Somebody has made the dreamy floating wonderworld from the Oscar-nominated Hayao Miyazaki film Howl's Moving Castle out of Lego. The details are quite impressive, and blogging about this is making me want to watch the movie again.
Howl's Moving Castle made out of Lego
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This is pretty awesome. Also awesome: here's a micro version http://www.flickr.com/photos/squintyeyes/3141583320/
You can see more about how the teenager who built this did it at: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/160560
Pretty awesome build.
What fun. Makes me want to go play with legos, and I'm way older than their target age range.
But instead of seeing the movie again, read the book by Diana Wynne Jones. The movie has beautiful images that are a credit to Jones's descriptions -- Miyazaki is a animation genius -- but the story got completely lost. It's a great story and deserved to be told as it was written. And the castle and all those other wonderful things are beautifully described in the book -- you can make pictures in your own head as you read! Maybe you can even come up with other things from that world to make out of legos.
While this is cool, it doesn't match my mental picture.
I haven't seen the movie, but have read Diana Wynne Jones' novels several times -- the descriptions are wonderful.
Here is Ms. Jones on the movie (on the whole, she approves).
http://www.leemac.freeserve.co.uk/howlcambs.htm
zomg. wow.