Ideas Showcase: Wallace & Gromit

Those figures look perfect! I'm gonna head over to Ideas to support it right now!

Supported, it looks absolutely amazing!

Have to agree with everybody else. I immediately went to add my support after seeing the image.

Already supporting the Huwbot so can't do much more there I'm afraid.

That’s brilliant! My brother and I would buy these right away!

Did the Shawn the Sheep ever appear in Wallace and Gromit?

(I know they are both from Aardman.)

Can the trousers be made power functional?

In addition to owning much of the Aardman catalog (including, I believe, every actual W&G production even though I had to rebuy a couple things to get the later shorts), I managed to incorporate minifig-scaled W&G, using 100% authentic LEGO parts, into the front seats of the upper deck of my Routemaster bus. Minecraft has actually turned out a number of parts that are very useful to people who have zero interest in Minecraft.

@Squidkid_Belmont:
Huh. I think I'd been aware of that at one point, but I completely forgot that the sheep from ACS was actually Shaun. I bought a DVD box set of the first StS season years ago, but I don't remember actually watching it.

@gunther_schnitzel said:
"Did the Shawn the Sheep ever appear in Wallace and Gromit?

(I know they are both from Aardman.)"

Pretty sure Shaun The Sheep was introduced in Wallace and Gromit.

As for this project; absolutely fantastic. Supported!

This is amazing!

The Wallace and Gromit idea looks amazing! I did notice however, that the pattern on the sheep's jumper is made using cheese slopes, which would be impossible to make like that using real Lego.

This is awesome, supporting.

doesn't look like lego at all.

These look exactly like the characters, they’re fantastic.

The scales a little off with both Feathers and Shaun being too small in compared to Wallace and Gromit.... but man, the level of detail. These are amazingly well done.

Just needs the Were-Rabbit, but I’m sold!

@CarolinaOnMyMind said:
"That’s brilliant and extremely well done, but here’s a concern: isn’t it WAY too big to ever be produced? How many parts does this use?"

The Ideas entry states 2,198 pieces, so less than e.g. Grand Piano, Tree House or Barracuda Bay.

“Oh i do like a good spot of cheese”

@Paperballpark:
It's not _impossible_. It'd never pass in an official set, but there are a lot of builders who have "built" cheese wedge mosaics that use a weird property of the cheese wedge design. If you nest one cheese wedge on top of another like that, it's just a hair taller than a regular brick. Because of this, it's possible to assemble complex mosaics using nothing but cheese wedges, provided you build a frame that's strong enough to press them together. Unless you drop it, friction should hold them in place. If this gets approved, however, it'll either end up with stickers or print, or they'll just drop Shaun altogether.

@Elcascador:
Tree House is a cheat anyways. The original project was under the 3k limit, but the final model was well over once they added in the second set of leaves for an autumn look. So you can't even make it into review unless you're well under the Tree House piece count.

@Paperballpark said:
"The Wallace and Gromit idea looks amazing! I did notice however, that the pattern on the sheep's jumper is made using cheese slopes, which would be impossible to make like that using real Lego. "

I agree, I don't see how the cheese slopes can fit at angles without being cut down. And what parts are used for the feet?

"Additionally, Huwbot has threatened to double the frequency of Clikits sets being chosen as Random Set of the Day..."

The problem with using that as a threat is that people *want* that to happen, tho.

@Zordboy said:
""Additionally, Huwbot has threatened to double the frequency of Clikits sets being chosen as Random Set of the Day..."

The problem with using that as a threat is that people *want* that to happen, tho. "

I'm not sure doubling the Clikits is mathematically possible! If they're more than 50% (and it often seems that way) then it can't be done. :)

These are very very well done. "Gotta have the cheeeese and crackas Gromit!" The only thing is possibly a revolver missing for the evil 'chicken'.

I like the choices of episodes here, nice broad spectrum.

YES

I've been Wallace and Gromit fan since I was very young. I even slept with a plush Gromit toy for years. Hence, I love this project. At that scale it would be outside my price range, but I'd still love to see it become a set.

great for a lego fan
wallace and gromit are part of my childhood and something I've always loved

Wow, they did a nice job on this one!

@Brickchap said:
"The only thing is possibly a revolver missing for the evil 'chicken'."
And the baseball bat for the robot.

@AddictedToStyrene said:
""this project also contains the Cooker, Feathers McGraw, Shaun, the Wrong Trousers and various fun accessories"... but it doesn't have that penguin who stayed with them!"

It actually does, though he is very small.

