这不是很好吗 他终于有了一个他喜欢的疗法 Isn't that great? He finally has a therapy that he enjoys.
他好像比以前更善于交际了 He seems to be getting better socially."
但是没有具体数据 But there was no data on it.
Legoff博士进行了科学研究 Dr. Legoff conducted a scientific study
对传统疗法和他的疗法 comparing the behavioral improvements
所导致的行为上的进步进行了比较 from his therapy versus traditional therapy.
那些接受传统疗法的孩子确实有改善 Now those kids did get better.
但玩LEGO的孩子比他们的改善显著的多 But the LEGO kids got significantly better than they did.
Adrian Pitt来自纽约 One of the many kids who has benefitted
是众多受益于这种疗法的孩子之一 from this kind of therapy is Adrian Pitt, of New York City.
LEGO玩具要求的就是集中精力 LEGOs are usually all about concentration.
And I need to concentrate on something a bit more.
这帮助了我 比如 更专注 It helps me, like, focus.
Why don't you take off...
Adrian is... He's just a real nice kid
who wants to make friends and wants to play.
He has speech and language delays,
and he has been in speech and language therapy
since he was about three years old.
The great thing about LEGO, and the reason
that I love it for him so much is there's no words.
The instructions are the pictures.
So if you can see,
you know, you can follow directions and you can complete LEGOs.
Some of these pieces need to have measurements,
so this one needs to be exactly seven millimeters.
This is how we measure.
Adrian's very proud of what he built.
There's a real sense of accomplishment
once he's finished something, and that's a big deal for him.
I'm having a bit of trouble attaching this part.
If I don't get it right, then it's not going to work.
In a secret location in Long Island,
the components of the life-size X-Wing model
have arrived via freighter from the Czech Republic.
The X-Wing must be fully assembled,
then broken up into five transportable pieces
to be brought to New York City for its unveiling in Times Square.
There isn't much time.
We are finally in New York.
We are really near to final stage.
And it's just a couple of weeks more, and that's it.
You can imagine this being a giant kid's bedroom,
and we've just opened up the box of bricks,
and we've organized our parts and now we're assembling it,
a lot like you would at home.
Except we're just doing it on a massive scale here.
How is this project different
from maybe the one that you build in your bedroom?
Here we have heavy equipment for lifting
5,000-pound pieces and 8,000-pound pieces.
And you probably don't have steel inside your models at home.
We are on schedule, but it's-- even just unpacking the pieces,
it's not like in five minutes. It takes like half a day.
It takes time. We need a couple of days for everything.
All right, I think we got it now.
This first, it stays where it is.
Second, the engine. And then the rest of the wing.
It's cool.
Behold, the X-Wing star fighter.
With the assembly complete,
now comes the biggest challenge of all,
bringing a life-size X-Wing
into the busiest block in America without detection.
Today is Wednesday. It might not be that bad.
But we're going to the heart of New York, so...
There are still challenges in front of us
because we have only night until morning.
Well, our plan is to spend the whole night
assembling it, putting it together,
and at 6 A.M., roll it back and hide it inside the box.
It's seven in the morning, and it's done.
Adrian's father is bringing him into Midtown Manhattan
for a special surprise.
What does it say?
Secret model. Indestructible box.
Do we have any LEGO fans here?
Does anyone here want to know what's inside that box?
- Yes! - I can't hear you!
I said, "Do you want to know what's inside that box?"
Yes!
I want you guys to stretch your arms out all the way
to harness the power of the
Force along with Yoda to open up this box.
Ready? One... two... three!
X-Wing!
This X-Wing Starfighter is the largest LEGO model
that has ever been built.
I'm talking over five million LEGO bricks.
Five million, three hundred, thirty-five thousand,
two hundred pieces,
and 45,000 pounds.
This is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
Three, two, one.
Also in New York,
Nathan Sawaya is making last-minute preparations
on his one-man show, The Art of the Brick.
It finally opens tonight.
I am very nervous,
but also very excited to see those folks
walk through the door for the first time tonight.
This is The Art of the Brick.
This is my largest exhibition I've ever done,
and it just happens to be
the largest solo LEGO art exhibition ever.
I had a goal of taking LEGO into the contemporary art world,
and to do so, it had to be done in a way
where I was really putting myself and my soul into the work.
You know, part of me wants to just be a fly on the wall
and listen to people's reaction.
