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Help us translate « The Little Prince » into… LEGOs!

We need 10 000 clicks to make this dream come true ! You can help us, click on support » on this page : http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/50323. It’s easy and free!

We need 10 000 clicks to made this dream come true ! It’s really easy (and free) to help us : http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/50323 (click on Support), and share the info !

The Little Prince is the most translated novel in the world, but it has never officially been « published » in LEGO form before. We are calling on all fans of the little prince to vote (click « Support ») for this project at http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/50323. Please vote and let your friends know about the project too!

The LEGO Corporation has a website called LEGO Cuusoo where fans can submit proposals and, if they receive 10,000 votes, then the company will consider making them into a real LEGO set. Photos of The Little Prince LEGO project have received at least 20,000 « likes » on Facebook already, but we need your help to turn those « likes » into votes.

Voting involves first registering on the LEGO Cuusoo website. Registering through Facebook or Twitter is the easiest method – simply click on that option and agree to the standard language about allowing Cuusoo to access your page. Make sure you click “Support” to vote for the project.

Instructions for voting through the website:

– Click “Sign up now”
– Next, enter a username, email, and password. For your birthdate, month is first and then date, followed by year. Agree to the “terms of service” and click “SIGN ME UP”
– Click the link in the email you receive to activate your account.
– Click on the project (search for “The Little Prince”); then click the green “Support” button.
– To validate the vote, another screen appears—enter your country, your gender, and your profession. Check the box that says “To Support the project…” and then click “Support”.
– Finally, complete a short survey about how much you think the set should cost, how many products you would be interested in having, and why you like the project.

More information:

– How old do I have to be to vote?
Voters must be at least 13 years old to vote.

– Will I get spammed? Will LEGO Cuusoo post on my Facebook?
No. You will not receive any unwanted messages or posts from LEGO by registering.

– « How can I help promote the project? »
Share the project on your Facebook page, Twitter, or other social media.
Tell you friends, or email them the link to this page.
Print and post this page at libraries, schools, coffee shops, (in accordance with their policies).

– What does « Cuusoo » mean?
Cuusoo is a Japanese word that roughly translates into « to wish ».

– If the project gets 10,000 votes, what happens next?
The LEGO Corporation will evaluate the concept and decide whether to make a set based on it. Other project (including those based on the movies “Back to the Future” and “Ghostbusters”, and the video game Minecraft) have been adopted. If approved, LEGO will have their professional designers work to make a set based on the proposal; what you see in the project may not be exactly what LEGO produces.

– Why a LEGO version of The Little Prince?
Hopefully the answer is obvious! We believe that the story of the little prince, who appreciates imagination, would make a perfect combination with LEGO toys, which have imagination as a primary attribute.

– Who designed this project?
The concept was developed by Colin Patrick Walle, a fan of The Little Prince and LEGOs.

After seeing the tributes to the Little Prince and his creator in France, we are expanding our horizon to the whole world!

Le Petit Prince is present in Europe, but also on other continents!

 

Ans, Belgium

Baden-Baden, Germany

The Netherlands

Skopje, Macedonia

Kiev, Ukraine

Abakan, Russia

Istanbul, Turkey

Israël

Northport, USA

Los Angeles, USA

Cuba, La Havana

Concordia Entre Rios, Argentina

The Little Prince museum in Hakone, Japan

Petite France, In Korea

You now know that the little Prince is Hayao Miyazaki’s favorite  book. What you may not know yet is that the director has proven its commitment to this masterwork several times, being involved in various projects.
 
Written in 2006 to accompany the album Drawings, watercolors, pastels, pens and pencils of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the preface of Hayao Miyazaki, is a treasure of emotion.
 
He did not know the author, who died when he was 3 years old. His emotion at this drawings comes from a meeting with « an exceptional person » meets « miraculous moments that crystallize in a visible form, the spirit of their author. »
 
Hayao Miyazaki portrays a « diamond. » « A rough stone that neither modes nor the turbulence of the times can not reach, does not age. »
It compares the Little Prince pilot, who « attempted to take off our star, and after many failures, many injuries, finally succeeded in the Mediterranean, to fulfill this desire. »
As a good creator of animated images, Hayao Miyazaki finishes his text describing a scene that seems to come to life in front of our eyes. Antoine de Saint-Exupery flying his Breguet 14 flies over the Canal du Midi to Alicante. We follow a machine whose wings are made of wood, cloth and wire. It beckons us to his cabin. His plane flies away, becoming smaller before disappearing.
 
« Initiating our descent into this world, we feel then, more clearly than before, his presence … ».

 

Aviation is a very present theme in his films. It is quite easy to see a connection with Antoine de Saint-Exupery. « Kaze Tachinu » his eleventh feature film, applauded after its screening at the Venice Film Festival, is already released this summer in Japan, where he met a great success.

It chronicles the life of an aeronautical engineer who actually existed, Jiro Horikoshi, designer of Mitsubishi « Zero » planes, flagship of the Japanese air force during the Second World War.
The little Jiro dreams of planes and draw inspiration from those of the Italian designer Italo Caproni. He can not become a pilot because of his myopia, so he joined the aerospace division of a famous multinational company in 1927 and became one of the most brilliant designers of the world. He falls in love with Nahoko, a young woman he met when he was a teenager, saving her life ….

