LEGO Muppets SKYSCRAPER set! 🏢

LEGO released a series of Muppets minifigures,   and currently, they’re all homeless, so  I’m going to build a skyscraper apartment   building for them to live in with a working  elevator and fully-detailed interior rooms! Here’s all 12 of the figures:  we’ve got Kermit, Piggy, Fozie,   Gonzo and a lot more—with all this variety,  it’s one of the best licensed series LEGO has   ever done. For once I’d say each minifig  is actually worth the 5 dollar price tag,   but when you buy the whole series  for one video, it starts to add up. Any sane person would just make something like  this to display them and leave it at that,   but we built an entire LEGO city  for the last minifigure series,   and we’re planning on one for the next, but  for the Muppets, we’re going to cram all 12   dwellings into one big building instead, with  each apartment floor belonging to 2 roommates. As I was drawing this out, it reminded  me of that old mobile game, Tiny Tower,   where you build a skyscraper and collect a ton of  rent from your residents every. single. day. They   went on to make a Tiny Tower about Gambling,  Obesity, Star Wars, and even LEGO, I… can’t   say I’m a fan of this one, we could TOTALLY  make a tower that looks better than this. I laid out the base for the first floor:  the lobby. This is where the landlord   lives (who we’ll be building later), but  this layout will be slightly different   than the apartment floors, since we  need a front door here for guests to   come in. Obviously a door wouldn’t make  much sense for the rest of the floors,   but we will keep this pattern of windows  and the elevator shaft going all the way up. With the gray walls and these stacked  window pieces, it’ll end up looking   a lot like the Daily Bugle set, except  with no Spiderman characters—probably.   But I chose gray because I’ll actually have  enough of it to finish the whole thing—is   what I thought… but quickly realized that  no, I definitely don’t. There was barely   enough to finish the first floor, and we have  6 more to go! I need a LOT more light gray,   so I’m just… gonna… have to… [inch towards  moon with brick separator in hand]. Order parts from Bricklink, an online store  where you can buy LEGO bricks from different   sellers all around the world! Normally we just  break our old MOCs to get parts for new builds,   but we just finished our LEGO city and I want  to leave it intact for a little while longer,   at least until we start the next one. So, we need to buy new pieces to build our  skyscraper instead… this is gonna get expensive.  I deleted our progress to count up the bricks  in the first floor and multiplied that by   7 to get the number of parts we need to order. We’re gonna be on our own for the interior  wall pieces, which is a bit frightening,   but I ended up getting everything in 3  orders. Except one of them is from Greece,   so that’ll take forever to get here. And all the  shipping is ridiculous… you know it would be SO   much easier to just… NOPE, I’m not gonna do it.  I’ll just make poor financial decisions instead! After weeks, the orders started to roll  in, this one was completely pointless,   then came the windows, and finally,  the reason this video took so   long. This says fragile in Greek. I  couldn’t figure out how to open it,   but eventually got inside and… look at all  these this. Now we can start rebuilding   the lobby floor that we previously put  to sleep and make it better than ever. This section here on the side is the  elevator shaft. It adds a lot of depth,   so this whole thing’s not just a flat,  boring rectangle, and helps me save on   precious window pieces. We’ll also have  double-thick floors and walls, so each floor   can be a different color. I’m lightly basing  this floor on the default lobby from the game,   with a dark tan floor and purple striped walls.  This side room actually belongs to the landlord’s   family, who you don’t get to meet yet, but  I’ll show the decorating I did in here later. Then the reception area has classy white marble  walls—this technique I did for the trim hurts my   brain a little. I put in a little desk with  a chair, potted plant, computer from 1995,   and this bell. Ooh I like that. And because I  love making things unnecessarily complicated,   we used these bricks with grooves to make elevator  doors that actually open and close. That’s why   we have this gap here, but come on, that’s cool,  even though I broke a brown piece while building   it. It’s kind of an obstacle course getting from  the front door to the elevator, but that’s fine. Speaking of the entrance, I spiffed up the border  around the door, and added a little step, archway,   and the actual door. Then I used this piece  and an antenna to make a cool door knob that,   uh, okay nevermind. This one