The LEGO Animation Iceberg Explained (Brickfilm Day 2022)

The hobby of LEGO animation has produced a thriving online community for the past few decades. This video explores some of the most well-known and more obscure films, people, and stories from the brickfilm community, delving into more and more bizarre territory with each tier.
NOTE: This is not a completely comprehensive list. Even at almost 2 hours long, there are still so many things we weren't able to cover.
0:00 Intro
0:59 Tier 1 (Roody)
6:49 Tier 2 (ForlornCreature)
12:40 Tier 3 (Blandeer)
28:02 Tier 4 (MindGame Studios)
49:24 Tier 5 (Sonjira)
1:13:54 Tier 6 (Penta)
1:27:19 Tier 7 (Chris W.)
1:39:21 Outro
Website: bricksinmotion.com
Discord: bricksinmotion.com/chat/
Patreon: / bricksinmotion
This video was made for the Brickfilm Day 2022 festival. Check out the other submissions here!
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[@MrMrDinohead]

0:00 - Intro 0:59 - (Roody) 1:05 - Micheal Hickox 2:08 - Lego Batman Shark Attack 3:22 - The LEGO Movie 4:40 - Forrestfire101 5:39 - Battle of the Brick: Build for Combat 6:12 - CGI Lego Promotional Films 6:49 (ForlonCreature) 6:52 - Edbound 7:27 - Brotherhood Workshop 8:04 - The Magic Portal 8:42 - Dynamic Duos 9:22 - Paganomation and the LEGO Animation Book 10:02 - Pantsahat 11:34 - THAC 12:40 (Blandeer) 12:42 - Bricks in Motion 13:34 - Brickfilm Day 14:33 - BRAWL 15:28 - Henri & Edmond 16:43 - LEGO Studios 17:44 - Mod Elements 18:41 - America: Outlawed 20:08 - Minilife TV 21:33 - Nightly News at Nine 22:40 - Bound 24:37 - Dane Cook Gets… 25:11 - Journey To The Moon 27:04 - Beast 28:02 (MindGame Studios) 28:06 - Biff & Mario 30:02 - Rick & Steve 31:36 - Bobby Burns (Chicken Feet Films) 33:16 - The Citizen of the Year 34:42 - Spite Your Face 36:02 - Circle Circle Dot Dot 38:03 - IP vs. Non-IP brickfilms 40:22 - Leftfield Studios 42:05 - Robota 43:09 - Rise of the Empire 44:05 - Just Kidden animation influence 45:59 - Grace 47:17 - Captain Bulldog 49:24 (Sonjira) 49:32 - Girl 52:05 - *Flashing lights warning please skip to **54:04** if you have photosensitivity* 52:10 - Robukka 54:04 - Stromedy 56:06 - DAIN 57:22 - The Benny ‘n Lee Wall 1:00:11 - The KZbin Algorithm 1:01:09 - Good Company 1:02:12 - The Kastle Vania Series 1:04:00 - Ancient KZbin Brickfilms 1:05:06 - THE BRICKFILMS. COM SCHISM 1:13:54 (Penta) 1:13:59 - Jarrah White 1:14:54 - NewGrounds LEGOLand 1:16:22 - EUB 1:18:06 - The Wars of Darkness 1:20:26 - Lime Sloped Brick 1:21:14 - Obscured Outlooks 1:21:47 - THAC Incidents 1:22:56 - Soldering Your Balls Saves Marriages 1:24:00 - Mr. Charlie 1:24:46 - The Squire And The Scroll 1:27:19 (Chris W.) 1:27:23 - The Dark Side of Game Play 1:28:30 - Vous êtes des animaux 1:30:11 - BrickUnit fakes his death 1:30:14 - pizzamovies vs. legoboy12345678 1:34:55 CHRIS CHAN WAS A BRICKFILMER 1:39:18 - Outro

[@greengreenanimations]

First

[@BRICK101]

"Bound is a 2015 Christian-religious-spiritual-gospel-Jesus brickfilm" 🤣💀

[@qwertyzillaofficial2969]

BRICK 101

[@GameyRaccoon]

David Pickett himself? I loved NNN as a kid I wish it would come back

[@OrbitalLizardStudios]

1:24:18 thats so wholesome, doing a brickfilm series when you are a kid and then continuing the series 20 years later with your own kid

[@Chesleigh]

Battle of the brick: built for combat will remain as the biggest cornerstone for nostalgic brick films

[@dicestopmotion1047]

As someone who started doing brickfilming 2 years ago I did not know that brickfilming had this much lore!

