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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Onion]buy a girlfriend so I could look cool.[/quote]

In East European countries they are not so expensive to purchase, but to keep them up does.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[TitanPictures]]></name>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[buy a girlfriend so I could look cool.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Onion]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-07-29T22:52:43Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Well, I would buy a decent camera, lens, lights, editing and capturing program and if I still have some money left (those things are expensive) a microphone, and start working on a few project (brickfilms) I can't work on with my current equipment and skills.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[MPfist0]]></name>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[That's the oddest looking microphone I've seen in a while, which is probably because it is not a microphone, it's a Mac Pro, Apple's most powerful and therefore expensive computer]]></content>
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			<updated>2013-07-29T20:55:37Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: If someone would give you $50.000..]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Zachary Volt]What is this?[/quote]
Looks like a microphone.

I also got confused about the amount, which apparently is $50,000 instead of $50.00. The decimal point had me confused.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Juggernaut Pictures]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-07-29T18:25:01Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=AnW]I find all of these posts saying "buy computer, buy camera, SPEND REST ON LEGO!!!" (or something along those lines) to be quite... humorous. Just for kicks, I am going to look at the "spend rest on Lego" part.

[b]More Lego.[/b] 
    Lets see, assuming we were spendy in the other categories (computer, software, camera, etc), we have, say, about... $44,000 left. Lets see how much Lego this could get us. We will use the standard 2x4 brick from Lego's Pick a Brick site to start us off. 
    The 2x4 brick from the official Pick a Brick site is $0.30. That means that we can buy 146,666 bricks. Sounds like a lot... Lets keep going. The volume of space taken up by a 2x4 brick minus the studs is about 4.56 cm^3. Hmm. That means our 146,666 bricks takes up a volume of about 668,797 cm^3. Most of us here don't have a good idea of a measurement like that, so lets convert to ft^3. Converting gives us 23.62 ft^3. Uh oh, sounds wimpy. Lets find the dimensions of a cube that has that volume. Turns out our $44,000 buys us a cube of 2x4 Lego bricks (packed perfectly together) that is 2.87 ft per side. Wow. Expensive cube of plastic that isn't really all that big. Fortunately, we all know that you can find much better deals elsewhere. Lets assume that we can get our bricks for $0.08. Probably a bit low, but we'll go with it. Running that price through our calculations gives us a perfectly packed cube of 2x4 Lego bricks that is 4.56 ft per side. Much bigger. If it still doesn't sound like much, for reference, that would fill my 9x12 ft room to almost 10 in (9.84 in) deep in Lego bricks (though, assuming 2.5 grams a brick, I am not sure I would want to put 3,031 pounds of Lego bricks in my second story room...). So, not bad at all (and that is perfectly stacked and packed, it would be a fair bit more if they were loose). 
    Now, clearly, a real Lego pile consists of many different pieces of many different sizes and prices, but that is a fun generalization.
    Maybe you want to go the minifigure route though? Assuming an average of $5 a minifig (I have no idea, just a rough guess), that would buy us 8,800 minifigs. Nice. If we give each minifig a floor space of 23x31 mm (approximate dimensions of a series special minifigure 'display' plate) that works out to about 67.5 ft^2. That means our army of minifigs could be closely lined up row by row in approximately a 8.2x8.2 ft space. That's a lot of minifigs.
    Just for fun, have you every dreamed of getting a dump truck load of Lego bricks? Well assuming a medium dump truck size of 10 yd^3, that would cost you about $134,000. If you want a semi truck load, though, you are going to have to shell out around 2 million dollars to buy the approximate 25 million bricks to fill it. Curiously enough, that is only about 11 hours worth of Lego's production output ([url=http://www.planitnorthwest.com/shopping/pdfs/legolandfunfacts.pdf]Source[/url]). Impressive. 

    Now, the point of this (and yes, I know this is a thread on a completely hypothetical question, I'm just having fun)? That is a lot of Lego. A [i]lot[/i] more than any one (or two, or three) of anyone around here could ever practically use. I know I sure couldn't. I couldn't even store that many Lego bricks much less use any significant portion of them to make something. My suggestion? Save a couple thousand dollars and just buy what you need, when you need it, for your brickfilms.

Additional comment. To everyone who said, "I would finish so-and-so film of mine." I have to ask. Really? Is the lack of $50,000 really the reason you are not finishing a movie of yours? Sounds like a motivation issue to me (and this applies to myself and all of my unfinished projects also). About the only thing a magical $50,000 would do is let those who work quit for a while. It sure wouldn't be finishing any of your films for you...

As for me? I personally think along the lines of fallentomato and Lechnology. Hire a couple of the really good animators, a composer, etc and make an amazing movie. Maybe even start a small company like Lechnology said. Ahhh... one can dream. :) 


Last comment. If people think that $6,000 isn't enough for a computer, software, camera, lights, etc, etc, for your personal brickfilming hobby, reconsider. It really is plenty.[/quote]


How about buying medium blue baseplates, avg. $3 per plate for a 16^2.]]></content>
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			<updated>2013-07-29T17:45:57Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Legocloniac477][quote=Carousel]

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[/quote]


:D[/quote]

What is this?]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Zachary Volt]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-07-29T15:16:51Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I would build my own Hackintosh with Os X Snow Leopard, a Canon T3i, LEGO, Dragonframe, and Adobe Production Premium (Student edition. Hehe.). Oh, I would also register a trademark for ElectricVolt Studios™. Without the ™ though. And I would buy a desk. Then I would go bankrupt and have negative amounts of money because I only have a dollar saved up. :yes:]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Zachary Volt]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-07-29T15:16:01Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I would just stop my work for the next two years and sit down to animate as much I can to generate income from Youtube and anyother way of making money online from Brickfilming.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[TitanPictures]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-07-29T13:02:27Z</updated>
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:D]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Legocloniac477]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-07-28T15:02:16Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I would get my little paws on one of these

[img]http://cdn1.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/8361347/VRG_6478_large_verge_medium_landscape.jpg[/img]

Then purchase Dragonframe, a Canon 5D, Final Cut Pro, Adobe things and a poo load of Lego. The rest would go towards more personal uses, i.e. maintaining my Dwarven Inn, in my Spellbinders Wizardly Mage Guild game for socially challenged children.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Carousel]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-07-28T10:50:56Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I'd waste it all on LEGO bricks, I dream big but I hate using CGI.
But if I had money left I'd buy the 5D and a good lens to get close to the guys.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Darkman]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-07-28T08:32:42Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Gee...someone spent some time on their reply.

