Lego Sliders

That's a shame.

Not to latch onto the topic, but are there are fan vids, movies or comics out there at all? (Something that isn't a flat out comedy).

I know that the alternate dimension concept isn't an easy thing to pull off visually, but I'm shocked that there isn't more fan stuff outside of fiction. Gosh.

Wish I had the:

• skills

• time

• patience

• money

To do something like that, lol.

But even doing something like a simple fan series (which had no SFX elements) was a massive undertaking. Something like SLIDERS would be beyond me. I seriously feel compelled to do some kind of fan made thing though.

As to Photo Manips for Background Scenery/Skylines.... Check this out!

http://www.cgsociety.org/cgsarchive/new … _large.jpg

You could totally imagine this as a Picture in an office on Sliders Soviet America or as a background for a News Presenter on TV reporting from Commie New York while the Sliders are watching it in San Francisco in an Electronic Store Window or in a Bar inbetween Sports.

Stuff like this is very doable and builds a more believable and wider World beyond the Local Environs featured on Camera.

I really love World Building and really missed the actual AH background elements of Season 1 & 2 that were more prominent and thought provoking..... Even when they were a little flimsy and weak in S1 & 2 they were fun enough to forgive that where as in S3 that became a rare thing.

I believe Earth Prime did a Fan Edit of Exodus to try and salvage something from the steaming excrete and did a fairly good job given what there was to work with.

Maybe other Sliders Episodes could receive a Similar treatment?

But maybe instead of Cutting, Cutting, Cutting.... We could add stuff.
Like that Soviet Skyline etc to not just pad out the Episodes but add to them in an enriching way?

We could even look to other Works/Starring Roles by Sliders Cast, Guest Stars etc and add a few more Doubles even if only passing by?
or if the footage is versatile/well suited enough it could be weaved into the plot of the Episode in question in some way?

Zoe Mclellan who played Logan St Clair for example also starred in the Dungeons and Dragons Movie as well as Dirty Sexy Money so the footage from these works could be trawled through either for Double Scenes or maybe even Logan St Clair original herself.... Maybe?

Just an example but you see what I mean anyway.

Maybe we could substitute bad SFX for more modern/believable SFX like the Mega Tsunami in Season 1 could have it's CGI swapped out from the Episode with something like Tsunami Scenes from The Day after Tomorrow or a similar Work?

Some Stuff can be Made original but as it is a non profit Fan Edit I don't see a problem in borrowing Scenes from other Media.

Audio Drama with Lego is a good combination!

There are some hilarious Lego Command & Conquer Stop Motion Fan Vids with Audio that I highly recommend!

I'll add a Youtube Link in a bit.

Edit: Here ya go!

Tiberium Lego's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slO8oWYx … ata_player

Isn't fair use a thing?

Parody and review are covered under fair use -- meaning Sliders Rewatch and Sliderscast are free to produce podcasts with sponsorship and Ian McDuffie is free to charge money for his "Paradise Lost" comic and Mad Norwegian can publish DOCTOR WHO episode guides and reviews for profit. The line gets hazy at fan fiction which is technically a derivative work. Copyright holders do have legal grounds to order that producers of fanfic and fanfilms cease and desist. Warner Bros. shut down the BATGIRL SPOILED with threats of litigation, FOX did the same with an ALIENS fanfilm.

Paramount permits STAR TREK fanfilms and Lucasfilm had no issue with numerous STAR WARS fanfilms. Fan fiction is generally tolerated. Copyrights are viewed as potentially lost unless vigorously defended -- but most studios seem to think that fan fiction poses no threat to their copyrights due to being (a) profitless (b) free advertising. If an audio drama were profit free, I doubt NBCUniversal would object, although they would be well within their rights to shut it down for any reason or for no reason and it'd be a lot of work to hang on the whim of some executive.

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Matt's project wasn't the Lego, unless there's something he's not telling me.

On the old-old Bboard, Matt revealed his SLIDERS projects, so I feel it's alright to reiterate what he previously posted. The first SLIDERS project was going to be Tracy Torme's long-awaited series finale to SLIDERS. Tracy contacted Matt back in 2009. Tracy wanted to write fanfic! Tracy wanted to write a movie-length script for SLIDERS that would act as a grand series finale. The officially unofficial finale of SLIDERS, unapproved by NBCUniversal and therefore apocryphal, non-canonical and nothing but some random guy's fanfic on the Internet -- except that it would be fanfic from the co-creator of the series.

Tracy also intended to send it to Temporal Flux at the Dimension of Continuity. Both would have the script. I imagine that Temporal Flux, in his infinite cleverness and daring, would have found some artists to illustrate various key moments of the story and perhaps written some prequels and sequels and missing scenes, the way Marvel blockbuster movies have comic book tie-ins. Matt, meanwhile, would have posted the script and aided in producing an audio drama version with Jerry, Sabrina, Cleavant and John.

Unfortunately, after the 2009 interview, Torme got too busy with various paid projects -- too busy to write fanfic, and the project slowly faded away like a date he could never find time to schedule.

I was told what the story was in bits and pieces and I think I have a full picture of the tale. I will decline to reveal what the story would have been because I would like to let Sliders Rewatch talk about it when they do their podcast for "The Seer" (and, possibly, when they do their podcast for SLIDERS REBORN) and I am going to mercilessly tease information to promote their podcast because. However, Matt has no need to restrain himself. ;-)

I will say that Tracy's story featured Quinn, Wade, Rembrandt and Arturo (of course).

I'm sorry it didn't happen because I know you would have all appreciated it. On a selfish level, however, I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. The fact that Tracy Torme was going to write fanfic and use the format of PDF screenplays inspired me to write "Slide Effects" and eventually SLIDERS REBORN -- if it was good enough for Tracy, why not for me? If Tracy had written his finale story, I wouldn't have written REBORN and I wouldn't have this opportunity to lay some demons to their final rest.

Matt's other project was a spin-off web series for SLIDERS, to be done in collaboration with an amateur (but now professional) filmmaker in England. A series of short films with original characters, set in the SLIDERS multiverse in which sliding is now an urban legend.

While a first season of scripts were completed, only bits and pieces of the project were ever filmed and I don't believe it will ever see the light of day. However, there were periods when I did not believe SLIDERS REBORN would ever see the light of day (well, like 36 hours), so who knows. SLIDERS REBORN was merely delayed due to the writer learning what he jokingly refers to as his craft; maybe the web series is just the same. Matt completed his end of the project by supplying the scripts. I read all of them and they were creative, daring, thrilling and a terrific reworking of the SLIDERS platform. The people who wanted to film it, like Tracy, got side-tracked with stuff that could pay the mortgage. No shame in that.

Indeed it does.

We could always make our own Lego Sliders?

Either by contacting the original idea person and asking to continue or by making a completely new one of our own creation.

It is a lot easier now too as prior most of such Fanvids involved actual Physical Plastic Figures and Stop Motion but now the Lego Computer Games could allow us to do such a Fan Film like a CG Cartoon.

Wow that brings back memories.
Used to watch the Tribe back in the day.

Have to say though it kind of Jumped the Shark with the addition of the Technos.

A Tech Revivalist Faction was a good idea but they took it too far.
The Tech was far too advanced.
And if the Technos had that level of Tech then why did they need the scraps that the Mall Rats and the other Locals had?

Daft.

OK, this is insanely creative.

VOTE!

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/6ad0e06 … d973ec6b0d