15-foot LEGO Battle of Waterloo - BrickFair Virginia 2015

[@keeperofthecheese]

"Somebody should make a movie about this" I'm fairly sure they did. It's called "Waterloo"- and it's one of the best films ever made.

[@bieituns]

I think he means a more specific and precise movie about the specific characters of the people mentioned in the book he was talking about.

[@themanwithallthewrongopini3551]

More specifically about the events at La Haye Sainte

[@bieituns]

@Vincent Jasiah how do you do that?

[@themanwithallthewrongopini3551]

@@bieituns it’s a virus don’t do it

[@PoofyFancyPants]

Wasn't there an episode of sharpe's rifles about it? can understand why he wouldn't be familiar

[@avonbarksdale889]

I would do anything for everything on that table

[@austincarson6048]

Same

[@mean0B]

Same 😂

[@thesingularityproject4042]

Same

[@kinggeorgeiii7515]

Same. For this and his Rorkes Drift set.

[@melissacantrell7779]

Same

[@equalcharlie158]

Man, he REALLY like's that book

[@ivx8345]

Made me read it!

[@historyatwar6230]

Dont blame him sounds cool

[@brenttorrenga771]

12:03 The Napoleonic Clone Army. They all have the same faces.

[@ayoungconservative1051]

he had to do a count of all the figures but imagine 2300 2301 (son) hey dad what are you doing (dad) counting figures darn what number am I on again

[@CrazayFish1]

Gary Brooks is my hero.

[@austincarson6048]

Bro same

[@welshviking991]

I love the 95th rifles nice to see them included.

[@cwarbricks5565]

I’m building the same thing right now but a lot smaller

[@GeneralCodyHD]

Napoleon total war is all I'm thinking about right now lol

[@yu-jenlee3186]

Me too.

[@angrydoge1466]

General Cody HD same

[@deletedcontent654]

The One Summoner !?

[@thekameleon9785]

What always stunns me is that the dutch are always left out. While being the keyplayer in the alliance at waterloo. They also attacked the french guard and retook la haye saint.

[@TheIrishvolunteer]

I know I’m late to comment but, yes! Every time people forget!

[@RandomAussie-dx9fj]

So true

[@NeverenCH]

This is awesome :D Not only cause of the immense amount of work that went into this but i also got a history lesson while watching hehe. Nice work.

[@MrFrank551]

+NeverenCH it doesnt even look like the realistic battle formations

[@NeverenCH]

Frank Fletcher So...?

[@lafayette6762]

Agreed.. The Cavalry squares are unrealistic and everything.

[@lafayette6762]

Agreed.. The Cavalry squares are unrealistic and everything.

[@NeverenCH]

Scandalous.

[@bugrilyus]

"my wife didnt let me" true beta provider

[@Lorefall]

Out of all Lego builds I've seen this is by far the best

[@blackguitars8825]

I live near waterloo

[@cowboy4378]

i love the 1970 film waterloo

[@patrickbarnette1999]

The french infantry getting destroyed by the english artillery looks awfully happy about the shells.

[@carrott36]

Cannonballs. Shells explode, round shot doesn’t.

[@benbirdsall9315]

Aww, his wife wouldn't let him go to the bicentenary re-enactment...

[@Tramfabriek]

I noticed that as well. Probably is more in the relationship for herself, than for him. Poor guy! So nice and enthusiastic.

[@1Brick2Brick3]

it's kindve sad he doesn't want to use brickarms to make a ww1 display. that would be real cool.

[@jasiupiska4109]

i like that Jaegers and French Heavy Cavalry

[@aart-janmoerkerke9981]

Ok but where are the Dutch soldiers

[@jonathanakesson2489]

I buy that! 2 dollars, a Button and a piece of string!

[@chriskelsall3117]

5 dollars, three buttons and a ball of string.

[@friedrich2.615]

From the 400 german soldiers just 42 Where after the Fallback left

[@johnnyunderhillproductions8346]

Great interview

[@ivx8345]

What a great guy this Gary Brooks!

[@soliform3485]

And why is the british arty firing round shot at less then a yard. They should be loading canister

[@jiffyjelly1]

Yeah. From my experience with Napoleonic War, always switch to canister when infantry are closing in on your artillery.

