It's not mentioned in the images, but the the ice cream cart in this image, the giant Green Grocer, and the 'fish' building comes from 10211 Grand Emporium. How Emmet fits a 50-stud-wide apartment into a 30-stud-wide building:Ī variation on Emmet's apartment (green with a slanted roof)Īn example of the reuse of building parts The latest WIP of Emmet's Mech (with BlackStar):

After having created a couple of the buildings in LDD, I ran across the post for Bluerender and used it to generate photo-real renderings. Knowing how much time, money, and physical space it would take to build these out of real bricks, I decided to try my hand at LEGO Digital Designer (LDD). I thought it would be interesting to do a project that compared the original LEGO sets to the modified movie versions.

While researching, I realized a great deal of what was in the movie was based on previously-existing sets. Edited to put all final images in the first post.Īfter seeing the LEGO movie, I wanted to re-create buildings from Emmet's neighborhood.