Lego pop up book

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Dive into LEGO(R) excitement with this spectacular pop-up book from New York Times best-selling paper engineer Matthew Reinhart. Part storybook, part comic strip, and all fun, LEGO Pop-Up tells the LEGO story with equal amounts of facts, laughs, and adventure using pop-ups, pull tabs, turning wheels, and more! With paper construction featuring LEGO Creator, Ninjago, City, Dive into LEGO(R) excitement with this spectacular pop-up book from New York Times best-selling paper engineer Matthew Reinhart. Part storybook, part comic strip, and all fun, LEGO Pop-Up tells the LEGO story with equal amounts of facts, laughs, and adventure using pop-ups, pull tabs, turning wheels, and more! With paper construction featuring LEGO Creator, Ninjago, City, Space, Castle, and other LEGO favorites, this "fun-formative" book will be a delight for both LEGO and pop-up fans alike. . more

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A masterpiece of folded paper engineering, loaded with a wealth of interesting LEGO history and facts.

From its humble beginnings in 1950’s Denmark, LEGO has grown and developed into an empire of unparalleled success. This book sets out to educate readers on the origins, evolution, and cultural accommodations of what is, arguably, the world’s most ingenious, adaptive, and potentially enduring toy. And while it is a non-fiction piece, the creativity used to present it quite literally leaps off the page.

Fun factoids include:

-Where the word LEGO comes from.
-How many ways just six 2x4 bricks can be put together.
-How many separate pieces make up a standard minifigure.
-Which uniformed profession was chosen for the very first LEGO minifigure.
-What four-legged animal came first in the LEGO menagerie.

The book contains five impressively complex and interactive scenes—one of which managing to stand nearly 24 inches high when fully unfolded. Each spread contains several different contact points that can be pulled, flipped, spun, lifted, or unfurled (as per instructions) to enhance this already vibrant medium. Children may not even realize they are learning as they go.

Due to the delicate nature of this product, I wouldn’t recommend it for persons under 7 years—and even then, not without careful instruction and adult supervision. (As is true with most pop-up books.) A treasure like this will need to be handled with care and respect if it’s to be preserved for continued enjoyment.

Inherent fragility aside, diehard LEGO fans and trivia buffs alike are sure to appreciate this brilliant and interactive presentation of a book.
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Pop-Up fans know Matthew Reinhart's masterful paper engineering books, and this is no exception. What I love about this book is that there is multi-level learning going on. This short book contains the history of Lego, the characters and shapes, as well as the fun adults and children can have with Lego. Small children can enjoy the pop-ups, and older children can enjoy reading about Lego's history. Adults like myself can marvel at the genius of the book's paper engineering, as well as reminisce Pop-Up fans know Matthew Reinhart's masterful paper engineering books, and this is no exception. What I love about this book is that there is multi-level learning going on. This short book contains the history of Lego, the characters and shapes, as well as the fun adults and children can have with Lego. Small children can enjoy the pop-ups, and older children can enjoy reading about Lego's history. Adults like myself can marvel at the genius of the book's paper engineering, as well as reminisce about the first time we made something with these brilliant little blocks, surely Denmark's finest gift to the world since Hans Christian Anderson. . more

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About Matthew Reinhart

Matthew Christian Reinhart was born September 21, 1971 to Gary and Judith Reinhart in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The son of a farmer, his father Gary joined the Navy and so the family moved around the country, from Florida to Texas to Illinois to California to Virginia and then South Carolina. Judith and Matthew followed along, and soon to be joined by his little sister, Erin.

Art was always a huge part o Matthew Christian Reinhart was born September 21, 1971 to Gary and Judith Reinhart in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The son of a farmer, his father Gary joined the Navy and so the family moved around the country, from Florida to Texas to Illinois to California to Virginia and then South Carolina. Judith and Matthew followed along, and soon to be joined by his little sister, Erin.

Art was always a huge part of Matthew Reinhart’s young life. Drawing pictures and making crafts were his favorite activities, in school and out. Matthew drew whenever and wherever he got the chance; in fact, school notebooks often had more drawings than notes! He loved drawing and reading about all creatures and animals so much, he drew them everywhere!

After high school, chose to study biology in preparation for medical school, thinking a career in art was too far-fetched. College life at Clemson University in South Carolina was busy for Matthew, but he was never really satisfied. Medicine was not his true calling, so along with his required science classes, Matthew took various art courses to build up his portfolio.

After graduating college, moved to New York City for a year before starting medical school. There, he met acclaimed children’s book author Robert Sabuda doing volunteer work together for a local community center. Robert's book, Christmas Alphabet had just released to rave reviews, and he convinced Matthew to follow his true calling. The following year, Matthew attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. as an industrial design major (concentrating in toy design).