actually works. Above  the door, I tried a ton of different decorations,   landing on this license plate tile I’m using  as an address plaque: 7285 Henson Avenue. With the ceiling and these hanging  lights, the first floor is done! So I   speedran the 2nd floor walls for Statler and  Waldorf—two delightfully geriatric gentlemen   taking their heckling to the next level with  this sign and in the YouTube comments section. I’m immediately punching a hole in the wall I  just finished to fit their classic balcony on   the side here, so the two can brutally insult the  local passersby. I want the inside to feel old and   crusty, just like them, so we can add this thick  shag carpet that probably smells nasty, beige   wallpaper, locally sourced from one of my old  MOCs, and a fireplace with a hunting rifle above. Behind that, by the way, I’m trying this black  accent stripe through the middle of the tower,   I don’t know how I feel about it…  we’ll have to see. But back inside,   I’ll add this lamp and these ratty old recliners  that Statler and Waldorf practically live in, they   sleep, eat, even go to the bathroom in them. They  better enjoy the peace and quiet while they can,   because mayhem is moving into the floor above  them: Janice and Animal from Electric Mayhem.   It’s a shame we didn’t get the rest of the band,  but Dr. Teeth got an homage, plus Rolf didn’t   really want to bunk with the Swedish chef, so  he’ll fit better here, and his Beethoven bust can   be changed into a statue of Zoot. Blue carpet,  black wall speckled with these random colors,   and a raised stage in the middle for the drumset.  I accidentally got 2 of Animal, so we can double   the size of his setup. Rolf’s grand piano wouldn’t  fit in the door, and black would blend in anyways,   so let’s build him a yellow keyboard with these  grill pieces as the keys. Janice gets an amp for   her bass and a potted plant—it’s… kale. Then we’ll  stick Zoot in spirit over here, and this is an   awesome-looking band. On the wall I tried to  build the EM logo, it didn’t turn out great,   but Animal covers most of it anyway. But it’s done  now, and I’m sure the neighbors appreciate it. I stole these numbered bricks from a LEGO  calendar set to label the floors, by the way.   Not sure what to do with the lobby floor yet, but  we can cover up the white backside with a tile. Floor 4 only has one Muppet now: the Swedish  chef, LEGO captured this guy so well, and now we   can make a world-class kitchen for him with a tan  and white tiled floor. I almost had enough white,   but just had to make a few acquisitions to  finish the job, and now it looks really cool. Just like the color scheme I discover for the  walls. There wasn’t enough room for a full-sized   fridge in here, so next to the stove I built  a mini-fridge instead, to store dozens of raw   glizzies. No, that feels weird to say, I’m just  gonna call them hot dogs. (Hey Swedish Chef,   what’s in a hot dog? “Bork bork bork!”  …sure “HIYAAAA!”) Now we can remove some   of the wall to hang up some cabinets. One for  his lucky spoon. (Hey Swedish Chef, what goes   with a spoon? “Bork bork bork!” He’s great at  these—) And the other for a fire extinguisher,   an absolute necessity not to be confused with  the mustard. Ketchup’s coming soon. (gulp) Finally, we can cover this gap with the most  Swedish kitchen island of all time. I got it   from IKEA, and it uses crafting table pieces  from Minecraft, gotta represent. It’s mainly   here to cover up floor space I didn’t  have the tiles for, like this trash can,   but we can add a tomato-sized blender on  top, and this kitchen is open for business! Spinning on up to floor five, we’ve got Dr.  Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker’s science lab!   These designs are so much fun, except combining  this head with this torso makes me uncomfortable.   For this place, I want to channel the energy  of our yellow Robot Factory because views,   AND I actually have enough leftover yellow  to not have to steal from it—I promise.   We’ve got the same gray floors and yellow  walls you know and love, plus I put bars   over the windows so no one can see inside  and accuse their experiments as witchcraft. I modified the back wall a bit to attach this  tool rack, to store all of their many oil cans,   some shelfs full of strange objects and other  details. Then I built this potion brewing station,   a work desk, and BEHOLD: the NAME TRANSFORMINATOR.  We’ll test this out later, but with one more   familiar face, I modified the kitchen a bit and  reverse-Thanos-snapped floor six into existence. This is a comedy club for Fozzie and  Gonzo—absolute classics by the way. I   gave it brown floors and blue walls before  realizing that Gonzo kind of blends in,   but that’s okay, because he’s actually GONZO  THE GREAT. Still blends in, but with a cape!   