This build is to accompany my previously posted
Wheeler family basement build, and is my rendition of the D&D game seen in the first few minutes of Season One. I built it as an entry to another LEGO contest, this time
hosted on Flickr by
The Brothers Brick, a Lego blog/news site. I'm reentering my basement build in the contest, but there's a catch- you've got to build the Upside Down (the show's alternate universe) equivalent of your build! I lacked nearly enough pieces to render the basement in the dark tones of the Upside Down, so I had to get creative in constructing an equivalent.
As a constant D&D player, one of my favorite aspects of the show are its heavy nods to RPGs. As I noted, the main cast plays a D&D game which foreshadows the rest of the show in the first episode. As I had already made the basement where the group plays, I decided to make a vignette roughly mirroring the basement's layout, but make it the party's characters venturing into a tainted dungeon, about to encounter the terrible Demogorgon....
....who emerges from a extraplanar portal. This is the closest detail to the show, and is inspired by the gate seen in the basement of the Hawkins Energy Lab in season one. The vines and slime, curiously, are mostly constructed from pieces borrowed from the oldest and most recent Harry Potter lines.
Behind the gate lies further ooze, most resembling the caverns seen in season two. I wanted a warmer color to contrast with the grey dungeon, and brown makes it look suitably wet and mouth-like. While there aren't as many interesting details or techniques featured as in the basement build, I'm pleased with the finished model. The gate and front right corner in particular turned out well, and I like the effect of the two builds displayed side-by-side.
Pictures of the build can also be found
on my Flickr photostream, along with the accompanying basement.
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