Pratt was fantastic experience for him, but his initial dreams of being a toy designer soon transformed into paper engineer. After working with Robert on books like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, A B C Disney and Movable Mother Goose. Matthew made his first big break into the pop-up world with The Pop Up Book Of Phobias. Many books collaborations have followed, including a trilogy of New York Times best-selling Encyclopedia Prehistorica and the following series Encyclopedia Mythologica with Robert Sabuda, along with Mommy?, co-authored with the renowned Maurice Sendak and Brava Strega Nona with the ageless Tomie DePaola. His solo pop-up books include The Ark, Animal Popposites, The Jungle Book, Cinderella, The Pop-Up Book of Nursery Rhymes, and STAR WARS: Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy. He continues to work and live in New York City, cutting, taping and folding paper into pop-up masterpieces. . more

21315 Pop-Up Book is an LEGO Ideas set released on November 2, 2018.

Build, play and display the classic fairy tales Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and the Beanstalk with LEGO® Ideas 21315 Pop-up Book! This first-ever buildable pop-up book made from LEGO bricks opens to reveal the famous scene of grandmother’s forest cottage featuring opening door, bed and kitchen area. Recreate the scene when Little Red Riding Hood meets the wolf or swap out grandmother's cottage for the scene of the giant's castle in the clouds. This collectible toy features enough bricks to build both scenes or you can even build a scene of your own and makes a perfect creative gift. This LEGO set includes a booklet with a short history of pop-up books, a condensed history of each fairy tale in the set, as well as information about its fan designers and LEGO designers.

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Introduction: Interactive Lego Pop-Up Book With Makey Makey

About: Kristina A. Holzweiss, MLIS, is an ed tech specialist librarian a Syosset High School in Syosset, New York. She earned her bachelor’s in English from Adelphi University, her master’s in English from Queens Col… More About Bunhead With Duct Tape »

Can you believe that I have never owned my own Lego set? I can't tell you how much money I have invested in Lego sets for my children. I should have bought stock in Lego years ago! But, until recently, I never had a kit of my very own until my sister bought the "Once Upon a Brick" Lego Pop-Up Book kit from the Ideas series featuring the stories of Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and the Beanstalk. It was the perfect gift for me because I am a school librarian, and I have always loved pop-up books.

I wanted to customize my creation and take it to the next level by making the characters "speak" using Scratch code and Makey Makey. I think this display in my Innovation Lab will inspire students to think of ways to combine low tech making with coding. I also thought that this project would help students who are kinesthetic, audio, and visual learners. Young children, special education students, and English language learners can especially appreciate this interactive Lego pop-up book because the characters can only "speak" when they make contact with the copper tape.

Imagine a hands-on learning project that integrates learning about literature, circuits, and coding! I think this project will inspire students to create interactive pop-up books using whatever they find around the house.

Supplies

Step 1: BUILD YOUR LEGO STORY SCENE.

If You Have the Lego "Once Upon a Brick" Kit

Open the box.
Remove the bags of bricks and direction book.
Make sure that you have all of the bags that you will need to build your kit.
Open bag number 1.
Follow the directions to build the kit.
When you are finished with the contents of bag number 1, proceed to bag number 2.
Continuing following the directions to build the kit.
Repeat steps 5, 6, and 7 until you have finished building the kit.

If You Do Not Have the Lego "Once Upon a Brick" Kit

Decide which scene of a story that you will recreate.
Plan the scene by drawing it on a piece of paper.
Make a list of which bricks you will need, as well as minifigures as characters of the story.
Search your collection to locate the pieces and minifigures that you will need, or purchase them.
Build your scene.

Step 2: PROGRAM THE SCRATCH CODE FOR ADDING AUDIO ELEMENTS TO YOUR LEGOS.

*NOTE: The Lego "Once Upon a Brick" Pop-Up Book kit includes 4 characters, 1 house, and 2 pieces of furniture. For these instructions, I have added audio to all 4 characters as well as the house. You may choose to add or eliminate audio to certain pieces. If you build your own scene, you will decide how many items to add audio elements too. The process is the same for coding audio elements, regardless of which Lego piece you are using.

