Hey everyone, Jason here. Today we are going to continue our look at the LEGO
Ideas pop-up book and in this video we're gonna take a closer look at the
differences between the finished model and the model the Grant and I originally
posted to LEGO ideas. In addition, we're gonna go even further back and also take
a look at Grant's original pop-up book model which started this whole process
off. If you aren't familiar with the history behind the pop-up book set, this
was originally entirely Grant's idea and as he tells it he's been interested in
pop-up books for pretty much his entire life and as a fan of LEGO I don't think
it was that surprising that he would eventually try and build one using LEGO
pieces as well, and I just happen to have a copy of his original design here which
he posted up to Flickr on November 1st 2014, which coincidentally happens to be
exactly four years to the day before the official LEGO Ideas set will be released
on November 1st of this year. If we take a closer look at this model a lot of the
ideas he had here have carried through the entire process to the finished set,
including the idea of having exposed studs on the inside to add scenery, as
well as the idea to be able to swap out different interiors. I only have this
castle interior here for this one but if you look at his original video, he swaps
it all out into some kind of science fiction based scene as well, and as you
can see he's using rubber bands to anchor either end of the pop-up scene,
which actually works reasonably well, although it does have quite a few
reliability issues and if you're really rough with the model the scene can flop
around a little bit and sometimes take out some of the interior. He's also using
one of these old spring-loaded leg minifigs which sadly LEGO does not make
anymore. Fast-forward about a year and grant got in touch with me about
fleshing out this idea and helping him develop a model to be submitted to LEGO
ideas and this was the final model that we came up with, which looks very similar
to his original. Obviously there's a few differences. We came up with this Technic
based anchoring system for the pop-up insert,
which was much more reliable than the rubber bands that he was using. We also
made the book thicker, so that there was four studs of space to use on the inside,
which allowed us to make the pop-up insert two studs wide on either side. It
also gave us a little more room for the scenery so you could build it up a
little bit taller without interfering. We also added a clasp on the side to keep
the book closed and throughout the process of it being on Lego ideas I
think we came up with eight interiors for the book including this cottage, a
castle scene, a jungle ruins, a western-style building, Humpty-Dumpty on
his wall, Rapunzel in her tower, a cemetery and steampunk structure. All
just to show kind of the versatility of this model and what you could do with it.
For the cemetery model, I also experimented with a different colored
exterior and also adding details to it. Fast-forward another couple of years and
we finally have the finished lego ideas model, and obviously the biggest
differences are in the appearance of the model with the dark green cover with the
brown decorative elements on the outside, as well the cottage has been given a
nice little makeover and the Jack and the Beanstalk scene was a completely new
addition by the LEGO designer. If we take a look at the frame of the book it is
the exact same size and width as the model that we submitted and they also
retained a lot of the interior studs for adding scenery, but they did remove the
interior studs along the spine which I really liked and used quite often for
like a pathway or other decorative elements in the interiors I designed. To
anchor the pop-up insert, the're using a Technic brick with a hole in it, which
allows you to use an external pin connected to the insert itself and the
reason that they can do that is because they have these tiles on the outside of
the book which covers up the hole that you get from that Technic brick on the
outside. That is one of the reasons why our original book was tan. Because the
piece we're using is a 1 by 2 brick with a pin, this piece here, which actually comes
in a very limited number of colors and the reason we used this is so that we
didn't get a hole on the outside of the book because we weren't using any kind
of coverage on the outside. And the biggest difference with the frame of the
book is the omission of the clasp that we had in our original model which I was
a bit sad to see go. I really liked it. With the clasp it really gives you a
nice secure feeling when you're picking up and handling the book. If we take a
look at the mechanism itself, it hasn't really changed that much
although Wes made a few minor improvements that really improve the
reliability of it. For example, he had a cheese slopes in spine here to prevent
the scene from being able to be pushed further back because it really needs to
stay at an angle for it to work reliably, and if you take a look at our original
model you can really push the scene back if you're really aggressive with it
which can cause problems with it binding when you're trying to close it. Another
difference is that each side of the pop-up insert is twelve studs long,
whereas it's only eleven studs long in our original model and this allows being
able to add two of these Technic plates with holes in them to be anchored to
this axle here which allows for much stronger and smoother performance of the
mechanism. You do run out of space really quickly inside this book though and to
accommodate the wider inserts, Wes added this window into the spine which allows
this little semicircular protrusion from the hinge plate some room to sit in
there when you close the book. Otherwise it would push out against the inside of
the spine and put a lot of stress on the anchor point of the insert. And of course
Wes developed a whole new mechanism for raising and lowering the Beanstalk in
the Jack and the Beanstalk story. And I think that's about all I wanted to talk
about in this video. Next up will be a tutorial on adding the clasp back in,
which hopefully I will be able to post in a couple of days. As always thanks for
watching, keep on building and I'll see you next time