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Those who really love a film tend to pay homage to it in a Lego blocks reboot of their own design. An amateur brick makeover of the new 鈥淪tar Wars: The Force Awakens鈥� trailer is enough to inspire a family build session of cinematic proportions.听

Going by the theory that each new generation builds on the achievements of the one that came before, it seems only fitting that parents and kids together can step up their family brick building to include stop-motion animation.

Those who either have boxes full of Lego bricks from their childhood or kids who have piles of bricks cluttering the landscape can easily build on the tradition of translating our favorite films into Lego scenes.

There is actually a very useful website called , dedicated to teaching people how to make a Lego movies of their own to share with the world in a beyond the build experience.听

One of the earliest brick film was by Lars & Henrik Hassing聽of Denmark, the homeland of the famous bricks

One of the was inspired by the 1975 film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and uploaded to YouTube on May 25, 2006. It was actually produced by SYF for Lego and Python Pictures.

Back in July 2014, Greenpeace weaponized this tradition when it posted a video on YouTube, a parody of 鈥淭he LEGO Movie鈥� using the kid-friendly film to raise awareness about Shell Oil drilling in the arctic.

Here are three of the most entertaining, kid-friendly "Lego-ized" popular films:

• The song 鈥淟et it Go鈥� (published on Apr 30, 2014)
• Michael Jackson鈥檚 (published April 2011)
• And for Star Wars fans in particular, 鈥溾�� by Michael Wang (published May 2011) should not be missed.听

Having those videos as points of reference you can then go off script and create your own Lego movie with kids as the master builders.

For my family, this is a fun challenge combining old-school Lego building and tech for my four sons who have been handed down a sizable collection of Legos from their dad.

As kids, my husband and his brother were master builders who made working car engines and clocks out of the bricks with no instructions and only their imaginations to guide them.

They amassed several enormous cardboard boxes of traditional red bricks, white bricks and sundry parts that my mother-in-law was ecstatic to see transferred to聽our sons 20 years ago.

Now our boys ages 11 to 21 have amassed their own collection of Lego sets from Bionicles and NBA to Rock Raiders and Minecraft.

However, our sons have the ability and savvy to make stop-motion videos with a cell phone tool as simple as the Vine application, which allows you to simply tap the screen to take a shot and then strings them all together into a film.

In fact, the very first thing I did with my Android phone when I installed Vine in June 2013 was to make a video titled 鈥溾�� with my son Quin, a chess set, and some 鈥淪tar Wars鈥� soundtrack music.听

If your family simply isn鈥檛 Lego-minded, you can always resort to a complete flip of the entire concept by making your own Lego movie using kittens, as this family on The Pet Collective Y.听

It really doesn鈥檛 matter if the build and film look like a Spielberg production or a disorderly kid classic. All that matters is building something new together.