[@BaronsHistoryTimes]

Very Nice Display ps.. 10:41 - KGL Battalion was hit south of the Ohain Road, and though they *lost* much of their battalion in this incident, they weren't 93% casualties - its actual total official casualties and missing was 150 men, around 30% of their battalion. 13:00 - The Brunswick Legion actually fought on the front line very early in the battle. When one of the British Foot Guards brigades went to reinforce Hougoumont at the beginning of the battle, the Brunswick Legion was moved up around the vacated position. Later in the day, much of the Legion went to support Hougoumont directly or adjacent to the position. In the evening hours they were shifted to the center near the Hanoverians and Nassau brigades; at least some of them arrived in time to take part in the action against the Imperial Guard attack. This is from their official battle reports. 16:20 - 'Knee'sh'

[@davidwkealey840]

very accurate. The KGL was shown, and the british squares were shown in this moc

[@chrisponcia5662]

Gary Should Build Little Round Top Or Pickett's Charge At Gettysburg

[@panzerkampfwagentigerausfb9036]

We kgl got clapped by the french at la haye Now we clap them

[@sethleoric2934]

I remember when i was young i borrowed books from the library just for the pictures

[@heartofoak1237]

The story of La Haye Saint is fascinating, hougoumont also has her fascinating stories.

[@wafelswafels8613]

You know waterloo is in Belgium.

[@dynestis2875]

Didnt the indiana jones sets have some decent WW1/2 uniform-ish figures?

[@legocommando1186]

yeah

[@capn_sauce2333]

Dynestis honestly no, they had these crappy tan ones and no actually nazi uniforms or helmets

[@legocommando1186]

no actually they work just fine plain lego or with a german helmet and mp40 or rifle

[@cheng3580]

You could just get a few Afrika Korps Stahlhelms and rifles and it would look better.

[@LemonLover23]

Dynestis yes

[@henrypjoyce]

The British squares never were under threat from French artillery. Wellington chose to hide them behind a ridge.

[@dr.woozie7500]

Umm... are you high? Of course they were. How else would napoleon damage the squares?

[@firstcaptainvaleriusrensor463]

Oblivion they were in no danger UNLESS napoleon manage to move the artillery (because of the heavy rain that rained during days before battle, the mud made impossible for the cannons to move

[@DavBlc7]

However in the 1970 film "Battle of Waterloo" the Duke was shown in the middle of one square. Yep never a threat from French artillery cos the squares were out of their range over a small hill. Wellington ordered his soldiers to move back one meters over the hill so as to make squares. Marshal Ney thought the British were retreated and he and his cavalry charged over the hill only to find the British stood still in their squares. It was a fatal mistake cos it leads to a defeat for Napoleon's army, losing too many cavalry trying to break the square off. It was not Napoleon who ordered the cavalry charge. His real order was for him to stay still but Ney disobeyed the order cos he thought the British were losing.

[@BaronsHistoryTimes]

Wellington's deployment of his British, German, Belgian and Dutch troops behind the ridge line along the Ohain Road is what kept his army from losing the battle. His agreement with the Prussians was to hold his position until they could arrive to attack the French in their flank and rear. That was the pre-arranged plan. Without that reverse slope tactic, Wellington's army would have been slaughtered by the devastating French artillery which bombarded from long range, and blasted with canister on the front line too. It saved many soldiers lives. Exposing formations to cannonades = a slaughter, which is what Wellington warned the Prussians about prior to the earlier battle of Ligny. Those are actual facts you can read in the accounts of soldiers of all nationalities; there were as many non-British German/ Dutch/Belgian /Nassau squares as there were British, deployed with more protection on the reverse slope. Tanks use the same principle of HULL-down, only exposing their turrets when fighting defensively if on higher terrain.

[@BaronsHistoryTimes]

@@DavBlc7 The French did bring artillery up in the evening, onto the hill top, and they blasted the German and British squares near the crossroads.

[@austincarson6048]

Bro I love napolionic total war and this mock is the best

[@aidenlamarche1221]

they used a map from the video game mount and musket

[@thomasthomas5115]

Ney's cavalry AND d'Erlon's corps? Those british are screwed.

