Digital Scene 24: Flying Information Center

[PeabodySam]

JOHNNY THUNDER and INFOMANIAC disassemble the Information Center, manually this time, and rebuild it into a crazy flying vehicle that would probably never fly in real life, but that’s okay because this is LEGO and not real life. As a song that is most certainly not a cheap knock-off of "Flight of the Valkyries" plays, they hop into the flying vehicle and take off. CUT to AERIAL TRACKING SHOT of the flying vehicle as it passes over the Super-Secret Police down below.

 

 

I was looking to create something that aesthetically mimicked the "2-in-1" The LEGO Movie sets based on the Information Center.  Something that would never be able to fly in real life, but looks like some crazy invention that would fly in a kid's movie.  It's part-helicopter, part-rocket, part-Information Center.  And it's got Johnny Thunder at the helm!

 

Unfortunately, you can't actually build this from the Information Center... that is, if you had an Information Center to build this with, but since LEGO never released that as a set, the only people I'm talking to are those guys who developed the original LEGO Island game and built the scale model of the island, Information Center included, but I digress... but most of the "special elements" such as the fences, the slopes, the tiles, and the windows are taken straight from the Information Center itself and the whole vehicle is meant to look like it could be built from the Information Center even though it really isn't, like the two largest The LEGO Movie sets, but I think this is turning into a run-on-sentence the length of a pargraph, but I digress... again.

 

Views of interest:

• The cockpit (windshield stolen by Mr. Pollywanna[/legoislandrpgreferencenobodywillget]), with our famous hero Johnny Thunder joined by fellow Master Builder, the Infomaniac.  Largely based upon the observation deck from the original Information Center, even including the switch to throw paper airplanes and a drawer from which you can inexplicably hear Captain Click's voice.  ProfessorBrickkeeper also correctly identified a bit of inspiration from the Venture Koi.
• The interior, based largely upon the first floor of the Information Center, complete with fences, flowers, and signs.  Here is the map; where do you wish to go?
• The rocket engine, based upon the second floor aquarium, plus the elevator shaft.  Sharks and octopi and Nick Brick in a speedo not included.
• The helicopter rotor, which is an amalgamation of various "special parts" found throughout the Information Center.
• Oh, my, yes! FLOWERS and GREEN RED BRICKS!  Now our meme quota has been met for the day.

Gallery (when public)

 

>And be sure to read Scene 24: Johnny Thunder Blows This Taco Stand to see (or read) this thing in action![/shamelessplug]

[lol username]

You can keep calling it the "Flying Information Center", but I think I'll just call it the "Infokoi". And the computer inside can be called the Imagimainframe! And then when they land on Crux and enter the Infotemple, the Infomaniac can use the Infonexus to... Ok I'll stop.