Metal Gear Solid's Rex & Ray in Lego Blocks

IllogicalStudent writes "Justin "Saber-Scorpion" Stebbins has created lego models based on themes from Metal Gear: Solid, Metal Gear: Solid 2, Star Wars, Halo, Lord of the Rings, Mechwarrior, and others. His work with the Metal Gear: Solid series, especially, have gained him recognition from Hideo Kojima himself."

Too much time on his hands

[product byproduct]

Is there some kind of hand soap you can use when this happens?

Re:Too much time on his hands

[QuasiCoLtd]

Damn right it does, burns like idodine on an open cut.

Now where's that Post Anonymously button.....

Re:Wow

[wan-fu]

He's definitely going to need a job to pay for the excess bandwidth generated by the /. effect.

Re:Wow

[judicar]

yeah i got a -1, Insightful!!! yay!!!

almost as hard to get as a one second one penny bid on ebay, yay!!!!

We're not finished... it's not over yet!

[mac os ken]

It is too bad that LEGO decided to stop making licensed series because MGS would have made an awesome set. I'm not a big fan of paying $200 for the KUBRICK MGS set... Grrrr...

"We're not tools of the government or anyone else..." - Grey Fox

As the site gets slashdotted...

[rasafras]

...I can imagine thousands of people reaching for the "Mute" buttons on their computers.

His skill with Lego is unfortunately not matched with his skill at website design. The coolness of the Legos definitely dwarfs the javascript, though.

Those responsible ...

[dark-br]

Those responsible for the posting of this link and subsequent slashdotting of the site have been sacked.

The site has now been mirrored by karma whores on numerous different hosts at great expense and at the last minute.

Re:Those responsible ...

[Tumbleweed]

Mind you, Slashdottings CAN be nasty.

Hmmmm. Lego post on Valentine's Day?

[Excen]

Is this thread conclusive proof that /.ers are nerds that couldn't get laid if we tried?

/jaded nerd.

Re:Hmmmm. Lego post on Valentine's Day?

[IllogicalStudent]

Thanks, pal. :)

Re:Hmmmm. Lego post on Valentine's Day?

[RyuuzakiTetsuya]

It wasn't slashdotted when I first looked at it, and I'm not a subscriber. So i can only assume a greater degree of the slashdot populace is out getting laid right now than previously expected.

Nerds not getting laid, DEBUNKED

[geekoid]

Einstein, got laid.
Carl Sagan, got laid.
Richard Feynman, got laid.

Now, geeks that need to get a life, they can't get laid.

So, if you can't get laid, I suggest you take a look at yourself, are you a geek, or a nerd.

Hint, Nerd create things with a passion, geeks are passionate about things others create.

Re:Nerds not getting laid, DEBUNKED

[Excen]

Fine. My noun was incorrect. Call yourself whatever you want.

The fact remains that, AS LONG AS YOU ARE POSTING TO /. AT 7:00 ON VALENTINES DAY, YOU ARE NOT CURRENTLY GETTING ANY ACTION.

Get my point?

Re:Nerds not getting laid, DEBUNKED

[Chess_the_cat]

Einstein married his first cousin Elsa. So points back off again.

Slashdotters getting laid DEDEBUNKED

[Anonymous Coward]

So sayeth GEEKOID on VALENTINES DAY :)

Re:Nerds not getting laid, DEBUNKED

[LafinJack]

Aha, but what about Newton [straightdope.com]?

Re:Hmmmm. Lego post on Valentine's Day?

[Sepper]

Thank you very much for reminding me that i'm actually sitting in front of my computer,in my stupid dorm room, on a Saturday night, Feburary the 14, and that the only thing I'm doing with my free time, right now, is reading Slashdot...*sigh*

Well, maybe I shouldn't have taken Computer Engineering as a University Degree...

At least there's lots of beer around here...

Re:Hmmmm. Lego post on Valentine's Day?

[0xfc]

Speak for yourself. valetine day is a commercial holiday and i consider it retarded. I dont need a special day to tell my mother or significant other i love them.

Re:Hmmmm. Lego post on Valentine's Day?

[Finuvir]

I dont need a special day to tell my mother or significant other i love them.

I agree; I certainly don't use Valentines day to tell my mother I love her!

Sorry....

[echucker]

But the LotR ones [saber-scorpion.com] are pretty weak. Minifigs with the character names under the pictures doesn't quite cut it in my book.

Re:Sorry....

[IllogicalStudent]

To be fair, he did create the torso and face decals himself, as explained in his FAQ [saber-scorpion.com].

Re:Sorry....

[LafinJack]

When did they start calling them minifigs? What happened the hell happened to "Lego Guys"?

My poor, poor childhood. :(

Excellent :)

[Killjoy_NL]

Ok, this is damn cool, especially how he plays out some scenes from the game :)

I can recommend the game to everyone too.
Right now I'm playing it again at the Europe Extreme setting (no health, no extra ammo and an option to get game over when somebody spots you, bloody hard)

My hat goes off to this guy, I wish I had more free time myself like he seems to have ^_^

Hey!

