{"id":8333,"date":"2013-08-23T13:45:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T20:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/?p=8333"},"modified":"2013-08-24T11:53:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T18:53:26","slug":"hobbit-desolation-of-smaug-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/hobbit-desolation-of-smaug-lego\/","title":{"rendered":"See The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in LEGO!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/desolation-smaug-LEGO.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8430\" alt=\"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug LEGO version\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/desolation-smaug-LEGO.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"713\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/desolation-smaug-LEGO.jpg 713w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/desolation-smaug-LEGO-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/allow-star-trek-legos-to-take-you-into-darkness\/\">Three months ago<\/a>, we shared the\u00a0<em>Star Trek Into Darkness<\/em> frame-by-frame trailer recreation made from LEGOs. This LEGO version of <em>The Hobbit<\/em> sequel&#8217;s teaser trailer may top it.<\/p>\n<p>To create their amazing LEGO mini-movies, brothers Kevin and Brian Ulrich use real <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.lego.com\/en-US\/The-Lord-of-the-Rings-ByTheme\">Lord of the Rings<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.lego.com\/en-US\/The-Hobbit-ByTheme\">Hobbit LEGOs<\/a>, a clay surface and stop-motion animation software called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dragonframe.com\/\">Dragonframe<\/a>. Dragonframe is the same software used in recent animated movies\u00a0<em>Paranorman<\/em> and <em>Frankenweenie<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/BrotherhoodWorkshop\/videos\">YouTube channel<\/a> features other LEGO videos and even counts some artists from Peter Jackson&#8217;s own special effects company, Weta Workshop, among its fans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4VQ6wkvDdyY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a side-by-side comparison with the actual teaser trailer of <em>The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JhPColE_3_8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"button green\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/search\/lego\/?sr=1\" >Check out the\u00a0latest LEGO deals\u00a0on Ben&#8217;s Bargains!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three months ago, we shared the\u00a0Star Trek Into Darkness frame-by-frame trailer recreation made from LEGOs. This LEGO version of The Hobbit sequel&#8217;s teaser trailer may top it. To create their amazing LEGO mini-movies, brothers Kevin and Brian Ulrich use real Lord of the Rings and Hobbit LEGOs, a clay surface and stop-motion animation software called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[702,197,220,145,701],"class_list":["post-8333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-desolation-of-smaug","tag-lego","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-movie-trailers","tag-the-hobbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8333"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8429,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions\/8429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}