LOL: Clever LEGO Star Wars “Make Your Own Story” Ad Campaign
If the word “Lego” or the phrase “Star Wars” make you perk up, prepare to have your day brightened. Students from the Sao Paolo advertising schoolEscola Cucahave created a striking new ad campaign for theLego Star Warsline of products, and the results are clever, funny and just plain adorable. Check them out after the jump.
Laughing Squidpointed us to this campaign, which was produced byDiego MourãoandGustavo Dorietto, withLucas Mohallemproviding copy. I haven’t seen any word on where or when these ads will be released, but I wouldn’t mind running into these on my morning commute.
I love the simplicity and playfulness of these ads. Some of the most impressiveStar Wars-inspired Lego creations areincredibly complex works of painstaking labor, but these images go completely in the other direction. Each picture manages to tell a vivid story through only a handful of pieces, thanks in part to the well-known histories behind each character. The campaign reminds me of another colorful, minimalist series ofLego adsfrom a few years back, in which basic Lego blocks cast imaginative shadows.
Of course, some people were already “making their own stories” long before this campaign launched. A couple of years ago, we featured a beautiful photo series titledTroopies365by /Film reader Teymur (aka Icedsoul), which showed Lego Stormtroopers in various situations — cutting up a life-sized pizza, or running away from a menacing dinosaur toy. More recently, we postedLego recreationsof scenes fromInception, as well as agalleryof all ten Best Picture nominees in Lego form. And then there’s the guy who, rather than tell his own story, decided to tell the actualStar Warsstory — in two minutes, with"one heck of a Lego collection."
Discuss:Is it really necessary to spear a drumstick on your lightsaberand then alsobarbecue it? I mean, this is a weapon that instantly cauterizes flesh wounds, after all.
