Traditional Something a little different...mock LEGO Space print ad from the 80s...

[TalonCard]

What do you do when you have only two Classic Spacemen and Photoshop? >This, apparently.

 

The kitchen in my house has a little light that looks a bit like a flying saucer...I thought it'd be fun to take a picture of two LEGO astronauts exploring the vast kitchen counter, and seeing the lamp from below. It didn't turn out quite as well as I liked, so I tried to spruce it up by creating a magazine-style LEGO ad.

 

I'd like to do more in the same style, probably featuring Pirates since I actually have those sets, definitely using actual magazine dimensions. Thoughts?

 

TC

[Shadowblaze]

Oh, me likes. The feel in the picture is amazing too, it really looks like something from the 80's. I would have slightly changed the colors to blue too, to make it more "spacey", but that's just me.

[lol username]

Hah, I never would have thought of doing something like this, it's really neat. I'd love to see more.

[Jimbob]

Excellent! As jamesster said, I'd never have thought of something like that, and you've executed it very nicely. I Look forward to what you come up with next.

 

Do you have a Johnny Thunder minifigure by any chance?

[Aokpisz]

This is one of those 'dang, I should have thought of this before you' sorta ideas.

Nice work.

[The Ace Railgun]

Sweet, I love the UFO effect with the light.

[TalonCard]

Oh, me likes. The feel in the picture is amazing too, it really looks like something from the 80's. I would have slightly changed the colors to blue too, to make it more "spacey", but that's just me.

 

You know, that may be exactly what's missing from this picture...I tend to think LEGOs ought to be lit with warm, yellowish hues, but that's probably due to my obsession with Pirate ads like this one.    I'll have to play around with it a bit more.

 

 

Excellent! As jamesster said, I'd never have thought of something like that, and you've executed it very nicely. I Look forward to what you come up with next.

 

Do you have a Johnny Thunder minifigure by any chance?

 

I do! Adventurers is the only other theme besides Pirates that I've committed to collecting in its entirety, so as you can imagine, I actually have a lot of Johnny Thunders. I even took an >Adventurers inspired picture for a class back in college, but I wasn't completely happy with it. The original idea was to have Johnny, Indy, and Jake Raines from Pharaoh's Quest in the picture, but it was just too cluttered and Indy was hogging the spotlight with his iconic silhouette.

 

Adventurers is a great choice for a future follow-up, since I have many of those sets too. The only question is whether to stay in the 80s or aim more at the 90s...I kind of like the idea of creating an alternate set of ads where LEGO continued making all the sets we know now, but never dropped the LEGOLAND banner and style...

 

TC

[RobExplorien]

I do! Adventurers is the only other theme besides Pirates that I've committed to collecting in its entirety, so as you can imagine, I actually have a lot of Johnny Thunders. I even took an Adventurers inspired picture for a class back in college, but I wasn't completely happy with it. The original idea was to have Johnny, Indy, and Jake Raines from Pharaoh's Quest in the picture, but it was just too cluttered and Indy was hogging the spotlight with his iconic silhouette.

I love the lighting in this one. Looks cool.