[MOC] An Incident at Kraken Creek

[Wardancer]

Hi Everyone,

what brought me out of the dark ages was the need to create something to be performed at a wedding. Where I live, it is common that friends make creative things as a program for the wedding party. So I recreated an event which had happened to the marrying couple years before in LEGO, with some alterations to enhance suspense.

I thought it might be entertaining for some of you, even it is not relevant in terms of buildmanship. I did this before I knew what MOC or AFOL even means.

The story is pretty self-explanatory, so I won't translate the original dialogue I read at the wedding.

An Incident at Kraken Creek

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The young couple is on holiday in Sweden.

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"I'll call for help on my cellphone!"

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"No Reception, but I can enhance the antenna."

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"It doesn't work, but I know how to enhance it even more."

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"It didn't work, we'll have to empty the trunk to make the car lighter so we can get the car out of the mud."

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"Oh woman, why did you need such a giant suitcase."

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"Oh woman, did you have to bring the flowers on holiday?"

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"My barbecue is of course necessary for every vacation we go on."

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"The same is true for our tasty red wine bottles."

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"Now it should work! The car is lighter now."

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"Help! Help! A cheeky octopus has approached and tries to steal our red wine!!"

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"I'll save you and the wine with my trusty pocketknife!"

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"To many... arms. He is to strong for us!"

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"Oh, a friend appears by coincidence. He can help us."

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"We're also here to help."

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"It's working! Hit the beast, hit it harder!"

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All is well, the octopus is harnessed to get the car out."

[Larrynautik]

Really funny little scenes I love the cotton-made battle against the octopuss

[Hrw-Amen]

Quite an entertaining tale. Will this be enacted at the wedding or is a power point presentation? How exactly is it done?

[lightningtiger]

Very funny tale, though is it a bit cruel what they did to the octopus.....wait a minute - there is no ocean ? At a wedding, you say.....straight after the Birdie Dance !

Brick On 'Wardancer' !

[Wardancer]

Quite an entertaining tale. Will this be enacted at the wedding or is a power point presentation? How exactly is it done?

Thanks. It ran as a powerpoint presentation projected to a big screen while my girlfriend and I spoke the dialogue I wrote through microphones, so that everyone in the audience of a about 90 people could hear our voices as the minifigs dialoque. It is common here to celebrate the evening part of a wedding in locations with stage, projector, screen, sound system and so on.

The original (German) dialogue I wrote is much longer and contains many allusions to the couple and their ideosyncracies. Here on Eurobricks, I just wrote a few sentences so everyone can roughly understand what this is about.

In two weeks, there is another friend's wedding (4 this year), where I will use LEGO to make a sort of quiz for the couple.

Well yeah, it's an octopus without sea in sweden, not zoologically accurate. At the time the octopus was a very affordable beast in a small pirate set, so I just used it :-) It was released afterwards and continued its incredible journey which had brought it to Sweden. No animals were harmed in the making of this film.

[dr_spock]

Good story.

[Pingles]

Loved it. What a great tradition! Would have loved something like that at my wedding! Every wedding could use more Octopus attacks!