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  • Reminds me that I really want a Thief game Lego =D

    Well...within the Thief game world,There is a statue of Cthulhu there,Check within the lost city beneath the city =D

    Also...

    TAFFERING!!!

  • I would pay good money for a Lego "Village of the Damned" Cthulhu play set & would consider springing extra for a "Mouth Of Madness" deluxe edition.

  • I think I would be disturbed to find my young son playing out the events of a Lovecraftian nightmare with lego...

  • push 8 for AWESOME!

  • all a load of shit!

  • Dear santa......

  • f-in howie scream! yeeeeeeeeeaaaarrrgh!

  • THAT SHOWS HARRY POTTER

  • ahahahahah

  • ahhhh yeah i got that :D

  • cuuluu?

    

  • pronounced like Ka-thoo-loo?

  • @Veldtian1 No, it would be impossible to pronounce Cthulhu. There's two reasons. One there are many ways of spelling Cthulhu, that one is only the most common. Example ; Kthulu, Ktulu C'thuluhu, Kuhthulu. These are only a few, also as quoted from "MdP2s" comment "because this name is supposed to be impossible to pronounce by human languages" You'd need to dislocate your vocal chords to pronounce Cthulhu properly but even then it would be impossible to speak.

  • @xDaZJMx The correct spelling is Cthulhu, because that's how Lovecraft spelled it.

  • Piece of Lego

    Not Cthulhu

    Even not looks like him

  • Can't sleep 0:23

  • Nyarlathotep RuleZ!

  • @DjEmet

    Nah, Azathoth rules. Nyarlathotep merely exists to change Azathoth's nappies. It's THAT kind of relationship.

  • lol at 0:20 you can hear the sound from thundercats when mamra was transforming!

  • According to the documentary Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown, Lovecraft meant the name to be pronounced Coo-lu. This was to reflect the inability of the human to pronounce the name correctly and thus emphasize or hype up the alien nature of the creature. Different pronunciations came with the subsequent lore and people adapted many aspects of the stories. They're still super fun though! YAY!

  • If this were a real Lego advert, it'd be beyond awesome :)

  • The dreamer has awuh!

  • Hilarious! We are the new producer/director teams for the feature film version of At The Mountains Of Madness (since del Toro dropped it in March). Check out the fun trailer for the just-published audio book on our channel here and our online platform at sjlume.com, join us, and please stand by. We'd love to hear from all Lovecraft fans and will be holding contests, info sessions and more!

  • I'ts LEGO. What the hell is 'ego'? another one of those crappy rippoffs? (lol megabloks)

  • @LovecraftianLEGO Nope, but it would be illegal to use the brand "Lego" without paying for it :)

  • @MegaMichkel Oh, didn't think of that. But you can use Cthulhu. Anyway, cool vid.

  • Thing is, Cthulhu is far game copywrite wise. Falls under public domain nowadays.

  • It´s GA-RRU-LOO

  • everybody is wrong, lovecraft himself said that human vocal cords cannot pronounce it.

  • his real name is chuck norris...

  • not pronounced coo-loo its k-thu-lu

  • His name is pronounced KA-Thoo-Loo. Trust me, I know. He's in my Fav Five on my cell.

  • if they pronounce it well I'll buy it...

    XD

    it's not kulu... it's more like kazulu...

    XD

  • @demonlordalexander Not at all. It isn't kazulu, it's Ka-Thoo-Loo.

  • I's simple - it sounds like it's spelled. Anything else is pretentious nerdery.

  • id so buy this lol i love legos n love the mythos

  • @cryptopumkincarver me to! :D

  • Effects uncluded?

  • this is just awesome

  • That kid looks like he's having so much fun! XD

    You cut off the ending tho. :(

  • NO ES CULÚ, SE DICE CUCHULJU!!!! ÉL MISMO ME LO DIJO ANOCHE MIENTRAS TOMÁBAMOS UNA BIRRA!

  • LOL. Brilliant!

  • Oh R'lyeh?

