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Freelug's Pirate little diorama.

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Hi everyone, it's been a long long time ^^ but I found a job and my old camera broke, so I had some time and material issues to both come to the forum and present my new mocs...

But now I got a new camera ( and a good one) , and I'm back!

SO here I am to show you what we did for Japan Expo 2010, at Paris. We wanted to build a pirate diorama, but as the themes were totally free, we finally built a space pirate/pirate crossover.. quite original and funny, our stand had a lot of success.

I made the island with the "castle" , Freelug's member JAC made the other island, my girlfriend helped to build some details ( like the little islands). The 2 yellow forts belongs to the Freelug's president, Brickerik

Some links :

Pics of the stand : Here

Pics of the Japan Expo :Here

Jac's Gallery: http://photos.freelug.org/main.php/v/JAC/ (he didn't uploaded his pictures of this exhibition yet.)

Brickerik's Gallery : http://photos.freelug.org/main.php/v/brickerik/expositions/2010/japanexpo/

Anyway, here are some pics of the diorama :

General views :

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Some details :

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I also did a quick video of it , you can see it here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91HYV2iPpk8

Don't hesitate to watch the pictures on our website, there is a lot of little details ( also included a Waldo! ^^)

Thanks for watching.

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Welcome back! That's a nice diorama, and a funny combination of pirates and space :pir-laugh:

The church is really a piece of art IMO, small but very detailed.

And the islands, ships, man in a barrel and the planes are nice as well.

Consider it blogged [bloggedcp][/bloggedcp] Great comeback! :thumbup:

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thanks A lot Admiral Croissant for the nice comment, and for blogging it( btw, I'm eating one atm, a Croissant )

Thanks for the church, it was the last building I built for the diorama, I had to deal with the parts I had left^^

The spaceships have been built by JAC, I'll tell him you like them ^^

The ships are just the official one, I really didn't have the time to build, so that's two 10210 (mine and brickerik's one), one of the 10210 is just a little customized, with black stripes instead of blue stripes, and a dragon's head as figurehead.

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WOW. Sick setup. Love the landing bay with the spaceship and the shark. :pir-wub: Adds those nice little humorous touches that set some of these apart from other stuff. Too many cool details to comment on, but I intend to look at this thing in more detail! Thanks for sharing!

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But now I got a new camera ( and a good one) , and I'm back!

Glad to have yer back Guss!

SO here I am to show you what we did for Japan Expo 2010, at Paris. We wanted to build a pirate diorama, but as the themes were totally free, we finally built a space pirate/pirate crossover.. quite original and funny, our stand had a lot of success.

Yes, that's quite an innovative way to combine pirates and space without actually turning the Pirates Sci-Fi.

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Thanks Blackicep8ntball ! We love to put little funny scene , so the people watching the diorama just have something else to watch than just bricks, they're looking for the details, and that's cool.

Hey Mister Phes, thanks a lot^^ well.. when I say that I'm back, I now have a job, that means that I really don't have a lot of time anymore ( but way more money) + it's quite a "you works when we want to just answer the phone when we need you " job.. with this kind of thing,it's quite hard to be involved in my hobbies :/

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Nice to see you again Guss! :pir-classic:

That's a really nice set-up, great work! What exactly is a Japan Expo? And why is it in France? :wacko:

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wow, this is a fantastic scene :pir-wub:

I love the shark chasing the other shark, pursuing to the another one :shark: :shark: :shark:

its a lot of action there :thumbup:

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Wow, that looks great and I like the photos, they look very sharp, and you have some good depth of field.

Welcome back too!

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Thanks a lot everyone^^

Our goal was to make something funny, I'm glad it seems that it seems that we did it!^^

and you have some good depth of field.

Thanks, I'm not used to my camera yet, but I'm trying to improve^^

What exactly is a Japan Expo? And why is it in France? :wacko:

Lol erdi, THE Japan Expo, is an exposition about Japan culture , just watch this :

http://www.japan-expo.com/en/

http://www.comic-con-france.com/en/

They both are at the same place at the same times, so they're two different expo, but actually they're the same... don't know why they separated it in two.

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Thanks Commodore ^^ I wanted to build a bigger island , with a bigger fort.. but I already used all my grey and white bricks XD

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Very cool. Lots of LEGO bricks and building time in your stand! :pir-sweet:

Very nice details.

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WOW!

Thats an amazing display!

That must have taken months!

And I love the mix of space and pirates!

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Thanks everyone, I'm glad you like it! ^^

Lots of LEGO bricks

my part of the diorama took me all my grey/dark grey/white bricks, and for the structure under I used almost all my technic bricks ^^

That must have taken months!

Actually It took me 1 month to build my island, minus the details, that have been added during the exhibition, Jac took 2 months to build the big island with the hidden space pirate base.

So yes, that took months! ^^

And I love the mix of space and pirates!

We love it too, that's why we did it^^ was really a "just for fun" diorama.. but anyway, what isn't for fun in LEGO ? ^^

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I wish i had read this topic sooner! I love all the little details. I noticed the fishy food chain out in the ocean there, and the way you made the rounded tower(the shorter, "multi layer" with the cannon)that was neat.

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thanks Dan, for the rounded tower.. I used a strange technique.

see there

I just didn't have enough hinge bricks to make it normally XD

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thanks Dan, for the rounded tower.. I used a strange technique.

see there

I just didn't have enough hinge bricks to make it normally XD

Thanks for that pic. That certainly is odd.(In a really neat way!) I had expected hinge bricks, but this just shows another resourceful method for the same effect.

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