[@xix8314]

Adam Thomas well we won in the end

[@shanewillis2109]

how do you get that much soldiers

[@senorbassoon4804]

This is a certified hood classiv

[@BenSmith-eh5zp]

Gary and his son have lego build in their dna, very impressive!

[@skylove206]

Well then , time to re-watch the Sharpe series again. The scale of this build is incredible

[@derb009gaming]

I love the napoleonic era this moc is epic

[@levs1736]

u know the rifles killed the officers not because of it disrupting command its just cause they got good loot

[@christianjackson1807]

I love Sharp so much

[@abulbeck1102]

These builds are amazing

[@abulbeck1102]

I have just subscribed

[@HotrodHud]

I love the sharpes sieries

[@calipto4605]

I love this guys builds

[@orangutanbacovsky5717]

17:06 LOOK AT MAN with red tshirt

[@liamdoesthings8697]

Gary butcherd the pronunciation of La Haye Saint 😂😂😂

[@carrott36]

True. La High Sont is how it should be pronounced I think.

[@anglicky69]

awesome wealth of knowledge this guy has about the battle. really dig it!

[@funkophone]

Holy damn, this thing is gorgeous!

[@JesseMN1980]

Very very nice! Beautifull I really love this :-) Eventually, Dutch General Chassé changed the battle in favour of the Anglo-allied army by 'beating' the 1st/3rd French Grenadiers with his fresh Dutch Division ;-)

[@Koendabomb]

Yep, suprised the guy kept talking about historical accuracy, but forgot all about the brave Dutch soldiers...

[@davidg2247]

No Old Guard?

[@carrott36]

The Old Guard weren’t at La Haye Sainte

[@crupt7301]

This video got me into loving the Napoleonic era, thank you

[@ObscureLego]

Someone did make a movie about this. It's called Waterloo (1970)

[@LCMhistory]

I have a lego film about Napoleon in Russia: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqXWdnZ9a5mKbck

[@carrott36]

The guy means a movie about La Haye Sainte, a farmhouse in Waterloo. No movie exists about that.

[@williamshortfilm5818]

Vive la France !

[@jameshartley6161]

Didn't last that long did it

[@williamshortfilm5818]

James Hartley Hahahahaha

[@jameshartley6161]

+William short Film I did not mean that as offensive btw

[@poromafia]

*((ABBA STARTS TO PLAY))*

[@malpreece5008]

This put a smile on my face. Great job chaps! But with all due respect to Wellingtons multi-national army, people regard Waterloo as a ‘British victory over the French’ because it was a British victory over the French! The British troops (including the British trained and equipped KGL) were the best troops under Wellington’s command. They were deployed to all of the key points during the battle, and the battle would not have been won without them. Whereas, the Prince of Orange was an imbecile, and unfortunately most of his Dutch troops were second rate. Also, Napoleon had Swiss, Dutch-Belgian, and Poles in his army. However, you very rarely hear about them, and no one ever argues that Napoleons victories were not really French victories because they were won by a multinational continental European army!

[@DavBlc7]

Yeah it was a victory but in fact they nearly lost the battle until Blucher and his Prussian army came in behind the French and attacked them, causing the French to flee in panic. Wellington plan was to hold the French off until Blucher arrive and it was late afternoon when they arrived. It was really British-Prussian-Dutch victory. The Prussians had more troops than the British have.

[@malpreece5008]

@@DavBlc7 That's a fair point about the Prussians. What was it that Wellington said: "Give me Blucher...or give me night"? Without the Prussian Army the battle could not have been won, but then again without the Prussians Wellington's strategy would have been totally different and there most likely wouldn't have been a Waterloo. That said, it was principally the British that held their ground all day at Waterloo and did the lions share of the fighting, without that the Prussians would have been trounced by the French as they were at the battle of Ligny. The Prussians had more troops than the French at Ligny, but it didn't do them any good. Whereas, the Anglo-Allied force under Wellington was outnumbered - until the Prussians arrived - at Waterloo, but they still managed to hold. That's British testicular-fortitude for you! ;-)

[@BaronsHistoryTimes]