  • @pallandes: That's the ancient city of R'lyeh.

  • @janruuds I believe the correct response is "yeah R'lyeh".

  • This is awesome! Lego Cthulhu?

  • Hey, his name is not Coolio ! - It's Cthulhu or C'thulhu !!!

  • @MdP2 H.P. Lovecraft wanted the pronunciation to be different to everyone. In the story he said the word was unspeakable and that everyone had it differently. This is probably closer to the truth than you'd like to admit!

  • @IUseUtoob4Pr0n There's no correct way of pronouncing "Cthulhu" because this name is supposed to be impossible to pronounce by human languages and human vocal cords. However, it's definitely not supposed to sound like "coolio" (the Rapper). In 1934 Lovecraft explained that "Cthulhu" (sometimes written "C'thulhu") was supposed to sound like two syllables spelled by contracting your tongue at the roof of your mouth while saying the "c't" right before coughing the rest of the word, like "ctÚ-lhu".

  • @MdP2 You are using logic and points that prove my point. Nobody is pronouncing it Coolio, I really want to know where the 'i' in this is. The video is saying Khulu in fact this only thing missing is a fricative. You can't claim that Lovecraft declared no official pronunciation and then go on to say one pronunciation is wrong. Any pronunciations that are given by the stories are accounts of the characters and nothing close to the actual name. It's similar to the Gojira and Godzilla difference.

  • @IUseUtoob4Pr0n "You can't claim that Lovecraft declared no official pronunciation and then go on to say one pronunciation is wrong"

    But what exactly is your point? Are you saying that if we pronounce it "kangaroo" or "khalid" that's acceptable? There's no "correct" way of saying "Cthulhu" but Lovecraft explained how it sounded (it's in my previous comment) and it definitely didn't sound like "coolio". The voice on the video says "coolio", not "cthulhu" ("ctú-lhu").

  • @MdP2 The voice in the video says Khulu, and Lovecraft himself did not say that. A character in one of his stories claimed thats how he heard the word. Maybe in some other characters mind it was pronounced Kangarooloo. The way you'd say a word is different to different groups of people take Elementary and Elementry both of which mean grade school but people truly pronounce it differently depending on where you are. The same can be applied here since characters heard the word in their dreams.

  • @IUseUtoob4Pr0n "Lovecraft himself did not say that"

    Apparently, he did explain how it sounded. Check S. T. Joshi's bibliographic works on H. P. Lovecraft. He actually mentioned this in interviews.

  • @MdP2 "Coolio"? I do not hear an 'i' sound anywhere in that video. I've played it a dozen times and asked several people what the word is that is being said and not one of them claims it to be coolio, I've heard cooloo, khulu, kalu. Point out to me the diphthong in what the guy says. I've not heard it yet.

    Lovecraft said in one story that this is how a character described what he heard but even that was incorrect. He'd applaud this video for turning the name into something else.

  • @IUseUtoob4Pr0n “'i' sound”

    You'll hear it right at 0:05. There’s an i there, after the l. It sounds like coolio.

  • @MdP2 It's amazing that he creates creatures that have a spoken language that goes way beyond our own vocabulary and this species can pronounce things far beyond human capabilities but we still try to comprehend it. The sound is incomprehensible and Lovecraft never once wrote a letter to his fans or added a foot note "Oh this character is pronouncing it Kladoo but I want all of you to pronounce it C'thulhu."

  • @IUseUtoob4Pr0n “a letter to his fans or added a foot note”

    I never mentioned a letter to his fans. In 1934 Lovecraft explained IN A LETTER TO ONE OF HIS COLLEAGUES how it was supposed to sound: two syllables spelled by contracting your tongue at the roof of your mouth while saying the "c't" right before coughing the rest of the word, like "ctÚ-lhu".

  • @MdP2 I don't know if you noticed, but in the video it's spelled differently on purpose...

  • @MdP2 As a youtube video once said: "Do you have 9 tongues kid?" "What?" "Tongues, do you have nine of them?" "No..." "Do you have a maw over nine meters wide?" "No, but-" "Then forget about it kid. It is a word not made for mortal mouths."