Done. I also supported Huwbot (I thought that I already had).

@Paperballpark said:
"The Wallace and Gromit idea looks amazing! I did notice however, that the pattern on the sheep's jumper is made using cheese slopes, which would be impossible to make like that using real Lego. "

Same with Wallace's eyes.

@Snazzy_Bricks said:
" @Paperballpark said:
"The Wallace and Gromit idea looks amazing! I did notice however, that the pattern on the sheep's jumper is made using cheese slopes, which would be impossible to make like that using real Lego. "

Same with Wallace's eyes."

And Wallace's teeth.

@AddictedToStyrene said:
""this project also contains the Cooker, Feathers McGraw, Shaun, the Wrong Trousers and various fun accessories"... but it doesn't have that penguin who stayed with them!"

Feathers McGraw is the penguin's name.

@AddictedToStyrene:
The penguin is easy to overlook if you don't zoom in, but he's way over on the far right toward the bottom, wearing his rooster-comb hat.

It just passed 1000 supporters

Hmmm. I don't want to be rude to the creator, but there does seem to be a good deal of "clever techniques" that are actually just parts mushed together. Many of the tiny details rely on this.

@PurpleDave said:
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@Squidkid_Belmont:
Huh. I think I'd been aware of that at one point, but I completely forgot that the sheep from ACS was actually Shaun. I bought a DVD box set of the first StS season years ago, but I don't remember actually watching it."
A Close Shave is how he gets his name; he ends up in Wallace’s knitting machine and gets sheared. Since his fleece has now been shorn off...Wallace calls him Shaun

Registered on Ideas just to support it. Can they also include a small slice of lego wensleydale?

Edit, I think I can see a slice of wensleydale and some biscuits there

Why Huwbot doesn't already have the 10k votes? This is jolly fun project.

@CapnRex101 said:
"I think @AddictedToStyrene may have been joking about the absence of Wallace and Gromit's penguin lodger.

After all, this submission does contain Feathers McGraw, the desperate criminal, but the penguin is missing. Some people have suggested that they might be the same person but that seems completely ridiculous. Looking closely, you can clearly see that Feathers McGraw is a chicken and definitely not a penguin with a rubber glove on his head."

So true, I loved that episode.

@AddictedToStyrene said:
""this project also contains the Cooker, Feathers McGraw, Shaun, the Wrong Trousers and various fun accessories"... but it doesn't have that penguin who stayed with them!"

I'm entertained by the number of people who didn't get your joke... Or who were as fooled by the ingenious rubber-glove design as all of the characters in the film.

The only way to top this amazing Idea would be to transform it into a functional Wrong Trousers train set.

Brick built animated characters usually look somewhat "off" but these are absolutely perfect. Props to the designer.

@ArmoredBricks:
Any project that's picked up will be redesigned anyways, and maybe a different designer could come up with alternate solutions that don't require impossible builds. Some of the part cheats can be easily rectified with printed parts, like Wallace's eyes (2x2 round tiles in whatever color they use for his skin, with the eye printed on half). Also, some project submissions are intentionally bloated with the theory that the eventual set designer can always trim stuff out, as happened with the Flintstones set, so some of the problem builds could just be cut. The scale of the build could change like the Grand Piano, at which point none of what you see here will actually matter. It's going to be several months before any of this matters.

Besides, a more critical problem in my book is the sheer variety of light-flesh parts used to build Wallace's head and hands. Of particular concern is the inclusion of light-flesh Mixel sockets, which is something they'll never approve.

@BrickTeller:
Hey, I'm at _least_ as smart as the dog, who wasn't fooled by that disguise for a second.

Crackin’

I don't love Wallace and Gromit, but wow this is incredible!

Love it. Supported.
Incidentally, there is also an incredible Asterix and Obelix creation currently featured prominently on the Ideas website.

Oh my, I wonder if he'll find some delicious cheese!

All of the characters just look so beautiful. This is a must buy for me.

These seem to be the largest and most detailed Wallace and Gromit figures that have appeared so far on Lego ideas, using the macaroni pieces for the hands to determine the scale. Inclusion of Shaun, the penguin and wrong trousers should make it popular for collectors and displaying as looks to be on the same scale as the current Minions 75551. I just hope they drop the oven to reduce the piece count and price, or replace with something more interesting like the runaway toy train. Its also worth looking at the other Wallace and Gromit Ideas submissions as these are on a smaller figure scale, some with vehicles making more playable as kids toys.

This needs to be turned into a movie!

Yeah yeah I’ll have one