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Probably a Fake !
Here’s the origin:
Good concept. Way off brand.
These are actually part of a series entitled Pixxxel by Jean Yves Lemoigne for Amusment Magazine.
http://www.jeanyveslemoigne.com/
http://www.amusement.fr/issues/3/gallery/3rd_issue.html
I don’t think this is a real lego campaign. I believe that these are photos / concepts from photographer Jean-Yves Lemoigne for the third issue of Amusement magazine.
Can anyone find the real source of these images? Is this for lego? or did a crafty college student slap a logo on someone elses work?
These are ABSOLUTELY fakes – and quite insulting to the adult LEGO fan community (which, by and large, makes tasteful large scale models instead of going for crudeness).
Further, a quick glance at the photo will reveal you CAN’T even build these – the geometry is all wrong (and of course, even if that was the shape of LEGO pieces, any self-respecting builder would never allow themselves to represent curves so poorly – seriously, a 5-year old could do a better job than this “agency”). This is an incredibly bad photoshop job.
Up until now, I’ve been relatively happy with the standards on this blog – this is the first time I’ve seen an appalling fake advertisement (and by the way, great job with warning us that this was porn-based and not anything relevant to this blog or its readership).
You really ought to pull this garbage before you get sued.
I really don’t get it…fake or not…Fubiz also told on my blog it was a fake but all these details about the agency…
Why are these even being show cased?
I can’t imagine a children’s toy company would allow this kind of campaign…
Another blog posts these as LEGO ads argh!
These photos are from an article in Amusement magazine
http://www.amusement.fr/issues/3/gallery/3rd_issue.html
Nothing to do with LEGO. Why someone felt the need to make these into (bad) spoof ads is beyond me.
It’s a fake, the original pictures have been made by Jean Yves Lemoigne : http://www.jeanyveslemoigne.com/ for the french magazine Amusement.
Slide number 12 on this presentation
http://www.amusement.fr/issues/3/gallery/3rd_issue.html
this is NOT a real lego campaign. these aren’t even legos!!!!
Lego doesn’t even make flesh-colored blocks
yup, it’s fake. Not done with LEGO.
Simply look at the 3rd picture
http://www.frederiksamuel.com/blog/SINGLE_AD_PAGE.php?ad=lego_adults_3.jpg
You’ll see that it’s simply a crude simplistic mosaic effect done over a real girl posing.
Look closely to her “lego” clothes.
Look at the size of the “lego pieces”.
Like Dan said, a true talented LEGO sculptor would never do such a crude work… besides, a true AFOL artist would never choose this theme (I think!).
AFOL: Adult Fan of LEGO
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