Create a Scratch account to save all your work at https://scratch.mit.edu.
Click "CREATE" in the upper left hand corner to create a new project.
Click the yellow "EVENTS" button on the left hand side.
Choose the "WHEN SPACE KEY PRESSED" block and drag it into the empty workspace to the right.
Click the magenta "SOUND" button on the left hand side.
Choose the "PLAY SOUND MEOW UNTIL DONE" block and drag it into the empty workspace to the right. Position it immediately under the "WHEN SPACE KEY PRESSED" block until it clicks.
Click the arrow next to "MEOW" on the "PLAY SOUND MEOW UNTIL DONE" block, pull down the menu, and click "RECORD."
Click the "RECORD" button, and record yourself telling the story. Tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood if you have the "Once Upon a Brick" Pop-Up Book, or tell the story of the scene that you created.
Move the bars on the left and the right sides to trim the sound as needed.
Press "SAVE" and then rename your sound to "story."
Create an "EVENT SPACE KEY PRESSED"/"PLAY SOUND MEOW UNTIL DONE" combination for each of the characters in your scene.
For each new combination choose another space choice for "EVENT SPACE KEY PRESSED." It is easier to use the up, down, left, and right arrow keys than the letters. Record and save an audio element for each character.
Continue until you have save and recorded all of the audio elements that you will need for your scene.

Step 3: PREPARING THE LEGOS FOR INTERACTIVITY USING THE CONDUCTIVE COPPER TAPE AND MAKEY MAKEY.

Earlier today, LEGO announced the new LEGO Ideas Pop-Up Book (21315) and this set was the brainchild of Jason Allemann and Grant Davis. Containing 859 pieces while retailing for $69.99, the book features two well-known short stories with the Little Red Riding Hood, and Jack and the Beanstalk.

The contents of the box includes six numbered boxes, the instruction booklet, and two loose 8×16 tiles, one of which is printed with the book title.

Minifigures

There are four minifigures included in this set, Little Red Riding Hood, the Grandmother, the Big Bad Wolf, and the Giant. The set also includes a microfigure of Jack as well.

Little Red Riding Hood wears a dark blue outfit with a white apron printing that goes down to the skirt piece. The skirt is light blue with some floral printing. She has a happy expression with some freckles on the head. The red hood also has some brown hair molded on to it in the front. A short red cape completes her look. Her accessories include a basket with some pastries.

Grandmother has on some pink pajamas and honestly she looks great. Her facial expression shows her with sort of a worried look. Her hairpiece is a gray bun that is very useful.

The Big Bad Wolf also has on the same pink pajamas but they are tattered showing off his gray fur. This printing show on both sides of the torso and on the front of the legs. The head mold is the same as the Wolf Guy from the Series 14 Collectible Minifigures but it has some extra printing on it including some glasses and pink lipstick.

The Giant has on a tattered shirt with a sand green vest. There’s a rope that goes around the body with some barrels, skulls, and a pouch that has a golden egg. There’s also a goose that is sitting inside the front pocket.

Lastly, we have the Jack microfigure. He has a blue outfit with some supsenders. You get two of the microfigure pieces in case you somehow lose one of them.

Build

The build starts with the covers of the book. There are a number of exposed studs that will be used to add detailing on both sides of the book. You’ll notice a window in the middle of book and wondering what it’s for. It is not part of the model but it allows parts of the build inside the book to have clearance to move inside.

The outside of the book uses a lot of tile pieces for detailing. The title of the book uses the aforementioned printed 8×16 tile and it nicely shows Once Upon a Brick. There are also some printed tiles for the fan designers’ names. The back cover has the same design as in the front minus the printed tiles.

On to the two different stories that are featured in the Pop-Up Book, the first scene is from the Little Red Riding Hood. You have a fairly detailed cottage facade complete with a wooden door and a stone chimney. At the ends of the build are some hinges with some pins to connect to the cover.

At the back of the cottage, we have the grandmother’s bed on one side and a table on the other side.

The Jack and the Beanstalk story scene is a bit different from the Little Red Riding Hood. The foreground is microscale and features a hilly landscape with some houses, trees, and clouds. Like with the previous build, the ends have some pins to connect to the book base.

The background of it is the giant’s house on top of the beanstalk. There’s also a Technic mechanism on the back along with the string to make the beanstalk prop up high above the clouds. I think this feature is pure genius and very satisfying to see up close.

Results

After building it and playing with it for a while, the LEGO Ideas Pop-Up Book (21315) is a winner for me. When I saw the project hit 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas, I knew then that it had a great chance to become a set because of its originality which is something that LEGO set out to do when they first started the platform.

As for the set itself, it’s a good sized book and really well put together. It did get fairly boring building the front and back covers because of the repetitiveness. Soon after I got down to the nitty gritty parts which were the two stories that are included. The pop-up features for both of them are smooth and seamless and I have no complaints about that. The minifigure selection is also spot-on with all the nicely printed pieces.