I built him this cartoonish cannon to blast  out of repurposing this technique as a fuse   that we can light to launch in 3… 2… 1…  BOOM AAAAaaaaa splat. GONZO THE GREAT! Kinda ruined the wall there, but we can just patch  that up- there we go. Camilla gets a blinged-out   chicken coop, dude that’s nicer than my house.  And Fozzie, literally just gets 2 pieces.   We’re done. Fart shoes, from the  Muppets movie, where they band together,   put on a show and raise the funds to pay their  bills, this will never not be funny. I’ll also   give him his little bear friend from Muppets  Take Manhattan, where they band together,   put on a show and raise the funds to pay their  bills. And this Santa costume from the Muppets   Christmas movie, where they band together, put on  a show and raise the funds to pay their bills and   save Christmas. Plenty of material to work  with here, although to help him out a bit,   I made this sign. THERE we go. This may be the  most random and chaotic floor yet, but at least   you’re laughing! You’re laughing, right? You have  to do what the sign says, that’s how this works! I built floor 7 the good old fashioned way  because this is the penthouse suite for   Kermit and Miss Piggy. The all-time power couple,  except at the moment, they kinda hate each other,   so living together may be challenging. We’ll  divide their room up down the middle, Piggy   called dibs on the side with the door, so Kermit  just has to jump or something, I don't know. Lavender carpet for Piggy, and  dirty bathwater for Kermit,   I’m pretty sure someone just  moved the border line by the way… I really like the split colors of the walls,  and for a lot of the details I’m gonna have to   scavenge this Winnie the Pooh set. Nice. This  really puts into perspective how tall our tower   is. We’ll take this mirror for Piggy’s  vanity, a log for a frog (and a dog?),   these green pieces to build a lily pad, and a  bee—3 of them, actually that we can put on the   walls, along with narcissism and this incredibly  janky connection I found for this rainbow piece. This room keeps getting better, but their  relationship is getting worse. Piggy copes by   buying expensive clothes, I made this coat rack  out of hands to hang them on, and Kermit copes   with MEMES, which is expensive for me. I bought  another Kermit to remake this, a 4th $20 Bricklink   order just for a butterbeer piece, which  I can use as tea for this masterpiece,   and kinda just sneezed for this one. Feel free  to use these templates. Now we can add the roof:   a crane won’t fit, but it’s time to struggle  with the elevator. I tried to improve my   previous design with what I’ve learned taking the  elevator to work to hopefully create the perfect   system. This mechanism allows it to stop at each  floor, and to go down, you just release it—works   perfectly. You just kind of turn it so people  can get in, and uh, yeah this is great. I covered everything up, it literally  doesn’t fit under here anymore. And   because I’ve neglected to label this floor  up until now, we're gonna have to take a   massive L and very carefully try to cram  it in there. Had no issues whatsoever. But now all of these floors look SO COOL.  Except this one’s kinda meh… na Mahna   DO DOO DO DO DO. *ahem* Sorry. But now  it’s finally time to build the landlord:   Mr. Ditkovich, and his daughter Ursala.  I went back in time to build their room,   with a crate of oranges and a stove  to make cookies. And now Urs can work   the reception desk while Ditkovitch  collects his favorite thing… RENT!!!! I told the Muppets I’d cover their first  month, so let’s just take care of tha…   what happened to all my mon…ey…? Ah. Right.  Well, Mr. D said he’s gonna kick them all out   if they can’t pay up, so… after all this  time building these apartments for them,   we failed. The Muppets are going right back to  the streets where we found them, unless… they   do what Muppets do best: band together, put on  a show, and raise the funds to pay their rent! Electric Mayhem started off strong, Miss  Piggy held a fashion show. Statler and   Waldorf just kind of just slept through  the whole thing, but the lab got to test   out the name-transforminator—results are  mixed. Kermit interviewed Dwayne Johnson,   I’ve stopped questioning what’s going on here,  and the Swedish chef finally made ketchup! Yum. Somehow whatever that was raised thousands of  dollars, so they’re set, and this is what the   skyscraper looks like next to our LEGO city, which  you can watch us build in this playlist here.

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Length: 11min 4sec (664 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 13 2022

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[u/esotericwaffle]

Well done- excellent commentary throughout👍