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So. Guys.

Who wants to turn their pup into a master-building Lego figurine of fun? If it's still a thing people are up for, I say lets do it! Kick off early next week, if there's enough interest?

EVERYTHING IS AWESOOOOMMME.

As you were, Milliways.

ETA: If we kick ideas around in comments, I'll post an edited collation of them up here afterwards.

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EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!

I literally just came home from seeing the movie in the cinema with the Nazgul.

So, I want to turn my pups into that. At least some of them. What is the plot, though? Will we have a lego table in Milliways like the one in the basement in the movie, and people who are turned exist on there and can build stuff? I think I saw a number of charries we have in Milliways. Not just is Unikitty a generic MLP/Hello Kitty kind of thing, I swear I saw a literal purple unicorn in Cloudcockooland. And there was a guy at some point who had the face and hair I'd pick for a Lego Teja, if I ever get the Nazgul to make me one. So, how do we do it?

There were a bunch of Milliways characters in there - Batman, obviously; Wonder Woman, Robin Hood, deffo a purple unicorn, pirates, all sorts...I can't recall off the top of my head, but I reckon anyone can be covered who wants to be.

I believe the idea when I floated this was that an artifact could be brought in from the Warehouse that would turn people into figurines. The question then was whether it was simply a matter of our pups being Lego for a few days, or whether something would have to be built to change them back. An easy compromise on that would be that anyone can be switched who wants to be, but get two or three - or however many want to be involved - pups together to figure out how to switch people back, and then build something to do it.

It's just occurred to me that we could have a big Lego table, and our normal pups could play with it and inadvertently effect what happens with the Lego people, but that would probably be complicated to work out in advance.

Well, it simply requires either a) good communication or b) the agreement that only our non-Lego pups can affect our Lego pups, as in, nobody is allowed to 'godmode' little Lego Javert except Valjean, Gene, etc., whoever of yours isn't changed?

Also, if there was a big table with the characters as minifigs, the actual characters would recognise them. "Oh, look, that black figure with the four plastic cats looks just like Teja..." and so on? I do like the idea that people outside the tableworld can still interact and influence things. Also, getting a team together (Everything is awesome! Everything is cool when you're part of a team!) that must build something for people to escape from the tableworlds (An opening for a vortex like the one Emmmet falls into? The craziest spaceshipp ever for everybody to fly off the table?) sounds like a brilliant idea. Some of us can build things (among mine, I guess Teja), and others will just wander/splash around the tableworld until the spell is broken?

That sounds like fun to me! We'd have to come up with some viable way why they wouldn't just think that getting off the table would turn them back, though. In the movie they had to go through the vortex in order to end up back in people!land. If they just jumped off the edge and became human again, it'd be too easy.

Also, I think the freedom of the Lego people would have to be secured by the Lego people themselves, rather than pups who have not turned fixing it for them, otherwise they wouldn't get to be PART OF A TEEAAM in order to free themselves. But the people could still muck things up for them by just playing with the blocks, so they'd have to deal with constantly changing landscapes and whatnot.

Also also, we'd have to think about whether their personality would change. Part of the reason I want to chuck Bruce into this is because he's frickin' hilarious as Lego Batman, and quite unlike his usual self. :D

Somebody falls off the table, does not get turned, has to be picked and put back in, and then it's proof of concept -- simply falling off is not enough?

The characters are parodies of themselves in that movie, so I guess that might happen to the Lego-fied pups as well?

**may be listening to the soundtrack on Spotify and grinning at Lego!Batman's song: 'Darkness! No parents! Super-rich!'**

I think the table idea could work as I said downthread but the trick is to not make it overly complicated. Maybe do a party post for having non-Legos and Legos who want to interact and then others for places on the Lego table.

OMG ME ME ME ME ME pls?

So long as I am back from LOLstralia by then? I get back into the UK late on the 15th.

EVERYTHING IS COOOOOOOOL WHEN YOU'RE PART OF A TEAM

Edited 2014-04-10 23:20 (UTC)

Ok, so Artifacty. Let me know what you figure out, and I can work around that. What I'm thinking is that Joshua's fussing with the legos in his lab, and dribbles one or more of them in when he wanders in. To activate, they need to be stepped on, and to be neutralized... they probably have to be all collected, built into something, and then gooed.

As to how many... that can be flexible, I just need ot know how many there are.

minkhollow has offered Claudia to help with the collection/neutralization.

So, yeah.

Completely great with me! Do you think we could have enough Lego to have a Lego table for figurines to play around on a al the movie if they want to?

Definitely possible.

An idea: A lego gets wedged underneath a table leg, which turns the entire table Lego. Will be hell to try and neutralize, but that's half the fun, right?

That's genius! Thank you, that'll be awesome. :D!

I already have a lego Quin and a lego SPider-Woman. I like the plotting you have going on up above! I also like the idea of them being satires of themselves. =]

Cause EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!

Sweeeet! I think we should do what Fi suggested - have a Lego table for people who want plot stuff, and everyone else can just do their thang. :D

I think this is a fun idea and the table idea is interesting but could also get complicated. Maybe have that as a party type post thing with threads for non-Lego folks and Lego ones. Then other people can do their own thing.

Hee, Charles is going to get to be a minifig and I need to figure out who else has one or that I can create one for.

Helena's going to end up as a Lego, especially if we do the 'satire personality' thing, cause she'd flirt with all of the Legos, and be inventing all of the things. In Lego.

Joshua probably will too, mostly because he's going to have to bring it in and be Patient Zero.

That would make sense - have it there as an option, and for non-Lego pups to toy with as they like - but let other people just freestyle it. Works for me!

I like the idea of the lego table, however since some people are only just getting to see the film it's a pretty huge spoiler.

You could always have it as a back room extra, like the breakdown of the fourth wall?

I'm probably in, or Sariel is anyway. Point of information, though: I have not seen the movie. No clue about the Lego table thing.

Can I borrow someone's icon-making skills, or if nothing else their picture-finding skills, so there can be an image of Lego!astronaut!Sariel?

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