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The Star Wars Trilogy Storyline -- In Legos
-homb- writes: "This Japanese Star Wars fanatic has done a series of 180 pictures telling the whole story of the Star Wars Trilogy, illustrated entirely in Legos. Even the massive explosion of the Death Star is there. It took him 155 weeks to make it. One episode a year!"
If only he knew the power of the dark side.
3prong
Not to toot my own horn, but check out linuxdoc.org for the Lego+ Linux mini-HOWTO, which lists 7 different languages that one can program the Mindstorms in from Linux. That's the first place to go :)
~luge
IAAL,BIANLY
A few posts above, someone noted that if you take the "sworde.htm" out of the link, it works with no problems. "What's that?" you say.. "experiemnt?" Just like a newbie, you try the obvious, it doesn't work, then you complain that the whole thing's broken and go into a rant about how nothing works, or in this case, about how Slashdot is a DOS attack waiting to pounce upon unsuspecting websites.
The site is fine... it hasn't been slashdotted... and for those of you who are deriding the guy who did the Leg(o) work... seems like a bit of jealousy to me.
grow up.. if you can. :o)
Mr.Moonlight
Time to pull the head out of the butt, posters
PayPal just went international - Japan is included. Now you can can send him a dollar! Denise
but he mentioned tentacle rape which is automatically going to get modded up due to the first moderator guideline:
"1) Promote Tentacle Rape, Discourage Crap."
I have started a mirror here:
Here
Let me think about this....when someone built Mt. Rushmore from legos, everyone was really impressed with the skill and art and patience and all..but when someone builds star wars scenes, it is a waste of time from someone that has way too much time on his hands.
I, for one, would like to congratulate this achievement...nothing I would put a bumper sticker on my car for though...and i wouldn't want to be the proud father that has to be proud of their child....
The anti-salmon
"What?!"
"That's what I'm telling you kid, it's been totally blown away."
It's still available, but the orig. link does not work. It can be found here.
Mmmmmmm. Floor pie!
The asciimation is great, but even better is the "Die Jar Jar" asciimation on the same site
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/diejarjar.html
Hilarious
Steven
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People have posted this before and will post it again. There is a direct reference to the correct way to state this on the lego website and you lot continue to get it wrong.
its not a waste of time, hes created something that now many people are enjoying. what have YOU done?
- Joe
-Joe
How's that for important?
-atrowe: Card-carrying Mensa member. I have no toleranse for stupidity.
are wrong. One would think he'd have matched the characters better after spending so much time on this. I guess I could have said "Why is the biker from the Village People playing Obi Wan?"
it really is a fantastic site and a magnificent achievement. i dunno why some ppl here are criticising though. jealousy i think.
Have you seen the destroyer droid? It is a technic work of art. Can't transform worth a darn, but it's very nice looking.
Some guy worked hard on a project and shared his stuff on the web, what does he get? Personal attacks and a couple of borderline racist jokes about the Japaness people? (Mod up as Funny I may add)
I guess next you are going to make fun of some Fin recreating UNIX on his 386! Think about it and be ashame of yourself.
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"Server Errors do not concern me, Admiral... I want those pages found!"
Oh well. I didnt like my Karma that much anyway. At some point Slashdot, and Im talking to you guys in charge of approving the content, needs to wake up and remember that they are in control of a lumbering internet beast. You can't just point hundreds of thousand of users to a small web site and not expect to kill it. Nevermind one in JAPAN for gods sake. The whole damn place is connected to the net with 4 AOL accounts, 2 deaf monks doing sign langauge and a very tiny guy in a suit that just got tired of the lag and decided to get out and push. Something really does need to be done here. Notify the admins before posting a story, mirror the site locally, have a mirror pool of users that will mirror sites before a story hits. Do Something! We wouldnt stand for it if CNN burned down the house of the person they just interviewed, why should /. be any different? Come on Rob, you have the bandwidth. Time to be one of the big kids and use it for something other then a DoS attack on unsuspecting Japanese lego maniacs.
