Gallery: Lego Wiz Re-Creates Zero-Gravity Inception Scenes
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When Alex Eylar spotted a production still of Inception's tilted hallway scene a few months ago, he started picturing a Lego makeover. Then he watched the movie. "I saw [Inception](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/underwire/2010/07/review-inception/) twice in the second week of its release and built the hallway that same week," says Eylar, also known by his Flickr user name, [Profound Whatever](http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoyvinmayvin/). Eylar, an Oakland, California, college student who amassed an enormous Lego collection during childhood, became further inspired to take on Christopher Nolan's [cerebral sci-fi film](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/underwire/2010/07/gallery-cerebral-sci-fi-films/) after spotting Iain Heath's rendition of the same Inception scene on his [Ochre Jelly](http://www.flickr.com/photos/ochre_jelly/) Flickr page. Check the gallery for more Lego-ized Inception scenes by Eylar and Heath. __Above:__ Tilted Hallway -------------- "The tilted hallway was built in about three hours but only because the walls took for-freaking-ever," Eylar tells Wired.com in an e-mail. "Those walls use a technique the Lego community calls SNOT: "[Studs not on top](http://www.mocpages.com/group.php/943)." It basically means you're building sideways, and those walls are just a mess of tiny pieces barely held together and propped up on its side. Thankfully, the whole thing held together well enough to be turned upside-down, which is how I got the shot."
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Flotation Device ---------------- "To suspend the figures, I made the Arthur figure hold onto a lamp with one hand and the second figure with the other hand," Eylar explains. "I shot it from an angle that hid those connections so it looks like they're in mid-air."
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Homage --------------------------- Critiquing his own work, Eylar says: "I've always thought that head was fairly expressionless, which made it very useful, but here it looks a bit too much like a smile. The suit works, though."
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Cobb and Arthur --------------- There's a method to Eylar's Lego madness. Here's how he puts together a project: "Everything I build begins in a Word document marked 'lego' on my desktop. That's where I write down ideas, techniques I could use, details I want to include, all in the shortest of shorthand. Once I've got enough fodder for a project, I just start building and hope it all comes to together the way I want. If, as in Inception projects, I'm copying something that already exists, the build is a breeze. If I haven't thought it out well enough, it fails miserably."
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*Inception*, Level 2 -------------------- Iain Heath, aka Flickr user Jelly Ochre, used Photoshop to fill in the furnishings of this zero-gravity scene. He also offered a mini-review of Inception on his Flickr page: "It's like The Matrix, James Bond, Dreamscape and Minority Report all rolled into a big meaty ball and dipped in a syrupy Hans Zimmer soundtrack. The movie is absorbing and complex (and keeps you engaged to the very final frame)."
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Set-Up for *Inception* Level 2 ------------------------------ Here's the bare-bones version of Heath's free-floating Lego room.
