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June 9, 2022 12:22 PM

North of the Border, Canadian maker of things, discloses: I made a Realistic Lego Man and I'm Sorry.
posted by cortex (30 comments total)

That lego man looks like he's about to blockade Naboo.
posted by solotoro at 12:49 PM on June 9, 2022 [6 favorites]

Now I know what a cross between Homer Simpson and a Sleestak would look like.
posted by mollweide at 12:51 PM on June 9, 2022 [7 favorites]

Jesus, Adam, don't drill toward your hand!
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 12:58 PM on June 9, 2022 [6 favorites]

Amazing!
posted by mumimor at 12:59 PM on June 9, 2022

It was the toenails and the opposing thumbs on each hand that pushed it into the truly horrifying place for me.
posted by bondcliff at 1:01 PM on June 9, 2022 [8 favorites]

"Behold, an abomination!"

Why did he have to give it such a "please kill me" expression?
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:19 PM on June 9, 2022 [1 favorite]

Definitely fell into the uncanny valley
posted by mbo at 1:36 PM on June 9, 2022 [1 favorite]

And then climbed out and continued to lurch toward you, grinning maw and dead black eyes fixed onto your soul.
posted by suetanvil at 2:20 PM on June 9, 2022 [9 favorites]

Watching the video, thinking, "There's gonna be a penis, isn't there?" Shockingly, there was not.

Not sure why you're going "realistic" with stuff like the stomach and toenails, and adding a thumb to the claw....The eyes aren't all that realistic either.
posted by jenfullmoon at 2:20 PM on June 9, 2022

I really think he should have gone with the more modern white dot in the eyes. That thing is creepy.
posted by The_Vegetables at 2:58 PM on June 9, 2022

Praeclarus est titulus huius postae. Gratulor tibi.
posted by kirkaracha at 4:04 PM on June 9, 2022 [2 favorites]

MetaFilter: There's gonna be a penis, isn't there?
posted by kirkaracha at 4:05 PM on June 9, 2022 [5 favorites]

For fuck sakes, man, a minifig doesn't have a belly button; it has a sprue.

Not sure if that would make it more or less horrifying, though.
posted by phooky at 4:40 PM on June 9, 2022 [5 favorites]

Every time I see something like this, it makes me think how nice it would’ve been to have had a skill or a talent of some kind.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 5:19 PM on June 9, 2022 [11 favorites]

Everything is gruesome
Everything is trapped inside of the dream
Everything is gruesome
When you can't move your mouth but you must scream
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:41 PM on June 9, 2022 [17 favorites]

This is not cool
posted by latkes at 6:00 PM on June 9, 2022

After my wife and I watched the video, she commented on the title, "I don't think he's actually sorry."
posted by Johnny Assay at 7:11 PM on June 9, 2022 [11 favorites]

I wasn't sure what to think until he made the toenails, and then I knew it was going to be upsetting. 10/10
posted by biogeo at 9:13 PM on June 9, 2022 [4 favorites]

Also, thank you, phooky, from now on I'm going to refer to outies as sprues.
posted by biogeo at 9:14 PM on June 9, 2022

Oh my god. This was so, so cheerfully horrifying??? Just a jolly Canadian making an abomination
posted by potrzebie at 11:08 PM on June 9, 2022 [3 favorites]

I never watch linked videos, but this? I made an exception and I'm delighted. I'm only disappointed so many of the other (very talented) works on his channel are not so unsettling.

That said the drilling towards the hand was the most horrifying bit of this video for me.
posted by stillnocturnal at 2:37 AM on June 10, 2022 [2 favorites]

I'm trying to imagine which would be the creepier follow up:
- limbless Fisher-Price angry freckled boy
- stiff-armed Playmobil guy
- photrealistic WeebleWobble (help! I'm trapped in a glass egg of emotion!)
posted by bartleby at 3:46 AM on June 10, 2022 [4 favorites]

I'm only disappointed so many of the other (very talented) works on his channel are not so unsettling.

His pretty realistic Winnie the Pooh goes horrifyingly off the rails at the end.
posted by gauche at 4:25 AM on June 10, 2022 [3 favorites]

If it's any consolation, I am sorry he made it, too.
posted by tommasz at 5:30 AM on June 10, 2022 [2 favorites]

That's an interesting way to use the word 'realistic'.
posted by Too-Ticky at 5:56 AM on June 10, 2022 [4 favorites]

Is he really sorry, or just Canadian?
posted by Miss Cellania at 8:40 AM on June 10, 2022 [3 favorites]

I am just now noticing that I misspelled Lego in the title. In my defense I did find myself briefly debating whether to reach for some kind of play on “logos” what with the base layer of Jesus pun already there but then I thought nah that’s just a weird reach and I can’t really back it up, let’s just type the normal relevant word Lego and call it good, job done, wipe hands
posted by cortex at 8:45 AM on June 10, 2022 [3 favorites]

I just assumed it was some reference I didn't get.

Also it cracks me up that you (I assume) no longer have the ability to fix it. Like when Superman gave up his power so he could shag Lois Lane and then he wasn't able to save the planet. I dunno I hardly remember Superman II.
posted by bondcliff at 8:50 AM on June 10, 2022

Oh, I retain that power (emeritus mods don't tend to get scrubbed out of the toolset since we might end up helping out here and there anyway). It'd just be embarrassing to change it this late and embarrassing-and-funny to admit the mistake.
posted by cortex at 9:21 AM on June 10, 2022 [3 favorites]

This was fun, and the guy has skills of which I'm envious. Love his delivery.

Shades of Jason Freeny (previously, previouslier) going on, if you want more of this kind of thing.
posted by rhizome at 11:32 AM on June 10, 2022