Time to put the gorilla on a leash guys.
Jason
www.cyborgworkshop.com
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
www.linux-skunkworks.com
I prefer the Jar Jar death scene :)
This site is fantastic. It certainly will help to combat the stereotype of the Japanese as little obsessive-compulsive types who fetishise anything related to technology and/or sci-fi, with strange hobbies and no lives. I mean, after seeing something like this, the notions we have about the Japanese just get shot to pieces. I mean, what better way to teach that on their own time, for R+R, the Japanese aren't insanely drawn to exceedingly complex, difficult, pointless and time consuming pursuits in an effort to achieve perfection in something with absolutely no practical value.
To the otaku-zoku who put this together, I stand up and salute you. Thanks for debunking the myths. Next week, a man who lovingly renders "tentacle-rapist alien attacks 14 year old schoolgirl anime" with a pointilist technique by cutting and pasting microscopic pieces of cloth from "used schoolgirl underwear" vending machine panties.
--- Jump!! Fire!! Bullet time!! - Lego version of the Matrix
It's a space station!
> The link on the error page hints strongly at a TOS violation.
Here is the TOS < http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/geoterms.html>
What part did he violate ? hateful content ?
Cheers,
--fred
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Yea they canned my account, oh well I made a new account at 50megs.com...
I present Slashdot Mirror.
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a life would be good here...
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Dude! 155 weeks to make, 10 minutes to slashdot. Sometimes I feel bad following links posted here...
Posted from the wireless couch.
I verified all the images and they all look the same. Get it here. Note that I only mirror the english, not the Japanese.
Or get the whole thing zipped here.
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I saw a program once, had some guy on it whos counting to a million on a little calculator-with-a-printer-on-it. He was going 1, return,2, return,3 etc..
He had a basement full of printouts lab, labelled like 1 - 1000, 1001 - 2000... the whole room was full of these boxes.
Now THATS sad.
And in the u.k. we have `trainspotters` - people who`s idea of fun is to wear really geeky clothes and stand at the end of platforms at train stations, making notes about which trains turn up, and when. Amazing.
In a similar vein......
telnet to blekko.com and type starwars
Episode IV : A New Hope in Ascii............
"Thirty minutes until Rebel base is in firing range!"
MIRROR
http://while1.org/~xm/SWlegos/sworde.htm
Uh, the good ol days of 2 years ago? 1998 was the first year LEGO had anything to do with Star Wars and vice-versa. Perhaps you're thinking of Space Lego series?
Pope
Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! Monopolies offer Choice!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
what kind of drug is "kettle"?
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/
Equally nuts, I'd say.
The only certainty is entropy.
Its moment's like this when I realize my own obsessions are not so extreme.
Japanese fandom is frightning, but amusing.
no
how hard could it possibly be to hack up a squid proxy to link through? That should be a lot less work than coordinating a bunch of mirrors, and it might work better with dynamic content...
For the record, I stole that off of thinkgeek, where it is "Blessed are the Geeks, for they shall internet the earth." Sorry for not providing a link earlier.
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The shareholder is always right.
http://www.c-60.org/starwars_legos /sw orde.htm
How come this was filled under games, and not lego or Star Wars. Not to pick a nit or anything.
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
Maybe they read the FAQ. Maybe they understood it. Maybe they are disappointed that the top story at the time contains a link which is completely useless as posted and feel that this should somehow be remedied, because it lessens the effectiveness of Slashdot. As far as I can tell, stripping the page name away and starting from the raw directory works fine, though.
I do not have a signature
If you look at the dates, this has been around for a while, and if you've spent any time on Lugnet, you would have seen this already.
having said that, it's time to welcome a whole new crowd to this amazing feat. Didja notice the "behind the scenes" shots? This guy made things like real movie sets to get the shots he needed, and created a whole camera crew for the "making of" pictures! Now that's pretty damn cool
Now, as for the 2001 LEGO catalog, all I have to say is "Imperial Shuttle, plus guards"
Pope
Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! Monopolies offer Choice!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
The faithfully rendered sets made out of Legos notwithstanding, why this is so good is the PHOTOGRAPHS. The guy manages to get the lighting and the perspective right for most of the shots, which is why they evoke this uncanny similarity to the screen shots and make the sight gag so effective.
