January 5, 2016
Happy new year, blog readers, this is Neil Rush. I finally managed to sort out that "interest identity crisis" I mentioned in the last post. After adding something I forgot to include in the original list made last summer and another thing to even the list out, I looked through all of the wikis for things on that old list to see which ones people had responded to me on, which ones needed an update, and which ones were on the new version of the pattern I made after adding two more to the old list. After cycling through the new list with my pattern, I managed to choose Lego, the company of building toys I had fondly grown up on. I may try to buy old Lego sets in order to try my hand at stop-motion filmmaking. I think I'll have my films primarily center around the Lego theme from 2007-2008 known as Mars Mission. This was a theme involving astronauts going to Mars to mine for crystals while fighting aliens for the ability to have them. Contrary to what you may expect, the aliens are not Martians, but rather coming from another planet. This may be because the theme is implied to be a sequel theme to a Lego theme from 2001 known as Life On Mars, in which the Martians were not antagonists. My stop-motion film would try to make the story deeper than how it was presented when the sets were in production, yet also make fun of some of the things Lego does when they make themes for kids. I will also try to cross it over with other themes like what was done in the Lego video game Lego Battles. That would also try to mix in other Lego Space themes, such as Space Police, Exo-Force (which isn't exactly a space theme, but the evil robots from it are included on Mars in Lego Battles), Blacktron: Future Generation, Exploriens, and Ice Planet 2002. The films may also joke about why humans are almost always the heroes and aliens are almost always the villains in Lego's Space themes. For humorous purposes, I may also try to have some of my films cross over with Lego Castle and Lego Pirates by having the astronauts and aliens manage to travel through time.
Another big Lego thing I am interested in is the video game Lego Dimensions. It is Lego and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment's attempt at a toys-to-life video game in the same style as Skylanders, Disney Infinity, and Nintendo's Amiibos, but is most likely better than all three due to the involvement of Lego and some of the themes seen in the game. It manages to cross over DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings, The Lego Movie (the movie that uses Legos and a character going through the hero's journey as a metaphor for father-son issues), The Wizard of Oz, The Simpsons, Lego Ninjago (Lego's theme centered around ninjas that can turn into miniature elemental tornadoes, yes, it's as ridiculous as it sounds), Doctor Who (the iconic British mostly-family-oriented science fiction adventure comedy-drama TV-series-based franchise about a two-hearted millenium-old alien taking on the form of a well-dressed British man and traveling through time and space with different young women as companions in a time machine that looks like a blue British police box that uses space technology and the fact that it's technically alive as well to be bigger on the inside than it is on the outside and saving people from various creepy villains), Back to the Future, Portal (a darkly humorous first-person puzzle game set in an empty laboratory and guided by a psychotic artificial intelligence unit named GLaDOS), Ghostbusters, classic arcade games created by Midway Games (because Time Warner bought them out in 2009), Scooby-Doo, Lego Legends of Chima (a Lego franchise involving warring tribes of anthropomorphic animals), and Jurassic Park. More franchises are expected to join in the future. I don't have the game yet because of my decision to wait to get anymore PlayStation 3 games or replace the system with a PlayStation 4 until I know more about the release of the next South Park video game on the PlayStation 4. Until then, I hope to try and cross over some of the themes from the game that already have existing sets and aren't just in the game with the other older themes I wanted to make Lego stop-motion films with.
While these are not my primary interests, I also still have a desire to make original stories based on Rick and Morty, Steven Universe, South Park, Gravity Falls, American Dad, BoJack Horseman, Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Toy Story, How to Train Your Dragon, Okami, and Super Mario Bros. I also want to make my original stories, such as an attempt at a genre crossover between outer-space science fiction and supernatural horror, a musical horror-comedy, various forms of socio-political satire, and of course, Fanz. I actually hope to become a writer and storyboarder on Rick and Morty for a few years before making some of my original projects, so I may try to write Rick and Morty stories that go above mere fan fiction and are actually supposed to be a part of the show. With any luck, I'll be given the time and opportunities necessary to make all of the things that I want to make to the best of my ability. Thank you for reading, and I'll see you next week.
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