Random set of the day: Cameraman
Posted by Huwbot,Today's random set is 1357 Cameraman, released during 2001. It's one of 46 Studios sets produced that year. It contains 21 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$2/£1.99.
It's owned by 1,803 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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I've always meant to start collecting the Studio theme, but still haven't gotten around to it. Much like Xtra these days I love all the little side builds you can get to try and spruce up the set and make it feel more lively.
We've been getting a lot of smalls recently. Are we saving the big stuff for when we get closer to Christmas?
Come back to us, Studios.
Actually, I reckon they should’ve resurrected the theme at the time of the first Lego Movie. Would’ve been prime time to get people into brickfilms and stop motion. Nowadays I feel like it’s…not really a thing anymore?
I have this! I believe it's my first set of its kind (small, auxiliary sets).
This guy is just itching to start filming 4075
I think these sets were designed to be like pick a brick: “pick a set.” There were so many individual sets in this theme that, on their own they really don’t offer much, but when combined create something larger than the sum of their parts.
He might not be filming anything in particular, but if he’s behind the camera, he’s gonna film the hell out of it.
Does anyone else notice there’s a bit of an optical illusion with this set? If you look at his feet, he seems to be standing directly beside the camera base (in between it and the light pole). But moving up the torso, he’s obviously behind the camera itself. How does that work?
This really isn't in the same category as the random Studios polybags. It was part of the core Studios line, and was in all the catalogs.
@CarolinaOnMyMind said: "Does anyone else notice there’s a bit of an optical illusion with this set? If you look at his feet, he seems to be standing directly beside the camera base (in between it and the light pole). But moving up the torso, he’s obviously behind the camera itself. How does that work?"
Maybe it's just the studs he's standing on? You're right, it does look a bit strange.
@chrisaw said:
"Come back to us, Studios.
Actually, I reckon they should’ve resurrected the theme at the time of the first Lego Movie. Would’ve been prime time to get people into brickfilms and stop motion. Nowadays I feel like it’s…not really a thing anymore?"
I mean, they did kind of try to do that with a few sets, such as 853750, 853702, and 70820, but those sets appear to have sold incredibly poorly.
Brickfilming is still alive more or less, but it is only a few people on YouTube who have been practicing it for a long time that still do it. But as branch of the LEGO community, it does indeed seem to have died out, to the point where next to nobody in the LEGO community talks about it... I am honestly shocked at how rarely the topic comes into conversations.
As for what caused this decline, I honestly have no idea... I guess people just lost interest in it. I used to watch dozens of LEGO Brickfilms on YouTube as a kid, and even attempted making my own at some point, but I just kind of forgot about it until it was mentioned in here again.
@LegoDavid said:
" @chrisaw said:
"Come back to us, Studios.
Actually, I reckon they should’ve resurrected the theme at the time of the first Lego Movie. Would’ve been prime time to get people into brickfilms and stop motion. Nowadays I feel like it’s…not really a thing anymore?"
I mean, they did kind of try to do that with a few sets, such as 853750, 853702, and 70820, but those sets appear to have sold incredibly poorly.
Brickfilming is still alive more or less, but it is only a few people on YouTube who have been practicing it for a long time that still do it. But as branch of the LEGO community, it does indeed seem to have died out, to the point where next to nobody in the LEGO community talks about it... I am honestly shocked at how rarely the topic comes into conversations.
As for what caused this decline, I honestly have no idea... I guess people just lost interest in it. I used to watch dozens of LEGO Brickfilms on YouTube as a kid, and even attempted making my own at some point, but I just kind of forgot about it until it was mentioned in here again. "
For a prime example of how far brickfilms have fallen, see https://www.youtube.com/user/pantsahat
@LegoDavid said:
" @chrisaw said:
"Come back to us, Studios.
Actually, I reckon they should’ve resurrected the theme at the time of the first Lego Movie. Would’ve been prime time to get people into brickfilms and stop motion. Nowadays I feel like it’s…not really a thing anymore?"
I mean, they did kind of try to do that with a few sets, such as 853750 , 853702 , and 70820 , but those sets appear to have sold incredibly poorly.
Brickfilming is still alive more or less, but it is only a few people on YouTube who have been practicing it for a long time that still do it. But as branch of the LEGO community, it does indeed seem to have died out, to the point where next to nobody in the LEGO community talks about it... I am honestly shocked at how rarely the topic comes into conversations.
As for what caused this decline, I honestly have no idea... I guess people just lost interest in it. I used to watch dozens of LEGO Brickfilms on YouTube as a kid, and even attempted making my own at some point, but I just kind of forgot about it until it was mentioned in here again. "
Take it from me, brickfilming is alive and well. It's just part of its own relatively insular communities with little interface with the wider Lego ones. We've been seeing record numbers of contest entrants on Bricks in Motion for the past few years, for example. Activity has also shifted from forums to discord servers, so a cursory glance online sends a very different message of ghost towns.
Also, @Norikins- sure Pantsahat isn't for everyone and is developing his own style away from brickfilming, but that doesn't represent the variety of content, even this year alone. Check out anything in this playlist as a quick example: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWDIGnWpDc8m1899e9W69BFZo9lNQGHab
@NotProfessorWhymzi said:
"On the ninth day of Christmas, Huwbot gave to us..."
Everyone else is now singing along to this, right? Not just me?
@CarolinaOnMyMind:
They appear to have done a really bad photoshop on the image. The cameraman is clearly not part of the original image. The camera is mounted next to him, leaning back more than him, and still in front of him. Only M.C. Escher could pull off that pose.
@Norikins said:
" @LegoDavid said:
" @chrisaw said:
"Come back to us, Studios.
Actually, I reckon they should’ve resurrected the theme at the time of the first Lego Movie. Would’ve been prime time to get people into brickfilms and stop motion. Nowadays I feel like it’s…not really a thing anymore?"
I mean, they did kind of try to do that with a few sets, such as 853750, 853702, and 70820, but those sets appear to have sold incredibly poorly.
Brickfilming is still alive more or less, but it is only a few people on YouTube who have been practicing it for a long time that still do it. But as branch of the LEGO community, it does indeed seem to have died out, to the point where next to nobody in the LEGO community talks about it... I am honestly shocked at how rarely the topic comes into conversations.
As for what caused this decline, I honestly have no idea... I guess people just lost interest in it. I used to watch dozens of LEGO Brickfilms on YouTube as a kid, and even attempted making my own at some point, but I just kind of forgot about it until it was mentioned in here again. "
For a prime example of how far brickfilms have fallen, see https://www.youtube.com/user/pantsahat"
Pantshat is great! Weird storylines and non-lego aside, their animation is top-notch!
I had this one!