  • @MdP2 Yeah, and ISN'T IT FUNNY how when you say in Arabic, "Satan is the forsaker of mankind," the word forsaker sounds like "kadhulu". And ISN'T IT EVEN MORE FUNNY that the Chinese kui tao lai hao means "ancient oceanic underwater demon"?

  • @Dracopol REALLY? That sounds interesting. If so, it doesn't even have to mean that Lovecraft had heard the Chinese [or the Arabic, despite his story of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred]. Jung called it the Collective Unconscious. Some people have the ability to tap into it and pick up and know things that there is no way they could have consciously found out anything about them. Perhaps that was true here.

  • @MdP2 i think the correct form is ka-thoo-loo. This is on Wikipedia though.

  • @MdP2 Actually, it's pronounced something like "Cloo-loo".

  • @hypnodance In 1934 Lovecraft explained in a letter to one of his colleagues how it was supposed to sound: two syllables spelled by contracting your tongue at the roof of your mouth while saying the "c't" right before coughing the rest of the word, like "ctú-lhu". I never heard anyone saying "Cloo-loo" with an "L" but hey I guess these days everything goes. S. T. Joshi has some interesting bibliographic works on H. P. Lovecraft - You might want to check them.

  • @MdP2 hell yea, served like a mother fucker. follow the mythos

  • @MdP2 or Kutulu

  • @MdP2 thumb him up but it is pronounced Khlûl'-hloo

  • @MdP2

    According to HP Lovecraft the closest thing to the real pronounciation human vocal chords could produce would be 'Khlûl'-hloo'. The pronounciation you advocate became popular long after HP Lovecrafts death.

  • @LamaPaj I don't think you got my point. Please check my comments in order to understand it, especially the comments regarding the 1934 letter in which Lovecraft explained how to pronounce "Cthulhu" (Ktûlhoo).

    "I guess these days everything goes"

  • Cooloo?

  • @lynth by ego

  • Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

  • @drkboi69 Cthulhu fhtagn!!!

  • Kuloooo! LOL

  • WANT!!!!!

  • KATH HOOLE WHO?!

  • The Dreamer has awoken...

  • Lovecraft said, that his version of the pronounciation is "Ka-TOO-Loo". BTW - if you look closely, it's CTHULU, and not CTHULHU in the Video. Propably because of law...

  • gotta have like 45 tongues to pronounce this right haha

  • wybierz większe zło - głosuj na Cthulhu X)

  • Lovecraft's stories are in the public domain I believe, so LEGO could probably do it, it'd be a bit esoteric, but they could.

  • I can tell already people are going to be super anal about pronunciation. Well stop it. Lovecraft already said that it's really unpronounceable, but that his closest form sounded like "Chooloo" as if you were coughing it up. In the end the word is just a symbol for the beast.

  • Can anyone tell me when Chulhu is please?

  • @MethuPwnzlol when...who knows. when the stars are right.

  • ecco perché i bambini sono più violenti e irrequieti di prima.

  • Everybody calm down, I'm still the presi-

  • STARCRAFT ACADEMY SOUND :21

  • @flanm667 LOL! Thats just plain epic!

  • sup guys. do u have 6 tongues? nope. theres no way we could say his name. a thousand eons would pass before you could possibly pronounce a syllable of his true name. besides, its more of a telepathy thing anyways......

  • LOL 0:19 actual toythat shoot lighting

  • You turn to rock when you look at Tsothongua not Cthulhu.

  • Now -THAT'S- a Lego Set Series I would buy!

  • Lovecraft actually gave different pronunciations depending on who he was talking to...I think the idea was that nobody could say it correctly.

  • Everybody calm down, I'm still the president! Haha That's just great!

  • kuh - thoo - loo

  • Khlûl'-hloo

  • Different ways to Pronounce it, but

    Same evil

    The boy looks pretty insane too.

    EGO!

    i have to get me one of those.

