There’s a strong crossover between photography and camera enthusiasts and LEGO fans, as demonstrated by the LEGO Polaroid, the LEGO Retro Camera Creator Kit, and a popular LEGO Ideas project dedicated to landscape photography and Ansel Adams. Like the Polaroid and landscape kit, a new LEGO IMAX project is being born within the LEGO Ideas community.
Created by LEGO Ideas user KolaHasAwoken, the IMAX Camera project features 2,014 parts and is a block-ified version of the IMAX MSM 9802 cinema camera, a personal favorite of award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan. His love affair with IMAX is very well documented, and he even has the sway to get all-new custom IMAX lenses made to help him craft his blockbuster films.
As DIY Photography reports, KolaHasAwoken’s project is a very lifelike recreation of an IMA camera, complete with a lens, viewfinder, and sizeable rectangular body. Better than any other, an IMAX camera is a perfect match for LEGO blocks.
“With 2014 parts, this build is a tribute to the iconic IMAX cameras that have captured some of the most breathtaking moments on the big screen,” KolaHasAwoken writes. “The exterior of the IMAX Camera faithfully recreates the sleek and distinctive design of the real thing. From the iconic IMAX logo to the intricate details of the camera body, every aspect of this model is crafted with precision and care.”
The camera has a very clever trick up its sleeve. It opens up, revealing a film set inside, including a director, lighting rigs, a camera on a dolly, an actor, and a backdrop for a movie scene.
“Characters included are an award-winning film director and a dramatic actor! (The characters and events depicted in this set are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events, is purely coincidental),” the LEGO builder says although it seems clear who and what movie is illustrated.
So far, the project has 267 supporters with 421 days remaining in the campaign. For a LEGO Ideas set to be considered by LEGO to become an actual set, it must get at least 5,000 supporters. Even then, an idea faces many practical challenges before it lands on store shelves. However, as the LEGO Polaroid project showed, it can happen.
Image credits: KolaHasAwoken on LEGO Ideas