19-year-old Fabian Moritz from Laatzen in Niedersachsen is an internet sensation, re-enacting football matches in Lego
Binned
the vuvuzela already? Are those lips cracking trying to get those low
Fs? You could always plunder your children's Lego box for instant World
Cup relief instead. It is never too late to start,
as 19-year-old Fabian Moritz from Laatzen in Niedersachsen, Germany,
discovered. A fan of Hannover 96 football team, he constructed an
entire stadium out of those generic connectable plastic brick links. He
started with the pitch and the goals around the 1998 World Cup in
France, and assembled the rest from friends and family over the next 10
years. He began with local matches first, filming re-enactments in stop
motion animation.
The fan movements were the worst. Making between 100 and 200 figures
jump out of their seats when a goal is scored takes time, and the hours
just fly past in his storeroom studio doing action-replay goals from
three angles. Discovered first by Bild.de, and latterly by this
newspaper, an international career beckons. The animated recreation of
the classic 1966 World Cup final
between England and West Germany, shot in scratchy black and white,
stirred old passions. Those doubts about Geoff Hurst's "ghost" goal
resurfaced: was the entire ball pictured over the goal line or just
part of it? Rob Green's less convincing goal-line scramble in the latest England-USA match was
cruelly captured by his plastic figure sprawling helplessly as the ball
dribbles into the net. A case of schadenfreude? Never mind, the video
has been watched by almost 2 million people. It's an internet sensation.
