Comments on: Giant LEGO Boulder Chases Indiana Jones Down San Francisco Hill

By: Scott Beale

Scott Beale — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:42:50 +0000

Sandy, it seems odd that they didn’t want to take credit for making it.

By: Sandy Beaver

Sandy Beaver — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:20:30 +0000

It was done by Teak Motion Visuals – they’re a kick ass post house in SF.

By: Montgomery Gabrys

Montgomery Gabrys — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:55:20 +0000

It’s viral. Do a search on the name of the YouTube account and you’ll find a link to an “at work food blog”. The office is the Sausalito marketing group “Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners” located on Liberty. I’ve worked in the same building and recognized the interior. On one of the food-blog snaps you can also see the person who uploaded the YouTube vid in the back. Of course, I’ve commented on this on the YouTube video and am now blocked.

The origonal “creative commons” photo was also turned “private” as soon as I first spoke up on YouTube.

MMMmmmmmmmmEH!

By: sheez

sheez — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:42:23 +0000

Wow, I wish I was as smart as all of you. You obviously know so much and have figured it all out.

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:08:58 +0000

I saw it up close as I was leaving for work. The outside was definitely made from real Legos. Can’t vouch for what was inside.

Oh, and I think the production company was called “Teak Productions” or something like that.

By: FiZ

FiZ — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:34:56 +0000

There’s no way that boulder could have been made from actual legos. For starters, you’d have seen pieces breaking off as it rolled. Also, there’s no way there would have been parked cars on a street where they were rolling a boulder made of legos. Could you imagine the damage to the paint job if your car was hit by that thing? After all, with a shape like that, you know it can’t keep a straight course for very long.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:16:45 +0000

Why is there a smashed watermelon?

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:27:33 +0000

This photo was pulled from Flickr. Via Googlecache:

http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:fcD3h_-gLgAJ:www.flickr.com/photos/chasingfun/2506153030/+%22Giant+LEGO+Ball+Was+Styrofoam%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Highly unlikely to have so much street parking available on both sides of the street at any time of the day or night.

Imagine the Indy character got paid, had worker’s comp, insurance, etc.

By: SFSlim

SFSlim — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:55:51 +0000

Well, something definitely feels funny about it to me.

It seems very much like an attempted commercial viral vid. From the demeanor and dress of the participants, to the logistics and costs involved, not to mention the heights of jackassery that would be required to attempt this given the probability of damaging cars or causing an accident (or the naivety required to not foresee such risks). Finally, there’s the fact that none of the usual suspects have heard anything about this, before or since.

All in all, I’d be surprised if these folks didn’t turn out to be from some ad agency, actors, or paid carpetbagging shills of some sort, mimicking something they fundamentally don’t understand.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:54:13 +0000

definitely an attempted commercial viral video.

As leopold pointed out its all styrofoam (not 5 million legos)
which everyone should have known from how slow it rolled.
why not at least put a weight in the center so it picks up speed.

but I’d like to add,
the minivan’s lights never flash, and the car “alarm” was clearly added in editing.
pretty shoddy work for lucus film.

By: Kevin Bracken

Kevin Bracken — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:58:34 +0000

Awesome video either way :)

By: Carrie

Carrie — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:03:23 +0000

That is beyond wonderful.

By: Leopold Houston

Leopold Houston — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:35:47 +0000

It’s made of styrofoam. But hey, totally viral right!? Totally not at all a paid for commercial viral campaign for Lucasfilm and Lego, right? Cause everyone who wants to put a video on youtube can just call up San Fransisco’s City Hall and have them shut down a street, and a lot of stuff on youtube has a 2-3 man camera crew, right?

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:10:52 +0000

Or styrofoam. Some believe that it was made 100% from foam
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87457200@N00/2507771708/

http://flickr.com/photos/chasingfun/2476629848/sizes/o/