And I'm going to try and do that as much as possible.
So, um, we'll see what happens.
There it is, thank you.
First impression, I just got blown away.
I didn't expect to feel this much inspiration.
Amazing. I worked with LEGO when I was a kid,
but I always built things off the back of the packet,
and I can't believe that someone's actually turned around
and turned it into something from their imagination.
This is something that is delightful and playful,
and it's something that can really
spark the imagination in children and adults.
We have had a few art critics walk through already,
and of course I'm nervous to see what they say,
but I think it's almost a compliment
just to have a serious art critic from some
major newspapers in this country walking through.
They were not dismissing it as just a toy display.
It's not just a gimmick. This was art.
What do you guys think?
- I think it's good. - Yeah?
- Did you make that? - I did, I made all of these.
This type of exhibition is going to draw in folks
who have never been to an art museum before in their life.
And they're coming because they have a familiarity with the toy.
And if that opens them up
to the art world for the first time, then I've done my job.
LEGO Designer Jamie Berard is headed to BrickCon in Seattle
to unveil his new Parisian Cafe set.
But while he's there, he's got another mission.
These are our happy boxes. Now, we don't know what's in this.
He's convinced his fellow designers
to compete against the public in the master build contest.
Okay, teams.
These are the same products that will be given to LEGO fans
at BrickCon in Seattle, Washington.
And what we want to do is actually participate more in the event
by doing the challenge they
will be doing there, we'll be doing it here.
Welcome!
Okay, you notice there are only 25 stations.
Pick a teammate and go sit down.
I think it's going to be a lot of fun at the BrickCon convention,
because when you have a head-to-head with designers,
of course you want to beat them.
All right, so what do we got here?
- Okay, that's cool. - What is our angle going to be?
The reason that you can see we have pig and cow heads,
is because the theme for
this year's BrickCon is Pigs Versus Cows.
Does everyone have two pig heads and two cow heads?
Are there any questions?
- Yes. - It's one MOC?
It's one MOC, but it can be how many buildings you want.
Make up the story as much as you want,
and then have a lot of fun with it.
Use all the pieces, use all the set, as much as you like.
You'll have one and one half hours to build. Are we ready?
Yeah!
Go!
So, the idea behind this
is that they should be fighting for something.
It's a battle or some type of pigs versus cows.
See, this is always like, you know,
why does it always have to be battles?
Maybe whoever wins stays alive.
- Stays alive. - Yeah.
Contestants, you now have
fifty-nine minutes and fifty-one seconds left!
Pressure!
Oh, stress! I hate building under stress.
How are things going, what's your process here?
You can build anything with anything.
Right, right.
So, come up with a good story first,
and then make the pieces do what you need them to do.
- Interesting. - Build a story.
This is the first time we've heard someone talking about story,
which I know was very important in this contest.
He's like a cyborg. So he's half-cow, half-robot.
- Yeah. - Yes.
- It's a "Cowborg." - Oh, that's a good idea.
- Do I need bigger horns? - Yeah, much more horny.
You pig.
Some of the stories at some
point just got really ridiculous and crazy.
And yet, because we were going to a fan event,
it was kinda fun to let it almost progress
a little bit further than we normally would.
It's a "Cow-tapult."
Dave, Stacy, how's the competition going so far?
We have a lot of pieces, but I think we're on the right track.
Josh, why don't you tell us what you guys are working on?
We have a little house of ill repute going on here.
It's a cow club, but the pigs have come in.
He's relieving himself in the bush right here.
Yeah, he's super-fast.
He's turning round, round this guy.
I'm expecting some people to look at them and go...
Really? Is this the best you got?
The LEGO fans don't know
they'll be competing against LEGO designers
until Jamie shows up.
I just have to look at your animal
because we were trying to see how you did it.
He's making us look bad.
Time's up!
We finished.
Make sure your MOC is arranged the way you want it to be seen.
Step outside and come back in ten minutes.
Congratulations!
Let's bring them in, let them know what's going on.
You guys did such a great job,
it was really hard to tell who was our champion.
So, Number 8, won't you stand by your MOC, please?
Winner is Number 8!
We basically split off. We each built a mech.
So I built the pig mech, and Chris built the cow mech.
So they're kind of like Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots?
