Designer insight: Atticus

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Jake & Neytiri's First Banshee Flight

Jake & Neytiri's First Banshee Flight

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Many LEGO set designers use our BrickLists feature to maintain a list of the sets they've worked on and often provide interesting insights about their involvement.

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Atticus wrote this about their work on 75572 Jake & Neytiri's First Banshee Flight:

With this being my favorite scene of the movie and creature of Pandora, getting to design this set was a blast. I went through a lot of iterations to find the most solid way to depict the slender form of the Ikran as well as wing frame shape to best display the amazing graphic design work.

A primary goal of the Avatar line was to create disPLAYable sets, hence why every set comes with an environment build and why this set depicts a portion of the Floating Mountains. It was a nice, spatial challenge finding the composition that can support two flying creatures.


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6 comments on this article

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By in Jordan,

The BrickList isn't super long, but there are some nice sets in there. The notes give some cool insights into the design process.

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By in United Kingdom,

Now that's a badass name

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By in New Zealand,

Atticus has designed a few great sets which i have like 77013 or that i want: 76424

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By in United States,

A very interesting progression of builds from this designer. I’m actually not a huge fan of this set, but I like some of the others a fair bit. Glad the designer is not just type cast with building vehicles, though the wrangler is impressive. Great stuff

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By in Belgium,

This designer has been doing a terrific job since joining TLG! Avatar, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, ... i think i've got almost all of his sets!

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By in United States,

This designer created the new Ford Anglia for Harry Potter 2024. I want it and the new Hagrid's Hut so bad. why? So I can use the hut as a groundskeeper's house for my combined sets 70420 and 75965 as one graveyard. The Anglia will be the groundskeepers car... or I might take the wheels off and put it up on blocks. Just because.

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