{"id":9496,"date":"2018-04-09T12:26:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T12:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=9496"},"modified":"2018-04-09T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T12:26:21","slug":"arctic-explorer-nutcracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=9496","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Explorer Nutcracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John and I got a very unique opportunity through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/innovalug.com\/\">InnovaLUG<\/a>, to build a series of Nutcrackers based off of the promotional Nutcracker set to aid in The LEGO Group\u2019s advertising of the promotion. You can see that video on their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LEGO\/videos\/10155260653428403\/\">Facebook page here<\/a>. They needed 18 unique outfits for Nutcrackers built within a few weeks, and we jumped at the chance to do some building for the LEGO group.<\/p>\n<p>This arctic explorer wasn&#8217;t specifically based off of any minifigure, though it was influenced by the various Arctic figs LEGO has made before. The new macaroni tiles\u00a0ended up working well for pockets, and\u00a0while the pickax was challenging at first, a ski ended up working nicely for its blade.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 16%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9496 gallery-columns-6 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Arctic2.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[9496]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Arctic2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arctic-front.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[9496]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/arctic-front-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/artic-left.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[9496]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/artic-left-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John and I got a very unique opportunity through\u00a0InnovaLUG, to build a series of Nutcrackers based off of the promotional Nutcracker set to aid in The LEGO Group\u2019s advertising of\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=9496\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,818],"tags":[596,286,102,53,2448,8,49,1780,2326,273,212],"class_list":["post-9496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-isaac","category-special-themes","tag-arctic","tag-build","tag-creation","tag-design","tag-explorer","tag-lego","tag-moc","tag-nutcracker","tag-outfit","tag-technique","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9497,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions\/9497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}