I would probably start by using no more than $10,000 on getting equipment.  Nice setup, camera, lights, just upgrade most everything.

With the $40,000 left I would invest in a mutual fund and leave it for x amount of time and then it's grown to...wait, what?

No no, I would probably take some sort of classes and try to learn more about stopmotion, find someone and hire them to teach me their tricks of the trade, maybe.  Something like that.  
I could still buy enough LEGO, heck, even $10,000 would get me [i]way[/i] more than enough if I spent it right.  I'd also hire professionals for the score, and work with a team of animators so I could make an amazing feature length film that was scripted by myself and other professionals.  

You get the point.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[JonnDthunDer]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-07-28T06:31:10Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I find all of these posts saying "buy computer, buy camera, SPEND REST ON LEGO!!!" (or something along those lines) to be quite... humorous. Just for kicks, I am going to look at the "spend rest on Lego" part.

[b]More Lego.[/b] 
    Lets see, assuming we were spendy in the other categories (computer, software, camera, etc), we have, say, about... $44,000 left. Lets see how much Lego this could get us. We will use the standard 2x4 brick from Lego's Pick a Brick site to start us off. 
    The 2x4 brick from the official Pick a Brick site is $0.30. That means that we can buy 146,666 bricks. Sounds like a lot... Lets keep going. The volume of space taken up by a 2x4 brick minus the studs is about 4.56 cm^3. Hmm. That means our 146,666 bricks takes up a volume of about 668,797 cm^3. Most of us here don't have a good idea of a measurement like that, so lets convert to ft^3. Converting gives us 23.62 ft^3. Uh oh, sounds wimpy. Lets find the dimensions of a cube that has that volume. Turns out our $44,000 buys us a cube of 2x4 Lego bricks (packed perfectly together) that is 2.87 ft per side. Wow. Expensive cube of plastic that isn't really all that big. Fortunately, we all know that you can find much better deals elsewhere. Lets assume that we can get our bricks for $0.08. Probably a bit low, but we'll go with it. Running that price through our calculations gives us a perfectly packed cube of 2x4 Lego bricks that is 4.56 ft per side. Much bigger. If it still doesn't sound like much, for reference, that would fill my 9x12 ft room to almost 10 in (9.84 in) deep in Lego bricks (though, assuming 2.5 grams a brick, I am not sure I would want to put 3,031 pounds of Lego bricks in my second story room...). So, not bad at all (and that is perfectly stacked and packed, it would be a fair bit more if they were loose). 
    Now, clearly, a real Lego pile consists of many different pieces of many different sizes and prices, but that is a fun generalization.
    Maybe you want to go the minifigure route though? Assuming an average of $5 a minifig (I have no idea, just a rough guess), that would buy us 8,800 minifigs. Nice. If we give each minifig a floor space of 23x31 mm (approximate dimensions of a series special minifigure 'display' plate) that works out to about 67.5 ft^2. That means our army of minifigs could be closely lined up row by row in approximately a 8.2x8.2 ft space. That's a lot of minifigs.
    Just for fun, have you every dreamed of getting a dump truck load of Lego bricks? Well assuming a medium dump truck size of 10 yd^3, that would cost you about $134,000. If you want a semi truck load, though, you are going to have to shell out around 2 million dollars to buy the approximate 25 million bricks to fill it. Curiously enough, that is only about 11 hours worth of Lego's production output ([url=http://www.planitnorthwest.com/shopping/pdfs/legolandfunfacts.pdf]Source[/url]). Impressive. 

    Now, the point of this (and yes, I know this is a thread on a completely hypothetical question, I'm just having fun)? That is a lot of Lego. A [i]lot[/i] more than any one (or two, or three) of anyone around here could ever practically use. I know I sure couldn't. I couldn't even store that many Lego bricks much less use any significant portion of them to make something. My suggestion? Save a couple thousand dollars and just buy what you need, when you need it, for your brickfilms.

Additional comment. To everyone who said, "I would finish so-and-so film of mine." I have to ask. Really? Is the lack of $50,000 really the reason you are not finishing a movie of yours? Sounds like a motivation issue to me (and this applies to myself and all of my unfinished projects also). About the only thing a magical $50,000 would do is let those who work quit for a while. It sure wouldn't be finishing any of your films for you...

As for me? I personally think along the lines of fallentomato and Lechnology. Hire a couple of the really good animators, a composer, etc and make an amazing movie. Maybe even start a small company like Lechnology said. Ahhh... one can dream. :) 


Last comment. If people think that $6,000 isn't enough for a computer, software, camera, lights, etc, etc, for your personal brickfilming hobby, reconsider. It really is plenty.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[AnW]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-07-28T05:45:29Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I would have to create some sort of budget. Here's my options if I were to receive $50.00:

1. Save
2. Buy music
3. Buy DVD's
4. Buy LEGO
5. Buy an external HD
6. Buy florescent lights
7. Spend it on a night with friends]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Juggernaut Pictures]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-07-27T16:16:46Z</updated>
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