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The Star Wars Trilogy Storyline -- In Legos

Posted by Hemos on from the dear-lord dept.

-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!"

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  1. K'Nex by 3prong · · Score: 4


    If only he knew the power of the dark side.

    3prong

  2. Re:Give the man a dollar by snakelady · · Score: 4

    PayPal just went international - Japan is included. Now you can can send him a dollar! Denise

  3. Not only that by Meursault · · Score: 3

    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."

  4. mirror by adpowers · · Score: 3

    I have started a mirror here:

    Here

    1. Re:mirror by PooF · · Score: 3

      Mirror of the mirror is going up at geocities

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      From: Aaron "PooF" Matthews

  5. hehehe by fjordboy · · Score: 3

    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....

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  6. a disturbance in the Force by Random+Man · · Score: 4
    "URL's ok except... no web site."

    "What?!"

    "That's what I'm telling you kid, it's been totally blown away."

    1. Re:a disturbance in the Force by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

      "How did he get the first post?"

      "He is a troll master. He can see stories before they're posted."

      "Why did he post something so stupid?"

      "He is Dark Troll. He can post things before he thinks about them.
      That is what happens when one goes over to the Dark Side."

      "I want to do that!"

      "Why would you want to post such garbage?"

      "I don't, I just want that k-leet flame power they get!"

      "But *we* get to make cameos, and post articles!"

      "Articles are laim."

      "Remember, bad spelling leads to spelling flames. Spelling flames
      lead to flame wars. And flame wars lead to... The Dark Side."

      "YoR pEttY +Hr3+s d0 n()T sCaR3 m3!!1! I 0Wn Ju!!!1!!1!"

      "If you moderate me down, I will post a response more powerful than
      you can imagine!"

  7. Available here by gandalf_grey · · Score: 3

    It's still available, but the orig. link does not work. It can be found here.

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    Mmmmmmm. Floor pie!
  8. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  9. Re:Wow.... by chrischow · · Score: 4

    its not a waste of time, hes created something that now many people are enjoying. what have YOU done?

  10. Re:There is... by Joe+Groff · · Score: 5
    If you DoS this webserver, it will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

    - Joe

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    -Joe

  11. Re:155 weeks to make by Guppy · · Score: 3

    "Server Errors do not concern me, Admiral... I want those pages found!"

  12. How to kill ones Karma on /. by Hardwyred · · Score: 5

    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...

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    www.linux-skunkworks.com
    1. Re:How to kill ones Karma on /. by Trailer+Trash · · Score: 4

      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.

      Last time I got slashdotted, roblimo called me a few hours before to warn me of the impending doom. I doubt everyone gets a call (especially in Japan), but don't assume that they are unaware of the impact that /. has.

      I pity the lego-man.

      Michael

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      Do you have ESP?
  13. Wow- breaks a lot of stereotypes by BluedemonX · · Score: 5

    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.

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    --- Jump!! Fire!! Bullet time!! - Lego version of the Matrix
    1. Re:Wow- breaks a lot of stereotypes by BluedemonX · · Score: 5

      Oh yeah, I almost forgot. The week after, a man who's enduring diving into boiling hot lava, swimming in a pool of liquid nitrogen, being tied to the bumper of an Indy 500 pace car and dragged a few hundred laps, ran over with a steamroller (twice) and used as a football in a CFL playoff game demonstrates the relative pacifist and non-masochistic nature of Japanese game shows, and the non-sadistic nature of the people who watch them.

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      --- Jump!! Fire!! Bullet time!! - Lego version of the Matrix
  14. That's no mirror! by Duxup · · Score: 5

    It's a space station!

  15. Re:There is... by schlach · · Score: 4

    "Have you found anything yet?"

    "We aaaaain't found shit!"

    Whoops! Spaceballs! What was I thinking?

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    "I knew it! I'm surrounded by Assholes!"

  16. Complete mirror by PooF · · Score: 5

    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.

    --
    From: Aaron "PooF" Matthews

  17. Re:Oh Irony of Ironies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    what kind of drug is "kettle"?

  18. mirror by ebola-zaire · · Score: 5
    mirroring of the pathetically slashdotted site is currently in progress... it will take a little while but i should have it all eventually.

    http://www.c-60.org/starwars_legos /sw orde.htm

  19. The plural of Lego is Lego by nagora · · Score: 3
    Please, folks, get it right. Who started this thing of saying "legos"? Ships aren't made of "steels" and Lego houses are made of Lego bricks. Lego cities don't consist of Legos houses.

    TWW

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    "Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
  20. Anyone wonder why this is so good? by perdida · · Score: 3

    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

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    Goat sex free since 2001
  21. Oh Irony of Ironies by FunkyChild · · Score: 5

    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? ;)

  22. Ascimation. by istartedi · · Score: 4

    Can't reach the original site or the mirror? If you haven't seen it before, you might want to try the Ascimation version.

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    For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
  23. There is... by Dannon · · Score: 5

    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.
    1. Re:There is... by fluxrad · · Score: 5

      i sense error 403 in you.

      the link leads to an invalid web-page. invalid web page leads to an Apache error. Apache errors lead to....

      suffering.


      FluX
      After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network

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      "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
  24. Wow.... by s1r_m1xalot · · Score: 3
    I used to think that checking /. every 15 minutes meant that I didn't have a life.

    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.

  25. Give the man a dollar by valintin · · Score: 5

    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

  26. Good... by Aash · · Score: 5
    This is good. Now, when one of my friends tries to make fun of me for re-watching the trilogy every couple of months, I can just point them to this guy's site.

    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.
  27. Whoops by eap · · Score: 5

    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.

  28. Slashdot should... by Ron+Harwood · · Score: 5

    ...mirror things like this before it's posted...

    Really, even if only temporarily... get permission, mirror it, and then post it.

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    BlackNova Traders