The Lego and Cat Crazy Weekly Issue #1

IN THIS ISSUE:

Interview with Lego Expert Chris Vance
Crazy Cat Captions.
How to build…
And not much more!


Interview With Chris Vance(otherwise known as “the Donut”):

Andrew: so Chris what’s your name?
Chris: I’m sir Chris the magnificent lord of the donuts!
Andrew: Well Sir Chris how long have you been into Lego?
Sir Chris: Since before I was born… since before you were born… Since before Abraham Lincoln was born.
Andrew: And how many Lego’s/Lego sets do you have?
Sir Chris: About 5 in my room… but I have a secrete underground room that has every Lego set in existence!
Andrew: And I thought I had a lot of Lego’s…
What was the first Lego set you ever got, do you remember?
Sir Chris: My first Lego set was Duplo… does that count?
Andrew: Yes I think it counts, do you remember what it was?
Sir Chris: It was large bricks with plastic explosives… I found it was plastic explosives when I tried eating one. Plastic explosives are a clay until they harden, then if you apply enough force they go BOOM!!!
Andrew: I want some of those!
What is you first Real Lego set?
Sir Chris: It was an extreme team buggy with an antenna that I used to talk to Martians…
Andrew: I think my brother has that set…
Sir Chris: Did he use it to talk to Martians?
Andrew: Only once…
What is your favorite official Lego set?
Sir Chris: The Millennium Falcon.
Andrew: Which one? The $500 one, the $100 one, the older $100 one, or the $30 one coming out this summer.
Sir Chris: Uh… what did you say?
Andrew: The $500 one, the $100…
Sir Chris: The $500 one of course.
Andrew: Ok.
What do you think is the best Lego creation you have ever built?
Sir Chris: A turret that shot rubber bullets.
Andrew: Do you have any pictures?
Sir Chris: No, I didn’t want to get in trouble with the Feds for attempted murder with rubber bullets.
Andrew: yeah of course…
One more favorite, what is your favorite Lego game?
Sir Chris: Uh… lets see here… I don’t know… let me think. Oh I know, shooting my dog with my NXT.
Andrew: Your poor dog… uh… Don’t tell Ashley that I just felt sympathy for a dog.
Sir Chris: Don’t worry… Now I can blackmail you!!!
Andrew: Now I’m scared.
Sir Chris: waahahaha you should be scared.
Andrew: Have you ever built anything that scared your sister?
Sir Chris: uh no… But I’ve scared my dog, does that count?
Andrew: With your NXT?
Sir Chris: Yeah.
Andrew: how?
Sir Chris: Um, the NXT would stop when it heard any strange noises and would fire a cannon.
Andrew: Did Ashley get upset when you did that to her dog?
Sir Chris: She turned into a violent monster and threw me out a window… But I landed on a bunch of marshmallows.
Andrew: Wow!
Sir Chris: Yeah, weird things happen to me daily.
Andrew: One last question and I think we should be done.
Sir Chris: Name your question.
Andrew: Do you have any advise for any of the other NXT or regular Lego builders out there?
Sir Chris: Make sure you put the round pegs in the square holes and the square pegs in the round holes.
Thank you Sir Chris for the interview.

CRAZY CAT CAPTIONS:

By Andrew Zimmerly

HOW TO BUILD… A LEGO SPHINX

By Andrew Zimmerly

Building a Lego sphinx is much, much, much harder then a building a pyramid. Though my pyramid did take longer to build and used a lot more pieces, there was hardly anything that was actually complicated about the build. But a sphinx is… much more complicated.
First you have to get the head right, it doesn’t look good if your sphinxes head doesn’t look good. Really. Second you have to get all the proportions right, the head has to be the right size compared to the body compared to the legs. And what makes it even harder is, if you are trying to copy the “Great Sphinx”, that the proportions are already messed up.
If you look at a picture of the “Great Sphinx” you will notice that the head looks awfully small compared with the body, and that the front two feet look way to long. Add that to the fact that if you want it to look right you have to knock the nose off the face and make it look like it is falling apart. Put it all together and you have a four week project.
I recommend starting with the head, first, because it is the hardest to build. Second, you are really limited with how you can proportion the head using Lego bricks. You can create the entire body and then build the head and realize that with the way you want the head the body is too small or too big. The head is so complicated that it will probably take you the first week and a half to get just right( it took me about 5 minor and 3 major rebuilding’s to get something I was satisfied with)
Then you should work on the front two legs, because you need to get them to look right with the head. This is probably the easiest part of the build. Since the legs are smallish and not very complicated they should not take long to finish at all.
After completing the legs you need to move on to the body. This can be a little tricky but if you have the head and the legs done you can refer to them to get the proportions just right. This will take the longest by far. And though it is not as complicated as the head it is far from easy. Getting the falling apart ruin look is not quite as easy as it looks. But once you finish everything and put it together you should get something like this:


Oops wrong picture… There we go… the finished product!!!