A LEGO Brickumentary Page #11

Yeah, he's super-fast.

He's turning round, round this guy.

I'm expecting some people

to look at them and go...

Really? Is this the best you got?

The LEGO fans don't know they'll be

competing against LEGO designers

until Jamie shows up.

I just have to look at your animal

because we were trying

to see how you did it.

He's making us look bad.

Time's up!

We finished.

Make sure your MOC is arranged

the way you want it to be seen.

Step outside and come back

in ten minutes.

Congratulations!

Let's bring them in,

let them know what's going on.

You guys did such a great job,

it was really hard to tell

who was our champion.

So, Number 8, won't you

stand by your MOC, please?

Winner is Number 8!

We basically split off.

We each built a mech.

So I built the pig mech,

and Chris built the cow mech.

So they're kind of like

Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots?

Yeah, I think what

we really liked about the MOC,

and what made it really win,

was the fact that

not only did you use

the small pig and cow heads here,

but you also constructed

robotic ones from scratch

with the bricks you were provided.

The winner was, I definitely agree...

Was really a standout.

I knew we'd have tough competition.

These are some really amazing builders.

I mean, I'd like to think that we came

in the top 28, which was pretty good.

Shortly after the master build

Jamie introduces the new

Parisian Cafe set to much fanfare.

Then participants gather in the main hall

for the annual award ceremony.

Alice Finch's Rivendell build

is being considered

for the coveted People's Choice Award.

The People's Choice Awards

are those voted upon by the public.

We counted all those up,

and we came up with

Winners of People's Choice.

And the winner is...

Rivendell!

It's a pretty amazing feeling to have

10,000 people say

that they like what you build.

To have a woman win is pretty unusual.

To have the same person win

three years in a row is unheard of.

One of the fundamental ways

we know about humans

and our history

is by the things that they build.

Maybe little plastic bricks

are a modern adaptation of that,

but really it's about

creating something.

We are definitely at the core

of what is human,

is the capacity to build.

In the big picture, life on Earth

has evolved through millennia

by adapting to the surroundings,

until the point where

we invent tools, technology.

We suddenly get the capacity

to adapt our surroundings to life.

So we now no longer have to suffice

with a cave we can find

or a tree we can climb into.

We can actually build our own cave,

and we can build our own tree house.

The moment where we really became human

was the moment where we got this power.

It's also a mindset somehow.

It's believing that anything is possible

if you have the right tools

in front of you.

Sometimes we don't have

an opportunity to just be free,

and everything

that we have inside of us,

we never have

an opportunity to let it out.

And we're always looking

for something to inspire us

or to just give us some joy.

Being able to take your dreams

and take your thoughts

and materialize into something,

it's just a wonderful gift,

and I think the LEGO brick

has given that to the world.

In Idaho, Jonathan and Matt

are nearly finished editing

their masterpiece, Melting Point.

The X-Wing has landed permanently

in Frankfurt Germany.

In Copenhagen,

Soren is still trying to figure out

just how infinite the possibilities are.

And in the Czech Republic,

Stephen's Curiosity Rover

is finally rolling off

the assembly line.

Oh wow, that's a lot of rovers. Awesome.

That's really nice-looking box art.

Oh, yeah, that's the great thing

about Cuusoo sets,

they have the best boxes.

- Oh, there I am. It's me.

- There you are.

"It's my hope that this model

encourages the public support

that is integral

to the continued development

and exploration of outer space." Yeah.

I'm glad Stephen mentioned space.

Didn't we start this film out there?

I promised we'd explain that, and seeing

how this is the end of the movie,

now is the time. For that story,

we go to Pasadena, California,

and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratories,

or JPL for short.

As engineers and scientists are

developing space craft ideas and missions

to go out and explore

and learn about the universe,

we sometimes use LEGOs

to kinda put together a concept

and see if it makes sense.

So there's a room here

at JPL called the Left Field,

and it actually has these toys,

sort of a kid's dream.

Has big boxes of LEGOs,

and scientists and engineers

get together and actually

construct something

that looks a little bit

like the spacecraft they want.

Lift off of the Atlas 5 with Juno

on a trek to Jupiter.

The Juno project is a NASA mission

that was launched in August of 2011

to go to Jupiter,

and we will use our instruments

to learn about Jupiter's formation

and other solar systems

around other stars.

But the LEGO system was not just

a part of the design process.

We're onboard!

NASA engineers have mounted

three aluminum friends of mine

to the hull of the Juno spacecraft.

The three minifigures are modeled

after Galileo the scientist,

Jupiter the god and the goddess Juno.

They're attached

to the main deck of the spacecraft.

They were made by the LEGO company,

to NASA specifications,

of a special spacecraft-grade aluminum.

Sometimes I imagine,

what are they seeing in their voyage?

They're able to see

this incredible view.

In fact, they're seeing the view

that we all want to see.

We're living vicariously

through these LEGO minifigures.

They represent humanity in many ways.

Almost everything in the universe

is built from something else,

some fundamental building block

like an atom or a molecule,

and for me, LEGO represents one

of those fundamental building blocks.

And look how many things

we've built from this simple toy.

- Action.

- Action.

Cut!

Release the hounds!

Now, was that... was this a joke?

Was this supposed to be funny?

'Cause I don't know if I...

I certainly don't get this.

Who wrote this?

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