This is the new series of collectible LEGO
minifigures, full of colorful, costumed characters like this popcorn boy. And today, we’re going to start building
them a custom LEGO city called 23-ville, starting with a massive movie theater that actually
plays movies. [intro] It’s the 90th anniversary of LEGO
this year, so they decided to celebrate by dressing up all the Series 23 minifigs into
costumes, and I have mixed feelings about it, but THIS guy, the Popcorn Costume Boy,
is easily the worst one of the bunch. He only comes with 4 pieces. 3 of them are boring, and the popcorn piece
is neat, but can only ever be used as a costume, as I complained about with the pepper costume
last series, but at least she had milk and a shirt print, this child has NOTHING. Nothing except for the name that you guys
came up with: Cornelius. And it’s not my fault this time for being
corny—that’s on you. But besides this part only having one purpose,
there was really only one house that would be right to build this guy: a movie theater. There's something special about going to the
cinema, but it’s just not as convenient as a movie from your shelf or streaming service
that you can watch at home—especially when you’re not allowed to go outside. That’s why this theater will BE Cornelius’
home. I’m planning on building a big screen, seating,
a concession stand, maybe an arcade and— no we don’t need that. But trying to fit all this into one building
with my limited number of parts will be really hard, and I had no idea where to start (for
like 3 days), but finally, I realized that I could use my phone as the screen. (yeah this is actually dead) This was my original idea when I built a YouTube
jumbotron for our last city, speaking of that chile figure. It ended up being way too small for what I
needed but it’s the perfect size for a theater screen, I just need to get it charged. This is actually my old phone, (I’m using
my current one to film), and it has a really terrible battery life, (oh shoot) so the frame
we build around it is gonna need space for a charger to fit. I also need access to the home button, but
NOT the camera. We do NOT need the FBI and/or Jeff Bezos spying
on us, cus I’m about to do an illegal building technique. See, the phone’s kind of loose in here,
so I used a snot brick to add some padding that really puts strain on the pieces. I’m sure it’ll be fine… I switched the border to gray for reasons
I’ll explain later, and added some detail. Don’t worry, you can still push the home
button. But now we need to build this into a wall. I used some LEGO technic bricks to connect
it all sideways, making it a bit more sturdy with the charging port still accessible and
spent far too long figuring out all the geometry to fill this gap. Extending out the floor (which is THE stickiest
surface imaginable), it’s time for some seats. We own exactly 15 red chair pieces—perfect
for 3 rows of 5. Or 5 rows of 3. ORRR 15 rows of 1. But if we space them out like this I can add
arm rests in between using this inverted slope piece that comes with a built-in cup holder
hole, I love it. And does anyone know if you technically get
the one on your right or left? Or both? I’ve never figured that out. Props to the designers of this figure by the
way for actually allowing him to not only sit, but even fit in a chair, that hasn’t
always been the case. So point to you on that! No that’s like half a point— Anyways I added the other 2 rows of seats
with each being higher than the last. Just don’t put your nasty feet up there. But now it’s obvious why I didn’t want
the border to be red, it would all start to blend together. I added a walkway for people to reach their
seats and a door leading out to the hallway. Normally theaters have these on both sides,
but this is already going to be way too big, so I had to get rid of this one, and now people
going to the bathroom just have to walk in front of EVERYONE. With some more doors and floors this is really
starting to take shape. I started building the walls, but they were
kinda painful—or painless I should say. I have a bunch of these window pieces in tan,
but not enough panes to fill them, so they just look dumb. That’s fine, I’ll just make my own windows
instead, doing all sorts of fancy details with these arch pieces. For the right wall I used more arches, more
windows, and brought out some GOLD to make it all snazzy—and definitely not like a
prison (I’ll explain this awkward gap in a minute). But because the left wall is directly touching
the auditorium, we can’t have windows here or it’ll let in all that awful sunlight. So I made it a lot more plain than the others
and built this pair of retro 3D glasses to attach here instead. I actually still have my LEGO Atlantis 3D
glasses from a 2010 LEGO Magazine, they’ve kind of seen better days, but I look fabulous
in them! And you could give temples to this pair to
wear them as well. Now it looks like the movie is coming right
towards you. *SPACESHIP* And I totally forgot about the
charging port, but after rebuilding all of this NOW it’s accessible. We’ve got a door that doesn’t really open
correctly—I’m sure it’ll be fine, and I spent way too long trying to figure out
a good awning design, then ended up not using it at all. Instead we can build this white sign using
