King Kong - Pioneer of Cinema Celebration!

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Kong is the missing link to LEGO. How many times have fans made animations and mocs for it? It's the next Jurassic Park, which we've missed the chance for through LEGO Ideas. But Kong is just waiting to be brought to reality!

Go back to 1933. The pioneering film that started it all. State of the art stop-motion, soundtrack, sets, action, matte painting, rear projection & miniatures techniques ahead of its time. All groundbreaking!

No Kong, no Ray Harryhausen. Without Ray, there would have been no Star Wars, at least how it exists today, through inspiring Phil Tippett and others. And directors: James Cameron (Avatar), Spielberg (Jaws), Tim Burton, Joe Dante, Guillermo Del Toro, J.J Abrams.

Without Kong, there would have been no Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, with Kong & Ray inspiring Peter Jackson's imagination for film making.

There have been countless King Kong remakes and series. Battling against Godzilla twice! And almost fighting against Frankenstein in an unproduced movie envisioned by King Kong's original animator, Willis O'Brien, in 1958. Which would later become King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) without his knowledge.

Even battling his mech double in King Kong Escapes (1967). Fighting against The King of Monsters and his mechanical counterpart in Godzilla vs. Kong (2021). With a sequel on the way: "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire."

Kong even inspired Godzilla indirectly through Ray's Beast of 20,000 Fathoms (1953), which became the direct inspiration for Godzilla! To the point that even the initial title from was going to be "The Giant Monster from 20,000 Miles Under the Sea." So Kong was the original iconic beast to rampage across the city besides the same animator and sculptor's previous Brontosaurus creation in The Lost World (1925 silent film).

So you see... Kong has even inspired Godzilla, both likely from a general giant monster rampages in a city perspective but also inspiring the direct inspiration for it. He was the first King that inspired subsequent beasts. And inspiring all this when he was only a scale 18 feet/24 feet tall on-screen and a 45-cm tall puppet in real life!

On top of that countless pop-culture references, rip-offs, and parodies/jokes. Even referenced in Jurassic Park, "What have they got in there, King Kong?" referring to the King Kong 1933-style Jurassic Park door. In the 2nd movie, the ship is even called the S.S. Venture, like King Kong's ship.

The same name appears in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), which features a similar island full of prehistoric creatures and its own take on the log ravine sequence.

It is simply a property that cannot be overlooked. There will always be something new being released for King Kong. So why not start at its inception? Where it all began with the film's original release!

This scene depicts the classic scene that has since been depicted in King Kong remakes and inspired similar scenes of other movies. It was originally inspired by works of Gustave Doré (1870 Atala & Orlando Furioso 33).

Kong can be placed on the turntable to stop the sailor's path and shake the log.

The dead tree can hold Ann like in the movie when Kong momentarily places her there!

Kong can be swiveled side to side with technic axle pieces acting as a handle. Meant to mimic the side to side movement when he is picking up the log or when roaring/beating his chest in general.

Jack hiding in the cliff cave, ready to cut the vine that the two-legged lizard is using to crawl up.

Creatures:

The ravine creatures, I used every bts (behind the scene) reference and moments from the other movies they appear in to make them as accurate as possible. The crab had only 2 images to work from (bts photo in the ravine and a drawing). Also for the four-legged lizard but it was both bts photos. The others had a lot more to work with.

For the first lizard I found a photo of what's left of the model which showed it having a beak for a lower jaw. The model maker: Marcel Delgado described the lizards with the same shape as plural indicating that multiple might of been used in cut sequences and they consisted of a "long lizard-like body, with thorny spikes all along the back, a ferocious parrot-beaked head and a pair of strong, muscled forearms".

This same creature idea was adapted into making the Skull Crawlers for Kong: Skull Island (2017) the main antagonists of the movie. Which push it's importance further.

For some extra movie trivia, some of the King Kong puppet were re-used as background props for Bringing up Baby (1938) You’ll Find Out (1940) which includes some creatures of the pit, Genius at Work (1946), Two insects of the pit appeared in The Black Scorpion (1957) and some armatures recycled for Jack the Giant Killer (1962). As well as the big spider of the pit appearing as a brief jumping enemy with wires in Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966). This King Kong film is like a iceberg of trivia there is something more always to discover.

The set includes the famous scene nicknamed the "spider pit sequence". It is the holy grail of missing movie scenes. So it's inclusion is guaranteed to get people talking and potentially headlines.

Legendary director Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings Trilogy, King Kong 2005, The Hobbit Trilogy) recreated the sequence and was included in re-releases of the 1933 film on home media. 

The Log can be detached and displayed in the pit! I used a lot of references and matched details to details to figure out the shape of the ravine in the original film and even stitched different references together to figure out a way to depict it accurately.

The base of the model is meant to look like the animation board that the puppets were animated on.

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The brick count as the product is presented is 2908 bricks. Of course if it reaches 10,000 supporters and becomes an official product it undergoes an official redesign and the part count can change. If all the creatures were removed beside the two-legged lizard that crawls up the vine in the film it would be 2604 pieces instead. Remove the cavern that hinges to the side and lowered down to 2393.

But I have chosen to present it fully in a way that encapsulates the full scene allowing a great freedom of choice for any path perused in an official redesign of the set.