Our LEGO Grinch's Mount Crumpit MOC

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A few weeks ago, the company I work for held a holiday decorations contest. Basically, whomever had the best office decorations won a prize. As I was sharing my win… because you know I did win with our awesome LEGO winter village setup… someone in our favorite Facebook group mentioned wanting to see more of our LEGO Grinch’s Mount Crumpit MOC. That’s when I realized we had never blogged about it!

About Mount Crumpit

Mount Crumpit from How The Grinch Stole Christmas

If you’re not familiar with Mount Crumpit, it’s the home of the Grinch in How The Grinch Stole Christmas. From his summit top home in the peak of the mountain, the Grinch overlooks the town of Whoville as he plots how to steal Christmas.

Mr. Family Brick has wanted to build Mount Crumpit for a while now. So back in Summer 2018, he started the task.

When we finally finished it, we quickly realized we didn’t have the kind of space needed to add it to our build…but that didn’t stop us from adding it anyway. You can see that from our display above in October 2018 at the Books & Bricks event in Marietta, GA.

This is also the moment we decided we needed to expand the build yet again. With our display rather contained and densely packed, Mount Crumpit felt too close to the town. We’ve remedied that a bit since then, as you can see from the first photo in this post.

Three-Piece Build

Since we didn’t want to add yet another insanely large and difficult to store build to our Winter village, our Mount Crumpit is modular. We created it in 3 parts so that we can easily store and stack.

We’ll start with the base…

The Base

The base of our build is set on a 48×48 base plate. Our interior is hollow so we can use it to store other pieces for our Winter Village. There’s no rhyme or reason to how we built it. We just started building and went with what we came up with.

The Middle Layer

The middle layer is where it got a little more complicated. Trying to get the angles setup correctly proved to be quite challenging. Also working on getting the twist of the mount into the build required rebuilding just this piece about 4 different times.

I know you’ve watched LEGOMasters and how easy it comes to those builders… that’s not us. lol

The Top

The top layer is where all the magic happens. Here you get to see the Grinch’s cave, the sled with all the town’s presents and poor Max hanging off the overstuff sled.

We very much enjoyed creating this part of the build.

How Does It All Come Together?

For this build, we didn’t want to snap too many bricks together to connect the levels. Since we wanted it to be easy to break down and put together, we went with more of a “slide-in” approach.

We’ve set guides on each level that allow the next level of the build to slide into place. We remove a “guide brick”, slide in the next build section, then reposition the guide brick on the build. That way, we are only removing one brick per level to position each section where it needs to be securely.

So Where Did You Get The Grinch?

Great question, but darned if we remember. :/

We spent quite a bit of time trying to create a Grinch character from official LEGO parts, but never quite got it right. Finally, we broke down and ordered a custom minifigure.

Don’t judge us.