Monty python anyone?

[Piranha]

Click

Click here too

*passes out

Shadows you need this

[JCC1004]

Yeah. I'd buy those in a heartbeat! I'm 100% sure the are authentic. The helmet does look very awesome though. Anyway. I loved that movie. “It's just a flesh wound.” Aww Black Knight.

[lightningtiger]

WTF ?

How much for a minifig ?

OMG !

Is a minifig like that worth over a thousand bucks US !

Anyway, I remember the last thing the Black Knight said, 'Come back here, I'll bite your legs off !' (if my memory serves me correct).

I'm a conformist! !

Edited April 13, 2010 by lightningtiger

[dr_spock]

You can buy them using a wafer thin credit card, n'est-ce pas?

[Siegfried]

"This is a full production, full quality LEGO Castle piece"

How is that possible? If it was in production then it can't be a "genuine LEGO part which no one else will have".

In any case $1,200.00...

[MagPiesRUs]

Nice find Macoco!

I believe TLC used to hire Spite Your Face Productions to make their lego films. The two items they're selling can be seen in their video "Monty Python and the Holy Grail in Lego":

From http://www.spiteyourface.com FAQ:

In the Python Movie, where is Bedevere's helmet from?

UPDATE! You (yes you) can buy Bedvere here!

Own the most sought after LEGO minifig in the world.

If you even know what this question means, you will know that the Python movie was an official commission from The LEGO Group.

Now, to fully understand the story surrounding Bedevere's helmet (if you really care that much), you have to understand something about how The LEGO Group works internally. All of the retail models ever (for System anyway) are designed in a high-security superbase in an extinct volcano in Denmark, which is full of cupboards and draws and boxes and bins and vaults of LEGO, and futuristic golf carts full of LEGO driving down silver LEGO corridors. Said LEGO consists of every single brick or element currently available, or available in the last three years in every single colour they have the facilities to produce. There are no bricks older than three or four years old. All old lego is thrown out. There is no one place in the world where all the LEGO ever can be found. It doesn't exist. There is no Eldorado, no Avalon and no Santa. Even the people at Legoland have to scour the yard sales like the rest of us for old parts. Sorry to be the ones to tell you.

Subsequently, the place is littered with random parts just lying around in draws. Mostly new, some in non-retail colours, some that have never (and will never) be released, and even a few random old parts that people have horded from previous 'purges'.

It is from this source that the props for the Python movie were gathered, including Bedevere's helmet. We at SYF do not have an encyclopedic knowledge of every brick ever produced, and assumed (if we even though about it at all) that this visor (which was just in our pile of stuff) was from an old old Castle set. A theory supported by the fact that it fits an old helmet and not the more recent post M-Tron ones. Maybe it is from an old range. Maybe it was never released. Maybe it never will be. We have it, so we used it.

Anyway, I quite like the helmet. A little large in comparison to other headgear, but I think I'd still prefer it over the new Kingdoms great helm.

Edited April 13, 2010 by TinyPiesRUs

[Siegfried]

I believe TLC used to hire Spite Your Face Productions to make their lego films.

Yes, they were commissioned by Sony and TLG to make Spider-Man: The Peril of Doc Ock and Star Wars: The Han Solo Affair for TLG.

From http://www.spiteyourface.com FAQ:

Yes, but that means that it's not "full production" , it's a prototype.

[Shadows]

Shadows you need this

Perhaps, but honestly, I see no way to confirm that either the helmet or the mace is legit, and neither one is thrilling enough to support that price anyway.

Don't get me wrong, they're nice, I'd definitely add them to the Museum of the Absurd, but even I would have to call them "unverified" since they are each one of a kind (not 'full-production' no matter how they incorrectly word the claim) and undocumented beyond "it was in our pile".

Cool story, though. I've always lusted to visit the vault.

[Big Cam]

For that price I'm pretty sure I could hire brickarms to make me a bucket full of those at the same quality. I'd really love to see the "documentation".

[Darth Legolas]

I would double-check with my DVD, but at the end of the video, the credits say 2004? If that's all right, then how can it be sought after for 9 years?

On the other hand, I'm not too sure that video is from 2004.