[Digitus1337]

He made them look -exactly- like the game looks on my old TV!

Let's get this straight

[LardBrattish]

Anyone who includes the stats of their level 16 Ranger in the "About Me" section of their website needs help.

Re:Let's get this straight

[Anonymous Coward]

"Do you have any idea how long it takes to get a D&D character up to level 16?"

I'd guess at a couple of seconds - however long it takes to roll die and write some numbers down.

Re:Let's get this straight

[Dark Lord Seth]

Caelestia:
19 str
19 dex
19 con
10 int
13 wis
19 cha
Are my character's stats. Granted, paladin... Female... And not even normal AD&D but Baldur's Gate 2. And no, I did NOT cheat to get those stats. I did spend too long on character generation though and ran her to Baldur's Gate 1. ( The one where you get better stats during the game instead of stats taken away from you... ) Twice. Stop looking funny at me!!!

Re:Let's get this straight

[Sebadude]

Come on he's a kid with a passion, cut him some slack.

Re:Let's get this straight

[LardBrattish]

I could publish the stats of my BG2 Paladin - but I won't. I played D&D when I was his age back in 198x but even in the depths/heights of nerdiness I would never have considered publishing the stats of my signature character would be a "good idea"

Mind you I was having the occasional relationship with real girls even then...

More photographs over ...

[antdude]

here [brickshelf.com]. I found it by accident when looking up Anti-Insectoid to find any ant-related items. :)

impressive!

[geekoid]

over 30 /. post and the server is still up!

oh yeah, those lego mechs looked pretty cool to.

If only I had more Legos

[scrap104]

I could build like that too

Idea for MGS2 LEGO Scene

[snjoseph]

It would be pretty cool if this guy did a LEGO reenactment of that scene where the game over screen comes up while you're in the middle of fighting. Wait a minute...VR military missions...they were training us! You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!

Simpsons 1F13 [doheth.co.uk]

lego blocks

[firstadopter.com]

someone has a lot of time. what's with the first comment on this thread? terrorist?

Re:lego blocks

[MichaelGCD]

Someone, somewhere had to have recreated 9/11 on lego.

In terms of Lego, this is hardly big news

[SamSim]

As far as I can tell, all he's done is make a few customised little lego men. When I clicked the article, I was expecting life-size or at least moderately detailed models. Something like this [slashdot.org]... that is to say, something equally deserving of frontpage recognition. If I was the guy who'd made Han Solo, lifesize, I'd be disgusted to see this article at the top of the page, frankly.

Re:In terms of Lego, this is hardly big news

[88NoSoup4U88]

The *cough* life-like *cough* version of HanSolo in carbonite is just a big slap of Lego, with credit to the face-part of it.
Further than that, it is as much non-slashdot worthy as this one.
I guess nowadays that if you made a paper-mache hat of DarthVader or Gandalf, you will reach the frontpage.

Re:In terms of Lego, this is hardly big news

[mog007]

What a splendid idea! I just happen to have this big bucket of glue, and I have an assload of newpapers I meant to recycle... look out /., I'm making the front page!

Re:In terms of Lego, this is hardly big news

[MMaestro]

The point of his work is not to make something massive like the Han Solo lego project you used as an example. The point is to show quality over the quanity of legos. The lego projects you used as an example probably take up an easy 1000 pieces, whereas the ones in this report, each of his designs (not counting the repainted lego guys/gals) probably takes up less than 200 pieces each.

Look at the pictures again. The designs he made can actually move (meaning they won't snap in half if you fail to properly distribute its weight between each of your ten fingers). MGS2 RAY's mouth actually opens like in the game, and its tail is flexible. Most of the parts (limbs mostly) are movable which is no easy task engineering-wise. Building a static object can take a few days to plan and months to put together, whereas building a non-static object can take months to simply plan and a few days to put together.

His most impresive work...

[dark-br]

...was making his webserver from lego blocks which unfortunately you could not see becouse it's /.ed :)

Look very closely at the pieces...

[Secahtah]

"Just a box."

Uh...

[SparafucileMan]

Someone at least please tell me he didn't do any of this sober...

Oh my GOD that's FUCKING AWESOME.

[Spleener12]

The Metal Gear models are nice, but the recreations of scenes with the little people is what really does it for me.

HTTP suggestion

[dark-br]

I hereby propose an addition to the HTTP status codes for the 418 Slashdotted response. This response code MAY also automatically request that the clients operator place a temporary mirror online for a 24 hour period.

Re:HTTP suggestion

[Megane]

Write it up, then. You've still got a month and a half left.

lego has gone down in quality

[freerecords]

the figures are amazing but i'm so sad to ssee what has happened to lego in the lsat few years - i remember hwen i was a kid you had to build everything now everything comes built for you!!! you get a lego boat pack and you just fix together one side of the boat and the other and voila.. its no fair.. i love what this guy has done tho and his creativity he should make big size models of LOTR stuff! cool!

How bad does it have to get...

[Crizzam]

for other geeks tell you to get a life?

If he was my friend, I'd have to do an intervention.

Feh. . .

