Yeah the whole process takes forever cause you gotta move the little guys arm, then record a half a second, then move another thing and record a half a second, and so on. You'll work on something for 8 hours and in the end have not even a minute of actual footage...ahah...not to mention the time spend on editing it all together.
Me and my buddy were working on a "behind the music" spoof done in lego that we've probably put in 24+ hours and only have a couple minutes of actual footage. We sorta shelved it for the past year because it gets so dam annoying.