Lantern Waste (Narnia Vignette)

Dunechaser · Post by **Dunechaser** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:21 am

Admins, I always considered The Chronicles of Narnia to be castle/fantasy, but if not, please feel free to move this.

I'm very excited about the upcoming movie version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe so I thought I'd try my hand at creating a few vignettes based on the books (so as not to be unduly influenced by the movie when it comes out).

Here's my first, "Lantern Waste":

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Dunec ... aste.1.jpg

Fairly simple, I know -- but hey, it's a wasteland with a lantern in it.

And yes, that's Pan as Mr. Tumnus.

HenrytheV · Post by **HenrytheV** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:28 am

Great Job Dunechaser. I really like Mr. Tumnus head.

Post by **Athos** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:08 am

Blast you! I've been thinking about making a series of Narnia creations. Looks like you beat me to it...

Nice job.

Steve

porschecm2 · Post by **porschecm2** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:53 am

Hey, I like it! I love the way you used double peg legs for Mr. Tumnus's legs. It would be really kool if you could get ahold of some of those new trees that have duel injected white and green, for snow.

Cm2

Infyrana · Post by **Infyrana** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:51 am

Great! And of course Narnia qualifies as fantasy.

Dunechaser · Post by **Dunechaser** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:59 pm

Thanks guys!

Athos: Heh heh. I figured that with the movie coming out this fall, and publicity just starting up, I'd better get started!

porschecm2: Those sound really cool, but I've never seen one. Can you point me to a picture (or the Peeron part)?

jens · Post by **jens** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:41 pm

Hi,

I think this are the trees you are talking from:

(picture = link)

regards,
jens

boses · Post by **boses** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:54 pm

could you turn the vig around, maybe show a different angle???

The Hordesman · Post by **The Hordesman** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:55 pm

boses wrote:could you turn the vig around, maybe show a different angle???

I shouldnt do this but... Here ya go!

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=140128

Graynar · Post by **Graynar** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:17 pm

Hi guys!

Cool vignette, but one thing:

What is Narnia?

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Post by **Formendacil** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:26 pm

Graynar wrote:Hi guys!

Cool vignette, but one thing:

What is Narnia? :

Narnia is an imaginary world, in which the seven "Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis are set.

These books are (in order of publication):

The Lion, the Witch, and Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Magician's Nephew
The Last Battle

The first of these is being made into a movie in the near future- a movie to which Mega Blocks has purchased the licensing rights to.

To read the books, visit your local library. Even the most meagre of libraries ought to have them- or at the very least, be able to direct you to them.

BreadMan · Post by **BreadMan** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:56 pm

http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/th ... sofnarnia/

Post by **Bruce N H** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:03 am

On the snow-topped tree, it's in one Belville set which also has two cool blended color BURPs:

On Narnia, get thee to a library, quickly. These books rank with Tolkien as requirements to feel well-read in the genre of fantasy. I'd love to see more Narnia MOCs.

Bruce

Dunechaser · Post by **Dunechaser** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:52 am

Bruce N H wrote:On Narnia, get thee to a library, quickly. These books rank with Tolkien as requirements to feel well-read in the genre of fantasy.

Indeed. Tolkien and Lewis were good friends, if I'm remembering correctly. The Narnia books were among the first I read on my own, and I take them out every few years and read them again. I'm fortunate to have reprintings of the original English editions, so I have the original illustrations by Pauline Baynes. (Some of the more recent American editions have different illustrations.) My mental picture of Narnia has been heavily influenced by those original illustrations.

Jens, thanks for the link to the snowy trees (you too, Bruce). They'd be perfect, but I don't have any and they're a tad expensive on Bricklink...

I always start with minifigs for my MOCs (vignette and otherwise), so I'm trying to see how many characters I can create before I start building. The last time I tried creating Narnia characters was about twenty years ago, and I wasn't very successful. The next obvious thing, though, is a wardrobe vignette that backs on to the one I've made already -- my first stab at modular vignettes. We'll see...

I'm particularly looking forward to getting 7018 so I can build a nice Dawn Treader.

Post by **Formendacil** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:46 am

Dunechaser wrote:
Bruce N H wrote:On Narnia, get thee to a library, quickly. These books rank with Tolkien as requirements to feel well-read in the genre of fantasy.
Indeed. Tolkien and Lewis were good friends, if I'm remembering correctly. The Narnia books were among the first I read on my own, and I take them out every few years and read them again. I'm fortunate to have reprintings of the original English editions, so I have the original illustrations by Pauline Baynes. (Some of the more recent American editions have different illustrations.) My mental picture of Narnia has been heavily influenced by those original illustrations.

*Resisting temptation, resisting temptation...*

Dunechaser wrote:I always start with minifigs for my MOCs (vignette and otherwise), so I'm trying to see how many characters I can create before I start building. The last time I tried creating Narnia characters was about twenty years ago, and I wasn't very successful. The next obvious thing, though, is a wardrobe vignette that backs on to the one I've made already -- my first stab at modular vignettes. We'll see...

I'm particularly looking forward to getting 7018 so I can build a nice Dawn Treader.

Ooh! Dawn Treader! Very good match there. And as a fig-oriented builder myself, I eagerly await your Prince Caspian, Captain Drillian, Reepicheep, Edmund, Lucy, and "Scrubb" that must come attendant with it...

And those Narnian Men-at-Arms.