[@Em0_]

Yeah, I started in 2013 and followed brick films since sometime between 2008 and 2009 and I'm baffled. This video was such a great learning experience

[@kempeioniiko7916]

My first attempt at a brickfilm was back in 2009, but I refuse to upload any of my brickfilms made between 2009-2013 because they're so bad

[@axelyoung1551]

Everything has really deep lore if you look hard enough

[@starwarsstudio100]

Ah yes the infamous lore of the majority of the community all packed in a iceberg, some of which are indeed at the very bottom. From the well known to the well most unknown. It is indeed something that is a rather interesting insight indeed. Well done to you guys and keep up the good work!

[@bigknight202]

Lol is this comment like a parody of yourself?

[@starwarsstudio100]

@@bigknight202 No, how so?

[@bigknight202]

@@starwarsstudio100 oh I thought you were really hamming up the ‘indeeds’ etc. My bad

[@starwarsstudio100]

@@bigknight202 Oh I didn't noticed I wrote that a lot, haha

[@BRICK101]

Gonna average my entry on tier 2 with the one on tier 3 and claim my personal tier as 2.4.2022 AKA the release date of this film AKA the best

[@FanOfBricks]

ayy wussup I got ur book lol

[@ferdabernstudios1187]

@@FanOfBricks same

[@tehbertl]

Wow, that was quite the ride. Excellent video, another must watch for anyone and everyone with even a passing interest in the history, memes, and/or JUICY DRAMA of brickfilming. The section on the Schism at 1:05:05 in particular is a highlight for me, incredibly engaging. It brought back many memories. Also super happy to see Robukka in there, whose unique style has always captivated me (still to this day). Worthy of the iceberg for sure.

[@tehbertl]

Also for those of you who have reached the absolute last tier and are wondering "hmm I haven't really heard of this guy, maybe I should investigate"... you're probably better off not knowing. Be warned.

[@MikeVonwolkenstein]

I started watching KZbin cause of brick films back in 2007. I used to watch Forrestfire all the time with my friends and quoted it heavily. Thanks for the nostalgic trip!

[@WillowTreeAnimation]

Love Captain Bulldog's brickfilms. The Boyles' made awesome brickfilms. Thanks for putting this video together!

[@JonniPeppers]

Thanks 4 the mention!!!!!!! Loved the video

[@Nickdabom8]

Forestfire101 is the man who got me into loving batman

[@adwarriorlegend1]

The history of this subject has always been so interesting to me, brickfilms have been such a huge part of my life so this video was very nostalgic seeing all this stuff I haven’t seen in quite awhile. If there’s ever a part 2 to this, I’d love to hear a bit about Brickfilmers like DTinaglia Studios and AL123 Productions, I know so much about those guys and watched almost religiously back in the day, I feel there impact on brick films is huge seeing as some people have even said that there Ninjago series is sometimes better then the original show.

[@LittlePangy]

14:22 ok, that genuinely made me laugh. Great video!

[@cromofilms]

Will there be a sequel to this? This is legitimately one of my favourite videos.

[@diogoargento7826]

I never thought this video would come out one day, but oh boy... The amount of dedication and research put all this information together was amazing. There are a lot of things that even me who is a brick filmer for quite a while haven't heard about it. Great job Bricks in motion!

[@Kashi-K]

i fucking KNEW Chris chan would be included

[@MegahamProductions]

Woah, the community has really evolved, hasn't it. Thanks for making this thing, really helps the scope. Crazy.

[@MinilifeTV]

Never knew Spite Your Face made the clips for LEGO Studios. That's so awesome!

[@LegoLordPro]

When I started out posting brickfilms in 2014, I felt like that I too would like to make my own original animations to show off like "Coldrussmas" and "The Future Lego War: An Independence Day Parody". But I ultimately stopped making brickfilms because of the changes in the youtube algorithm from the last 9 years and not having as much reach as with other smaller youtube brickfilming channels during the mid 2010s. Another reason was the loss of interest in making brickfilms since I felt like that I wasn't really going anywhere with my animations and decided to dabble into livestreaming during the vtuber explosion in 2020 and during the pandemic. It was fun for a while, but ultimately, I wasn't finding any satisfaction from it.

