The Lego Animation and Geeky Lego Crafts Book Review + Giveaway
Since I was an only child, I had many moments throughout my young life that I would be bored in my own home. It was usually during these moments that I would begin to reorganize my room or start a new project I had never done before.
One of my favorite things to do was to put together LEGO kits, you know the ones that have all the pieces needed to create a ship, or van or environment for my LEGO people. I would spend hours matching pieces and clicking them together.
Despite my creativity, I never thought that there was much more I could do with LEGO’s and inevitably they would end up taken apart, in the box in my closet never to be seen again. When I recently received a copy of the LEGO books Geeky LEGO Crafts and The LEGO Animation Book I realized the missed opportunities I had all those years earlier with my beloved brick blocks. .
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I received a copy of each of the following LEGO Books for review:
Geeky LEGO Crafts: 21 Fun and Quirky Projects is a collection of 21 crafts that can be created with LEGO’s. This is a 128 page collection of step-by-step instructions to build cursor bookends, floppy disc coasters, a wine rack, pencil holders, and many more. Since each project has step-by-step instructions this makes it easy for anyone to create, although the book is recommended for kids 9 and up.
The hardbound nature of the book will keep it looking nice, and each picture is in full bright color and explains what is needed to create the project.
The second book I reviewed was The LEGO Animation Book: Make Your Own LEGO Movies. This is basically a book that explains how to create your own LEGO movies.
The book explains each concept to make a LEGO movie, and give full color and full instructions and will show you how to bring your models to life with stop-motion animation. The best part is that there is no experience required! Follow step-by-step instructions to make your first animation, and then explore the entire film making process, from storyboards to post-production.
Covered in the book are items such as how to create special effects like explosions and flying mini figures, how to convey action and emotion with your mini figure actors. Also covered is design sets for animation with tips about how to make three buildings look like an entire city. Light, frame, and how to capture consistent photos are covered as well as how to add detail and scope to your films by building in different scales. There is even instructions how to build camera dollies and rigs out of LEGO bricks and how to choose cameras, software, and other essential animation tools to create your movie.
The combination of these two LEGO books would give hours upon hours of entertainment for any LEGO lover. If you happen to have an aspiring film maker in your life, or just a lover of LEGO’s Geeky LEGO Crafts: 21 Fun and Quirky Projects and The LEGO Animation Book: Make Your Own LEGO Movies the perfect book duo for their collection!
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I did not play with Legos but my boys did. They made towns and cars.
ithink that it would be a grate book to read and I think every one in my family at one time played with or still dose play with lago’s
I did play with them, but I don’t think I ever really built anything in particular. Houses I guess. lol
No, I didn’t, but my son loved them and now my grandchildren to!
I didn’t play with LEGOs when I was a child but my kids play with them. They build buildings, cars and planes.
I played with LEGOs all the time as a kid. I had both regular and huge. My favorite thing to build were castles.
Yes I did have a Lego set, I don’t remember what I made since it was ages ago, I think it was just houses.
Some of my favourite memories are of playing with Lego with my siblings, building houses. I loved the shutters especially.
Loved legos as a kid and can’t wait to build stuff with my son when he is old enough!
Never have.
My grandson would love this prize!
I played with LEGO every day growing up and now my kids do too. I can’t remember what I used to make but probably flowers and houses.
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Yes I did! I played with it a lot. I remember building a whole city.
I didn’t play with Lego, but my son did. He made amazing things.
I loved Lego when I was young. I made a lot of houses and barns!
I never played with Lego but my kids and grandkids did and do. I do have a few of the Lego mini figures of my own.
I loved my Legos when I was little. I was always making space ships and cars with them and a couple times I tried making the underground tunnels from the movie Westworld. I had a pretty big set.
I loved playing with LEGO’s when I was younger, and I still love playing with them now as an adult! My son must get his love for LEGO’s from me 🙂 We sit and build things for hours on end and never get tired of it! Thanks for the chance!
I did play with Lego when I was young. I always made buildings back then.
I loved Legos as a kid! I remember having a helicopter kit. My nephew loves Legos and would be so happy with these books.
Yes I used to play with Legos all the time as a kid! I would love to build houses.
Yes! I played with Legos! I created the most interesting architectural constructions ever conceived by man!
My brothers and I would build forts for our super hero action figures, destroy them and then start over.
yes we loved legos usually made just buildings we didn’t have any fancy parts back in the day
I loved Legos! My brother and I made a lot of castles and forts for battles
I didn’t have them but my daughters did & they loved them.
Yes, I used to build houses!
I spent hours playing lego. I would like to build a big house with my kids and lego
I never played with Lego’s but my grandkids love to.
No, I didn’t. We only had one Lego store in our city and it was more like a boutique. Extremely expensive… but I loved to watch the display builds they had in the shop windows.
Yes I did. We made dragons and dinosaurs.
I did play with Legos when I was young. My son loves Legos, and he would love these books.
I still love playing with LEGO!
I enjoyed it when I was a kid then with my 4 children & now my 1st grandchild is 18mths and we already play with Lego together!!
I didn’t play with them but my son is a huge Lego fan.
of course i did and still do with my boys and we made houses and garages and animals and cars it so much fun thanks for the chance
Yes please my grandkids are lego crazy!
I played with lego a lot when I was a kid but for some reason, I only built houses and towers.
They didn’t have Legos when I was young, but my 2 sons love to play with them when they were young.
My boys would love these books! Thanks for hosting!
I didn’t really play any Lego’s. I think in my day it was more Lincoln Logs. My son is a huge Lego fan though. I just got him tickets to the Brick Fest in Philadelphia, Pa in April and he is so excited.
I loved Lego as a kid and I use to make a lot of planes for whatever reason. And now my kids love Lego too.
Yes I did and still do, don’t remember what I was building.
Yes I played with them when I was young and I still play with them today. I build many things, houses, people, cars…
Yes, I liked to build houses.
I did! I made mostly towers.
My little brothers play with Lego all the time and I still join in for the Indiana Jones legos 🙂
I did play with Lego’s. We usually made different types of towns.
As a child, I did not have LEGOS. My own children had LEGOS and usually made towns and buildings with them.
No, I didn’t play with them as a kid, but I did play with them as an adult when my first born was old enough to play with them 🙂
I use to play with Legos all the time when I was younger. Of course they didn’t have the elaborate sets they have now, but I used to build my own airplanes and rocket ships with my Legos. Thank you for the chance to win.
I did play with Legos as a kid, but I was not very talented.
I was awesome at making skyscrapers LOL my daughter is big into legos!
I did play with legos when I was younger but I also still play with them with my grandson. We build buildings, boats cars, monsters. We build whatever our imagination shows us.