His film, full of intense poetry and references or allusions to European culture, takes the viewer in a metaphor of life facing an uncertain future: « The wind rises, it must try to live » , repeats the hero in french, quoting Paul Valéry.

 

Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement shortly after the release of his latest film, From Up On Poppy Hill. The opportunity for him to look back at the work of a lifetime: he reveals a list of 50 books that have influenced his films. The Little Prince is in first place!

Hayao Miyazaki, July 19 2008 in Tokyo.

afp.com/Toru Yamanaka

Hayao Miyazaki’s affection for the author of The Little Prince, pilot and writer, is at the heart of his movies. Many aerial scenes and flying machines that came out of his imagination are inspired by the life and work of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Porco Rosso, Castle in the Sky, From Up on Poppy Hill). The director, a recognized specialist of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, has also prefaced and illustrated the Japanese edition of Night Flight.

This favorite books list had resulted in an exhibition at Kochi in 2011. 50 favorite books of Hayao Miyazaki was exposed, along with 50 handwritten notices showing the feelings of the director to these works.

 

Hayao Miyazaki’s 50 recommended books

1. « The Little Prince »  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry  (1943)

2. « Il Romanzo di Cipollino »  Gianni Rodari  (1956)

3. « The Rose and the Ring »  William Makepeace Thackeray  (1854)

4. « The Little Bookroom » 　Eleanor Farjeon  (1955)

5. « The Three Musketeers »   Alexandre Dumas  (1844)

6. « The Secret Garden »  Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett  (1909)

7. « The Treasure of the Nibelungs »  G.Schalk  (1953)

8. « Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland »  Lewis Carroll  (1865)

9. « The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes »  Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle  (1891)

10. « A Norwegian Farm »  Marie Hamsun  (1933)

11. « Конёк-горбунок »  Пётр Па́влович Ершо́в  (1834)

12. « Souvenirs entomologiques »  Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre  (1879-1907)

13. « Toui Mukashi no Fushigina Hanashi-Nihon Reiiki »  Tsutomu Minakami  (1995)

14. « Иван-дурак »  Leo Tolstoy  (1885)

15. « Eagle of the Ninth »  Rosemary Sutcliff  (1954)

16. « Winnie-the-Pooh »  A. A. Milne  (1926)

17. « Les Princes du Vent »  Michel-Aime Baudouy  (1956)

18. « When Marnie Was There »  Joan G Robinson  (1967)

19. « The Long Winter »  Laura Ingalls Wilder  (1940)

20. « The Wind in the Willows »  Kenneth Grahame  (1908)

21. « The Ship That Flew »  Hilda Lewis  (1939)

22. « Flambards »  Kathleen Wendy Peyton  (1967)

23. « Tom’s Midnight Garden »  Ann Philippa Pearce  (1958)

24. « The Adventures of Tom Sawyer »  Mark Twain  (1876)

25. « Chumon no Ooi Ryouriten »  Kenji Miyazawa  (1924)

26. « Heidi »  Johanna Spyri  (1888)

27. « Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea »  Jules Verne  (1870)

28. « The Borrowers »  Mary Norton  (1952)

29. « Devatero pohádek »  Karel Čapek 　(1931)

30. « Swallows and Amazons »  Arthur Ransome  (1930)

31. « The Flying Classroom »  Erich Kästner  (1933)

32. « Robinson Crusoe »  Daniel Defoe  (1719)

33. « Treasure Island »  Robert Louis Stevenson  (1883)

34. « Двена́дцать ме́сяцев »  Samuil Marshak  (1943)

35. « Tistou les pouces verts »  Maurice Druon  (1957)

36. « The man who planted the welsh onions »  Kim Soun  (1953)

37. « Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio »  Pu Songling  (1740)

38. « The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle »  Hugh John Lofting  (1922)

39. « Journey to the West »  Wú Chéng’ēn  (1500~?)

40. « Little Lord Fauntleroy »  Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett  (1886)

41. « From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler »  Elaine Lobl Konigsburg　(1968)

42. « Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn »  Astrid Lindgren  (1947)

43. « The Hobbit, or There and Back Again » J ohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien  (1937)

44. « A Wizard of Earthsea »  Ursula K. Le Guin  (1968)

45. « The Little White Horse »  Elizabeth Goudge  (1946)

46. « Bylo nas pet »  Karel Polacek  (1969)

47. « City Neighbor: The Story of Jane Addams »  Clara Ingram Judson  (1951)

48. « The Radium Woman »　 Eleanor Doorly  (1939)

49. « The Otterbury Incident »  Cecil Day-Lewis  (1948)

50. « Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates »  Mary Mapes Dodge  (1865)

We wish you a good reading time !

 

During this summer, The Little Prince has been spotted in several locations.

 

In Kharma LING,  bouddhist temple in Isère (France)

Comfortably standing on his asteroid, in the Little Prince Museum in Hakone, Japan.

In the hand of the young Elvis Presley statue, in Tupello, Tennessee

In the streets of Porto, Portugal.

In the city of L’escala, Spain.

Ready to climb cliffs in Cappadocia.

And in Aix-en-Provence, where it forms the entrance of the Mejanes Library.

 

 

 

But the highlight of the show was the Little Prince’s asteroid !