[@Zee-Zah]

Blandeer's narration is just wonderful

[@KingSandvich1]

This deserves way more views. This is one of my favorite icebergs if only because I was super into brickfilms back in the day. Fantastic work from all involved!

[@AJFStudios]

This is so fantastic! I loved this video so much, nostalgic and hilarious

[@dt98films]

This was great! Having been in the community for over a decade it was really cool to see some old videos I completely forgot about pop up

[@E-Motion32]

I’m just happy that 3 seconds of an entry from January of mine was featured! I wish I could have participated in this years BFS but I could t start production in time.. thanks for the awesome video!

[@OrbitalLizardStudios]

Oh very nice, first brickfilm day video ive seen that isnt a brickfilm, im exited to watch this lol. Also i like how the iceberg is actually made of lego, nice touch

[@OrbitalLizardStudios]

The benny and lee wall is my favorite thing

[@ABTOProductions]

As someone new to BiM, I found the history and background to it all really interesting. Amazing video!

[@IronElephantProductions]

that was a rollercoaster especially with the TAAB story Great editing, amazing work p.s. came here from the Edbound Stream

[@AmericanWataruAkiyama]

Same

[@MisterBrickFilms]

Oh wow, I used to be the admin of a French Lego forum in the early 2010s, and it felt so nostalgic to see some good old forum drama somewhere else on the Internet haha! Thank you also for bringing me back some ancient brickfilm memories :)

[@bradee_]

Cool vid you just gained a sub

[@Sonjira]

This was really fun to work on, so good to see this out and really excited people get to enjoy this, some fun stuff in here folks

[@CodeManLEGO]

What a fantastic video, really insightful with a few laugh out loud jokes

[@MattiSavolainen-lb1er]

Oh gosh! That Castlevania remake has some funny dialog. "Ancient youtube brickfilms" are also funny.

[@headlessbeatmotel2115]

thanks so much for this

[@PortalMasterStudios]

Absolutely loved this! Just wondering, was fancy pants a consideration? IDK if he was as big as I remember or just a relic of nostalgia.

[@KAYSC3A]

So glad you mentioned minilife tv

[@Comindo]

Hell of a video

[@pajammy99]

THIS VIDEO IS SO AWESOME, WE NEED A SEQUEL!

[@StanleyQBrick]

The best iceberg video to date

[@Qui-GonJinn1234]

Battle of the Brick: Built for Combat and Paired are the two greatest brickfilms ever made. I highly recommend you watch Paired as it took 8 YEARS to make.

[@Person-wz6iy]

It's even cooler when you realise that The Wars of Darkness is the LONGEST animated film EVER. With or without Lego! #RestoretheWBLegoVerse.

[@bigknight202]

The big names joke was spectacular

[@LegoLordPro]

I saw in the video that you mentioned Captain Bulldog. He and other brickfilmers were the original reason for why I started making brickfilms to begin with.

[@SturdoBrick]

Nice video ❤❤

[@TheFreakJessie]

Hey everyone as a fan of LEGO brick films there are some who are deleted from KZbin due to music copyrights Want to know if there are websites that archive them. If not then maybe you can help me find them. I would explain the two videos the best I can. The first video was a Batman video, it started with Batman and Robin dancing to “Mama Mia” from ABBA. Until then they saw the Riddler and Harley Quinn. Batman told Robin to quickly play something cool which Robin change it to one song I forgot what it was and the second one was “I want it that way” from Backstreet Boys. Batman told Robin to just turn off the music and they prepare to fight the Riddler and Harley Quinn. But they say they didn’t come to fight and instead want them to kill the joker for a reason I also forgot, (sorry the video old and I had a internet hiatus). So when Batman and Robin went after the Joker. The Joker will then make a music video with the Backstreet Boys song “I want it that way”. He was interrupted by Batman and Robin. They kill the joker. However the Riddler and Harley Quinn was actually getting rid of Batman so they can have a party at his house. When Batman and Robin get back home and saw the party. Batman then kill everyone even the guests. That was the first video. Here’s the second video. First off this one isn’t really a stop motion film but more like a frame by frame and then some recording. It start off with the camera showing the airport with the Beatles “Here come the sun” playing. Then the camera will go around the LEGO city until they stop at two guys outside. One guy was reading the new paper tell the other about the election between the Mayor and Dr evil who is shown running over and girl in the red bike. During the two runner’s were making a speech. The two guys think that Dr Evil is evil and they want to stop him. And they did but it was a long and hard battle. During the end the Mayor would do a commercial for Diet Mut Root Beer and ended with “Its bad for your teeth”. After that the Mayor ask the people in his city who they gonna vote, to which they answer “OBAMA” with the two guys saying “WTF” and that was the end of the video. I hope anyone can find the two videos, as they were my favorite LEGO videos. I try my best to find them in KZbin and even try the way back machine, but I don’t think it’s very good.

