hey everybody its norm from tested and hope you've all had a great week and
week and at the end of this week I thought it'd be fun to show off some
stuff I had at home and do a little bit of a Show and Tell mailbag and also a
product test hybrid now this past week we've published a bunch of Lego videos
Adams been building some Lego during his live streams to build that awesome Orca
model MOC this week and we also had published a one day build of Adams
trials and tribulations of sorting through and going through his
decades-old collection of Lego bricks that's a really fun video if you haven't
watched that yet and watching Adam go through all his vintage Lego and
minifigs made me think about one minifig I have in my collection that's actually
a little bit of a massive figure it's this thing right here
I might have shown it before but this is not a minifig it's not even actually a
official Lego product this is a designer toy from our friend Jason Freeney and
made by the fine folks at mighty jacks Jason Freeney is known for his
anatomical sculptures his riff on pop culture characters by taking
off-the-shelf toys and then sculpting what he thinks is the internal anatomy
of those characters and this was a limited edition 11-inch they call that I
think the bigger micro and atomic that I was able to pick up at New York Comic
Con a couple of years ago and actually lives in my toddler's bedroom but also
more recently he and MIDI Jack's release this guy and this is a mashup action
it's a collaboration between Jason and the artist what's his name and UK bass
sculptor who has done his take on the balloon dog sculpture in his novel pose
it's quite charming with a little bit of a baggy right here and
did his riff on that with his anatomical sculpt my favorites from last year and
that's the show and tell but the mailbag is something tied to that as well I was
reached out to by a Lego builder named Jonathan clam and he had recently past
couple months had a viral photo go on the Lego subreddit of something he
designed which is a tribute to Jason farini's anatomical Lego characters but
also actually made out of Lego in themselves and that's what he sent over
it is a brick head style anatomical character so I got some bags of Lego
here emailed me some instructions lovely little letter about appreciating the
videos that we've been making it tested thank you so much Jonathan for watching
our stuff and for sending this set over and he and his wife also do some leather
work so you sent over some nice cable ties as well again thank you for this so
let's together build this MOC and here is then something I've been testing and
want to test for this which is this boom arm looking for a way to mount my iPhone
is a camera to film small projects and build and previously I was using a clamp
with you know something someone to the lock line the atom uses but it didn't
quite work for my setup and so I found something that's more like a microphone
boom arm much like what I use for podcasting but instead it has an iPhone
mount and this that's exactly what you're seeing right now so switch over
of that camera Knoll some Lego and it gets a building let's see how it looks
all right so that's the bags here already pre sorted by color I haven't
done a lot of the the brick heads style builds these are Legos their take on
maybe the the vinyl toy scene or the Funko collectible scene they do they're
stylized version of their pop culture characters licensed characters just
small you know 100-200 piece set that you then you can display on a little
base and see it's already sorted by color here so that should make things
rather simple but I'll do some light Nolan as well a couple pink bricks here
I'm also an impatient builder so while Nolan is satisfying I really just like
getting to the actual build mostly for me it's about just getting things
getting the brick stud up so nothing's off access difficult to identify a
little less influence to me the grouping of these but stud or flat
side up just so you come at a glance will know where things are these white
bricks must be for the skeleton very excited about this you know we've been
doing Lego builds on tested for quite a while now as much of a Zen tivity as it
is to build and assemble Lego and the cameras rolling is a little bit of a
oxymoron the right word contradiction because it is extremely stressful to
build when the camera is watching as must have been the case for the
contestants of the lego Masters show which I really enjoyed watching that
show this first season of it in the US now after a photo of this got a ton of
upvotes on the lego subreddit jonathan did submit it to lego ideas so i'm gonna
include a link to that in the description and lego ideas of course is
the group and Lego that allows fans to summit their own designs and if they get
enough user votes and support then they will be seriously considered and many of
my favorite sets have come out of the ideas or previously kusu
project including the very first one which was a Japanese submarine to take
that up at some point
the color scheme this which is the traditional Lego minifigs it's a little
bit Bart Simpson isn't it we're getting into the skull the noggin there's even a
brain I am charmed I am charm 'add no mistakes were made
it is as they say from juillet and there you have it that was super fun super
easy build let's put them side-by-side the bigger micro anatomic from Jason
Frannie and the tributes you that a brick heads anatomical Lego sculpture
from Jonathan clam I would love to see this become a real set it's super
adorable it's gonna sit on my shelf here let's see how the close-up cam did in
terms of getting these next to each other
I think not bad yeah this uh this boom arm here it stayed rigid that was the
most important part it wasn't wobbly on the table like I can flick it a little
bit and yeah that's relatively rigid it's adjustable multiple axes the only
thing it doesn't do oh you know yeah it does I can even do a little bit of a
rotation here if need be by loosening that up that's not bad I think I'm gonna
keep this and use it for future projects so a little bit of a show-and-tell
a little bit of a mailbag Thank You Jonathan and also doing some testing
here of links to a jonathan site as well as
where you can back this and support this as a lego ideas project if you want to
see this become a real product below and if you're curious of the boom arm i'll
have that as a below as well thanks for watching
hope you've all had a great week we have a lot more stuff coming on tested this
coming week stay safe take care of each other and
we'll see you next time bye bye