  • Xdxdxd

  • I think its for ages 13 and up for creepiness

  • I want to enslave my friends and destroy my enemies!

  • hes saying coolu when your supose to say it like key thoo lu

  • @Skateboard013 Lovecraft would have approved of this- he intended for the names of the monsters and gods to have different spellings and pronunciations, as if their original language was one too alien for the human mouth to speak properly.

  • "by ego", its a trademark thing.

  • Actually, according to Lovecraft, it's khloo-hloo.

  • Cool looking monster, though it doesn't look that much like Cthulhu to be honest. Also, the mispronounciation makes my inner nerd RAGE.

  • me too

  • oh noes! nerd rage! run for the hills!

  • DAMn i want this toy!!!!!!

  • Haha, that was AWESOME! Congrats for creativity.

  • Why is it that you turn insane if you look at Cthulhu?, is it because he's so sexy?....

  • @Dash1281 I believe it was that Cthulhu knows all the secrets of the universe, and when you look at him, you're driven mad by the endless knowledge. Or something like that.

  • @ShadowSoldior No, Yog-Sothoth is the keeper of all knowledge (so says my copy of the Necronomicon). Cthulhu is a multi-dimensional being, it is projected into a 3 dimensional world. This is why humans go completely kookoo when they catch even a glimpse of R'lyeh, because the dimensional inequalities make human minds overload.

    Least, thats my theory.

  • @whotouchedmahgunn Oh well okay then...However, it sounds as if you're saying Cthulhu does not know all there is to know in the universe. Blasphemer. :P

  • @ShadowSoldior He doesn't. He is one of the more poweful Old Ones though.

    I never said i served Cthulhu only. I worship the 7 Great Lords.

    Cthulhu, Yig, Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, Dagon, Azathoth, and Nyarlathotep

  • @Dash1281 Well all those hentai makers seem to think tentacles are sexy soooo....

  • @Dash1281 His tentacles are oh so manly.

  • @Dash1281 Yes

  • @Dash1281 I go insane if I listen to Justin Beiber.

  • Man epic I would so buy this!

  • that book came out after lovecraft invented it.

    it was a gimmick just like all the later ones.

  • facepalm.jpg

  • fail

  • I'm gonna get the Shub-Niggurath box set for my kids this Christmas! Spread the Lovecraftian cheer!

  • Great vid.

    has someone a manual for building the cthulhu?

    (i wanna have one too ;-) )

  • nice hahahahaha

  • The same amount of evidence exists for both characters. I for one choose Cthulhu

  • He pronounced Cthulhu improperly. The correct pronunciation has a post-velar stop and two guttural trills. It should sound like a black goat of the woods, giving birth to a thousand young. Nice try though.

  • ROFL

  • I know, the Necronomicon is compelete fiction and hasn't been written, not even by the original author of Cthulu. And people still think it's real.

  • @Dreamcosplay

    Learn to fucking spell jackass. Seriously, If your going to mock someone, at least do it with correct punctuation.

  • Yes, and kiss my ass.

  • @Dreamcosplay

    Don't get butthurt at me just because of your own fuck ups. You should have re-read your comment before posting, dumb prick.

  • I thought there was no right way to speak Cthulhu once even Lovecraft used to speak it in several different ways...

  • Thank you anyway.

  • I pronounce it Klu-lu. With a very hard back-of-the-throat sound. Kinda like a Hebrew He or a German Ch

  • Actually there are several ways to pronounce it. In English most common is something like Kutulu (KU-tu-lu or ku-TU-lu). Many lovecraft scholars also use that Klu-lu with throatly 'growl' on the klu...

    But as far as I know, Lovecraft himself meant it to be said like many people speakig native other languages (Finnish for example, as I) would say it naturally... It is K-t-h-ulhu, you know, t as in Tee, and h as in Hell. Both separately, not as in THe.

  • if you dont have 9 tongues and a 6 foot mouth and you arent a transdimensional being than you can't say it right, and besides it's more of a mental thing

  • @Eso8911

    Oh, you are right... Maybe I'll go to plastic surgery where they make me few tongue implants. Thanks for a tip!

