One of the things you have to love about LEGO is that the company has made it possible for their fans to create and propose new sets, and if a set meets their requirements and garners enough support, the LEGO Review — a board consisting of set designers and marketing representatives — will evaluate the project. If it gets past that stage, the project will become a new LEGO Ideas set.
Brett Cuviello, a LEGO-fan designer, is hoping his set will make to the LEGO Review. His set is based onWarner Bros.’ full-length animated motion picture The Iron Giant (1999).
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“Within this project, there would be 5 main characters: The Iron Giant with changeable eyes and weaponry to depict his evil state from the movie, Hogarth Hughes with the alien bolt he finds at the end of the film, Annie Hughes and a coffee pot, Kent Mansley and a fedora, and Dean McCoppin with a coffee cup,” Cuviello explains. “The entire build consists of approximately 2,023 pieces, including the Giant, minifigures, and accessories. The Giant’s head rotates and tilts, and his arms, legs, wrists, hips, and ankles are all articulated to both accommodate his size and weight, and allow him to replicate classic poses from the movie.”
At this moment, his The Iron Giant LEGO set has 2,308 supporters. To be reviewed, the set needs 10,000 supporters. If you’d like to add your support, click here.
The film takes place in October of 1957, when America had plenty to be worried about. Rock ‘n’ roll. Television. The bomb. And on the fourth day of that month, the Soviets successfully launched the first manmade satellite, Sputnik, into orbit. The space race had officially begun. The Cold War just got colder. People were unsure about their neighbors, even questioning their friends.In the small town of Rockwell, Maine, Annie Hughes (voice of Jennifer Aniston) is just worried about putting supper on the table for herself and her nine-year-old son, Hogarth (voice of Eli Marienthal). A single mother holding down a job at the local diner, Annie has her hands full with Hogarth—headstrong and imaginative, always on the lookout for the latest attempted takeover by mutant aliens or subversive invaders.So when a local fisherman comes into the diner with a tall tale about a huge metal man falling into the sea, the only one to pay him much attention is Hogarth, who sets out exploring to find the enormous robot. What he does find is a 50-foot giant (voice by Vin Diesel) with an insatiable appetite for metal and a childlike curiosity about its new world.
The voice-cast also featured Christopher McDonald as government agent Kent Mansley, Harry Connick, Jr. as Dean, Hogarth’s beatnick friend, James Gammon as Marv Loach / Floyd Turbeaux, Cloris Leachman as Mrs. Tensedge, John Mahoney as General Rogard, and M. Emmet Walsh (as Earl Stutz).
Warner Bros.’ The Iron Giant was directed by Brad Bird, written by Tim McCanlies, and based on the book of the same name by British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes.
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The Iron Giant: Signature Edition is now available.
