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The Star Wars Alphabet Project
An anonymous reader writes "A ship for every *other* letter in the alphabet. Jon Palmer is creating a Star Wars fighter out of LEGO for every letter in the alphabet (minus X,Y,B,A,E and V). He has about 5 to go. Check out the project on From Bricks to Bothans." I have to admit, some of these look even cooler than the ships created for the newer Star Wars movies.
Looks like he gave up without even trying on that one....
When you're 40, and all you do every day is build lego starwars ships... you really have to step back, and take a long hard look at your life.
Also, try this one.
'Reserved' for aliens or something?
Or maybe new Operating Systems from Microsoft? Either way, interesting.
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If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
These are not the mindstorms you are looking for.. ..Move along
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...this!
He is going to create Imperial fighters for ever piece of formal wear except bow ties...
This is so exiciting! It's done wonders to break down the public perception of slashdotters!
I've always wondered if I can rebuild my lego mindstorms into some sort of robotic sex-toy.
Harald
But if I remember right, whenever you see any writing in the Star Wars movies it's all in a strange alpahbet, so how come the ships are named (and shaped!) after the Roman alphabet.
:)
Oh hang on, am I taking things too seriously?
Jolyon
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Because when these dogfight it looks cool. When these dogfight, it looks like squid fucking.
It seems to be missing a few letters, namely å, ä and ö :(
/me ducks
And have them blow stuff up (imaginatively, of course).
Ah, to be a child again...
Cheers,
Ethelred
Everyone wants to be Ethelred. Even I want to be Ethelred.
Yeah, I remember the great design of TIE fighters from playing the PC game of the same name when I was a kid. Let me tell you, their paper-thin shields that withstood all of one laser hit were great. And don't give me that "but they were faster!" shit, they couldn't even outrun the Millenium Falcon.
But my favorite part of that game was when you messed up a mission and shot down an Imperial ship. The commander would say "Return to base immediately! The Emperor will have your head!" What great incentive.
This is the first Lego-related article that hasn't immediately been slashdotted. Apparently the Lego community has learned not to host web sites on servers made of Legos...
Indeed. Lego is Danish, so it'd be fun to see what he could make with æ, ø and å. :)
The umlauted letters are in Swedish, Finnish, German, etc.
What the F?
Yes, but what about rich Corinthian leather?
Actually, some of us learn Vulcan instead.
thanks captain obvious! what will we do without you?
turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
This really is sad...
So, one day, on a website devoted to Nerds, someone asks why the spacecraft have wings.
Someone else has to point out that they do fly through the atmosphere, which means, wings are a good thing to have, unless you enjoy making craters on every landing...
AND SOMEONE HAS TO MOD THAT POST AS INSIGHTFUL.
Which, lets be quite honest, it isn't very insightful at all: "Things that fly-wings helpful."
No offense intended to p3do, because it needed to be said. And props to the moderator who found it important to mod up, they were right.
Its just damn scary someone drug things down to the point that a statment of the obvious becomes insightful.
*grin*
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> But does it look like an S?
No, it looks like a Winnebago.
I would like to see him build one fighter for every traditional chinese character in existance.
So what are YOU doing for the rest of your life?
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Actually I think it's because the movie would've sucked if the rebels got stamped out of existence in the span of two minutes