8-bit Graphics and Lego for the win!

January 26, 2008 10:31 PM

Lego wrangler Lwelyk has put together a little blog featuring his video game Lego creations. Each piece is an exact recreation of the original 2D sprite artwork where one pixel equals one square Lego block. Aside from Mother Brain we also get Phanto, Mushroom Block, Flying Shy Guy, Tingle and tons of others. The Mother Brain is by far the most impressive but the Twinrova piece definitely gets an honorable mention.

...as seen on Kotaku.

posted by jcterminal (5 comments total)

Lame.

All this takes is buying raw LEGOs in bulk and assembling them in the same pattern as the sprite. It would be creative if he did something to compensate for the fact that his 'pixels' are non-square, but he doesn't. This isn't even crafty like needlepoint — all he had to do is pay for some goddamn LEGOs.
posted by blasdelf at 1:31 AM on January 27, 2008

Not lame.

Difficulty and creative are irrelevant. He's not making any extravagant claims for them. They just look really neat.
posted by RokkitNite at 2:58 AM on January 27, 2008

Mother Brain indeed is unexpectedly cool.
posted by JHarris at 5:19 AM on January 27, 2008

Mother Brain is pretty cool, in a cartoonish way.
The others, not so much.

Admittedly, though, when I saw this post, I was hoping for something a bit more involved...like an Octabrain done in 3D with Legos.
posted by Thorzdad at 11:05 AM on January 27, 2008

I like it on a "reminds me of my wasted youth spent clutching a video game controller for way too many hours" level, but I do think if I'd spent that much time building a replica of a sprite as big as Mother Brain, I would have found a blank wall as a background to photograph it. Mom's dining room set and patterned wallpaper totally makes the shot look screwy.

Otherwise, it makes me want to build a Lego Mario or something myself.
posted by caution live frogs at 6:15 AM on January 28, 2008