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A 'Left 4 Dead' LEGO Zombie Apocalypse In Pictures
Posted by Michael McWhertor at 4:40 PM on October 7, 2008
If you happened to miss this weekend's Brickcon 2008 in Seattle, as we unfortunately did, you missed the appearance of the "Zombie Apocafest" project. It was one part Left 4 Dead, one part The Big Lebowski and two parts LEGO. It was also 6.8 parts awesome, with a massive zombie-filled scene of Left 4 Dead-style destruction, featuring copious amounts of LEGO gore.
The four stars of Valve's undead packed co-op shooter wage war against custom zombie hordes in brick form, photographic evidence of which can be further explored at the official Left 4 Dead blog. It's your best nerd-value dollar, we swear.
Legoland of the Dead [Left 4 Dead Blog]
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kakihara
Posted 10:51 AM 7/10/08
Oh yeah, that little Presented by Left 4 Dead tag? Amusing.
kakihara
Ad-hominem
Posted 10:48 AM 7/10/08
Well, it is impressive. But what distinguishes it from a normal zombie drama scene? I mean, besides the L4D sign?
Oh yeah, that little Presented by Left 4 Dead tag? Disturbing.
Ad-hominem
em
Posted 10:44 AM 7/10/08
That's pretty impressive! ^__^
em
Strenith
Posted 10:44 AM 7/10/08
ha awesome.
i miss my lego filled youth...
my sister got some legos stuck up her nose once..
Strenith
superbagman
Posted 10:44 AM 7/10/08
Wow, I want those zombie Mini-figs. Then my dream of Night Of The Living Dead lego sets can come true.
superbagman
Terance! - In Before What My Message Says
Posted 10:43 AM 7/10/08
Lego of the Dead - Confirmed!
Play through all the "of the Dead" movies with 2-Player co-op!
Terance! - In Before What My Message Says
Alaron
Posted 11:06 AM 7/10/08
I wish they had Halloween themed Lego sets like this.
Alaron
OriginalGman
Posted 11:04 AM 7/10/08
Lego Donnie, you're out of your element!
OriginalGman
Cell9song
Posted 10:56 AM 7/10/08
Looks like Habbo.....
Cell9song
Swift_
Posted 10:56 AM 7/10/08
@kakihara: Yeah, that's some subtle advertising if I've ever seen any. Then again, I guess you can blog about whatever you want/are paid to want. There are no rules!
Swift_
Splintah
Posted 10:55 AM 7/10/08
seems to be more dead rising to me
Splintah
Fadakar
Posted 10:54 AM 7/10/08
I LOVE the minifig zombie with the flannel and the mullet.
Fadakar
thespyderboy
Posted 11:33 AM 7/10/08
A zombie LEGO game is the first LEGO game I would strongly consider buying. All out action zombie brick war, and you could take the parts of the dead zombies, and use them to beat other zombies. And if you play as a Zombie, then you can take the parts of the defeated humans and mix-and-match them to create more zombies. Oh, the possibilities...
thespyderboy
Acebuckeye13
Posted 11:29 AM 7/10/08
@Foxstar Sixtail: Which is why i took it upon myself to make all sorts of tanks and helicopters out of all those old ROCK RAIDERS sets when they fell apart from being blown apart too much. Ah, the memories...
Acebuckeye13
HotFootMcCook
Posted 11:26 AM 7/10/08
@Terance! - In Before What My Message Says: Holy shit, what if you could play Shaun of the Dead co-op.
It blows my mind just thinking about it.
HotFootMcCook
Foxstar Sixtail
Posted 11:24 AM 7/10/08
@excaliburps:Lego tries very, very hard to keep a family friendly image. Zombies don't fit.
Foxstar Sixtail
excaliburps
Posted 11:22 AM 7/10/08
Anyone here who thinks this is the next Lego game? Not saying it's going to be based off of L4D. It can be zombie-filled without tying into any other franchise.
I played Legos when I was a kid but I admit I was never this creative with them...
excaliburps
Acebuckeye13
Posted 11:17 AM 7/10/08
Ah, Legos. Childhood fantasy made true with a few bricks and an extremly overactive imagination.
Acebuckeye13
metsu92
Posted 11:17 AM 7/10/08
Am I the only one who noticed the Lego Fruit Fucker in the background of the fifth picture?
[www.l4d.com]
metsu92
Elbows_of_Fury
Posted 11:39 AM 7/10/08
@Strenith: Lol I used to have tons of Legos until my sister choked on one for about 2 minutes.... then my petite architect days were over.
Elbows_of_Fury
Hi_ImBlack420
Posted 12:07 PM 7/10/08
makes me wish i could be a kid again......playin with legos they way i want to now, would be very sad....