[M3wThr33]

Let's see. . .
Annoying friggin' sound on every page?
CHECK
Sub-par construction of Legos?
CHECK

In all honesty, just because a guy can throw together some crappy models and paint a minifig doesn't make him a genius. Brickshelf had some image of a MUCH better looking REX. This is really amateur work. Heck, look at the supposed Warthog. I've seen better MOCs from shaking up a box.

Air Horns?

[Captain_Amigo]

I didn't know that Mechs came with air horns for battlefield use... Maybe I could get a Mad Cat that plays "La Cucaracha"...that would be so sweet...

Re:Air Horns?

[WWWWolf]

I've heard there's a lot of stuff in the 'mechs that isn't simulated in the games...

For example, I'm pretty sure all Clan 'mechs have fridges. Where else would the noble warriors of Kerensky keep their vodka?

A few stories I read indicate 'mechs have speakers outside. There's nothing like marching in front of a rioting crowd with a Timberwolf, cranking up the volume and saying "Move along, nothing to see here" =)

Slow news week continues at Slashdot

[mrshowtime]

First was the 9 month old article on diamonds and now (wow) someone has made something cool with legos!!! C'mon, the whole lego/movie thing hit it's height when those guys did Monty Python's Holy Grail in legos. Heck, they even have lego PORN: Lego Porn [corrupt.net]

He got recognition for that crap?

[Anonymous Coward]

No offense, but nothing in the Metal Gear line looks like anything an adolescent couldn't have made, let alone a skilled adult.

I thought the hallmark of a Master Builder was complexity. This guy has merely amusingly recreated some designs in Lego. Interesting if you're the guy's friend, maybe...

calling it recognition is a bit much

[TheUberBob]

...though i'm sure a ceast and desist letter from Hideo Kojima was a flattering (and terrorizing) part of the lego-maniac's experiences in the world of metal gear mind-control conspirancies and plot-ran-amok.

Re:we should be nice to the lonely editor

[TheUberBob]

hmm, i thought this was funny, not trollish. i'm a wee bit offended...i'm sure there's already an enhancement request for comments with mod downs. feel free to message me why if you'd like. it would be nice to know. considering i DO (on rare) occasion do the cute-lil-im thing with bois and i am a part-time homosexual (i grew up gay in the south). i assume that the response is due to ribbing the editor...nothing new about that on slashdot. shrug.

I feel old

[Jad LaFields]

From the Mechwarrior page [saber-scorpion.com]:

"The Timber Wolf is based off an old game I have called Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries"

and when I click on my beloved Timber Wolf, he says:

" I based my LEGO Timberwolf off an image taken from Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, and old game that came with my oldest computer when I bought it."

Ouch.

Man, I can remember when Mechwarrior 2 was the reigning champ and Mercenaries was the new kid on the block that my friends and I were unsure whether we liked it as much ...

Oh yeah, and those Lego 'mechs aren't that impressive.

Re:I feel old

[JahToasted]

You shouldn't feel old if you can't remember the days of trying to roll a 12 to get a head shot against your brother's phoenix hawk and filling in those little bubbles on the stat sheets.

far more impressive lego mechs

[tornadron]

http://www.foundrydx.com/main.html this guy built lego models of Macross Valkryie's...that can actually transform

A little Ironic.

[actor_au]

When building the original levels for Metal Gear Solid the design team used Legos to see what the area's would look like, they didn't do the same for MGS2 because its maps were heavily 3D(Compared to the first game which had very flat levels) and the complexity was too much for them.

Check the Boba Fette and Slave I pages

[JahToasted]

Nice little "George Lucas raped my childhood" rant there. He even goes on and says that Boba Fette was his favorite character, but he not longer likes him because George Lucas ruined him. He even disassembled the boba fette he built out of lego.

Its funny, but at the same time sad that he's never realise that he can just just ignore the Star Wars movies he doesn't like, the way the rest of us have.

IP

[bbkingadrock]

I really like this quote from his FAQs

"Finally, if you do build replicas of my customs, even with a few changes, please do not post pictures publicly without giving me credit and linking to my site ( http://www.saber-scorpion.com ) because I really don't want anyone else taking credit for my work"

Hi from Saber-Scorpion

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, I'm Saber-Scorpion. After getting posted on Slashdot, I knew that the resident jerks would decide to flame me. You see, they like to say I have too much time on their hands, but then they come here, read this stuff, and comment about it. They need to look at their own lives a little before flaming mine. So I'll just defend myself a little:

I made all the Flash effects on my website myself, and I kind of like the sounds, thank you very much. If you want to mute your PCs, go ahead, that's your choice.

My

Cool.

[mrseigen]

The levels in MGS were first planned out using Lego, according to the development team. So it's pretty appropriate that this happens later on.

Lego

[Keitero-sama]

Thats shows how much time is lost when it comes to legos, heck, those people that did that monty python skit had wasted tons of times..... all in the name of legos.... reminds me of my "wasted" time..... *digs up the legos again* ^_^

metal gear solid

[matt_wall]

does the lego snake come with optional lego cigarettes?