Masters of World Cinema

directed by: Milan Vančura (MilanV)

A group project of kostky.org LUG

In September 2015 the invitation to the new common project appeared at kostky.org forum - Czech LEGO Users Group. It was a movie scene of famous CZ TV series Just an Ordinary Family - and this inspired many forum members to join the team and build a scene of their favorite movie, either Czech one of any movie from the world. Soon, it was obvious the project becomes really big, 140 cm long, already for the first exhibition - the biggest LEGO exhibition of 2016 in Czech Republic, at Lipno.

Not only one exhibition!

The Film Project was really successful, visitors spent a lot of time checking every detail in scenes, trying to figure out which is from which movie. Definitely loved by adults more than by children, BTW :) This success not only made us happy but it also motivated us to build more! Even the timeframe was terribly short (the summer holiday time only - most of us were somewhere in a nature with our families) we made it: we expanded the collection of movies by another 11 scenes, ending with 38 scenes, the model became about 210 cm long. This is how it was displayed at Kostkoland 2016 in Prague.

The project first anniversary was near - and the traditional exhibition was, for the first time, moved from Lipno to Prague, named Brick Republic. Masters of the World Cinema were successful there as well, dozens thousands of people watched them. And even before that, at the very last moment (last day before Brick Republic was open), a part of the project was displayed at local exhibition in Velke Prilepy, a village near Prague - kind of an advertisement :)

As the original plan was, Brick Republic should be the last exhibition of this nice project. But not in reality - we were asked to prepare a weekend display for the interactive exhibition in Olomouc (a city about 3 hours east of Prague). Organizers even prepared a presentation box for the project, just for the weekend! And more on that, I was lucky that I could be there for all the time - and see all those people thanking us for a nice project. And even those who said nothing were nice to watch - their eyes, happy and ready to spend as much time there as needed to check each and every scene to the last detail. It was the best reward, I may tell. And, of course, much harder to stick on the decision to break the project apart at the end of that weekend...

I want to thank all participants a lot. Their enthusiasm and great cooperation during the scenes building, many of them also helped me with exhibition displays preparations, made this project so nice! It was a great pleasure for me, to have such a team! And you, you can see the result of our cooperation now. Enjoy it, as we enjoyed building it!