Lego 'CubeDudes' By PIXAR Animator

An anonymous reader writes "PIXAR Animator Angus MacLane has created an incredible series of LEGO 'CubeDudes' modeled after beloved characters from sci-fi movies and comic books. From Star Wars heroes R2D2 and C-3PO to Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear and Jessie, the pixellated creations bear a remarkable likeness to their forebears. MacLane says, 'When I had a moment here and there I chip away at a few at a time. I'll have the body of one Dude and a head of another that I will be working on at the same time. It takes me about 10-15 minutes to make one CubeDude and I average about two a day.' The hardest part is the color palette — LEGO doesn't make purple bricks, so villains like Lex Luthor, The Joker, and Grimace are a challenge."

Stormtrooper

[Netshroud]

Looks more menacing when the stormtroopers appear to have pincers [flickr.com].

Mind over LEGO

[Obble]

Ho Ho ho, Your Legi mind tricks wont work on me.

The Hulk!

[Chih]

Needs a breast reduction!!

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[Aboroth]

Nothing can kill The Grimace.

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[Red_Chaos1]

My first thought after reading the article was "Since when has Grimace been a villain?"

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[KreAture]

How about a grinectomy (Adam Savage - Mythbusters) ?

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[stonewallred]

Actually LEGO does make purple bricks. I have a decent selection of LEGO, around 600 pounds or so, give or take a pound or two. And I have a whole container full of purple blocks, a container oif purple plates and another one of purple plates. So this Article is full of lies and ignorance.

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[ScottCooperDotNet]

They are almost exclusively in the girls sets though. Since the late 90s LEGO seems to believe girls can't build anything but 50 piece mansions so those sets are almost useless to make anything else. :(

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[TheCycoONE]

The article doesn't say they don't make purple bricks; actually he uses purple for Buzz Lightyear.

Article:
“There are a ton of characters that I want to build that have color schemes that Lego hasn’t made or hasn’t made a ton of. More purple would really help me out in making villains such as Lex Luthor, The Joker, Grimace, etc.”

Summary:
The hardest part is the color palette — LEGO doesn't make purple bricks, so villains like Lex Luthor, The Joker, and Grimace are a challenge."

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[ornel]

A purple blob selling junk to little children sounds evil enough to me

Too much power

[tux0r]

The unslashdotted original interview is here: http://www.bricksabillion.com/interviews/interview-with-angus-maclane-about-cubedudes/ [bricksabillion.com]

Purple Lego bricks do exist

[LazLong]

"LEGO doesn't make purple bricks, so villains like Lex Luthor, The Joker, and Grimace are a challenge."

This statement may be true, however I know that Lego has indeed made purple bricks. I just stepped on one in front of my garage today. I believe my nephew got it as the exit gift from going through the 'Lego Factory' at Lego Land in Southern California. Not the huge impressive one available here on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Harry-Potter-Knight-Bus/dp/B0001A86BO [amazon.com]

The toy my nephew received was only a double-decker.

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[Anonymous Coward]

He didn't say they don't make purple bricks, he said more would help. Crappy summary.

Pixar + Lego

[epsilon720]

Certainly not the first Pixar/Lego crossover: http://tinyurl.com/25k99l8 [tinyurl.com] (As seen in the Pixar lobby)

haha @ rightmost tags on this story about Pixar

[crow5599]

... the tags being "toy" followed by "story"

Purple Bricks - go to lego.com

[jamesh]

http://shop.lego.com/pab/ [lego.com]
Select color 'purple'

Look! purple bricks!

brinklink is good too

[LostMyBeaver]

http://www.bricklink.com/browseList.asp?itemType=P&catString=5

Pretty good selection of purple and dark purple

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[Skrynkelberg]

They look more like pink to me, not the kind of purple you'd want for the Joker.

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[Crookdotter]

Green! Purple! Green!

Incredible?

[Zedrick]

I don't get it. What's incredible about these? Most kids have probably made stuff at least as good as this.

I choose to... eat a plastic brick.

[Skrynkelberg]

I totally love the red and blue pills in Morpheus' hands. http://www.inhabitots.com/2010/08/03/amazing-lego-cubedudes-by-pixar-animator-angus-maclane/cubedude6/ [inhabitots.com]

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[Fantastic Lad]

Ha ha! I completely missed the red and blue pills.

-FL

And a GOOD morning to you, too!

[Fantastic Lad]

Just finished work. I'm so sleepy that anything could make me laugh, but these ones did so especially. . .

Egon Spengler from Ghostbusters.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27826007@N05/4190988749/ [flickr.com]

J Jonah Jameson
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27826007@N05/4190276747/ [flickr.com]

George Lucas
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27826007@N05/4176945104/ [flickr.com]

ALL the STNG figures. Especially Riker and La Forge.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27826007@N05/page10/ [flickr.com]

Elvis
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27826007@N05/page15/ [flickr.com]

Batman & Robin, (and Aquaman; that little curl of hair; genius!)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27826007@N05/page16/ [flickr.com]

Okay. Enough mucking around. I'm yawning and it's sack-hittin' time!

-FL

Wonder Woman

[drinkypoo]

Everyone likes a wonder woman whose face looks like one of those plastic heads that they sell at the porno shop that you're supposed to somehow be able to respect yourself while sticking your dick into them

And...

[sealfoss]

....why is this news? Great. Cube dudes. This isn't exactly awe inspiring.

Cube Dude Gallery

[listentoreason]

The link to the artist's Flickr page [flickr.com] is shown in the article summary, but it's handy to view with HiveMind [fiveprime.org], which shows a slew of large thumbs per page and default sorts by "interestingness".