As for the negatives of the set, they’re just minor nitpicky things. If you have one story attached to the book, the other one is just laying somewhere. I do wish that it was big enough to store everything in the book but it would’ve made it a tad too big. Another thing is that the original submission had a clasp to hold the book together but LEGO omitted that feature.

All in all, I will unequivocally suggest picking it up when it becomes available on November 1. The price is good with what you get and hopefully it inspires you to build your pop-up scenes. I’m actually excited to see what fans will come up with.

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Meet the Fan Designers:

Connected by a love of LEGO ® building, Jason and Grant collaborated across national borders (albeit in North America!) in designing the amazing pop-up book. An engineering student, Grant has long been fascinated by pop-up books, and wanted to apply some of the same mechanical ideas to LEGO bricks and then encase them in a LEGO brick book. Jason, a computer software developer, then joined the project. After several iterations and two years of tweaking, they arrived at a design to submit as a LEGO Ideas project.

Both guys have been designing and building custom LEGO sets for years. Jason’s interests are in machines,

So what does it feel like to have their project chosen as an oicial LEGO Ideas set? “I was ecstatic!” says Grant, while Jason felt like he was “walking on a cloud all day.”

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versatile LEGO piece ever!"

"The 850 Fork-Lift Truck released in 1977 was my first Technic set and completely blew my mind"

Meet the LEGO ® Designers:

Wesley Alan Talbott and Crystal Marie Fontan were the LEGO ® designers who took up the mantle from Jason and Grant and used their ‘LEGO insider’ know-how to help develop the (already brilliant) idea into the LEGO pop-up book that you now own.

For model designer Wesley, the project was particularly exciting and meaningful, as he had worked on his own LEGO Ideas set before when the project was still known as Cuusoo. It was this very process that led to him rekindling his interest in building with LEGO bricks, and eventually getting his job as a LEGO designer. He was eager to collaborate with Jason and Grant, and work together to get the pop-up book ready for production.

As for graphic designer Crystal, this was her irst LEGO Ideas project and, as a fan of storybooks and fairy tales, she couldn’t wait to design the set’s graphics and characters; seeing the opportunity to give something old and iconic a fresh new twist, while designing some of her favorite fairy-tale personalities as miniigures.

Pop-Up Books in Time

Pop-up books have a long and fascinating history that actually pre-dates printing culture, going all the way back to the 13th century. Interestingly, the early incarnations of pop-up books were not storytelling devices at all, and certainly not aimed at children.

Early example of a volvelle

Some say that it was Ramon Llull

(ca. 1232-1315), a Catalan mystic and poet who irst created interactive paper constructions with moving mechanisms known as a volvelle, to illustrate his philosophical journey to ind truth.

His version was known as a Lullian Circle.

The Lullian Circle

Dating from the mid-18th century and inspired by theater stage sets, tunnel or ‘peepshow books’ were a set of bound pages with concertinaed strips along the side and a hole in the cover. Through this hole, one could ‘peep’ inside and see the entire book front to back, revealing the dimensional story inside.

The 14th century saw the development of “turn-up”-style books, which were popular for medical students learning human anatomy, vividly illustrating the inner workings of the body.

It was not until the very late 18th century that pop-up or ‘paper architecture’ techniques were applied to books designed for entertainment and eventually for children, as the children’s literature genre developed at the time.

Little Red Riding Hood

The story of the little girl in the red cape goes back to the 10th century and has roots in several European folktales. The irst printed version was written by Charles Perrault, and later revised by the Brothers Grimm, who developed and collated these old tales and were key players in creating fairy tales as a genre. There are a few versions of Little Red Riding Hood, some much darker than others. The overall story involves

a little girl in a red hooded cape going to visit her grandmother in the woods, but along the way she encounters a wolf disguised as her grandparent instead. In this set, you will ind all the elements needed to re-enact the story in exactly the way you want to. What happens next? That’s up to you…

Create your fairy tale!

Jack and the Beanstalk

An old English fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk is actually only one of the ‘Jack’ tales featuring the character. Some say that the story originates over 5,000 years ago in a folkloric tale referred to as The Boy Who Stole the Ogre’s Treasure.

In the story, Jack takes the family cow to the market to be sold but instead swaps the cow for some magic beans. The family is impoverished, so his mother is very angry when he

returns home with a handful of beans instead of money. She throws them on the ground in anger and the next day a huge beanstalk has grown in their garden. Jack climbs up,

inds a giant’s castle and steals his treasure… Fee Fi Fo Fum! What happens to Jack afterwards, when the giant inds out… is up to you!

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