questionable building techniques to make this part upside down. (K gotta make sure this is still covered…) I got some star-shaped pieces from my star-shaped
bin to decorate the edges, and printed out a classic “Now Showing” sign to let the
city know this theater is currently playing The LEGO Movie—I don’t know about you
but this is unironically one of my favorite movies of all time, it’s just so good. But for Halloween, the theater can play horror
movies that are age-restricted—Cornelious found that out the hard way—for Christmas
it can play Christmas movies to get in the festive spirit, and sometimes it combines
the genres of Christmas and horror and just plays “Elf on the Shelf”—that is the
CREEPIEST movie. But anyways I finished up the walls—that
gap is annoying but allows us to open everything up with hinge pieces and access the interior,
which needs some work. I covered up the ugly backside of the front
wall and used pretty much all my remaining tan bricks to finish the interior walls. This one is removable so you can see the auditorium
and I guess the back of the concession stand we’ll be building, can’t really see the
front anymore, but oh well, we can just build it separately. I added a countertop with barriers to keep
Cornelius securely inside. Behind this sneeze guard I used different
tiles for the ludicrously overpriced candies, and some stale chocolate bars on top. There’s been a turkey shortage, so we won’t
be serving full-on meals like some theaters do, but this soft pretzel rack works better
anyways because I have this PERFECT sign for it. For the slushie machine, I borrowed a design
from SacredBricks using stud shooters to make it actually functional—this is the only
practical use for this piece. We’ve got a stack of empty cups, a full
cup ready to serve, and now it’s time to build Cornelious’s costume inspiration—a
popcorn machine. I considered being lazy and just using this
stickered piece from an old Unikitty set, but I don’t like all the white, so I tried
building my own. This is as compact as I could get it and it
still doesn’t really fit. We don’t want Cornelius feeling more imprisoned
than he actually is. So I ended up taking the sticker off this
white piece and putting it on a red one instead—best of both worlds. These pieces I ordered from Lithuania didn’t
arrive from in time so I horribly defaced some pieces for popcorn cartons until then,
and finally: a spigot on the wall where you can pump your popcorn just full of fake butter. This is making me hungry. But now it’s all done and ready to painstakingly
move over to the final build. You can’t really see it anymore, but I’m
glad it’s down there. I tiled off all the walls to add the removable
roof on top of. We’re doing dark red shingles—I tried
to make them all fancy-like—but it’ll just be around the border. Most of the roof will be flat so we have room
to build the big centerpiece, a giant popcorn statue, that turned out a bit too chonky,
so… that’s better. We can fill it with a big lump (with knobs)
of popcorn. And now Cornelius has a big brother that we
can surround with these spotlights to illuminate it at night. I really wanted to add an arcade with games
like this claw machine (the claaaaawww) but we are completely out of space, pieces, and
time, so you’re just gonna have to imagine this back door leads to a proof of concept
arcade, yehhh we might have to find a better place for this later on too. But before we add the now 100% completed movie
theater to our brand new LEGO city, let’s grab some popcorn and watch the premiere of
its first film. 3..2..1.. [Cornelius’ tragic backstory: in color] Cornelius was an awkward kid from a nearby
city who had just asked a girl named Suzie Jenkins out to the movies. Except she requested they see a horror movie
that they were way too young to get into. So he devised a genius plan. *ding* “2 tickets for— I mean 1 ticket for Werewolf,
please. *cough* Do you think he bought it?” Surprisingly, the bouncer did, so Cornelius
bought Suzie some candy and they tried to win one of the toys in the proof of concept
arcade, but I think that claw machine’s rigged. Anyways, they got in the theater just in time
for the good trailers/ “And now, your movie will begin” “Are you kidding me–” Halfway through Cornelius tried to play a
smooth one… “wanna count shoulders? 1, 2… 3, 4” *awww* “Ew what is on your back?” But as they were leaving, the bouncer caught
them. Suzie blamed everything on Cornelius and got
off scott free, back to their hometown. But he wasn’t so lucky. He was forced to work concessions, wearing
this terrible costume, locked in this prison with bars on the windows and a door that doesn’t
quite open properly, until the day his punishment is paid and he can go back home. But for now, this is his home. [FIN] So anyways there is absolutely no room for
this thing in our current LEGO city, 22-Ville, soooooooo We cleared the table off to start 23-Ville! The only thing left now is Chip and Dale's
house, ironically, but this city is going to have a slightly different layout. I moved all this stuff over here and rotated
the whole table so we have a little more space, and got a bunch more white baseplates for
some of the more festive figures coming up. The theater can go here, in the new downtown
area, and we’ll be building houses like this for all 11 other figures in future episodes. Subscribe so you don’t miss them. But for now, have a corn-tastic day!