[@maskedstudios3050]

very interesting iceburg!

[@cromofilms]

Thank god someone made an iceberg about brickfilms!

[@Mod3rn1ty]

Bro i watched pantsahat when i was young and this was such a hit of nostalgia

[@fivegoldenbricks]

Nice one

[@LegoEddy]

Oh, trust me DAIN ist not the end of the iceberg of using AI to ruin brickfilms. I've developed a dark fascination to delve deeper down that rabbit hole :D

[@TwistedBricks]

God I love this content

[@kermunklin7704]

Super deep. Thanks

[@brickcraftproductions3065]

To think Pizzamovies and Legoboy12345678 had a war on the internet I mean, these two KZbinrs inspired me to make Lego Stop Motions and Collect Lego Star Wars sets as a result of me bingewatching their content, finding out that they fought over plagiarism and having big Lego collections goes to show that the internet was a volatile place even back then then it was now.

[@rippresting]

This is my favorite brickfilm

[@TheAnimatorOfOpallyon]

Hello, RIPP, i'm a big fan !

[@jfproductions4141]

Woah reveal at the end was crazy and I didn’t know I’d get a Chris Chan reveal in a brick film iceberg

[@dangerxcom]

One of my favourites is the clone training center, had some good humour and rather unique characters. Shoot it

[@jamescawood]

This is the biggest bruh moment of all time

[@chillypenguinstudios72]

Brickfilm lore go brrrrr

[@Elgranluchador69]

Top 5 things you forgot to mention. 1. golfcrazenes18 2.Mindgame studios 3.Lego GTA: CLUB MASSACRE (feat. JOZEK) 4. GTA Lego City 5. Lego Wrestling channels like RichyboyJhan and the infamous lost media Lego WWE 2008 Royal Rumble video.

[@aarontheperson6867]

im so high. this is awesome. good vid. trippy.

[@FormalLens]

Part of me wishes that things like Lego Weapons Store, zoot101, and the Lego Spiderman series by CustomLegoMinifigure appeared here but I suppose none of those are obscure corners of the hobby. Glad someone else remembers Chicken Feet Films. It was so weird to know him from his association with Jack Campise and lego animation in 2012 and then find him hanging around with Shane Dawson in 2018. Oblong Pictures' "Where'd the Cheese Go" music video appeared briefly so that's cool!

[@colwarsstudiobrickfilmandm8580]

46:50 exactly me

[@aarontheperson6867]

magic portal is so freaky!!! i love it

[@supergamingboydude31]

forrestfire101 also made a collab with Ray William Johnson in 2012 with your favorite martian. The animation he made was the song "We like them girls"

[@retropirate1]

Wonder how much the Wars of Darkness DVDs would go for today

[@Person-wz6iy]

8:43, 40:23, 43:09, 1:18:06, 1:21:14, 1:35:14. #RestoretheWBLegoVerse.

[@Se_ba_s]

the last tier killed me

[@personman9140]

This made me wanna find another dynamic duo series i used to watch, Jake and Adam. I followed the series as it came out when i was a kid, and probably watched the episode “Cops and Robert” a hundred times. I searched youtube and google with no luck, but finally found it on the brickfilms wiki. The channel is now called Neema Fahimy (used to be something else, but don’t remember what), and he unlisted all of his brickfilms. You can still see them through the links on the wiki, but why unlist all of them? I get wanting to do something different on KZbin, but at least make a playlist so old fans can still find them through the channel. Edit: well, all the videos are private now so you can’t even watch them with the links on the wiki. Guess I should’ve downloaded them

[@amtrakfan9125]

Omg i remember nightly news at nine. Binge watched that as a kid lol

[@amtrakfan9125]

My other childhood favorites include Lego Plane Go Boom and The Ship that Sunk the World

[@Maosl]

1:12:34 “among” - Sonjira

[@milesbyt]

glad to see our queen jonni in tier 4

[@Hungry_Burger]

Darth Levee better be on here or I'm gonna be pissed!