Hi_ImBlack420
dead_red_eyes
Posted 12:03 PM 7/10/08
@Ad-hominem:
Advertising keeps blogs like Kotaku alive. I don't see how this is disturbing at all, considering that Coors Light had brief sponsorship here, and they even wove that into the theme of the site. This is no different than watching commercials on television.
dead_red_eyes
wef
Posted 11:55 AM 7/10/08
@thespyderboy:
YES YES YES.
wef
Dragoonkin
Posted 12:49 PM 7/10/08
Anyone have any info on where they got some of those custom bits? The weapons look like BrickArms, but I'm not sure where they got actual flesh-tone heads/hands.
Dragoonkin
Terance! - In Before What My Message Says
Posted 1:05 PM 7/10/08
@metsu92:
Awesome!
Terance! - In Before What My Message Says
_Perp
Posted 1:31 PM 7/10/08
@ dragoonkin
you can order any individual lego piece you want from the lego website. you can also paint on them.
_Perp
airdom
Posted 1:30 PM 7/10/08
ahhhh legos, can't count how many hours of my youth i've wasted with these awesome blocks!
airdom
NeVeRMoRe666
Posted 1:25 PM 7/10/08
@Ad-hominem: So, heres what is essentially a childrens toy depicted with a dude lying in a puddle of his own lego blood blocks, the horribly disfigured dead rising again to feast on the brains of the living and four survivors holding little toy guns to protect said little lego brain and the only thing you find "disturbing" is a little advert? Man have you got some twisted priorities there mate!
NeVeRMoRe666
Dragoonkin
Posted 1:45 PM 7/10/08
@_Perp: Not any piece, and, those look like custom heads. They're nicely faced, as well one of the faces I've seen ON the BrickArms site, just, uh, not for sale there.
Dragoonkin
onepoker
Posted 1:39 PM 7/10/08
lego is so gonna sue them over this.
onepoker
belo
Posted 2:17 PM 7/10/08
@onepoker: lmao
Its a exhibit at Brickcon 2008.
belo
spectralpulse
Posted 2:14 PM 7/10/08
Zombie gore and The Big Lebowski. Brilliant just..that display is just brilliant.
spectralpulse
nerfrobot
Posted 3:09 PM 7/10/08
All they need now is a lego Micheal Jackson for
LEGO THRILLER!
nerfrobot
Vectroid
Posted 3:55 PM 7/10/08
@nerfrobot:
Damn I thought that comment was leading to some lego pedo porn joke
Vectroid
padre
Posted 5:33 PM 7/10/08
Speaking of L4D how many of you this weekend got to play Zombie Panic Source?
padre
Dajmin
Posted 5:42 PM 7/10/08
That looks exactly like Willamette Mall from Dead Rising.
I wonder if it was originally made for that and changed for the newer game :)
Dajmin
quadrado
Posted 5:41 PM 7/10/08
Isn't this scene from George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead"?...
quadrado
Purple Dave
Posted 7:51 PM 7/10/08
@excaliburps:
Nope. Word is they already have another LSW in the pipeline, and they're currently one movie behind on LIJ with Lucas already looking for McGuffin #5. A friend of mine suggested that a LEGO Agents game might be a good move. He might be right, but they can't wait on something like that for too long or the theme might be past its peak by the time the game hits.
Purple Dave
Purple Dave
Posted 8:18 PM 7/10/08
@Dragoonkin:
What custom heads/hands? All the licensed themes switched over to fleshies in 2004, including Star Wars, Batman, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Ferrari, and the last bit of Spiderman. Looking at the photo, Bill is Obi-Wan, Louis is Lando, Francis is Professor Karkaroff, and Zoey is the dual-sided awake/asleep Hermione, with fleshie hands that could have come from just about any minifig. Oh, and the zombies appear to be mostly HP trolls, a favorite of LEGO zombie-builders everywhere.
Purple Dave
acez2087
Posted 12:59 AM 8/10/08
Hmm...somehow the thought sweeping throughout the vessels of my mind after seeing that image is "Coming Spring 2009: Lego Left 4 Dead!...Rated "M" for Mature." Jesus, I scare the ever loving shit out of myself sometimes.
acez2087
bobcaticus
Posted 8:07 AM 8/10/08
no html love - crap... here's the linky to our cellphotobot service:
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bobcaticus
bobcaticus
Posted 8:05 AM 8/10/08
i took some photos over the weekend of Brickcon - enjoy
bobcaticus
Ad-hominem
Posted 8:37 AM 8/10/08
@NeVeRMoRe666: Heh. That was pretty funny. I laughed. A real laugh. Thanks.
@dead_red_eyes: It's more the idea that this article was forced upon them by advertisers that appears out of it. It's not the actual sponsorship that bothers me. I mean, with the Coors Light thing? They didn't start having reviews of Coors Light going up, and ending with "This article-Sponsored by Coors Light". It's likely that I just took it the wrong way at first, but it's kind of the attitude I see behind it.
Ad-hominem