Prince of Orange made several costly mistakes in the campaign, but in fact, he actually did several actions that helped win the campaign. 1) On June 15th, he did not force his Netherlands army generals to obey Wellington's orders for Perponcher's Division to regroup at the town of Nivelles, which would have left the Quatre-Bras crossroads undefended for French capture; instead he listened to his veteran staff commanders and realized the crossroads needed to be defended at all costs. 2) He was very very busy riding along the front line in the large area between Hougoumont and Bylandt's Division - rallying the wavering Dutch /Belgian / Nassau and German battalions which were getting pulverized for hours. Some of these largely inexperienced formations should have broken entirely, but the veteran officers of all nationalities, including the Prince of Orange ( a vet of the Peninsular War) somehow kept the thinning front line from breaking. 3) Not a 'big moment', but there was one instance in the Battle, I think closer to Hougoumont, where a junior officer asked the Prince for permission to move forward with a company if I recall, but the Prince advised against it, citing the threat of a potential ambush. An interesting selection of books show how much fighting the often unnoticed other nationalities contributed to the battle; Gareth Glover's 'Waterloo Archives' series, and Erwin Muilwijk's series on the United Kingdom of Netherlands Army during the 1815;Hundred Days'. Without each other all along the front line standing firm > those that did, the battle result would have changed.

[@TinaTiren]

Here’s how to make a bayonet from Lego: take a 1x1 brick piece with a clip and take a hollow stud and attach it to the clip piece and take a Harry Potter wand piece and put it in the stud.

[@legomocbuilder3211]

Hery nice interview!

[@Koendabomb]

No Dutch soldiers?

[@lucaspopelier2105]

Dutch_Pagan jes where are they

[@SethSwanson-hq1it]

I want this guy to maie a channel i love his energy i love his mocs ajd i cant wait to see more from he and his crew of helpers!

[@admiral_mochii-5199]

YESH ze 95th rifles!

[@gravycatfan1068]

I would do anything to see that and get an army from there

[@EvilAngel888]

Amazing build!!!

[@lordgeneralcornwallis9668]

They did make a movie about it it is called Waterloo.

[@carrott36]

They didn’t make a movie specifically about La Haye Sainte though, a farmhouse which played a pivotal role in Waterloo.

[@CheeseCakeFilms05]

i live a couple of miles away from there and it doesn't look like tha, but the moc is cool, nice techniques on the roof

[@georgemason4389]

Well you know the monument that was built? It's been a while since I've been to the battlefield, anyway a lot of the land was moved to build up the monuments structure. This meant that the landscape was lost, not to mention that roads have been built half way across the battlefield lol.

[@CheeseCakeFilms05]

haha true, i was there about a month agao agin and now they've taken down the cafe and it looks terrible

[@georgemason4389]

+CheeseCakeFilms05 oh right. I'm struggling to remember where everything was, lol! I last time i was there napoleons 'war room/building' was under renovation. Shame I didn't get to see it but this is a great moc!

[@CheeseCakeFilms05]

Oh right, i think thats finished now :) and it is!!

[@georgemason4389]

+CheeseCakeFilms05 oh cool!

[@DetonatorCallan]

I'm really into history like WW2,WWI,etc, and legos, history is my thing and legos is like a hobby. But I just wanna say that that's a phenomenal build! I could never build something that big! I'm really interested in brickfair and I hope I can show up one day.

[@Tom_Cruise_Missile]

How much does he want for those. They're not actually worth THAT much, but I really want some.

[@2ndltalfredludlow]

+Dash Craft Organizing an army can be expensive. Those blue soldiers go for 13 dollars on ebay so figure if you want an entire army.

[@Tom_Cruise_Missile]

Yes, but on BRICKLINK they're not worth as much.

[@Tom_Cruise_Missile]

Bricklink is so much better than Ebay.

[@2ndltalfredludlow]

+Dash Craft I still gotta figure out how Bricklink works :)

[@louirudy2681]

+2ndltalfredludlow same

[@gunnarjohnson6484]

I no the map on my game

[@richtofenillingroth641]

Awesome! I just want that 500-man French column!

[@xix8314]

just saying that it should have been an English flag as Britain was not united at the time

[@cowboy4378]

XiX yes it was the bi centenary was in 1801

[@dang8521]

ur big dum dum XiX

[@Pickle911]

Fact:You forgot the prussians because in the actual waterloo prussian arrived soon after the battle started

[@carrott36]

They were in no position to relieve La Haye Sainte. And even early on, they arrived in small numbers. The MOC isn’t covering the whole Waterloo, just this Farmhouse and some squares beyond it.

