LEGO Brick Sketches Super Heroes The Joker Set 40428

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The character selection had to do with what the people in the team felt were strong and also what worked for licensing because that’s naturally an issue. Also what fit into the broader assortment, so not just LEL but across the entire company. All those considerations were taken in when deciding which four ones to go with.

Naturally, when you're doing product design in LEGO, you want to give people the best building experience. You want people to enjoy it, to avoid frustration: we really want people to come away from these products feeling happy and fulfilled and enjoy what they've built. So there was more focus on that aspect of the designs.This year's virtual Fan Media days are over so we now have some great content to share with you over the coming weeks. Of course now we have many more wedge plates with different angles, so they open up so many more possibilities: you can give so much more nuance to characters thanks to them. For example, if you look at the Joker's eyes, the way they're done with the 2x2 wedges next to each other was not something that was possible until recently. The portraits are the same size as before, 12x16 studs, but more layers of pieces have been used to create the fine details and shape of the heads It’s also worth noting that you may be thrown off in your Iron Man build thanks to a mistake in LEGO’s instructions. Between steps 48 and 49, Iron Man suddenly gains a mysterious wedge plate on his chin, which is gone again on step 50. But don’t worry, the final steps of the manual show the correct way to complete the chin as intended.

They came about as a result of something we have internally called Creative Boost. It’s an opportunity where we as designers can propose our own product ideas, themes and whatnot, to see if they get any traction. In the end there was no single version I can point to as my inspiration, but it's certainly influenced by his depiction in 1970s Batman comics, with a bit of grittiness from more modern interpretations. Once I settled on that general direction for him things went quite smoothly, but I had a lot of fun experimentations: bigger hair, bare teeth, other things that were interesting to experiment with but which didn't feel right for the character or the product. So, I had the most fun developing The Joker, and he was definitely the most challenging.Deciding exactly where I was going to take my inspiration from was very difficult. Do I go movie joker? Do I go classic comic joker? Do I do modern comic joker? Do I go Batman animated series classic Mark Hamill style joker? But, it was amazing. It's my first product launch so it’s such an exciting time! Seeing the reaction, which is very positive, and people being very encouraging is great! Released on 1 April 2022, Miles Morales (set number: 40536) is based on the fictional Marvel Comics superhero, Miles Morales. It consists of 214 pieces and can be displayed standing up on desks or hung by its built-in hook on a wall. [13] [19] [22] See also [ edit ] BB-8 is a bit different to the others because his head is constructed separately in a different plane to the rest of the build. That's necessary, of course, to give it its distinctive curved appearance and stripes. When I was outside the company, I had started developing my own custom products so that got me in the mindset of how to design things for consumers, so it wasn't vastly different.

Faces are always a challenge. The Joker was one that went through the most revisions. There are so many takes on The Joker, so many different versions of him.

One of the themes throughout these conversations, was what can we do promote our brand? What can we do to help give content? At the time the internet, and marketing on the internet, was just blooming. A lot of the other artists in this group who were much better than me at hand drawn stuff started doing what they call ‘marker sketches’. Three key people who I knew quite well, Crystal Fontan, Karen Hallion and Megan Lara, would start doing these hand drawn little card sized things with different characters from pop culture. I had done Vision from The Avengers outside the company, but the eyes were a sandwich of overlapping wedge plates so were far too deep. I managed to make it work, I think. But that’s an example of how I was under constraints before.