shouted “Long live King Solomon!”.  All his people came after him in celebration. The people were celebrating too loud that the ground split open.

More on King Solomon

King Solomon had a thousand women, 700 of which are his wives and 300 of them were his concubines. This goes the same with Lego King Solomon who had foreign princesses for wives including a Pharaoh’s daughter. In the Lego creation above, you can see Lego King Solomon’s many wives and concubines. The foreign princesses ruled his court but not one of them were as controversial as the Queen of Sheba. The Queen of Sheba was never part of the King’s harem but was rumored to be the wise King’s lover. Although the Bible and the Qur’an never hinted at any type of sexual relations between the Ethiopian and Egyptian Queen, historical accounts say something else.

Solomon however is not famous for his many wives since that was the norm in those days, he instead is famous for his wisdom.

Before Solomon became King, his father, King David commanded his son to obey the commandments. The depiction of father and son is Lego is something very touching but the only question is, why is Lego Solomon wearing a blanket for a cape?

Standing in Legoland USA just outside San Diego, California, the freedom tower was built just a few months after the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York. The creator of the Lego replica is Daniel Libeskind. Its height is only 28 feet tall, large by Lego standards, and has approximately 170, 000 Lego bricks. Julie Estrada, the spokeswoman of Legoland said at the time the replica was displayed said that it is a “way to pay tribute to the heroes and victims of 9/11.” However, even if the replica has been built already, the original is still not standing to the dismay of the American people. It is good however that the Lego replica is at Legoland.

Another interesting Lego replica is Lego Taipe 101 created by DaweiDrake. The creation is very accurate and Drake used green transparent bricks coupled with sand blue plates. The whole Lego replica feels like it’s the real deal. Its builder said he was tempted to call the creation Taipei 10001 since he used a whopping 10, 000 little coloured bricks.

Another interesting Lego replica is Lego Taipe 101 created by DaweiDrake. The creation is very accurate and Drake used green transparent bricks coupled with sand blue plates. The whole Lego replica feels like it’s the real deal. Its builder said he was tempted to call the creation Taipei 10001 since he used a whopping 10, 000 little coloured bricks.

If you think the first two are gargantuan in proportion already, wait until you see the Lego 30 St. Mary. The creation stands in Legoland Windsor and has a height of approximately 14 feet. Amazing isn’t it? This beautiful creation looks exactly the same as the original. The original looks a bit darker though but that is because of the bricks lack sheen.