[@Pickle911]

@@carrott36 so after 1 year someone finally replied

[@DUKEOFWELLINGTON325]

LOOK ITS ARTHUR WESLLEY IN AN SQUARE

[@_dustintran]

Oh on Friday Mr. Brooks explained the moc to me!

[@Bradyn_Stu]

W O W

[@MarcoCKNBalls]

You should watch brick dictators battle of Waterloo. Minifigs look much better

[@AK_Brickster]

Marco Chan Brick Dictator's film does not use 100% LEGO parts. Many of the minifigures and almost all of the weapons are custom or 3rd party products. Gary specifically mentioned in the interview that he wanted to embrace the challenge of creating the scene within the limitations of official LEGO products. Have a great day!

[@vivaviews]

anybody know where to order this online ?

[@robbiehogan8094]

It is pronounced Ca-val-ry not Calvry. Calvry was where Christ was crucified, Cavalry is mounted infantry

[@jacksont.7792]

there's a good minifigure from I believe series 16... It's the paleontologist figure. For the wwi moc

[@maximsharpe9276]

YEAH SHARPE

[@andrewreegs6319]

Gary Brooks (the builder) you (excuse my language) are a badass and you make awesome lego war MOCs keep it up they're all heaven to my eyes and I'm really looking forward to next years revolutionary war moc!

[@melissacantrell7779]

British dude: Gimme the coins French man Two more times later French dude: Gib us the coins back now

[@skipperderek4815]

Like always it was a really great MOC l. If there was room for the charge of the Old Guard that would've been really cool!

[@carrott36]

If you were gonna include the old guard, you might as well have hougoumont and plancenoit and the entire battle.

[@richtofenillingroth641]

That would have been awesome

[@carrott36]

@@richtofenillingroth641 Yes, but not accurate to the time-frame. La Haye fell at 6:30, Old Guard charged later.

[@richtofenillingroth641]

@@carrott36 I was responding to your initial comment ☝🏻…

[@carrott36]

@@richtofenillingroth641 Oh, sorry. Reply to who you’re replying to in future :)

[@lifeaschrisyanak5150]

Very great MOC, I thought about getting last minute tickets this year. And I thought about going last year. But seems whenever I do not go, brilliant things like this happen. When I do go, people like this hold off on MOCs like This for another year or two.

[@georgebarnick]

I love the quick cameo appearance that Matthew and I make at the very end.

[@rollingo8678]

The 95th were called the 95th brigade Green Jackets then, Rifles is what the light infantry is now called

[@denizbeytekin9853]

man I remember watchin this

[@crazyvr1023]

Hey i live in Virginia

[@scientificrevolutionary1322]

How much is this?

[@borntokill442]

+Silver Golf i think about um.. 1500 e?

[@Ray-tf2ps]

Why don’t lego just make war themes but put age restrictions on it

[@818de60]

great MOC and great history lesson

[@boomtaylor8297]

Honestly guys like these who put all that work into the details, makes the model that much more special they did a great job fair play to them

[@xhg7a]

Whoa

[@friedrich2.615]

Great book, great moc. Honnor to Kings german Legion! ⬛🔴🔶

[@mrdogytotalwar3989]

Anyone know where can I buy all of these soldiers pls show me the link

[@mattl878]

I love how all the French guys in columns all had smiley faces

[@AK_Brickster]

Great display, Gary (and fellow collaborators)! Thanks for the shout-out and I enjoyed the close-up of my cavalry contribution at the 15:30 mark. Excellent interview BTB. Good questions and Gary you did a great job presenting the MOC.

[@matthewcramer7908]

Best Bild ever

[@DUKEOFWELLINGTON325]

Is sharpe there?

[@nickkleinberg3143]

No Prussian's ;-;

[@no-xs8bk]

Prussians are Germans today..There were Prussians

[@cowboy4378]

Moshe Levy he ment in the build

[@vachejaune3922]

yes he just say " english vs french " but it's was europe coalition against french, if there were only english, french would destroy it :), i was sadly too to not see prussians too

[@carrott36]

Look, at La Haye Sainte, a part of the battle, the Prussians weren’t there, although several other German states were.