  • just trying to save you time in pronouncing it

  • @CaptPoco there is no correct human pronunciation because humans cant pronunce cthulhu. and the black goat of the woods with a thousand young is a synonym for shubb-niggurath, not how cthulhu should sound.... nice try though, go work on your "post-velar stop".... nerd

  • @CaptPoco actually there is no proper pronuciation of cthulu for we cant even say his real name cthulhu, culoo, ktulu, and even kulthulu are all acceptable spelling for that is the closest we can ever come to it

  • @sandsiblings2 Lovecraft transcribed the pronunciation of Cthulhu as "Khlûl'-hloo" (IPA: [ˈχɬʊl.ɬuː] ?).

    In other iterations of the Mythos, it has been written that the closest the human voice can come to pronouncing Cthulhu would be to try to say "Clulu" with your tongue pressed against the roof of your mouth.

  • @CaptPoco There is no proper pronunciation, it's an alien name.

    Lovecraft himself said that.

  • @CaptPoco I love you.

  • @CaptPoco dxo you speak multidimentional deity. no. than this is no more correct than any other. These are merely human tongues. Cthulhu Ftagn!

  • @CaptPoco ... Let's burn the Name Defiler!!!

    Still... would buy that product for my kids!

  • @Unicron4ever Hell, I'd buy it for myself!

  • you do know he dosent exit write

  • yes he does

    what a silly thing to say

  • That kinda sucked.

  • lol it's good but.. not zo good i will think ok??

  • lol

  • Poor Cthulhu, the stars STILL arent right...

    Well, well just have to wait for 2012 XD

  • oh boy I sure hope he eats me first

  • good stuff

  • Cthulhu is awesome.

  • not awesome it's ok stuff -.-''

  • Cthulhu Makes the best cookies.

    I visited his mansion in beverly hills.

  • Since the great old ones do not require an auditory means of communication, because they emerged in the cold vacuum of space where as we all know, no one can hear you scream, Cthulhu is the general form our mouths can produce to manifest the name of the priest of the great old ones and there is no right way of pronouncing it. Everyone's neurological architecture is different therefore each utterance is valid.

  • cool

  • Act-ee-oo-lee it's not pronounced anything like you think it would be pronounced, I met Cthulhu the other day and he pronounces it Carl, he appreciates our effort at trying to make him feel comfortable by trying to say his name but says it's really not necessary, and it's just a lot easier if we just call him carl. He told me no human tounge, no mater how skilled is incapable of pronouncing it properly and we shouldn't be fighting over it, seriously That's what Cthulhu (Carl) told me.

  • @Oroborus12

    Thanks, good to know. He and I were sucking down a few beers last night and he seemed really depressed. When I called him Carl he got a big grin on his face and then started crying. Really just a lonely, misunderstood guy. Then he was off to eat all the souls at the local children's hospital. Hmmmm.

  • Starting at 0:20 or 0:21, that scream sounds like the one in starcraft when you select (I think) the Academy, well, one of the terran buildings anyway.

  • That's the Wilhelm scream,lookit up!

  • Thanks! :D Sometimes it's hard to find the names of songs and soundclips ^_^ you made my day! I think I just gained 42 culture points, Still a while before I level up tho...

  • You cant possibly know the pronunciation, it was written on paper almost 90 years ago now, unless theres a record of Lovecraft actually speaking it, wich to my knowledge, there isnt, we will never know the proper pronunciation.

  • Uploader is correct, theres no way to know. Commonly is pronounced ku-thu-lu or ka-thu-lu, but I have hear k-uu-lu or even just thu-lu. Trying to pronounce "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh C'thulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" is even worse, fhtagn!

  • The human tongue is not capable of pronouncing Cthulhu. The closest way we can is "ka thoo loo"

  • wow u did it! D:

  • =O nowai!

  • how would you say it?

  • So fu king cool!!!

  • ai-yay ! awesome !!! well done !