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Bhumika Bhatia, a young photographer is recovering from a devastating car accident from which she lost temporary use of her hands. In an effort to help the young woman with hospital expenses for which she is fully responsible, Underline is selling $50 raffle tickets to win one of Bhatia’s prints. (such as photo above)
To read more about the raffle, visit their website.

ok this probably has alot of meaning and everything but the first thing that popped into my head was“TWO BY TWO HANDS OF BLUE!” From firefly by joss whedon

on note of the photo that is horrible…O.O

Bhumika Bhatia, a young photographer is recovering from a devastating car accident from which she lost temporary use of her hands. In an effort to help the young woman with hospital expenses for which she is fully responsible, Underline is selling $50 raffle tickets to win one of Bhatia’s prints. (such as photo above)

To read more about the raffle, visit their website.

ok this probably has alot of meaning and everything but the first thing that popped into my head was

“TWO BY TWO HANDS OF BLUE!” From firefly by joss whedon

on note of the photo that is horrible…O.O

Firefly Serenity playset LEGO

5/6/12 That’s all folks. Honestly though, thank you to everyone who helped this reach 10k. Thank you Brown coats, all the liking, tweeting, +1ing, blogging, and harassing of celebrities has come to a successful close. Thank you to the cast who were bombarded by requests to support this project, for their patience and support, and to Lego for this opportunity and experience.
Now for the hardest part of all, we wait.

5/5/12 Less than 1000 left! I wanted to wait till Lego wrote back with their 5000 comment, but it looks like that might not come until this reaches 10,000. So I want to get this out there before the project goes to review. There is a lot of debate about whether this will pass the review. In the event they don’t/can’t move forward with this I fully intend to make my own instructions. So a lego serenity WILL happen, it’s just a matter of when and who the instructions are printed by. So let’s get the final 900 supports, relax while we wait for the review and we’ll see what happens.

Many of you have asked for it so I finally complied. After putting my micro firefly
(which is still up for supporting http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/8071)
from the movie “Serenity,” I am now in the process of designing a model of the ship Serenity that will be able to fit minifigs. It won’t be truly minifig scale, but will be like 4504. An accurate model while being able to fit minifigs and playable areas.

UPDATE: By popular demand I have added a concept minifigs of Captain Malcolm Reynolds and the rest of the crew, and yes Jayne has his cap.

So, the picture is not the final model. The one above is already built and is about the right size, but was not intended to fit minifigs and does not have any interior to speak of. I am going to recycle as many elements as possible to save on the design time, so the nose the wings, and the light ring in front of the firefly drive will be the same or similar to the ones pictured. The cargo bay and dining area, however, will have to be redesigned to accommodate minifigs.

More pictures of the current model below and even more pictures in the gallery.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=479368

Planned Features:
* movable loading ramp
* cockpit capable of fitting 1 minifig
* light up firefly drive
* playable dining area and cargo hold
* rotating engines

Once again this is not for the model pictured. Some parts will be similar and it will be about the same size, but many aspects will have to change for there to be a playable interior.

A HUGE thank you to Morena Baccarin, Nathan Fillion, and Adam Baldwin for retweeting about this project. I know you and the rest of the cast have been bombarded by requests to support this and it means a lot to me.
Also a big thank you to Grant Imahara and to Wired: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/vote-for-lego-firefly/

The flaps covering the drive do open and close, however this version of the model doesn’t light up. Something I’m looking to change in the rebuild.

The engines in the vertical position and the cargo ramp lowered. This model did have a shuttle to scale, but with the rebuild containing minifigs getting a to-scale shuttle to dock with the ship would require the model to be too big. That still leaves the shuttle open for a separate set though.

Some comments have brought up the possible issue of Inara’s character, however, basing this on the movie Serenity, rather than the series, avoids any issues as Inara isn’t introduced until later, and her role in general is limited. This would allow Lego to focus more on the vehicles and action, and if the theme becomes marketable for other sets, they can branch out and pick and choose ideas from the series (like the shuttle). And making sets based off a single movie has been done before several times (ie speedracer). Also Lego managed to make the Temple of Doom kid friendly. If they can pull that off I have confidence in the Lego group that they can pull off Serenity theme also.

UPDATE 3/31/12: Preliminary minifig for Malcolm Reynolds.
If this is approved and the rights procured I guess there would be other sets (ie the Mule hover craft, the shuttle, alliance craft) to collect all the characters from the show, so not everyone would have to be included in this particular set. This would probably include Mal, Wash (with toy dinosaur), Simon, and Shepherd Book, and Kaylee though any/all of the characters could reasonably be included, but that would increase the price. (naturally the face and hands would always be skin tone, but I worked with what I had)

Inara, Book, Jayne with ski cap, Mal, and Kaylee.
I originally had a much more accurate and ornate decal for Inara, but I managed to overwrite the file and I lost it.

Wash, Zoe, Simon, and River

Wood burned on craft wood browncoats flag from the show firefly by joss whedon, and yes they were cheap dollar store colored pencils haha (Taken with instagram)

My attempt (bad) at the chinese symbol for serenity with woodburning, pyrography (Taken with instagram)

serenity gif, preview of the point of the movie i am at while giffing lol

FRUITY OATY BARS, POW! HAY! FRUITY BARS, MAKE A MAN OF A MOUSE, MAKE YOU BUST OUT YOUR BLOUSE, EAT THEM NOW, BANG! PING! ZOW! — TRY FRUITY, OATY BARS.

OUTLAW STAR! The FIREFLY ANIME!?

seriously i saw outlaw star many years before firefly was even made right…but think about it…crazy girl arrives in a case letting her live…bad ass captain….other stuff! lol space pirate cowboys kinda, come on no one else see how rivers entrance and that melfina’s entrance are exactly the same?

Outlaw Star opens on the backwater planet Sentinel III, on which the protagonist Gene Starwind and his 11-year-old business associate James “Jim” Hawking run a small jack-of-all-trades business.^[5] After the two take a job as bodyguards for a disguised Hilda and engage in a brief skirmish with the Kei Pirates, Gene and Jim find themselves the owners of the XGP15A-II (which they nickname the “Outlaw Star”) and the caretakers of Melfina.^[1] Hilda reveals that the ship’s true purpose is to locate the “Galactic Leyline” (銀河の龍脈 Ginga no Ryuu Myaku^?, lit. “Galactic Dragon Vein”), a place which popular claims say is a holder of immense treasure, knowledge, and power.^[1] Throughout the course of the series, the crew grows to include the kimono-garbed contract killer “Twilight” Suzuka and Aisha Clanclan, a catgirl of the Ctarl-Ctarl alien race.^[1]^[5]

and then her entrance!

anyways…i always had this thought but never posted it…it just..so many things are the same that its weird, when firefly first came on i swear i thought it was based on outlaw star in the first episode or so lol obviously there are many differences! Im not saying its perfect, but yeah…done.

Serenity, Wood burned on…well craft wood I got from a craft store! From the tv show Firefly, by Joss whedon

Meagan

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Guess what im woodburning next! Thats fucking right, serenity bitches! From firely and serenity creator joss whedon all that (Taken with instagram)