[@kingeli331]

I’ve been looking for this lego animation for ages but can no longer find it on youtube. I remember watching it as a kid, it was probably made in the early 2000s. It was some Halloween special about a protagonist on a motorcycle reaching a town full of dead bodies and fighting a guy who is seemingly immortal, despite having several limbs dismembered by the protagonist. I also remember it starting with the motorcycle driving past a horse that was eating a human head? I also think the title intro was played over the blood flood scene from the Shining. Looking back this seemed way too disturbing for a young kid, but I seemed to enjoy it. Does anyone remember this?

[@sillypenta]

This sounds like LEGO(re) by CRASHNAPALM

[@kingeli331]

@@sillypenta Yeah that’s the one thanks

[@aarontheperson6867]

duck stand song holy hell

[@TheLEGOZora]

Love the Zelda music. Did you hear the news?

[@OlegFantik]

Давно наткнулся на классный итальянский лего-фильм, решил снова найти, но не вышло. единственные сцены, которые я оттуда помню, это погоня в городе, где главный герой находился на крыше пожарной машины, он отсоединял от нее части и бросал их в того, кто его преследовал. и я помню еще одну забавную сцену, где главный герой, или кто бы он ни был, пытался выбраться откуда-то с помощью своего напарника (напарник должен был пройти из одного конца комнаты в другой на глазах у охранника, и главный герой был на стороне напарника и проделывал те же действия, чтобы его не заметил охранник). кто тоже видел этот фильм? как это называется?

[@sillypenta]

Henri & Edmond - Copyright kzbin.info/www/bejne/fp7FYaSMiMllqLs

[@BricksinMotion]

Фильм называется «Авторское право» Максима Мариона, также известного как Studio Epsilon. Вот ссылка на фильм: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fp7FYaSMiMllqLs

[@type3666]

Nostalgia :))

[@thedragonsden2004]

jesues what was that music used on the lego movie entre?

[@ralphytube9986]

Which is best? Duck song 1 or 3?

[@AsianGuy540]

duck song 1

[@sebastianbrickfilms8579]

I was one of the few unfortunate souls that watched Veux etes des Animaux when it originally came out. 😐

[@mbaeacfilms5516]

Do you know where I could watch it? All I could find was this old post on the Bricks and Motion site breathily mentioning it with a link to the private original.

[@headlessbeatmotel2115]

​@@mbaeacfilms5516I'm curious also

[@NaiDoesThings]

Me: *cries in Random acts of lego-ness* Look the seriese up I can't quite explain it. Also Twisted Bricks.

[@dee-ef-won]

Brickfilm lore

[@rexmolequemaldito]

i see hippo, i click it

[@jamesq5831]

didn’t know bobby burns had a lego channel, i found him from brand sins

[@BrickfilmsArchive]

Tomorrow, this video will need a small update 😉

[@justosoler8408]

What was the name of the longest brickfilm?

[@HideousSideous]

54:05

[@ceciliamoore7329]

40:17 What Spider-Man brickfilm is this?

[@mrsamsam24]

No Lego weapon store?

[@uuuuhhhhhhsandwich5537]

What about speed builds? Like brick builder of Austrian lego fan?

[@fleetproductions1410]

11:02 Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what's astolfo doing here

[@justdenys1421]

y'all didn't mention that one your favorite martian song

[@BricksinMotion]

I think Forrest would agree that the less said about that, the better

[@breaking836]

where can i find the vous êtes des animaux video?@@BricksinMotion

[@charliewhite3905]

I'd like to shout out Kevin Mcfree. An exJehovahs witness, Lego KZbinr.

[@A10Thunda]

I actually thought it was about an iceberg Bruh

[@noahtran0113]

Where’s keshen8?

[@TAD.Animation]

#Morbius

[@brickhistory]

morbius sweep

[@Jean-Paul-Lane-Valley]

Sonjira sounds like Gilbert Gottfried sometimes.

[@GameyRaccoon]

can you release a normal one without blandeer?

[@BricksinMotion]

We will release a new version where Blandeer narrates every tier.

[@GameyRaccoon]

@@BricksinMotion that works too

[@zayncuriosity23]

Here's the link to Vous êtes des animaux: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXbcqn56braBgLc