Bricks in Motion
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This is their website:
http://www.ilovedirtcheap.com
The store basically gets damaged or unsold goods from chain stores like Walmart. With the Lego stuff; most of the time the only thing wrong with the product is that the box is in ruff shape but that really doesn't matter because the bricks on the inside are generally in mint condition.
Ok, so its the same idea as Ocean State Job lot in my area, years ago they had a whole bunch of copies of the 'Builder Extreme" board game for between $10 and $20 (not exactly sure), I only ended up with one though. At the time it was cool because it had all kinds of fancy pieces and most of what I had up to that point was just basic bricks and tecnic pieces.
Any similar stores like that? But has international stores instead of USA only.
Squid wrote:I prefer to get a good night's rest.
Haha, good for you. I haven't been sleeping to well, I've made a terrible habit of staying up till 12-1ish. That's very late. I hope to start sleeping longer periods..
This past week, I've gotten an average of probably around four hours of sleep a night.
Just putting it out there.
Question for the long time brick-filmers,
Harborlight recently pointed out monitogostudios "Bound" on another thread, I watched it and was quit impressed, I've been aware of "Jericho, The Promise fulfilled" even though I haven't got around to watching it yet, and I've seen Titan Pictures "Lego Minecraft Movie"
Are their any other brickfilms out there on that sort of scale?
I guess The LEGO Movie has a grand scale. And by scale, do you mean -the complexity of the animation, the time length, or the large sets?
by scale I meant both length and sets/animation, anyone can make a one hour brickfilm by animating at 1 fps 
I guess I was thinking about films with a more complete story arc as opposed to 1 act shorts, (some of which are quit impressive in both set and story)
Has anything of importance happened on BiM lately? I haven't been on in a while.
I would suggest America Outlawed, Unrenewable, PIRATES!, and The Great Disturbance.
All four are large scale in terms of story, The Great Disturbance was the longest brickfilm for awhile. America Outlawed, PIRATES!, and Unrenewable all do a good job of giving you a cinematic experience with.
The Great Disturbance is one I haven't seen in a while, but I don't remember it being as cinematic. It was still very enjoyable though. Unfortunately, it has been muted on YouTube, so you would have to find it somewhere else, maybe the brickfilms wiki.
Hopefully these few give you a good place to start.
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Turned 18 today. Feels good. Five years ago, I started funmiproductions, so two birthdays.
Last edited by funmiproductions (January 23, 2016 (11:33am))
Happy 18th!
Well I checked out your recommendations, except for 'The Great Disturbance' which I couldn't find anywhere with audio 
I thought that the player piano in 'America Outlawed' was pretty cool, and I liked 'Pirates' quite a bit.
I personally prefer narrative films over slapstick or fight based ones so it's neat to see that there are some longer productions out there.
For example, live action films run the gamut from a couple kids with a camcorder to things like Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
and while often smaller productions put together by a group of dedicated people are more meaningful than the latest blockbuster, I was just curious what different portions of the spectrum were represented in the brick film arena.
With that in mind, does anyone know what the most expensive brick-film ever made was? (excluding The LEGO movie and any of LEGO's other CGI TV or DVD films of course)
thanks a lot for your suggestions,
-Mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p … _eQeQ#t=12
wouldn't something like this be better? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meUUJ23xcMY
or this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwKDvJ_FxSw
or even this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgdJso2zK6A
anyways, happy 18 birthday funmiproductions 
Happy Birthday, Funmi
Besides visiting all 50 states...
We were seriously going to do this one silly thing once the kids were all grown up and off to college....
*headdesk*
*crumples up fun list....starts over*
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@HelliumBrick don't do anything hasty. We need as many decent Brickfilmers as possible and I admire your work.
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