Without that skill the Death Star would be just one more project by my little brother
Goat sex free since 2001
Well, I could understand this story being posted under the heading of "toys" (for lego) or "star wars" ... but is there a good reason it's posted under the topic "games"? Did someone forget to hit the "preview" button? :)
Dear Mr. Tanukikoji,
It has come to our attention that you have made an unauthorized use of my copyrighted work titled the Star Wars Triology (the "Work") in the preparation of a work derived therefrom. My client has reserved all rights in the Work, first published in 1979, and have registered copyright therein. Your work entitled Lego Star Wars is essentially identical to the Work and clearly used the Work as its basis. Example of therein is the use of the Death Star (tm) and the explosion of said Death Star in the movie Star Wars, published 1979, and your work, published in 2000.
As you neither asked for nor received permission to use the Work as the basis for Lego Star Wars nor to make or distribute copies of same, we believe you have willfully infringed our client's rights under 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq. and could be liable for statutory damages as high as $100,000 as set forth in Section 504(c)(2) therein.
My client demands that you immediately cease the use and distribution of all infringing works derived from the Work, and all copies of same, that you deliver to me all unused, undistributed copies of same, or destroy such copies immediately and that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future. If we have not received an affirmative response from you by December 1st, 2000 indicating that you have fully complied with these requirements, we shall take further action against you.
Very truly yours,
Sam Litigand, LLC.
Litigand and Partners.
I'm sure you've spent more time on Slashdot that that per week, and for what
karma, of course!!
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This is hilarious!. Slashdot reading computer geeks (yes I'm one too) are now flaming this guy saying 'get a life'.
;)
Do the words Pot, Kettle and black mean anything to you guys?
wget (well, any web-based mirroring tool) is problematic. Can't deal with Java, DBs, Javascript, etc. For anything more than a static site..., you need a proper mirroring setup.
Open Source. Closed Minds. We are Slashdot.
I saw this page a couple years ago.
I am amazed in how he used pre-Star Wars lego pieces/figures for this. Like the Ghosts as snow troopers, for example. And i love the giant worm in the asteroid was a shark.
The millenium falcon was nice too. Someone else made it down to the T, using little minifig antennas(often used in LEgoland construction vehicles as control sticks) in the back of it to simulate little hydraulic pumps. So, including the official Lego version, there's been 3 millenium falcons made.
I know waaay too much of this from a Lego Maniac's perspective.
Can't reach the original site or the mirror? If you haven't seen it before, you might want to try the Ascimation version.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
a great disturbance in the Force... as if millions of /.ers cried out in an attempt to load the page... and were DoSed.
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Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.
Then I saw this page.
It's comforting to know that there are people who waste their free time in even lamer ways than I do. Now I can post comments on /. and debate the finer points of distros guiltlessly, free of the fear that I'm wasting my life.
This is so beautiful. There is something esoteric about this kind of art. Like the ascimation it makes me want to toss a coin or two their way for making life seem just that more sureal.
I wish there was a way to tip him a few bucks. I'll send a card, but there should be a web service for this.
Cheers Andrew
No idea how many people view slashdot in a day, but if they all spend 30 seconds going "hey that's cool" then that's a lot of man-hours spent in appreciation of your efforts.
Bush isn't even in the whitehouse yet and look at the trouble he's causing.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
Right? You might as well do something other than watch tv and
masturbate.
It's like the fat guy back in High School gym class. You may suck at gym, but the fat guy always makes you look good.
This guy is the fat guy of Star Wars fans.
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These aren't the droids you're looking for.
I'll bet Vader was pissed when he found out that the Death Star was delayed 155 weeks because they couldn't find any of those little pieces with the holes on both sides.
...mirror things like this before it's posted...
Really, even if only temporarily... get permission, mirror it, and then post it.
BlackNova Traders