Yeah, I think what we really liked about the MOC,
and what made it really win, was the fact that
not only did you use the small pig and cow heads here,
but you also constructed robotic ones from scratch
with the bricks you were provided.
The winner was, I definitely agree-- was really a standout.
I knew we'd have tough competition.
These are some really amazing builders.
I mean, I'd like to think that
we came in the top 28, which was pretty good.
Shortly after the master build,
Jamie introduces the new Parisian Cafe set to much fanfare.
Then participants gather in
the main hall for the annual award ceremony.
Alice Finch's Rivendell build is being considered
for the coveted People's Choice Award.
The People's Choice Awards are those voted upon by the public.
We counted all those up, and we came up with
Winners of People's Choice.
And the winner is...
Rivendell!
It's a pretty amazing feeling to have
10,000 people say that they like what you build.
To have a woman win is pretty unusual.
To have the same person win three years in a row is unheard of.
One of the fundamental ways we know about humans
and our history is by the things that they build.
Maybe little plastic bricks are a modern adaptation of that,
but really it's about creating something.
We are definitely at the core of what is human,
is the capacity to build.
In the big picture, life on Earth has evolved through millennia
by adapting to the surroundings,
until the point where we invent tools, technology.
We suddenly get the capacity to adapt our surroundings to life.
So we now no longer have to suffice
with a cave we can find or a tree we can climb into.
We can actually build our own cave,
and we can build our own tree house.
The moment where we really became human
was the moment where we got this power.
It's also a mindset somehow.
It's believing that anything is possible
if you have the right tools in front of you.
Sometimes we don't have an opportunity to just be free,
and everything that we have inside of us,
we never have an opportunity to let it out.
And we're always looking for something to inspire us
or to just give us some joy.
Being able to take your dreams and take your thoughts
and materialize into something,
it's just a wonderful gift,
and I think the LEGO brick has given that to the world.
In Idaho, Jonathan and Matt are nearly finished editing
their masterpiece, Melting Point.
The X-Wing has landed permanently in Frankfurt, Germany.
In Copenhagen, Soren is still trying to figure out
just how infinite the possibilities are.
And in the Czech Republic, Stephen's Curiosity Rover
is finally rolling off the assembly line.
Oh wow, that's a lot of rovers. Awesome.
That's really nice-looking box art.
Oh, yeah, that's the great thing about Cuusoo sets,
they have the best boxes.
- Oh, there I am. It's me. - There you are.
"It's my hope that this model
encourages the public support
that is integral to the continued development
and exploration of outer space." Yeah.
I'm glad Stephen mentioned space.
Didn't we start this film out there?
I promised we'd explain that,
and seeing how this is the end of the movie,
now is the time. For that story,
we go to Pasadena, California,
and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratories, or JPL for short.
As engineers and scientists
are developing space craft ideas and missions
to go out and explore and learn about the universe,
we sometimes use LEGOs to kinda put together a concept
and see if it makes sense.
So there's a room here at JPL called the Left Field,
and it actually has these toys, sort of a kid's dream.
Has big boxes of LEGOs, and scientists and engineers
get together and actually construct something
that looks a little bit like the spacecraft they want.
Lift off of the Atlas 5 with Juno on a trek to Jupiter.
The Juno project is a NASA mission
that was launched in August of 2011 to go to Jupiter,
and we will use our
instruments to learn about Jupiter's formation
and other solar systems around other stars.
But the LEGO system was not just a part of the design process.
We're onboard!
NASA engineers have mounted three aluminum friends of mine
to the hull of the Juno spacecraft.
The three minifigures are modeled after Galileo the scientist,
Jupiter the god, and the goddess Juno.
They're attached to the main deck of the spacecraft.
They were made by the LEGO company, to NASA specifications,
of a special spacecraft-grade aluminum.
Sometimes I imagine,
what are they seeing in their voyage?
They're able to see this incredible view.
In fact, they're seeing the view that we all want to see.
We're living vicariously through these LEGO minifigures.
They represent humanity in many ways.
Almost everything in the universe is built from something else,
some fundamental building block like an atom or a molecule,
and for me, LEGO represents
one of those fundamental building blocks.
And look how many things we've built from this simple toy.
- Action. - Action.
Cut!
Release the hounds!
Now, was that-- was this a joke?
Was this supposed to be funny? 'Cause I don't know if I...
I certainly don't get this. Who wrote this?