ninjago movie mecha upgrades

[mrfang2]

hey, been a while since i've built anything major, but i've finally figured out what i'm going to do for my next moc series. i'd like to build upgraded, full-scale versions of the crazy vehicles from the ninjago movie, as the released sets each seem to be roughly half the size of the movie versions. unfortunately i'm running into an issue in finding reference images of them. the concept art book has some good stuff in it, but stuff like cole's mech in the book isn't the final one (it has a brick built wheel) and the garma-mecha-man isn't represented in its brick form like, at all. any google searching i have done has nearly entirely lead me to pictures of the toy versions, not the movie versions.

i'm looking for any screenshots, current mocs or in progress shots, or production shots that are available for these, or any tips you guys could give me on doing them. 

i'm starting off with the ice tank, so shots of that are the most helpful for now

[Kim-Kwang-Seok]

You can simply search for:
- book which contained concept arts
- if u dont have the DVD, find some HD stream on the internet (not very hard)

I myself found Cole's mech for 30$ yesterday (incredible, since it contains over 1100 parts!!), but I didn't find any good pictures with Dr google..
anyway, great that someone tries this! But be aware, the official sets are very big anyway, so I don't think bigger versions will be any stable..

btw: I costumized my Quake mech to get rid of most odd colours & gave it a Gundam-like head. Looks incredible now!

[koalayummies]

This should be interesting. The Garmadon Shark for example is like ~3x times larger in the movie just going off the size of the ship hull pieces used for the mouth build vs the retail set (not to mention a few questionable connections):

From Lego.com

Best of luck, the DVD would be the most helpful. @Xon67 is the Eurobricks expert on extrapolating builds from the Lego Movie, they might have some tips as they've accurately recreated huge scenes from mere snippets and single-image frames.

Edited March 9, 2018 by koalayummies

[mrfang2]

7 hours ago, Kim-Kwang-Seok said:

You can simply search for:
- book which contained concept arts
- if u dont have the DVD, find some HD stream on the internet (not very hard)

I myself found Cole's mech for 30$ yesterday (incredible, since it contains over 1100 parts!!), but I didn't find any good pictures with Dr google..
anyway, great that someone tries this! But be aware, the official sets are very big anyway, so I don't think bigger versions will be any stable..

btw: I costumized my Quake mech to get rid of most odd colours & gave it a Gundam-like head. Looks incredible now!

Yeah, I’ve got all the official sets other than the mecha shark, they are great builds and a good size, I’m just building the bigger ones to be displays and to bring to conventions. The concept art book is good, but doesn’t have much detail on the final models from the movie, ie: half the pages on Zane’s tank are taken up by toy model prototypes and sketches of other possible vehicles. 

Where did you find the quake mech for that price btw? Can you post up a pic of the head? Sounds awesome!

1 hour ago, koalayummies said:

This should be interesting. The Garmadon Shark for example is like ~3x times larger in the movie just going off the size of the ship hull pieces used for the mouth build vs the retail set (not to mention a few questionable connections):

From Lego.com

Best of luck, the DVD would be the most helpful. @Xon67 is the Eurobricks expert on extrapolating builds from the Lego Movie, they might have some tips as they've accurately recreated huge scenes from mere snippets and single-image frames.

Thanks for the tip with xon67, I’ll shoot a message over to them. And yeah I don’t have nearly enough or the right parts in the right colors for the shark mech, so I’m skipping out on that one

[Kim-Kwang-Seok]

13 hours ago, mrfang2 said:

Yeah, I’ve got all the official sets other than the mecha shark, they are great builds and a good size, I’m just building the bigger ones to be displays and to bring to conventions. The concept art book is good, but doesn’t have much detail on the final models from the movie, ie: half the pages on Zane’s tank are taken up by toy model prototypes and sketches of other possible vehicles. 

Where did you find the quake mech for that price btw? Can you post up a pic of the head? Sounds awesome!

 

It seems like Lego sold really bad in many German & Austrian stores - so since like half a year sets go on sale like crazy. Good for now, but bad for the future.. Stores that already sold their overstock, have reduced Lego to a very limited space now

I'll post pictures of all my Ninjago Mech mods, once I find my imgur password again