Post by LurkingManiac on Jan 5, 2022 19:01:39 GMT
When I was around six years old, I tended to watch a lot of Lego stop motion videos (Brickfilms, as they were more popularly known) on YouTube. A lot of them slipped my mind as I grew older, but I managed to rediscover almost all of them except for some that I simply couldn't find. One of these is a short loosely based on the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. I forgot some of the details, but here's what I pieced together:
The opening animation shows that the title of the Brickfilm is an amalgamation of a couple words made to invoke a Middle Eastern feeling. All I can remember was that the title likely started with "ali" and ended with "abad". It opened with the thieves arriving at their cave. I don't know exactly how the gist of that scene went, but I think they momentarily forgot the password used to access the cave and bickered amongst themselves on what the password was. Eventually, the cave opened, revealing their treasure to apparently be a single measly Pokémon card, represented by a red 1x1 tile.
Eventually, Ali Baba (if he even was called that) appeared and the thieves hid. He saw the cave and went inside it, and that's where he spots the Pokémon card and takes it for himself. Suddenly, the thieves came out of their hiding spot and cornered him. My memory of what happens next gets very foggy at this point, but for what I can tell, he gets banished to an island when he came across a genie in a bottle. I assume he got the genie to help him get back to the mainland and confront the thieves, which brings me to the next scene.
Back at the thieves' hideout, Ali Baba went face-to-face with the thieves and demands that he has the Pokémon card. I believe the genie reappeared to distract the thieves, but yet again, I don't know the specifics. While the thieves weren't looking, Ali Baba retrieved the card and walked into the horizon. The video closed with a production logo that consisted of yellow lettering on a green background alongside an archery target.
This is merely one of three other Brickfilms from the same creator that are nigh impossible to track down, but this is the one I have the least clouded memory of. If this video is found, then I bet the other two will be as well, since they all have the logo at the end.
The opening animation shows that the title of the Brickfilm is an amalgamation of a couple words made to invoke a Middle Eastern feeling. All I can remember was that the title likely started with "ali" and ended with "abad". It opened with the thieves arriving at their cave. I don't know exactly how the gist of that scene went, but I think they momentarily forgot the password used to access the cave and bickered amongst themselves on what the password was. Eventually, the cave opened, revealing their treasure to apparently be a single measly Pokémon card, represented by a red 1x1 tile.
Eventually, Ali Baba (if he even was called that) appeared and the thieves hid. He saw the cave and went inside it, and that's where he spots the Pokémon card and takes it for himself. Suddenly, the thieves came out of their hiding spot and cornered him. My memory of what happens next gets very foggy at this point, but for what I can tell, he gets banished to an island when he came across a genie in a bottle. I assume he got the genie to help him get back to the mainland and confront the thieves, which brings me to the next scene.
Back at the thieves' hideout, Ali Baba went face-to-face with the thieves and demands that he has the Pokémon card. I believe the genie reappeared to distract the thieves, but yet again, I don't know the specifics. While the thieves weren't looking, Ali Baba retrieved the card and walked into the horizon. The video closed with a production logo that consisted of yellow lettering on a green background alongside an archery target.
This is merely one of three other Brickfilms from the same creator that are nigh impossible to track down, but this is the one I have the least clouded memory of. If this video is found, then I bet the other two will be as well, since they all have the logo at the end.
