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Swedish fans of The Brick Testament, rejoice! There is now
a Swedish language translation of The
Brick Testament: The Ten Commandments from publisher
Marcus Förlag.
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The German translation of The
Brick Testament: Stories from the Book of Genesis
is known as Das
1. Buch L. and was published in 2004 by Sansoucci.
The same photo as the English version was used for the cover,
but the scroll was removed and a clean modern font replaced
the fancy script which was considered too evocative of fonts
popular in the Nazi era. This book can be found in bookstores
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Two books from the Brick Testament series are now available
in the native tongue of the LEGO company itself now that
Danish publisher Forlaget
Vandkunsten has released translations of both The
Brick Testament: The Ten Commandments and The
Brick Testament: The Story of Christmas. The design
of these books stays quite close to the originals, and I'll
assume that the translation is generally accurate, though
it was a little alarming to see how the final
page of the Christmas book reads.
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Japanese publisher Futami released a translation of The
Brick Testament: Stories from the Book of Genesis
in 2004. The cover art is a drastic departure from the
English and German books, scrapping the Garden of Eden
to showcase a lineup of Bible characters, an upside-down
rainbow, and a miniature Tower of Babel. The cover is
actually a dust jacket that folds
out to showcase a total of fourteen characters. Oddly
enough, while Shem makes it onto the front cover, God
is relegated to the back (and the overleaf). In case that
wasn't an in-depth enough look at the characters from
Genesis, the books final pages also include a two-page
spread of "ALL CHARACTERS from Ten Classic Bible
Stories". This book can be found in bookstores in
Japan or online at Amazon.jp.
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In 2006 the Korean publisher Booksoop released translations
of both The
Brick Testament: Stories from the Book of Genesis
and The
Brick Testament: The Story of Christmas. The former
is the first Brick Testament book to be published in a vertical
layout. While most of the images were still horizontally
oriented, leaving lots of empty space above and below, the
occasional vertically
oriented image fills an entire page, making them the
largest Brick Testament images in print to date. The designers
at Booksoop also took a free hand in re-styling the chapter
opener pages, but their finest touch is the jarring final
page of the book featuring God's disembodied head and
absolutely nothing else.
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The translation of the Christmas books stays much closer
to the original. The most notable differences include the
addition of the modern Christmas-celebrating family to bottom
of the cover of the book, and a version of the author
page where the image of Rev. Smith appears larger than
in the original English version. These two books are available
at bookstores in Korea, and presumably on select Korean
booksellers' websites. |
