The Simpsons opening in Lego

Posted by David Pescovitz, September 9, 2008 10:48 AM | permalink

YouTube user bulc96 won $40 in a movie making contest for this phenomenal Lego version of The Simpsons opening sequence. "The Simpsons intro Lego style" (via Neatorama)

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#1 posted by BlackBanana , September 9, 2008 10:56 AM

Sweet! Too bad the $40 won't cover the cost of the blocks. LEGOs are mad expensive.

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#2 posted by Cyberwasteland , September 9, 2008 11:20 AM

Awsome! Great job. The simpsons for ever!

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#3 posted by Rich Shupe , September 9, 2008 11:27 AM

The human hand at the end is a great touch.

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#4 posted by themindfantastic , September 9, 2008 11:30 AM

This would be good as one of their opening sequences, its pretty damn faithful!

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#5 posted by mcdonough

, September 9, 2008 11:38 AM

Well done! Was that Count Dooku as the supermarket cashier?

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#6 posted by trr , September 9, 2008 11:54 AM

Uh-oh. Somebody said LEGO*S*
Better call the LEGOpolice.

I thought $40 isn't much for the hours it must have taken to make a winning entry.

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#7 posted by Ugly Canuck , September 9, 2008 11:59 AM

Urmas is such a great name.

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#8 posted by Norfolkadam , September 9, 2008 12:25 PM

I think I spied Megablocks in the final sequence to make the TV. Sacrilege.

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#9 posted by Foolster41

, September 9, 2008 12:30 PM

Cool. My one beef is the horn SFX was kind of weird, but all around pretty faithful rendering.

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#10 posted by freshyill , September 9, 2008 12:54 PM

Not bad, but the added-in sound effects were pretty awful. The screeching tires were bad enough to hear once. Also, where did he get those mangled-ass gray bricks in the music room sequence? They've got to be knockoffs.

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#11 posted by Cefeida , September 9, 2008 3:15 PM

What was so phenomenal about that? I mean, it's cute, it's cool that people are having fun and making videos but...no, that wasn't even good. It was meh.

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#12 posted by MarkM , September 9, 2008 3:48 PM

PASS.

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#13 posted by Xenu , September 9, 2008 8:21 PM

BoingBoing: the links of last year, today!

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#14 posted by Jake0748 , September 9, 2008 8:30 PM

"What was so phenomenal about that? I mean, it's cute, it's cool that people are having fun and making videos but...no, that wasn't even good. It was meh".

Why are you so crabby? I thought is was fun enough to invest 30 seconds of my life. And yeah, it wasn't new. I'd not seen it before, and I laughed. Thanks for posting it David. And buzz off all you naysayers. D'oh!

(And another thing... how can you say something is cute and cool, but not good?)

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#15 posted by Cefeida , September 10, 2008 4:43 PM

I'm not crabby, I just think it's a sucky animation. I'm also not saying it wasn't worth your time, or that the creator shouldn't have bothered. Sure he should have! Why not? But just because he made an effort I'm not gonna pretend I thought it didn't suck. It was not 'phenomenal'.