--- title: Here's a LEGO Set of Female Supreme Court Justices description: A Massachusetts woman made a LEGO set of the four female Supreme Court justices, but you can't buy it. canonical: https://time.com/3739129/lego-supreme-court-justices/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-10T17:59:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T15:40:36.000Z og:title: Here's a LEGO Set of Female Supreme Court Justices og:description: Sorry, it's not for sale. og:url: https://time.com/3739129/lego-supreme-court-justices/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt34baf111c3e7a4b3/6987830006f2c11e7c3345d3/lego-justices.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2100 og:image:height: 1181 og:image:alt: lego-justices og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's a LEGO Set of Female Supreme Court Justices twitter:description: Sorry, it's not for sale. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt34baf111c3e7a4b3/6987830006f2c11e7c3345d3/lego-justices.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's a LEGO Set of Female Supreme Court Justices > Sponsored content. 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With an interesting mix of CG animation and actual LEGO sets, the final look of The LEGO Movie has a surprising touch of realness and appears almost as if someone had actually painstakingly animated each and every movement through stop-motion._  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Updated: Dec 13, 2023 3:40 PM UTCPublished: Mar 10, 2015 5:59 PM UTC  Maia Weinstock  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Updated: Dec 13, 2023 3:40 PM UTCPublished: Mar 10, 2015 5:59 PM UTC Remember that feeling of looking in a toy store window to see an expensive toy you really want but will never get? Well, now there’s a LEGO set of female Supreme Court justices, but you can’t have it. The set was the brainchild of Maia Weinstock, a deputy editor at MIT News (the news outlet of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) whose hobby is making LEGO sets of famous scientists and thinkers in her free time. “It’s important for kids to see examples of living people who are doing extraordinary things outside of Hollywood and sports,” Weinstock tells TIME, noting that she’s especially interested in highlighting female scientists in her LEGO sets. Her set of the female justices—which she calls the Legal Justice League—are among her most popular. They feature sitting Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan and former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, complete with personalized hairstyles and a courtroom setting. “People don’t just want them for their kids, they want them for themselves,” she says. Weinstock tried to submit the set to the Lego Ideas contest, but [could not enter them ](http://maiaw.com/scotus-women-lego-legal-justice-league.html)because the company has a policy against sets that have any kind of political theme. And she can’t make more since she doesn’t have the bandwidth to accommodate so many requests, and many of the pieces involved are extremely rare. For now, the highest court in the land is also the hardest LEGO set to find. H/T [_National Law Journal_](http://www.nationallawjournal.com/legaltimes/id=1202720138381/Four-Female-Justices-the-Lego-Version?cmp=share%5Ftwitter&slreturn=20150210111856) ## Transcript [00:00] >>What is happening? [00:00] >>You're the special, and the prophecy states that [00:03] you're the most important person in the universe. [00:06] That's you, right? [00:07] >>Uh, [00:16] yes! That's me. [00:22] >>So, this is Emmet. We spent a long time working on [00:25] Emmet being the lead character in this film. We went [00:27] through quite a-- quite a few different iterations on [00:29] this hair, but we finally settled on this one. As [00:34] you can see, we try to be quite authentic with the [00:36] actual Lego product itself. So, there's a little detail [00:41] put into the sticker work, the detail work, the mold [00:44] lines, chips, chunks, scratches. We [00:48] try to incorporate a lot of that. In fact, we put a lot of [00:50] the mini figs underneath the microscope and have a [00:53] good look at those details so that we could actually get [00:56] a lot of the fidelity into our models. This represents the [00:59] storyboard phase of the film. Basically, you do rough [01:02] pass of drawing the script by hand and it's the first [01:05] that we do when we're testing out an idea. And [01:15] after that, once it gets approved, it goes through a [01:19] process, which is called layout, where you kind of [01:23] roughly put the characters and the cameras into the [01:26] scene. That's [01:34] pretty neat. And then after layout, once you've locked [01:38] your cameras in your sets and your characters in, you [01:41] get to animate it. And [01:48] then at last after you're done with the animation, the [01:52] lighting and grading team comes in and they make it [01:55] look really pretty and this is what that looks like. [02:05] >>Essentially what you're doing is encoding the bricks [02:07] and snapping them together just like real Lego. And [02:11] also just like real Lego, the bricks will refuse [02:13] connections that can't be made in real life. [02:16] >>Metal Beard is an interesting character for a [02:20] number of reasons. Firstly, he's so much bigger than [02:22] all the other characters. He's got a lot of cool [02:26] accessories, which I have a lot of fun with. It's got a [02:28] shock on his arm. He's got a cannon on his other arm [02:32] and it kinda plays into the fact that is slightly kind of [02:35] unintentionally intimidating character. [02:38] >>Good morning, apartment! Good morning, [02:41] doorway. Good morning, wall. Good morning, ceiling. [02:43] Good morning, floor. [02:45] >>This is kind of the animation review format so [02:48] obviously it doesn't have any lighting or anything like [02:51] that, but it does show kind of the face and it shows [02:54] various [ unk ] pieces. [02:54] >>Here it is, Instructions to Fit In, Have Everybody Like [02:58] You, and Always be Happy. Here it is, Instructions to [03:02] Fit In, Have Everybody Like You, and Always be Happy. [03:05] Step 1: Breathe. [03:11] >>Does the basketball ever come off of the shelf? [03:14] >>So far no. [03:14] >>No, but it could. [03:16] >>It has the ability-- [03:17] >>Do you want-- Do you want that to happen? [03:19] >>If things get crazy enough, it could happen. [03:23] >>Yeah. [03:24] >>No. No. Nah- uh. No. Not that. Wrong. And that's it. 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